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.

that I came here to rescue

that he

Cale turned toward Alberu.

is why please tie me back up when

“What?”

disbelief. Cale nonchalantly

for this? No, can you even take responsibility, your

Alberu shut up immediately.

clueless attendant in front of him mentioned, he had no power to take responsibility for the things that would happen after taking this attendant away since the king knew what he was

he had weren’t even the tiniest of embers

“Still...”

that it would be advantageous to ignore that this attendant

leave a person who is willing to be tied

could he ignore such

would not be feeling like this if the attendant asked Alberu to quickly untie

was saying that he would get bound

any harm coming

to do this despite

‘Why?

is this bastard

off me if I become king

That wasn’t it.

interested

enough

later but come with

“...What?”

stopped thinking and looked at Cale after hearing these

and ankles to check that he was okay before calmly walking out of

Creeeeeak.

an old door

reached his hand toward

“Your magic light please.”

“…….”

magic light to Cale and watched what he was

“As I expected.”

to look at

‘It’s here.’

glance to a corner that had an

“It’s the same.”

you talking

walking quickly instead

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

for a while and turned

to know why it had suddenly changed

But it

he knew had cutting edge technology but looked as if it had

that’s just how I felt

fully aware that this test was one

“Your Royal Highness.”

stood in one spot and turned toward

"What is it?”

curious to know why I

“…….”

Alberu responded with silence.

the ground

“Right here.”

past, Cale had followed Alberu. That was how he was able to get to the second basement level to where the House of Crossman’s

had headed directly from the first basement level to the second,

library to have

why, underneath the spot he was standing at

reason

in

location where the words the Sun God left

Family was

Star was an ancestor in the

darkness that the Sun God is keeping an eye on is not the Dark Elf blood but

was where all these things were

would be helpful to you is

Cale with his mouth shut. He looked as

At that moment...

this with

“......!”

Alberu's eyes opened wide.

“Magic? How would I-”

would I know how

don't know how to use

what Alberu was trying to

“Your Royal Highness.”

shook

can use magic... I figured it out immediately after seeing the

“...Mm.”

his face with

“How did you-”

as soon as he heard those words. Cale

cause an

“...What?”

to see a calm look on the attendant’s

mana. You don’t need to hide

could not

that reflection as he

God's blessing? You don't need shit like that. There is no

“W, what are you-”

People have a negative view of it right now, but it won’t

at the attendant as if he was suffocating but the attendant

answers

However, his mouth was so

heart was beating

God’s blessing is useless? He knows my connection with the Dark

but it

I will

was because the attendant was talking

was in the

eyes were saying that he really would take

who said that they would help him but it had been

‘...Mother.’

thought about his

Alberu's eyes opened wide.

“You-!”

Smile.

smiled at

knew it would be like

blade was pointed right at Cale’s neck. Behind him was someone who was completely clad in black clothes so that only his

oddly long

would be like

Crossman was someone who was watching over

meeting. It was obvious after seeing that he let Alberu get to

what I was going to tell Alberu

his subordinate to keep an eye on us and to interject

the second basement level and tried to

“When did they-?!”

of the king's shadows that was

bad in these areas probably because he

Cale calmly commented.

“I'm sorry. Your highness.”

shocked and looked at

see you again in the