Trash of the Count's Family

TCF2-28

In the middle of the dark night... A red pillar shot up far beyond the wall.

The clear red color looked as if it would burn up all of the darkness around.

That light was clearly visible in this world where everything was dark.

“Hey Sui Khan! Look at that, do you see it?”

Raon, On, and Hong... The children averaging nine-years-old had their faces pressed against the window with their eyes wide open.

The black Dragon's blue eyes looked into Sui Khan’s red eyes.

"That red pillar! I'm certain that this light is our human using his power!”

On spoke next very calmly but also very quickly.

“It is pretty far but if we can see the fiery thunderbolt from here... It must mean that he used quite a lot of his power, nya.”

“That means something dangerous must have happened, nya!”

Hong became anxious and didn’t know what to do.

“We should have followed him!”

Raon clenched his cheeks with his front paws. The black Dragon looked toward Sui Khan who had been silently standing by another window.

“Hey Sui Khan! Why aren’t you saying anything?”

On slowly turned her gaze to observe Sui Khan. This was a new friend who had been with them since they came to this planet.

Based on Cale, Choi Han, and especially Alberu’s demeanor, he seemed like someone they could trust. Unlike Cale who frequently lacked a sense of vigilance, Choi Han followed by Alberu were the two most vigilant people in the group. Those two people had accepted Sui Khan as a part of their team.

‘Ah!’

On held back a gasp after checking what Sui Khan was observing out the window.

‘He’s observing the castle!’

While On’s gaze had been focused on the red light, Sui Khan was observing the inside of the castle.

No alarm had gone off in the castle.

But On knew.

‘I'm sure they saw what we saw as well.’

That was when On could finally see people moving in the darkness, especially by the distant wall out of the precinct. She could see soldiers, knights, and even black mages.

On, who was in her human form, opened the window.

Clunk.

She then looked out the window.

‘...The light in the Margrave's bedroom turned on!’

The room next to the Margrave’s bedroom was the office for his top executives and that room had the light on twenty four hours a day.

She was certain that the Margrave and the entire top executives team were on alert right now.

The castle seemed quiet but it was quite chaotic underneath the surface. That chaos would soon rise above the surface as well.

‘What do I do?’

They couldn’t let people figure out about Cale’s visit outside.

On’s mind quickly started to move.

It was at that moment.

“Hey On. Isn’t it cold?”

On heard a slow voice behind her.

“The night breeze is cold.”

Sui Khan was looking at her. He was petting Raon’s head with one hand while messing Hong's hair with his other hand.

Clunk.

On leaned back into the room and closed the window.

It was because she suddenly realized that someone might see her in her human form.

On heard Sui Khan's voice.

"Variables always come up.”

His voice was calm but it was different from Cale's calm voice. Cale sounded crude, cold, and indifferent but his voice held warmth within it.

Sui Khan spoke slowly as if everything was boring and there was warmth in his voice as he gently called her name, but...

"We also can’t be swept around by the variables.”

It oddly sounded cold and rational.

This was something she had felt back in the Empire’s capital.

Of course, that coldness was not directed at ‘me’ or my ‘little brothers.’

“I'm sure they are in more chaos than we are.”

Toward their enemies, toward their goal... Sui Khan did not hide that coldness.

“Hey Sui Khan! But what if our human comes back hurt? What about Mary? Goldie gramps? Choi Han?”

“That’s right! That’s what we are worried about, nya!”

On saw Sui Khan’s gaze heading somewhere outside the window as Raon and Hong could not hide their anxiety.

He was looking where Eruhaben had teleported them to before they crossed the wall.

“He’s smarter than I am so I'm sure they are heading back right now.”

of Sui

they are already

his head at

“Ah!”

the center of

close the curtains

Chhh.

curtains closed and the only light was from the candles in

Ooooooooong---!

gathered in

sensing this

It’s

Paaaat-!

of five people appeared on top of the golden teleportation magic

Sui Khan's red eyes as soon as

find the coordinates of the Margrave's

“Of course.”

movements, and making it so that they

the basics of the work Kim Rok Soo and Lee Soo Hyuk used to do

* * *

heck is

Margrave. Marquis Helson was seated at the center of the top executives’

was dressed lightly because he had been sleeping for

“Eaen!”

“Yes, Marquis-nim!”

determined the cause

not too long ago, had

detected some faint vibrations

yet, we have yet

“Tell them to hurry!”

but it had

were in the

a much stronger vibration at the center of that pillar

could

was getting a

so complicated that it felt as if it

“...Chief!”

“Yes sir.”

as the top aide was

the top executives were currently disguised as

to dispatch a team beyond the

“...Mm.”

in thought for a moment before

don’t know when the black rain cloud might come and suddenly dispatching people like this

wasn’t that Eaen didn’t want to send a team past the wall. In fact, she

We have a lot of individuals

That’s why I am

The past half year...

a lot of the Dark Elves, black mages, and scouts they had

Palace had ignored the reports about these missing individuals as mere accidents but the Margrave and his team had seen this as a sign as

“Fuck!”

Marquis slammed down on

Second Imperial Princess didn’t come back either. I'm sure something must have happened beyond the wall. We shouldn't have accepted the

“Please calm down, Marquis-nim.”

continued

certain that the Imperial Palace will pay attention to the current situation because the candidates are here. It will become possible to figure out what is going on

“…….”

this man, who had dedicated his life to protecting the edge region, had accepted the candidates’ test being in his precinct was

I'm sure that the Imperial Palace will pay attention to our report

said candidate and

Imperial Prince and the

"They are quiet.”

the two of them know what is going on beyond the wall. Of course the Fourth Imperial Prince might

increased the level of

thinking about only

ten edge villages. That was what he believed, so he was thinking about stealing

‘And one more thing.’

strong candidate who could keep the First Imperial Prince

planning on secretly

and East have agreed to be with me as well. The Margrave of the South agreed to remain

Margraves responsible for the defense of the Empire were all from families with

generation to protect the Empire. There had been quite a lot of support

‘...It’s weird.’

intentions of the Imperial Palace had been a bit

trying to

the Margraves have had and they

people who did not seek out power

respective Margraves had their own reasons for suspecting the House of

a reason to be suspicious as

set the Church of the Fire of Purification as a heretic cult. They are basically the reason

in the Church of the

fact that his grandfather was a member of the church because any members would be executed on the

is

Pope's abilities

mana, that

‘Red?’

up from his

Bang-!

had been

“Marquis-nim?”

him but the Marquis didn't even look at

toward

red pillar just

was different from a pillar of fire. There was a reason the Marquis had been calling it a pillar

a thunderbolt was shooting up from the ground toward the

it was definitely that

red pillar had been so so

was because the darkness retreated temporarily to

mana had avoided that red

‘Perhaps-’

grandfather, the person he loved

to have defeated darkness

put his hand in his pocket. His

been keeping on him because he couldn’t let anybody find

are to

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