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

They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

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

smiled and sat across from his

sit down

as John pointed to an empty

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

not true, Lock-nim. You are my

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving

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

it the

“Yeah.”

appeared

Archduke did something quite

Richardson, the only Archduke's household in

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

said that the first child accepted that situation at the time, however, the

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

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

Father must have

of Foreign Affairs

table that was lit by the magic light and

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

trust his

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

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

finished the sentence as John could not

who was responsible for my death in a foreign kingdom...

“That’s right.”

difficult to find an opening to take the

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

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

is probably uncertain as to whether I am dead or

eyes after hearing

were with me either died or were seriously

“Mm.”

John only

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was

She was also sad.

people who were with me

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly

“Not at all.”

that he was not

Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the

few 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 they were all

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

moment when

had recalled this memory tens, no,

carriage and group. Then the attack

thought about the people who protected her until the

bastards the

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

was thinking about that time when she

broke the fundamental

been in place since the

"The Archduke’s household...”

existence of the Archduke's household

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to

he was worried that it

gathered the opinions of the nobles and scholars to make suggestions or confront

Breck Kingdom was able to be

Rosalyn calmly commented.

Archduke's household broke the

recalled what the king had

Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's

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

to take down

“...Noonim.”

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

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

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

behind it was an

‘The peace was long.’

been

almost certain about

such a situation would only be cutting