"Normal Speech"

'Thought'

Past Narrative

"Past speech"

'Past thought'

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"Young master, this is the best room we have."

"Hmm, it looks good." Cale commented honestly.

The old man led Cale's group to his inn. The exterior of the inn looked as rustic as the village, but it had everything you would need, probably because the merchants visiting to and from Henituse territory stayed at this inn on their travels.

"This is the first time we have a noble staying with us. Please excuse us if we are lacking anything, considering that this is a place us lesser being lives."

Cale looked at the old man, who seemed more comfortable talking with him than with Venion.

Nonetheless, the nervousness that was nearly gone before was back, and much more so when he, a noble, decided to stay at the inn for a few days.

It was fine for Cale when the people he talked to had a little anxiety but the old man had too much of it.

Cale patted his shoulder and tried to calm him down. "Old man, relax. Even if I'm a noble, I got everything from my father and not from my own merit. Furthermore, what lesser being are you talking about?I'm just a human like you.

And most importantly, I've just said that this place is good, so stop looking down on yourself. I hate talking a lot just to explain the obvious things."

The old man's pupils shook. He couldn't help the tears that fell. He had met a few nobles in his lifetime; it caused him to think that all nobles were haughty and unreasonable. They looked down on commoners' life as if it didn't matter that they all die.

But to think that he could heard a young noble saying these words to comfort him. He couldn't control his feeling anymore.

Cale looked awkwardly at the old man, surprised at the sudden crying. He looked toward the kittens for help, but they avoid his eyes. Cale could do nothing but stand there frozen and wait for the old man to calm down again.

The old man finally realized what he had done after a few sniffles. "I-I'm so sorry for showing such an embarrassing sight."

He hesitated a little before continued. "Young master, are the people from Henituse territory all good people like you?"

"Hmm? Oh, I'm not a good person; I'm quite famous as a Trash from Henituse territory, so anyone you find there will have a better personality than me."

On and Hong shook their head and looked at him incredulously. The old man let out a gasp at the unpredictable answer.

Cale didn't care about their reactions, he quickly shooed the old man away, he couldn't stand this awkwardness anymore. "You can go back to your work now."

The old man bowed and left the room as Cale ordered.

"Phew. How awkward." Cale sighed and took out a box from his spatial bag after making sure that the old man was gone and place the box on the bed.

The box was a Magic box, it's different from his mother's Enchanted box, as most Enchanted box has peculiar method of opening, such as using blood. Magic box is easier to open, and you don't need to hurt yourself.

Knock knock knock! Someone else was knocking on the door.

"Come in"

The door open and Hans walked inside. He approached Cale to ask for a confirmation. "Young master, will we be staying here for three days?"

"That's right. So, make sure you take care of everything."

Hans accepted the order, but his attention was caught by the Flynn Merchant Guild's logo on the magic box. So he openly show his curiosity on his face.

Cale casually commented at Hans's behavior. "Isn't a butler not supposed to show their emotions on their face, especially their curiosity?"

"One of the proper etiquettes that the Henituse butler should have is to show all their emotions to their master." Hans spoke seriously for the first time ever.

"You're so funny. Is there even something like that?" Cale giggled.

"I guess I am funny, if you said so, young master." Hans laughed sillily.

Even if Hans was being a little impudent, but seeing as Hans started to get used to him, Cale was feeling happy.

So he casually said to Hans. "Just get out already, Hans."

"Yes sir. I'll come again to inform you when the dinner is ready."

"I want extra meat for dinner and extra cakes for dessert."

"Understood" Hans bowed and left the room. He remembered the final order that Deruth gave him before he left for this journey.

"No matter how absurd or ridiculous the orders are, as long as it doesn't bring harm to my son, follow every one of Cale's orders."

Cale smiled when Hans accepted his order quite easily. He felt at ease with Hans doing everything, because Hans is the most efficient person he knew after Ron and Beacrox.

"He is a good butler." On commented. "Even if he's too much to handle most of the time."

"Only when you guys are around him." Cale chuckled and picked him both to put them on the bed, right opposite to him, with the Magic box in between them.

Cale pressed his finger on the magic seal to open the box. His fingerprint was the key to open this Magic box.

Beep.... Click.... The box made a small sound before opening without a problem. Inside the box were the things that Cale had prepared prior to his journey to the capital.

"I'm really curious about this"

"Really curious"

Cale explained very casually. "These are the things to help a poor soul, screw over some douchebags as well as prevent me from getting hurt."

"We won't let you get hurt."

"Yeah, we will help so you won't get hurt."

Cale thanked them, he recalled the conversation he had with Billos a few days before he left Henituse territory.

"Young master, just what do you plan on using these things?"

"Hmm, are you sure you wanted to know about it?" Cale's expression changed slightly. "You know that when you want something, you need to pay equivalent price for it."

"Ah, on second thought, I don't want to know that much. I was just a little curious. But.... You wouldn't use these for bad things, right?"

"Well.... That depends on how you described 'bad things'" Cale chuckled evilly.

"Ahem. Okay I'll just trust you and shut up, young master. I won't ask again. But I'll have to informed you that these items will cost you quite a bit to purchase."

"I do expect it to be expensive, but not to this extent. Is it possible to rent them all?"

"It's possible for you, of course." Billos explained more. "For the two items that are not able to be rented by outsiders. I'll use my name to rent it for you. So please, return it back when we meet at the capital, in person."

"Alright alright. I'll go meet you and return it in person. I won't give you troubles." Cale appeased Billos. 'I still have a lot of uses for you.'

Majority of the items inside the box were magic tools. Cale had used up all the allowances he had earned from his father after his regression. 'What a loss, I spent a lot of money on it but I have to return them back later.'

Cale grabbed one of the items from the box. It was a round black orb with a lot if symbols engraved on it.

Hong put his paw on the box and asked. "What is it? Really curious about it."

"It's a Mana Disturbance Tool. It is worth about a billion gallons"

Gasp. Both On and Hong let out a loud gasp.

"It costs me 20 million gallons just to rent it."

Hong slowly lower his paws and retreated toward the corner of the bed with his sister. They are both trying to keep their distance from the orb.

Cale smiled and threw the orb toward them. "It's not that fragile."

"Huk!"

"Nyan!"

They jumped to avoid the orb in a bit of fright, before what Cale said register in their mind. He approached and touch it cautiously.

Cale remembered what Billos told him about the orb.

"It causes a disturbance in the flow of mana within a certain range, making all magic tools stop working. It is also sturdy enough to withstand an explosion that could blow up a mountain."

"Something like surveillance tools will break right away then?" Cale asked to confirm.

"Of course. However, you need to install this 27 hours in advanced. It is created to slowly infused force that will disrupt the mana flow so that it will not noticed by mages.

It would only last for 40 minutes, Young master. Of course, if there are mages nearby, they wil be able to resolve the issue within 5-10 minutes."

"I will keep that in mind." Cale smiled in satisfaction. "I like how it is so durable."

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Tsuki: lol I know I cut the chapter at a weird place. Bare with it. Enjoy.