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?”

shook his head after hearing

the Orsena Estate moments ago.

“Hmm?”

his highness, the crown prince, was here

Commander. The crown

eyes slowly started

about Cale’s arrival at

* * *

was going

Rustle.

really is almost completely burnt

was stepping onto the Orsena

Merchant Guild to the

“Commander-nim.”

of the situation at the Orsena

‘Something is different.’

was the first time that the knight

found it difficult

this the Commander;

and looked at Cale who was standing in front of

to be strong? There’s

ignored

He looked around.

surrounding the Orsena Estate. He was also

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

through the wall of soldiers despite knights telling them to leave.

and even some nobles themselves flinched and looked away after

“This should be enough.”

quietly mumbled to

The king was missing.

Palace was

Duke who controlled the central faction at the capital was

had

used this chaos as an opening to run. There were bound to be people who

his highness will take care of everything,

should be okay for me to help out

biggest ally was the Duke's House of Henituse that had

“...Excuse me?”

spoke to the confused knight

in about

“Ah, yes sir!”

knight turned his

Cale followed his gaze.

Orsena Estate that was completely

building and all

was maintaining its form as the pillars

other buildings

start of the fire according to

stopped for a moment before speaking as

start 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.

Estate. Even if a building caught on fire, it

point that the crown prince and Cale could not do anything about it by

was weird because the fire was difficult to contain even with magic, but

held

found these magic stones all

stone that

a magically induced

is one of our hypotheses,

for a moment before

“Survivors?”

should probably see

knight struggled to get those words out before

Cale followed behind him.

urgently installed on top of the now

raised the entrance flap of one of the tents

“...Is that all?”

a look that seemed to show that his shock from initially

sir. These are all of the

while being treated. Most of them

House

different from the Henituse Estate in the

territory was in the capital. That was why they had a five story main building

should have been a lot

they would have died if they did

engulfed

that flames shot up as if they were walls. They

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

the dizziness almost made them faint. They didn't have the time to look around properly,

reason there are

but it sounds as if something else

and the

are still continuing our search for any survivors. As for any corpses we find, we confirm their identity

and spoke

as well as

traces of young lady

“None at all. However...”

the tent next to

young lady was found in the playground within the rear

"The youngest young lady?”

and she is in quite

knight lifted the entrance flap

looked inside and

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

seemed to be sleeping but her body was shaking and she was

“Aaah!”

screamed from time

“Stop.”