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?”

hearing what the merchant

Estate moments ago. I saw him

“Hmm?”

highness, the crown prince, was

The crown

merchant’s chaotic eyes slowly started to focus

about Cale’s arrival at the capital was slowly

* * *

that was

Rustle.

really is

onto the Orsena

issues at the Flynn Merchant Guild to the people Alberu

“Commander-nim.”

knight who seemed to be in charge of the situation

‘Something is different.’

time that the knight had met the well-discussed

found it difficult

the Commander; is this

gulped and looked at Cale who was standing in front

to be strong? There’s nobody

casually ignored Raon’s

He looked around.

specific, he was looking past the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate. He was also looking

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

knights telling them to leave. There were people

staff of nobles, and even some nobles themselves

“This should be enough.”

quietly mumbled to

The king was missing.

Palace

Duke who controlled the central faction at the capital

of this had happened

may be some nobles who used this chaos as an opening to run. There were bound to be people who try to use this gap of authority

will take care

help out a little bit like this,

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

“...Excuse me?”

to the

in about the

“Ah, yes sir!”

knight turned

Cale followed his gaze.

Orsena Estate that was

all annexes caught

as the pillars and

the other buildings had been

the fire according to witnesses

moment before speaking as if he found

fire in an instant. They stated that

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

Duke’s Estate. Even if a building caught on fire, it was rare for everything to

and Cale could not do anything about it by the time they arrived at

it was weird because the fire was difficult to contain

held something

stones all around

that

it a

is one of our

a moment before asking in

“Survivors?”

see

those

Cale followed behind him.

were urgently installed on top of the now burnt garden

knight raised the entrance flap of one of the tents and Cale

“...Is that all?”

a look that seemed to show that

These are all of the

than ten patients were lying down while being treated. Most of them

Duke's House

from the Henituse Estate

of Orsena’s territory was in the capital. That was why they had

a result, there should have been

that large flames suddenly engulfed the building. They said that they would have died if they did not run through the flames and

flames engulfed

shot up as if they were walls. They also said that they

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

They said that the dizziness almost made them faint. They didn't have the time to

reason there

sounds as if something else happened inside the Duke's Estate as

head and

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

flap, looked around, and spoke in a quiet voice that only Cale

Ducal couple’s corpses as well as the second son's

traces of young

“None at all. However...”

to the tent

lady was found in the

"The youngest young lady?”

sir. She turned seven this year and she is in

lifted the

inside and

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

on a bed with her eyes closed. She seemed to be sleeping but her body was

“Aaah!”

time to time as

“Stop.”