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

Commander-nim entered the Orsena Estate moments ago. I

“Hmm?”

the crown

The

merchant’s chaotic eyes slowly started

about Cale’s arrival at the capital was

* * *

that was going

Rustle.

Human, this place really is almost completely

was stepping onto

at the Flynn Merchant Guild to the people Alberu had sent and then immediately headed over

“Commander-nim.”

of the situation at the Orsena Estate bowed

‘Something is different.’

the first time that the knight had met the well-discussed

difficult to look

sense of pressure. Is this the Commander; is this the hero named Cale

gulped and looked at Cale

Human! Why are you pretending to be strong? There’s

casually ignored Raon’s

He looked around.

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

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

the wall of soldiers despite knights telling

staff of nobles, and even some nobles themselves

“This should be enough.”

mumbled

The king was missing.

King's Palace was

controlled the central faction at the capital was burnt

of this had happened in

as an opening to run. There were bound to be

highness will take care of

help

the crown prince's biggest ally was the Duke's House of Henituse that had his sworn brother and his sword art

“...Excuse me?”

spoke to the

report in

“Ah, yes sir!”

knight turned his

Cale followed his gaze.

that

and all

as the pillars and foundation were still

the other buildings had been

the fire according to witnesses

before speaking

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

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

but a Duke’s Estate. Even if a building caught on fire, it was rare for everything to quickly catch fire like

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

it was weird because the fire was

knight held

found these magic stones all

magic stone that had turned black

a magically

of our

before

“Survivors?”

probably see for yourself,

to get those words out before starting to

Cale followed behind him.

were urgently installed on top of

knight raised the entrance flap of one of the tents

“...Is that all?”

look that seemed to show that his shock from

These are all of the survivors

patients were lying down while being treated. Most of them

Duke's House

from the Henituse

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

been a lot of people

They said that they would have died if they did not

engulfed the

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

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

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

the reason there

fire was one thing, but it sounds as

his head and the knight

we confirm their identity before

looked around, and spoke in a quiet

as well as

of young

“None at all. However...”

the tent next to

lady was found in the playground within

"The youngest young lady?”

She turned seven this year and she is in quite the

the entrance flap a

inside and

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

be sleeping but

“Aaah!”

screamed from time to time as

“Stop.”