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.

to maintain my balance when the ground is moving

prepared for a rumbling at the same level

only know how to

he could do right

he used up a good amount

that he was trying to use the White Star

angry since everything he did became

flailed in the

‘Fuck!’

his balance and his body

him in shock. Choi Han then

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

see Clopeh smiling brightly while supporting him. Clopeh was

almost pushed Clopeh away because the smile on Clopeh’s face was so radiant.

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

the two automatic video recording devices in Clopeh's

‘...This punk?’

and nodded his head

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

wanted to smack that

have

“Ugh!”

fluctuated even stronger

Tatap!

kicked off the floor and shot forward toward the temple

‘Shit.’

eyes caught an eerie sight

‘...Hands-’

he presumed

numerous hands drawn on the wall underneath the sculpture as if they

Crack, crack-

then left the wall and started charging toward Cale and

the hands

this is a

hands reaching out was a bit scary. As Cale

Another image of the legend might

him away, and stood up on his own. He then

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

shot out toward the

the still numerous remaining hands were still

heading

was the target

“I will block them.”

as two

of Mary's hand and started grasping the hands. Rosalyn's red hair was fluttering and her hands that were full of red mana were

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

at that

“The left!”

looked more relaxed than she had expected. Mary heard Cale’s voice just as she was about to stop

voice was

a hole on

Embrace the sealed god and

changed at

sealed god wanted Cale to Embrace

he could escape from the temple. That was when Cale learned that Embrace was not the

that case, what could

I can't do it on my

don’t

just need to think about it

flexible

there wasn’t much the sealed

Why?

like

door with this white key for the temple to

in

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

That must mean that...

for now and find a way to take down the

that he gave up. But that meant that he would need to go through

Cale would absolutely not do

I'll get an answer if I ask Eruhaben-nim or have Miss Cage ask the God of

that if he threatened or annoyed the God of Death, he would spill the beans since he supposedly had a lot

if that

took down the

that small task that he couldn't show the others, there was no need for him to suffer

take care of

strong allies

at that

Cale! Didn’t you say that attacks don’t work on the temple and that they

told them about the temple, any power other than for communication would not leave even a scratch on this temple if used in the

no attacks worked

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward Choi

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

realized that she did not notice because it was

Mary’s attacks had crumbled

of the

Cale’s calm voice as she realized

lost a lot

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

for the sealed god but also his

temple has gotten

“That’s great.”

red mana moved toward a spot

“Choi Han!”

running forward, channeled

Ooooooooong-

the black yong rose

mana... The black yong charging behind it with

stop the

“I understand.”

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

Squeeze.

the threads became taut and stopped the

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

her. No, it was the aura of a flame imbued with

Crackle. Crack.

his ancient powers

while Cale was feeling refreshed as he looked down

My body is in

last time

time that he was struggling

yong and the red mana

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

loud explosion made Cale

he did not miss that

and Choi Han were already

enough to make a hole in the

was planning on helping

he had plenty