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?”

after hearing what the merchant barely managed

entered the Orsena Estate

“Hmm?”

highness, the crown

The

eyes slowly started to

news about Cale’s arrival at the capital was slowly being

* * *

that was going

Rustle.

Human, this place really

stepping onto

the Flynn Merchant Guild to the people Alberu had sent and then immediately headed over

“Commander-nim.”

be in charge of

‘Something is different.’

the knight had met the well-discussed

it difficult

pressure. Is this the Commander; is this the hero named Cale

at Cale who was standing in

pretending to be strong?

ignored

He looked around.

looking past the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate. He was

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

the wall of soldiers despite knights

themselves flinched and

“This should be enough.”

mumbled

The king was missing.

Palace

who controlled the central faction at the capital was

of this had happened in

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

his highness will

to help out a little bit

House of Henituse

“...Excuse me?”

spoke to the confused knight in

in

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned

Cale followed his gaze.

that

and all

was maintaining its form as the pillars and foundation were still

of the other buildings

according to witnesses and the

a moment before speaking as if he

on fire in an instant. They stated that it took less than 10 seconds for everything to catch

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

building caught on fire, it was rare for everything to quickly catch fire

completely caught on fire to the point that the crown prince and Cale

fire was difficult to

held

magic stones all

stone that had turned black

a magically

of our hypotheses,

before

“Survivors?”

probably see for yourself,

get those words out before

Cale followed behind him.

top of the now burnt garden of

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

“...Is that all?”

to show that

These are all of the survivors from the

were lying down while being treated. Most of

Duke's House

from the Henituse

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

should have been a lot of people who

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

flames engulfed the

that flames shot up as if they were walls.

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

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

reason there are

but it sounds as if something else happened inside the Duke's

and the

for any corpses we find, we confirm their identity before moving them while making sure to

the entrance flap, looked around, and spoke

as well as the second

of young

“None at all. However...”

pointed to the tent next to

was found in the playground

"The youngest young lady?”

this year and she is in

lifted the entrance flap

inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

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

“Aaah!”

screamed from time to time as

“Stop.”