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.”

himself

is Lock. They are

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's

finally smiled and sat

down as

his hand as John pointed to an empty

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

is not true, Lock-nim. You are

“...Thank you very much.”

moving to

face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This

it

“Yeah.”

smile appeared on Rosalyn’s

Archduke did something quite

House of Richardson, the only Archduke's

the time had two children. The second child, who had

that situation at the time, however, the situation changed as the

the leader of the noble

as if the head of the Ministry of

Father must have been

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was

was lit by the magic light

really desire the king's position. However, it is not a position he could get

his child and the

looked at John. John looked at the magic

child is said to be a genius who is only second to you, Noonim. At least when it comes to administration and finance.

as

if nobody knows that it was the Archduke who was responsible 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

“That’s right.”

be much more difficult to find an opening

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

failed because he wasn’t fully aware of your magic abilities. He’s probably extremely anxious

is probably uncertain as to whether

eyes after hearing

were with me either died or

“Mm.”

John

‘Noonim, she...’

was angry right

She was also sad.

were with me was

“...Was it the diplomat?”

you truly

“Not at all.”

he

Affairs would be the traitor since the head

diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights

Rosalyn and the king felt that they

the shadows. It wasn't too strong, but we

recalled the moment when she was

recalled this memory tens, no, hundreds of

of people suddenly surrounded their carriage and group. Then the

who protected her

bastards the Archduke

not leave even one bastard alive. The few who started running away to inform the Archduke

had been a dark night. Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when

broke the

thought about the ironclad rule that had been in place since the birth of the

"The Archduke’s household...”

of the Archduke's household if they

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to

household from having troops because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten the second child. Surprisingly,

time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles

be maintained so well

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke

what the

Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side wanted to find Rosalyn first. They

finish the sentence as he couldn't forget the wrath on the king's face nor the

going to take down

“...Noonim.”

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

in the Breck Kingdom if we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this is not the time to

Magic Bomb Terror Incident

behind it was

‘The peace was long.’

that the peace on the Western continent had been

was almost certain

a situation would only be cutting away at