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

“Ah, I see.”

himself as

is Lock. They are both my

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

greeted John

sat across from

down as

his hand as

your highness! And t, there is

true, Lock-nim. You are my noonim’s

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to Choi Han's

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

it the

“Yeah.”

appeared on

did

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

the time had two children. The second child,

that the first child accepted that situation at the time,

of the noble faction and was always in political conflict with

the Ministry of Foreign

must have

Affairs was

lit by

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

his child

looked at John. John looked at the magic light as

only second to you, Noonim. At least when

sentence as John

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

“That’s right.”

determined that it would be much more difficult to find

was not there, there were only average candidates for

he wasn’t fully aware of

probably uncertain as to whether I am dead or

eyes after hearing

were with me

“Mm.”

groaned but John

‘Noonim, she...’

was angry

She was also sad.

the people who were with me was a

“...Was it the diplomat?”

you truly are

“Not at all.”

he was not

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

shadows, a diplomat, an attendant, and a few knights

and the king felt that they were all confidants they

and the food of some of the shadows. It wasn't too strong, but we were unable to properly react

recalled the moment

this memory tens, no, hundreds

people suddenly surrounded their carriage

people who protected her

the bastards the Archduke sent are

bastard alive. The few who started running

a dark night. Rosalyn, who was thinking about that time when

broke the

about the ironclad rule that had been

"The Archduke’s household...”

the existence of the Archduke's household if

The Archduke’s household...

allowed

worried that it might hinder or

the royal family at that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles and scholars to make suggestions or confront the royal family in politics or

why the Breck Kingdom was able to be maintained so well until now. However, that

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke

what the king

Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side wanted to find Rosalyn first. They wanted to find

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

to take down the Archduke’s

“...Noonim.”

a low voice after hearing what he thought she might say. However,

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

Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened in

behind it

‘The peace was long.’

peace on the Western continent had been too long and that

she was almost certain

in such a situation would only be cutting