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.”

person introduced himself as Choi

is Lock. They are both my

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

greeted John with the Breck

and sat across

down as well,

rapidly waved his hand as John pointed to an

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

Lock-nim.

“...Thank you very much.”

shyly smiled before moving to

on his face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was

it the

“Yeah.”

smile appeared on Rosalyn’s

Archduke did something

Richardson, the only Archduke's household in the

about 200 years. The king at the time had two children. The second child, who had shown special talent, was

said that the first child accepted that situation at

Archduke's House of Richardson was the leader of the noble faction and was always in

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

Royal Father must

Foreign Affairs was one of

that was lit by the magic light and opened

it is

must trust his child

at the magic

said to be a genius who is only second to

as John could not

of 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,

“That’s right.”

determined that it would be much more difficult

because he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there were only average candidates for the throne,

Archduke failed because he wasn’t fully aware of your magic abilities. He’s

uncertain as to whether I

looked at Rosalyn's eyes

with me either died

“Mm.”

but John only

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was

She was also sad.

were with me

“...Was it the diplomat?”

you truly

“Not at all.”

that he

from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be

Kingdom. The king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights were with her so that they could

the king felt that they were all

of some of the shadows. It wasn't too strong,

moment when she

had recalled this memory

carriage and group.

about the people who protected

the Archduke sent

did not leave even one bastard alive. The few who started running away to inform the

been a dark night. Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched through

household broke the

had been in

"The Archduke’s household...”

family could deny the existence of the Archduke's household if they broke this

The Archduke’s household...

allowed

it might hinder

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

why the Breck Kingdom was able to be maintained so

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke the fundamental

the king had

of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing.

couldn’t finish the sentence as he couldn't forget the wrath on

going to take down the Archduke’s

“...Noonim.”

voice after hearing what he thought she might say. However, Rosalyn’s gaze was that of someone who had made up her

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

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

behind it

‘The peace was long.’

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

was almost certain about

a situation would only