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?”

young boy shook his head after hearing what the merchant barely managed

the Orsena Estate moments ago. I saw him

“Hmm?”

that his highness, the crown prince, was here as

Commander. The

chaotic eyes slowly started to focus

arrival at the capital was

* * *

was

Rustle.

place really is almost completely burnt

was stepping onto the

had left the issues at the Flynn Merchant Guild to the people Alberu

“Commander-nim.”

of the situation at

‘Something is different.’

was the first time that the knight

difficult to

pressure. Is this the Commander; is

Cale who was

you pretending to be strong?

casually ignored Raon’s

He looked around.

looking past the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate. He

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

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

of nobles, staff of nobles, and even some nobles themselves flinched and looked

“This should be enough.”

mumbled

The king was missing.

Palace was

the Duke who controlled the

of this had happened in

who used this chaos as an opening to run. There were bound to be people who try to use this gap of authority for their

sure that his highness will take care of everything,

should be okay for me to help

biggest ally was the Duke's House of Henituse that had his

“...Excuse me?”

the

report in about the

“Ah, yes sir!”

knight turned

Cale followed his gaze.

Orsena Estate that

and all annexes caught on

main building was maintaining its form as the pillars and foundation were still

other

fire according

a moment before speaking as if he found

in an instant. They stated that it took less than 10 seconds for everything to catch

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

building caught on fire, it was rare for everything to

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

weird because the fire was difficult to contain even

knight held

these magic stones all

a magic stone that had turned

a magically induced

is one of

hesitated for a moment before

“Survivors?”

probably see for

to get those words out before starting to

Cale followed behind him.

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

of one of the tents

“...Is that all?”

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

are all of the

down while being treated. Most of them

Duke's House of

the Henituse Estate in

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

have been a lot of people who

suddenly engulfed the building. They said that they would have died if

flames engulfed the

if they were walls. They

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

the time to look around properly, but they said that some of

there are

was one thing, but it sounds as if something else happened inside

his head and the knight continued to

survivors. As for any corpses we find, we confirm their identity before moving them while making sure to

entrance flap, looked around, and spoke in a quiet voice that

as well as the second son's

of young lady

“None at all. However...”

pointed to the tent next

found in the playground within the rear

"The youngest young lady?”

this year and she is in quite the

knight lifted the entrance flap

inside and

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

her eyes closed. She seemed to be sleeping but her body was shaking

“Aaah!”

from time to time as

“Stop.”