Chapter 395: The crazy one, the innocent one, and the laughing one (5)
Translator: miraclerifle
Editor: Borderline Masochist
However, Cale did not care about the decreasing time.
Alberu, who was looking at him, started to speak.
“You plan on defeating the White Star with overwhelming strength?”
“Yes, your highness.”
Cale's face was completely pale. However, his eyes were more focused and alive than ever before. Then there was this short but confident response.
Alberu nodded his head.
“Then that’s great.”
Cale didn’t pay much attention to that comment as he started to walk back to the chair he had been sitting on.
- Human, you seem okay, but hurry up and go eat one of the apple pies in the basket! You cannot faint! I'm going to tattle to grandpa Ron, Goldie gramps, Choi Han, Beacrox, and good girl Mary!
He almost chuckled at Raon's voice in his mind.
He then heard Alberu’s voice as well.
“So how do you plan on defeating the White Star with ove- huh?”
However, Alberu could not finish his question.
He reached out his hand.
He could see Cale starting to stumble.
“Young master Cale!”
“Young master-nim!”
The people who had nervously been looking at him with concern all jumped up.
- Human!
Raon quickly charged toward Cale and used his head to support Cale’s falling body. He also reached his two front paws out to help support Cale's upper body.
“Hey! You!”
The shocked Alberu’s hand grabbed the falling Cale's arm.
Ooooooong-
Alberu could see red mana quickly surrounding Cale at the same time. It was Rosalyn's mana.
She had quickly cast her mana to support Cale.
“...Ha...Damn it.”
Cale’s mumbling made Taylor and Cage, who had quickly run toward him, and Alberu, who was holding him up, look at him with odd expressions.
Cale looked shocked.
- Human! Why do you have such an expression when you were about to faint?! You really are a weak and stupid human!
Raon slowly moved his round head and chubby front paws away from supporting Cale after seeing Rosalyn’s red mana surround Cale and started to nag.
Cale’s upper body had curled forward as he was about to fall so only Raon had seen his shocked expression.
‘What the...?’
Cale was confused.
‘What is going on with me?’
He could not understand why his body was stumbling like this.
He had not used any of his ancient powers nor his ability.
He wasn't dizzy and his body wasn’t heating up with a severe fever.
He didn’t feel like he was going to vomit either.
‘But why is there no strength in my body?’
Cale followed the gentle movement of the red mana as it slowly laid him down. The red mana then slowly moved him to the couch.
Cale could finally see the others once the mana lifted his upper body back up. Alberu bluntly commented as they made eye contact.
“I knew it would be like this. Your face was a mess. Tsk.”
All of them looked as if they had expected Cale to faint. He knew Raon probably had a similar expression even though he couldn’t see him.
“...But I am fine.”
Alberu looked toward Rosalyn after hearing Cale's comment and Rosalyn smiled as she responded.
“You’re driving me nuts.”
Cale flinched.
Alberu didn’t care and pointed to the bed.
“Lay him down there. The couch is not very comfortable.”
“As you wish, your highness.”
Rosalyn moved her hand and the red mana laid Cale down on the bed.nove(l)bi(n.)com
Cale laid there and looked at the ceiling.
‘What’s wrong with me?’
He heard two voices at that moment.
“Look at how pale you are. What scared the mighty Cale Henituse?”
One of them was Alberu.
- It looks like your body got shaken up for a moment from fear and horror.
The other was the Scary Giant Cobblestone.
Cale became even more shocked after hearing their comments.
‘I'm afraid of something? Really?
I, of all people, reacted because of fear?’
He could not believe it.
He'd accept it if it was because of anger, but he was not afraid.
But Cale had no choice but to accept his current condition after raising his hand and putting it on his forehead.
His hand was slightly shaking while his forehead was covered with sweat.
It was no wonder people were saying that he was scared.
‘What am I scared about?’
Cale did not need to think long to recall the records of the past he saw when everything had turned black.
“Ha!”
Cale respected Raon's future goals.
“Anyway, I plan on living a very happy life with the children and the others, so there is no need to worry.”
Silence filled the room after he made those comments.
- ...Human, I will definitely, definitely live a happy life with you and the rest of our family members! I will destroy anybody, whether it be the gods or the White Star, if they get in our way!
The silence was soon broken.
“...It'd be one thing if you weren't so good with words.”
Alberu looked at Cale with an expression that seemed to be saying, ‘What the hell am I going to do with this punk,’ before he started to think.
“Young master Cale, make sure you remember those words.”
Rosalyn slowly pulled the blanket up to Cale’s neck as she warmly commented.
Taylor and Cage nodded their heads and their eyes were sparkling toward Cale.
‘How did the atmosphere in the room change so much?’
Cale felt frustrated but decided not to think about anything. He thought he could just brush it off since they seemed to understand his point.
“We don't have to do anything until tomorrow, so get some rest for now.”
Rosalyn said that and made Cage and Taylor move away from the bed. Alberu said that he was going to chat with Rosalyn and closed the curtains around the bed and moved away as well.
Squirm squirm.
Cale could feel something squirming toward him underneath the blanket.
It was most likely the invisible Raon crawling toward him.
Cale moved his hand underneath the blanket and the round head fell right into his palm.
- Human.
‘Yes, yes.’
Cale felt Raon's body heat as he curled up next to him and closed his eyes.
It was probably a good idea to get some rest as Rosalyn mentioned.
And once he woke back up...
‘I'm going to fucking destroy him.’
He needed to start moving to destroy the White Star.
Cale could hear Rosalyn and Alberu talking to each other, but he could not understand what they were saying as he slowly fell asleep.
“...Your highness ... For his health ......”
“...A slacker ... you're right ... Get some rest......”
Those were some of the things he heard as he fell asleep.
Pat. Pat.
Cale opened his eyes to something patting his cheek.
“Human, you woke up!”
Raon snickered as he rubbed his face on Cale’s shoulder.
Cale blinked his eyes a few times before sitting up.
Chhhhhh-
He could see Alberu Crossman sleeping on the couch once he opened the curtains surrounding the bed. The others were not in the bedroom.
They were probably all led to their own rooms.
Cale woke up and walked over to Alberu.
Raon followed behind him.
“Human, human! They’ll be here soon!”
“...Yeah. I know.”
“You look fine now!”
“Yes, I'm fine.”
“Human, are you and I going to happily live together in the future?”
"Why are you asking such an obvious question?”
“Hehe!”
The two of them were chatting like normal.
That might have been what woke Alberu up. Cale looked at the crown prince who had his disguised appearance up even as he slept and the two of them made eye contact.
“...What are you doing?”
Crunch.
Cale took a bite of a cookie.
He was hungry.
“Human, eat some apple pie as well!”
The young Dragon put a piece of apple pie in Cale’s other hand. Alberu looked toward Cale who was eating a cookie as soon as he woke up while sitting there with bed hair with shock. Cale then started to speak to him.
“Your highness, there’s some drool on your face.”
Cale continued to speak as Alberu started to frown.
“Syrem, where is that bastard?”
Alberu’s expression stiffened up.
Syrem, the fake Dragon Slayer.
He was currently imprisoned in the deepest and most dangerous underground prison in the Roan Kingdom.
He was someone who possessed three ancient powers.
Furthermore, he had launched the most devastating attack on the Roan Kingdom during the battle against the Indomitable Alliance and had caused the most damage.
“Has his execution been determined?”
Cale casually asked and Alberu casually responded.
“He’s still alive.”
Then Alberu continued to speak in a very administrative tone.
“The Nobles Meeting seem like they will determine a date soon. They kept pushing it back for many reasons. The majority believe that we need to thoroughly punish him since he was involved in both the battle at the Henituse territory and the Northeastern shores.”
Cale didn't respond and just took another bite of the cookie.
Crunch, crunch.
He munched on the cookie for a while before starting to speak.
“I need to go see that bastard.”
“I'll lead the way.”
He needed to go button the first button in his plan to destroy the White Star.