Trash of the Count's Family

All of them had become weird.

Cale sat down on a bench near the fountain and looked around.

First, he looked at Choi Han.

“……”

Choi Han was meditating in a lotus position on top of a boulder. A black aura was coming out of his body.

Choi Han seemed like a typical martial arts master.

Cale started to speak.

“Hans, how long has he been training like that?”

“19 hours, young master-nim. Aren’t you proud of him? Ah, that passion!”

‘…Not at all.’

Cale was more scared than proud.

Cale lifted his head and made eye contact with Hans.

“…And how long are you going to stay like that?”

“I’m not sure.”

Choi Han had been training Hans as well. Since Hans was someone who was always at the house, Choi Han thought that he should at least know some basic defense.

‘But to stay in the invisible chair position-’

Cale could see that Hans’s legs were shaking. Hans must have noticed Cale’s gaze, as he started to awkwardly smile.

“Haha, young master-nim, I will definitely get stronger in order to protect you. That is a butler’s duty.”

“…Sure. I trust you.”

Cale answered that way since he had nothing else to say.

“Yes sir! I will not let you down!”

Hans responded in an energetic voice. Cale just turned his head away from Hans only to see someone else.

Eruhaben was standing next to the stone pillar that was wrapped with the metal chains. Cale found it odd that Eruhaben and Raon were not together.

Eruhaben must have noticed his confusion and thus gave him an explanation.

“The Dragon’s way is to figure things out on our own once we are given a sense of direction.”

Raon was currently training in Cale’s room on the fifth floor. Cale let him train there because Raon had said that he would not destroy anything during his training.

‘Human, I will go through my first growth phase before Fall. I’m sure that you are already aware of my greatness, but you will feel it even more!’

That was what Raon had said before he started to train. He seemed to be full of confidence.

Cale recalled the image of the tiny Black Dragon flying up to the fifth floor with confidence and held back his sigh. He then started to smile.

It was because of what he saw in front of him.

Meeeeeeow.

Meeow.

“Ahem, ahem.”

Hong, who was still a baby kitten, as well as On, who would soon reach her growth phase, slowly approached Eruhaben and started to meow.

The ancient Dragon let out some fake coughs and pretended not to notice them, but he slowly started to smile. Cale started to think while watching what was going on.

‘I guess he will teach On and Hong as well.’

Cale recalled what Eruhaben had said about the two Cat tribe children.

‘He said that they are pure-blooded Cats who have mutated.’

Eruhaben seemed to have a lot of knowledge about the Cat tribe. It was only natural that an ancient Dragon who had lived for close to 1,000 years would have such knowledge. He could leave the Cat tribe siblings to Eruhaben since nobody else had any information to help them out.

‘The Blue Wolf tribe children as well.’

Cale turned toward one side of the square.

“Ahhhhh!”

“Ahh!”

“Eeeeeeek!”

The Wolf children were all training together. Some of them were nearing their first berserk transformation. They would get even stronger after that.

‘Lock is training with Beacrox and Ron.’

Cale blankly watched the Wolf children train like they were the main characters of a drama. Someone approached him at that moment.

“Young master Cale.”

“Miss Rosalyn.”

Rosalyn peeked over at Hans before approaching the bench and sitting down next to Cale. She looked around the square before starting to speak.

“Everybody seems to be hard at work.”

“Indeed. They’re amazing. Is everything going well with you, Miss Rosalyn?”

Cale’s gaze turned toward Rosalyn. She was currently focused on research. She just needed to take one more step in order to reach the level of a highest-grade mage.

“Just so-so. But it is helpful that I have the most amazing teachers.”

Rosalyn started to smile. As long as Raon and Eruhaben were around, she could learn a lot by just watching them, even if she didn’t ask them for any guidance.

She was a smart woman, so she naturally was putting this opportunity to great use.

“Yes, amazing teachers for sure.”

Cale nodded his head and continued to speak. The greetings were done and they could get down to business.

“Have you received any news from Tasha?”

The Dark Elf Tasha was currently heading over to this location with Mary. Cale would need to start moving again once Mary arrived.

“Yes. And Miss Tasha and I have a message to deliver.”

“A message?”

Cale’s expression turned odd. Tasha was representing the crown prince while Rosalyn was pretty much the representative for the Breck Kingdom. There was only one thing that both of them would need to tell him at once.

Cale started to speak.

“Looks like everyone has decided to meet up.”

“…I knew you would figure it out right away, young master Cale.”

Rosalyn smiled and nodded her head before explaining the details.

“The Breck Kingdom, Roan Kingdom, and the Jungle have all agreed to meet. However, we have a problem.”

“…There is no response from the Whipper Kingdom?”

She did not mention anything about the Whipper Kingdom, so they must be the source of the problem.

They needed the Whipper Kingdom in this meeting. Although it would be fine without them, the Empire’s escape route through the Eastern shoreline would be cut off as well.

Not only would that cut off the Empire from communicating with the Eastern continent, but it would also make it easier for the Whales to move.

“No. We received a response from the Whipper Kingdom. Commander Toonka personally responded.”

Toonka was basically the voice of the Whipper Kingdom. Of course, Chief Harol was next to Toonka to help him.

“What did he say?”

“Young master Cale.”

“Yes?”

“He wants to chat with you.”

“…Toonka does?”

“Yes.”

‘Why me?’

started to smile

with the Roan Kingdom or any other kingdoms for that matter. Having someone

that Toonka trusted

was similar to how Queen Litana had asked Cale to connect her to

speak to

I can connect you to

“Well.”

He was woken up early by the shouts of all of the people training and had

fun watching these scenes that reminded him of cartoons and

are

because I have been sitting here for so long. I feel like I am getting weaker by the

need to at least stretch twice a day? But

grumbled internally as he stretched his legs. Rosalyn

know how much of a motivation you being here is

“Excuse me?”

“Nothing.”

and smiled as if to say

training ground. Everybody was looking toward Cale. Cale had been sitting on the bench watching them train since early in the morning. The only time he had

the possibility of growing stronger. They were things

they knew that

understood how Cale must have felt while sitting on the

the energetic

“Shall we go?”

villa

Ahhhhhhh!

as the loud shouts started up once again. He found this to be scary and quickly

first time Cale had used a

• Long time no see.

Cale was surprised.

“You are alone.”

• Yes.

subordinates with

be many people around him because they can’t let it be known that

order to use

the mage and video communication device that Alberu had sent over

because they were facing

Cale still found it odd that neither Harol nor

the device.

don’t look so

flinched at Cale’s

did not look very good at

aiming for a few palaces by the border rather than charging toward the Empire’s capital, but even that was not going as

type to worry

reason that this idiot would be

who was

find

flinched before starting

• Yes.

your reaction, I’m guessing it was one of your

• … Yes.

who wielded a spear. Then there was his right-hand man Hota, who was similar to Toonka and focused

• know Hota was such a

to speak as if he was

• the Empire’s plots! I didn’t know

hand started to shake in anger at Hota’s betrayal. He

but he didn’t know who he could share them with

among Hota’s belongings, and although it was not a video communication device, it was still something that sent

these details

listening to Toonka’s explanation, clicked

Harol is a half mage who can

probably did

no way that Harol would miss

• last night, last night, I beheaded

had slowed

figured out that he was the traitor prior to

• found out a week

quite

have debated what to do with Hota for a while. That was why the Whipper Kingdom had

• least the citizens agreed with my

at his two

thought

that moment, Toonka heard Cale’s voice through

have been hard on you. Good

words. Nobody had ever said such a thing

Cale continued to speak.

soldiers did not end

This was the truth.

to praise Toonka for not becoming weak because of his

slowly raised

communication device. Cale put on his usual relaxed smile

tell

Toonka would trust him and look for the traitor, but he felt kind of odd after

trusting what

casually said that, those words hit Toonka pretty hard. At the same time,

continued words made Hota’s

I am not on your side. I am also not a good

truth. He was not on

Kingdom would be victorious in this war, he did not want them to

Jungle, and the Whipper Kingdom would become skewed if the Whipper Kingdom has a dominating

why Cale wanted Toonka to barely