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 the

a

damn god only know how to

was all he could

a good amount of the despair he gathered from the

that he was trying to use the White Star

since

arms flailed in

‘Fuck!’

balance and his body tilted toward the

was running toward him in shock. Choi Han

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

see Clopeh smiling brightly while supporting him. Clopeh

face was so radiant. It was because he saw the broken automatic video

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

automatic video recording

‘...This punk?’

his head despite the emotions

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

wanted to

did not have the time to

“Ugh!”

floor fluctuated even stronger and

Tatap!

were some light footsteps as Choi Han kicked off the floor and

‘Shit.’

eyes caught an eerie sight at

‘...Hands-’

he presumed to be

the sculpture as if they were supporting it were

Crack, crack-

and started charging toward Cale and

hands

this is a

of numerous hands reaching out was

Another image of the legend might

away, and stood up on his own.

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

the hands

of the hands were destroyed but the

were heading

was the target

“I will block them.”

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

grasping the hands. Rosalyn's red hair was fluttering and

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at

“The left!”

relaxed than she had expected. Mary heard Cale’s voice just as she

voice was loud

hole on the left

the sealed god and reseal him so that

changed

wanted Cale

god asked Cale to make a deal with him and to Embrace him so that he could escape from the temple. That was when Cale

that case, what

I can't do it on my

don’t know the

need to think about it

flexible

the

Why?

not like

the door with this white key for the

about it in the opposite

has to stay here if we don’t open the

That must mean that...

now and find a

gave up. But that meant that he would need to

absolutely not

ask Eruhaben-nim or

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

that doesn’t

we took down the

he couldn't show the

could all take

many strong allies on the

shouted at

work on the temple and that they

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

that no attacks worked

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

not notice

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

to the scale of the attacks

Cale’s calm voice as she realized that

lost a lot of

power he had gathered in his sealed state because of

the sealed god

this temple has

“That’s great.”

toward a spot

“Choi Han!”

was already running forward, channeled his black

Ooooooooong-

as the black yong rose from the shining black aura and opened

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

You stop the

“I understand.”

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

Squeeze.

her fist and the threads became taut and stopped

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

was the aura of a

Crackle. Crack.

was using his ancient powers

was feeling refreshed as he looked down at the fiery thunderbolt in

My body is in the best

time it

he was struggling to

The black yong and the red mana crashed into the

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion

he did not miss that

and Choi Han were

to make a

planning on

the Super Rock, water, he