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 requests disappeared at

looked up at

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

low voice calling out to him and quickly

a speech in front of

interjected at that

your face

Cale ignored him.

quite unsettled, concerned, and

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

such things

A terrorist attack?

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

of the Roan Kingdom’s future important figures

a time when Young Master

No way.’

there were no more Monsters in this

Cale felt relaxed again.

will happen here as they did

thoughts in his

thought at the same

something like this to me and

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

guy was so

no way to push

I push the

contemplated it for a moment before

Crossman. If that guy

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

ardently say sweet words to drag at

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

down on his lips as he watched before returning

The next world I am heading to

‘Aipotu?’

a world ruled

may be the key to save

why I plan on

looked extremely

want to

subconsciously answered out

I

response made Cale’s

you thinking things through before you

immediately once

you since a long

say anything and just

who had been watching, quickly rushed

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

over, hugged

nodded his head after seeing

if we can work

and

head out of the room with the Dragons who had been

contact with

‘You-’

but could not

quietly looked at him, making the

taller

Pat pat.

so

then disappeared with Lord

want

some

some candied

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

he could not

of his mind kept stabbing him like a

want to

had

answered

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

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

about how Choi Han and the others fought together with

was why he had always wanted to

for such an opportunity

saying that made him immediately answer, despite an

okay for someone like

Aipotu.

was truly a

could feel it the more

needs to go for fights in such a

for someone like me to take such an

tired of how he had such thoughts and hated himself for

wanted to become more confident. He wanted to

always

things were different from

stepping forward for his family and

to give his

However-

mean anything

myself forward to fight, will it

and my lack of abilities

different type of fear and

knew

supported each other’s weaknesses

want to harm

to be

truly was not

held back

did his

do you want some

“They’re delicious, nya!”

because he saw Raon and Hong looking

kids. The smile on his face seemed

quietly watching Lock’s

sense of déjà vu and

see Cale looking

On slightly smiled.

seemed to have something

that Cale already knew about it made On feel

‘Hmm?’

the way On was looking at him and smiling was similar to

‘What a scary thought!’

quickly erased such rotten thoughts from his

quickly alighted the

“Young master-nim~~~~!”