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.

my balance when the ground

for a rumbling at the same level as

god only know how to make

he could do right

sealed and he used up a good amount of the despair he gathered

trying to use the

since everything

flailed

‘Fuck!’

his balance and his body tilted toward

Han was running toward him in shock. Choi Han then

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

while supporting him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s

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

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

the two automatic video recording devices in

‘...This punk?’

head despite the emotions raging in Cale’s

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

wanted to smack

did not have the time

“Ugh!”

floor fluctuated even stronger and was shooting

Tatap!

as Choi Han kicked off the floor and shot forward

‘Shit.’

caught an eerie sight

‘...Hands-’

sculpture on the wall he

on the wall underneath the sculpture

Crack, crack-

then left the wall and started charging toward Cale and the

wrists that appeared after the hands left the wall expanded

is a

numerous hands reaching out was a bit

Another image of the legend might come

voice, pushed him away, and stood up

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

out toward the hands at the same

hands were destroyed but the still numerous

heading

Cale was the target

“I will block them.”

GPS-like voice as two robes moved in

out of Mary's hand and started grasping the hands. Rosalyn's red hair was fluttering and her hands that were full of red mana

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at that

“The left!”

look at Cale. Cale looked more relaxed than she had expected. Mary heard Cale’s voice

voice was

on the

original plan was to Embrace the sealed god and reseal him so that he

thought changed

sealed god wanted Cale

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

that case, what

I can't do

don’t know the

to think about

flexible enough to

there wasn’t much the sealed god

Why?

not like he

to open the door with this white key for

in

has to stay here if we don’t open the door

That must mean that...

and find a

possible to shout that he gave up. But that meant that he

absolutely not do

answer if I ask Eruhaben-nim or

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

if that

we took down the

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

all take

strong allies

at

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

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 on the

“No, Rosalyn!”

toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

she did not notice

well as Choi Han, Rosalyn, and Mary’s attacks had crumbled

scale of the

voice as she realized

has lost a lot of

of the power he had gathered in

the sealed god but also his

this temple has

“That’s great.”

toward a spot as she said

“Choi Han!”

forward, channeled his black aura

Ooooooooong-

was a small rumbling as the black yong rose from the

red mana... The black yong

You stop

“I understand.”

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

Squeeze.

and the threads became taut and stopped the hands from advancing.

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

it was the aura of a flame

Crackle. Crack.

using his ancient

was feeling refreshed

is

the last time it

to think about a time that he was struggling

and the red mana

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

loud explosion made Cale

not miss

were already preparing

even enough to make

planning on helping out

then the Super Rock, water, he had plenty of