Chapter 48: Somehow (6)

Chapter 48: Somehow (6)

Translator: miraclerifle

Editor: Borderline Masochist

A week later, Cale got off the carriage. The carriage that he got off from had the Henituse Golden Turtle on it.

- It has been a while.

Cale agreed with what the Black Dragon said inside his head.

Cale was currently at the Plaza of Glory. A large fence was around the northern part of the plaza that was destroyed from the explosion.

Cale just walked forward, only looking toward his seat. The Henituse family’s knight brigade, led by their Vice Captain, walked with Cale in the center of their formation in order to protect him.

As Cale was walking, he heard someone say something that gave him the chills.

“Oh, young master Silver Light!”

Cale immediately started to frown.

“Ahem, hem.”

Cale could see the smirk on the Vice Captain’s face as he let out some fake coughs and started to frown some more. The Vice Captain lowered his body a bit to whisper in Cale’s ear.

“Young master, I guess they call you, ‘young master Silver Light,’ now. Ahem, cool people like you are bound to get awesome nicknames.”

‘Shit.’

Cale held back the rough words in his mind.

Young master Silver Light, young master Shield, he didn’t want to hear such cheesy and embarrassing things. However, Cale knew that it would have been much worse if it wasn’t for the crown prince subduing the rumors, and so he could not say anything about it.

All he could do was stoically speak to the Vice Captain, who was shrugging his shoulder.

“I’m sure they’ll stop if I drink and act like I usually do, right?”

“Ahem, hem!”

The Vice Captain could not say anything and just turned away. That made Cale start to smile, but that smile immediately disappeared. It was because of what the Vice Captain said next.

“I think it would be best if you avoided alcohol, since you are still recovering.”

Cale was still officially recovering and not 100 percent.

The official story was that he was injured because he used his ancient power past its intended limits so that he could protect the crowd, causing a miracle to happen that prevented the explosion.

That miraculous story naturally originated from the crown prince. That was why the staff at the Henituse residence was busy protecting the injured Cale.

It was not just the staff at the capital. Cale thought about his father, Count Deruth, who was planning on coming up to the capital a few days ago. This was what Deruth had said through the video communication.

- Cale, did you see the faces of those bastards? Your dad will kill them all for you. How dare they do such a thing to a person who cannot even swing a sword!

Even though Deruth knew Cale had earned an ancient power, the fact that even Cale’s younger sister was better than Cale at swinging a sword made Deruth consider Cale to be weak.

- The reason the Henituse family does not take action is not because we are weak. Remember this Cale. We have not taken any actions until now because we are strong. Nobody shall take any actions against you like this in the future.

That was what Countess Violan had said while calming Count Deruth down. But that must have been the truth, as no nobles sent any messages or came to look for Cale once Cale left the palace and returned to his own residence. Even Eric and company did not show up.

‘That made it easy.’

Cale had used that free time very efficiently. Cale, who had been looking forward as he walked, could see the knight and soldier guarding the entrance.

“Ah, young master Cale.”

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The knight shook his head at Cale’s question and respectfully opened the entrance. Cale had to enter alone from here on. The people who were allowed to enter this time was significantly less than during the birthday celebration, but Cale was the exception.

“Young master Cale-nim, please enter.”

“Great, thanks. Keep up the good work.”

“...Yes sir!”

Cale thought that the knight was probably overworked, so he patted the knight on the shoulder as the knight bowed and vigorously responded to him. He then walked in, not knowing that the knight was watching him walk in for a very long time.

Cale continued to walk at a leisure pace.

The Plaza of Glory.

The king planned to respect the fallen and give medals to certain people for their actions during the plaza terror incident today. The recipients were given the qualifications to stand at the second highest platform, right underneath the king, in the plaza today.

Cale was wearing a more luxurious black outfit than usual as he arrived at his spot.

“Cale.”

“Hyung-nim, you got here early.”

Cale smiled at Eric Wheelsman, who had called out to him, before standing at his spot. This was the spot for the nobles. Cale was standing here. But why?

Cale turned toward the quiet voice calling out to him. There were quite a lot of nobles who headed back home, thinking that the capital was a dangerous place because of the terror incident. That was why the number of nobles here was less than before, but one of those nobles approached Cale and called out to him.

“What is it, young master Venion?”

Venion Stan was still here. In addition, the heads of each region were still here as well.

“I heard that you declined a medal. Will you not regret it?”

The gazes of the nobles who had been looking up at the platform all turned toward Venion and Cale. Cale did not know why Venion was smiling so gently and asking him that question.

- I want to kill him.

Cale was just worried that Venion’s body would blow up right here. Cale hoped that the Black Dragon would calm down as he thought about the medal.

Cale had rejected a medal. The reason for it was simple. He did not want to get, ‘recorded.’

There is a record of all of the past kings of the kingdom in the highest floor of the royal library. The floor underneath that holds the record of all of the, ‘heroes,’ who have received different medals of honor throughout the history of the kingdom.

The crown used the fact that they needed to continue to provide these heroes with their reward money to locate and keep track of these heroes.

‘That might sound like fame and honor to others, but it just sounds like chains to me.’

Cale did not want to be recorded anywhere. It was easier to forget someone who was not recorded. Who would remember the incidents at this plaza in the future when war was going to break out soon? Even if they recalled this incident, they would remember other things first.

The fact that he knew this was part of the reason Cale had decided to step forward during the terror incident, as well as the reason he wanted to avoid getting recorded.

Cale started to smile as he looked toward Venion and started to speak.

“What would I regret?”

Cale had nothing to regret. He had received a handsome reward, and most importantly.

“It is enough that we managed to survive.”

He was able to live without getting seriously injured. That was the absolutely most important truth for Cale, no, for Kim Rok Soo. The area around Cale became silent. Venion spoke after a while so as to break that silence.

“... I see.”

“Yes. I am also very shy. I’m too shy to go up there to receive a medal.”

Venion’s expression turned odd. However, Cale just shrugged his shoulder and turned around to clap for another person who was receiving a medal.

The Black Dragon was debating how to kill Venion quickly and simply, before he looking at Cale and the people around Cale and shook his head.

There were too many people looking at Cale right now. Both the nobles and the people down below were looking at Cale. The Black Dragon thought things would get very complicated and annoying for Cale if he killed Venion right now, so he decided to act like Cale and be still, very still, as he watched the ceremony.

“This concludes today’s ceremony. However, this king will not forget this moment. I will remember it day after day in order to not forget the valiant heroes!”

The ceremony ended with the king’s final remarks.

Swiiiiiish-

A rough wind that sounded like rain brushed through the plaza. Cale brushed back his messed up hair.

The crown prince had said that Cale did not need to come to the memorial today. However, Cale still showed up.

It was because he knew the weight of someone’s death.

He finished his own memorial of sort and put his right hand to his heart. This alerted Eric, who started to speak.

“Cale! Did you over do it? Does your heart hurt?”

Cale looked toward Eric in disbelief and Cale’s confident gaze made Eric awkwardly smile as he slowly backed away. Eric seemed to be very embarrassed.

Cale smiled at Eric’s reaction and patted his chest two times. He could feel the golden plaque in his inner pocket as he did that. It was the reward he had received from the crown prince.

‘The crown prince is more generous than I expected.’

The golden plaque gave Cale two opportunities to purchase anything, regardless of the cost.

It didn’t matter whether he bought two slices of bread or two mountains. All that mattered was that he could only use it twice. Cale was going to use these two opportunities very effectively in the future.

‘I’m sure that the crown prince was thinking, ‘how much can you really spend,’ as he gave this to me.’

Either that, or he gave it to Cale to see just what Cale could manage to buy with it.

‘Too bad he was wrong.’

Cale started to smile. There were a lot of unique things you could buy in the world, as long as you knew how to buy them.

- What are you planning now, weak human? Just be careful.

Cale ignored the concerned comment of the Black Dragon, who had seen the smirk on Cale’s face. Cale looked around where he was standing and made eye contact with a lot of people.

However, he trusted that these gazes would disappear once he left the capital.

That was why Cale, who had finished preparing to leave early the next morning after returning to his residence, handed the Black Dragon a piece of steak along with three other items. The Black Dragon clutched the plate with the steak on it, as he asked.

“What is this for?”

The three items were all the magic bombs with the detonation devices removed. The compressed mana still existed in these bombs. For now, Cale was planning on using just one of these three bombs. A mischievous smirk appeared on Cale’s face.

“Destroy a whirlpool.”

Cale was planning on overturning Roan Kingdom’s Northeastern sea without anybody knowing about it. It was possible because neither the mermaids nor the Whale Tribe should be at the Northeastern sea right now.