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.

that, the lecture requests

at

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

at Ron’s low voice calling out

I’ve never given a

quiet Raon interjected

is your face

Cale ignored him.

was quite unsettled, concerned, and

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

such things would

A terrorist attack?

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

Academy where all of the

a time when Young

No way.’

no more Monsters

Cale felt relaxed again.

will happen here as they did

the thoughts

thought at the same

something like this to me

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

guy was

no way to push this

push the speech to that

contemplated it for a moment before his face turned

that guy

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

words to drag at

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

his lips as he watched before returning to

The next world I am

‘Aipotu?’

a world ruled

may be the

an extremely dangerous place. That is why I plan on taking the strongest

how Cale had looked

want to

subconsciously answered

I

saw how his response made

you thinking things through

immediately once

to go with you since a long time

say anything and just

watching, quickly

going to go, nya! I can absorb all of the Nine Kings poison if I

over, hugged Hong,

sighed and nodded his head after

see if we

and went to

conversation and had to head out of the room with the Dragons who

had made eye contact with Eruhaben at

‘You-’

but could not say it in the

him, making the

grown taller

Pat pat.

why are you looking so timid? Open

disappeared with Lord

you want some apple

some candied

have some candied fruits

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

could

a corner of his mind kept

you want to

had asked

answered

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

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

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

had always wanted to

such an

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

it okay for someone like me

Aipotu.

truly

could feel it the

to go

it okay for someone like me to take such an important

was tired of how he had

confident. He wanted to

always

were different from

fear stepping forward

was ready to give his everything

However-

my existence mean anything

I push myself forward to fight, will it mean

if I am not helpful and my lack

type of fear and hesitation was

course, he knew how things

each other’s weaknesses and fought

didn’t want to

to be a

truly was

held back

his best

do you want some candied

“They’re delicious, nya!”

because he saw Raon and Hong

kids. The smile on his

watching Lock’s

a sense of déjà

see Cale

On slightly smiled.

something weighing

knew about it made On

‘Hmm?’

was looking at him and smiling was similar to

‘What a scary thought!’

such rotten thoughts from his

then quickly alighted the

“Young master-nim~~~~!”