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?”

that his highness, the

The crown

chaotic eyes slowly started

at the capital was slowly

* * *

was

Rustle.

place really is almost completely

stepping onto

the issues at the Flynn Merchant Guild to the people Alberu

“Commander-nim.”

in charge of the situation at the Orsena Estate bowed toward

‘Something is different.’

the first time that the knight had met the

difficult to

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

looked at Cale who was standing in

to be strong? There’s nobody here who

casually ignored Raon’s

He looked around.

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

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

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

and even some nobles themselves

“This should be enough.”

quietly mumbled to

The king was missing.

Palace was

Estate of the Duke who controlled the central faction at the capital

of this had happened

an opening to run. There were bound to be people who try to use this gap of authority for their

that his highness will take care of everything,

help out a little bit

House of Henituse

“...Excuse me?”

the confused knight in

report in about

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned

Cale followed his gaze.

Orsena Estate that was

building and all annexes

main building was maintaining its form as

other buildings had been

fire according to witnesses and

a moment before speaking as if he found it to be

caught on fire in an instant.

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

building caught

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

because the fire was difficult

knight held something

magic stones all around the

that had turned

a magically

is one of our hypotheses,

for a moment before asking in a

“Survivors?”

probably see for

struggled to get those

Cale followed behind him.

as if they were urgently installed on top of

of one of the tents and Cale looked

“...Is that all?”

look that seemed to show that his shock from initially seeing this earlier

sir. These are all of the survivors from

ten patients were lying down while

Duke's House

from the Henituse Estate

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

a result, there should have been a lot of people who

have died if they did not run through the flames and barely

engulfed

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

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

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

there are

it sounds as if something else happened inside the

nodded his head and the

we confirm their identity

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

the Ducal couple’s corpses as well

traces of

“None at all. However...”

the tent next

in the playground within the rear

"The youngest young lady?”

sir. She turned seven this year and she is in quite the

the

inside and

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

closed. She seemed to be sleeping but her body was shaking and she was groaning as if she was having

“Aaah!”

from time to time as

“Stop.”