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?

is

“Ah, I see.”

person introduced himself

Lock. They are both my

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

and Lock awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's style of

and sat across from

down as

rapidly waved his hand as John pointed to an empty

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

not true, Lock-nim. You are

“...Thank you very much.”

smiled before moving

look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose

it the

“Yeah.”

twisted smile appeared

Archduke did something quite

only Archduke's household in

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

situation at the time, however,

the leader of the

the Ministry of Foreign

Royal Father must have been

of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was one of

at the table that was lit by the magic light and opened

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

trust his child and

looked at the magic

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

sentence as John could not

Archduke who was responsible for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the current Archduke cannot become king, his son or

“That’s right.”

be much more difficult to find an opening to take the throne if

if Rosalyn was not there, there were only

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

Archduke is probably uncertain as to whether I am

at Rosalyn's eyes after hearing

who were with me either died

“Mm.”

but John only

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry right

She was also sad.

people who were with

“...Was it the diplomat?”

you truly are

“Not at all.”

that he

he simply guessed that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since the

a few people accompanying Rosalyn to the Whipper Kingdom. The king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a few

and the king felt that they were all confidants they

of some of the shadows.

the moment

had recalled this memory tens, no, hundreds

their carriage

the people who protected her until the

the bastards the Archduke

alive. The few who started running away to

thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched through the forest, opened

Archduke's household broke the fundamental

rule that had been in place since the

"The Archduke’s household...”

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

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to have

troops because he was worried that it might hinder

The Archduke gathered

able to be maintained so well until now. However, that

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke

recalled what the king had

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

he couldn't forget the

going to take down the

“...Noonim.”

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

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

Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened in the middle of

it was an

‘The peace was long.’

had been too long and that battles might

was almost certain about

situation would only be cutting away