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.”

introduced himself as Choi

They are both my important

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

introduced Lock and Lock awkwardly greeted John with the Breck

finally smiled and sat across from his

sit down

rapidly waved his hand as John pointed to an

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

not true, Lock-nim. You are

“...Thank you very much.”

smiled before moving to

watched him with a smile on his face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even

it

“Yeah.”

smile appeared on Rosalyn’s

did

of Richardson, the only Archduke's

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

accepted that situation at the time, however, the

of the noble faction and was

of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path to

Father must

Affairs was one of

down at the table that was lit by

position. However, it is not a position he could get because I

trust his child and the

looked at John. John looked at the magic light as he continued

genius who is only second to you,

the sentence as John could not do

for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the current Archduke cannot become king,

“That’s right.”

more difficult to find an opening to take the

believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates for the

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

uncertain as to whether I am dead or

Rosalyn's eyes after hearing her

people who were with me either died

“Mm.”

groaned but John only looked at

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry

She was also sad.

of the people who were with me

“...Was it the diplomat?”

you truly

“Not at all.”

that he was not

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

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

and the king felt that they were

some of the shadows. It wasn't too strong,

the moment

this memory tens, no, hundreds

their carriage

who protected her until

the bastards the Archduke sent are

bastard alive. The few who started running away to inform the Archduke

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

broke the fundamental

had been in place since the birth of the

"The Archduke’s household...”

of the Archduke's

The Archduke’s household...

allowed to have

ago prohibited the Archduke's household from having troops because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten the second child. Surprisingly, it was the older son who

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

why the Breck Kingdom was able to be maintained so well

Rosalyn calmly commented.

Archduke's household broke the fundamental

what the

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

forget the wrath on the king's

going to take

“...Noonim.”

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

Archduke's household as is. But this

The attack and Magic

enemy behind it

‘The peace was long.’

on the Western continent had been too

she was almost certain

conflict in such a situation would only be cutting away at the