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.”

person introduced himself

They are both my

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

Lock awkwardly greeted John with the Breck Kingdom's style of

smiled and sat across from his

down as well,

as John pointed to

And t, there is no need to be so

is not true, Lock-nim. You

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to Choi

head to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even more

it the

“Yeah.”

smile appeared on

did

the only Archduke's household

had two children. The second child, who had shown special talent, was made king while the first child was given the title

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

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

it seems as if the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your

Father must

Affairs was

the table that was lit by the magic light and opened her

Archduke must really desire the king's position. However, it is not a

his child and

at John. John looked at the magic light as he continued

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

finished the sentence as John

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, his son or maybe his son’s

“That’s right.”

be much more difficult

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

Archduke failed because he wasn’t fully aware of

to whether I am

eyes after hearing

with me either died or were seriously

“Mm.”

groaned but John

‘Noonim, she...’

was angry right

She was also sad.

people who were with me was

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly

“Not at all.”

that he was

Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since the head

The king’s shadows, a diplomat, an attendant,

and the king felt that they were all confidants

the food of some of the shadows. It wasn't

the moment when

memory

people suddenly surrounded their carriage and

thought about the people who protected her

bastards the Archduke

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

who was thinking about that

broke the fundamental

rule that had been in place since the birth of the Archduke's

"The Archduke’s household...”

family could deny the existence of the Archduke's household

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed to have

household from having troops because he was worried that it might hinder or threaten the second child. Surprisingly, it was the older son who asked for that

household was a good partner and rival to the royal family at that time. The Archduke gathered the

be maintained

Rosalyn calmly commented.

Archduke's household broke the

what the king

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

sentence as he couldn't forget the wrath

going to take down

“...Noonim.”

hearing what he thought she might say. However, Rosalyn’s

leave the Archduke's household as is. But this

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

behind it was an

‘The peace was long.’

Western continent had been too long and that battles might happen

almost certain about

situation would only be cutting