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

at the air and blankly

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

flinched at Ron’s low voice calling out to him and quickly

a

interjected

your face like

Cale ignored him.

quite

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

is no way such things would happen in the

A terrorist attack?

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

all of the Roan Kingdom’s

time when Young Master Silver

No way.’

there were no more

Cale felt relaxed again.

is no reason things will happen here as they did

thoughts

thought at the

this to me and steps

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

was so

way to push this

I push the speech to that

for a moment before his face turned into a

If that guy ended up

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

say sweet words to drag at

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

on his lips as

next world I am heading

‘Aipotu?’

It is a

didn’t say anything like how Lock may be the

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

had looked extremely

want to

answered out

sir, I

how his response made

thinking things through before

answered immediately

wanted to go with you since a long time

and just nodded his

who had been watching,

I can absorb all of the Nine

hugged Hong, and quietly

had sighed and nodded his head after seeing that

we can work

and

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

contact with Eruhaben

‘You-’

say something but could not say it in

him, making the ancient Dragon chuckle

taller and

Pat pat.

looking so timid? Open up your

disappeared with Lord

want some

some

have some candied

as an excited Raon

could not smile

of his mind kept stabbing him like

you want

had

answered

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

On, these kids that were younger than him were always working so hard.

also envious while hearing about how Choi Han and the others fought together

always wanted to

such an opportunity

that made him immediately answer, despite an

like me

Aipotu.

was truly a dangerous

it the more

who can pull their weight needs to go

me to take such an

tired of how he had such thoughts

become more confident. He

always held him

were

forward for his family and

give his everything and fight

However-

existence mean anything

myself forward to fight, will

if I am not helpful and my

type of fear and hesitation

knew

supported each other’s weaknesses

he didn’t want to harm

be a cool

truly was

subconsciously held back

his best to

do you want

“They’re delicious, nya!”

Raon and Hong looking

along with the two kids. The smile on his face seemed

watching

suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu

Cale looking at

On slightly smiled.

seemed to have something weighing on

knew about it

‘Hmm?’

was looking at him and smiling was

‘What a scary thought!’

quickly erased such rotten thoughts from

then quickly alighted the

“Young master-nim~~~~!”