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.”

person introduced himself as Choi

They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

John with the Breck Kingdom's style of respectful

and sat across from his

sit down as

as John pointed

And t, there is no

is not true, Lock-nim.

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving

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

Was it

“Yeah.”

twisted smile appeared

Archduke did something

Richardson, the only

two children. The second child, who had

the first child accepted that situation at the time, however, the situation changed as the

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

if the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path

Royal Father must have been

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was one

at the table that was lit by the magic light and

position. However, it is not a position he could get because I

his child and the

John. John looked at the magic light

second to you, Noonim. At least

finished the sentence as

who was 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.”

be much more difficult to find an opening to take the throne if

not there, there were only average candidates for the throne,

failed because he wasn’t fully aware of your magic

to whether I am dead

looked at Rosalyn's eyes after hearing her cold

me either died or

“Mm.”

but John only looked at

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry

She was also sad.

of the people who were with me was a

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

knew that he

simply guessed that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would

only a few people accompanying Rosalyn to the Whipper Kingdom. The king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights were with her so that they

the king felt that they were all

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

moment when she

recalled this memory tens, no,

people suddenly surrounded their carriage and group. Then

about the people who protected

the

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

thinking about that time

Archduke's household broke the

that had been in place since the birth

"The Archduke’s household...”

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

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to have

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

Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles

was able to be

Rosalyn calmly commented.

Archduke's household broke the

what the king had

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 wanted to find her first

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

to take down

“...Noonim.”

he thought she might say. However, Rosalyn’s gaze was that of someone

Breck Kingdom if we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this

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

enemy behind it

‘The peace was long.’

that the peace on the Western continent had been too

she was almost certain

situation would only be cutting away at the kingdom’s