Trash of the Count’s Family

we playing hide-and-seek?”

The former bandit leader started to sweat after hearing Cale's comment.

Cale was leisurely walking down the corridor of this building that was located in the corner of Leeb-An City.

“Ugh!”

“Mm.”

He worried a bit after seeing a Mostue branch member gasping before falling down.
However, he could not stare at this person for a long time.

Another member jumped out of one of the rooms to Cale’s side.
He had been aiming for an ambush, however, he was instantly faced with Choi Han.
Choi Han quickly hit the member in the back of the neck and made him faint.

He then grabbed the fainted member by the collar and threw him back into the room before closing the door as if it had never opened in the first place.

Bang!

‘…He's not joking.’

Choi Han quickly took care of anybody who popped up and got in their way of charging forward.
At the same time, he was abiding by Cale's order not to kill anybody and only making them faint or breaking an arm or two.
That was why Cale was concerned.

‘This is too easy.’

It shouldn’t be this easy.

Cale was currently on the highest floor of the building.
However, he did not hear much fighting happening down below.
It could not be helped.
Cale had left everyone else outside the building.

Only Choi Han was with Cale as they walked through the building.
Once he saw the Action Leader escape toward the building, Cale told the bandits to pretend to break in for about five minutes before returning to the inn.
Why?

‘We need to move quickly.’

They needed to loot the place and run before the reinforcements arrived.
That was why they needed to quickly take care of the enemies.
It might be reasonable to ask if it would have been faster if Cale brought the bandits in with him, however, Cale already had some reliable children with him.

Inside the quiet building.

“Meeeeeow.”
“Meeow.”

Two kittens popped out of the white fog.
On and Hong.

The two kittens who had gone with Raon had used their fog and poison in order to spread a paralysis and sleeping poison throughout the building once the Action Leader escaped into the building.
The Action Leader's decision to escape into the building without knowing about this was the worst decision ever.

Screeeech.
Screeeech.
Cale was walking through the wooden corridor.
There was only one door left in front of him.
Cale had made On and Hong spread the sleeping poison slowly on purpose.

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He wanted to give the strong individuals and the ones in power enough time to escape to the top of the building.
Those people needed to all faint from Choi Han’s hands.

Screeeech.

Cale stopped walking.
On and Hong slowly stepped back and hid inside the darkness.
Choi Han lifted his foot into the air once Cale turned toward him.

Baaaaang!

The door broke down with the kick.
Cale walked forward again once the obstacle was removed, allowing him to see a person inside.

“N, no!”

The branch manager was shaking in fear.
His eyes were focused on Cale and Choi Han who were wearing the same black outfits.
Choi Han had his black aura around him as he stared at the Action Leader with his black pupils.
White fog was slowly entering the room from behind the two of them.
The Action Leader who had been the first to escape to the top floor had watched his subordinates fall to the ground on his way up.

“You, you-!”

The branch manager could see the white fog slowly turning red.
This red color was giving him an ominous feeling.

‘You, d, devil-like bastards!”

It didn’t matter if they were from Arm or not anymore.

‘Will I be able to survive?’

A sword master and poison.
He could not help but be full of fear.
The branch manager could see the man with reddish brown eyes who was protected by the sword master crouching down in front of him.

“The devil?”

He seemed to be upset after being called the devil.
He then continued to speak as if it was an unfair assessment.

“We are people who love peace and justice.”

The branch manager feared this man who was speaking bullshit.
Why?
It was because the red fog got closer and closer to him as the man started to smile more.

However, he could not move.
The sword master’s black aura was at the tip of his neck.

“Oo, oo, oo-”

The fog reached up to his neck.
The branch manager was filled with fear when the man with the reddish brown eyes suddenly started to walk.
The branch manager’s eyes opened wide.

Baaaaang!

A small explosion soon occurred.

“H, how did he know about that!”

He was so shocked that he even forgot about the poison in front of him.
Cale, the man with the reddish brown eyes, stood by a wall in a corner of the branch manager's room when a mana orb suddenly appeared and destroyed a portion of the wall.
A small room appeared from behind it.

A secret room.
It was a place that only the boss and the top five ranking branch managers knew about.
It was a place with all sorts of documents and dirty money.

The enemy had accurately aimed for that spot.
The branch manager made eye contact with Cale.

‘A mana orb.
Is he a mage?’

The branch manager recalled the mana orb and questioned the man’s identity, however, that was not the issue.
He peeked at the red fog before urgently starting to shout.

“How did you know about that! Unless someone tells you about it-”

The Action Leader suddenly stopped talking. [1] He recalled what he had just said.

‘Unless someone tells you about it.’

Yes, this was someplace you could not know about unless someone told you about it.
Only the boss and the top five ranking members knew about this place.
The top seven ranking members originally knew about it, however, two of them had died in battle against Arm when their territories had been lost.

“Perhaps?”

‘Is there a spy within our ranks?
A spy within the top five ranking members, or perhaps even the boss?’

The branch manager who was the fifth ranking member and also an Action Leader looked toward Cale whose eyes started to curl up from smiling.
Cale looked toward the branch manager and told him the truth.

“You're right.
Someone told me.”

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He’s right! I told him! I am the great and mighty Raon Miru! I did not do it faster than usual because of the three gold coins! I did it faster because I am even greater now!

Cale could hear Raon's voice, but the branch manager could not.
The branch manager started to become suspicious of the other ranking members in their organization.

Cale was aiming for this.

That was why he had not killed anybody.
The Mostue faction would slowly get destroyed soon enough.
Furthermore, it would start a war between the mercenaries and Arm.

Cale whispered to the branch manager who would play an important role for them in the future.

“Sleep tight.”
“Ugh.”

The red fog covered the branch manager’s face.
His body became paralyzed.
There also seemed to be sleeping poison as he slowly lost consciousness.
The last thing he saw before losing consciousness was Cale entering the secret room.

He lost consciousness while being angry about the spy and these Real Arm bastards.
That was why he could not see what happened next.

Click.

Cale took off the door to the safe in the secret room.
It fell off easily thanks to Raon already breaking it in advance.

“Hmm.”

Cale had to work hard in order to prevent the corners of his lips twitching in joy.

Human, it’s gold! Jewels! There's a lot of gold coins too! The bad guys had a lot of money!

There was quite a bit of money.
There were especially a lot of gold bars.

But human! Didn't you say this was the weakest branch? Does that mean we will take a lot more money from the bad guys?

Cale's mind was filled with Raon's voice, as well as someone else’s voice.
The owner of the Fire of Destruction commented in a low voice.

Throwing away money.
An honorable way of throwing away money.

The corners of Cale's lips slowly went up.

A happy way of throwing away money.

Cale could no longer hold it in after hearing the Fire of Destruction’s voice.

“Hahahaha!”

He was happy.
Cale laughed out loud for the first time in a long time.
He was excited.
It was always fun getting free money.

Human! You seem happy! A happy way of throwing away money.
Hehehehe.

Raon and the Fire of Destruction’s voices became beautiful background music for Cale.
Cale happily listened before speaking to Choi Han and the children averaging nine-years-old.

“Retreat.”

They destroyed the door and filled the building with poison.
One of the Mostue branches had been looted in less than 25 minutes.
However, the reinforcement and Mercenaries Guild members who arrived too late would see that nobody was severely injured or killed.
However, they could see the branch manager’s bloodshot eyes.

“W, we need to catch those devil-like bastards!”

The branch manager also met with boss Mostue and informed him of the spy.
Something big was about to go down in Leeb-An City’s underworld.

Forgetting about all of that, Cale was wearing a simple yet clean white shirt and beige pants while smiling brightly the next day.

“Aigoo, aren’t you that young man from last time?”

The grandmother who owned the bakery near the inn remembered seeing Cale a few days ago.
Although he had taken over an inn with a sketchy past, she remembered having a good impression of this young man who said that he would try his best.

“Are you finally opening the inn?”

Cale, who looked like he had grown up a bit wealthy but was wearing simple clothing, respectfully grabbed the grandmother’s hand.

“Yes, grandmother.
We will open this afternoon.”

The bakery grandmother could see the < Hope and Adventure Loving Inn > behind Cale that was decorated for its grand opening.
Cale was standing in front of the inn.

Today was the day that they opened their first inn in the Eastern continent, as well as the Real Arm’s first base.

The human is smiling like Saint Jack! Now we will make money through this inn!

Cale pretended to be an earnest inn owner as he listened to Raon's voice.

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Really don't like how the author switches back and forth between Action Leader and branch manager, but what can you do?