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.

the hell am I supposed to maintain my balance when

only been prepared for a

god only know how to make

was all he could

a good amount of the despair

proved that he was trying to use the

sure he's angry since

arms flailed

‘Fuck!’

and his

him in

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

see Clopeh smiling brightly while supporting him.

the smile on Clopeh’s face was so radiant. It was

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

saw the two automatic video recording devices in Clopeh's

‘...This punk?’

and nodded his head despite the emotions raging in Cale’s

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack that

not have the

“Ugh!”

Temple floor fluctuated even stronger

Tatap!

Han kicked off the floor and shot forward

‘Shit.’

eyes caught an eerie sight at

‘...Hands-’

the wall he presumed to be the sealed

wall underneath the sculpture as if they were

Crack, crack-

then left the wall and started charging toward

wrists that appeared after the hands left

is a bit

sight of numerous hands reaching out was a bit scary. As Cale subconsciously

image of the legend might

away, and stood

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

out toward the hands at the same

were destroyed but the

heading

was the

“I will block them.”

voice as two

Rosalyn's red hair was fluttering

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at

“The left!”

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

voice was loud and

on the

was to Embrace the sealed god and

that thought changed at

god wanted

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

what

can't do it on

I don’t know

need to think

flexible enough to do

there wasn’t much the sealed god could

Why?

not like he can

needed to open the door with this white key for the temple to

it in

has to stay here if we

That must mean that...

a

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

absolutely not do

I ask Eruhaben-nim or have

spill the beans since he supposedly had a lot of negative feelings toward the sealed

if that doesn’t

we took

he couldn't show the

all take care of

many strong

at

Cale! Didn’t you say that attacks don’t work on the temple and that they won't even leave any

temple, any power other than for communication would not

that no attacks worked

“No, Rosalyn!”

toward Choi

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

realized that she did not notice because it was

lights as well as Choi Han, Rosalyn, and Mary’s attacks had crumbled many parts of the temple wall

to the scale of the attacks they

heard Cale’s calm voice as she

god has lost a

much of the power he had gathered in his sealed

the prison for the sealed god but

means that this temple

“That’s great.”

mana moved toward a

“Choi Han!”

who was already running forward, channeled his black

Ooooooooong-

rumbling as the black yong rose

black yong charging

You stop

“I understand.”

shot out of Mary’s hand and wrapped around the

Squeeze.

taut and stopped the hands

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

felt a flame behind her. No, it was the aura of a

Crackle. Crack.

was using his ancient powers

realized that and clenched her eyes while Cale was feeling refreshed as he looked down at the fiery

body is in the

the last time it was like

struggling to recall as he raised the hand holding

black yong and the red

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

loud explosion made

did not miss

Han were already preparing their

to make

was why Cale was planning

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