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

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

Ron’s low voice calling out to him and

yeah. I’ve never given a speech

interjected at

your face

Cale ignored him.

face was quite unsettled, concerned, and

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

way such things would happen in the

A terrorist attack?

kingdom that will

Academy where all of the Roan Kingdom’s future

Young Master Silver

No way.’

there were no more Monsters

Cale felt relaxed again.

things will happen

the thoughts

thought

this to me

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

guy was so

to

I push the speech to

contemplated it for a moment before his face turned into

Crossman. If that guy ended up giving the

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

drag at least one person into the Royal

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

his lips as he watched before

next world I am

‘Aipotu?’

It is a world ruled

didn’t say anything like how Lock may

why

had looked extremely relaxed as he

want

subconsciously answered

sir, I want

response made

things through before you

answered immediately once

with you

say anything and just nodded

watching, quickly rushed

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

slowly walked over, hugged Hong, and quietly

had sighed and nodded his

we can work

of the kids and went to have a quiet conversation with the

of the room with the

had made eye contact with Eruhaben at

‘You-’

but could not

him, making the ancient

grown taller and

Pat pat.

are you looking so timid? Open up your

then disappeared

you want some apple

some candied fruits,

have some

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

he could not

thought that remained in a corner of

you want to

had asked

answered out of

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

working so hard. In contrast, he felt as if he was

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

why he had always wanted to

was waiting for such

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

okay for someone like me to go

Aipotu.

was truly

it the more

weight needs to go for

okay for someone like me to take such an important

had such thoughts

confident. He

thoughts always held

were different

forward for his family and

was ready to give his everything and fight

However-

my existence mean anything

push myself forward to fight, will it mean

I am not helpful and my lack of

of fear and hesitation was holding him

knew how things

each other’s weaknesses and fought

he didn’t want

to be a cool

truly was not

subconsciously held back a

did his best to

do you want some

“They’re delicious, nya!”

Raon and

kids. The smile on his face seemed quite

was quietly watching Lock’s

sense of

see Cale looking at

On slightly smiled.

to have something

already knew about it

‘Hmm?’

that the way On was looking

‘What a scary thought!’

erased such rotten

then quickly alighted

“Young master-nim~~~~!”