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 Choi

“Ah, I see.”

person introduced himself as Choi

is Lock. They are both my important

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

Lock awkwardly greeted John with the Breck

and sat across from his

down

his hand as John

I am okay, your highness! And t, there is

not true, Lock-nim. You are

“...Thank you very much.”

moving to Choi Han's

on his face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was his

it

“Yeah.”

smile appeared

Archduke did

only Archduke's household

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

said that the first child accepted that situation at the

the leader of the noble

seems as if the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked

must have

Foreign Affairs was one of

at the table that was lit by the

position. However, it is

his child and the

at the magic light as

to you, Noonim. At

finished the sentence as John could not do

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

“That’s right.”

much more difficult to

was not there, there were only

wasn’t fully aware of your magic abilities. He’s probably extremely

to whether I am dead or

at Rosalyn's eyes after hearing her

me either

“Mm.”

but John only looked

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry

She was also sad.

were

“...Was it the diplomat?”

you truly

“Not at all.”

he was not

Affairs would be the traitor since the head was

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

Rosalyn and the king felt that

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

the moment when she was

this memory tens, no, hundreds of

of people suddenly surrounded their carriage

who protected her

the bastards the Archduke sent

who started running away to

thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched through the

broke the

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

"The Archduke’s household...”

could deny the existence of the

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to have

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

and 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 in

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

Rosalyn calmly commented.

Archduke's household broke

recalled what the king had

want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side wanted to find Rosalyn first.

couldn't forget the wrath on

I'm going to take

“...Noonim.”

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

internal conflict in the Breck Kingdom if we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this

in the Roan Kingdom's capital... The attack and Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened in the

behind it was an

‘The peace was long.’

on the Western continent had been too long and that

almost certain

situation would only be cutting away at the