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.”

himself

They

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's style of

smiled and sat across from

down as well,

as John

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

is not true, Lock-nim. You are my noonim’s

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to Choi Han's

This was his sister, whose red hair was even more splendid than the light from this

Was it

“Yeah.”

appeared

Archduke did something quite

Richardson, the only Archduke's household in the Breck

could be traced back about 200 years. The king at the time had two children. The second child, who had shown special talent, was made king while the first

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

leader of the noble faction and was always in political

the Ministry of

Royal Father must have been

Affairs

looked down at the table that was lit by the magic light and opened

really desire the king's position. However, it

trust his child

John looked at the magic light

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

as John could not do

Archduke who was responsible for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the current Archduke cannot become king, his son or maybe his son’s descendants could

“That’s right.”

be much more difficult to find an

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

fully aware of your magic abilities. He’s

is probably uncertain as to whether I am dead or

eyes after hearing

me either died or were seriously

“Mm.”

John only looked at

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry right

She was also sad.

were with

“...Was it the diplomat?”

you truly are

“Not at all.”

he

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

were only a few people accompanying Rosalyn to the Whipper Kingdom. The king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a

king felt that they were

and the food of some of the shadows. It

moment when she

memory tens,

suddenly surrounded their carriage

people who protected her

of the bastards the

leave even one bastard alive. The few who started running away to inform the

Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched through the forest, opened her

broke the

about the ironclad rule that had been in place

"The Archduke’s household...”

of the Archduke's household if they broke

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed

was worried that it might hinder or

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

be maintained so well until now. However,

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke

the

reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's

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

going to take

“...Noonim.”

voice after hearing what he thought she might say.

Archduke's household as is. But

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

behind it

‘The peace was long.’

the Western continent had been too long

she was almost certain about

such a situation would only be