Trash of the Count's Family

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“I knew these were tastier than candied fruits!”

Crunch crunch. Raon’s wings fluttered as he spoke excitedly while eating cookies. He seemed quite excited but the look on Cale’s face did not look good.

Cale had immediately teleported with only Raon as soon as he heard about Ahn Roh Man from the crown prince.

Thanks to that, he was currently in the crown prince’s office.

“But human, the crown prince seems to be so busy! When will he come?”

Of course, it was just Cale and Raon without Alberu.

Click.

The door happened to open at that moment.

“Huut!”

Someone gasped.

Cale raised his head to see someone’s whose face looked completely frozen as they fidgeted and moved back.

“…Shield……!”

That person became shocked at what he subconsciously said after the two of them made eye contact and closed his mouth.

“Haaaaa.”

He could see a sighing Alberu as well.

“I’ll organize the rest of these and send a report.”

“Yes, yes sir! Yes, your highness!”

Alberu closed the door and entered the office alone.

“Is that your new aide, your highness?”

“Yeah. I picked a lot of people this time.”

Alberu sat on the couch opposite Cale and stared at him. Cale started speaking after seeing the gaze.

“Your highness, I clearly reported that I would be visiting your office before I came?”

“That’s right.”

When Alberu had explained about Ahn Roh Man, Cale said that he would explain once he got there and that he would teleport over right away.

Alberu replied that he had something to do and would not be in his office but for Cale to come.

That was why Cale was confused as to why Alberu was looking at him in such a fishy way.

Alberu opened his mouth as if to explain.

“I guess people will find out that you’ve revealed yourself again?”

“I guess so? It’s not as if I was hiding my movements, your highness.”

Alberu smirked at Cale, who answered as if he still did not understand what the issue might be.

“It’s going to get quite rowdy after people hear that Young Master Silver Shield, the hero of our Kingdom, has returned to the Royal Palace.

Cale started to frown. Alberu didn’t care and continued to speak.

“A lot of people are going to be looking for you.”

“?”

“Because of the mines.”

“!”

Cale suddenly felt scared.

He felt as if he was standing at the edge of a cliff.

The mines.

The high quality mines he received as a reward from Xiaolen for taking care of the Black Bloods.

There were all sorts of mines including ones for jewels and magic stones.

Alberu and Cale had discussed about the mines and he was stealthily dividing them up in a way that would benefit Cale and the Roan Kingdom.

Of course, Alberu had done all of this as quietly as possible, but information always found ways to leak.

“I think only I have been too busy until now.”

Cale avoided Alberu’s gaze after hearing Alberu comment in a low voice.

“My little dongsaeng, your face looks much brighter.”

Cale had returned to his original appearance after leaving the Central Plains and returning to Roan.

Honestly speaking, the only physically taxing thing he did in the Central Plains was when he had to use his water power. In fact, he actually ate a lot of elixirs that are good for the body.

It made him look better than before.

He gained some weight as well.

“…Your highness, you truly, you truly-”

Cale opened his mouth but could not say anything.

Raon ate a cookie and answered instead.

“Hey crown prince! You look so tired! Why are you becoming more and more like our human?”

Cale avoided the crown prince’s staring gaze.

“Haaaaa.”

Alberu sighed before leaning back on the couch.

“I guess you’ve suffered more than I have.”

He meant it.

He was doing tasks for the Roan Kingdom while Cale was traveling through worlds to save planets.

Just the weight of those two tasks made it clear that Cale was suffering more.

Cale slowly started speaking.

“But shouldn’t it be okay because you hired a lot of people this time, your highness?”

“There’s not really anybody I like. I need to teach them a lot of things so I can’t really use them right away.”

Alberu shook his head as if that was disappointing before nonchalantly commenting.

“Did you manage to see Basen Henituse?”

“Excuse me?”

felt a mysterious sense of

‘No way?’

Alberu with that gaze, it was

since he was young. There is a lot to do with the Count’s House of Henituse growing into the Duke’s House of Henituse. I heard that he has taken the initiative to get things done and that his skills are at the level where even experts have to admit that he is

you curious

in

Alberu smiled elegantly.

as well. I just wanted to have a

“…….”

skilled with the greatsword? Not only that, she is working hard

more and more iffy

Basen and Lily…

the final

were to develop and protect the Henituse

the human’s pupils are

“I’m not sure, Raon-nim.”

Alberu was smiling brightly.

your face suddenly looks much better! Are you

to be

little crown

of dragging my siblings into

seriously started

can’t put my guard down,

“Hahaha!”

simply

meet up with Lily and

to see if their dreams were still

moved beyond the Henituse territory to the entire Roan Kingdom, Cale

have no intentions of becoming

just have to

was that neither Lily nor Basen actually desired to work in the Royal Palace. He didn’t want them to be fooled by the

need to

his hyung

why was he feeling so

youngest sister has transferred into the Royal Academy and will be at

There was a reason for

should go give a

made up

opening ceremony for school to lure Lily

‘I will stop him.’

he would chat with Lily prior, and if Lily was dreaming

would have to tell

dream was to work for the Roan Kingdom, but if she simply wanted to see the bigger world, he would tell

our human’s face looks

“Hahahaha!”

ignored the conversation between the Dragon and the quarter

him a

“What is F2F PvP?”

There’s that

started looking like a

Alberu’s face turned serious.

person. You said that Bluey is the

what Alberu had told

revealed or something. He said Bluey was someone who put him in

opened his

your highness. F2F PvP is

a dull voice. Alberu and Raon heard his explanation but did not seem to understand because of some unfamiliar terms,

a serious look on

been quite the complicated situation. Ahn Roh

“…Excuse me?”

truly immersed himself into this thing called a gain to the point that he tried to connect it to reality,

“…Uhh-”

a dark history is something that follows you forever, something that remains dormant in a part of your mind but reveals itself over and over. You said

“Uhh… Mm… yes?”

Ahn Roh Man must have been quite dedicated to

“… Probably?”

this world called a game that is so immersive that it got a three-term president to

“…I guess so?”

said seemed to sound correct.

have the device that the Blood Demon used during her youth, which would allow you to

“Yes, your highness.”

use the Blood Demon’s remaining arm to access

precious omnipotent god! > seemed to use fingerprints to

was a fingerprint but the second

expect pupil verification to appear as

verification phase and could not access the

to speak directly with Ahn

that be possible,

“Yeah.”

Alberu’s Unbreakable Spear…

him while saying that he was ‘meant to be’ contained the AI,

that would allow us

looked at Cale and added

course, the way to do that is to access the system and input a code, but Ahn Roh Man told me what to do.

“I see.”

It had been a while since Cale saw this

against the large Lion Dragon. He also recalled Alberu using this weapon when it was in

“Hold on.”

Taerang a few times. He gave some orders to Taerang as

Click. Click.

the center of the spear. It grew in

the

hole and

at this and thought of a beam

“Oh.”

appeared as Cale gasped in

Chhhhh- chhhhhh–

bad like a

screen slowly

highness, it’ll be your first time seeing

“That’s right.”

had only spoken with him through

side by side on the couch and waited for the

the

“Yes, your highness.”

else Ahn Roh Man said

things Ahn Roh Man had

of them

Taerang… You are the crown prince and you need to save the world from

be a power player not just in the Roan Kingdom, but throughout the whole world, if you can take care of all of this. Alright,

You seem very similar to me. Are you of an impure bloodline as

himself an

‘Impure bloodline?’

expression formed on Cale’s face. He saw a similar

“Something feels fishy.”

agree. Let’s just keep that in

at that

– Coordinates confirmed.

Earth 3’s

and

< Connection complete. >

words appeared before the screen lit