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 requests disappeared

subconsciously looked up at the air and

“…Huh?”

“Young master-nim?”

at Ron’s low voice calling out to him and

yeah. I’ve never given a speech in

Raon interjected at

is your

Cale ignored him.

was quite unsettled, concerned, and

‘Perhaps-

Nah, no way.

no way such things would happen in the Roan

A terrorist attack?

is seen as the kingdom that

Academy where all of the Roan Kingdom’s future

Young

No way.’

there were no more Monsters in

Cale felt relaxed again.

there is no reason things will

erased the thoughts in his

thought at the

pushes something like this to me

Crown prince Alberu Crossman.

was so

way to

the

a moment before his face

If that guy ended up giving

‘He’ll enjoy it.’

words to drag at least one

“Huuuuuu.”

His sighing became deeper.

as he

I am heading to is

‘Aipotu?’

It is a world ruled by

how Lock may be the key to

why I plan on

Cale had looked extremely relaxed

you want to

subconsciously answered

I want to

response made Cale’s face turn

things

immediately

you since

didn’t say anything and

been watching, quickly

can

walked over, hugged Hong, and quietly

sighed and nodded his

see if we can work

take care of the kids and went

had to head out of the room with the Dragons who had been in

made eye contact

‘You-’

to say something but could not say it

looked at him, making the ancient Dragon chuckle and pat

grown taller

Pat pat.

are you looking so timid?

disappeared

want

some candied fruits,

have some candied fruits

and watched as an excited Raon and Hong chatted

could not smile

corner of his mind kept stabbing him like a

want

Cale had asked

answered out of

Because-

‘I’ve always felt apologetic.’

working so hard.

while hearing about how Choi Han and the others fought together

why he had always wanted to be by

was waiting for such an opportunity

saying that made him immediately answer, despite an

for someone like me to go

Aipotu.

was truly

it

can pull their weight needs to go for fights

for someone like me to take such an

how he had such thoughts and hated

become more confident. He

always held him

were

fear stepping forward for

was ready to give his

However-

existence mean anything in

push myself forward to

not helpful and my lack of abilities hinder

type of fear and hesitation

he knew how

were people who supported each

didn’t want to harm

want to be a cool

truly was not

subconsciously held back a

his best to

want some candied

“They’re delicious, nya!”

Raon and Hong

two kids. The smile on his

quietly watching

suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu and looked

see Cale

On slightly smiled.

have something weighing on

Cale already knew about

‘Hmm?’

was looking at him and smiling was similar

‘What a scary thought!’

rotten thoughts from his

then quickly

“Young master-nim~~~~!”