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

entered the Orsena Estate moments ago.

“Hmm?”

the crown prince, was

Commander. The crown

merchant’s chaotic eyes slowly started to

at the capital was

* * *

that was

Rustle.

this place really is almost completely

stepping onto the

the issues at the Flynn Merchant Guild to the

“Commander-nim.”

who seemed to be in charge of the situation at the

‘Something is different.’

knight had met the well-discussed

it difficult to look

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

at Cale who

be strong? There’s nobody

casually ignored

He looked around.

the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate.

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

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

of nobles, staff 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.

King's Palace was

Estate of the Duke who controlled the central faction at the

had happened

There were bound to be people who try to use this gap of authority

that his highness will take

to help out a little

the Duke's House of

“...Excuse me?”

the

report in about the

“Ah, yes sir!”

knight turned

Cale followed his gaze.

that was

all

maintaining its form as the pillars and foundation were still

the other buildings

the fire according to witnesses

stopped for a moment before speaking as if he

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

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

was not just any building but a Duke’s Estate. Even if a building caught on fire, it was rare for

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

fire was

knight held

stones all

that had turned black

it a magically induced

is one of

a moment before asking in

“Survivors?”

probably see for

knight struggled to get those words out before

Cale followed behind him.

were urgently installed on top of the now burnt garden of

of one of the tents and Cale looked inside.

“...Is that all?”

Cale’s question with a look that seemed to show that

of the survivors from

ten patients were lying down while

House

different from the Henituse Estate in the

of Orsena’s territory was in the capital. That was why they had a five story main building and

should have been a lot of

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

engulfed the

they were walls.

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

time to look around

there are

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

and the

are still continuing our search for any survivors. As for any corpses we find, we confirm their identity before moving them while making

spoke in a quiet voice that only Cale

as

traces of young lady

“None at all. However...”

pointed to the

in the

"The youngest young lady?”

She turned seven this year and she is in

The knight lifted the entrance flap a

looked inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

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

“Aaah!”

screamed from time to

“Stop.”