Trash of the Count’s Family - Chapter 477

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Yet Kale Heniatus soon opened his closed eyes, and his gaze turned toward the Dragon Hybrid.

Sitting on the sofa with his head bowed, the Dragon Hybrid’s entire upper body trembled as it bent toward the floor in an endless gesture of contrition.
Even beneath the voluminous robe that concealed his frame, every tremor was plainly visible.

That was when it happened.

“What are you apologizing for?”

Lord Sherit’s cold voice cut through the air as she opened her eyes and regarded the Dragon Hybrid.
The Dragon Hybrid stilled his trembling form and straightened. Still, he could not bring himself to meet Sherit’s gaze.
He stammered as he spoke.

“…I have a heart,”
“Why is that your fault?”

The Dragon Hybrid’s body jerked sharply, and his eyes snapped toward Lord Sherit.
The playful expression had vanished, replaced by a cold, piercing stare fixed upon him.

The Dragon Hybrid felt the flames kindling in Lord Sherit’s eyes. And beneath them, he glimpsed something else—a sorrow that undulated like a violent tide.

“…I—”

The Dragon Hybrid opened his mouth again, but Lord Sherit cut him short.

“It is not your fault that my child’s heart was implanted in your body. It is not your fault that you became a chimera because of my child’s heart.”

She wanted to tear the White Star to shreds, and looking at the Dragon Hybrid, she had to feel both sorrow and rage simultaneously. Yet that was not the truth.

“You did not choose to become this way, did you?”

The Dragon Hybrid found no words to offer in response.

Just as Lord Sherit said, he had not chosen to become a chimera. If, by some miracle, he could return to the past, there was one moment he would desperately wish to avoid—the moment he became a chimera.

It had been terribly painful, unbearably lonely.
And what he gained by enduring that pain and loneliness was becoming a monster that belonged nowhere.

Lord Sherit’s words echoed in my mind once more.

‘It is not your fault that you became a chimera through my child’s heart.’

The Dragon Hybrid’s lips trembled.
I wanted to speak, but I couldn’t find the words to express the emotions swirling within me.

In that moment, Lord Sherit’s cold voice pierced through.

“But you have committed many wrongs.”

The Dragon Hybrid’s trembling lips sealed shut.

It was true.
I had committed countless sins and transgressions.

“The many atrocities you have perpetrated. And—”

Lord Sherit’s gaze shifted elsewhere. My eyes followed, and I could see those clear, blue-green eyes staring at me.

Raon Mir.
The Black Dragon nestled in Kale Heniatus’s arms, quietly observing the Dragon Hybrid.
The moment our eyes met, my breath caught in my throat.

I had wanted to kill him.
I had wanted to kill that Black Dragon.

Because he was a true dragon—something I, as a chimera, could never be.
Because he was a dragon cherished and loved by those around him.

That’s why I had wanted to kill him.
My fingertips trembled once more.

Suddenly, I recalled that day washing dishes at the Eastern Continent Inn. Back then, the Cat Tribe Soldiers On and Hong, and that child had approached me.

‘You wash dishes so well! Dragon Hybrid, do you like this inn?’
‘It seems like you do! I can tell! Right, big sister?’
‘That’s not something you should ask. You’re supposed to pretend you don’t notice.’

I was exasperated watching the young children chattering beside me.
Had he forgotten what he had done? He chattered away beside me to such a degree that I wondered this. Of course, I understood his condition, so I knew he was doing this out of pity.

The Dragon Hybrid suddenly felt regret about that moment.

I should have engaged in more conversation when he spoke to me.
I should have spent time together, weaving in subtle talk.

Again and again. Regret over the time that had slipped away kept washing over him. Yet time that had passed could not be undone, no matter how much one regretted it.

The Dragon Hybrid lowered his head toward Raon, who was looking at me.

“…I’m sorry.”

Truly, I’m sorry.
Or rather, to be honest, the word “sorry” could not express his emotions.
The guilt over having tried to kill someone was not the extent of what he felt.

‘What was I trying to kill?’

When the Dragon Hybrid realized what he had been about to do with his own hands, he abandoned all attachment to life.

The Black Orb.
The being that had been with him in the Dark Cave. And the being that had first caused the Dragon Hybrid to disobey the White Star’s orders and deceive him.

‘…I was trying to destroy that Black Orb.’

When he realized that fact, he felt an emotion that could not be explained by guilt and regret.

The Black Orb.
What did it mean to him?

A sense of kinship from being equally abandoned?
Compassion that I lived while you must be destroyed?
Or—

‘…It was only that one.’

Throughout his more than nine hundred years, the only one who had been with him was that unborn Black Orb.

There is no turning back.
The Dragon Hybrid realized the terror that those words carried.

‘It’s all over now.’

The Dragon Hybrid had waited for the day he would see Lord Sherit and Raon Mir together—two dragons—and the day he could tell his story.
Because of that, he had created a fragment of attachment in his otherwise attachmentless existence, enduring however he could to keep his body from crumbling.

And now, he could finally erase even that last fragment of attachment.

That was when it happened.
Raon’s voice reached him.

“Dragon Hybrid.”

The Dragon Hybrid lifted his head and gazed at Raon. Six years old. The young dragon looked at him with eyes so pure and clear.
He had heard that Raon had grown up being raised and confined, but it was fortunate. That he had grown like this.

Raon hesitated for a moment, then turned his gaze toward Kale Heniatus.

“…You said he didn’t have long to live.”

Kale Heniatus felt a sigh threatening to escape as he heard those words from the young dragon with clear, blue-green eyes.
He could barely understand Raon’s reluctance to look directly at the Dragon Hybrid, speaking to him instead.

-Human.

And Raon carefully questioned him through magic.
Kale Heniatus, listening to those questions filled with confusion and bewilderment, looked at the Dragon Hybrid.

The Dragon Hybrid gazed at Raon with wavering eyes, and seeing this, Kale Heniatus opened his mouth.
But someone else spoke first.

“His body has completely collapsed.”

It was Lord Sherit.
She gazed at the Dragon Hybrid with cold eyes.

“Looking closely, it seems all of the dragon’s power has drained away.”

Just as Sherit had said, the Dragon Hybrid’s body retained almost no draconic power.
The white crown that Kale possessed had drained every ounce of his dragon’s strength and blood.
Of course, a faint trace of his attribute—the draconic power of “light”—remained, but even that had been expended recently during the attack on Dark’s second secret base, leaving him with virtually nothing.

“And.”

Lord Sherit’s words were far from finished.

“As the dragon’s power drains away, your human body cannot withstand the strain. The imbalance created by the chimera transformation is bringing about your death. Moreover, an attribute power opposite to light has been embedded in your body, so you must be in considerable pain.”

The dark power of despair—implanted by Choi Han during their battle in the Canyon of Death—clashed ceaselessly with the Dragon Hybrid’s light attribute, torturing his body.

The Dragon Hybrid listened to Sherit’s cold assessment with an emptied heart, fully aware of his condition.
Yet Kale could feel Raon’s grip tightening ever more firmly on his collar.

‘…Sigh.’

Kale was watching Raon, and Raon was gazing at the Dragon Hybrid with profoundly conflicted eyes. Kale felt a headache coming on.
Then came the moment.

“…In your current state, you will die in considerable agony.”

The Dragon Hybrid answered Lord Sherit’s words.

“It is insufficient penance for my sins.”

Huh.
Kale was left speechless by the Dragon Hybrid’s response.
And Lord Sherit simply gazed at the Dragon Hybrid who had spoken thus.

‘I’m embarrassed.’

Cale was embarrassed by this situation.

The dragon half-blood had many sins. However, in a way, he was someone who bore traces of their own children and brothers to Lord Sherit and Raon. Of course, on the other hand, it was also evidence of my family’s death.

And he tried to kill Raon, but it turns out that he was the one who saved Raon.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the dragon hybrid was something that only presented complexity to Raon and Sherit.

‘… Do you want to kill me? Or do you want to save it?’

Kale looked at Raon and Sherit to see what their thoughts were.
Kale Heniatus observed Raon and Sherit, trying to discern what lay in their hearts.
Sherit’s feelings remained inscrutable. But judging by how Raon had acted during their time on the Eastern Continent, it seemed he had largely forgotten that the Dragon Hybrid had tried to kill him, and instead pitied him.

“First of all, I need time to think.”

Sherit’s mouth opened.

“And I need time to talk to Raon.”

She looked at the person who had lived with her child’s heart.

“I need time to talk to you.”

The half-dragon dragon opened its eyes wide and looked at Sherit. He never dreamed that Sherit would ask him to talk.

“Because there’s a lot more to talk about.”

She could see the dragon half-breed’s eyes, which had been round at the sound of her cold voice, lose strength and turn downward.

When she saw that, hatred and other emotions arose at the same time, making her feel complicated.
Witnessing this, hatred and another emotion stirred within her simultaneously, leaving her conflicted.

“Is it possible?”

She was asking Cale if all this was possible.
She was asking Kale Heniatus if all of this could be possible.

“it’s possible.”

In response to Cale’s simple answer, Sherit stretched out her hand toward Raon. Raon quietly slipped out of Cale’s arms, approached Lord Sherit, and stuck his head into his arms.
At Kale Heniatus’s straightforward answer, Sherit extended her hand toward Raon. Raon quietly slipped out of Kale Heniatus’s embrace and approached Lord Sherit, nestling his head into her arms.

“I need to talk to Raon first.”

It was a call to leave for a moment.
It was a request for him to step away for a moment.

“let’s go.”

The half-dragon dragon stood up and stumbled following Kayle’s words.

under.
Sigh.
Kale Heniatus let out a breath and casually supported him. What a troublesome fellow.

“…Don’t worry. I have no intention of living.”

The voice was so quiet that only Cale, who was nearby, could hear it.

“I know that a lot of people showed their support just by being able to live like this and die.”

Huh.
Hmph.
Kale Heniatus shook his head slowly. Then the Dragon Hybrid caught the faint whisper from Kale Heniatus.

“If you regret what you did, wouldn’t you want to do whatever it takes to make it right?”
“If you regret what you’ve done, wouldn’t you want to correct those actions by any means necessary?”

When the half-dragon dragon stood upright, Kayle released her support and pointed him toward the entrance.
As the Dragon Hybrid straightened his posture, Kale Heniatus released his support and gestured toward the entrance.
The Dragon Hybrid glanced briefly at Sherit and Raon before heading toward the reception room door.

‘There is a way to save the dragon half-breed.’

It was not a way to completely save someone, but a way to prolong their life.

That was the jar I got from Wind Island.
It was the urn I had obtained from Wind Island.
The urn was filled with vitality—an object capable of healing the body or extending one’s lifespan.

‘That’s Erhaven-sama’s.’

The owner of the jar was clear, and Kale had no intention of changing the owner.
The urn’s owner was clear, and I had no intention of changing that.

‘then.’

Sweet.
Click.
Kale Heniatus stepped out of the Reception Room and closed the door behind him.

A little while ago, Raon, who had been asking when the half-breed dragon would die, came to Cale’s mind.

‘Human, what should we do with the dragon half-breed from now on? Did the dragon half-blood protect me and take care of me? I am… Anyway, I lived thanks to being a dragon hybrid, and I was able to meet humans as well?’

And just as the drawing room door was closing, Lord Sherritt carefully asked a question into Cale’s mind.

-If Raon allows, will that child be able to stay in this castle? No, I will keep you locked here until I die. So that it doesn’t return to the white star, and doesn’t cause any harm to you. Is it possible?

Kale turned around and looked at the dragon hybrid waiting for me.

“hey.”
“Hey.”

The dragon half-blood avoided Kayle’s gaze and spoke gibberish.

“I don’t know how to have a good conversation because there are no people around me… I guess that’s why I was so clumsy this time too.”
“I don’t know how to converse well because there were no people around me… so it seems I was clumsy this time too,”

The dragon half-blood looked at Kale, who had cut off his words, and Kale’s mouth opened.

“What would you do if you had the chance to start over?”

For a moment, I thought I had misheard the dragon half-breed.

“…what?”

However, he realized that this was reality from Cale’s cold eyes and cold voice.

“You die. You cannot continue your life. However, if you are given a new chance to live.”

The dragon half-breed’s heart was beating violently.
The Dragon Hybrid’s heart pounded fiercely.
I had abandoned all attachment to life.
I had accepted death, believing that dying this way was too small a price compared to my sins.

But ‘an opportunity to start again.’
But that phrase—’a chance to start over.’

“Of course, you have to live in a limited space, unable to see the world as you wish. To be exact, you are not even alive. But you will be given time and opportunity to make things right.”

The white star locked the dragon half-breed in a dark cave and prevented them from seeing the world as they wished.
White Star had locked the Dragon Hybrid in a dark cave and prevented him from seeing the world freely.

I’m sure that’s what Cale is talking about now.
Surely what Kale Heniatus was describing now was a similar situation.

“What do you want to do?”

Unlike White Star, Kayle gave the dragon half-breed a second chance to choose.

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