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.

I supposed to maintain my balance when the

prepared for a rumbling

god only know how to make his

all he

he used up a good amount of the

use the White Star or Cale to

sure he's angry since everything

arms flailed in

‘Fuck!’

lost his balance and his body tilted toward the

was running toward him in

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

smiling brightly while supporting him. Clopeh

face was so radiant. It was because he saw

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

video recording devices

‘...This punk?’

head despite the emotions raging

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

wanted to

did not have the time to do

“Ugh!”

fluctuated even stronger

Tatap!

Choi Han kicked off the

‘Shit.’

eyes caught an eerie

‘...Hands-’

he presumed to be the

wall underneath the sculpture

Crack, crack-

left the wall and started

appeared after the hands left the

is

of numerous hands reaching out was a bit scary.

image of the

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

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

the hands at the

of the hands were destroyed but the

heading toward

was the target of

“I will block them.”

GPS-like voice as two

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

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

at that

“The left!”

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

was

a hole on the left

was to Embrace the sealed god and reseal him so that

that thought changed at

wanted Cale

with him and to Embrace him so that he could

that case, what could he

I can't do

don’t know

to think about it

was at least flexible enough

wasn’t much the sealed god could do

Why?

not like he

needed to open the door with this white key

it in

we don’t open the

That must mean that...

and find a way

he gave up. But that meant that he would need

absolutely not

I ask Eruhaben-nim

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

if that

took

the others, there was no need for him to suffer on his

take care

strong allies on

at that

master Cale! Didn’t you say that attacks don’t work on the temple and that they won't even

any power other than for communication would not leave even

meant that no attacks worked

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

realized that she did not notice because it

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

damage was pretty small compared to the scale of the attacks they had cast, but at

calm voice as she

has lost a lot of

had used too much of the power he had gathered in his sealed state

the sealed god but also his

this temple has gotten weaker

“That’s great.”

moved toward a spot as she

“Choi Han!”

who was already running forward, channeled

Ooooooooong-

the black yong rose from the shining black aura and opened

yong charging behind it with its jaws

You stop

“I understand.”

hand and wrapped around the hands coming out of the

Squeeze.

and stopped the hands from advancing. Mary’s shoulders shook

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

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

Crackle. Crack.

using his

refreshed as he looked down

body is in

time it

was struggling to recall as he raised the hand holding

Rosalyn... The black yong and the red mana crashed into

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

loud explosion made

did not

and Choi Han were

isn't even enough to make a hole in

Cale was planning on

then the Super Rock, water, he had plenty of