Trash of the Count's Family

TCF 762

# It’s Karma (1)

The rumbling shaking the temple suddenly stopped.

Red light no longer shot out of the sculpture on the wall.

Choi Han's hand holding the sword relaxed. The sword hung down toward the ground.

Tap. Tap.

Cale was picking up the red diary.

There was silence for a moment.

However, during that short instant... Choi Han’s eyes quickly inspected Cale’s condition.

‘...The injury-’

He was certain that he saw the dagger stab deep into Cale’s chest.

There was a large hole on the left side of Cale’s shirt, however, his body underneath was bloodied but fine.

‘...Tattoo.’

Cale had said that the ancient powers become tattooed on your body when you obtain them. He mentioned that he had one such design on his chest over his heart, but that tattoo and a grotesque injury mixed together to look disgusting.

Cale was laughing right now while looking like that.

He was laughing while looking at the sculpture that Choi Han presumed the sealed god was sealed within.

Plop.

Something round rolled over and touched Choi Han’s foot. He looked down to see an orb.

‘...An automatic video recording device?

There was that video recording device earlier too. Why are these automatic video recording devices here?’

Choi Han was confused for a moment before he thought of someone and turned his head.

Cale, the sealed god... And the now dead and disappeared White Star.

Clopeh was quietly moving during this short moment of silence.

The temple shook violently and was destroyed in many places because of the battle.

Clopeh was quickly doing something within this debris.

Choi Han frowned after realizing what Clopeh was doing.

‘...Did he install some automatic video recording devices?

That crazy bastard.’

Choi Han filled with rage. It was because Clopeh's green eyes were sparkling as if they were green leaves covered in morning dew receiving sunlight.

He had a thought at the same time.

‘I need to make sure that the children do not see that.’

Forget the chaos that would ensue if Raon, On, or Hong saw that... the children would be so sad.

He also had another thought.

‘I will need to show it to Eruhaben-nim and his highness though.’

Choi Han had not thought about it until now because of the shocking sight, but he knew that what Cale stabbed his heart with was a dagger. That let him know that Cale had not told them everything until now.

He did tell them that this dagger from the World Tree was the tool to kill the White Star but he had never expected the method to be something like this.

Of course, this method did allow them to delete the White Star from this world easier than expected.

‘...That and this are two different things.’

Choi Han made up his mind to never completely believe the things Cale said from now on. He told himself that he would look into things without Cale knowing if something seemed iffy or it felt as if Cale was hiding something.

He made eye contact with Mary at that moment.

He had no idea what she was thinking, but Mary’s gaze was no joke either.

The fact that such an innocent girl could have this kind of gaze meant that she had received quite the shock.

The two of them looked at each other and nodded their heads before turning away.

Step step.

Cale’s footsteps broke through the silence and echoed in the temple.

He had already put the white half-mask and the diary back in his pocket and was headed toward the wall with the sculpture.

To be more specific, he was headed toward the altar in front of that wall.

“Is it this?”

Cale stopped walking and quietly looked down at the key on top of the altar.

This was the original way to get out of this temple and make it disappear.

This was something Ahn Roh Man, the man from another world, had told them. The person who manages to complete all of the illusion tests gets to the end of the temple, grabs this white key, and returns to the temple door that serves as both the entrance and the exit.

‘I can’t do that.’

Cale had no intentions of using that method.

He showed his true thoughts without any hesitation.

“How...”

He looked into the eyes of the beautiful sculpture on the wall as he asked.

“How can I kill you?”

Smile.

The moment the corners of Cale’s lips curled up...

“Cale-nim!”

Choi Han urgently called out to him while Rosalyn grabbed Mary’s arm and shouted.

“Sit!”

Booooooooooooooooooooooooom---

There was another loud explosion in the temple and the entire thing started shaking again.

However, the strength of the rumbling was completely different from earlier.

The marble floor of the temple bobbed up and down as if they were waves.

It was as if the angry god’s mind was being reflected in here.

“Ugh!”

Cale's body tilted.

maintain my balance when the ground

only been prepared for a rumbling at the same

god only know how to make

he could do right

he used up a good amount of the despair

proved that he was trying to use

angry since everything he

two arms flailed

‘Fuck!’

his body tilted toward the

him in

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s

face was so radiant. It was because he saw

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

automatic video

‘...This punk?’

head despite the emotions

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack that

not have the time

“Ugh!”

stronger

Tatap!

kicked off the floor and shot forward toward the temple

‘Shit.’

eyes caught an eerie sight at

‘...Hands-’

the wall he

wall underneath the

Crack, crack-

the wall and started charging

wrists that appeared after the hands left

this is a bit

out was

the legend

heard Clopeh's voice, pushed him away, and

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

toward the

destroyed but the still numerous remaining hands

heading

that Cale was the

“I will block them.”

GPS-like voice as two robes moved in front

Rosalyn's red hair was fluttering and her

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

at

“The left!”

had expected. Mary heard Cale’s voice just as she was about to

was loud and

a hole on the

sealed god and reseal him so that he could

thought changed at

god wanted Cale

with him and to Embrace him so that he could escape from the temple. That was when Cale learned that Embrace

what could

I can't do it

I don’t

to

flexible enough

there wasn’t much the sealed god

Why?

like

open the door with this white key

in the opposite

has to stay here if we don’t open the door with

That must mean that...

a way to take down

But that meant that he would need to go through the

absolutely not do

sure I'll get an answer if I ask Eruhaben-nim or have

the God of Death, he would spill the beans since he supposedly had a lot of negative

if that doesn’t

we took

show the others, there

all take care of things

had many strong allies

at

that attacks don’t work on the temple and that they won't

temple, any power other than for communication would not leave even

meant that no attacks worked on

“No, Rosalyn!”

toward Choi

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

she did not notice because it

as well as Choi Han, Rosalyn, and Mary’s attacks

of the attacks

calm voice

sealed god has lost a

too much of the power he had gathered in his sealed state because

for the sealed god but also

temple has gotten weaker

“That’s great.”

moved toward a

“Choi Han!”

who was already running forward, channeled his black aura as

Ooooooooong-

small rumbling as the black yong rose from the shining black aura and opened its

red mana... The black yong charging

stop

“I understand.”

threads shot out of Mary’s hand and wrapped around the hands coming out of the

Squeeze.

and stopped the hands from advancing. Mary’s shoulders shook a

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

it was the aura of a flame imbued

Crackle. Crack.

was using his ancient powers

feeling refreshed

My body is in the

time

about a time that he was struggling to recall

black yong and the red mana

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion made Cale

did not miss that

Han were already preparing their

to make a hole in the

Cale was planning on helping

the Super Rock, water, he