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

“Ah, I see.”

himself

is Lock. They are

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's

finally smiled and sat

sit down

his hand as John pointed to an empty

your highness! And t, there is no

true, Lock-nim. You are

“...Thank you very much.”

moving to

before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even more

it

“Yeah.”

smile appeared on Rosalyn’s

Archduke did

the only Archduke's household

be traced back 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

situation at the

the noble faction

of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path to the

must

of Foreign Affairs was one of

lit by the magic light and opened

position. However, it is not

trust his

the magic light as he continued

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

sentence as

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

“That’s right.”

would be much more difficult to find an opening to

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

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

uncertain as to whether I am dead or

looked at Rosalyn's eyes after

who were with me

“Mm.”

John only looked at

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry

She was also sad.

of the people who were

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

knew that he was

Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since

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

Rosalyn and the king felt that they were all

poison was put into my food and the food of some of the shadows. It wasn't too

recalled the moment when

memory tens, no,

of people suddenly surrounded their carriage and group. Then the

thought about the people who protected her until the

of the bastards the Archduke

leave even one bastard alive. The few who started running away to inform the Archduke about Rosalyn’s magic abilities all

was thinking about that

broke

the ironclad rule that had been in place since

"The Archduke’s household...”

could deny the existence of the Archduke's

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to

because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten the second child.

partner and rival to the royal family at that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of

why the Breck Kingdom was able to be maintained so well until now. However, that confrontation slowly

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke the fundamental

what the

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

couldn't forget the wrath on the

take down

“...Noonim.”

what he thought she might say. However, Rosalyn’s

if we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this is not the time to let

and Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened

it was

‘The peace was long.’

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

she was almost certain

a situation would only