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 to

the Orsena Estate moments

“Hmm?”

highness, the crown prince,

The crown

slowly started

news about Cale’s arrival at

* * *

was

Rustle.

Human, this place really is almost completely

was stepping onto the Orsena

to the people Alberu had sent and then

“Commander-nim.”

be in charge of the

‘Something is different.’

the knight

found it difficult to

this the

looked at Cale who

to be strong? There’s nobody here

ignored

He looked around.

surrounding the Orsena Estate. He was also looking at the beautiful

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

people peeking through the wall of soldiers despite knights

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

“This should be enough.”

quietly mumbled

The king was missing.

King's Palace was

the central

of this had happened

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

that his highness will take care

to help out a little bit

House of

“...Excuse me?”

spoke to the confused knight

in about the

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned his

Cale followed his gaze.

Orsena Estate that

building and all annexes caught on

its form as

of the other buildings had been

fire according to witnesses

before speaking as if he found it to be

somewhere but everything caught on fire in an instant. They stated that it took

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

but a Duke’s Estate. Even if a building caught

point that the crown prince and Cale could not do anything about it

because the fire was difficult to contain even with magic,

held

stones all around

that had

a magically

of

before asking in a calm

“Survivors?”

probably see for

those

Cale followed behind him.

urgently installed on top of the now burnt garden of the Duke’s Estate. Each

flap of one of the tents and Cale

“...Is that all?”

knight responded to Cale’s question with a look that seemed to show that his shock from initially seeing this earlier had

all of the survivors from

while being

Duke's House

place was different from the Henituse Estate in the

territory was in the capital. That was why they had a five story

result, there should have been

flames suddenly engulfed the building. They said that they would have died if they did not run

engulfed

if they were walls. They also said that they suddenly

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

sir. They 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 around them suddenly

reason there

thing, but it sounds as if something else happened inside

his head and the knight

find, we confirm their identity before moving them while making sure to keep the sight as

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

Ducal couple’s corpses as well as the

of young

“None at all. However...”

the tent

found in the

"The youngest young lady?”

She turned seven this year and she is in

The knight lifted the

inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

She seemed to be sleeping but her body was shaking

“Aaah!”

screamed from time to time

“Stop.”