Trash of the Count's Family

TCF2 - 4

“The Flynn Merchant Guild leader is dead. The second child has run away.”

Two sentences were enough.

- I'll send people over right away.

* * *

The capital, Huiss City.

The atmosphere in the capital was extremely dull unlike the blue sky despite it not being long since they heard about the victory at Puzzle City.

“I don’t see smoke anymore.”

"...The Orsena Estate was on fire, right?”

“Yes. My next door neighbor Charles said he saw it.”

“Ho. What the-!”

The man stopped talking and quickly closed his mouth.

Clack. Clack. Clack.

Around ten soldiers fully clad in armor were walking by in formation.

Soldiers were efficiently moving around like this all around the capital right now.

Furthermore, a knight on a horse was moving quicker than they normally did in the capital.

“...Hey.”

The man who closed his mouth asked his close friend in an extremely quiet voice.

“Aside from the Duke’s Estate, at the palace earlier-”

“…….”

“Didn’t you hear a loud noise coming from there? It sounded like something was crumbling down.”

“...I don’t know either.”

The eyes of the person who responded were slightly shaking.

The palace and the Orsena Estate which was located in the area with all the residences of the nobles... Neither location was close to her house.

That was why all she knew was that something had happened.

"I guess we should probably close for the day.”

Her close friend quickly put the goods back into the store. She started to move to help him when she saw someone coming toward them and her eyes opened wide. The shop owner, who was putting away the stand, reacted the same way.

“Oh! You are-”

“Hello mister. You still have some medicinal roots, right?”

“Huh? Y, yes!”

“Please organize all of the ones you have and send it to our estate!”

“Hey, wait a minute.”

The medicinal roots merchant urgently called out to the young boy who was speaking quickly. His voice was a bit cautious.

“Did something happen?”

Some of the people around them turned to look at the young boy as well.

This young boy was someone who worked at a Count’s Estate and had come from the neighborhood of the nobles.

“That-”

Furthermore, the fact that he was buying large quantities of medicinal roots must mean that something had happened.

It was because the person who wants these medicinal roots must be someone at the Count’s Estate.

“The Orsena Estate caught on fire and burnt down completely.”

“What?”

“And, umm-”

He looked around, confirmed that there were no soldiers or knights near them, and continued to speak.

“Ah, I don’t know if I can really say this...”

"Are you really going to be like this? I'm friends with your father.”

"Mm, that is true.”

That was the reason this young boy was in charge of purchasing goods from this merchant. He approached his father’s close friend and whispered quietly.

“I heard that one of the palaces was destroyed.”

“...Huh?”

“Apparently it was a terrorist incident.”

Gulp.

The merchant's pupils started shaking. His close friend, who was listening as well, could not say anything because she was so shocked.

The young boy saw their reactions and grabbed the merchant’s arm as if to snap him out of it.

“Hey mister.”

“Huh, huh? S, should we run?”

young boy shook his head after hearing what the

the Orsena Estate moments ago. I

“Hmm?”

that his highness, the crown prince,

The crown

slowly started to focus

Cale’s arrival at

* * *

that was going

Rustle.

this place really

onto

Flynn Merchant Guild to

“Commander-nim.”

in charge of the situation at the Orsena Estate bowed toward

‘Something is different.’

time that the knight had met the well-discussed Commander in

difficult to look

feel a sense of pressure. Is this the

Cale who was standing in

Human! Why are you pretending to be strong? There’s nobody here who is

casually ignored Raon’s

He looked around.

looking past the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate. He was also looking at

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

of soldiers despite knights telling them to

some nobles themselves flinched and looked

“This should be enough.”

mumbled to

The king was missing.

King's Palace was

of the Duke who controlled the central faction at

had

There were bound to be people who try to

sure that his highness will

help

matter what happened, the crown prince's biggest ally was the Duke's House of Henituse that had his sworn brother and his sword art

“...Excuse me?”

to the

in about

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned

Cale followed his gaze.

Estate that was completely

building and all annexes

as the pillars and foundation

the other buildings had been

fire according

for a moment before speaking as if he found it to

from somewhere but everything caught on fire in an instant. They stated that it took less than 10 seconds for everything to

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

if a building

the point that the crown prince and Cale could not

because the fire was

knight held

magic stones all around

stone that

it a magically induced

of our

hesitated for a moment before

“Survivors?”

see

struggled to get those words out before

Cale followed behind him.

if they were urgently installed on top of the now burnt garden of

the entrance flap of one of the tents and Cale looked inside. Both of

“...Is that all?”

a look that seemed to show that his

of the survivors from the

down while being treated. Most

Duke's House of

different from the Henituse Estate in the

capital. That was why they had a five story main building and numerous annex buildings

been a lot of people who work

that large flames suddenly engulfed the building. They said that they would have died if they

flames engulfed the

that flames shot up as if they were walls.

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

didn't have the time to look around properly, but they said that some of

there are so few

was one thing, but it sounds as if something else

nodded his head and the knight continued

our search for any survivors. As for any corpses we find, we confirm their identity before moving them while making sure to keep

lowered the entrance flap, looked around, and spoke in

found the Ducal couple’s corpses as

traces of young lady

“None at all. However...”

to the

was found in

"The youngest young lady?”

she is in quite the chaotic state right

lifted the entrance

inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

be sleeping but

“Aaah!”

time to time

“Stop.”