Precious [Trash of the Count Family x Child!OC]

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After this happened a couple of times, Cale quietly mumbled to himself.

“Oh. This is pretty nice.”

Gilbert and Amiru flinched after hearing that quiet murmuring and started to talk to each other using their eyes.

‘Isn’t this weird?’

‘Right?’

The two of them slightly moved away from Eric and Cale. However, Cale looked toward young lady Amiru, and Amiru stopped moving backward after making eye contact with Cale.

“By the way, young lady Amiru.”

“Yes?”

“I heard the shoreline of your territory is extremely beautiful. Is it true?”

“Of course. The cliffs overlooking the coast are very beautiful.”

‘Beautiful my ass.’

Cale thought about the cliff and about how it would be extremely difficult to earn the ‘Sound of the Wind.’ In the novel, the ‘Sound of the Wind,’ was an ancient power that a member of the non-mage faction in the Whipper Kingdom ended up finding.

Although it might be strange that a person from the Whipper Kingdom ended up with an ancient power in the Roan Kingdom, there was a long story behind that as well.

Anyways, that power originally went to a mage slayer, an extremely brutal fool who appears near the second half of the civil war. He was already strong enough that he didn’t put it to much use.

‘The magic tower will fall soon.’

After the civil war, a new magic tower would be built on the site of the fallen magic tower, and Rosalyn will end up being in charge of that new magic tower.

‘Choi Han, the mage slayer, and the Empire’s crown prince.’

These three people are the ones who appear as the heroes for all of the incidents in the middle of the Western continent. The novel also discussed how the Queen of the Western continent’s Southern Jungle ended up getting involved with the matter of unifying the South as well.

Putting the secret organization that Choi Han constantly runs into aside, this continent will break its 200-year long peace to start fighting for power.

Cale looked toward Eric, who was dealing with everything for him and looked at the clock. The feast would be over soon. Of course, the nobles were waiting for the conversation time that would happen after the meal.

‘None of my business.’

It was none of Cale’s business.

“Young master Gilbert, I should be able to leave after the meal is over, right?”

Gilbert looked toward Cale, who was leisurely eating fruit like he was out on a picnic, and nodded his head.

“Yes. We plan to meet with the crown prince after the meal, but you probably don’t plan to go with us, right?”

“Right. What good will I do there? The three of you are more informed about the investment information.”

Gilbert’s expression changed at Cale’s words. He seemed to be a bit surprised.

“...You read the document.”

“A bit.”

Cale casually responded, before looking back at the crown prince, who stood up from his seat. He was about to announce the end of the meal. Cale did not find out the real reason behind today’s gathering, but he was not disappointed about it. Not knowing meant there was no chance of him getting caught up in it.

But Cale started to frown after hearing the crown prince’s words.

“It was a pleasure to share this dinner with all of you tonight. I have prepared a simple wine party for those who may be interested, so please enjoy yourselves. Ah, I have also prepared a spot for all of you at the birthday celebration that is coming up.”

The crown prince Alberu said all of this with a rather pleasant expression.

“I hope that you will all be there to share in the joys of the day.”

‘Sigh.’

Cale held back his sigh. Although Alberu was saying he hoped they would all be there, it was pretty much forcing them to be there.

‘...I guess I’ll be in the plaza when the bombs go off.’

Although it was to be expected, Cale did not like it very much.

“Then let us conclude this dinner.”

Cale stood up from his seat. The majority wanted to go to the wine party with the crown prince and the second and third princes, but those who were not approved to meet with the crown prince could not go, even if they wanted to do so.

Cale peeked toward the wheelchair that was moving past him. Taylor passed by him and Cage, who was pushing Taylor’s wheelchair, followed directly afterwards and whispered in a quiet voice that only Cale could hear.

“See you later, our little brother.”

‘I said I didn’t want to be their little brother.’

Cale’s gaze clearly showed his feelings, but Cage just pretended to not understand and headed toward the crown prince, while pretending to be a good and pure priestess.

“Young master Cale, let me walk you out.”

-To be continued...-