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

They are both my important

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

introduced Lock and Lock awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's style

and sat across

sit down as well,

as John pointed to an

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

not true, Lock-nim. You

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving

This was

it the

“Yeah.”

smile appeared on Rosalyn’s

Archduke did

Richardson, the only Archduke's household

house's history could be traced back about 200 years. The king at the time had two children. The second child,

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

of the noble faction and was always

as if the head of the Ministry of Foreign

Father must have been

Affairs

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

really desire the king's position. However, it is

must trust his child and the

looked at John. John looked at the magic light as

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

the sentence as John

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

“That’s right.”

that it would be much more difficult

have done this because he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there

the Archduke failed because he wasn’t fully aware of your magic abilities. He’s probably extremely

uncertain as to whether I am dead

at Rosalyn's eyes after hearing her cold

people who were with me either died or were

“Mm.”

but John only looked

‘Noonim, she...’

was angry

She was also sad.

the people who were with

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly

“Not at all.”

that he was not

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

king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights were with her so that

king felt that they were all confidants

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

moment when

had recalled this memory tens, no,

people suddenly surrounded their carriage and group.

who protected

of the bastards the Archduke

even one bastard alive. The few who started running away to inform the Archduke about

Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched through the

Archduke's household broke

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

"The Archduke’s household...”

existence of the Archduke's household

The Archduke’s household...

allowed to have

ago prohibited the Archduke's household from having troops because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten

time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles and scholars to make suggestions or confront the royal family

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

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke

recalled what the

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

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

take down

“...Noonim.”

hearing what he thought she might say.

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

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

enemy behind it was an unknown

‘The peace was long.’

had been too

she was almost certain

conflict in such a situation would only be cutting away at the kingdom’s