Trash of the Count's Family

“It doesn’t look like you are nervous.”

Cale smiled instead of responding to his father’s statement. Cale’s complexion had gotten much better in the last few days. It had no choice but to get better.

‘Since I didn’t get beaten to a pulp.’

It was raining in the Henituse territory until yesterday. If the story went as it did in the novel, Cale would have been beaten to a pulp on a rainy day. Of course, Cale was not beaten up yesterday.

He could also sleep well now. This was because he could feel the Indestructible Shield always surrounding his heart. Knowing that he could manage to survive, even if he did something wrong to someone like Ron or Beacrox, made it easier for him to sleep at night.

“Father.”

Cale looked at the breakfast spread that was fancier than ever before, as he asked.

“It looks like the number of people in the envoy has grown again. I asked you to reduce the number.”

He had asked his father to decrease the number of servants accompanying him to help with his needs. He said that Hans and Ron were enough. Of course, Hans turned pale at first, however, he started to pack right away after hearing that the kittens will be traveling with them as well.

“Ah, about that...”

For some reason, Deruth stopped his sentence without finishing. At that moment, someone else’s voice interjected itself into their conversation.

“That was my decision.”

It was the Count’s wife, Violan.

Her hair was perfectly formed in a bun, without a single stray hair, as she was looking down at her plate. She looked so similar to her son, Basen. Even the way they both did not make eye contact with Cale and had a stoic expression was the same.

“We can’t have someone from our family looking poor and terrible just because you want to go with such a small envoy.”

It was an extremely stoic voice. Violan then lifted up her gaze to look in Cale’s direction before continuing on.

“… I am not saying you are terrible.”

“Even I know that much.”

Violan hesitated for a moment after hearing Cale’s response, before taking another bite of her food and continuing to speak.

“People, especially nobles, care a lot about appearances.”

The Countess Violan. Cale quietly watched her.

She was born as the eldest daughter of a poor artist’s family, and had dreamt about being the head of a merchant guild when she grew up. She was influenced by the luxury items being sold to the nobles and came to the Henituse territory. Once she got here, she fell in love with the art of sculpting.

Eventually, she met Count Deruth and fell in love, living as the director for the territory’s cultural business operations.

In Cale, no, Kim Rok Soo’s opinion, she had a lot of pride for herself and her life, which was why she had a lot of pride for this family as well.

Even though she knew that Cale was silently observing her, she continued on without a single change in her expression.

“Art is not for those human tras- mm.” (cut off without the h on purpose)

She was a bit of a coarse speaker because she worked in the merchant world for a while.

“Anyways, there are a lot of people who think that appearances reveal everything about a person.”

That was her way of telling Cale to take a lot of servants with him. Her goal was for Cale to not be judged negatively just because he only took a few servants with him.

Naturally, Cale wanted to take a lot of people to do his biddings for him as well.

‘How nice and relaxing would it be?’

He was finding it difficult to get changed without a servant now. Kim Rok Soo had been in this world as Cale for only about a week, but he already could not let go of that easy life.

However, a few days into Cale’s future was a crazy Black Dragon.

If he cannot release this crazy dragon in advance, it might go wild and kill a lot of people. Although Cale didn’t care about what happened to other people, he still did not want to see people dying in front of his eyes.

Furthermore, he also didn’t want to take responsibility for those people who will be injured because of the dragon.

Responsibility was a heavy burden, and for someone like Kim Rok Soo, who had taken responsibility for his own life since he was a young boy, he knew that responsibility related to people and people’s lives was the scariest and heaviest burden.

That was why he started to speak.

“Art is the mirror of the soul.”

Violan lifted her gaze off of her plate and looked toward Cale. This was the first time in a long while that the two of them had made eye contact with each other.

“…You do know about that.”

“Yes. I do know.”

Cale had roamed around the entire territory the last four days to prepare the things he needed on this trip. He just recited one of the things he saw on one of those trips.

“Sculpting is not just cutting into a chunk of marble. It is creating a reflection of what is in your heart.”

This time, it was Cale who looked at his plate and continued to eat while Violan was watching him.

read that on the plaque

Henituse territory displayed the works of new sculptors. That statement that

of people going with you, but, in return, the carriage and everything in it shall be of the highest quality. That is how it

fine with me. Please give me the most expensive

sure you have a carriage that won’t even hurt your butt

“Only the best.”

slight smile on Violan’s face, before it disappeared. Count Deruth,

verify the information from Hans regarding the personalities of all the nobles who will

as the information guild to purchase information on

It was

a fortune. Although it only had about three or four lines about each person, it was precious and

ones, some stupid ones, some smart and scary ones, even some

also some stupidly nice people, villains, and trash as

read the file I sent you. Ahem. Anyways,

“Yes, father.”

a

shoulders flinched just ever

white three with beautiful blue leaves. There

hill in the slums. It was a location where only the black tree had resided, however, that tree turned white with blue leaves after Cale had resolved its grudge, and it was now

an

is. What an

had no intentions of revealing his Ancient Power right now, so

that Count Deruth did not know about the fact that he went to the slums. However, he would not have any knowledge of the Ancient Power. He would just suspect that something

that big of a deal. However, you need to pay attention to rumors no matter what you do. There is nothing scarier than

keep that in

as long as he remained in their territory. How great would

made for Cale, who was leaving for the capital, finally came to an end. He received goodbyes from the Count and Countess, who couldn’t watch him leave because they had work to do, and then made eye contact with his siblings, who were awkwardly

“What?”

Basen, just shook his head at Cale’s question. His younger sister, Lily, slowly approached him. 7 years old. This

have a safe

be

nodded her

“Yes!”

at Cale. Cale just casually asked in response to her

you a present while on my

“Really?”

thought. She

and happy expression

What would you

“A sword.”

“…What?”

me a

7 year old

on Cale’s

dream these days is to become a

“Is that so?”

was only 7 years old, but she was tall for her age and

it

eyes started to

will buy you an expensive

embarrassment instead of responding. Cale did not see this, as he looked toward his 15 year old younger brother, who was looking

“You want something too?”

“A fountain pen.”

“Got it.”

end once he got the list of presents

***

odd as he stood in front of the carriage that would take him

‘How odd.’

odd expression as he asked the person

their seat is better than

cushion next to him, as well as the

comfortably on this trip?

answered as he put the special treats he prepared for the cats in the carriage as well.

has not seen them create fog and

and Hong to a empty

‘What can you do?’

used a bit of his blood to spread poison into the air. Of course, On was able to control the poisonous

are

and Hong proudly answered

were able to run away because of

‘We are quite useful!’

from that day, On and Hong were able to eat delicious food all day long. Naturally, Hans was happy

sitting with the driver up

“Okay.”

and Cale was about to

“Cale-nim.”

that he did not want to call Cale

“What?”

to not be in the

turned like he had

“…Is there…”