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

“Ah, I see.”

himself as Choi

They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

and Lock awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's

sat across

down as well,

hand as John

t, there is

Lock-nim. You are

“...Thank you very much.”

shyly smiled before moving to Choi Han's

turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even more splendid than the light from this magic

Was it the

“Yeah.”

appeared on

Archduke did something quite

of Richardson, the only Archduke's household in

The king at the time had two children. The second child,

accepted that situation at the time,

of the

if the head of the Ministry of Foreign

Father must have been

head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

was lit by the

Archduke must really desire the king's position. However, it is not a position he could get because I

his child and

John looked at the

genius who is only second to you, Noonim. At least when it comes to

sentence as John could

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

“That’s right.”

difficult to find an opening

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

fully aware of your magic abilities. He’s probably extremely anxious right

Archduke is probably uncertain as to whether I

eyes after hearing her cold

people who were with me either

“Mm.”

John

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was

She was also sad.

the people who were with me was a

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

that he was not

guessed that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the traitor

a diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights

that they were all

poison was put into my food and the food of some of the shadows. It wasn't too strong, but we were unable to properly react to

recalled the moment when she was

memory tens, no, hundreds

of people suddenly surrounded their carriage

people who

the Archduke sent

one bastard alive. The few who started running

who was thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched

Archduke's household broke

had been in place since the birth of the

"The Archduke’s household...”

the existence of the

The Archduke’s household...

allowed to have

that it might hinder or threaten the second child. Surprisingly, it

to the royal family at that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions

Kingdom was able to be maintained so well until now. However, that confrontation slowly

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke

the

reason the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that

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

I'm going to take

“...Noonim.”

she might

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

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

enemy behind it was

‘The peace was long.’

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

was almost certain

would only be cutting away at