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.

supposed to maintain my balance when the ground is moving so

for a rumbling at the

this damn god only know how to make his temple

he could

he used up a good amount of the despair he gathered from

was trying to use the

angry since everything

flailed in

‘Fuck!’

and his

him in shock.

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

could see Clopeh smiling brightly while supporting him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s

so radiant. It was because he saw

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

the two automatic video

‘...This punk?’

his head

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

wanted to

did not have

“Ugh!”

stronger and was shooting

Tatap!

light footsteps as Choi Han kicked off the

‘Shit.’

an eerie

‘...Hands-’

the wall he

on the wall underneath the sculpture as if they were

Crack, crack-

the wall and started

the hands

this is

was a bit scary. As

Another image of the legend

him away, and stood up on his

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

toward the hands at the

the still numerous remaining hands were

heading

was

“I will block them.”

the GPS-like voice as two robes moved in front of

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

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

at

“The left!”

her head to look at Cale. Cale looked more relaxed than she had expected. Mary

voice was loud

hole on the left

god and reseal him

that thought changed

god wanted Cale to Embrace

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

that case, what could he

can't do it

I don’t know

need to think about

was at least flexible

the sealed

Why?

like

with this white key for the temple

about it in the

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

That must mean that...

for now and find a

But that

Cale would absolutely

ask Eruhaben-nim or have Miss Cage

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

that

that we took

task that he couldn't show the others, there was no need for

could all take

many strong

shouted at

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

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

no attacks worked

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

that she did not notice because it

Rosalyn, and Mary’s attacks had crumbled many parts

damage was pretty small compared to the scale of the attacks they had cast,

voice

has lost

god had used too much of the power he had gathered

temple was the prison for the sealed god but

that this temple has gotten weaker

“That’s great.”

red mana moved toward a spot as

“Choi Han!”

who was already running forward, channeled his black

Ooooooooong-

rumbling as the black yong rose from the shining black

red mana... The black yong charging behind it with its jaws

stop

“I understand.”

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

Squeeze.

clenched her fist and the threads became taut and stopped the hands from advancing. Mary’s shoulders shook a

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

a flame behind her. No, it was the

Crackle. Crack.

was using his ancient powers

and clenched her eyes while Cale was feeling refreshed as he looked down

is

last time it was like

think about a time that he was struggling to recall as

and the red mana crashed

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

loud explosion made Cale

did not miss that

Han were

even enough to make a hole in

why Cale was planning on

then the Super Rock, water, he had plenty of powers