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.

to that, the lecture requests disappeared

at the air

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

voice calling

yeah. I’ve never given a speech in front

interjected

is your face

Cale ignored him.

was quite

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

things would happen in the Roan

A terrorist attack?

as the kingdom that will most likely become an Empire. Someone is going to commit a

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

time when Young Master Silver

No way.’

were no more Monsters in this

Cale felt relaxed again.

reason things will happen here as they did

thoughts

thought at

pushes something like this to

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

guy was

to push this

push the speech to

moment before his face

Crossman. If that guy

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

would ardently say sweet words to drag at least one person into

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

as he watched before returning to

next world I am heading to is called

‘Aipotu?’

a world ruled

may be the

is why I plan on taking the

recalled how Cale had looked

want to

answered out

sir, I want to

his response made Cale’s

thinking things through

answered immediately once

wanted to go with you since

and just

had been watching, quickly rushed toward

I’m going to go, nya! I can absorb all of the

hugged Hong,

and nodded his head

see if we can work

then told Lock to take care of the kids and went to have

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

had made eye contact with Eruhaben at that

‘You-’

to say something but could not

making the ancient Dragon chuckle and pat his

grown taller and

Pat pat.

looking so timid? Open up

disappeared with Lord

you want some

some

have some candied fruits

as an excited Raon and Hong chatted away. A

could

of his mind kept

you want

had asked

answered out

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

kids that were younger than him were always working so hard. In contrast, he

was also envious while hearing about how Choi Han and the

he had always wanted

waiting for such an opportunity to

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

it okay for someone like me to

Aipotu.

was truly a

could feel it the more Cale

needs to go for fights in such

like me to take such an important

tired of how he had such thoughts and hated himself

more confident. He wanted to trust

these thoughts always held him

were different

stepping forward for

his everything and fight for

However-

my existence mean anything in

push myself forward to

am not helpful and my lack of abilities hinder the

fear and hesitation was

he knew

each other’s weaknesses

want

to be a cool

truly was

subconsciously held back

did his

want some

“They’re delicious, nya!”

because he saw Raon and Hong looking at

kids. The smile on his face seemed

was quietly watching Lock’s changing

felt a sense of déjà vu and looked

Cale

On slightly smiled.

something weighing on

Cale already knew about it made On feel more

‘Hmm?’

way On was looking at him and smiling

‘What a scary thought!’

rotten

quickly

“Young master-nim~~~~!”