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

a rumbling at

know how

all he could do right

used up a good amount of the despair he gathered from

to use the White Star or Cale to

sure he's angry since

flailed in

‘Fuck!’

his balance and his body tilted toward

toward him in shock.

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

Clopeh smiling brightly while supporting him. Clopeh was supporting

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

‘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.”

wanted to smack that

he did not have the time to do

“Ugh!”

fluctuated even stronger and was shooting up

Tatap!

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

‘Shit.’

caught an eerie

‘...Hands-’

on the wall he presumed to be

drawn on the wall underneath the sculpture as

Crack, crack-

and started charging toward

wrists that appeared after the hands

this is

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

the

heard Clopeh's voice, pushed him away, and stood up on his own. He

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

the hands

were destroyed but the still

heading

that Cale was the target of those

“I will block them.”

voice as two robes moved

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

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

at

“The left!”

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

was

hole on

original plan was to Embrace the sealed god and

thought changed at the

god wanted

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

that case, what could he

can't do

I don’t know

just need to think

at least flexible enough to do

wasn’t much the sealed god

Why?

not like he

open the door with this white

it in the opposite

temple has to stay here if we don’t open

That must mean that...

find a way to take down the

course, it was possible to shout that he gave up. But that meant that he would need to go through

absolutely not do

Eruhaben-nim or have Miss Cage ask

he threatened or annoyed the God of Death, he would spill the beans since he supposedly had a lot of

if that doesn’t

we took down

task that he couldn't show the others, there was no need for

could all take care of things

strong allies on the

at that

don’t work on the temple and that they

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 on the

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

not notice because

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

small compared to the scale of the attacks

calm voice as

god has lost a

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

was the prison for the sealed god but

that this temple

“That’s great.”

red mana moved toward a spot as she

“Choi Han!”

was already running forward, channeled his black

Ooooooooong-

as the black yong rose from the shining black aura and

black yong charging behind

stop the

“I understand.”

Mary’s hand and wrapped around the hands coming out

Squeeze.

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

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

it was the aura of a flame

Crackle. Crack.

using his ancient powers

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

is in the

the last time it was like

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

and

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion

did not miss that

and Choi Han were

isn't even enough to make a hole in the

was planning on helping

then the Super Rock, water, he had plenty of powers he