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

questions that Cale asked seemed to

in the Emperor's Palace where

‘Yes.’

silent for a moment before he

more specific,

‘Then?’

helper still

helper Sanders was talking about was the

captured. That guy won’t be able

‘I see.’

candidates who have turned

don’t know

paid attention to what Sanders

Cult. And existences that were similar to

were making him

Prince continued

things that I saw were like undeads but

And...

be handling all of the candidate

of Huayans was planning on using the dead candidates from this test as well. Sanders was

you

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

“...It’s obvious.”

"Excuse me?”

your

smiled gently. However, his eyes sank

The Blood Cult.

World that was similar to undeads

‘...Jiangshi.’

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

be wrong,

frequently appeared in the wuxia novels that he

types of jiangshis but they were all

most likely the person

over the Emperor's life would be the

and get eaten type

he spoke

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

Click.

opened and Olivia quietly observed Cale as he walked toward the hallway that was being lit up by the morning sunlight. His white hair sparkled with the light

color made her

* * *

his robe fully down to cover

were

“...What a mess.”

a man holding a sword approaching

“State your background.”

"Excuse me?”

quite the arduous mercenary life flinched at the sudden question and

Clang-!

sword and was pointing it at the

background, and the

“Ugh.”

a bit

I was out for a job and am returning home. I have my mercenary’s plaque on me. You can check its authenticity in the Mercenaries

out your

“Yes sir!”

out the plaque and the man thoroughly inspected it before slightly

“You can go.”

“...Yes sir.”

plaque and the middle-aged man received it carefully before urgently leaving the area.

the capital was a mess right now and

reached Cale’s

“Hmm?”

who was watching the mercenary leave turned to look at Cale. He saw that Cale was covered by

swordsman found this to be suspicious

“Who are y-”

could not

Shh.

at the swordsman’s neck. The

‘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 done to the mercenary

swordsman, who had not noticed the second hooded figure at all, got

do you think you

could not finish

Shhh.

off

green eyes, and the white cloth covering the area underneath his nose

am the priest in charge

a hand

sword as you

“…….”

sword

neck with his hand before avoiding

sorry I did not recognize

and he finally lowered his head after seeing the plaque that

“Goodbye then.”

then urgently left without saying anything

citizens of the Empire sneering at the swordsman but

“Let’s go.”

side after Cale

is suspicious

be a lively business district but there was an oddly sunken

not

was pretty calm overall,

the

in the capital that

acting worse and worse as it

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

other candidates who wanted to push ahead using this opening were acting crazier and crazier in the Hide and

are even grabbing anybody

was one of the

able to immediately

like this swordsman

candidates are all people who have a decent level of people

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

would become worse as time went

‘...This isn’t good.’

and Seek quite a bit when they learned about it. However, the slowly overbearing actions

Everybody kept quiet.

the

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

be okay

asked Cale in a quiet