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

for a rumbling at the same

damn god only know how to make

that was all he could

he used up a good amount of the despair he

was trying to use the White Star or

sure he's angry since everything he did

two arms flailed in the

‘Fuck!’

and his body

Han was running toward him in shock. Choi Han then

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

brightly while supporting him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s back with

smile on Clopeh’s face was so radiant. It

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

saw the two automatic video recording devices in Clopeh's

‘...This punk?’

nodded his head despite the

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack

did not have the

“Ugh!”

stronger and was shooting up irregularly

Tatap!

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

‘Shit.’

caught an eerie sight

‘...Hands-’

sculpture on the wall he presumed to be the sealed

on the wall underneath the sculpture as

Crack, crack-

wall and started charging

after the hands left the wall expanded without

this is a

sight of numerous hands reaching out was a bit scary. As

of the

and stood

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

the

but the still numerous remaining

heading

Cale was the target

“I will block them.”

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

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at

“The left!”

head to look at Cale. Cale looked more relaxed than she had expected. Mary

was

hole on the left

Embrace the sealed god and reseal him so

that thought changed at

god wanted

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

case, what

do it on my

don’t know the

just need to think

flexible

wasn’t much the

Why?

not like he can

with this white key for the temple

about it in the

here if we don’t open the door with this

That must mean that...

now and find a way to take down the

he gave up. But

absolutely not

sure I'll get an answer if I ask Eruhaben-nim or

if he threatened or annoyed the God of Death, he would spill the beans

that

took down

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

could all take care of things

had many strong allies

at

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

what Ahn Roh Man told them about the temple, any power other than for communication would not leave

no attacks

“No, Rosalyn!”

toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

realized that she did not

Han, Rosalyn, and Mary’s attacks had crumbled many parts of

small compared to the scale of the attacks they had cast, but at least the temple

calm voice

has lost a lot of

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

the prison for the sealed god but also his

this temple has

“That’s great.”

mana moved toward a spot

“Choi Han!”

was already running forward, channeled his black aura

Ooooooooong-

was a small rumbling as the black yong rose from the shining black aura and opened its

The black yong charging behind it with

stop the

“I understand.”

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

Squeeze.

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

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

felt a flame behind her. No, it was the aura of a flame

Crackle. Crack.

his

that and clenched her eyes while Cale was feeling refreshed as he looked down

body is in the

time it

he was struggling to recall as he raised the hand holding

yong and the red mana crashed

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

loud explosion made

did not

Han were already preparing

enough to make a hole in the

planning on helping out

Rock, water, he had plenty of powers he