Cale grabbed the crown prince's invitation and got off the carriage. The gathering was to start at 5 pm. Cale looked at the palace, that was incomparable to both the Henituse estate and their residence in the capital combined.

The Palace of Joy. The name of the location of the gathering was called the Palace of Joy, and it was built by the king to share his joy of the birth of the crown prince. Of course, the king now favored the third prince.

Cale was planning to meet up with Eric, Gilbert, and Amiru outside the palace and entered together. He looked toward the palace and started to think. 'Is this a cliche too?'

It just so happened that someone else arrived at the palace right when Cale arrived.

"Wow, who is this? Isn't this our famous young master Cale?"

Cale held back his sigh. He could feel the distaste from the person before him just from their tone. The person approaching him was Neo, the successor to Viscount Tolz.

'Why do I have to run into one of Venion's dog now?'

Neo Tolz was one of the stereotypical villains. He went around doing Venion's biddings.

Even though, in the past, they were once friendly with the Henituse family.

That all changed once they went under Marquis Stan's faction 5 years ago. Of course, they wouldn't say it out loud, but they would stealthily try to take control of the Northeastern nobles meeting.

Neo Tolz smiled brightly as he stood in front of Cale. "You are alone?"

They were still a bit away from the palace entrance, and the Vice Captain and Ron were speaking with the guard to get permission to enter. Cale, who brought only the minimal amount of people with him, looked down on Neo.

Neo saw that Cale was alone, and thus pushed his subordinates back. "I am going to chat with young master Cale for a bit. Go get permission for us to enter."

Neo sent his subordinates to the guard, and took one step closer to Cale. Once the two of them were standing very close, Neo started to speak.

"Young master Cale." Neo had a warm and friendly smile on his face, as he spoke in a quiet voice that only Cale could hear."What is a terrible trash like you doing coming to the palace?"

"Young master Neo." Cale smiled gently in return and then whispered back. "If even a dog like you can come, why can't a trash like me come as well?"

'The son of a Viscount dares to speak like this to the son of a Count?' Cale haughtily looked at Neo.

"You!" Neo was angry. But he couldn't act in front of the palace. That was why he tried to provoke Cale.

Cale just continued to look down at Neo. Neo's expression darkened even more. To Neo, Cale was a trash who just looked fine on the outside.

For someone like Neo, who had to suck up to Venion the entire time he was at the capital, Cale was a good prey to bother.

"What? Do you want to hit me just because I don't greet you first? I'm very sorry. I don't know a Count's son needs to greet a Viscount's son first in the capital." Cale taunted Neo with his trashy smile. "I never come to the capital, so I didn't know the capital has different etiquette."

'He comes to provoke me. He's doing it on purpose. We can't take any magic items into the palace, so I won't be able to take a magic recording device inside. That is why he's trying to rile me up out here.'

If Cale caused a ruckus here, it would be seen as a fight between a trash and a dignified noble. It would only be to Neo's advantage, that was why he was trying to provoke Cale to bring down the Henituse family name.

But Cale couldn't just stand there, when he looked down on the Henituse family. He then heard a voice inside his head.

It was Raon speaking through magic.

– What a bastard. It reminds me of that bastard Venion.

'He is Venion's dog and the dog learnt to act as its master.' Although Cale could not say that out loud, Raon continued to speak in Cale's mind.

– Should I kill him?

'I don't think there's a need to do that. Yet.' Cale shook his head to the dragon who was following him while remaining invisible.

Seeing Cale shake his head like he was hopeless made Neo even angrier, but he calmed himself down, he wanted to provoke Cale again.

At that moment, Cale's gaze turned to a new carriage that just arrived.

Bang! The carriage door burst open as soon as the carriage stopped, and Eric Wheelsman got out of the carriage. Gilbert and Amiru were inside the carriage as well.

Cale waved his hand at Eric, who was rushing over with his eyes wide open, while pointing to Neo with his index finger. "Eric Hyung, why didn't you tell me that I, as a trash son of a Count, should greet the Viscount Tolz's son first? I seem to make him angry because I didn't greet him first."

Cale's fake pitiful voice that called out to him, as well as the cold gaze in Cale's eyes, told Eric everything he needed to know.

Cale made sure to emphasize their statuses every time he opened his mouth to let Neo knew his place. But the hidden message for Eric was... 'Get rid of him before I cause trouble.'

"Ahem. Mm! Young master Neo, it has been a while." Eric immediately moved in between Cale and Neo.

Neo's eyes seemed to be defeated. He thought he could provoke the trash again, but it was difficult to do it now with Eric Wheelsman present.

He couldn't believe the trash could calmly countered him like this, it was his miscalculation. It was definitely just because they are at the palace.

"Yes, young master Eric. I hope you have been well." Neo greeted Eric that way before also greeting young lady Amiru and young master Gilbert.

He then saw them all standing in front of Cale, and clicked his tongue. 'I guess they are protecting him. Even if he is trash, he is still on their side after all.'

Neo decided not to do anything after seeing the three of them protecting Cale.

Eric noticed Neo's intent, and slowly turned around to look at Cale. Neo's gaze turned to Cale as well.

"Mm." Neo then subconsciously let out a groan.

Cale was still quietly looking at Neo with his arms crossed. But Cale's eyes were now extremely scornful. He had not said anything to Neo at the moment, but his gaze and his body language said everything that needed to be said.

'Classless fool.'

It made Neo think about the gaze Venion used to look at him. Even though Neo was angry when Venion looked at him with such a gaze, he consoled himself by saying it was the look of a higher ranking noble and let it go.

Cale turned away after watching Neo's shaking pupils for a while, and looked behind him. He heard Raon's report in his ear.

There was a reason he brought the Black Dragon with him today.

– The voice recording magic is ready.

Cale had asked the Black Dragon to record everything that happened today. Video recording required a lot of mana usage and was difficult to maintain for a long period of time, so Cale had to be satisfied with just voice recording.

Cale was originally not going to do this because the palace would have a lot of mages who were sensitive to mana, but Raon assured him that it would be undetected as long as the range of the voice recording was small.

Cale made up his mind to use this in the future to make Neo cried tears of blood, before heading toward the palace entrance. He made sure to lower his voice enough not to catch in the record when he whispered to Neo. Cale was the type of person to always pay back his debts.

Eric Wheelsman watched Cale walk away like a proud brother. Even though there seems to be an arguments, but Cale didn't cause any big troubles. He was thinking that the letters he sent every day must have worked.

On the other hand, Gilbert and Amiru watched Cale with curious expressions. Cale Henituse, the man who used to only wear flashy clothes, chose to wear a simple black outfit without any accessories. They haven't seen that since the late countess had passed away. Even his red hair was clean and shining from the sun.

They wondered if it was because Cale was not drunk. Each of Cale's steps looked relaxed and calm.

Amiru and Gilbert watched Cale turned around once he got to the palace entrance.

Cale's gaze, that seemed to be beckoning them over, was the most curious thing for them.

"Young master Neo, I will see you inside. Young lady Amiru and young master Gilbert, let us go."

Eric was watching Cale proudly, but Amiru and Gilbert had an even stranger sensation when the three of them stood in front of Cale.

Cale looked at the two confused people, as well as the proud Eric, and started to speak. "Let's go."

The three of them followed Cale into the palace. Gilbert and Amiru's odd sensation continued to grow the further they followed Cale.

Cale did not care however, and decided he would use these three people as much as he could today. He was someone to pay back his grievance.

"Young master Cale of Count Henituse's household is entering the hall!"

Cale could hear the servant shout out Eric, Gilbert, and Amiru's names as well as he walked into the hall.

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Tsuki: Enjoy!