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.”

himself

They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

and Lock awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's

smiled and sat

sit down as

waved his hand as John

there is no need to be so

is not true, Lock-nim. You

“...Thank you very much.”

moving to Choi Han's

with a smile on his face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This

Was it the

“Yeah.”

twisted smile appeared on

did something

only Archduke's household

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

the first child accepted that situation at the time,

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

if the head of the Ministry of

Royal Father must have

Foreign Affairs was

down at the table that was lit by the magic light and

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

his child and

at John. John looked at the

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

sentence as John could not

of that, if nobody knows that it was the Archduke who was responsible for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the current

“That’s right.”

difficult to find an opening to take the throne

not there, there were only average candidates for the throne, making a better future

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

Archduke is probably uncertain as to whether I am

at Rosalyn's eyes after hearing

who were with me either died or were seriously

“Mm.”

but John only

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry

She was also sad.

of the people who were

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

that he

that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since the head was serving the

king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights

felt that they were all confidants they could

food of some of the shadows. It wasn't too strong, but we were unable to properly react to the sudden

moment

memory tens, no, hundreds of

suddenly surrounded their carriage and group.

who protected her

bastards the Archduke

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

dark night. Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched through

Archduke's household broke the

been

"The Archduke’s household...”

existence of the Archduke's household if

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed

having troops because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten the second child. Surprisingly, it was the older son who asked

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

the Breck Kingdom was able to be maintained so well

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke the fundamental

recalled what the

the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side wanted to find Rosalyn first. They

as he couldn't forget the wrath on

to take

“...Noonim.”

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

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

plaza in the Roan Kingdom's capital... The attack and Magic Bomb

enemy behind it was an unknown

‘The peace was long.’

been too long

was almost certain

conflict in such a situation would only be cutting