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.”

himself as Choi

is Lock. They are both

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's

sat across from his

down as well,

waved his hand as John pointed to

I am okay, your highness! And t, there is no need to be so

is not true, Lock-nim.

“...Thank you very much.”

moving to Choi

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

Was it the

“Yeah.”

smile appeared

Archduke did something quite

the only Archduke's household in the

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

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

of the noble faction and was

Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path to

must have been

Affairs

the table that was lit by the magic light and opened

it

his child and the

at the magic

a genius who is only second to you,

finished the sentence as

my death in a foreign kingdom... Even

“That’s right.”

it would be much more difficult to find an opening to take the throne

he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates for the throne, making a

he wasn’t fully aware of your magic

uncertain as to whether I am dead or

at Rosalyn's eyes

were with me either died

“Mm.”

John only

‘Noonim, she...’

was

She was also sad.

were with me was

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

knew that he

he simply guessed that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since the head was serving the

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

felt that

the shadows. It wasn't

the moment when

memory tens, no,

people suddenly surrounded their carriage and

people who protected her

of the bastards the Archduke sent are

even one bastard alive. The few who started running away to inform the Archduke about Rosalyn’s magic abilities all died as

about that time when she thoroughly searched through the forest,

household broke the fundamental

rule that had been in place since the

"The Archduke’s household...”

existence of the Archduke's

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed

it might hinder or threaten the second child. Surprisingly, it was the older son who asked for

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

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

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke

what the king had

of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side

couldn’t finish the sentence as he couldn't forget the wrath on the

take down the

“...Noonim.”

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

be internal conflict in the Breck Kingdom if we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this is not the

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

enemy behind it was an unknown

‘The peace was long.’

the Western continent had been too long and that battles might happen

she was almost

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