Trash of the Count’s Family - Chapter 395

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But I paid no attention to the dwindling time.
Alberu, who had been staring at me, opened his mouth.

“You’re going to overwhelmingly defeat the White Star?”
“Yes.”

A pallid face. Yet eyes that gleamed with clarity beyond measure, alive and brilliant. And finally, a resolute answer.
Alberu nodded as he looked at me.

“That’s good then.”

I brushed off Alberu’s words and turned back toward the chair where I had been sitting.

-Human, you seem fine, but hurry and eat the apple pie in that basket! You can’t collapse! I’ll tell Ron, the Gold Dragon, Choi Han, Vicross, and kind Merry!

At the sound of Raon’s voice reaching me, a laugh nearly escaped.
Then Alberu’s voice followed.

“So how are you going to overwhelm the White Star- huh?”

But Alberu’s voice stopped mid-sentence.
He reached out his hand.

My stumbling form reflected in Alberu’s eyes.

“Your Highness!”
“Your Highness!”

Everyone at the table, who had been watching with tension and concern, jumped to their feet.

-Human!

Raon quickly approached me as I began to fall forward, catching my upper body with his head. Both his front paws extended to support my torso as well.

“Hey! You!”

Alberu’s startled hand grabbed my arm as I began to collapse.

A low hum resonated through the air—
In that same instant, Alberu could see the crimson mana swiftly enveloping Kale Heniatus. It was Rosalind’s mana.
She urgently summoned her mana to catch Kale Heniatus as he began to collapse.

“…Ha …”

At Kale Heniatus’s murmur, Taylor and Kaige, who had rushed over, as well as Alberu, who was supporting Kale Heniatus, all wore peculiar expressions.

Kale Heniatus’s face was painted with bewilderment.

-Human! You’re about to collapse and yet you make such a face! You truly are a pathetically weak human!

As Rosalind’s crimson mana enveloped him, Raon quietly withdrew his round head and plump front paws that had been supporting Kale Heniatus, all while berating him. Since Kale Heniatus had crumpled with his upper body folding forward, only Raon could see his genuinely flustered expression clearly.
Since Kale’s upper body folded forward as he stumbled, only Raon could properly see his flustered expression.

What?

And Kale Heniatus was flustered too.

Why am I like this?

He couldn’t properly understand why he was writhing like this.

He wasn’t dizzy now, nor was his body burning with fever.
He didn’t feel nauseous either.
It didn’t seem like I would throw up.

“But why do I feel so weak?”

As his upper body was lifted, Kale Heniatus finally noticed the people around him. In that moment, Alberu, whose eyes met his directly, spoke with a dismissive tone.
As Kale lifted his upper body, he finally noticed the people around him. At that moment, Alberu, whose eyes met his directly, spoke in a blunt, dismissive tone.

“I knew it would be like this. My appearance is a mess. Tsk.”

Everyone had expressions that said they knew Kale Heniatus would nearly collapse like that. Of course, Raon wasn’t visible.

“…I’m perfectly fine, though.”

At Kale’s words, Alberu’s gaze turned toward Rosalind, and Rosalind spoke with a slight smile.

“I’m going back.”

Kale Heniatus’s body stiffened.
Regardless, Alberu pointed to the bed for Rosalind.

“Let’s have him rest there. The sofa would be uncomfortable.”
“I shall obey your wishes at once, Your Highness.”

Rosalind gestured, and crimson mana gently laid Kale Heniatus upon the bed.
He stared up at the ceiling from where he lay.

‘Why am I like this?’

In that moment, two voices reached my ears.

“You look absolutely pale. What could possibly frighten the great Kale Heniatus?”

One was Alberu.

-It appears fear and dread caused your body to freeze momentarily.

The other was the terrifying Jjangdol.
Their words genuinely startled me.

‘Frightened? Me?’

Not anyone else—me?
I was dumbfounded.
I might have been angry, but frightened? Never.
Yet the moment I raised my hand to my forehead, I had to acknowledge my true state.

My hand trembled slightly, and my forehead was damp with sweat.
By any measure, I was terrified.

What was I afraid of?
Without needing to think deeply, the memory from that moment when my vision had gone dark flashed through my mind once more.

“Ha!”

Kale couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all.

-Human! Why are you laughing? That’s strange! This is not the time to laugh! Human, you look in danger! You’re laughing while in pain! You mustn’t lose your mind!

At Raon’s voice, Kale found himself at a loss for words.
Truly, this six-year-old Black Dragon had a talent for rendering one speechless. Yet thanks to him, Kale’s mental state gradually settled and calmed. Naturally, his physical condition also began to return to normal.

In that moment, I heard a cautious voice calling out to me.

“Um, excuse me.”

When Kale turned his head, he saw an expression on Kaige’s face he had never witnessed before. She hesitated uncharacteristically and spoke to him with great care.

“Did… did it really not contain any harsh words?”

Kaige asked Kale once more whether there had been any unkind or severe words written on the paper.
At her question, everyone’s gaze converged upon Kale.

“Well.”

Kale fell into brief contemplation, and Kaige quickly continued speaking.

“Of course, since you were told to read it alone, you don’t need to reveal the contents here! It’s a personal matter for you. And while you did say you would disregard the contents, I’m simply curious whether there were any harsh words at all.”

Priestess Kaige’s cautious demeanor prompted Kale to speak his honest thoughts.

“Well, not particularly.”

Kaige paused briefly before asking again with composure.

“Then, could we perhaps learn something about those words that weren’t particularly harsh?”

Kale deliberated.

‘Well, the God of Death never explicitly told me to keep it secret or to remain silent. Couldn’t I just mention the minor details, excluding the important parts?’

Of course, he had said he would burn the paper if I showed it to others, but that meant not showing it—not that I couldn’t speak of it.
Kale’s gaze turned toward his companions.

I could see the worried eyes of those gathered around the bed where he lay.
If I hid everything, they would only worry more. So I decided to be honest about at least some things.

‘First, I can’t mention my relationship with Choi Jung-gun, Choi Jung-soo, Choi Han, and myself. I can’t talk about Kim Rok-soo either. And I absolutely cannot speak of the day I must choose.’

After excluding several shocking matters, there wasn’t much left, and I blurted out one of them.

“They said I was supposed to die.”

Silence fell over the Crown Prince’s Bedroom.
I recalled some of what the God of Death had conveyed.

【Kim Rok-soo, you should have died.】

Yes, that’s right. That statement is at least less shocking.
A strange sense of accomplishment and quiet joy washed over me at the fact that I had shared even this much with my companions here.
I intended to gradually share more of my true thoughts and feelings with Choi Han, Raon, and the others. Now I wanted to slowly transform the records in my mind into something more vibrant and varied.

‘Yes. I want to do that.’

A smile crossed my face as I felt a strange emotion stirring in my heartbeat.
The trembling hands and cold sweat on my face had vanished. For the first time, I felt peace settling into my heart.

That was the moment.

“You crazy bastard!”

What?
I turned my head.
I saw Albert Crossman’s face, absolutely seething with rage.

“The Young Master really is someone who cannot be left alone for a moment.”

I could also see Rosalind’s eyes, smiling yet deadly serious.

‘What do you mean, can’t be left alone?’

I was bewildered by their reactions.
Regardless, I heard Raon’s voice.

“-…I am the great Raon Mir. Not even the gods will escape me. I will conquer all.”

Why was he suddenly like this again?
His voice wasn’t whimpering. It was utterly ferocious. Even more menacing than Rosalind’s. It was a tone that sounded as though he could defeat even the gods themselves.

“What the hell!”

And Kale Heniatus flinched at the voice that suddenly rang out.

“Of all the damned situations—getting blindsided out of nowhere like this!”

The voice belonged to Kaige.
Her expression had turned fierce, and rough words tumbled out in succession.

“I knew it would come to this! I warned you so many times, and yet here we are!”

Kaige even shook her fist at the sky.

“Mark my words. I’m never going back to the Temple! I’m a free woman! Free! I’ll drink more, play more, and live as freely as I damn well please!”

Pat, pat.
Her friend Taylor tapped Kaige’s shoulder and spoke calmly.

“Kaige, I support your dream.”

What?
As Kale Heniatus’s expression grew bewildered, his eyes met Alberu’s.
In that instant, Alberu’s words came pouring down at Kale Heniatus in a torrent.

“What’s with that look? ‘What’s going on here?’ Stop staring like a dumb ox with those vacant eyes. You were supposed to die, so why are you blinking like some confused cattle? Huh? You’ve got no sense of the room whatsoever. What are you looking at?”
“…But I didn’t die?”
“What?”

Not only Alberu but the suddenly fierce gazes that descended upon him made Kale Heniatus hesitate, yet he spoke firmly.

“No, ‘was supposed to die’ is past tense, isn’t it? It doesn’t mean I’m dying now or in the future. I won’t die anymore.”
“Good grief, my head.”

The Crown Prince sat on the edge of the bed and clutched his head. Rosalind patted his shoulder, and Kale Heniatus quickly added more.

“I’m going to live a long, long life. As a carefree nobleman.”

Raon’s voice came through immediately.

-That’s right. The human will live carefree with me. I’ll be carefree too! I’ll keep being carefree right next to the human, forever and ever.

Yes, yes. Everyone decides their own future.
Kale Heniatus respected Raon’s dreams for the future.

“Anyway, I’m going to live very happily with the children and everyone else, so don’t worry.”

After he casually uttered those words, silence descended once more.

-…Human, I will definitely live happily with you and our family! I’ll destroy the God and the White Star both!

The silence broke quickly.

“…If only he wouldn’t say things like that.”

Alberu stared at Kale Heniatus with a look of utter bewilderment, lost in thought about what to do with this brat.

“Young master, you need to remember those words.”

Rosalind calmly tucked the blanket up to Kale’s neck and spoke tenderly.
Meanwhile, Taylor and Priestess Cage kept nodding their heads and gazing at Kale with sparkling eyes.

What kind of situation change was this?
Kale Heniatus felt frustrated, but decided not to think about it. Either way, his point seemed to have gotten across well enough, so it was better to let it go.

“The next schedule starts tomorrow, so get some proper rest for now.”

With those words, Rosalind moved Priestess Cage and Taylor away from the bed. Alberu also drew the bed curtains closed, saying he wanted to talk with Rosalind, and stepped away from Kale.

Swish, swish.
Kale felt something wriggling and creeping toward him from inside the blanket.

It must be the invisible Raon slipping under the blanket and approaching him.

Kale moved his hand inside the blanket without much thought, and a round head pressed softly into his palm.

-Human.

Yes, yes.
Kale Heniatus closed his eyes, feeling the warmth of Raon’s body as the young dragon curled up against his side, his tail wrapped around himself.

As Rosalind had said, it seemed I could afford a brief respite.
And once I rose again.

‘I would obliterate them completely.’

I had to move to utterly destroy the White Star.
Kale Heniatus could hear Rosalind and Alberu whispering something to each other, but as sleep gradually claimed him, he couldn’t make out their words.

“…Your Highness… for the sake of health improvement….”
“…Idleness is… quite right… he should recuperate….”

And so he drifted into sleep.

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Tap. Tap.
Kale Heniatus opened his eyes at the sensation of a hand tapping his cheek.

“Human, you’re awake!”

Raon grinned and nuzzled his face against Kale Heniatus’s shoulder.
Kale Heniatus blinked and pushed himself upright.

Whoosh.
As he drew back the bed curtains, he saw Albert Crossman sprawled across the sofa in slumber. No one else occupied the bedroom.
Likely, the others had been shown to their respective chambers.

Kale Heniatus rose and approached Albert’s side.
Raon followed in his wake.

“Human, human! They’re coming soon!”
“…Yeah. I know.”
“You look better now!”
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
“Human, will we live happily together later?”
“Why are you asking something so obvious?”
“Hehe!”

The two of us conversed as we always did.
Perhaps because of that, Alberu slowly opened his eyes. Even while sleeping, I had been watching Alberu in his Crown Prince form rather than his Dark Elf quarter appearance, and our eyes met.

“…What are you doing?”

Crunch.
I chewed on a cookie.
I was hungry.

“Human, eat some apple pie too!”

The young dragon pressed an apple pie into my other hand. Alberu stared at me with a bewildered expression as he opened his eyes to find my hair disheveled and me already eating pastries. To him, I said:

“Your Highness, you’re drooling.”

When Alberu’s face crumpled, I tossed out the words casually.

“Sirem—where is that bastard?”

Alberu’s expression hardened.

The fake Dragon Slayer, Sirem.
The one imprisoned in the Underground Prison, the deepest and most dangerous place in the Roan Kingdom.
The one who possessed a total of three Ancient Powers.
Moreover, he was the one who had launched the decisive attack during the war between the Roan Kingdom and the Indomitable Alliance, inflicting the most damage upon Roan.

“Has his execution been decided?”

As I asked indifferently, Alberu answered with an equally expressionless face.

“He’s still alive.”

His tone became purely businesslike.

“The Nobility Council will likely decide on an exact date soon. We’ve been putting it off with various excuses until now, but most people think that since he’s the one who launched two battles in the Northeastern Territory and the Northeast Coastal Area, he deserves proper punishment.”

Kale Heniatus chewed on a cookie without offering another response.
Crunch, crunch.
After chewing on the cookie for a while, he opened his mouth.

“I need to go see that bastard.”
“I’ll show you the way.”

I had to go fasten the first button to crush the White Star.

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