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.”

introduced himself

is Lock. They are

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's

smiled and sat across from

sit down as

waved his hand as John pointed to

highness! And t, there

true, Lock-nim.

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to Choi

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

Was it

“Yeah.”

twisted smile appeared

did

Richardson, the only Archduke's household

at the time had two children. The second child, who had shown special talent, was made king while the first child was given the

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

House of Richardson was the leader of the noble faction and

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

must

Foreign Affairs was one

that was lit by the magic light

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

his child and the

John looked at the magic light as

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

finished the sentence as John could

if nobody knows that it was the Archduke who was responsible for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the current Archduke cannot become

“That’s right.”

much more difficult to find an opening to take the

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

of your

to whether I am dead or

Rosalyn's eyes after

people who were with me

“Mm.”

groaned but John only

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry

She was also sad.

were

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly

“Not at all.”

that he

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would

accompanying 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 stealthily and

the king felt that they were all confidants

of the shadows. It

moment when she

recalled this memory tens, no,

surrounded their carriage and

people who protected her until

the Archduke

not leave even one bastard alive. The few who started running

about that time

Archduke's household broke the

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

"The Archduke’s household...”

the existence of the

The Archduke’s household...

allowed to

from 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 asked for that

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

able to be maintained so well until now.

Rosalyn calmly commented.

Archduke's household broke

what the king had

want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side wanted to find Rosalyn first. They wanted to find

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

going to take down

“...Noonim.”

she might say. However, Rosalyn’s gaze was that of someone who had made

if we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this is not the time

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

enemy behind it was an unknown

‘The peace was long.’

been too long

she was almost certain

situation would only be cutting away at