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 Orsena Estate

“Hmm?”

the crown prince, was here as

The crown

merchant’s chaotic eyes slowly started to focus

at

* * *

that was going

Rustle.

this place really is almost completely burnt

was stepping onto the Orsena

had left the issues at the Flynn Merchant Guild to the

“Commander-nim.”

charge of the situation at the Orsena Estate bowed

‘Something is different.’

knight had met

difficult

sense of pressure. Is this the

at Cale who

are you pretending to be strong? There’s nobody here

casually ignored

He looked around.

past the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate. He

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

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

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

“This should be enough.”

mumbled to

The king was missing.

Palace was

who controlled the central faction at the capital was burnt

this had happened

who used this chaos as an opening to run. There were bound to

his highness will take care

for me to help

what happened, the crown prince's biggest ally was the Duke's House of Henituse that had his sworn

“...Excuse me?”

the confused

report in about the

“Ah, yes sir!”

knight turned

Cale followed his gaze.

that

building and all annexes caught on

form as the

other buildings

start of the fire according to witnesses and the

a moment before speaking as if he found it

everything caught on fire in an instant. They stated that

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

a Duke’s Estate. Even if a building caught on fire, it was

the crown prince and Cale could not do anything about it by the time they

was weird because the fire was difficult to contain even with

held

found these magic stones all around

was a magic stone that

it a magically

is one of our hypotheses,

for a moment before asking

“Survivors?”

probably see for

those

Cale followed behind him.

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

of one of the

“...Is that all?”

Cale’s question with a look that seemed to

are all of the survivors from

than ten patients were lying down while being treated. Most of them had serious

Duke's House of

place was different from the Henituse Estate

was why they had a five story main building and numerous annex buildings around

result, there should have been a lot of

have died if they

engulfed the

flames shot up as if they were walls. They also

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

the dizziness almost made them faint. They didn't have the time to look around properly, but they said that some of

the reason there are

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

nodded his head and the knight continued

we confirm their identity before moving them while making

entrance flap, looked around, and spoke in

as

traces of young lady

“None at all. However...”

to the tent

was found in the playground within the rear

"The youngest young lady?”

and she is in quite

knight lifted the entrance flap a

looked inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

on a bed with her eyes closed. She seemed to be sleeping but her body was

“Aaah!”

screamed from time to time

“Stop.”