Trash of the Count's Family

# Pushing forward too rashly (8)

“Ha... damn it.”

Alberu sighed continuously as he stealthily approached Cale and removed the gag.

“...Your Royal Highness?”

Alberu instantly frowned.

“Fuck. What Royal Highness bullshit.”

Extremely crude language flowed right out of his mouth. However, Cale was not someone who would care about that.

“Why did you come here, your Royal Highness?”

“Ho!”

Alberu looked at the guy who was tightly bound to the iron chair and had a gag in his mouth until just moments ago.

‘Is this bastard out of his mind?’

He truly thought that was the case.

This guy looked calm and refreshed as if he had gotten a good night's rest. He seemed relaxed without any signs of fear or wariness. This attendant looked perfectly normal while tightly bound to the chair.

‘He definitely looks like a crazy bastard.’

Alberu started to regret his decision.

‘Should I not have come?’

“Fuck.”

Crude language came out of his mouth again and Cale shook his head.

“Your word choice is extremely crude, your Royal Highness.”

“...I should just stop talking. I was crazy.”

Alberu could not hide his lamentation. Cale looked at Alberu as if he was amused.

Why?

It was because Alberu was talking like that but still freeing Cale with a dagger he pulled from his pocket.

"Why did they make this so tight? Do you not understand what is going on?”

Cale immediately responded to Alberu’s casual question.

“I was imprisoned by his Majesty’s guards. I will probably die soon. They’ll probably kill you too if they catch you doing this, won’t they? Ah, they might not kill you because you are a prince. But I cannot be certain about that. His Majesty is extremely difficult to read.”

“...So you do understand the situation.”

“Yes, your Royal Highness. I'm pretty good at things like that.”

“...Should I just leave this guy here?”

Cale just ignored the words Alberu mumbled.

He knew Alberu would still do everything he needed to do despite his grumbling.

“How did you come here, your Royal Highness?”

Cale looked at the area that was visible thanks to the magic light that Alberu brought with him.

He couldn't see everything but he could tell that he was in a prison-like area surrounded by stone walls.

“This is the first basement level of the library.”

“I see. Did you follow me?”

Alberu hesitated for a moment before responding to Cale’s nonchalant question.

“Yes. I did follow you.”

“That was good, your Royal Highness. You must verify things when you are suspicious of someone.”

Alberu looked at Cale as if he was looking at an impossible to comprehend creature before peeking at Cale's cold gaze that did not match his calm demeanor. He then lowered his head and focused on getting Cale free.

Of course, he was responding to Cale’s question as he did that.

“His Majesty left the library early in the morning so I waited for a bit before coming here.”

Cale realized that Alberu called King Zed his Majesty instead of Royal Father.

“You snuck in here.”

“I needed to get here before the librarian showed up.”

“You are quite skilled, your Royal Highness.”

“...Haaaa. Anyway, I came here because the only place you can really hide someone in the library is the first basement level. I found you in the corner room.”

“Hmm.”

Cale’s expression turned odd again.

“...So this is how the library’s basement looks like.”

“That’s right.”

The first basement level in the library...

The first basement level that Cale knew was a place used to store books and held rare books compared to the other levels because the books here needed to be stored with magic.

That was why it had the highest-grade facilities and was as bright and nice as the area above ground despite being in the basement.

‘It's a mess.’

However, the current first basement level had no source of light and seemed separately only by these old-looking stone walls.

There was so much dust that even Alberu was covered from head to toe.

“I guess there is a lot of dust?”

“...That...”

Alberu stopped for a moment before responding.

“...I ended up like this because I stealthily came here thinking that there may be traps or someone on guard.”

Alberu looked as if he had crawled on the ground to get here.

Of course, it had all been for naught after realizing that there was nobody here. A fifteen year old like him who had no experience in things like this had to choose to be as cautious as possible.

“That was good, your Royal Highness.”

Cale truly wanted to praise the young boy's judgment.

However, Alberu did not hear the praise as praise.

Shhh. Cale stood up and inspected his body after all of the ropes were released.

‘Not bad.’

He didn't seem injured.

Alberu hesitated for a moment before speaking. It was something he realized after noticing that there was nothing and no one in this first basement level.

knows that I came here to rescue

no way that he

Cale turned toward Alberu.

tie me back up when

“What?”

in disbelief. Cale nonchalantly

No, can you

Alberu shut up immediately.

mentioned, he had no power to take responsibility for the things that would happen after taking this attendant away since the king

the tiniest

“Still...”

all Alberu managed to say. He knew that it would be advantageous to ignore that this attendant was here but he could not do

leave a person who is willing to be tied back

could he ignore

be feeling like this if the attendant asked Alberu to quickly untie him and

saying that he would

didn’t want any harm coming

to do this despite knowing that

‘Why?

this bastard

it because he's looking to mooch off me if I become

That wasn’t it.

interested in things

was smart enough to figure

later

“...What?”

stopped thinking and looked at Cale

he was okay before calmly

Creeeeeak.

an old door hanging

and reached his hand toward

“Your magic light please.”

“…….”

the magic light to Cale and watched what he

“As I expected.”

calmly walked around to look at the first

‘It’s here.’

glance to a corner

“It’s the same.”

are you talking

walking quickly instead of responding to

but the size and structure was pretty much the same as the

and

was not curious to know why

But it

cutting edge technology but looked as

just how I felt

fully aware that this test was

“Your Royal Highness.”

stood in one spot and turned

"What is it?”

know why

“…….”

Alberu responded with silence.

the ground with his

“Right here.”

to get to the

from the first basement level

easy for someone like Cale who knew the shape of the library to have a good idea as

was why, underneath the spot he was standing at

reason I

stone room in the second

the Sun God left for the House of Crossman was

the Roan Kingdom’s Crossman Royal Family was being watched by

White Star was an ancestor in the House of

keeping an eye

where all

information that would be helpful to you is hidden, your Royal

looked

At that moment...

this with

“......!”

Alberu's eyes opened wide.

“Magic? How would I-”

know how

don't know how to

Alberu was

“Your Royal Highness.”

attendant shook

that you can use magic... I figured

“...Mm.”

groaned. He brushed his face with his

“How did you-”

soon as he heard those

cause an

“...What?”

a calm

dead mana. You don’t

eyes could not hide

reflection as he

the House of Crossman that has received the Sun God's blessing? You don't need shit like that. There is

“W, what are you-”

Elf blood? People have a negative view of it right

if he was suffocating but the attendant

answers are down

mouth was so

heart was

useless? He

sounded absurd but it kept echoing in his

wild. I will take

was because the attendant was

was in

that he really

it had been a long time since he had seen anyone who said that they would take

‘...Mother.’

thought

Alberu's eyes opened wide.

“You-!”

Smile.

smiled at

knew it would be

someone who was completely clad

long

it would be

someone who was watching over

no way someone like that would miss Alberu and Cale’s meeting. It was obvious after seeing that he let Alberu get to the first

to tell Alberu Crossman

subordinate to keep an eye on us and to interject in an

located the second basement level and tried

“When did they-?!”

at another of the king's shadows that was behind him and could not hide his

these areas probably because

Cale calmly commented.

“I'm sorry. Your highness.”

shocked

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