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

this is Lock. They are both

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

John with the Breck Kingdom's style of

sat across from

sit down as

hand as John pointed to an empty

And t, there

true, Lock-nim. You are my

“...Thank you very much.”

moving to Choi

face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even

it the

“Yeah.”

smile appeared

Archduke did something

House of Richardson, the only Archduke's household in the

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

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

of the noble faction

Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path to

Father must

of Foreign Affairs was one of the king’s

was lit by the magic

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

his

at John. John looked at the magic

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 not do

that it 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

“That’s right.”

determined that it would be much more difficult to find an opening

that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates for the

he wasn’t fully aware of your magic abilities. He’s probably

is probably uncertain as to whether I

eyes after hearing her

who were with me either died

“Mm.”

but John only

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry right

She was also sad.

were with me

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

knew that he was not

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

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

the king felt that they were all confidants

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

moment when she was

recalled this memory tens,

suddenly surrounded their carriage and

the people who protected her

bastards the

one bastard alive. The few who started running away

thinking about that time when she

Archduke's household broke

about the ironclad rule that had been

"The Archduke’s household...”

deny the existence of

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to

from having troops because he was worried that it might

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

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

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke the

the king

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

couldn't forget the wrath on the king's face

to take down the

“...Noonim.”

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

conflict in the Breck Kingdom if we leave the Archduke's household as

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

enemy behind it was an unknown

‘The peace was long.’

peace on the Western continent had been too long and that battles might

she was almost certain

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