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.

lecture

looked up at the air and blankly

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

calling out to him and

I’ve never given a

quiet Raon interjected at that

your face

Cale ignored him.

was quite unsettled, concerned, and

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

such things would

A terrorist attack?

of the Mogoru Empire… The Roan Kingdom is seen as the kingdom that will most likely become an Empire. Someone is going

the Academy where all of the Roan Kingdom’s future important figures are

time when Young

No way.’

were no more Monsters in

Cale felt relaxed again.

is no reason things will happen

thoughts in his

a thought at the

pushes something like this to me and

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

was

way to

the speech

a moment before his face turned into

that guy ended up giving the

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

words to drag at least one person into

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

on his lips as he watched before returning to

next world I am heading

‘Aipotu?’

a world ruled by

say anything like how Lock may be the key to save

why I plan on taking the

Cale had looked

you want

answered out of

sir, I

his response made

you thinking things through before you

answered immediately once

wanted to go with you since a

anything and just nodded

watching, quickly

go, nya! I can absorb all

walked over, hugged Hong, and quietly

nodded his head after seeing that

see if we can

of the kids and went to have a quiet conversation

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

eye contact with Eruhaben at

‘You-’

to say something but could not

the ancient Dragon chuckle

grown taller

Pat pat.

you looking so timid?

then disappeared with Lord

do you want

some candied

have some candied fruits

an excited Raon and Hong chatted

could

of his mind kept stabbing

want to

had

answered

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

and On, these kids that were younger than him were always working

while hearing about how Choi Han and the others fought together

why he had always wanted to be by

for such an opportunity

Cale finally saying that made him immediately answer, despite an

someone like

Aipotu.

was truly a dangerous

feel it the

to go for fights in

someone like me to

had such

more confident. He wanted

thoughts always held him

course, things were different

fear stepping forward for his

give his everything and fight for

However-

mean anything

myself forward to fight,

helpful and my lack of

type of fear and hesitation

knew how

each other’s

he didn’t want to

be a cool

truly was

held back a

his

do you want some

“They’re delicious, nya!”

he saw Raon and

two kids. The smile on

watching Lock’s

sense of déjà vu and

could see Cale

On slightly smiled.

seemed to have something weighing on his

knew about it

‘Hmm?’

thought that the way On was looking at him and smiling was

‘What a scary thought!’

rotten thoughts

quickly alighted

“Young master-nim~~~~!”