Trash of the Count's Family - Book 2: Chapter 390: The Birth of Evil (7)
<The Birth of Evil (7)>
Cale did what he had to do, despite his allies and the ancient powers showing reactions that made him feel extremely leery.
“I can at least protect you from Han Taek Soo. And-”
Cale felt like he knew a way to deal with the fundamental fear that Chief of Staff Kang Geun Mok had as well.
“That complete death that you want. I think I have a way to make that happen too.”
God of Death.
As long as the God of Death was Cale’s ally, he should be able to find the answer Kang Geun Mok wanted.
“…I see.”
Kang Geun Mok’s stiff shoulders relaxed and he leaned against the couch.
“Mm.”
Cale thought for a moment before speaking.
He felt like there was a lot of information to get from Kang Geun Mok, so it should be good to tell him things that would help him relax and cooperate with them?
“And our side’s goal is to get rid of that King’s Successor, so-”
“Excuse me?”
Kang Geun Mok jumped up in shock.
“W, wuuuuaaaaat?”
“Huh? No, I just-”
Cale got a bit scared seeing Kang Geun Mok’s bloodshot eyes intensely looking at him.
“It’s just that our final goal is to destroy all of the Hunters and the King’s Successor as well. Mm, basically, as long as we do well, you’ll get what you want?”
“Ha!”
Kang Geun Mok looked up at the ceiling and let out a sigh-like laugh.
“You’re going to get rid of that monster?
Ha!”
He continued to laugh in disbelief but Kang Geun Mok’s hands holding the armrest slowly tightened.
‘There’s a chance.’
This red-haired man in front of him…
Because Kang Geun Mok had personally seen the King’s Successor, he saw potential in Cale.
However-
“Your current level is not enough to defeat that monster.”
It was just ‘potential.’
“Hmm?”
Alberu’s eyebrows slightly rose up. His gaze turned cold as he looked toward Kang Geun Mok.
Rosalyn pulled out a highest-grade magic stone from her pocket as well and rolled it in her hand as she observed the Chief of Staff.
But Cale didn’t show much reaction as he asked him.
“Why?”
Kang Geun Mok answered.
“That monster would have grown for over 50 years.”
When he first saw that monster, it looked like a child who wasn’t even ten years old.
“Of course, you have potential. My instincts are telling me that.”
Kang Geun Mok’s instincts were so sharp that even Chairman Han thought highly of it.
That was why he shared the things he felt.
“The seven hells. I see a potential in you to fight against the combined world of those seven hells.”
Cale recalled what Old man Baek had said.
‘It is the same with you. Of course, you are different from the King’s Successor. The size of your plate is too small compared to the successor. It is also weak. It wouldn’t be weird if your plate was to break at any moment.’
He said that Cale’s world was smaller than the King’s Successor’s.
And that was based on information from 50 or so years ago.
The King’s Successor should now possess even more power.
“…That’s not wrong.”
Cale agreed with Kang Geun Mok’s statement.
“However-”
But he had to tell Kang Geun Mok something he did not know.
“I’m not going to do it alone, so you don’t need to worry much about it.”
He had a lot of friends and allies.
He just needed to prepare for it one step at a time.
“The King’s Successor also has allies and his vassals.”
As Kang Geun Mok spoke the truth with a stiff expression on his face…
“No?”
“Excuse me?”
Cale had a twisted smile on his face as he explained.
“Only the Transparent Bloods and the Five Colors Bloods remain?”
“……!”
Kang Geun Mok’s eyes opened wide.
“Are you perhaps the one behind the group that have been taking out the Hunter households one by one?”
He asked in a shaking voice but Cale didn’t answer him. He said something else instead.
“And the Transparent Bloods will soon disappear too.”
Smile. The smiling Cale looked extremely like a villain, but Kang Geun Mok clenched his fists and smiled.
His old tree-like face filled a bit with life.
That was hope.
“Why did you come to see me?”
He finally got down to business.
“The pass code for the secret lab.”
Kang Geun Mok subconsciously slapped his knee once Cale said that.
“You learned about that?”
Well, it was the RPOG system that told him…
Cale just got a quest, but…
[Sub quest : Let’s steal the special research report from the Transparent ©’s secret lab!]
“Yeah. The special research report is in there. I’ll need to take that.”
Kang Geun Mok looked at the smiling Cale and cautiously asked.
“Do you know where it is?”
“Yeah. I do.”
There was an address in the quest’s details.
The system told him.
“Ho-”
Kang Geun Mok gasped.
“Chairman Han said that it would take a god to figure out the location-”
‘A god?’
Cale flinched.
Kang Geun Mok didn’t care and gasped in admiration.
“I see. Are you a god?”
“No!”
Cale strongly denied it.
“Then how-”
“There is a god on my side.”
“Hoooo.”
Kang Geun Mok’s eyes sparkled some more.
“This…it looks like it really can be a possible battle.”
The King’s Successor was not a god yet either.
He was just trying to become a god.
But the person who is supposedly going to fight him was not a god either.
“Yes. So that’s how it is.”
Kang Geun Mok nodded his head and the details all seemed to fall in place.
“Only the Chairman and I know the pass code for that place. At least among the living. You even knew that and came to find me…even if it was a god who figured out the location, this is very surprising.”
‘Mm.
It was just the RPOG system that told me all this.’
Kang Geun Mok seemed to not even consider the fact that the game system betrayed them and allied with Cale.
‘I guess the game system is technically like a god of New World.’
The game system was currently the only god in RPOG.
‘Huh?
I feel like I got an amazing key?’
Cale felt like he needed to meet with the system to chat.
‘Maybe our biggest ally right now is the game system.’
The system that was thought to be controlled by the Transparent ©…
It created the AI, One, as well as mutant NPCs to protect its world.
‘Xiaolen, Central Plains, Aipotu.’
It was the most active of the worlds he had visited until now, as well as the strongest.
Of course, it had its limitations as a system and was restricted by the Transparent ©…
‘But it might be our greatest hidden weapon.’
Cale stopped thinking about the system for a moment and looked at Kang Geun Mok.
‘The system is a secret to this bastard.’
He could not trust this guy.
Cale gave an order to Kang Geun Mok.
“Put the pass code on your business card.”
“Yes sir.”
He needed a way to contact Kang Geun Mok.
“I plan on looting the secret lab tomorrow morning.”
“Mm.”
“Pack light and contact this number before then.”
If only the Chairman and the Chief of Staff knew the pass code, it was obvious why Kang Geun Mok had to run away before then.
If he didn’t want to be killed by Chairman Han that is.
“I’ll contact you thirty minutes before looting it, so you don’t need to worry too much.”
Kang Geun Mok received a business card from Cale and his eyes opened wide.
“…Sun.”
President Choi Sun Hee of Sun ©. Her name was on the business card.
“If things go wrong and you can’t contact her, contact here instead.”
There were only three words written on the front of the next business card Cale handed him.
< Ahn Roh Man >
“!”
Kang Geun Mok’s hands started to shake.
“How far-”
Just how far have you prepared?
This man in front of him had prepared a large trap without the Transparent © finding out about it.
“No questions.”
Cale put the business card with the pass code in his pocket as he spoke.
Honestly speaking, it would be safer for me to go to the lab with you.”
The pass code on this business card might not be right.
Kang Geun Mok may go and tell Chairman Han about their conversation.
“There is only one reason I’m letting you go.”
Cale demanded something from him.
“If what you want is not a peaceful death but to continue to live-”
The condition Kang Geun Mok had requested was a peaceful death.
But if he wished to live-
“Bring me information you think I would want.”
Of course, that life may not be peaceful and comfortable and may feel like hell, but…
“What do you think?”
He asked Kang Geun Mok.
“Isn’t it worth trying?”
Kang Geun Mok nodded his head and placed the two business cards in his pocket as he stood up.
“Then I will be on my way.”
“Okay.”
Cale waved his hands and saw Kang Geun Mok off.
Kang Geun Mok bowed with a stiff look on his face and headed back toward the door.
He looked like an old tree as usual, as if nothing had happened.
“Ah.”
Kang Geun Mok stopped walking for a moment.
“I almost made a big mistake.”
He turned around and asked.
“How should I address you?”
Cale shrugged his shoulders.
“I’ll tell you that next time.”
“…You do not trust me yet. I understand. I look forward to next time.”
Kang Geun Mok looked ready to walk again as if he accepted that answer, but he heard a girlish voice at that moment.
“What kind of monster is Han Taek Soo?”
“You don’t know?”
“I just know he is not human.”
Kang Geun Mok looked a bit pale as he answered Cale, who accepted that he didn’t know.
A few moments later…
Beep.
The door locked and only Cale’s group was left in the living room.
“Ha-”
Rosalyn scoffed and brushed her face with her hands.
“Han Taek Soo-”
She was thinking about how Kang Geun Mok had just shared Han Taek Soo’s true identity.
“Is a chimera?”
“To be more specific, he is different from normal chimeras.”
Alberu added on as he looked at Cale.
Cale had recorded what Kang Geun Mok had said.
‘Chairman Han Taek Soo is human. However, he is a human who chose to turn into a chimera.’
‘Other than his brain, nothing else on his body is human.’
‘He took the talented parts of many living things and turned them into his body.’
‘Mm. Although he started as a human, I guess calling him a monster is more fitting.’
A Black mage.
The Blood Demon.
The Dragon Lord.
Those were the patriarchs they had faced until now.
There were two patriarchs left.
The patriarch of the Transparent Bloods was a human who chose to turn into a chimera.
The patriarch of the Five Colors Bloods was the first wanderer.
‘Nothing is easy.’
The three patriarchs until now had been difficult but he felt like he was finally facing proper strong enemies.
“Let’s go for now.”
Cale’s group left without leaving any traces, just as they had entered.
Of course, all of the people protecting Kang Geun Mok’s house were currently in deep slumber and would awake in the morning.
It was all thanks to Hong’s special sleeping poison.
* * *
“Sir. The prosecution is requesting the Chief Aide’s attendance!”
“Apparently prosecutors have just arrived at the Chief Aide’s house! What evidence are they going to find when there is none?!”
President Ahn Roh Man.
He had come out of the Virtual Reality game to summon all of his aides and confidants to his office for the first time in a long while.
“…….”
“…….”
Ahn Roh Man was seated at the head of the table and Mary was seated next to him.
Only the two of them remained silent as they faced the information coming at them.
“Chief Aide!”
One person strongly urged Mary.
“We need to come up with a plan!”
“…….”
However, Mary was silent. Seeing her like this, which was different from her usual self, made everybody feel suffocated.
Normally, she would have been moving quickly to create a curveball.
But some of them noticed something after seeing her like this.
“…….”
The silently seated Ahn Roh Man…
Mary was looking at him with a piercing gaze.
An aide, who had been serving Ahn Roh Man for a long time along with Mary, asked.
“Sir, did you find a way?”
Currently, Mary was no longer able to avoid a meeting with the prosecution
There was a clear record of Mary going into the abandoned elementary site.
Questioning why someone installed a camera there would only matter if they could provide something to go against this evidence.
A way to save Mary…
There had been hundreds of remains found within that elementary site.
Mary, who was being called the culprit behind this dreadful incident, was currently being criticized by the press as well as all citizens of the country, and was facing a lot worse.
Ahn Roh Man’s position was as meaningless as a candle in the rain right now.
“…….”
Mary finally stopped being silent and asked.
“What is the plan?”
Mary had heard from Ahn Roh Man that there was a plan, but she had not heard about it yet.
That was why she could not do anything and just silently sat here.
But she could no longer sit still and do nothing.
She was about to be arrested as the primary suspect. Then the situation would become more complicated and extremely unfavorable.
“…Mary, the Chief Aide-”
Ahn Roh Man finally opened his mouth.
“Was looking for something under my orders. This happened because of that.”
This was proof to dig up dirt on the Transparent ©, and it was a secret.
It was something only Mary and a few of his trustworthy confidants knew about.
‘The fact that Mary was caught in such a situation means that there is a traitor among my confidants.’
That was why Ahn Roh Man could not easily open his mouth.
He just said one thing.
“There is only one thing for us to do right now.”
He looked out the window.
It was still night.
“Hold on as long as possible.”
Until the sun comes up.
‘Ahn Roh Man. We will bring proof of the Transparents’ dirty deeds.’
Alberu had come with Rosalyn and Cale Henituse and said that.
‘Just wait until the sun comes up.’
He then requested it.
‘And when the sun comes up, send some skilled people you can trust to this address.’
Ahn Roh Man looked at that address and had asked.
‘Do you know where this is?’
‘Yeah. I know.’
Alberu Crossman had calmly answered.
‘If it is hard to quietly take care of things, something big might happen. You’ll need to take care of that. Don’t you agree?’
Ahn Roh Man could not say anything against it.
He knew the location of this address.
‘The Transparent Museum.’
The capital of Roan.
The most stylish building in the best position in the capital.
It was a place created by the Transparent ©, a place that listed the history of the Transparent © as well as their achievements.
‘What is there?’
Ahn Roh Man supposed the anxious feeling inside him and waited for the sun to rise.
* * *
“The sun is rising.”
Alberu looked at the rising sun and Cale looked at his watch as he spoke.
“Are you ready, Miss Rosalyn?”
“Yes. But I don’t think I can quietly get rid of this camouflage spell.”
“That doesn’t matter. It doesn’t have to be quiet.”
Chhhhh-
Rosalyn’s hands and arms were covered with bracelets.
They were all made of highest-grade magic stones sparkling brightly.
Rosalyn had enough money to run most cities for an entire year on her arms as she spoke in a refreshing manner.
“A secret lab disguised as a museum. I guess people will all find out the truth today.
Hoo hoo.”
Her eyes were sparkling like suns as she quietly chuckled.
“Young master Cale. I just need to grab attention outside?”
“Yes.”
“If things don’t go well, can I make it a bit fancy?”
“Yes. As much as you want.”
Cale looked at the museum and started walking.
“Let’s go.”
“Okay.”
Cale was wearing a mask and an outfit and Alberu was next to him with the same.
For reference, they were both dressed as ‘Arm.’
Oooooo-
Cale’s walk became the signal for Rosalyn and red mana started to gather around her.
It looked like a fire that was about to cause a big explosion.
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