Trash of the Count's Family

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“I will be using that power.”

Cale could not get himself to call the Fire of Destruction the power of a god.

- ...Cheer up, Cale.

He did his best to ignore the Super Rock consoling him. Cale just thought about it in a relaxed manner.

‘I'll be leaving this world anyway, so it doesn't matter whether they see me as the purifier or whatever.

I just need to take care of things properly.’

Cale decided to think about it as lightheartedly as possible.

- Human, that expression just now seemed more like the crown prince's expression than your usual smile!

He did his best to let Raon's comment in one ear and out the other.

He spoke to Olivia instead.

“I will let you know the overall plan, so I hope that you can move accordingly, your Royal Highness.”

“...Okay.”

Olivia had noticed how the Purifier was reluctant to show himself. She knew how big it was that he had chosen to reveal himself.

That was why she was willing to move according to his will.

She was willing to do so even though she was not fully recovered.

“And there is something we must do during this next week.”

Olivia’s shoulders tensed after hearing the Purifier’s solemn voice.

"What is it?”

She then thought about what would happen at the public execution ground in a week.

It was different from her original imagination.

The Agents of Destruction and the Church of the Fire of Purification... The Purifier revealing himself in between them...

Olivia and the people loyal to her would be with them.

How would that crazed sight she had initially imagined change?

She got chills for a completely different reason now.

‘I'll do it.’

She made up her mind.

‘I'll do whatever it takes.’

She would do anything for the image in her mind to become reality.

The Purifier started to speak.

“We need to loot the Emperor's Palace.”

Silence filled the area for a moment.

“…….”

Olivia could not say anything.

- Human, I knew that you wouldn't waste your time! Yes, a week is plenty of time to loot the Emperor’s Palace! Alright! How exciting! Will we all be going?

Cale focused not on the excited Raon but the silent Olivia's shaking pupils before wondering why she was reacting like this and continuing to speak.

“Do you remember the information that the First Imperial Prince shared with us?”

“Ah.”

Olivia’s expression finally brightened after hearing that.

“You are talking about the issue of the undeads!”

“...Y, yes?”

Cale had an unsettled look on his face as he agreed with the now exaggeratedly bright expression on Olivia's face.

“As I expected!”

Olivia nodded her head multiple times as if she finally understood him and continued to speak.

“I knew that you would have some deep meaning behind it!”

Why would the Purifier, someone who uses the power of a god, really want to loot something as trivial as the Emperor's Palace?

Olivia gently smiled thinking that the Purifier was purposely using such lighthearted terms to address such a heavy topic.

‘Yes, this is not the time to just worry. It is the time to do something, anything.’

Olivia became a bit more energetic. However, her face quickly stiffened.

She knew what the Purifier would ask for her to do.

"Do I just need to be keeping his Majesty occupied?”

“Yes ma’am. I need someone to distract him as we need to get into his bedroom in the Emperor’s Palace.”

Olivia contemplated it for a bit before nodding her head.

“I want to be consoled and wish to console him. That should be a justified reason to go seek his Majesty.”

She then added on.

“I also think that it would be good if I use this time to make it look as if I have given up on the second test.”

“That is a good idea, your Royal Highness.”

Cale was satisfied watching Olivia figure out her role on her own.

- Human, going to loot is just going to loot. Is there some deeper meaning to it? Oh, do you mean that you are going to loot everything that is hidden deeply as well?

He tried his best to ignore Raon's comments. But he could not do that.

- Human, but to be more accurate, it is not actually undeads, is it?

Cale recalled the interrogation of First Imperial Prince Sanders that was disguised as a quite intimate face-to-face chat.

The First Imperial Prince had not been that sincere in his response to Cale's questions, but he did his best to answer.

about smacking the Huayans patriarch in the back, haven’t you? In fact, you’ve had

seemed to impact

there is a place in the Emperor's Palace where they store the generations

‘Yes.’

a moment before he continued to

be more specific, they are

‘Then?’

helper still

immediately understood that the helper Sanders was talking about was the

still captured. That guy won’t be able

‘I see.’

reaction made Cale realize that the generations of Emperor candidates who have turned into undeads had some

know

to what Sanders was telling

Blood Cult. And existences that were similar to undeads but

two keywords were

Prince

that I saw were like undeads but

And...

heard that that helper would be handling all of the candidate corpses

well. Sanders was saying that the person they were

can tell you about the

the

“...It’s obvious.”

"Excuse me?”

nothing, your

gently. However, his eyes sank

The Blood Cult.

something in the Wuxia World

‘...Jiangshi.’

the basement of

be wrong,

in the wuxia novels that he

jiangshis but they

likely the person connected to the jiangshis and

over the Emperor's life would

and get

he spoke while walking over to the

for this Hide and Seek... That is when we will

Click.

that was being lit up by the morning sunlight. His white hair sparkled with the light but all she could think about was the violent

color made

* * *

to cover

were

“...What a mess.”

holding a sword approaching

“State your background.”

"Excuse me?”

lived quite the arduous mercenary life flinched at

Clang-!

and was pointing

your background, and the reason for your

“Ugh.”

for a bit before

mercenary. I was out for a job and am returning home. I have my mercenary’s plaque

out your

“Yes sir!”

out the plaque and the man

“You can go.”

“...Yes sir.”

mercenary’s plaque and the middle-aged man received it carefully before urgently leaving the area. The

I heard that the capital was a mess right now and

reached Cale’s

“Hmm?”

at Cale. He saw that Cale was covered by

this to be suspicious and

“Who are y-”

not finish

Shh.

the swordsman’s neck. The man’s

‘When?’

next to the robed individual who also had his face covered by a hood and that person was pointing the sword at the swordsman’s neck. It was exactly as he had done to the

who had not noticed the second hooded figure at

who do you think you dare to

he could not finish that

Shhh.

off

the white cloth covering the area underneath his nose

am the priest in charge of

placed a hand on Choi Han’s

guard. Retract your sword as you

“…….”

Han silently moved the sword away from the

with his

did

and he finally lowered his head

“Goodbye then.”

urgently left without

Empire sneering at the

“Let’s go.”

to Cale and walked by his side after Cale gave the order.

is suspicious of each

district but there was an oddly sunken

it was not

here and there but it was pretty calm overall, similar

the third

Han was feeling the atmosphere in the capital

worse and worse as

nineteen candidates and three other highly-ranked candidates had lost their helpers or

who wanted to push ahead using this opening were acting crazier and

grabbing anybody

swordsman just now was one

was how he was able to immediately

acting like this swordsman were slowly starting to

have a decent level

and prod around the capital. According to the information the church has gathered, some of them were not only using their helpers but stealthily using their

craziness would become worse as

‘...This isn’t good.’

bit when they learned about it. However, the slowly overbearing actions of

Everybody kept quiet.

were worried that what happened to the mercenary just now would happen

to be publicly executed,

it be okay

Han asked Cale in a quiet