Trash of the Count's Family

TCF S5-1

At the time when King Zed's birthday celebration changed to a nightmare because of the Magic Bomb Terror Incident in the Roan Kingdom...

Something big had happened in the Breck Kingdom as well.

“...You couldn’t find traces of Rosalyn?”

“That is the case, your Majesty!”

The king clenched the hand that was holding the throne as the head of the intelligence agency lowered his head with a stiff expression.

Only the king and a few of his vassals were in the meeting room right now. The king did not hide his emotions.

“...How, how could this be?”

Princess Rosalyn had left from the Breck Kingdom and was headed toward the Magic Tower in the Whipper Kingdom.

She contacted the royal family at least once a day. However, that had stopped at some point.

The last thing they got from her was an emergency rescue signal.

“...Roan.”

“That is the case, your Majesty.”

The coordinates from where they received her last signal was in the Roan Kingdom.

In order to go from the Breck Kingdom to the Whipper Kingdom, going through the Roan Kingdom was the quickest path unless they went through the Empire.

‘...Did the Roan Kingdom-?’

The king wondered for a moment if the Roan Kingdom had attacked Rosalyn, but he soon realized it was a useless thought.

‘The Roan Kingdom has no reason to mess with a neighboring kingdom. That is a place that seeks peace unless somebody attacks them first.’

He was aware of the nature of the oldest kingdom on the continent. It was a kingdom that lived quietly if nobody attacked them, but it was an extremely disgustingly persistent kingdom that would survive through everything and go after anybody who attacked them.

The Breck Kingdom was extremely aware of this as it was the oldest kingdom after the Roan Kingdom and the Jungle.

‘Then what happened?’

No, most importantly...

‘Only a few people knew that Rosalyn was headed toward the Whipper Kingdom's Magic Tower.’

There was no way for a foreign kingdom to figure it out when only a few people within the Breck Kingdom knew about it.

‘But that doesn’t mean that there are no ways for them to figure it out.’

If one of those extremely few people from the inside leaked that information to a foreign kingdom...

‘Or if there are no connections to a foreign kingdom...’

Furthermore, the fact that Rosalyn stopped contacting them...

‘Someone on the inside is responsible.’

Someone in the Breck Kingdom or maybe some faction in the kingdom must have attacked Rosalyn.

“Your Majesty.”

The head of the intelligence agency noticed the king's face darken and cautiously started speaking.

“It is possible that only her magic video communication device was destroyed by a monster or a sudden unexpected situation.”

“Do you really mean that?”

“...My apologies, your Majesty.”

Unlike the other vassals who were in here, the head of the intelligence agency was decently aware of Rosalyn's abilities. Furthermore, the people who left with Rosalyn were from the kingdom’s shadow brigade and were skilled enough to even protect the king.

Those people were taken down by a monster or couldn't contact them because of an unexpected situation?

The chances of that were extremely low.

The king sat on the throne and looked down at his vassals who did not dare to look at him and eventually spoke in a low voice.

“Send an official request for assistance to the Roan Kingdom.”

“Your Majesty, that!”

The vassal from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs urgently responded.

“The entire continent might find out about this if something goes wrong! If that happens, the dignity of the kingdom-”

“Enough!”

Bang!

The king slammed his hand down on the throne.

"Do you think that I would say something like this without knowing that the dignity of the kingdom might fall or that it might open up some other issue with diplomacy?”

A kingdom’s most likely candidate for the throne, who was almost at the point of being officially confirmed, had disappeared. They were uncertain as to whether she was alive or dead and the kingdom didn't even know where she was.

The dignity of the kingdom would definitely fall if others found out about this, and if things went wrong, some kingdoms may send forces to find this potential future queen in order to negotiate or threaten the kingdom. It could even lead to even worse diplomatic situations for the kingdom.

However, it had been a long time since they had been unable to contact her.

Any longer...

The king could not leave this fact alone any longer.

I doing this just to find

cold gaze. The king looked at

“Who is Rosalyn?”

Staff

the future of the Breck Kingdom, your

"That is correct.”

oppose what

Rosalyn, not as his

king, the former king, and the former queen before that... No, even if we go up a few more generations... There is no heir to the throne with

of his own plate. He also knew about the former king, his father, and the

anybody who

decent intelligence and average

had been sincere people who had worked their hardest to maintain the

they had been unable to raise the Breck Kingdom to

However, Rosalyn...

That child...

I'm certain that she

Rosalyn that the king had observed had shown talent in Disciplines of Kingship and administration, but that child’s

tactics...

areas in which Rosalyn’s talents shone bright as

period of peace is bound to bring

something ominous like a war did not

it was even better if those kinds of situations

felt this way

a warm person. That child would be able to add warmth to her wisdom to use it for maintaining

his thoughts

of the Breck Kingdom's dignity

falling temporarily

future of

king was afraid

“Your Majesty.”

of

citizens of the kingdom will fall into chaos

“...Mm.”

we need to deeply

“...Yes, I understand.”

the rose of the

a moment of silence before the king

one more day and

that, another meeting without any progress came

* * *

Screeeech.

in his study alone, opened his mouth

not to let anybody

“Royal Father.”

“...Oh, it's you, John.”

prince John. The king straightened his shoulders and raised his head. But his shoulders slumped a

you okay,

king weakly smiled at his son's gaze that was full of warmth like his mother's. He then

a bit difficult. But I

“...Royal Father.”

who made you feel at peace when he was with you and someone you felt as

and that I should not be showing this side to

“It's okay, Royal Father.”

king

to lean on right now since his sister Rosalyn was not here. He would usually show this weak side to his mother and seek out her opinion for the typical

felt as if he could

“But, Royal Father.”

“Yes? You may speak.”

have a slightly

John closed his eyes.

parents and his

were at a loss

that was falling into chaos as the news about Rosalyn's disappearance slowly spread despite their best efforts

ended with his

His sister Rosalyn's face.

certain that my sister is

“...John.”

shape or form by now if something had happened to

his sister,

You know what sister is

was more aware of his older sister’s personality than his Royal

spoke honestly despite it potentially

corpse has

corpse?! How could you use such

that she is alive,

“...John.”

is definitely alive.

smile appeared

continued speaking to

person responsible for putting her in this

about how the citizens of the kingdom called his sister the

“She will definitely return.”

did not

that kind of

She was fire.

was

fear to others. She was that kind of person. She was more like the sun itself

Father. So please

“Yes, thank you.”

king seemed to take his words just as hopeful words to

good care of

‘Please be safe, noonim.’

you really think that something would happen

moment he said goodbye to Rosalyn before