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 Choi

“Ah, I see.”

person introduced himself

this is Lock. They are

“Ah. Hello, Prince John.”

awkwardly greeted John with the Breck

sat across from

sit down as

rapidly waved his hand as John

am okay, your highness! And t, there

true, Lock-nim. You are my noonim’s

“...Thank you very much.”

before moving to Choi

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

Was it

“Yeah.”

smile appeared on Rosalyn’s

Archduke did something

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

second

at the time, however,

the leader of the noble faction

seems as if the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leaked your travel path

must have

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was one of the king’s close

table that was lit by the magic light and

must really desire the king's position. However, it is

trust his child

the magic

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

the sentence as John could

Archduke who was responsible for my death in a foreign kingdom... Even if the current Archduke

“That’s right.”

difficult to find an opening to

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

Archduke failed because he wasn’t fully aware of

as to whether

at Rosalyn's eyes after hearing

me either died

“Mm.”

but John only looked

‘Noonim, she...’

was

She was also sad.

people who were

“...Was it the diplomat?”

truly

“Not at all.”

knew that he was

simply guessed that someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be the traitor since the head was serving the

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 could

king felt that they were all

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

the moment when she was

had recalled this memory tens, no,

their carriage

people who protected

of the bastards the

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

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

household broke

thought about the ironclad rule that had been in place since

"The Archduke’s household...”

royal family could deny the existence of the Archduke's

The Archduke’s household...

allowed to

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

Archduke gathered the opinions

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

Rosalyn calmly commented.

broke the fundamental

recalled what the king

head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't want us to reveal that Rosalyn

couldn't forget the wrath on the king's

I'm going to take down

“...Noonim.”

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

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

and Magic Bomb Terror Incident that happened in the middle of

behind it

‘The peace was long.’

had been too

was almost

internal conflict in such a situation would only be cutting away at