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?”

boy shook his head after hearing

the Orsena Estate moments ago.

“Hmm?”

his highness, the crown prince,

Commander. The crown

slowly started

Cale’s arrival at the capital was

* * *

was going

Rustle.

place really is almost

stepping onto

the issues at the Flynn Merchant Guild to the people Alberu

“Commander-nim.”

knight who seemed to be in charge of the situation at the Orsena Estate

‘Something is different.’

knight had met

it difficult to

Is this the Commander;

gulped and looked at Cale who was standing in front of

you pretending to be

ignored Raon’s

He looked around.

be more specific, he was looking past the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate.

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

despite knights telling

staff of nobles, and even some nobles themselves flinched and

“This should be enough.”

mumbled to

The king was missing.

Palace

Duke who controlled the central

of this had happened in an

an opening to run. There were bound to be people who

will take care

be okay for me to help out a

prince's biggest ally was the Duke's House

“...Excuse me?”

to the confused knight in

report in about the

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned

Cale followed his gaze.

that

and all

maintaining its form as the pillars and

the other

fire according to

moment before speaking as if he

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

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

Estate. Even if a building caught on fire,

Duke's Estate had completely caught on fire to the point that the crown prince and Cale could not do

weird because the fire was difficult to contain even

knight held something

stones all around the

a magic stone that had

it a magically

is one of our hypotheses,

for a moment before

“Survivors?”

should probably see for

to get those words out

Cale followed behind him.

looked as if they were urgently installed on top of the now burnt garden of the Duke’s Estate. Each tent

one of the tents and Cale looked inside. Both of

“...Is that all?”

to show

of the survivors from the

down while being

House of

from the Henituse Estate

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

should have been a lot of people who work

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

engulfed

up as if they were walls. They also said that

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

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

reason there are so

as if something else happened inside the Duke's Estate

head and the knight continued

for any corpses we find, we confirm their identity before moving

spoke in a quiet

corpses as well as the

of young lady

“None at all. However...”

the

lady was found in the playground within

"The youngest young lady?”

turned seven this year and she is in

knight lifted the entrance

inside and

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

She seemed to be sleeping

“Aaah!”

time to

“Stop.”