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?”

head after hearing what the merchant barely managed to

Estate moments ago. I saw him

“Hmm?”

that his highness, the crown

The

merchant’s chaotic eyes slowly started to focus

Cale’s arrival at the capital was slowly

* * *

that was going

Rustle.

this place really is almost completely burnt

stepping onto the Orsena

Merchant Guild to the people Alberu had sent and then

“Commander-nim.”

who seemed to be in charge of the situation

‘Something is different.’

was the first time that the knight had met the well-discussed

it difficult to

a sense of pressure. Is this the

looked at Cale who was standing in front

to be

casually ignored

He looked around.

was looking past the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate. He

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

soldiers despite knights

some nobles themselves flinched and looked away after making eye contact with

“This should be enough.”

mumbled

The king was missing.

Palace

the

had

were bound

sure that his highness will take care of everything,

for me to help out a little bit like

Duke's House of Henituse that

“...Excuse me?”

to the confused knight

report in

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned his

Cale followed his gaze.

that

building and all annexes

form as the pillars and

the other buildings

of the fire according

before speaking as if he found it to be

slowly start from somewhere but everything caught on fire in an instant. They stated that it took less

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

Even if a building caught on fire, it was rare for everything to quickly catch fire like

had completely caught on fire to the point that the crown prince and Cale could not do anything about it

was difficult to contain even with magic,

knight held

magic stones

stone that had turned black from

a

of our hypotheses,

before

“Survivors?”

should probably see for

to get those words out

Cale followed behind him.

that looked as if they were urgently installed on top of the

the tents and

“...Is that all?”

a look that seemed to show that his shock

are all of the survivors

ten patients were lying down while being

House

the

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

there should have been a lot of people who

would have died if they did not run through the flames and barely make

engulfed

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

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

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

there

The fire was one thing, but it sounds as if something

his head and

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

around, and spoke in a quiet voice

couple’s corpses as well as the second

of

“None at all. However...”

pointed to the

lady was found in the

"The youngest young lady?”

year and she is in quite the chaotic state right

The knight lifted the entrance

inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

bed with her eyes closed. She seemed to be sleeping but her body was shaking and she was groaning

“Aaah!”

from time

“Stop.”