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 some

looked up at the air

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

calling out to him

given a speech in front of

interjected at that

your

Cale ignored him.

was quite unsettled, concerned,

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

things would happen in the Roan

A terrorist attack?

Mogoru Empire… The Roan Kingdom is seen as the kingdom that will most likely become an Empire. Someone is going to commit a terrorist attack

Academy where all of the Roan Kingdom’s

time when Young Master Silver Shield

No way.’

were no more Monsters in

Cale felt relaxed again.

no reason things will happen here as

the thoughts

had a thought at the

pushes something like this to me and

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

was so

way to push this onto

I push the speech to

a moment before his face turned

that guy ended

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

would ardently say sweet words to drag

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

as he watched before returning to

am

‘Aipotu?’

It is a

didn’t say anything like how Lock may be the

why I plan on taking the

recalled how Cale had looked extremely relaxed as he

want

subconsciously answered out

sir, I want

saw how his response

thinking things

immediately once

wanted to go with you since a long time

anything and

who had been watching, quickly rushed

to go too, nya! I’m going to go, nya! I can

walked over, hugged

and nodded his head after seeing

see if we can work

of the kids and went

to head out of the room with the Dragons who had been in the room from

had made eye contact

‘You-’

about to say something but could not

quietly looked at him, making the

taller and

Pat pat.

you looking so timid?

then disappeared with Lord

want some apple

want some candied fruits,

have some

watched as an excited Raon and Hong chatted away. A faint smile appeared

could not smile

a corner of his mind kept

want

Cale had

answered

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

and On, these kids that were younger than him were always working so hard. In contrast, he felt as if he was living too

hearing about how Choi

why he had always wanted to

waiting for such an opportunity

made him immediately answer, despite

someone like me to

Aipotu.

was truly

it the

needs to go

okay for someone like me to take such an important

tired of how he had

more confident. He wanted

thoughts always held him

course, things were

stepping forward

to give his

However-

mean

myself forward

helpful and my lack of abilities

type of fear and

he knew how things

each

didn’t want to harm

want to be a

truly was

held back a

did his best to

you want some

“They’re delicious, nya!”

Raon and Hong looking at

The smile on his face

watching

sense of

could see Cale

On slightly smiled.

to have something weighing on his

that Cale already knew about

‘Hmm?’

the way On was looking at

‘What a scary thought!’

quickly erased such rotten

quickly alighted the

“Young master-nim~~~~!”