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 Choi

“Ah, I see.”

introduced himself as

this is Lock. They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

Lock and Lock awkwardly greeted John with the

and sat across

down

as John

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

is not true, Lock-nim.

“...Thank you very much.”

smiled before moving

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

it the

“Yeah.”

smile appeared on

Archduke did something quite

only

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

the noble faction and was

of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your

Father must have been

of Foreign Affairs was one of the

looked down at the table that was lit by the magic light and opened her

it is

trust his child and

John looked at the magic light as he

Archduke's first child is said to be a genius who is only second to

finished the sentence as John

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.”

determined that it would be much more difficult to find an opening to take the throne if Rosalyn became

that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates

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

is probably uncertain as to whether I am dead

eyes after hearing her

with me either

“Mm.”

but John only

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry

She was also sad.

people who were with me was a

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly

“Not at all.”

he was

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since the

shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights were with her so that they could move stealthily and

felt that they were all

the food of some of the shadows. It wasn't

moment

recalled this memory tens, no, hundreds

suddenly surrounded their carriage and group. Then

people who

of the bastards the

not leave even one bastard alive. The few who started running away to inform the Archduke about Rosalyn’s

that time when she thoroughly searched through the forest, opened

Archduke's household broke the

that had been in place since

"The Archduke’s household...”

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

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to have

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

household was a good partner and rival to the royal family at that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles

Breck Kingdom was able to be maintained

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke the fundamental

the king had

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

the sentence as he couldn't forget the wrath on the king's face nor the

to take down the Archduke’s

“...Noonim.”

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

in the Breck Kingdom if we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this is not

Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened in the middle

it was an

‘The peace was long.’

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

was almost

would only be