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?”

hearing

Commander-nim entered the Orsena Estate moments ago. I saw him

“Hmm?”

his highness, the crown prince, was here as

The

chaotic eyes slowly

news about Cale’s arrival at the

* * *

that was

Rustle.

this place really

stepping onto the

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

“Commander-nim.”

of the

‘Something is different.’

that the knight had met

it difficult to look at

pressure. Is this the Commander; is this the

and looked at Cale who

be

ignored Raon’s

He looked around.

be more specific, he was looking past the troops surrounding the Orsena Estate. He was also looking

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

despite knights telling them to leave. There were people looking through their

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

“This should be enough.”

quietly mumbled

The king was missing.

King's Palace was

the Duke who controlled the central faction at the capital was

had happened in an

chaos as an opening to run. There were bound

sure that his highness will take care of everything,

to help out a little bit

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

“...Excuse me?”

to the confused

report in about

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned his

Cale followed his gaze.

that was

and all annexes caught

maintaining its form as the

the other buildings

start of the fire according to

for a moment before speaking as if he found it to

caught on fire in an instant. They stated that it took less

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

Estate. Even if a building caught on fire, it was rare for everything to

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

fire was difficult to contain even with magic,

knight held something

magic stones all around the Duke’s

that had turned black

a magically induced

of our

moment before asking in

“Survivors?”

should probably see for

those words

Cale followed behind him.

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

of one of the tents

“...Is that all?”

seemed to show that his shock from initially

of the

than ten patients were lying down while being treated.

Duke's House of

the

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

a result, there should have been a

they would have died if they did not run through

engulfed

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

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

They didn't have the time to look around properly,

reason there are

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

nodded his head and the knight continued to

survivors. As for any corpses we find, we confirm their

the entrance flap, looked around, and spoke in a quiet voice that only Cale could

the Ducal couple’s corpses as well as the second

traces of young

“None at all. However...”

the

found in the playground within the rear

"The youngest young lady?”

year and she is in quite the

knight lifted the

inside and

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

to be sleeping but

“Aaah!”

from time to time

“Stop.”