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 barely managed

Estate moments ago. I

“Hmm?”

his highness, the crown

The crown

merchant’s chaotic eyes slowly started

at the capital was slowly

* * *

that was

Rustle.

place really is almost

stepping onto the Orsena

to the people Alberu had sent and then immediately headed over

“Commander-nim.”

charge of

‘Something is different.’

time that the knight

difficult to look at

of pressure. Is this the Commander; is

looked at Cale who was

to be strong? There’s nobody here who is

ignored Raon’s

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. There were people

some nobles themselves flinched

“This should be enough.”

quietly mumbled to

The king was missing.

King's Palace

who controlled the central faction at the capital was

of this had

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 for

will take

me to help out a

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

“...Excuse me?”

the confused

report in about

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned his

Cale followed his gaze.

that was completely

all

main building was maintaining its form as the pillars and foundation

other buildings had been

the fire according to witnesses and

stopped for a moment before speaking

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

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

but a Duke’s Estate. Even if a building caught

the point that the crown prince and Cale could not do anything about it by the time they arrived at

was weird because the fire was difficult to

knight held something

found these magic stones all

that

a magically induced

one of our

a moment before asking in

“Survivors?”

see for yourself,

to get those words out before starting to

Cale followed behind him.

urgently installed on top of the now burnt garden of the Duke’s Estate. Each tent

knight raised the entrance flap of one of the tents and Cale looked inside. Both of them stopped

“...Is that all?”

a look that seemed to

sir. These are all of the

lying down while being treated. Most of them had

House of

from the

why they had a five story

result, there should have been a lot of people

they would have died if they did not run through

flames engulfed

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

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

made them faint. They didn't have the time

there are so

thing, but it sounds as

and the

still continuing 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 possible. In

spoke in a quiet voice that only Cale

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

traces of

“None at all. However...”

to the tent

was found in the playground within

"The youngest young lady?”

year and she is in quite

knight lifted the entrance flap a

looked inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

sleeping but her body was shaking

“Aaah!”

screamed from time

“Stop.”