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

Estate moments ago.

“Hmm?”

heard that his highness, the

Commander. The crown

chaotic eyes slowly started

about Cale’s arrival at the capital was

* * *

was

Rustle.

Human, this place really is almost completely

onto the Orsena

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

“Commander-nim.”

of the situation at the Orsena

‘Something is different.’

time that the knight had met the

it difficult to

sense of pressure. Is this the Commander; is this the hero named

and looked at Cale who was

pretending to be strong? There’s

ignored

He looked around.

he was looking past the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate. He

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

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

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

“This should be enough.”

mumbled to

The king was missing.

Palace

the central faction at the capital was

this had

opening to run. There were bound to be

sure that his highness will take care of

to help out

happened, the crown prince's biggest ally was the Duke's House of Henituse

“...Excuse me?”

the confused

report in about

“Ah, yes sir!”

knight turned

Cale followed his gaze.

Orsena Estate that was

all annexes caught on

building was maintaining its form as the

other

according to

moment before speaking as if he found it to

not slowly start from somewhere but everything caught on fire in an instant. They stated that it took less than 10 seconds for

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

was not just any building but a Duke’s Estate. Even if a building caught

prince and Cale could not do anything about it

was weird because the fire was difficult

knight held something

these magic stones all around

magic stone that

a magically induced

is one of

moment before asking in

“Survivors?”

should probably see for

get those words out before

Cale followed behind him.

as if they were urgently installed on top of the now burnt

of one of the tents and

“...Is that all?”

that seemed to show

are all of the

ten patients were lying down while being treated. Most

Duke's House of

was different from the

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

there should have been a lot of people who

have died

engulfed the

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

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

didn't have the time to look around properly,

the reason there are so few

was one thing, but it sounds as if

head and the knight continued

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

knight lowered the entrance flap, looked around, and spoke in

couple’s corpses as well as

of

“None at all. However...”

the tent next

youngest young lady was found in the playground

"The youngest young lady?”

turned seven this year and she is in

The knight lifted the entrance

inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

sleeping but her body

“Aaah!”

time to

“Stop.”