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.”

introduced himself as Choi

Lock. They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

John with the Breck Kingdom's style of respectful

sat across from

sit down

rapidly waved his hand as

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

is not true, Lock-nim. You

“...Thank you very much.”

smiled before moving to Choi

This was his sister, whose red hair was even

it the

“Yeah.”

appeared on Rosalyn’s

Archduke did something

Richardson, the only Archduke's

The second child,

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

of the noble faction

head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path to

Father must have

Ministry of Foreign Affairs was one

lit by the

must really desire the king's position. However, it is not a

trust his child and the

John. John looked at the magic light as

said to be a genius who is only second to

as John

that, 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 king, his

“That’s right.”

have determined that it would be much more difficult to find an opening to take the throne if

must have done this because he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates for the throne, making a better

Archduke failed because he wasn’t fully aware of

probably uncertain as to whether I am

Rosalyn's eyes after hearing her cold

me either died or were

“Mm.”

but John only looked

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry right

She was also sad.

were with me was a

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

he

Affairs

few people accompanying Rosalyn to the Whipper Kingdom. The king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights were with her so that they

Rosalyn and the king felt that they were all

into my food and the food of some of the shadows. It wasn't too strong, but

the moment when she was

memory

of people suddenly surrounded their carriage and

thought about the people who protected her until the

of the bastards the Archduke

who started running away

about that time when she thoroughly

household broke the

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

"The Archduke’s household...”

the existence of the Archduke's household if they

The Archduke’s household...

allowed to have

household from having troops because he was worried that it

that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of

able to be maintained so well until

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke

the king

was a reason the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's

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

going to take down

“...Noonim.”

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

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

capital... The attack and Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened

behind it was

‘The peace was long.’

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

she was almost certain about

such a situation would only