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

“Ah, I see.”

person introduced himself

Lock. They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

introduced Lock and Lock awkwardly greeted John

smiled and sat across

down as

his hand as John

highness! And t, there is no need to be so respectful

is not true, Lock-nim. You

“...Thank you very much.”

moving to Choi Han's

at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even more splendid

it

“Yeah.”

twisted smile appeared on Rosalyn’s

Archduke did something

of Richardson, the only Archduke's household

history could be traced back about 200 years. The king at the time had two children. The second child, who had shown special talent, was made

said that the first child accepted that situation at the

the noble faction

Ministry

must have

Foreign Affairs was one

that was lit by the magic light

king's position. However, it is not a position he could get because

trust his child

at John. John looked at the magic

Archduke's first child is said to be a genius who is only second to you, Noonim. At

finished the sentence as John

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 his

“That’s right.”

more difficult to find an

because he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only

Archduke failed because he wasn’t fully aware of your

probably uncertain as to whether I am dead or

looked at Rosalyn's eyes after

me either died or

“Mm.”

groaned but John only

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry right

She was also sad.

of the people who were with

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly

“Not at all.”

knew that he

guessed that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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

that they were all confidants

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

the moment

memory

surrounded their carriage and group. Then

the people who

bastards the Archduke sent are

The few who started running away to inform the Archduke

dark night. Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when

Archduke's household broke the

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

"The Archduke’s household...”

deny the existence of the Archduke's household if they

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed

having troops because he was worried that it might

good partner and rival to the royal family at that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles and scholars to make suggestions or confront the royal family in politics

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

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke the fundamental

the king

reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The

forget the wrath on the

take down the Archduke’s

“...Noonim.”

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

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

Roan Kingdom's capital... The attack and Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened in

enemy behind it was

‘The peace was long.’

had been

she was almost certain

conflict in such a situation would only be cutting