Trash of the Count's Family

“Ahem. Mm! Young master Neo, it has been a while.”

Eric immediately moved in between Cale and Neo. Neo’s eyes seemed to be defeated.

He thought he had found a good prey, but it was now difficult to hunt this prey with Eric Wheelsman present.

“Yes, young master Eric. I hope you have been well.”

Neo greeted Eric that way before also greeting young lady Amiru and young master Gilbert. He then saw them all standing in front of Cale, and clicked his tongue.

‘I guess they are protecting him. Even if he is trash, he is still on their side after all.’

Neo decided not to do anything after seeing the three of them protecting Cale. Eric noticed Neo’s intent, and slowly turned around to look at Cale.

Neo’s gaze turned to Cale as well.

“Mm.”

Neo then subconsciously let out a groan.

Cale was quietly looking down at Neo with his arms crossed. Cale’s eyes were extremely scornful. He had not said anything to Neo since earlier on, but his gaze and his body language said everything that needed to be said.

‘Classless fool.’

It made Neo think about the gaze Venion used to look at him. Even though Neo was angry when Venion looked at him with such a gaze, he consoled himself by saying it was the look of a higher ranking noble and let it go.

Cale turned away after watching Neo’s shaking pupils for a while, and looked behind him. He heard the Black Dragon’s report in his ear.

There was a reason he brought the Black Dragon with him today.

• The voice recording magic is ready.　

Cale had asked the Black Dragon to record everything that happened today. Video recording required a lot of mana usage and was difficult to maintain for a long period of time, so Cale had to be satisfied with just voice recording.

Cale was originally not going to do this because the palace would have a lot of mages who were sensitive to mana, but the Black Dragon assured him that it would be undetected as long as the range of the voice recording was small.

Cale made up his mind to use this in the future to make Neo cry tears of blood, before heading toward the palace entrance. Cale was the type of person to always pay back his debts. [1]

Eric Wheelsman watched Cale walk away like a proud brother. He was thinking that the letters he sent every day must have worked.

On the other hand, Gilbert and Amiru watched Cale with curious expressions. Cale Henituse, the man who used to only wear flashy clothes, chose to wear a simple black outfit without any accessories. Even his red hair was clean and shining from the sun.

They wondered if it was because Cale was not drunk.

Each of Cale’s steps looked relaxed and calm.

Amiru and Gilbert watched Cale turn around once he got to the palace entrance.

Cale’s gaze, that seemed to be beckoning them over, was the most curious thing for them.

“Young master Neo, I will see you inside. Young lady Amiru and young master Gilbert, let us go.”

Eric was watching Cale proudly, but Amiru and Gilbert had an even stranger sensation when the three of them stood in front of Cale.

Cale looked at the two confused people, as well as the proud Eric, and started to speak.

“Let’s go.”

The three of them followed Cale into the palace. Gilbert and Amiru’s odd sensation continued to grow the farther they followed Cale. Cale did not care however, and decided he would use these three people as much as he could today.

“Young master Cale-nim of Count Henituse’s household is entering the hall!”

Cale could hear the servant shout out Eric, Gilbert, and Amiru’s names as well as he walked into the hall.

“Not bad.”

He looked around the large hall before walking behind Eric. Young lady Amiru peeked toward Cale, before walking next to him and starting to speak.

“Young master Cale. At the front of the banquet hall is the crown prince’s seat, and the tables are split based by region. The reason for that-.”

Amiru, who was about to explain the reason for why the tables are split based on region, looked at Cale’s expression, before changing what she was going to say.

“I probably don’t need to explain the reason, right?”

“Thank you very much, young lady Amiru, but I know the reason.”

Cale watched Amiru nod her head with a curious expression on her face, and then headed toward the tables to the Northeast section of the room.

There were five tables inside the hall. Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, Southeast, and the center. They were all divided based on each of the noble factions.

‘The crown prince is good at things like this.’

He controlled things in the background to make the factions compete with each other while also forcing them to come together every so often. It was the crown prince’s specialty. But the crown prince was very thorough about his own treatment as well.

The crown prince’s table was located to the front of all five of these tables, at a location that was about two steps higher than the rest.

‘The second and third prince’s seats are one step lower than his.’

One step lower than the crown prince’s table was the table for the second and third princes. Even if this event was being hosted by the crown prince, it would be weird for the second and third princes to not attend a gathering of nobles. Since the crown prince was the one to host it, he made sure to show a gap between their status.

‘He really pays attention to these tiny, useless details.’

The crown prince, actually, all of the people in those positions of power, were really not Cale’s type of people.

“Our table is closest to the entrance, as expected.”

not respond to Eric’s bitter voice. The Palace of Joy had opened the eastern entrance as the designated

region had a voice, they did not have a household that was strong enough to have a

that our seat is close to the door. In addition, it is great that we don’t

strong people in charge, like Marquis Stan, whom the rest had to be respectful to

stopped walking. Cale also stopped walking after seeing them halt. Eric turned around to look at Cale for a while, before finally starting to

“Young master Cale.”

of others, Eric did not call Cale casually

glad that my efforts seem to

‘Efforts? What efforts?’

toward Eric with shock and confusion, but Eric turned back around and proudly walked to the table that

Cale never read his letters and just shoved them to

he

question. Gilbert showed a similar reaction. Cale then shrugged his

an announcement made him

master Venion Stan of Marquis Stan’s

of Joy. Venion.

did not care for chumps like

“Cale!”

Cale, who suddenly started quickly walking to his seat, but Cale just waved him off and

“Mm.”

young

“Hello, young master Cale.”

a short response to all of

to see

the table, and Cale put his hand underneath the tablecloth

‘I knew it.’

invisible Black Dragon’s

• told you that

its shaking body. Anger and fear. The Black Dragon’s mind was full of both right

Black Dragon did not know how to respond because the physical trauma that

• am a great and mighty

Venion Stan would be here as well. He also got the

• definitely kill that bastard and the

they turned into fine particles of dust. Cale calmed the Black Dragon down while listening to

that dragons really were very rational creatures. Cale thought about the hell that awaited Venion and

run wild. If it did, this palace would easily be destroyed,

way. It made sense, since Venion’s

Tap. Tap.

Dragon rubbed his head

“Mm.”

Black Dragon’s action made Cale worry for a moment. He made eye contact with

‘Stay quiet! Be still!’

then debated how he could pretend not to know Venion. However, all of his contemplations were

no see, young master

many more wrinkles since the last time they met, but he was still showing a gentle smile, fitting for a noble.

brightly and

master Venion. This is our first meeting since we met in Viscount Tolz’s territory

gentle smile became thicker, while Neo’s face became

the Northeast region. Not only that, it was to a low ranking noble territory like Viscount Tolz’s territory. It was obviously showing

frown, and the other nobles in the hall started

visit my friend, young master Neo, and

was no problem for him to go to the Northeast region. Venion was

would share a drink at

“We did indeed.”

with each other. However, the people

him and started to

I met you, young master Venion, one of the Viscount Tolz’s knights came to find

to Neo with a very concerned

the villa was ransacked completely clean. Is

Cale could see the corner of

hear about it young master Venion? I’m sure you have since you said the two of you are

speaking very naturally,

was very

shocked I was to hear about it while I was having my hangover drink. How could they ransack the place clean and not leave anything behind! They said you lost something very important,

ones with loose lips, the ones with no tact,

like all three right now.

warmly spoke to

to face such unbelievable situations at

yes. I

not even look at Venion, as he just haphazardly

that happens. Young master Neo, let’s get wasted tonight. Young master Venion, would

Marquis’s trust since losing the Black Dragon. Venion was suspecting the organization that gave him the Black Dragon based on the knights’ testimony and the evidence left behind, but he could not get rid of the suspicion he had for Cale’s group, who happened

suspect Cale. That was why he had spoken to Cale to

then wake up to have a hangover drink, all your bad

Henituse continue to spew nonsense like before

young master Cale.

it’s disappointing, but I guess next time it

Cale. As he did,

those valuable things at once? Cheer up. You may not recover what you