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.

the back, haven’t you?

that Cale asked seemed

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

‘Yes.’

moment before he

more specific,

‘Then?’

helper still

immediately understood that the helper Sanders was talking

That guy won’t be able to escape

‘I see.’

that the generations of Emperor candidates who have turned

don’t know the specifics

what Sanders was telling

that were similar to

keywords were making

First Imperial Prince

things that I saw were like undeads

And...

that helper would be handling all of the

test as well. Sanders was saying that the person they

I can tell you about the true identity of

that he didn’t know anything else regarding the identity of the undeads, but... This was

“...It’s obvious.”

"Excuse me?”

your Royal

However, his eyes

The Blood Cult.

something in the Wuxia World that was

‘...Jiangshi.’

was hypothesizing that the things in the basement of the Emperor’s Palace were closer to

be wrong,

wuxia novels

of jiangshis but they were all made

likely the person connected to

person who held control over the Emperor's life would be the Huayans

get eaten

in his mind and he spoke while walking over to the door

is frantically moving around for this Hide and Seek... That

Click.

Olivia quietly observed Cale as he walked toward the hallway that was being lit up by the morning sunlight. His white

color made

* * *

to cover his face as he walked toward

were

“...What a mess.”

a man holding a sword approaching a

“State your background.”

"Excuse me?”

he had lived quite the arduous mercenary life flinched at the sudden question

Clang-!

pulled out a sword and was pointing

your background, and the reason for

“Ugh.”

anxious for a bit before he

returning

out your mercenary’s

“Yes sir!”

the plaque and the man thoroughly inspected it before

“You can go.”

“...Yes sir.”

the middle-aged man received it

was a mess right

mumbling reached

“Hmm?”

mercenary leave turned to look at Cale. He saw that Cale was covered by a long robe and his face was covered

this to be suspicious and

“Who are y-”

could not

Shh.

sword was pointed at the swordsman’s

‘When?’

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

the second hooded figure at all, got chills on his back before

do you think you dare

he could not

Shhh.

off

white hair, green eyes, and the white

charge of her Royal Highness’s

hand on Choi

sword as you have

“…….”

Han silently moved the sword away from the

his neck with his

sorry I did not recognize you,

to Cale's hand and he finally lowered his head after seeing the plaque that Olivia gave to her

“Goodbye then.”

then urgently left without saying

sneering at the swordsman but an odd mood was being created

“Let’s go.”

Han silently stood next to Cale and walked by his side after Cale gave the order. Choi Han was

is suspicious of each

district but there was an oddly sunken mood

it was not a

were small issues here and there but it was pretty

is the third

the atmosphere in the capital that was changing day by

acting worse and

the nineteen candidates and three other highly-ranked candidates had

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

candidates are even grabbing anybody on the street

just now was one of the

able to immediately recognize the

people acting like this swordsman were slowly starting

have a decent level of people

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

craziness would become worse as time went

‘...This isn’t good.’

citizens of the Empire had embraced this Hide and Seek quite a bit when they learned about it. However, the slowly overbearing

Everybody kept quiet.

to the mercenary just now would

toward the people waiting to be publicly executed, the people who forced them

be okay

Cale