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

Lock. They are both

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

Lock and Lock awkwardly greeted John with the Breck

finally smiled and sat across from his

sit down

waved his hand as John pointed to an

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

Lock-nim. You are my noonim’s

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to

watched him with a smile on his face before turning his head to look at Rosalyn. This was his sister, whose red hair was even more splendid

it

“Yeah.”

appeared

did something quite

Richardson, the only

The second child, who had shown special talent, was made king while the first

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

the noble faction and

the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

must have been

of Foreign Affairs was one of the king’s close

that was lit by the magic light

However, it is

must trust his child and

John looked at the magic

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

as John could not

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

“That’s right.”

much more difficult to

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

because he wasn’t fully aware of your magic

Archduke is probably uncertain as to whether I am dead or

at Rosalyn's eyes after hearing her

with me either died or were

“Mm.”

John

‘Noonim, she...’

sister was angry right

She was also sad.

were with me was

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly are

“Not at all.”

that he was not

that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since the

diplomat, an attendant,

felt that they were all confidants they

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

recalled the moment

this memory

carriage and group.

about the people who protected

the bastards the Archduke

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

thinking about that time when she thoroughly searched

household broke the

about the ironclad rule that had been in place

"The Archduke’s household...”

deny the existence of the Archduke's household if they broke

The Archduke’s household...

not allowed

200 years ago prohibited the Archduke's household from having troops because he was worried that it might hinder

that time. The Archduke gathered the opinions of the nobles and scholars to make suggestions or confront

able to be maintained so well until now. However,

Rosalyn calmly commented.

household broke

recalled what the king had

was a reason the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn was missing. The Archduke's side

the wrath on the king's face nor the queen’s pale

I'm going to take down the Archduke’s

“...Noonim.”

a low voice after hearing what he thought she might say. However, Rosalyn’s gaze

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

attack and Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened in the middle of

behind it

‘The peace was long.’

on the Western continent had been

she was almost

situation would only be