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.

doing this just to find

the king’s cold gaze. The king looked at the

“Who is Rosalyn?”

Chief of Staff bowed

future of the Breck Kingdom, your

"That is correct.”

here spoke up to oppose what

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

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

about the former king, his father,

family had not had anybody who

had decent intelligence and average

been sincere people who had worked their hardest to maintain

had been unable to raise the Breck

However, Rosalyn...

That child...

child. I'm certain that

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

science, tactics...

king thought about the areas in which Rosalyn’s talents shone bright as well as the Western continent that had

period of peace is

fine if something ominous like a war did

was even better if those kinds

felt this way because he

person. That child would be able to add warmth to her wisdom

organized his thoughts and opened

of the

falling temporarily

scared that the future of

king was afraid

“Your Majesty.”

of Administration

into chaos

“...Mm.”

deeply

“...Yes, I understand.”

Kingdom called Rosalyn the rose of the sun and affectionately praised her talents and

silence before the king

her one more day and look for a new direction

meeting without any progress came to

* * *

Screeeech.

in his study alone,

said not to

“Royal Father.”

“...Oh, it's you, John.”

raised his head. But his shoulders slumped a bit again after seeing the concerned look in his

okay,

son's gaze that was full of warmth like his mother's. He then shared

bit difficult. But I guess I can’t let it

“...Royal Father.”

feel

and that I should not be showing this

“It's okay, Royal Father.”

the king was like this

was not here. He would usually show this weak side to his mother and

he could understand him a

“But, Royal Father.”

“Yes? You may speak.”

a slightly different

John closed his eyes.

struggling parents and his

who were at a loss for

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

ended with his

His sister Rosalyn's face.

my sister is alive and

“...John.”

have heard something about her in some shape or form

his sister, his sister

news. You know what sister is like, Royal

that John was more aware of his

John spoke honestly despite it potentially sounding

corpse has

could you

that she

“...John.”

alive. She is probably

appeared on

continued speaking to the

the evil person responsible for putting her in this ‘missing’ status. And once she finds

about how the citizens of the kingdom called

“She will definitely return.”

not agree

is 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

Father. So please

“Yes, thank you.”

the king seemed to take

take good care of

‘Please be safe, noonim.’

really think

to Rosalyn before she left for the