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.”

person introduced himself as Choi

is Lock. They are

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

awkwardly greeted John with the Breck

smiled and sat across from his

sit down

rapidly waved his hand as John pointed to

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

not true, Lock-nim.

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to Choi Han's

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

it the

“Yeah.”

twisted smile appeared

Archduke did something quite

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

had two children. The second child, who

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

of the noble

head of the Ministry of

Royal Father must have

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was one of

at the table that was lit by the magic

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

trust his child

looked at John. John looked at the

to you, Noonim. At least when it comes to administration and finance. Because of

as John could not

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

“That’s right.”

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

there, there were only average

because he wasn’t fully aware of your magic

probably uncertain as to whether I am dead

looked at Rosalyn's eyes after

who were with me either died

“Mm.”

groaned but John

‘Noonim, she...’

was angry

She was also sad.

the people who were with me

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

that he was

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

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

moment when she was

had recalled this memory tens, no, hundreds

their carriage and group. Then the attack

about the people who protected

the Archduke sent are

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

that time when she thoroughly searched

household broke the fundamental

the ironclad rule that had been

"The Archduke’s household...”

family could deny the existence of the Archduke's

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to have

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

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

be

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke the

what the

that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side wanted to find Rosalyn first. They wanted to

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

I'm going to take down

“...Noonim.”

low voice after hearing what he thought she might say. However, Rosalyn’s gaze was that of someone

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

attack and Magic Bomb Terror

behind it was

‘The peace was long.’

been too long and that

almost certain

situation would only be cutting away at the