Trash of the Count's Family - Book 2: Chapter 392: The Birth of Evil (9)
<The Birth of Evil (9)>
The moment Alberu asked Cale why he was laughing…
Bang!
There was a loud noise and the door closed.
It captured Cale and Alberu inside.
The two of them didn’t even head toward the closed door.
‘The door to the record room is not an ordinary door. It has strong currents flowing through it and will stop functioning if touched in the wrong way. The door will explode the moment someone tries to destroy it, and the inside of the record room will be swept up in flames.’
Cale recalled the information the Chief of Staff gave him.
Alberu nonchalantly commented toward the still smiling Cale.
“Your face looks seriously insolent.”
“What’s wrong with my face, your highness?”
Cale stopped smiling and looked at Alberu with a grumbling face. Alberu smiled as if he was satisfied and stepped forward.
“We just need to steal that, right?”
There was a small safe where Alberu was pointing.
It was an old safe that was at the farthest corner of the record room, as if it was neglected.
‘There should be lots of paper records inside the record room. The research reports are all in booklets.’
This was the reason the record room was set to a set temperature, humidity, etc.
‘But all of the information is inside the memory card within the safe.’
Cale would have wasted a lot of time recording the research reports into his mind if Kang Geun Mok had not given him that piece of information.
‘The record room would have exploded before that.’
It was at that moment.
Click.
[Protection Process Step 1]
He heard a mechanical sound.
Bang!
The closed door…
Three iron doors came down on top of that door.
“…….”
“…….”
They were thoroughly sealed.
People would think that this was done to protect the inside of the record room, but…
“Is it exploding in thirty seconds now?”
Alberu calmly asked and Cale answered.
“Yes, your highness.”
“You are checking the watch, right?”
“Of course.”
Cale looked down at his watch.
25 seconds-
24 seconds-
“Haa, I never thought I would do something like this in my life.”
Crown prince Alberu approached the safe.
He then plopped down on top of it.
“Stealing something… I’m experiencing all kinds of stuff I guess.”
He mumbled, almost in a sigh.
“I came here after taking care of all of my business…just to loot a safe-”
“So do you not like it, your highness?”
Cale nonchalantly asked and Alberu answered in the same manner.
“No. It’s fun?”
Cale could see the corners of Alberu’s lips twitching and gently shook his head.
Click.
[Protection Process Step 2]
He heard the mechanical sound again and looked up at the ceiling.
The bright lights inside the record room all turned off at once.
“…….”
It was completely dark in there.
“You have ten seconds left, your highness.”
As Cale was telling Alberu about the remaining time…
“D, Director-!”
The Deputy Director of the Transparent © Museum… No, the Deputy Director of the Secret Lab was shaking as he addressed the Director.
“A, apparently they infiltrated the Record Room, sir!”
“I know! I already know!”
The Director answered the Deputy Director before walking back to the museum extremely quickly.
“Move!”
Despite being known as a scholar, he shoved the guard to the side and moved extremely efficiently.
Baaaaaaaaaang—!
The garden outside the museum had a red snake shooting up to the sky as he did that.
The Deputy Director peeked at it before speaking in an urgent voice.
“These bastards must have been aiming for the Record Room! This is really bad, sir! If they manage to loot even a bit of that!”
“No-”
The Director glared at the Deputy Director and covered his mouth.
He looked down at his watch.
It was a smart watch.
“9 seconds.”
“Excuse me?”
“The Record Room will explode at that moment.”
The smart watch had informed the Director earlier that two living bodies were detected in the Record Room.
It also let him know that the protection process was functioning properly.
‘My job right now is not to head to the Record Room!’
The protection process had proceeded normally and already moved to step 2.
This meant that the Record Room would explode soon, and that the two intruders had yet to escape.
‘They will die soon.’
He had no idea how they made it in there, but all that was left for them was death if they could not escape.
‘Lab Director. Even I would not be able to survive that explosion.’
The young patriarch had said that even he would not be able to survive it.
Basically, it was an explosion that even the mage doing crazy shit in the garden would not be able to defeat.
“Director, why are you heading to your office-?”
He was moving to his office.
Now 5 seconds left.
The record room will explode in five seconds.
‘There is only one thing I need to hurry to do right now!’
He had told them to contact HQ, but that was not enough.
‘The young patriarch!’
Or…
‘The Chairman!
No. I need to contact the Chairman first!
Even the young patriarch doesn’t know the pass code to this place.’
Only Honorary Chairman Han Taek Soo and his closest confidant, Chief of Staff Kang Geun Mok knew the pass code to the record room.
But someone infiltrated that place?
‘Kang Geun Mok has betrayed us!’
This was not something he should inform the young patriarch about.
He needed to inform the patriarch himself.
‘The direct line is installed in the Director’s office.’
That was the only phone that would allow him to contact the Chairman.
This was a perk he had for being a Director at this place.
“Director-nim! We should first head to the record room-”
“Shut up!”
He raised his head to the Deputy Director who didn’t know anything and pushed his hand away.
It was at that moment.
3 seconds.
The smart watch vibrated to inform him that there were three seconds left until the explosion.
Cale spoke within the darkness.
“3 seconds.”
Alberu calmly looked toward the direction of the sound.
Crackle. Crackle.
That spot was slowly getting brighter despite the lights turning off.
Crackle-!
Rose gold light was slowly rising up and growing around Cale.
Alberu was still seated on the safe and Cale calmly commented.
“The greatest defense is offense.”
The greatest defense was taking the offense.
And even greater than that-
“Is a preemptive strike.”
Strike the enemy before they attack.
– …No way!
The Super Rock gasped but Cale remained calm.
Crackle.
The rose cold currents crackled even stronger around him.
Click.
There was another sound, and…
[Protect-]
Cale started to think as he listened to the mechanical sound.
If the enemy was trying to explode them…
“We just have to do it first.”
[Proc-]
The mechanical sound could not continue.
– You really are smart!
As the amazed cheapskate let out words full of anticipation…
Crackle-!
A rose gold current shot up.
“Wow.”
Alberu clapped.
Clap!
At the same time…
Crack.
A couple highest-grade magic stones inside his inner pocket cracked.
Ooooooooong-
Three layers of mana shields were created around Alberu and the safe.
But nobody saw this.
Bababaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang–
There was a loud noise and the rose gold fiery thunderbolt destroyed the record room, the protection process system, the third, second, and first floors of the basement-
“W, what is that?”
“Holy shit, dodge!”
All the way to the ground floor.
It pierced through the museum, no, the now revealed lab and headed toward the sky.
“Hahaha!”
Rosalyn looked at the thing that was similar to hers but different.
This fiery thunderbolt, which had the same red light but also a golden light mixed with it, pierced through the top floor of the lab and exploded. She watched this and laughed out loud.
“W, witch!”
“Capture this crazy woman!”
She smiled even brighter after hearing the words directed at her.
Crack, crackle!
She still had about half of the magic stones.
It was more than she had expected. That meant that Rosalyn had gotten that much stronger.
What is that?”
She heard Ahn Roh Man’s voice behind her and Alberu turned her head to smile at him.
“Let’s run now!”
“Excuse me?”
‘She’s telling me, the president, to run after appearing like this?
Can’t you see the press gathering in all directions?
You want me to run when I had to firm my resolve quite a bit before deciding to come here?’
Ahn Roh Man started scowling from shock and confusion.
But he soon stiffened.
Baaaaaang-
A vicious fiery thunderbolt…
The immense power gave him chills for a different reason than Rosalyn’s magic.
But a person was floating up within that fiery thunderbolt shooting up toward the sky.
‘Cale Henituse!’
The person was covered in a black mask and black clothes, but Ahn Roh Man immediately recognized him.
Then he felt that Rosalyn was right about it being time to run.
‘I don’t see Alberu Crossman!’
There must be something that means.
He was clear about what that would mean.
‘They found proof!’
Alberu Crossman ran with the proof that would save Ahn Roh Man’s aide, Mary, and flip the script on this whole thing.
“Ha, haha-”
Ahn Roh Man laughed and motioned in the air with his hand.
“Let’s go on the helicopter.”
He smiled at Rosalyn and extended his other hand.
Rosalyn elegantly held his hand and floated up toward the helicopter that was stationed at the school and came over.
It was at that moment.
“I-”
He heard the floating Cale Henituse’s voice.
Alberu must be hiding something to cast a spell as his voice was very loud and also changed.
“Why is he talking there instead of running away-?!”
As Ahn Roh Man was confused and worried…
Rosalyn started to speak.
She mumbled what Cale was going to say.
Cale’s voice reached the press, the guards, and people who gathered there for all sorts of reasons.
“I am Arm.”
“I, am, Arm!”
Rosalyn placed her hand on Ahn Roh Man’s shoulder as he blankly looked at her and at Cale.
“Arm?”
Ahn Roh Man blankly mumbled before flinching at Rosalyn’s grip strength.
“Mr. Ahn Roh Man. Listen carefully to what I have to say.”
“Excuse me?”
“You are working with Arm starting from today. The existence that secretly approached you is known as Arm.”
“Excuse me?”
Rosalyn was brainwashing Ahn Roh Man about Arm even without Cale needing to ask her to do it.
And as that was happening…
“W, what is that……?”
The Director blankly stared at Cale.
The fiery thunderbolt that pierced through the lab destroyed the record room before the protection process.
The fire that started from the fiery thunderbolt spread out in all directions.
This was really bad.
The Director felt cold sweat drip down his back as well as his heart turning cold.
“Arm?”
That was why he subconsciously repeated the word this mysterious person said.
Arm.
He had never heard about Arm before.
‘What is going on?
No, I don’t have time to think about this right now.
Wait, what should I be doing right now?’
It was chaos itself.
At that moment…
“The God of Chaos will soon rule this world!”
‘What?
Chaos?
The bastard clad in black shouted before waving his hand again.’
Crackle.
Fiery thunderbolts…
Baaaaaang!
Baaaaaang!
Baaaaang—!
Struck down from all directions.
“!”
They just happened to fall on the spots that were sensitively connected to a secret research they were doing right now.
Of course, they had temporarily halted the research after noticing the president’s close confidant, Mary’s movements.
That was why there weren’t any experiments going on right now, but-
“N, nooooo!”
Being destroyed meant that they would be revealed.
Just think about the number of helicopters in the air right now!
Baaaaaang—!
Baaaaaang!
The locations the rose gold fiery thunderbolts were striking were all cleverly related to the research.
They were striking the areas hidden behind the areas camouflaged as displays.
All of those places were revealed with the flames.
The fiery thunderbolts did not burn everything.
Cleverly, stealthily…
It only burned what needed to be burned, leaving the rest to be visible.
“Ah-”
The Director plopped down on the ground.
“The people from the House of Transparent are here, sir!”
The Deputy Director announced that people from the HQ, people from the House of Transparent itself, had come, but…
“T, too late-”
They were too late.
The Director gave up trying to contact the patriarch.
It wasn’t important whether Kang Geun Mok had betrayed them or not.
“It’s been looted……”
He was certain the most important information had been looted.
He felt like it was guaranteed.
These bastards must have fled with the safe.
“Ah.”
The people who saw this today would ask the Transparent © what happened. The situation became uncontrollably large because President Ahn Roh Man showed up.
“F, fuck—!”
President Ahn Roh Man had proof.
It was clear how he would act against the Transparent ©.
“It’s the end!”
The Director could not hold back his anger.
“The end!”
No, he could not hold back his fear.
This was the end. It really was.
‘I’m dead meat!’
The Transparent bloodline would not let this situation just pass.
“D, Director, the young patriarch-”
The young patriarch was one of the people who came from the House of Transparent HQ.
The Director barely managed to raise his head.
The young patriarch, Han Seo Young, had seen this whole incident.
He was not looking at the Director.
Instead, he was looking at the masked man who was still floating in the air without running away.
“…….”
“…….”
Han Seo Young and Cale…
The two of them looked at each other.
And…
Smile.
Cale smiled and waved his hand.
Wave wave.
He waved at the stoic Han Seo Young.
He heard a magic voice in his mind at that moment.
– Let’s go.
He peeked down.
Inside the exploded and burning record room…
The only magic shield being maintained inside the fire…
Alberu, who had cast a teleportation magic circle inside the shield, nodded his head at Cale.
“Time to run away.”
After openly destroying…
Openly stealing…
Only exploding…
And then openly escaping.
None of Cale’s group questioned whether this was considered theft.
“Bye-”
Cale said bye to Han Seo Young, and…
Drop!
He fell to the ground.
Paaaat!
The teleportation magic circle let out a bright light at that moment and Alberu got rid of the mana shield.
And just like that, Cale and Alberu… And the safe…
A total of three instantly disappeared.
This faction, ‘Arm,’ disappeared after causing chaos.
“…….”
“…….”
Chaos, astonishment, shock…all these things struck Roan from early in the morning.
Ahn Roh Man, who got informed about this situation later on, asked Cale a question.
“Couldn’t you just cautiously infiltrate the place, steal the safe, and leave?”
Cale answered him like this.
“Then the world would be too quiet.”
“Excuse me?”
“The Transparent Corporation’s hands and feet will be tied the louder it is.”
‘That would make it easier for us to take things from them.’
Cale didn’t say that part out loud, but Alberu and Rosalyn both nodded with satisfied smiles on their faces.
“…….”
Ahn Roh Man also stayed silent because he felt like he knew what Cale would have said. However, his eyes were shaking a bit.
* * *
Just as Cale expected, the world became quite rowdy from that morning.
Starting from Roan to all of Earth 3… A small flame lit up that would eventually turn into the event that affected the entire world, the event that would be labeled as the Transparent © gate in the future.
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Translator’s Comments
The Transparent Gate eh? Maybe a reference to a certain file in the US? Hmmmmmmm.
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