Cale stayed still for a while after the Whale siblings were gone, before turning to look at the three children average 7 years old.

"Human, what are you looking at?" Raon asked curiously before continued. "Is it because you think I am the coolest? I'm much more beautiful than those whale, right? I will give you permission to keep looking at me."

"Do you want a house of your own?" Cale asked out of blue.

Cale had been thinking about this for a while. If he was going to live with the three children, wouldn't it be great to get them a house of his own? He didn't want to relied on the money from his father.

"A house?" The Dragon's wings started to flutter.

Normally, Dragons had a strong desire for independence. Although Raon was different, that desire should still be there. So the Henituse estate was out of question, since he couldn't even remain visible with all the servants around.

Cale casually nodded his head at the Dragon's question.

However, Raon's response made him stunned shock. "Are you kicking us out? Human, are you gonna abandoned us?"

The Black Dragon's wings were shaking and the mana in the area was starting to go wild. He seemed to be very angry.

Cale immediately started to speak.

"What are you thinking about?" Cale sighed and walk toward the children who were still at the corner of the room. "Mm, it's more of a villa."

"...A villa?"

"Yes. Somewhere that you, me, On, Hong, and the Wolves will go visit and have fun. Don't even think of that idea again. I won't abandon you three." Cale looked sad.

Raon immediately apologized. "I'm sorry, Human."

"Can I have a hug to comfort myself? I'm very sad right now."

The kittens turned into their human form and gave Cale a tight hug from both side.

"Don't be sad, Cale."

"Youngest didn't mean it."

"Yes, we'll stay together. Human, don't have to be sad anymore." The Dragon entered Cale's open arm.

"Okay, we'll stay together." Cale tried his best to carry Raon. The children are getting healthier so they gained a little bit weight.

The young Dragon comfortably laid inside Cale's arms as he responded. "...I will pick the location of our villa."

Raon's eyes, that were slowly blinking like he was sleepy, finally closed to take a nap. He had a satisfied smile on his face.

Cale turned his head after hearing some snickers to see On and Hong immediately stop snickering, acting like nothing was going on, and ask Cale a question.

"When are we going home?"

"I like fish, but I don't like the sea."

Cale answered the kittens, who were still hugging him in their human form as he patted them both. "Soon."

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The next day, Cale got on the carriage with Amiru and the others seeing him out.

The carriage started to speed up, and Cale closed the carriage curtains as he started to speak. "You can turn it off now."

The Whale siblings appeared after they turned the invisibility magic device off.

Raon also revealed himself. Seeing Raon made Paseton flinched and Witira's pupils dilated.

Raon put his head on Cale's leg and blankly looked toward the Whale siblings.

"What are you looking at?"

"...That fluctuation of mana back then. That was you."

Raon and Witira stared at each other. The two of them was recognizing each other's strength. They also wanted to see how strong the other really was.

At that moment.

Pat. Cale's hand landed on the Black Dragon's head.

"Don't pick a fight, Raon. Let's go home quietly." Cale calmly stated and Raon quietly closed his eyes and went to sleep.

The carriage immediately turned quiet.

A few days later, Cale arrived back at Rain City in the Henituse territory, and immediately started to frown.

"Young master Cale-nim!"

"Oh!"

'How did the information from the capital reach here so fast?' Cale was looking at the people cheering at him and his group with a complicated expression. 'Did they forget about how I was a Trash for ten years?'

Of course, there were still people who immediately froze or ran away as soon as they saw his carriage. However, a new title was now associated with Cale.

"Young master Silver Light!"

"Young master Shield-nim! Shield!"

Cale started to frown even more. He wanted to know if there was a way for him to avoid those cheesy nicknames he got.

The Vice Captain then appeared within his line of sight. The Vice Captain, who was on a horse protecting the carriage, was proudly puffing up his chest with pride and started to speak as soon as he made eye contact with Cale.

"Young master, your heroic deeds have spread! Haha." He slowly guided the horse close to the carriage and continued to speak. "I think the name of Young master Silver Light is very cool. I am jealous, young master."

"If you can't even see how I hated the nickname, don't even talk to me about it." Slam. Cale slammed the carriage window closed in the Vice Captain's face.

Cale did not care that the Whale siblings were looking at him with curiosity as he openly scoffed and crossed his arms.

At that moment, Raon lightly tapped on Cale's knee with his paw. Cale slightly looked down at him.

Raon saw the expression on Cale's face and cautiously asked. "Are we home?"

Cale answered with soften expression. "Yes. We are home."

On and Hong started to stretch and Raon fluttered his wings.

At that moment, Cale could hear the Vice Captain's voice through the closed window. "Young master. No need to be embarrassed!"

"Oo, young master Silver Light!"

Cale could hear the Vice Captain as well as someone cheering for him.

'That damn punk.'

Cale started to frown again and this time it stayed until they arrived at the Henituse estate. The trash who had left for the capital had returned home as a hero at the moment.

Cale's family was naturally the first to greet him back home.

Swish. Swoosh. Cale's body was turned to the left and right against his will.

Tap. Tap. Tap. Cale's shoulders, arms, face, and both hands were thoroughly inspected.

Cale just had a helpless expression during the entire process. This was not anything new for Cale, his father was traumatized since the day his mum returned somewhere with injuries that led to her death.

The news that he coughed blood might still worrying him. So Cale just let Deruth did whatever he wanted to assure himself.

"Looks like you don't have any serious injuries." Count Deruth inspected Cale for a long time before finally smiling in relief.

Cale was having a warm smile on his face as fixed up his messed up sleeves. "I'm fine, father, and I'm back."

Count Deruth was still strong because he still practiced with his sword every morning. "Are you sure? Are you tired? Ah, yes, welcome home, Cale."

"I am really fine, father. Don't worry."

Once Count Deruth was finished, Countess Violan approached Cale. "I heard you have more people with you now."

She was talking about the Wolf children and the Whale siblings. The Whale siblings currently looked completely different thanks to Raon's magic.

"Yes, it somehow ended up that way."

"Okay."

Cale could see the still flawless Violan's eyes turning chilly.

"...I heard they still have not caught the terrorists."

"That is what I have heard as well."

"Alright. That'll do for now." Violan's gaze turned to Count Deruth, who also looked back at her as they exchanged messages through their eyes.

Cale wondered what they might be conveying, but pretended not to know of their silent conversation. Their gazes looked like they were going to do something big. And it related to him.

Count Deruth started to smile gently as he started to speak to Cale. "We can hear about the incident at the capital and your Ancient Power later, so go rest for now."

"Alright, father." Cale could finally head to his room at his father's suggestion. Cale wanted the children to be comfortable without the eyes watching them.

However, there were more people he needed to talk with. They were his younger siblings, Basen and Lily.

"Hyung-nim, how are you feel-."

Cale noticed the difference in the way Bassen addressing him, but ignored it.

"Ah, right." Cale turned away from his siblings and motioned to deputy butler Hans.

Hans immediately approached them. "Here you go."

"Good." Cale handed the items he took from Hans to Basen and Lily.

"Fountain pen for you, and a sword for you."

Cale had not forgotten about the items his siblings had asked him to get. He had bought these the morning before going to the palace.

He had asked Choi Han's and Rosalyn's help with choosing the sword and pen, respectively.

He handed them their presents and looked at them before asking. "What's wrong? Do you not like these?"

Basen's face was stiff. "I'm sure it was chaotic."

"I always keep my promise." Cale smiled. 'Though I bought this before the chaos...'

Basen listened to Cale's casual response and stared at him before clenching onto the box with the fountain pen and starting to speak. "I will study very hard. I will work for this territory's administration and development."

"Good, good. You have to be the next Count, so it will be great for you to study administration."

It was a great mindset in Cale's opinion. Cale started to smile with satisfaction while Basen froze.

Basen did not say anything else after that. Cale looked toward Basen with curiosity, wondering if he said anything wrong, before eventually turning away to look at his youngest sister, Lily Henituse.

The expression on this little 7-year-old's face was oddly determined. "Eldest brother."

"Yes, Lily."

"I will become strong enough to lead our knight's brigade and protect our territory. I will protect everyone."

"Ok, I will be cheering you on."

Basen with administration and Lily with the knights. The two of them will make the territory run properly.

Cale caressed Lily's head with a satisfied expression. "You will make an awesome knight."

"Thank you. I will make it so nobody has to get hurt."

"Good, I'll look forward to that. But you have to make sure you don't hurt yourself as well." Cale stopped caressing her head and started to walk. "I need to go get some rest now."

"H-Hyung-nim, please rest well."

"You must rest well in order to get better!"

Cale waved at the two children and headed toward his room. He was happy he could talk to them naturally now. The two siblings watched Cale walk away for a long time.

Cale had returned to his room for the first time in a long time, but his room did not feel that empty like before.

Meeeeow.

Meeow.

The two kittens rolling around on the bed seemed to be very excited, but Cale could not even pay attention to the kittens as he saw who was waiting for him outside his bedroom with a letter in hand.

"...Is that from Ron?"

It was Beacrox. Beacrox nodded at the question and handed Cale the letter. "Yes. It is a letter from my father."

Cale could see that the letter was not open. Although Ron had sent a letter through Hans when he had left, it seemed like he was now going to make his reports through his son.

"Great. Thanks."

"Yes sir."

"I set it up so Maes and the rest of the Wolf children will help out with the kitchen and serving. Is that okay with you?"

Beacrox's shoulders flinched, but he managed to answer after a few seconds of silence. "...yes, I understand."

He seemed to be very weak while walking away, that Cale felt a little guilty but Beacrox was doing a good job with the Wolf children so far.

Click. Cale closed the bedroom door and Raon immediately appeared.

"Our house is great. Our house is very very great." Raon jumped onto the bed with On and Hong in excitement.

'Even though Raon never been here before...' Cale snickered at the actions of the three children, whose average age was only 7-years-old, and leisurely opened up the letter. He then started to read the letter.

"Umm, is he sulking? It haven't even been a month yet. I guess I've made him worry again."

How could there be such a short report? However, it let Cale know that it was actually sent from Ron. Well, the writing and the seal was showing that it was Ron's letter.

Knock knock knock.

"Young master, may I enter?"

Cale heard Hans's voice along with the knock. The kittens calmed down while the Dragon immediately turned invisible.

"Enter."

Hans entered with his arm full of snacks for the kittens as he started to speak. "The mage said it is fine to visit at any time."

"Then I'll go now. You don't need to follow." Cale left Hans in the room as he left to head to the administrative building.

– Where are you going? To meet with a mage?

Cale slightly nodded his head for Raon who followed him instead of staying back to play with On and Hong. Cale was certain that Raon got interested in the word 'mage'.

"Young master-nim, welcome back."

"Thanks."

There were many people greeting Cale once he entered.

"Hello, young master-nim."

"Oh, yes, long time no see."

"I heard you did something big. You are so amazing."

"Not really."

Cale found it to be annoying and sped up.

The invisible Raon observed everyone before starting to flap his wings a little stronger and following after Cale.

Raon's ears flickered more and his smile became bigger as more and more people appeared to greet Cale. The young Dragon didn't see the annoyance on his guardian's face.

Of course, Cale also did not know any of Raon's reactions as he opened the door to his destination. Of course, he knocked.

"Young master-nim?"

"I haven't seen you before. Nice to meet you." Cale removed the annoyance from his stoic face.

"It is my honor."

This was the mage responsible for the territory's magic video communication. The video communication was usually handled by someone between the beginner and intermediate level.

"Can we connect right now?"

"Of course. Where shall I connect you to?" The mage continued to peek at Cale as he prepared the video communication device. The territory was currently filled with stories about Cale Henituse.

Maybe that was why, but the mage couldn't help but be curious about who Cale wanted to contact as soon as he got home.

Cale did not know about the mage's curiosity, as he casually answered. "The palace."

"Ah, the palac- the palace?"

"Yes." Cale added on to specify a bit more. "Connect me to his highness, the crown prince."

Cale saw the hesitating mage, and lightly started to frown. "Why? Is it not possible? Then can I just leave a voice message?"

"Ah, no. It is possible. Of course it is possible."

Since the palace received so many video communications, it was possible to leave behind a video or voice message, since it might not be possible for the palace to accept all requests due to the sheer number of requests.

'This world is quite comfortable, other than the fact that you need mages for things every so often.'

The mage seemed to be flustered as he set the device to the palace and reported to Cale. "It looks like it will be difficult to connect right now, but you should be able to leave a voice message for his highness."

Cale preferred to talk face to face, but it wasn't really necessary. Cale nodded his head and the mage started the device before heading out of the room.

Once Cale was certain that the mage was out of the room, he started to speak toward the device.

"Your highness, it is Cale Henituse." He got straight to the point as usual. "I plan on buying the Whipper Kingdom's Magic Tower."

The first use of the golden plaque. Cale imagined the look on the crown prince's face once he heard this message. Cale also knew that Alberu had no choice but to approve.

Alberu might act flustered and annoyed, but he would actually like what Cale was doing. He would also be curious.

That was why Cale added on another sentence. "For your information, I will not be able to communicate via video or voice communication for a week. I need to head somewhere for a bit. I just wanted to let you know in advance."

Cale then pressed the button the mage told him to press once he was done. A blue light appeared on the device to signal that the voice message was left.

He then called the mage back in and the mage looked at the light before starting to speak. "It looks like the message was left properly."

"Good."

The mage saw the smile on Cale's face and decided to speak. "It looks like you left a pretty happy message?"

"Well, I guess so." The crown prince would probably hear the message tomorrow. Cale was smiling about how the crown prince would be waiting a week for his return. 'Maybe he'll get me a private video communication device later.'

– ...I feel bad for the crown prince. But it's okay as long as my Human is happy.

Raon suddenly started to feel bad for the crown prince. Cale smiled at the comment and headed out of the communication room before heading back toward the estate to look for Deruth. He wanted to take care of everything at once while he was here.

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Tsuki: Enjoy!