Trash of the Count's Family

TCF S5-2

“Gasp.”

Lock covered his mouth with both hands.

“Haaaaa.”

Choi Han sighed deeply before speaking.

“I'm pretty sure the vague plan you gave before is exactly what you just told us?”

“That’s it.”

Rosalyn responded refreshingly and Choi Han looked at her for a bit before nodding her head.

“I see.”

“That’s right.”

Lock watched the calm Choi Han and the smiling Rosalyn and quietly lowered his head. He then nodded his head after a bit.

‘I see.

Mm... I guess that’s it if hyung and noona says it is.’

Lock decided not to think deeply about it. He looked down at his hands instead.

‘I need to get stronger.’

He thought about someone. He fixed his thoughts while recalling that person's back.

‘No. It’s not getting stronger.’

That person did not seem strong at all. He did not have some exceptional powers.

But looking at that person's back oddly made his anxiety disappear.

‘I need to become like that too.’

He needed to do that so that somebody, his young siblings, could look at his back and have the same thoughts.

Lock closed his eyes as he firmed his resolve. Although he didn’t know what was going to happen in the Breck Kingdom, he knew that it would go well because he was with his hyung and noona.

Furthermore, it should help him grow stronger as well.

* * *

The Breck Kingdom had many secret passages for potential emergency situations.

One of those secret passages was in an isolated house in a part of the forest that doesn't get much traffic.

The door to the basement of that house opened.

“...Noonim.”

“John, long time no see.”

John stopped walking out of the basement for a moment to look at Rosalyn.

‘She really is alive.’

John's heart was finally at peace. He had trusted that she was alive, but it was different being able to confirm his sister’s health with his own eyes. However, his face did not show that relief.

‘Who is it?’

The kitchen was connected to the basement.

There was a four person dining table in the kitchen. Rosalyn was sitting down at the table, pointing to the seat across from her for John.

And behind her...

“H, hello.”

There was a feeble but quite tall guy. The face that was visible thanks to the magic light on top of the dining table and the voice he heard let John know that this guy was a young boy.

‘Mm.’

However, there was someone who was more eye-catching than that young boy.

It was the person who was seated on the kitchen window ledge looking outside. He bowed his head when he and John made eye contact.

He then looked outside again.

‘...Something is odd.’

This person seemed a bit older than the other tall young boy. But he seemed too young to be called a young man. However, the person's expression that was visible thanks to the moonlight shining into the window was bleak unlike his oddly innocent looking face.

Was it because John kept looking at him?

name is Choi

“Ah, I see.”

person introduced himself as Choi

this is Lock. They are

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's style of respectful

smiled and sat

down as

waved his hand as

am okay, your highness! And t, there is no need to be so

true, Lock-nim.

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to Choi Han's

to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even more splendid than the light from

it

“Yeah.”

smile appeared

Archduke did

House of Richardson, the only

children. The second child, who had shown special talent, was made king while the

said that the first child accepted that situation at the time, however, the situation changed

Richardson was the leader of the noble faction and was

Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel

must have

Affairs was one of the

lit by the magic light

Archduke must really desire the king's position. However, it is not

his child

John looked at the magic light as he continued to

who is only second to you, Noonim. At least when

sentence as John could not do

for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the current Archduke cannot become king, his son or maybe his son’s descendants could achieve

“That’s right.”

much more difficult to

he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates for

because he wasn’t fully aware of

uncertain as to whether

looked at Rosalyn's eyes

were with me either died

“Mm.”

but John only looked at

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was

She was also sad.

who were

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly

“Not at all.”

knew that he was

Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since the head was serving

Rosalyn to the Whipper Kingdom. The king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights were with her so that they could move stealthily and

Rosalyn and the king felt that they were all

shadows. It wasn't too strong, but we were unable to properly react to the sudden

the moment

recalled this memory tens, no, hundreds of

of people suddenly surrounded their carriage and group. Then the

the people who protected

of the bastards the Archduke sent are

alive. The few who started running away

Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched through

household broke the

had been in place since the birth of the

"The Archduke’s household...”

existence of the

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to

Archduke's household from having troops because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten the second child. Surprisingly, it was the older son who asked for that

Archduke gathered the opinions of

Kingdom was able to be maintained so

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke the fundamental

what the

that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side

the sentence as he couldn't forget the wrath on

take down

“...Noonim.”

after hearing what he thought she might say. However, Rosalyn’s gaze was that of

leave the Archduke's household as is. But this is not the time to let something

Magic Bomb

it was an unknown

‘The peace was long.’

continent had been too long and that battles might happen

she was almost certain

internal conflict in such a situation would only be cutting away at the