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

“Ah, I see.”

person introduced himself as Choi

is Lock. They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

introduced Lock and Lock awkwardly greeted John with the

sat across from

down

hand as John pointed to an

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

true, Lock-nim.

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to Choi

him with a smile on his face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was

it the

“Yeah.”

twisted smile appeared on Rosalyn’s

did something quite

of Richardson, the only

second child, who had shown

the first child accepted that situation at the

current Archduke's House of Richardson was the leader of the noble faction

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path

Royal Father must

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was one of the king’s close

at the table that was lit by

must really desire the king's position. However, it is

must trust his child and the

looked at John. John looked at the

only second to you, Noonim. At least when it comes to administration

the sentence as John could not

knows that it was the Archduke who was responsible for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the

“That’s right.”

be much more difficult to find an opening

have done this because he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates

aware of your magic

probably uncertain as to whether

looked at Rosalyn's eyes after hearing her cold

who were with me

“Mm.”

John only looked

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was

She was also sad.

the people who were

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

he

from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a

king felt that they

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

the moment when

memory tens, no,

people suddenly surrounded their carriage and

thought about the people who protected her until

the Archduke sent are

few who started running away to inform the Archduke about Rosalyn’s magic

a dark night. Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched

household broke the fundamental

about the ironclad rule that had been in place since

"The Archduke’s household...”

could deny the existence of the Archduke's household if they broke this

The Archduke’s household...

allowed to

years ago prohibited the Archduke's household from having troops because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten the

at that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles and scholars to make suggestions or confront the royal family in politics

the Breck Kingdom was able to be maintained so well until now. However, that confrontation

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke the

the king had

Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that

the sentence as he couldn't forget the wrath on the

take

“...Noonim.”

thought she might say. However, Rosalyn’s gaze was that

we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this

plaza in the Roan Kingdom's capital... The attack and Magic Bomb Terror

it was an

‘The peace was long.’

thought that the peace on the Western continent had been too long and that

almost certain

in such a situation would only be cutting away at the kingdom’s