Trash of the Count's Family

‘Is there any way I can not give this speech?’

Cale thought and thought again as he looked at the approaching Henituse Estate.

Honestly speaking, he had planned on firmly rejecting the request when he was first asked to speak at the Academy.

Whether it was the crown prince’s scheming or not, he thought that he could just ignore it, but!

‘Young master-nim, apparently young lady Lily is looking extremely forward to it.’

Hearing Ron’s report from the Henituse family made Cale feel as if he could not reject it.

‘Young master Basen, the Duke-nim, and the Duchess-nim are all talking about going to the capital together and they all seem extremely excited and happy.’

The way Ron smiled benignly as he said that made Cale obvious to the fact that this vicious old man was making fun of him. However, he could not ignore those comments.

Why? Because Ron was not someone who would lie about news from the Henituse Duchy.

That meant that the entire Henituse family was looking forward to Cale’s speech right now.

‘I’m sure they are most looking forward to Lily entering the Academy.’

Lily was the main character.

However, Cale had ended up as an important supporting character.

‘Shit.

I don’t want to give a speech!’

However, the problem was that Cale was quite aware of himself.

‘I’m a terrible son.

A terrible older brother to both of my siblings.’

Cale spent quite a bit of time away from the territory and did not spend much time with his family.

Nonetheless, the Henituse family continued to openly show affection and support for Cale.

He could not just ignore this when such people were looking forward to it.

‘Yeah, no matter how bad I am, I guess I can at least do small things like this.’

He wasn’t going to be the territory lord and he planned on being a slacker and doing nothing once he took care of the Hunters.

In the future, people will talk about how the eldest son of that family disregarded the territory and just wastes his time all day. Wouldn’t it be good to do little things like giving this speech to make them happy while he still could?

‘Yeah, a speech like this is nothing!

I just have to say a few things.’

“Haaaaa.”

Cale let out a sigh. The children averaging ten-years-old and Lock looked toward him.

He heard a benign voice at that moment.

“Young master-nim, are you concerned about the speech?”

Cale flinched.

That vicious old man, Ron, was in the carriage with them. He had forgotten about that for a moment.

After going through Xiaolen and past Central Plains to return back to Roan…

Ron was extremely attentive to Cale’s every need as if he was trying to fully complete his duties as his attendant.

That was why Cale was feeling relaxed.

‘I still need to have a moment of truth with him though.’

Neither Ron nor Beacrox were showing any signs of wanting to chat with him about it, so Cale was just feigning ignorance.

‘I also don’t have time for that.’

Aipotu.

Cale was quite busy with a trip to Aipotu right in front of him.

He looked at Ron’s benign smile and quickly answered.

“Not really.”

Ron’s gentle smile became even bigger.

“But it is still your first time giving a speech in front of students, young master-nim.”

Cale went through his memories after hearing that.

‘The first time-’

While Cale was Kim Rok Soo, he had received multiple requests to give lectures or speeches.

He had especially received a lot of requests to give a lecture during the training for new employees.

Kim Rok Soo had tried to say no because he was already extremely busy and didn’t want to do something so annoying, but…

‘They basically bribed me with the budget.’

Kim Rok Soo agreed to give the lectures after they told him that they would increase his department’s budget.

Cale recalled the memories of that time.

‘So the lecture-’

‘Huh?

I didn’t give any?’

Now that he thought about it, he had received a lot of requests for lectures.

These were not just from his own company but also from the government and large guilds.

He had agreed to give them.

However, he never actually gave any of those lectures.

Cale quickly recalled the reason for that.

‘Things always happened.’

Yes, something always happened whenever he was about to give a lecture.

A big incident would happen so he would not be able to go give the lecture, or…

A terrorist incident would happen at the lecture location, making the priority not the lecture but evacuating people.

‘The most frequent reason was that monsters would appear right around or a bit far away from the lecture location, making me have to go take care of it.’

For some odd reason, things like that happened whenever Kim Rok Soo tried to give a lecture.

the lecture requests disappeared at

at the air

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

Ron’s low voice calling out to him and quickly

a speech in

quiet Raon interjected

is your face like

Cale ignored him.

face was quite unsettled, concerned,

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

no way such things

A terrorist attack?

that will most likely become

all of the Roan Kingdom’s future important

a time when Young Master

No way.’

were no more Monsters

Cale felt relaxed again.

no reason things will happen

erased the thoughts in

thought at the

something like this to me

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

guy was so

there no way to push

I push the speech to

moment before his face turned into

If that guy ended

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

say sweet words to drag

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

bit down on his lips as he watched before

next world I am heading to

‘Aipotu?’

is a world ruled

say anything like how Lock may be the key

is an extremely dangerous place. That is why I plan on taking the strongest forces

looked

you want

subconsciously answered out of

I

saw how his response made

you thinking things

immediately once

with you since a long time

say anything and just nodded

who had been watching, quickly rushed

to go, nya! I can absorb all of the Nine Kings

walked over, hugged Hong, and quietly observed

nodded his

if we can

of the kids and went to have

not hear that conversation and had to head out of the room with the Dragons who had been in the room

made eye contact with Eruhaben

‘You-’

was about to say something but could not say

him, making the

grown taller and

Pat pat.

looking so timid? Open up

then disappeared

you want some

some

some candied fruits

and watched as an excited Raon and Hong chatted away. A

could not smile

corner of his mind kept stabbing him like a

you want to

Cale had asked

had answered out

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

him were always working so hard.

Choi Han and

was why he had always wanted to

such an opportunity to

hearing Cale finally saying that made him immediately answer, despite an

for someone like me to

Aipotu.

was truly

it the more Cale

their weight needs to go for

like me to take such

had such thoughts and hated

confident. He wanted to

always held him

course, things were different from

not fear stepping forward for his

give his everything and fight

However-

my existence mean anything

if I push myself forward to fight, will it

if I am not helpful and

type of fear and hesitation

course, he knew how things

supported each other’s

want

want to be a

was not

subconsciously held

his best

want

“They’re delicious, nya!”

because he saw Raon and

with the two kids. The

quietly watching Lock’s changing

then suddenly felt a sense of déjà

Cale looking at

On slightly smiled.

have something weighing on his

knew about it

‘Hmm?’

was looking at him and

‘What a scary thought!’

rotten thoughts

quickly alighted

“Young master-nim~~~~!”