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 ground is moving

only been prepared for a rumbling at the same level

damn god only know how to

that was all he

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

to use the White

since everything he did became

arms flailed in the

‘Fuck!’

his body tilted toward

toward him in shock. Choi Han then stopped

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

supporting him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s

the smile on Clopeh’s face was so radiant. It

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

automatic video recording

‘...This punk?’

nodded his head despite the

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack

not have the time to do

“Ugh!”

floor fluctuated even stronger and was shooting up

Tatap!

off

‘Shit.’

caught an eerie sight at that

‘...Hands-’

the wall he presumed to

the sculpture as if they were

Crack, crack-

the wall and started charging toward

appeared after the hands left the wall expanded without

is a bit

hands reaching out was a bit scary. As

of the legend might come

voice, pushed him away, and stood up on his

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

toward the hands at the same

destroyed but the

heading toward

that Cale was the target of those

“I will block them.”

the GPS-like voice as two

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

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at

“The left!”

more relaxed than she had expected. Mary heard Cale’s

was

on

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

that thought changed

wanted

that he could escape from the temple. That was when Cale learned that Embrace was not

case, what could

do it

I don’t know the

need to think about

was at least flexible

the sealed god

Why?

like he can

to open the door with this white

it in

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

would absolutely not do

I'll get an answer if I ask Eruhaben-nim or have Miss Cage ask

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

that doesn’t

took down

completed that small task that he couldn't show the others, there was no

take care of things

had many strong allies on the

shouted at

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

the temple, any power other than for communication would not

no

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward Choi

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

she did not notice because it

red lights as well as Choi Han, Rosalyn, and Mary’s attacks had crumbled many parts of the temple wall and

the

voice as

god has lost a

god had used too much of the power he had

temple was the prison for the

means that this temple

“That’s great.”

a spot

“Choi Han!”

already running forward, channeled his black

Ooooooooong-

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

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

stop the

“I understand.”

of Mary’s hand and wrapped around the hands

Squeeze.

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

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

her. No, it was the

Crackle. Crack.

using his ancient powers

eyes while Cale was feeling refreshed as he looked down at the

My body is

the last time

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

Rosalyn... The black yong and

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

extremely loud explosion made Cale

not

Han were already preparing their next

make a

was why Cale was planning on helping out

the Super Rock, water, he had plenty of