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

Orsena Estate moments

“Hmm?”

the

Commander. The crown

slowly started to focus

Cale’s arrival at

* * *

was going

Rustle.

Human, this place really is almost

stepping onto the

Guild to the people Alberu had sent

“Commander-nim.”

in charge of the

‘Something is different.’

knight had met the

it difficult to

the Commander; is this the hero named Cale

and looked at Cale

Human! Why are you pretending to be strong? There’s nobody

ignored

He looked around.

the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate. He was also looking at the beautiful residences around here

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

knights telling them to leave. There

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

“This should be enough.”

mumbled

The king was missing.

King's Palace

the Duke who controlled the central faction at

had happened

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

that his highness will take care

me to help out a little bit

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

“...Excuse me?”

spoke to the confused knight

in about

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned his

Cale followed his gaze.

Orsena Estate that

all annexes caught

form as

of the other buildings had

of the fire according to witnesses and

before speaking

but 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 rare for everything to

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

fire was difficult to contain even with

knight held something

stones

a magic stone that had turned

a magically induced

of our

before asking in

“Survivors?”

see for

get those words out

Cale followed behind him.

tents that looked as if they were urgently installed on top of the now burnt garden of the Duke’s

the entrance flap of one of the tents and Cale looked

“...Is that all?”

seemed to show that his shock from initially seeing this earlier

sir. These are all of the survivors from

patients were lying down while being treated. Most of

House of

was different from the

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

there should have been a lot of

building. They said that they would have died if

flames engulfed

as if they were walls.

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

time to

the reason there are

was one thing, but it sounds as if something else

nodded his head and

any corpses we find, we confirm their identity before

looked around, and spoke in a quiet voice that only Cale

couple’s corpses as well as the

traces of young lady

“None at all. However...”

pointed to the tent next

young lady was found in the playground

"The youngest young lady?”

turned seven this year and she is in quite the chaotic state right

The knight lifted the entrance flap

looked inside and

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

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

“Aaah!”

time to time as

“Stop.”