Trash of the Count's Family Vol 2. Chapter 510: I Descend! (1)

“One moment.”

Cale told the confused Asiprang and General Ferry to wait as if notifying them, then focused on the mirror.

“Hey. God of Death.”

His voice was inscribed on the mirror in Korean exactly as he spoke.

“I’ve found His Majesty King Zed right now. The situation is—”

Bzzzz! Bzzzzzz!

Since he had managed to contact the God of Death, Cale intended to relay the current situation as quickly as possible.

<Wait! I think someone is approaching! I’ll contact you later! Leave a message!>

...The God of Death disappeared again.

Cale unknowingly blurted out what was in his heart.

“Do you want to die?”

Bzzzz!

And the mirror vibrated.

<Sorry! I’ll read it within an hour! Hehe.>

As expected, this bastard was checking all the messages.

He had simply not replied.

Cale’s face twisted.

“......”

“......”

Unaware that Asiprang, General Ferry, and the other physicians and attendants were staring blankly at that conversation, Cale continued saying what he had to say.

For now, he had to report the situation that had been revealed.

“His Majesty King Zed’s soul is inside the body of the man called the great general of the Oceanic Alliance.”

That body’s heart stopped, then came back to life when King Zed woke.

“But His Majesty King Zed seemed unable to do anything by his own will inside that body. It was as if he had been locked in a prison, with his entire body bound.”

And.

“That body is slowly dying. The length of time its heart remains stopped is gradually increasing, and according to the physician here, the point when the great general’s heart stops completely almost coincides with the time of His Majesty King Zed’s death that you gave us.”

Cale left behind everything he had seen as a message.

The more he did, the more clearly the situation took shape.

“And the background of all this appears to be connected to the second Emperor, a Wanderer of the Five Colored Blood hunter family.”

Cale conveyed his demand regarding the entire situation.

“Give me a way to solve it.”

He simply demanded it outright.

“If you don’t, I won’t help you.”

With a fatal threat added on.

Of course, even if the God of Death could not find an answer, Cale intended to save this displeasing god. He had absolutely no intention of letting him be erased.

Erasure of a god is said to happen only through being eaten by a natural enemy, through the law of the hunt.

In other words, the fact that the God of Death faced death—erasure—meant that those who knew about this law of the hunt were trying to eat him.

It must be either a Transparent-grade or higher Wanderer of the Five Colored Blood family, or the heavenly realm.

Of course, the Demon King now knew this information as well, but the Demon King, who had only just learned it, did not yet have the talent to kill gods.

So only the heavenly realm, which hid the holy land where the law of the hunt was written, and the Five Colored Blood Wanderers who discovered it would have found something capable of erasing a god.

The talent Cale possessed.

The powers of the Water that Devours the Sky and the glutton of the Unbreakable Shield.

They had said he also possessed the talent to kill gods.

For now, let’s wait for an answer for one hour.

Cale pointed to the sofa and table on one side of the bedroom.

“We should talk, shouldn’t we?”

Cale pointed to the calendar for Asiprang and General Ferry, who still wore dazed expressions.

“There are only two days left until the Council of Seventeen.”

“......!”

“!”

Taking the two whose eyes had shot wide open with him, Cale asked Choi Han.

“Stop anyone from approaching.”

“Yes, Cale-nim.”

After taking care of security, Cale began the conversation in earnest.

The first to speak was Asiprang.

“...Which kingdom is it?”

He had now changed completely into polite speech.

Cale looked with satisfaction at Asiprang, who had learned courtesy on his own, and answered.

“We are—”

At that instant, his eyes met Alberu’s as Alberu rose from the floor and walked over.

How should he explain it to the NPCs of the virtual reality game New World?

Say it well.

When Alberu’s gaze said that, Cale said it well.

“The Dark Kingdom.”

“!”

Hero Alberu’s pupils shook.

No, then wouldn’t that make me the crown prince of the Dark Kingdom? I’m a Hero! Wasn’t the Dark Kingdom either yours or Eden Mir’s?

Alberu looked as though he had a lot to say, but whether he did or not, Cale shamelessly pushed ahead.

“The Dark Kingdom......?”

As Asiprang and General Ferry grew confused over whether this unfamiliar place name was true, Cale spoke with a grave face.

“Most people will not know of it. Though it has only just begun spreading through the world. Until now, our kingdom has hidden in New World’s shadows.”

“?”

“There is only one moment when our kingdom reveals itself to the world.”

“?”

“When an enemy threatening this world appears.”

“!”

“At present, we have joined hands with the Three Evils and the Seven Evils among the Eight Evils, and we have also joined hands with the Eastern Empire and Lan Kingdom.”

“!”

The expressions of Asiprang and General Ferry, which had been filled with questions, slowly hardened.

It was because they felt truth in Cale’s unfaltering words. In addition, General Ferry was remembering that the guarantor Cale’s group had revealed on Island 16 to prove their identity had been the Eastern Empire.

“If you are curious, you may ask the forces there about us. It is a truth that will be revealed within a few hours anyway.”

That was right. Just as Cale said, it was information that could be uncovered as much as one wanted if one tried to learn it, so hiding it was pointless.

“Th-that—”

Asiprang pointed at his father, the great general.

“Inside Father’s body, the king of that Dark Kingdom, no, His Majesty the King, is there?”

Cale nodded to him, who still could not believe it.

No, my Father is the king of the Dark Kingdom? Then is the Roan Kingdom the Dark Kingdom?

Of course, Cale lightly ignored Crown Prince Alberu’s expression, which seemed to have a great deal to say, and continued speaking.

“That is our hypothesis. In fact, the moment Asiprang-nim mentioned the second Emperor, I became certain of it.”

General Ferry reacted to those words.

“What is the second Emperor? Who is that?”

“Mm.”

Cale looked out the window with a serious expression.

As he looked at the island scenery beneath the red sky where the sun had begun to set, he slowly opened his mouth.

“If you hear the truth, you must either join us or—”

General Ferry felt that Cale’s eyes, wrapped in the red glow of sunset, looked especially dark.

Cale did not finish his words, but she felt she knew what he would have said next.

“Because we know the truth, if we cannot join you, we die?”

When she asked while hiding her trembling heart, Cale shook his head.

“I could not bear to do that.”

But seeing Cale’s eyes remain grave, General Ferry ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) opened her mouth.

“We are already in the same boat anyway.”

“That is correct.”

“Then we must hear it.”

“Very well.”

At Ferry’s firm gaze, Cale began speaking about the Wanderers.

“There is currently a force trying to rule this world. They are the hunters belonging to the Five Colored Blood family.”

“......”

“There are three absolute powerhouses in that family. They bear the title of ‘Emperor.’”

“Then the second Emperor is?”

“Yes. One of them. And the current general of Island 3 is the sworn brother of the Three Emperors.”

“......!”

The moment she heard that, General Ferry unknowingly let slip what came to mind.

“Don’t tell me they are trying to devour the Oceanic Alliance......!”

“That is correct.”

Cale gave Ferry, who was staggering under so much information, more of the basic information.

“And the forces currently cooperating with the Five Colored Blood are the Transparent Blood family and the Order of the God of Chaos.”

“Ah—”

“In addition, we are currently cooperating with the Order of the Sun God as well, and His Highness our Crown Prince—”

Cale pointed at Alberu with a proud expression.

“Is the Hero certified by the Order of the Sun God! That is why he has currently stepped down from the position of crown prince of the Dark Kingdom and is carrying out his duty as the Hero.”

Cale smiled brightly at Alberu.

That more or less makes sense, right?

Haa.

Alberu let out a sigh and turned his gaze away from Cale.

“......”

General Ferry watched all of this and could not easily open her mouth. She seemed to be struggling to accept the information in her head.

“Then—”

After a moment, she looked at Asiprang and barely managed to speak.

“Then, what do you think happened to the great general?”

Asiprang’s body flinched at the question.

General Ferry asked in a trembling voice.

“If the soul inside there is His Majesty the King of the Dark Kingdom, then the great general is—”

Mm.

This time, Cale could not answer easily.

Instead, someone else spoke.

“The best-case situation would be that the great general’s soul is staying in my Father’s body. And the worst-case situation is—”

Alberu’s gaze had sunk deeply. His words, delivered one by one in a heavy voice, reached everyone’s ears.

“That body is already a dead body, and my Father is trapped inside it.”

He looked at Asiprang.

“What do you think?”

“......”

One son asked another son.

And Asiprang’s shoulders trembled finely. He lowered his head and covered his face with both hands.

As everyone pretended not to notice that trembling, Asiprang’s voice leaked through his fingers.

“It was strange.”

They were words that could have been a soliloquy or a plea for someone to hear.

“He looked at me as if I were a stranger. I thought that no matter how badly he lost his mind, he would still recognize his son. But he looked at me like a person he had never seen before in his life. And yet today, the way Father looked at you people......!”

He mocked himself.

“Ha. Right. A body whose heart stopped coming back to life is strange too. Yes, it’s extremely strange. It makes more sense that another soul was trapped in a body that was already dead.”

As he muttered on, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Cale.

There were tear tracks in his eyes, but no more tears flowed. Instead, some blazing, fierce anger had taken their place.

They were eyes that had finally faced a truth he could no longer turn away from, and now had abandoned both terror and fear.

“That time.”

Asiprang was looking at Cale, but his gaze seemed to be seeing somewhere else.

“As you can see, I’m kind of rude and a troublemaker, right? So the day before, I drank and played to my heart’s content, then skipped morning training, so Father grounded me that day. But I had plans to drink that night too, you see?”

Heh.

Asiprang could not hold back his laughter, as if he found himself absurd.

“Still, even if I cause trouble, I’m decently polite. So I went to Father to ask if he would let me go to my drinking appointment. No, honestly, I’m an adult. Isn’t it ridiculous for Father to ground me?”

Asiprang truly seemed to find it funny.

“Anyway, when I heard Father had worked late, I waited, then went to find him later when he was heading to his bedroom. I told him I would come back early today, so I wanted to go out and return. But you see. Father was dressed to go out.”

The great general, dressed to go out, had spoken to Asiprang.

“When I asked who he was going to meet, Father did not answer. He just said he had an important appointment. But I asked if he was going to meet my sister. Because whenever Father goes to meet my sister, he has a certain pleased expression.”

Ha.

Asiprang let out a laugh like a sigh.

“Then Father said that eldest sister had told him to keep it secret, so I should keep my mouth shut too. He said she wanted to receive advice on an important matter concerning Island 7, so I should forget about what happened today. So I said I understood and just went back to my room.”

Because he had not wanted to ruin Father’s mood when he had forgotten the weight of work and was happy at the thought of seeing eldest sister.

“Just like that, Father secretly left the residence alone. He was going somewhere to meet eldest sister.”

If the great general wanted to move secretly, there was no one in this residence who could notice.

Because there was no one stronger than him.

Everyone must have thought the great general had entered his bedroom.

Everyone except Asiprang, who had gone to find him because of his drinking appointment.

“But the next morning, Father was found on his bed as if asleep. In that exact state he is in now.”

Asiprang dragged both hands down his face.

His face looked especially drained and exhausted.

“Of course, there was chaos. Especially after we saw what he was like when he woke.”

And, as if it were natural, they called the Seventh General, the eldest adult after his father—his eldest sister.

“But eldest sister gave no sign that she had met Father the night before.”

Asiprang had found that strange.

However, thinking that the Seventh General had wanted to receive advice from Father about something she could not tell other islanders, Asiprang secretly went to the quarters where the Seventh General was staying.

And he intended to ask her.

What had happened last night?

“To be honest, I didn’t go without any suspicion at all. Something—something felt strange. The way eldest sister looked down at Father when he was seized by madness felt strange.”

It could have been a particular intuition one felt precisely because they were family.

That was why, under the pretext of being concerned for his sister, he had secretly headed to her quarters.

“The second Emperor handled it well.”

Asiprang looked at Cale.

“I heard those words.”

Words spoken by one of his sister’s close aides, heard through a door that had somehow been left slightly ajar instead of fully closed. The moment he heard that one sentence, he felt someone’s presence inside, and without realizing it, Asiprang had acted as though he had only just arrived, then flung the door open.

Eldest sister! What are we supposed to do now?

As always, just as the immature youngest child had always done, Asiprang whined at his eldest sister, asking her to find the answer for him.

At that moment, the instant Asiprang saw his Seventh General sister seem relieved, he could no longer tell anyone what he had heard.

“...I couldn’t tell anyone in this residence. Not even the generals who follow Father.”

He had felt it was dangerous.

Because eldest sister, the Seventh General, was one of the great powerhouses he could not dare challenge.

“How could something like this—”

General Ferry of Island 16 could not find the words.

“No, why—”

Until now, the Seventh General had been a representative neutral party alongside General Ferry.

After the great general fell unconscious, when the other generals coveted the position of great general, she had emphasized order more than anyone else, saying this should not happen!

That could have been disastrous.

If they had become allies with the Seventh General—

Unlike the belief she had originally held, General Ferry accepted the information reality had given her.

Bzzzz!

At that moment, a vibrating sound rang out.

Contact had come from the God of Death.