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.”

introduced himself as Choi

Lock. They are both

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's style

finally smiled and sat

sit down as well,

as

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

Lock-nim. You are my

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to Choi Han's

on his face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even more splendid than the

Was it the

“Yeah.”

appeared

did something quite

the only Archduke's household in

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

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

House of Richardson was the leader of the noble faction and was always in political conflict with the

of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path

Father must

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

lit by the

However, it is not a position he

trust his child

John looked at the magic light as he continued to

a genius who is only second to you,

sentence as John could

death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the current Archduke cannot become king, his son or

“That’s right.”

would be much more difficult to find an opening to take the

Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates for the throne, making a

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

uncertain as to whether I

Rosalyn's eyes

with me either

“Mm.”

groaned but John only

‘Noonim, she...’

was angry right

She was also sad.

who were with me

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

knew that he was not

guessed that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would

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

the king felt that they were all confidants they

the shadows. It wasn't too strong,

moment when she

this memory

people suddenly surrounded their carriage and

who protected her until

the bastards the

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

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

household broke the fundamental

thought about the ironclad rule that had been in place

"The Archduke’s household...”

family could deny the existence of the Archduke's household if

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to

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

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

able to be maintained so

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke the fundamental

what the

head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side

as he couldn't forget the wrath on the king's face

to take down the

“...Noonim.”

out to Rosalyn in a low voice after hearing what he thought she might

Kingdom if we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this is not the time to let something like that

and Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened in the middle of

enemy behind it was an unknown

‘The peace was long.’

on the Western continent had been too long and that battles might happen to

she was almost certain

would only be cutting away at the kingdom’s