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.

to that, the lecture requests

subconsciously looked up at the air and

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

at Ron’s low voice calling

yeah. I’ve never given a speech in

quiet Raon interjected

why is your face

Cale ignored him.

quite unsettled, concerned, and

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

such things would

A terrorist attack?

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

Academy where all of the

a time when Young Master Silver

No way.’

were no more

Cale felt relaxed again.

is no reason things will

thoughts in his

a thought at

pushes something like this to

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

guy was so

no way to push this

I push the

for a moment before his face turned into a

Crossman. If that guy ended up giving

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

to drag at least one person

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

his lips as he watched before

next world I am heading

‘Aipotu?’

is a world ruled

didn’t say anything like how Lock may be

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

looked extremely relaxed

you want to

subconsciously answered

sir, I want to

saw how his response made Cale’s face turn

things through before

immediately

with you since a long

anything and

watching, quickly rushed

I can

hugged Hong, and quietly

sighed and nodded his head after seeing

we can work something

and went to have a quiet conversation with the Tiger

to head out of the room with the Dragons who had

made eye contact

‘You-’

about to say something but

at him, making the ancient Dragon chuckle and pat

grown taller and

Pat pat.

so

disappeared

you want some apple

some candied fruits,

some candied fruits

out of his memories and watched as an excited Raon and

could not smile

a corner of

you want to

had asked

had answered

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

working so hard.

hearing about how Choi Han and

always wanted

such

him immediately answer, despite an emotion

someone like me to go with

Aipotu.

was truly a dangerous

it

to go for fights

someone like me to

he had such thoughts

wanted to become more confident. He wanted to trust

these thoughts always held him

were different

did not fear stepping forward for his family and

to give his

However-

my existence mean anything in

push myself forward to fight, will it

am not helpful and my lack of

different type of fear and hesitation was holding

he knew how things

were people who supported each other’s

didn’t want to harm

want to be

truly was not

subconsciously held back a

did his

you want some candied

“They’re delicious, nya!”

because he saw Raon and Hong looking

with the two kids. The smile on his

watching

sense of déjà vu

could see Cale looking

On slightly smiled.

have something weighing on

knew about

‘Hmm?’

way On was looking

‘What a scary thought!’

such rotten thoughts

quickly

“Young master-nim~~~~!”