Trash of the Count’s Family

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“Cale.”

“Yes, mother?”

A cold light roamed within Duchess Violan’s eyes.

“Even I have not heard the details regarding your father’s abduction yet.”

Ron had returned the rescued Deruth Henituse to Duchess Violan’s side.
Deruth, who had remained firm during the whole time he had been abducted, fell asleep from fatigue after relaxing a bit after seeing the Duchess.

“He tried to stay up while saying that he needed to tell you about what had happened, but he had no energy and fell asleep.”

Cale quietly observed the veins visible in Violan’s hand as she clutched the armrest of the chair.
She continued speaking in a calm voice.

“I do not think that the conditions behind how he was abducted are important now.
However, I do not have the confidence to forgive the bastards who messed with my family.”

Cale and Violan looked at each other.

“If there are things you must get from the abductors, hand those bastards over to me once you get what you need.”

“Mother-”

“Of course, the royal family may try to take those bastards.
However, shouldn’t our family finish the issues that involve our family?”

The pressure coming from Violan right now as she mentioned finishing the issues would give any knight a run for their money.

Cale did not say anything and Violan did not push for him to answer.

“Just think about it.”

“Yes, ma’am.
Then I will be back later.”

“Sure.”

The black Dragon, who had been warily rolling his round eyes around at the heavy mood, slowly raised his two chubby front paws.

“I brought something for our human’s papa!”

He was holding a piece of apple pie in his paws.

“Thank you very much, Raon-nim.”

Violan smiled brightly and patted Raon’s head.

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“Hehe.”

Raon smiled and put the apple pie on the side table next to Deruth’s bed.

Violan, who had been watching Raon’s cute action, spoke to Cale.

“Are you heading over to the next room?”

“I am.”

Cale said goodbye to Violan and headed to the next room with Raon.

Click.

He opened the door and entered to see the fake Hilsman who was sitting on the chair with his limbs bound.

“Duke Deruth has woken, mm.
I guess not based on your expression.”

The fake Hilsman had a sly smile on his face as he greeted Cale.
Cale plopped down on the chair across from the fake Hilsman.

‘I’m tired.’

He saw Alberu, then Violan and Duke Deruth.
He had thought about a lot of things he needed to take care of during those meetings, which had made him a bit tired.

However, he started speaking as he needed to take care of this fake Hilsman issue as well.

“Will you meet my father when he wakes up?”

“Mm.”

The fake Hilsman seemed to debate it for a bit before lowering his body toward Cale.

“Hey.”

Cale realized something the moment he heard the fake Hilsman’s stealthy voice.

‘No! I have a feeling that this situation…!’

He felt as if he would hear something he shouldn’t hear, something that would hinder his slacker life.

Cale urgently started speaking.
His eyes were full of urgency as if he had never been tired.

“N-”

“I think a Hunter has appeared.”

“Fuck!”

Cale couldn’t help but swear.

“As I expected.
You truly do have the blood of the Thames.
You can’t hide your anger as soon as you hear about a Hunter.”

‘No! That’s not it!’

Cale felt everything go dark while thinking that he heard something he didn’t need to hear right now.
He lowered his head to see Raon, who was waiting for the fake Hilsman to continue speaking with a sparkle in his eyes.

His future seemed quite cloudy.

The fake Hilsman looked at Cale, who looked as if he lowered his head because he could not control his anger, with pity as he continued to speak.

He had originally not planned on saying something like this to Cale, but decided that he should at least tell Cale a portion of things after seeing Cale in battle.

Cale Henituse seemed to have a tight relationship with the Roan Kingdom and the different kingdoms of the Western continent.

The fake Hilsman continued in a warm voice.

“The damn Hunter bastards who appeared seemed to have a sponsor.”

The Hunters who hunt single-lifers…

They were back and there was someone sponsoring them.

“I followed the flow of their funds to the Roan Kingdom.”

The sponsor for those Hunters was in the Roan Kingdom.

“Do you know of the Flynn Merchant Guild?”

“I do!”

Raon raised his paw.

“Billos, the guy who looks like a piggybank, is a part of the Flynn Merchant Guild!”

Billos Flynn.
He was the merchant that Cale had met in the Henituse territory, the bastard of the Flynn Merchant Guild who had been living quietly until he met Cale and ended up achieving many things that helped him rise to the position of a strong candidate for the future leader of the Flynn Merchant Guild.

Cale raised his lowered head.
His eyes were full of questions.

“…Is the Flynn Merchant Guild that sponsor?”

‘There’s no way.’

Billos was not someone who would sponsor an organization like the Hunters.

He was someone who was interested in making money and not interested in things like gods or immortality.

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“The funds came from the Flynn Merchant Guild.
That information is accurate.”

Cale subconsciously mumbled at the fake Hilsman’s confirmation.

“…There’s no way that Billos Flynn would do that.”

“Hmm? Are you talking about that bastard who will die soon?”

‘What?’

Cale questioned his ears for a moment.

‘Die? Who is going to die? Billos Flynn?’

Billos Flynn had been a strong candidate to succeed the merchant guild the last time Cale heard from him.

“What are you talking about?! Why would Billos die?!”

Raon shouted in shock.

“That bastard was pushed back.”

“Pushed back? Billos?”

Cale found this to be unexpected.
Maybe it was because he had expected Billos to plow his way to the top as he had done in ‘The Birth of a Hero’ after meeting Choi Han.

“Yes.
The second child of the Flynn family who has received young lady Orsena’s sponsorship will soon become the merchant guild leader.
The succession will happen as soon as things are settled here in Puzzle City.
Then Billos Flynn will probably be executed.”

“…The Orsena Duchy-”

Cale’s expression stiffened up.
He had leaned forward at some point and was tapping on the armrest with his index finger.

The Orsena Duchy.

The Northeast region, Northwest region, Southeast region, and Southwest region.
In addition to those four, the Roan Kingdom had five noble factions with the central region being the fifth.
The distribution of power in the different regions had become faint as they had to deal with these recent battles, but there were Grand Nobles who represented each region.

The Orsena Duchy represented the central region.

The successor for the Duchy was young lady Karin Orsena.

“Wait, then-”

Cale’s eyes opened wide as he continued to think.

“The Flynn Merchant Guild’s future merchant guild leader received sponsorship from the Orsena Duchy and the funds sponsoring the Hunters came from the Flynn Merchant Guild?”

“Yes.
Do you see the picture now?”

The fake Hilsman bluntly commented.

“The reason I came to see Duke Deruth, no.
I’ll be honest.
There is only one reason I came to the Henituse Duchy.”

The look in his eyes was probably the look that someone would have after having had to suppress their wrath for a while.
The fake Hilsman’s eyes were giving off a vicious glow.
He spoke to Cale almost in a whisper.

“The funds to resist the Flynn Merchant Guild.
A household to go up against the Orsena Duchy.
The Henituse Duchy is the only place that meets both conditions right now.”

The fake Hilsman’s hair color slowly started changing.

“Furthermore, it is the one place I can trust as it has my bloodline.”

His hair slowly started to turn red, similar to the color of the sun setting in the sky.

* * *

At that moment…

“Then this is the team we will first send into the temple.”

Alberu was standing at the center of the grand assembly hall with a paper in his hand that listed the individuals who would be the first to enter the temple.

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Translator’s Comments

HIS HAIR TURNED RED.
HIS HAIR TURNED REEEEEEED!

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