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

“Ah, I see.”

introduced himself as

Lock. They are both my

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

introduced Lock and Lock awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's style

smiled and sat across

sit down

rapidly waved his hand as John pointed

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

true, Lock-nim. You are

“...Thank you very much.”

moving to Choi

on his face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even more splendid than the light from this magic

it

“Yeah.”

smile appeared on Rosalyn’s

did something

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

two children. The second child, who

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

the noble faction and was always in political conflict with

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

Father must

of Foreign Affairs was one of

looked down at the table that was lit by the

However, it is not a

trust his child

John. John looked at the magic light

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

sentence as John

Archduke who was responsible for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the current Archduke cannot become king,

“That’s right.”

be much more difficult to find an opening

he believed that if Rosalyn was not there, there

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

as to

looked at Rosalyn's eyes after hearing

with me

“Mm.”

groaned but John only

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was

She was also sad.

who were

“...Was it the diplomat?”

you truly

“Not at all.”

knew that he was

from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the

only a 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

and the king felt that they were

paralyzing poison was put into my food and the food of some of the shadows. It wasn't too

moment when

had recalled this memory

carriage and group. Then the

who protected her

bastards the

running away to inform

that time when she thoroughly

Archduke's household broke the fundamental

had been in place since the

"The Archduke’s household...”

of the Archduke's household if

The Archduke’s household...

allowed to have

ago prohibited the Archduke's household from having troops because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten the second child. Surprisingly, it was the

at that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles and scholars to

able to be maintained so well until now. However, that confrontation slowly

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke the

what the king

the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side wanted to find Rosalyn first. They wanted to find her first

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

take down the

“...Noonim.”

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

we leave the Archduke's household as is. But this is not the time to let something like

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

behind it was

‘The peace was long.’

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

was almost certain

internal conflict in such a situation would only be cutting