Trash of the Count’s Family

the hell did you do to Cale Henituse?!

“Ah.”

Cale immediately realized why Bud was reacting like this.

“Its me.”

What do you mean it ’s me? You wicked Vampire bastard! You must have sucked Cales blood dry! You crazy bastard! I ’m going to head to the Endable Kingdom right now and cut off your neck myself!

“I said, its me.”

What do you mean it ’s me?

As Buds face turned red with anger and his eyes had a cold gaze…

A chubby black front paw appeared in front of the screen and moved side to side.

“Bud! He is our human! Hes currently under disguise!”

Ah. Is that so?

‘What?

Cale frowned after seeing Bud accept Raons statement right away and calm down after not trusting him at all.

Huh? It really is him! That damn bitchy expression!

“…Are you crazy?”

Ahem. Sorry.

Bud then smiled and had a sly look on his face.

I heard you were going to the Endable Kingdom ’s base?

“…Even you heard about it?”

Of course! I contacted his highness. I couldn ’t talk to you earlier.

Bud stopped talking for a moment before his face slowly stiffened and he took a few steps back.

Cale then saw the scenery behind Buds shoulder through the video communication device.

“…You!”

Cales face stiffened.

“Hey, Bud! That place is dangerous!”

Raon shouted in shock while Cale kept his mouth shut and closed his eyes for a moment before opening them back.

He then started to speak.

“…Did you go to find the bodies?”

Bud calmly nodded his head.

Yes. I cant let my friends bodies stay in this cold and dangerous place.

The snowy mountain on the northern part of the Eastern continent.

Bud was at the place where almost the entire Ranger Brigade was probably killed and the place Cale and Buds group had barely managed to escape from.

They could see mercenaries searching the mountain over Buds shoulder.

Both Cale and Bud were silent for a moment.

Cale ’s heart then started to tilt.

Toward Bud of course.

His mouth slowly opened again.

“…It must be hard.”

Something is weird.

Cale and Bud. Both of them flinched at each other ’s comments and looked at each other.

“Hmm?”

Huh?

Cale flinched before immediately asking.

”What is weird?”

Bud looked around the mountain as if it was difficult to explain before sighing and starting to speak.

There are no bodies.

“What?”

Cale was truly shocked this time as he asked.

‘There are no bodies?

How could that be?

How could someone move close to 1,000 bodies?

The bastards who were running away from the avalanche managed to move all those bodies in only one or two days?

Cale suddenly had a thought and asked.

“Are the enemy bodies gone too?”

No.

Bud shook his head.

The numbers dont match. There are not enough bodies. Over half of them.

Over half of the bodies were missing.

We found a little less than half of the bodies.

Bud seemed bitter but his eyes were full of sadness and anger.

At the same time, there was a look of hope as well.

‘Hope?

It happened the moment Cale found that emotion to be odd.

Theres one type of corpses missing that Pan explained.

The Rat Pan.

He was the Ranger who served as the leader of the 1,001 member Ranger Brigade.

“Hurry up and tell me.”

Cale urged Bud who seemed to be hesitating to talk.

Bud took a deep breath before responding.

Furthermore, the few Rangers you saved with Pan ’s information were all missing one type of injury.

Bud continued to speak.

Pan ’s memory is quite good, so we were able to find the bodies quickly. However, we found that there was an error with Pan ’s memory.

That was the case.

As Bud mentioned, it would be an error if there wasnt a body in the spot Pan remembered.

Bud hesitated for a bit before starting to speak again.

You said that you ’re working with that Duke Fredo bastard, right? You said he was interested in you.

As Bud suddenly mentioned Duke Fredo…

“Perhaps?”

Cale subconsciously started to speak.

“Pan clearly told me about it.”

He recalled something the Rat Pan told him.

‘There seems to be a Vampire! I found the corpse of one of our brigade members and there was no blood left in the corpse.

Pan had also been extremely upset the first time they saw Duke Fredo.

‘W, what nonsense! Youre the leader of the bastards who sucked our brigade members blood dry……!

Cale looked at Buds eyes through the screen.

“There were no bodies that had their blood sucked?”

Yes. No injured people either.

Choi Han who had quietly been listening while looking at the door and the mirror looked toward the video communication device in shock.

Cale started to mumble at that moment.

“…You think, rather than Pan being wrong, that it has something to do with the Vampires?”

He looked toward the mirror that was a secret passage.

Duke Fredo was in the room two doors down.

‘What is going on?

Cale started to recall the battle from a few days ago.

‘Did Pan remember wrong?

That couldn ’t be it.

The rest of the bodies were where he said that they would be.

He heard Buds anxious voice at that moment.

Hey. Did you find the Illusionist?

“Ah!”

Cale subconsciously jumped up from his seat.

The northern snowy mountains.

The enemies who attacked them at that location. They had found the enemies who had attacked, however, they had not found one thing.

The Illusionist.

Who could that be?

Bud started to whisper.

…Cale, what if Pan seeing a brigade member getting their blood sucked dry was an illusion?

Cale suddenly remembered something at that moment.

Vampires were said to specialize in camouflage and escape.

Then what was their leaders specialty?

‘Is Fredo the Illusionist?

Or…

‘Is there a separate Illusionist?

Then who could the Illusionist be?

Cale suddenly thought about someone else who was working with Fredo but was not a Vampire.

“…The Deputy Chief Priest?”

‘Who else could be the Illusionist? Who the hell could the Illusionist be?

Cales mind quickly started to move.

Cale put the thought about who the Illusionist was aside before slowly recalling everything that had happened.

Cale had not told Fredo much because he could not trust him.

Similarly, Fredo had done the same as he could not trust Cale either.

However, Fredo had appeared in front of Cale and asked to make a deal or sign a contract without any hesitation.

What led him to do that?

“…There was something.”

There was something that he trusted, something he could offer as a condition.

That was why he had acted so rash and confident.

‘For example, Ranger Brigade members that he stealthily hid away.

Cale subconsciously started to smile.

‘Oh, how interesting.

Duke Fredo.

He truly was not someone to look down on.

“Hey. Bud. Hang up for a bit.”

…I leave it to you.

The video communication device turned off and Cale started to talk to Choi Han.

“Open the mirror.”

He needed to meet with Duke Fredo again.