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

is Lock. They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's

sat across

sit down as

as John

your highness! And t, there

true, Lock-nim. You are my

“...Thank you very much.”

smiled before moving to Choi Han's

to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair

it the

“Yeah.”

twisted smile appeared on

did something

Richardson, the only Archduke's household in

The second child, who had shown special talent, was made king while the first child was given the title of Archduke

situation at

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

Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path to

Royal Father must have been

Ministry of Foreign Affairs was one

table that was lit by

position. However, it

his child

at the magic

only second to you, Noonim. At

finished the sentence as John could

for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if

“That’s right.”

difficult to find an opening to take the throne if

this because he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates for

fully aware of your magic abilities. He’s

to

eyes after hearing her

with me either died or

“Mm.”

groaned but John

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry right

She was also sad.

who were with me was a

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

he

he simply guessed that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since the head was

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

the king felt that they were all

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

moment when

memory

carriage and group. Then the

people who protected her until

the bastards the

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

dark night. Rosalyn, who was thinking about that

broke the

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

"The Archduke’s household...”

royal family could deny the existence of

The Archduke’s household...

allowed

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

family at that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles and scholars to make

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

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke the fundamental

the

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

forget the wrath on

to take down

“...Noonim.”

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

if we leave the Archduke's household as

capital... The attack and Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened in the middle of the

it was

‘The peace was long.’

that the peace on the Western continent had been too long and that battles might happen to go against

almost certain

conflict in such a situation would only be cutting away