The Priest's Salvation // Trash Of The Count's Family

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— The Mercenary King

    Then the smile on Cale’s face grew larger and larger as he headed down forgetting the strange introduction of Adileo as the thought of making money filled his mind.

“Oh.”

The ancient Dragon let out a gasp of admiration as well.

– Human! We might become rich! There are so many guests! I think we will make a lot of money!

There were no vacant rooms on the second floor while the first floor was full of guests right now. Cale had a bright smile on his face for the first time in a while.

He could feel the money starting to pile up.

It was at that moment.

Cale flinched after looking around the first floor and Adileo perked up after seeing Cale flinched and he began looking around curiously glancing around as he munched on fruits that he somehow got.

He had felt an odd sensation after looking at people on one of the tables.

It was a person who was sitting there in a robe that was covering all the way up to his head. There was another man sitting in front of him.

Cale’s expression turned odd after looking at that person.

Adileo looked at cales expression and then followed his lime of sight to the person.

'Oh. it's the dumbass acholic Mercenary king.'

“…Ron.”

'and his subordinate.'

Cale called out to Ron while maintaining his gaze on that person.

The first floor of the inn.

A handsome man with a refreshing face was sitting at a corner table while drinking a lot of alcohol. He was drinking as if it was his job to drink.

“Young master-nim.”

Ron was smiling when Cale turned his head back toward him.

“He came to investigate.”

Ron was smiling as if he had known all along.

'This old man is sly.'

Adileo thought as he passed on to some fruits to the baby dragon that had clung to him at some point.

'Well I guess assassin's have to be sly.'

Adileo could smell the thick scent of blood on Ron and only assassin's gave that much smell.

Well there were unique cases like the white star's and his little lackeys.

“Those guests arrived yesterday.”

“Ah.”

‘Is that blue-haired man perhaps-

“Raon.”

Cale quietly called his Dragon who was an expert as identifying people. Raon quickly informed him, swallowing the fruits he recived from Adileo, as if he was trying to live up to Cale’s unstated expectations.

– Human! The robed man in front of the alcoholic is a highest-grade mage!

However, it was not information about the man who was chugging booze.

However, Choi Han unexpectedly came over and whispered to him.

“Cale-nim.”

“Hmm?”

Choi Han was looking at the blue-haired man. Cale looked toward that man as well.

“He is a sword master.”

‘…He must be the Mercenary King.
What are the chances?’

Cale glanced at Adileo who said he had met him before for full confirmation and Sure enough Adileo nodded.

Ron started to explain as if he understood Cale’s thoughts. He quietly whispered to Cale.

“A large-scale inn that recently opened in Leeb-An City. Leeb-An City’s underworld was a mess starting the day that inn opened. Wouldn’t that be enough reason to come investigate that inn?”

It was at that moment.

The alcoholic jerked his head.

'Hmm?!’

Cale made eye contact with the alcoholic.
He couldn’t help but flinch at the sudden development. It was because he needed to develop a good relationship with the Mercenary King. Wouldn’t that be the only way to easily get him to hand over the healing power?

The blue-haired man started to speak.

“Huh?”

He tilted his head before jumping up. He then quickly walked over to Cale. Adileo just watched he didn't mind watching a battle again.

‘What the…?’

Cale was starting to become nervous.
He could tell that the blue-haired man was walking toward him. It was because the blue-haired man continued to stare at him.

The blue-haired man welcomed Cale with open arms as the two of them stood in front of each other.

“Friend!”

‘What?’

'What the hell?'

[ I knew the Mercenary King wasn't the brightest but don't you think he's.. strange?]

Even Adileo question the Mercenary King in his mind along with the god in his head.

'Don't you mean borderline insane?'

Cale hugged the man back in shock. The blue-haired man, the Mercenary King Bud Illis, started to speak in a happy voice.

'Why are they hugging?'

Adileo watched as Cale stiffly hugged the man back.

Adileo started to question Cale’s sanity.

“Nice to meet you!”

‘…Hmm, I don’t know what is going on, but was I already friends with this guy?’

Cale could see the Mercenary King’s face quickly turn into a scowl once they stopped hugging.

“Hmm?”

‘Now what?’

The Mercenary King fumbled around a bit before pulling out a pair of glasses as Cale stood in shock. He then put on the glasses before starting to speak again.

He was still speaking in a cheerful voice.

"Oh, you’re not my friend.”

‘…This bastard……’

Cale felt himself starting to get annoyed for some reason. However, Mercenary King Bud Illis smiled brightly as he continued to speak.

“But I can smell it.”

‘Smell? Smell what?’

Cale, who was acting like a good person to develop as good of a relationship as possible with Bud Illis, couldn’t help but start to frown.

‘Toonka, the former bandit leader of Mount Leeb, all of them said the same thing. Why do they all say that they can smell something? Do I smell like a strong person or something?’

The Mercenary King continued to speak to Cale who was getting annoyed.

“You smell like an alcoholic!”

“…Ho.”

The man who reeked of alcohol but seemed fine didn’t care about Cale’s reaction as he continued to speak in a refreshing manner.

“In that case…”

Cale saw a hand move in front of him.
The Mercenary King was asking to shake his hand. He cheerfully added on as well.

“Nice to meet you, friend!”

‘…He really is a lunatic.’

Cale could not help but admire the fact that crown prince Alberu had provided him with such accurate information.

Even Adileos dumbass acholic couldn't be even more accurate.