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

head after seeing the king’s cold gaze. The king

“Who is Rosalyn?”

Staff bowed

future of the Breck Kingdom,

"That is correct.”

up to oppose what the Chief of

king was looking at Rosalyn, not as his daughter, but as the future

former queen before that... No, even if we go up a few more generations... There is no

also knew about the former king, his father, and the queen

not had anybody who had an especially talented brain

decent intelligence

had worked

they had been unable to raise the Breck Kingdom to an

However, Rosalyn...

That child...

that she can raise

shown talent in Disciplines of Kingship

tactics... And

bright as well as the

peace is

fine if something

even better if those kinds of situations

king felt this way because

able to add warmth to her wisdom to use

his thoughts

you all scared of the Breck

falling temporarily was

future of

afraid of the future

“Your Majesty.”

head of

kingdom will fall into chaos if

“...Mm.”

to deeply consider

“...Yes, I understand.”

the rose of the sun and

was a moment of silence before the king gave his vassals an

more day and look

without any progress

* * *

Screeeech.

been in his study alone,

not to

“Royal Father.”

“...Oh, it's you, John.”

The king straightened his shoulders and raised his head. But his shoulders slumped a bit again after seeing the concerned

okay,

gaze that was full of warmth like

I

“...Royal Father.”

feel

be anxious as well and that I should

“It's okay, Royal Father.”

understood why the king was like this

the only one for his father to lean on right now since his sister Rosalyn was not here. He would usually show this weak side to

he could understand

“But, Royal Father.”

“Yes? You may speak.”

a slightly different

John closed his eyes.

struggling parents and

who were at a

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

ended

His sister Rosalyn's face.

certain that my sister

“...John.”

in some shape or form by

was his sister, his

is good news. You know what

possible that John was more aware of his older sister’s personality than his

why John spoke honestly despite it

has not

corpse?! How could you

that she is

“...John.”

Father. Sister is definitely alive. She is

gentle smile appeared on

then continued speaking

evil person responsible for putting

how the citizens of the kingdom called his sister the

“She will definitely return.”

John did not

that kind

She was fire.

was like

to some but brought fear to others. She was that kind of person. She was more like the sun itself than the rose

So please

“Yes, thank you.”

king seemed to take his words just as hopeful words to console

care of things while I

‘Please be safe, noonim.’

on. Do you really think

recalled the moment he said goodbye to Rosalyn before she left for the