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.

supposed to maintain my balance when the ground is moving so

been prepared for a rumbling at the same level as

this damn god only know how to make his

was all he

amount of

proved that he was trying to use the White Star

he's angry since

flailed

‘Fuck!’

balance and his body tilted toward

him in shock. Choi Han then stopped

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

supporting him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s

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

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

video recording devices in

‘...This punk?’

head

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

wanted to smack

he did not have the time to do

“Ugh!”

Temple floor fluctuated even stronger and

Tatap!

kicked off the floor and shot forward toward

‘Shit.’

an eerie sight at

‘...Hands-’

on the wall he presumed to be the sealed

wall underneath the sculpture as if they were supporting

Crack, crack-

then left the wall and started charging toward Cale and

appeared after the hands

is

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

of the legend might come

heard Clopeh's voice, pushed him away, and stood up

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

the hands at the same

the

were heading

that Cale was the target of those

“I will block them.”

GPS-like voice as two robes moved

red hair was fluttering and her hands that were full of red mana were raised

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at

“The left!”

more relaxed than she had expected. Mary heard

voice was

hole on the left

the sealed god and reseal him so that he could not

that thought changed at the

sealed god wanted

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

that case, what could he

do it

don’t know the

to

flexible enough to do

much the sealed god could

Why?

not like

the door with this white key for

about it in the opposite

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

That must mean that...

escape for now and find a way to take down the

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

absolutely not do

ask Eruhaben-nim or have

that if he threatened or annoyed the God of Death, he would spill the beans since he supposedly had a lot of negative feelings toward the

that

we took down the

couldn't show the others, there was no need for him to suffer on his

all take care of things

had many strong allies

shouted at that

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

about 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.”

did not notice because it was quite

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

scale of the attacks they had cast, but at

heard Cale’s calm voice as

sealed god has lost a lot of

power he had gathered in his sealed state because of

was the prison for the sealed

temple

“That’s great.”

red mana moved toward a spot as

“Choi Han!”

running forward, channeled his black aura as she

Ooooooooong-

was a small rumbling as the black yong rose

red mana... The black yong

You stop the

“I understand.”

out of Mary’s hand and wrapped

Squeeze.

clenched her fist and the threads became taut and stopped the hands from advancing. Mary’s shoulders shook

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

No, it was the aura of a flame imbued

Crackle. Crack.

was using his ancient

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

body is in the best

the last time it

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

Rosalyn... The black yong and the red mana

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion made

he did not

and Choi Han were

make a hole in the

Cale was planning on

Rock, water, he had