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 is

a rumbling

only know how to

was all he could

used up a good amount of the

that he was trying to use the White Star or Cale

since everything he did became

two arms flailed in

‘Fuck!’

balance and his body tilted toward

running toward him in shock. Choi Han

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

brightly while supporting him. Clopeh

almost pushed Clopeh away because the smile on Clopeh’s face was so radiant. It was because he saw the broken

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

automatic video

‘...This punk?’

head despite

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack

he did not have

“Ugh!”

Temple floor fluctuated even stronger and

Tatap!

Han kicked off the floor and shot forward toward the

‘Shit.’

caught an eerie sight

‘...Hands-’

wall he presumed

wall underneath the sculpture as if

Crack, crack-

left the wall and started

the hands left the wall expanded without

this is a

out was a bit scary. As Cale subconsciously

Another image of the legend

voice, pushed him away, and stood

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

out toward the hands at the same

hands were destroyed but the still numerous

heading

Cale was the target of those

“I will block them.”

as two robes moved in front of

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!”

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

was loud and

hole on the left

sealed god

that thought changed at

sealed god wanted Cale

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

that case, what

I can't do it on

don’t know

just need to think about it

flexible enough to do

the sealed god could

Why?

not like he

the door with this white key for

in the opposite

stay here if we don’t open

That must mean that...

find a way

possible to shout that he gave up. But that meant that he would need to go

absolutely not

Eruhaben-nim or have Miss Cage

spill the beans

if that doesn’t

that we took

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

take

had many strong

shouted at

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

the temple, any power other than for communication would not leave even a scratch on this temple

no attacks worked on the

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward Choi

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

that she did not notice because

Mary’s attacks had crumbled many parts of the temple wall and

was pretty small compared to the scale of the attacks they had cast, but at least the

voice as she realized that

sealed god has lost a lot of

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

temple was the prison for the sealed god but also

means that this temple

“That’s great.”

mana moved toward a spot as she

“Choi Han!”

Han, who was already running forward, channeled his black aura as

Ooooooooong-

rose from the shining black aura and

yong

You stop

“I understand.”

hand and wrapped around the hands coming out of

Squeeze.

her fist and the threads became taut and

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

flame behind her. No, it was the aura

Crackle. Crack.

using his

refreshed as he looked down at the fiery thunderbolt in his

body is

last time

to think about a time that he was struggling to recall as he raised the hand holding the

Han and Rosalyn... The black yong and the red mana crashed

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion made Cale

did not miss

Han were already preparing their next

even enough to make

was why Cale was planning on helping out as

water, he