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?’

face. However, Rosalyn started to smile as Toonka’s actions were understandable to

any other kingdoms for that matter.

was the only person that Toonka trusted in the Roan

Queen Litana had asked Cale to

to speak to the

connect you to him right away.

“Well.”

the bench and noticed that his legs were slightly numb. He was woken up early by the shouts of all of the people training and had been

these scenes that reminded him

are your legs

been sitting here for so

least stretch twice a day? But that’s

stretched his legs. Rosalyn started to speak as he stretched his

how much of a motivation you being here is

“Excuse me?”

“Nothing.”

head and smiled as if

looking toward Cale. Cale had been sitting on the bench watching them train since early in

not have the possibility of growing stronger. They were things that only

why they knew that

they understood how Cale must have felt while sitting on the bench and

reason the energetic

“Shall we go?”

villa

Ahhhhhhh!

once again. He found this to

time Cale had used

• Long time no see.

Cale was surprised.

“You are alone.”

• Yes.

any other subordinates

many people around him because they can’t let it be known that they have a video communication

in order to use

Alberu had sent over in order to be

had no choice because they were facing an

still found it odd that neither Harol nor any of the

could clearly see Toonka’s face through the device.

don’t look

at Cale’s

not look very good

only having small scale battles. The Whipper Kingdom was only aiming for a few palaces by the border rather than charging toward the Empire’s capital, but even

be the type to worry about that, quickly figured out

that this

Toonka, who was fidgeting, and started

find

flinched before

• Yes.

reaction, I’m guessing it was one of your

• … Yes.

Toonka’s subordinates. There was his left-hand woman Felicia, who was a talented strategist who wielded a spear. Then there was his right-hand man Hota, who was similar to Toonka and focused on

• know Hota was

started to speak as if he was

• I didn’t

shake in anger at Hota’s betrayal. He

he didn’t know who he could

but they found a magic device among Hota’s belongings, and although

shared these details

listening to Toonka’s explanation, clicked his

Empire does not know that Harol is a half

was why the Empire probably did not

Harol would

• night, last night, I beheaded

Toonka had slowed down his attack on

that he was the traitor prior to yesterday, didn’t

• found out a

he struggled quite

that Toonka must have debated what to do with Hota for

• at least the citizens agreed with

down at his

beheaded Hota. He thought that he needed to do

heard Cale’s voice through

must have been hard on you. Good

lightly clenched his fist after hearing Cale’s words. Nobody had ever said such a thing

Cale continued to speak.

of soldiers did not end up losing their lives

This was the truth.

wanted to praise Toonka for not becoming weak because of

slowly raised his

made eye contact through the communication device. Cale put on his usual relaxed smile on his face as he continued to

tell Harol to find the traitor because of what I

Toonka would trust him and look for the traitor, but he

trusting what

pretty hard. At the same time, Toonka thought

words made Hota’s

your

truth. He was

in this

balance of power between the Roan Kingdom, Breck Kingdom, the Jungle, and the Whipper Kingdom would become skewed if the Whipper Kingdom has a dominating victory over

was why Cale wanted Toonka