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 some

up at the air and blankly

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

voice calling out to him and quickly

never given a speech in

quiet Raon interjected at

your face

Cale ignored him.

quite unsettled,

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

such things would happen in the Roan

A terrorist attack?

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

where all of the Roan Kingdom’s future important figures

a time when Young Master

No way.’

no more Monsters in

Cale felt relaxed again.

is no reason things will happen here as they did

the thoughts

a thought

pushes something like this to me

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

was

no way to push

the speech to that

for a moment before his

If that guy

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

sweet words to drag at least

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

on his lips as he

world I am heading

‘Aipotu?’

a

may be the key to

is why I plan on taking the strongest forces I

had looked extremely relaxed as

you want to

subconsciously answered out of

sir, I want

how his response made Cale’s face

you thinking things through before you

immediately once

to go with you since a long

say anything and

watching, quickly rushed toward

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

slowly walked over, hugged Hong, and

had sighed and nodded his

if we

told Lock to take care of the kids and went to have a quiet conversation with the

head out of the room with the Dragons

made eye contact with Eruhaben

‘You-’

say something but could not say it in

at him, making the ancient Dragon chuckle and pat

grown taller

Pat pat.

you looking so timid? Open up

then disappeared with

do you want some apple

want some

some candied

memories and watched as an excited Raon and Hong chatted

he could not smile

remained in a corner of his mind kept stabbing him

want to

had asked

had answered

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

working so hard. In contrast, he felt as if

Choi Han and

had always wanted to be by

was waiting for such an opportunity to

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

it okay for someone like me to go with

Aipotu.

was truly

feel it the

their weight needs to go for fights in such

someone like me to take

had such thoughts and hated himself for

wanted to become more confident.

thoughts always held

things were different

forward for his family and

was ready to give his

However-

mean anything

myself forward to

I am not helpful and my lack of abilities hinder the

of fear and hesitation was

course, he knew how

were people who supported each other’s weaknesses and

didn’t want to harm

to be a

truly was not

subconsciously held

did his best

you want some

“They’re delicious, nya!”

he saw Raon and Hong looking at

two kids. The

was quietly watching

then suddenly felt a sense of déjà

could see Cale looking at

On slightly smiled.

something weighing

Cale already knew about

‘Hmm?’

On was looking at him and smiling

‘What a scary thought!’

quickly erased such rotten thoughts from his

then quickly alighted the

“Young master-nim~~~~!”