"Normal speech"

'Thought'

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Cale's eyes twitched in disbelief as he stood in front of the carriage that would take him to the capital.

'This cat fanatic! Just how crazy is he toward the kittens, no wonder he got despised by them. Thanks goodness they are not normal cats'

"Hans, why is their seat seem better than mine?" Cale asked in an futile attempt at keeping his Trash image.

"Young master, shouldn't our precious kitten-nims travel comfortably on this long trip? They are still small and precious" Hans answered enthusiastically as he put the special treats he prepared for the cats in the carriage as well.

Cale and Ron had a blank expression on their face for a while. 'Just exactly how much money did he spend on those details preparation for the kittens? I'm having a headache just looking at it. At least the kids seems to enjoy it....'

"Take their expense from my allowance in the future." Cale ordered in a very stoic tone before he turned to look at the knights to avoid Ron's knowing eyes and Hans's sparkling eyes.

'I know it! He's so kind, he was just acting all tough. Hehe.' Hans thought before thanking Cale. "I'll take that offer, thank you very much, young master-nim"

"Ahem. Whatever. Don't just stand here and go check on the knights so we can leave soon."

"Yes sir!"

"I will be sitting next to the driver, Young master. Call me if you are in need of anything." Ron knew that Cale was using his anger to hide his embarrassment, so he just informed Cale with a smile before leaving him alone.

After seeing that Cale was finally alone, Choi Han approached him. "Cale-nim"

Choi Han told Cale that he did not want to call Cale 'young master', so instead choosing to call him 'Cale-nim'. Cale couldn't do anything about this stubborn guy, so he told Choi Han to do call him whatever he wanted.

"Is it okay for me not to be in the same carriage protecting you?"

Cale's expression turned blank, he responded with a bit of uncertainty. "You don't need to do that?"

Honestly, Cale still somewhat afraid to be near Choi Han, all because of the cursed ability he got as Kim Roksoo.

The record of Choi Han beaten him up, sometimes popped out when he saw Choi Han.

It's because he got the memories from the God of Death after he got this ability from the other dimension. He wanted to cursed the God of Death very badly every single time.

But Cale felt that he had gotten better at staying around Choi Han without recalling the memories, because even though Choi Han's eyes still had some darkness inside as his mind still stuck in anger and thought of revenge, but he wasn't in complete despair like the past life.

'He's recovering fast, that's good.'

Choi Han had noticed that Cale would sometimes flinched a little when he approached him, and he knew that Cale had tried his best to hide it.

He thought that maybe it was because Cale's body is weak, so he had already tried his best to control the leaking aura. He didn't want to hurt his benefactor.

It's one of the reason, Ron glared at Choi Han whenever he tried to approach Cale. And Beacrox would tried to challenge him to a fight.

Choi Han didn't say anything more and just nodded his head in understanding. Cale could only watched the disheartened Choi Han walked toward the knights.

At that moment, Cale heard something unpleasant.

"I don't think this is your spot." It was the leader of the envoy, the vice captain of the Henituse territory knight brigade.

He approached Choi Han and then looked at him from head to toe before smirking like he was looking down on Choi Han.

Cale frowned and clicked his tongue. He climbed the carriage in annoyance and grumbled as soon as he is seated. "I think helping him now wouldn't make things better, it might get worsen the more I help. But why is that vice captain so eager to die? Choi Han had already defeated them altogether before."

On and Hong rubbed their head on Cale's hand to comfort him. Cale hugged and cuddled with them, telling them he's fine.

'It's my fault Choi Han got looked down on like that. He's the first guest I invited to the house since I was named as Trash. I guess father also went overboard with special treatment, which made people dislike and opposed him. Oh well, as long as Choi Han doesn't kill the poor guy outright, it's okay for now.'

Cale was still looking out of the window when the vice captain approached him with a wide smile.

"Young master, shall we leave now?"

'How pretentious' Cale clicked his tongue at the smile on the vice captain's face.

"Yes. Let's go." Cale slammed the carriage door in the vice captain's face.

The vice captain was dumbfounded at the clear dislike, but he controlled his expression and walked back toward his place at the front.

15 soldiers, 5 knights and 1 special guard. Cale's envoy, which is consisted of this protective squad and then some other people, finally started to head toward the capital.

No one dare to touch Cale's carriage in Henituse territory because of the 'Golden Turtle', the symbol of Henituse family, was on the carriage. However, after leaving the territory, tens of bandits showed up.

"Pay the toll if you want to cross the mountain!"

"Take out everything you have! If we found anything after you claim to have taken everything out, it will be one slap for every bronze we find!"

Cale who heard everything from inside the carriage, sighed tiredly and asked On who was yawning. "You think they can't see the symbol on my carriage?"

"I guess so"

"Idiots! Amateurs!"

Cale chuckled and nodded his head at Hong's accurate assessment. Then he heard a knocking sound from the small window by the driver's seat before the window was slightly opened.

Ron could be seen looking inside. "Young master, it looks like we will need to take a break. There seems to be quite a lot of rabbits here."

'Rabbits?' Cale looked oddly at Ron before turning away. 'First he compared Choi Han to a cat, and now the bandits are rabbits.'

(Tsuki: for my mentality state! Stop thinking that Ron think of Cale as a puppy! 😫😫😫😫😫 I'll just erase the problem. 😶😶😶)

Ron continued when he saw Cale's expression. "Ah, no worries, young master. Those rabbits can't hurt you as they will be hunted down by other people."

Cale proceeded to ignore everything Ron said afterward. Cale knew very well that the old man developed a habit of teasing him every single chance he got now.

'A day and a half.' Cale looked out the window and calculated the time.

In about a day and a half, the envoy would arrive around the area where the black dragon was imprisoned and tortured. It was earlier than when Choi Han arrived in the novel. This was because Cale had made them rush forward without break.

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Tsuki: Enjoy!