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?”

shook his head after hearing what

Estate moments ago.

“Hmm?”

his highness, the crown

The

slowly started to focus

about Cale’s arrival at

* * *

was going

Rustle.

really is almost

was stepping onto

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

“Commander-nim.”

be in charge of the situation

‘Something is different.’

that the knight had met the

found it difficult to

feel a sense of pressure. Is this the Commander; is this

Cale who was standing in front

are you pretending to be strong?

casually ignored Raon’s

He looked around.

Orsena Estate. He was also looking at the beautiful residences

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

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

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

“This should be enough.”

mumbled

The king was missing.

King's Palace was

Duke who controlled the central faction at the capital was

had happened in an

opening to run. There were bound to be people who try

will take care of everything,

for me to help out a little

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

“...Excuse me?”

spoke to the confused knight in

report in

“Ah, yes sir!”

knight turned his

Cale followed his gaze.

Estate that was completely

all annexes caught

was maintaining its form as the pillars and foundation were

other buildings had been

start of the fire according

stopped for a moment before speaking as

slowly start from somewhere but everything caught on fire in an instant. They stated

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

building caught on fire, it was rare for everything to quickly catch fire

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

it was weird because the fire was

held something

magic stones all

stone that had turned

it a magically

one of our

moment before

“Survivors?”

see for yourself,

get those words out before starting

Cale followed behind him.

top of the now burnt garden of the

of the tents and Cale looked inside. Both

“...Is that all?”

to Cale’s question with a look that seemed to show that his shock from

These are all of the survivors from

were lying down while

House

the Henituse Estate in

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

a result, there should have been a

have died if they did

engulfed the

flames shot up as if they were walls.

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

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

there are

sounds as if something else happened inside the Duke's Estate

head and the knight continued

continuing our search for any survivors. As for any corpses we find, we confirm their identity before moving them

around, and spoke in a quiet voice that

couple’s corpses as well as the second

traces of young lady

“None at all. However...”

to the tent

was found in the playground within the

"The youngest young lady?”

this year and she is in quite the chaotic

knight lifted the entrance flap a

inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

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

“Aaah!”

from time to time

“Stop.”