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

way that he wouldn't

Cale turned toward Alberu.

me

“What?”

in disbelief. Cale nonchalantly

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

Alberu shut up immediately.

to take responsibility for the things that would happen after taking this attendant away since the

he had weren’t even the tiniest of embers in front of the

“Still...”

advantageous to ignore that

leave a person who is willing to be tied back

he ignore

if the attendant asked Alberu to quickly untie him and help him escape from

saying that he would get bound

didn’t want any harm coming to

this despite knowing that

‘Why?

this bastard doing all of

he's looking to mooch off me if I become king in the

That wasn’t it.

bastard wasn’t interested in things like

smart enough to

back later but come with

“...What?”

looked at Cale after hearing these

check that he was okay before calmly

Creeeeeak.

least an old

around and reached his hand

“Your magic light please.”

“…….”

Cale and watched

“As I expected.”

calmly walked around to look at the

‘It’s here.’

gave a brushing glance to a corner that had

“It’s the same.”

you talking

started walking quickly instead

the first basement level he remembered but the

that this place was neglected for a while and turned into the basement I know in

curious to know why it

But it is

knew had cutting edge technology but looked as

how I felt about

test was one based on

“Your Royal Highness.”

spot and turned toward

"What is it?”

curious to know why

“…….”

Alberu responded with silence.

the ground with his

“Right here.”

past, Cale had followed Alberu. That was how he was able to get

directly from the first basement level to

the library to have a good idea as to where the

underneath the spot he was standing

here is the reason

room in the second basement

where the words the Sun God left for the House

Roan Kingdom’s Crossman Royal Family was

ancient White Star

the darkness that the Sun God is keeping an eye on is not

where all these things were

where information that would be

his mouth shut. He looked as if he didn’t know

At that moment...

break this with

“......!”

Alberu's eyes opened wide.

“Magic? How would I-”

I know

know how to

was what Alberu was trying to

“Your Royal Highness.”

shook

can use magic... I figured it out immediately

“...Mm.”

He brushed his face with his

“How did you-”

as soon as he heard those words. Cale added another comment

cause

“...What?”

looked up to see a calm look

dead mana. You don’t

in the attendant’s eyes could not

see that reflection as he

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

“W, what are you-”

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

young boy stared at the attendant as if he was suffocating but the attendant bowed respectfully before looking right into

of the answers are down

mouth was so dry that there was no saliva

heart was

God’s blessing is useless? He

sounded absurd but it

I will

attendant was talking

in the

he really would take responsibility for

help him but it had been a long time since he had seen anyone who said

‘...Mother.’

thought

Alberu's eyes opened wide.

“You-!”

Smile.

at

knew it would be

someone who was completely clad

corner that had an oddly long shadow had a

would be

was someone who was watching

miss Alberu and Cale’s meeting. It was obvious after

I was going to tell Alberu Crossman and wanted me to do

keep an eye on

second basement level and tried to destroy

“When did they-?!”

at another of the king's shadows that was behind him and could

bad in these areas probably because he was

Cale calmly commented.

“I'm sorry. Your highness.”

stopped being shocked and looked

you again in