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

this is Lock. They are

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

John

sat across from his

down as well,

as

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

not true, Lock-nim. You are

“...Thank you very much.”

shyly smiled before moving to Choi

Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even more splendid than the

Was it the

“Yeah.”

twisted smile appeared

Archduke did something quite

House of Richardson, the only Archduke's household

house's history 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 child was given the title of

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

Richardson was the leader of the noble faction and was always in political conflict with

as if the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path

Father must have been

Affairs was one

lit by the magic light and opened her

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

his child and the

looked at the magic light

a genius who is only second to you, Noonim. At least when it comes to administration and finance. Because

sentence as John could not do

a foreign kingdom... Even if the current Archduke cannot become king, his son or

“That’s right.”

more difficult to find

done this because he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates for

he wasn’t fully aware of your magic abilities. He’s probably

Archduke is probably uncertain as to whether I am dead or

eyes after hearing her cold

with me

“Mm.”

John only

‘Noonim, she...’

was

She was also sad.

the people who were with me was a

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly

“Not at all.”

knew that he was

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

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

felt that they

of the shadows.

recalled the moment when she

memory tens,

of people suddenly surrounded their carriage

the people who protected her until

the bastards the Archduke sent

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

Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched

broke the

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

"The Archduke’s household...”

existence of the Archduke's

The Archduke’s household...

allowed to

having troops because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten the second child. Surprisingly, it

The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles and scholars to make

was able to be maintained so well until now. However,

Rosalyn calmly commented.

Archduke's household broke the

recalled what the king

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

finish the sentence as he couldn't forget the wrath on the king's

going to take

“...Noonim.”

in a low voice after hearing what he thought she might

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

Magic Bomb Terror

behind it was

‘The peace was long.’

had been too

she was almost certain about

would