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.

hell am I supposed to maintain my

been prepared for a rumbling

damn god only know how to make his temple

that was all he could

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

was trying to use the White

he's angry since

two arms flailed

‘Fuck!’

his balance and his

in shock.

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

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

face was so radiant.

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

two automatic video recording devices in

‘...This punk?’

nodded his head

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to

did not have the

“Ugh!”

stronger and was shooting up

Tatap!

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

‘Shit.’

eyes caught an eerie sight

‘...Hands-’

sculpture on the wall he

on the wall underneath the

Crack, crack-

wall and started charging toward Cale and

that appeared after the hands left the

is a bit

numerous hands reaching out was a bit scary.

of the

pushed him away, and stood up on his own.

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

aura shot out toward the hands at

the still numerous remaining hands

heading toward

realized that Cale was

“I will block them.”

two robes

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

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

at

“The left!”

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

was

on

to Embrace the sealed god and reseal him so that he could not

that thought changed at the

sealed god wanted Cale to Embrace

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

case, what

can't do it

I don’t

to think

at least flexible enough to do

the

Why?

like he

this white key for the

in the

to stay here if we don’t open the

That must mean that...

a way to take

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

Cale would absolutely

answer if I ask Eruhaben-nim or

would spill the beans since

that doesn’t

we took down

that small task that he couldn't show the others,

could all take care of things

many strong allies

shouted at that

on

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

no attacks

“No, Rosalyn!”

toward Choi

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

not

as well as Choi Han, Rosalyn, and 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,

calm voice

sealed god has lost a lot

had used too much of the power he had gathered

temple was the prison for the

this temple has gotten weaker

“That’s great.”

red mana moved toward a spot as she said

“Choi Han!”

was already running forward, channeled his black aura as she

Ooooooooong-

black yong rose from

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

stop

“I understand.”

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

Squeeze.

became taut and

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

her. No, it was the aura of a flame imbued with

Crackle. Crack.

using his

was feeling refreshed as

is in the best

last time it

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

Rosalyn... The black yong and the red mana

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion made

he did not

Choi Han were already

to make a hole in

planning

the Super Rock, water, he had plenty