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

subconsciously looked up at the air and

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

Ron’s low voice calling out to him

yeah. I’ve never given a speech in front

Raon interjected at

why is your face

Cale ignored him.

quite unsettled, concerned, and

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

way such things would happen in the Roan

A terrorist attack?

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

Academy where all of the Roan Kingdom’s

when Young

No way.’

no more

Cale felt relaxed again.

things will

thoughts in his

thought at

something like this

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

was so

there no way to push

I push the speech to that

moment before

Crossman. If that guy ended up giving the

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

words to drag at least one person

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

down on his lips as he

world I am heading

‘Aipotu?’

a world ruled by

anything like how Lock may be the key

why I plan on taking the strongest forces

how Cale had looked extremely relaxed as he

you want

answered out of

I want to

his response made

you thinking things through

answered immediately

go with you since a long

and just nodded his

been watching,

I can absorb all of the Nine Kings poison if I

hugged

sighed and nodded his head after

see if we can work something

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

of the room with the Dragons who had been in the room from the start

made eye contact with

‘You-’

something but could not say

looked at him, making the ancient Dragon chuckle and pat

taller

Pat pat.

so timid? Open up

disappeared with Lord

you want some

some candied fruits,

some candied fruits

memories and watched as an excited Raon and Hong chatted away.

could not

that remained in a corner of his mind kept

you want to

had

had answered out of

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

and On, these kids that were younger than him were always working so hard. In contrast, he felt as if he

Choi Han and the others

was why he had always wanted to be by

for such

saying that made him immediately answer, despite

it okay for someone like me

Aipotu.

truly a

it

to go for fights in such a dangerous

it okay for someone like me to take

had such thoughts and hated

become more confident. He wanted to trust

always held him

course, things were

forward for his

give his everything

However-

my existence mean

I push myself forward to fight, will it

not helpful and my lack of abilities hinder the

different type of fear and hesitation was holding him

knew how things

each

he didn’t want to harm

want to be a

truly was not

subconsciously held

did his

do you want some candied

“They’re delicious, nya!”

was because he saw Raon

two kids. The smile on his face seemed quite

was quietly watching

then suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu and looked

see Cale

On slightly smiled.

to have something weighing

that Cale already knew about it made On feel more

‘Hmm?’

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

‘What a scary thought!’

rotten thoughts from his

then quickly alighted the

“Young master-nim~~~~!”