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?”

a mysterious sense

‘No way?’

with that gaze, it was Alberu’s turn

gained a lot of administrative experience 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

you curious about that, your

in a disrespectful

Alberu smiled elegantly.

so he’s basically mine as well. I just wanted to have a chat

“…….”

with the greatsword? Not only that, she is working

was feeling more and more iffy as Alberu

Basen and Lily…

were Cale’s family and the final bastions for his dream of being

were outstanding children whose dreams were

crown prince, the human’s pupils are shaking! ‘What is up

“I’m not sure, Raon-nim.”

Alberu was smiling brightly.

much better! Are you just happy to

to be

little

dream of dragging

started

my

“Hahaha!”

crown prince simply

to meet up with Lily

see if their dreams were still

the Henituse territory to the entire Roan Kingdom, Cale would happily cheer

still have no intentions

would just have to find

actually desired to work in the Royal Palace. He didn’t want them to be fooled by

need to

duty as his hyung and her oppa!

why was he

that your youngest sister has transferred into the Royal Academy and

I expected.’ There was a reason for him to feel so

should go give a speech or

up

planning on going to Lily’s opening ceremony for

‘I will stop him.’

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 her that the world is truly vast

looks so solemn!

“Hahahaha!”

the quarter Dark Elf and deeply firmed

a

“What is F2F PvP?”

right. There’s that

started looking

Alberu’s face turned serious.

with until now seemed like an extremely thorough person. You said that Bluey is the

what Alberu

out for F2F PvP and never showed. That punk almost made his dark history be revealed

opened

let me explain, your highness. F2F PvP is

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

a serious look on his

complicated situation. Ahn Roh Man is quite

“…Excuse me?”

such a person truly immersed himself into this thing called a gain to the point that he tried to connect it to reality, doesn’t it mean

“…Uhh-”

you said, 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 it makes people recall terrible things about themselves

“Uhh… Mm… yes?”

have been quite

“… Probably?”

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

“…I guess so?”

head as everything Alberu said seemed to sound correct. Alberu looked

would allow you to go into that game world. You are trying to access it but are

“Yes, your highness.”

to use the Blood Demon’s remaining arm to

god! > seemed to use

security checks. First was a fingerprint but the second

expect pupil

that verification phase and could not

guess it would be good to speak directly with Ahn Roh

that be possible, your

“Yeah.”

Alberu’s Unbreakable Spear…

saying that he

system that would allow

looked at Cale and

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

“I see.”

had been a while since Cale saw this completely flawless

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

“Hold on.”

gave some orders to Taerang as well, making

Click. Click.

at the center of the spear. It grew in size before

stood the spear

flashed out of that hole and filled one side of

looked at this and

“Oh.”

as Cale

Chhhhh- chhhhhh–

quality was bad like

the screen slowly started

your first time seeing Ahn Roh Man’s face

“That’s right.”

only spoken with him through

sat side by side on the couch and waited for the call to connect

by the

“Yes, your highness.”

else Ahn Roh Man said to

recalled the many things Ahn

of them had

crown prince and you need to save the world

you can

similar to me. Are you of an impure bloodline as

himself an impure

‘Impure bloodline?’

Cale’s face. He saw a

“Something feels fishy.”

Let’s just keep that in mind

at that

– Coordinates confirmed.

connection to Earth 3’s Ahn

and the screen turned

< Connection complete. >

appeared before the screen lit