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

for a rumbling at

only know how to

was all he

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

he was trying to use the White

angry since everything he did

flailed in the

‘Fuck!’

his balance and his body tilted

Han was running toward him in shock.

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

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

so radiant. It was

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

video recording

‘...This punk?’

aloofly and nodded his head despite

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack that

have the

“Ugh!”

Temple floor fluctuated even stronger and

Tatap!

off the

‘Shit.’

caught an eerie sight at that

‘...Hands-’

wall he presumed to be the sealed

wall underneath the sculpture as if

Crack, crack-

wall and started charging

that appeared after the hands left the wall

this is a bit

out was a bit scary. As Cale subconsciously

of the legend might

voice, pushed him away, and stood up on his own.

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

aura shot out toward the hands at the same

hands were destroyed but the still numerous

heading

was the target

“I will block them.”

as two

Rosalyn's red hair was fluttering and her hands that were full of red mana were

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at that

“The left!”

head to look at Cale. Cale looked more relaxed than she had expected. Mary heard Cale’s voice just as she was

was loud

hole on the left

to Embrace the sealed god and reseal him so

thought changed at

god wanted Cale

he

that case, what could

I can't do it

don’t know

to think

was at least flexible enough to

the sealed god could do

Why?

like he can

with this

it in the opposite

temple has to stay here if we don’t open

That must mean that...

escape for now and find a way to

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

absolutely not do

an answer if I ask Eruhaben-nim or have Miss Cage ask the

Death, he would spill the beans since he

if that

that we took

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

take care

many strong allies on the

at

on the temple and that

temple, any power other than for communication would not

that no attacks worked on the

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

that she did not notice because it was

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

pretty small compared to the scale of the attacks they had

Cale’s calm voice as she

has lost

the power

prison for the sealed god but

that this temple has

“That’s great.”

toward a spot as she said

“Choi Han!”

running forward, channeled his black aura

Ooooooooong-

the black yong rose from the shining

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

stop the

“I understand.”

threads shot out of Mary’s hand and

Squeeze.

her fist and the threads became taut and stopped the hands from

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

her. No, it was the aura of a flame

Crackle. Crack.

his ancient powers

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

is in the

last time it

that he was struggling to recall as he raised the hand holding the

Rosalyn... The black yong and the

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

extremely loud explosion made Cale

did not miss

and Choi Han were

make a hole

planning on helping out as

he had plenty of