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 what the merchant barely managed

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

“Hmm?”

the

The crown

eyes slowly started to

about Cale’s arrival at the capital was slowly

* * *

was going

Rustle.

really is

onto the Orsena

the Flynn Merchant Guild to the people

“Commander-nim.”

who seemed to be in charge of the

‘Something is different.’

knight had met the well-discussed

it difficult to look at

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

gulped and looked at Cale who was standing in front

Why are you pretending to be strong? There’s nobody here who

ignored

He looked around.

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

“......!”

“Mm.”

Click.

the wall of soldiers despite knights telling them to

even some nobles themselves flinched and looked away

“This should be enough.”

mumbled to

The king was missing.

Palace

controlled the

of this had happened

this chaos as an opening to run. There were bound

that his highness will take care

be okay for me to help out a little bit like

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

“...Excuse me?”

the

report in about

“Ah, yes sir!”

turned his

Cale followed his gaze.

that

all

its form as

of the other buildings

of the fire according to witnesses

a moment before speaking as if he

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

“I see.”

Cale nodded his head.

not just any building but a Duke’s Estate. Even if a building caught on fire, it was rare for everything to quickly catch fire like

crown prince and Cale could not

was difficult to contain even with

knight held

magic stones

magic stone that had turned

it a magically

one of

before asking in a calm

“Survivors?”

probably see

get those words out before

Cale followed behind him.

if they were urgently installed on top of the now burnt garden

of the tents and Cale

“...Is that all?”

a look that seemed to show that

are all of the

ten patients were lying down while being treated. Most of them had serious

House

the Henituse

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

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

stated that large flames suddenly engulfed the building. They said that they would have died if they did

engulfed the

they were walls. They also said that they

“...Dizzy?”

Cale's eyes sparkled.

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

reason there are so few

as

nodded his head and

search for any survivors. As for any corpses we find, we confirm their identity before moving them while making sure to keep the sight as intact as possible. In

around, and spoke in

corpses as well as the second son's

of

“None at all. However...”

pointed to the tent next to

young lady was found in the playground

"The youngest young lady?”

this year and she is in

The knight lifted the entrance

looked inside

“...Oo...ooooooooo.......”

lying on a bed with her eyes closed. She seemed to be sleeping but her body was shaking and she was groaning as if

“Aaah!”

time

“Stop.”