Trash of the Count's Family

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< The reason for remembering (4)>

Late at night not long before midnight...

There was a place giving off an even brighter light than the day. It was the Temple of the God of Death.

“I didn't expect you to come so quickly, Commander-nim.”

The bishop looked calm but a thrill, sense of anticipation, anxiety and other emotions were swirling inside.

Cale gently smiled at him.

‘He’s a decent person.’

The bishop in front of Cale seemed like a decent person based on the information crown prince Alberu had given him.

‘Although he seeks power and fame... He is someone who properly completes his duties and maintains his foundation as a priest.’

The comments about the bishop were average.

< Someone who finds rules to be extremely important but looks at his personal benefits to be more important. However, he does have piety. >

Even someone who did not have any greed for power or fame would start to have some once they rose to the position of running a kingdom’s church.

The bishop in front of him had a balance of a decent level of piety against a greed for power, a decent level of goodness against his own desires.

“Bishop-nim.”

“Yes, Commander-nim.”

The bishop's heart was beating quickly while looking at Cale, who had stealthily come to see him late in the night.

‘It’s obvious.’

The bishop could basically make out the relationship between Cale and the royal family, no, between Cale and the crown prince.

The information he gathered today helped him realize that the damage to the Royal Palace and the Duke’s Estate was much greater than he had thought. No matter how hard they tried to keep quiet about it, this information will be sent throughout the kingdom and both the Eastern and Western continents.

It was a misfortune that fell upon a kingdom that was seen as a future strong power.

‘I'm certain that he will want to use the divine item to suppress the anxiety about the current situation and divert people's attention.’

That would be why the crown prince, whose reaction had not been so positive when they met, sent the Commander so easily to the temple.

‘Either that or this intelligent Commander personally stepped in to change the mood.’

The temple and the royal family... Cale and the bishop...

The fact that the two sides had some common ground in their thought process... The bishop could tell that was the case.

That was the reason he was waiting with anticipation as to what Cale would say.

It was a deal.

He wanted the upper hand in the deal.

“Bishop-nim, I will lay it all out for you.”

The bishop easily held the corners of his lips from rising up.

Lay it all out.

What did that mean?

It was a shortcut to making a deal.

The bishop waited for Cale to speak and Cale responded immediately as if to meet his expectations.

Plop. He pulled a black book out of his pocket and placed it on the table.

“I have already been hearing the words of the god.”

“...Excuse me?”

The bishop became anxious.

“The god has requested a conversation and I have chatted with him as well.”

“…….”

The bishop was shocked but did not react so stupidly again. He used his numerous years of experience to put on his poker face.

However, Cale had already seen the clueless look on his face.

Chh.

Cale reached his hand and slowly turned the pages of the black book.

“How do you think that I came so quickly from Puzzle City to the capital? Especially when my body is in such terrible condition?”

Chh. Chh.

The pages turned.

The bishop's gaze moved to the black book.

“...Huh?”

A clueless voice came out of his mouth once again.

“This is-”

He could not continue to speak.

This black book... He could feel something from it despite not thoroughly inspecting it.

The position of bishop was not something you could gain from political influence alone. Well, there were some people who did, but he was someone who could at least recognize this item.

Chh. Chh.

Cale had shown this book to Raon before coming here.

‘Can you see it?’

‘Yeah! Human, I can see these words too!’

The finger that had been flipping the pages stopped.

The bishop's eyes stopped on some words on a page.

< Huiss City >

god spoke of Huiss City, the Roan Kingdom's capital, and

and then the God of Death had written Huiss City in the black book. All these words did was to reveal Lee Soo Hyuk,

Cale simply changed the order of

take a

pushed the black book toward the

even being able to

was bestowed a small amount of healing power became a bishop and his healing

the power of

book was definitely that of their god. So much aura of death was flowing out of

bishop's eyes started

‘Already-’

had a connection to

even before I met you, and I am already aware of what it is and how to

item right before he met the bishop and had

way, Cale did speak the

our lord tell him about

chatted with their god and gulped. However,

‘This-’

deal, something

it is obvious if I think

had given a divine item and a Divine

“Bishop-nim.”

bishop looked away from the

gentle but his gaze was cold,

connected with their god looked at the bishop without an ounce of warmth in his

“Do not use it.”

felt

every way he tried to use this divine item from the moment it appeared in a temple

he

bishop raised his head at what

even if you don't do

face reflected in Cale’s dark

bishop's focus was not on the

Death will approach us no matter what and is

gaze

is why we fear it

‘Mm.’

The bishop gulped.

fear even if nobody talks

echoed in his

seems as if the temple wants to have a

was a misunderstanding. Cale seemed to be getting bigger in

“That-”

Such a ceremony that

relief at Cale’s comment. Cale continued to speak while

that this is the time for that right now. Please only quietly inform the Vatican. Then the news will spread

was my plan, sir. The kingdom's situation is not so

is correct, Bishop-nim.

disappeared from Cale's

an even greater pressure from Cale. This was something he had not even felt from the

could be in the Pope's position when looking at the Pope, but this existence in front of him right now was something he could not even fathom, something he thought

bishop heard

the following. Tell them not to go through any useless procedures for

bishop clenched his

to not do useless procedures because they were told not

try to do something with the divine item and Cale the more the bishop tried not to do

heard a relaxed

is

said to belong to the temple as it was bestowed only

about it being

looked past the benefits of the temple and followed the will

think that the Pope will see

that thought was visible in

“Bishop-nim.”

out to

want to work through you,

“Ah.”

smiled and continued to speak

able to earn everything you can earn even

finally understood the feeling

gentle voice

is similar

also knows all of my inner

a higher level

the moment he realized

no

out of the bishop's mouth and

was only one thing you needed to show a person

like you but I am at a

tell all of

will use

again in

spoke to

never sat up so straight even

who had spoken to their god and brought another divine item, potentially the lost divine item of the church, was

matter how greedy he was for power,

bishop, who believed that his desire to raise the Church of the God of Death to a

their god reached the

you are walking is the

course, the God of Death never

path without

also never said

wasn’t worried

bestow the divine item so that I can do

fact that he seemed to be doing things similarly to

fool going

turned

bishop realized something from the message Cale just

else is going

of this Commander is going to rise even

was now

at the fact that his own authority would rise the more

The other was...

‘I'm curious.’

as the bishop, but as a priest of the God of Death, he was full of anticipation to see how bright the future of someone who

who would be

that

he would make it so that neither he

“That sounds great.”

relaxed smile appeared on Cale’s face. It was the same