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.

the lecture requests

looked up at

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

flinched at Ron’s low voice calling

a speech in front

interjected at that

is your

Cale ignored him.

quite unsettled,

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

such things would happen in the Roan

A terrorist attack?

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

where all of the Roan Kingdom’s future

a time when Young Master Silver Shield

No way.’

there were no more Monsters in

Cale felt relaxed again.

there is no reason things will happen here as they

thoughts in his

had a thought at

pushes something like this to

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

guy was so

no way to push this

I push the speech to

for a moment before his face turned into

If that guy

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

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

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

his lips as he watched before

am heading to

‘Aipotu?’

is a

didn’t say anything like how Lock may be the

why I plan

had looked extremely relaxed as he

you want

answered out of

I

saw how his response made Cale’s face

you thinking things through before

answered immediately

with you since a long

anything and just nodded his

watching,

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

walked over, hugged

and nodded his head

if we can work

care of the kids and went to have a quiet conversation with the Tiger shaman,

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

eye contact with Eruhaben at

‘You-’

about to say something but could not say it

quietly looked at him, making the ancient Dragon chuckle and

grown taller and

Pat pat.

so timid? Open

disappeared with Lord

want some apple

want some candied

have some candied

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

could not

remained in a corner of his mind

you want

Cale had asked

answered

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

always working so hard. In contrast,

was also envious while hearing about how Choi Han and

was why he had always wanted to be by Cale’s

for such an opportunity

him immediately answer, despite an

like me

Aipotu.

truly a dangerous

it the

who can pull their weight needs to go

someone like me to take such

of how he had such thoughts

more confident. He wanted

always held

were different

stepping forward for

was ready to give his everything and fight

However-

my existence mean

I push myself forward to

and my lack

of fear and hesitation was holding

he knew how

who supported each other’s weaknesses and fought

he didn’t want to harm

be

truly was

subconsciously held

did his best

you want some

“They’re delicious, nya!”

saw Raon

with the two kids. The smile on his face

watching Lock’s

sense of déjà vu and looked

see Cale looking

On slightly smiled.

have something weighing on his

Cale already knew about it made On

‘Hmm?’

the way On was looking at him

‘What a scary thought!’

rotten

quickly

“Young master-nim~~~~!”