Chapter 26.5

‘At that time, the secret organization installed bombs on some people during the incident.’ Choi Han, along with the genius mage Rosalyn, protected the people from the bombs and helped with their escape. At that time, there was an old man that Choi Han had failed to save. The man had lost his right arm and leg while taking a bomb off and throwing it away from himself, and this incident had made Choi Han extremely upset. Watching the old man’s hurt body, the crown prince thought about, ‘The Healing Star.’ That was how the power was originally introduced in the novel. Naturally, the crown prince did not use the power on the old man. Instead, he consoled Choi Han, who was feeling responsible for the old man’s death, and raised him up as a hero. ‘It is only normal.’ Cale did not think the crown prince made the wrong decision. Who can judge him for wanting to use his power for himself? Of course, Choi Han or Rosalyn would have used it for the old man. “By the way, is little brother dragon still following us?” Cale nodded his head at Hong’s question. ‘Since it is like this, I might as well use the dragon for my benefit as well.’ His original plan was to save him and then be done with him, but if the dragon was going to follow him around the country like a little puppy, he might as well put it to good use. He had already thought about how to use that dragon the last few nights as well. Cale knew the location of the 5 magic bombs that Choi Han had found in the novel, but he was not sure about the location of the remaining 5 magic bombs that ended up going off. The five bombs that were located were found by using Rosalyn’s genius-level mana detection abilities to find them one by one. But now, Cale had an existence that was worlds better than Rosalyn at detecting mana following him around like a lost duck. “Might as well make it work hard.” The kittens flinched at that statement, but Cale did not see it as he was thinking about all of the work he was going to make the dragon do in the capital. The dragon, who had no idea about any of this, delivered a boar to the campsite early in the morning once again. Cale, who slept in after staying up late planning out the things that needed to be completed at the capital, went out to verify the boar before noticing an odd atmosphere. He had eaten and slept in the carriage last night. He was doing his best to not interact with Taylor and crew. That was why he could not understand this odd, and somewhat, dark atmosphere. “Hans. What is going on?” Hans put on an awkward smile and greeted Cale. Hans, as well as the rest of the Cale’s group, were quickly getting past their suspicions about the meat and fruit being delivered to them. Although Cale had no idea what Ron thought about it, since Cale and Choi Han both had said that it was fine, they just went along with it. Beacrox was easy to convince since he was always excited to see ingredients of the highest quality appear every morning. “Haha, young master, did you finally wake up?” Hans slowly peeked toward Taylor and Cage, before approaching Cale. “You see, I think young master Taylor has gotten the wrong idea.” “Wrong idea?” Cale could see the boar, as well as Taylor on the wheelchair, and Cage pushing Taylor’s wheelchair behind him. He approached the dead boar and stood next to the wheelchair as he started to speak. “What is going on?” As usual, the boar that the dragon delivered was enormous. It was larger than a tiger, the type of boar that would excite Beacrox quite a bit. And, as usual, there was a drawing next to the boar. The dragon must have found it annoying to draw the fork, as only the knife was drawn this time. “...Young master Cale. I’m sorry.” What kind of utter nonsense was this? Taylor had an apologetic smile on his face as he turned away from the boar. “It seems like my movements have been detected.” Movement? Cale could then hear the priestess Cage mumbling behind Taylor. She was angry. “We left in secret, so how is it possible? There is someone who can avoid my detection? This is too much!” ‘How would someone at your level detect a dragon?’ Cale was done figuring out what was going on. Something, or someone, that was able to catch such a large boar so easily and drop it off at their campsite without being detected by the priestess Cage or anyone else. That strength and stealthiness was something only an expert would have. Next to that feat of strength was a drawing of a knife. It was a small knife to Cale, but they seemed to be seeing a very large knife. Cale looked back at Taylor, who was looking at him with both despair and sorriness. “...Young master Cale. This incident - “ “Beacrox.” Cale called out to Beacrox. Marquis Stan’s second son, Venion, was probably extremely busy right now. Why would someone like that pay attention to the disabled eldest son? It wasn’t like Venion knew, ‘The Healing Star,’ was at the capital. “Yes, young master?” Beacrox, who was standing there with his kitchen knife prepared, responded with excitement on his face. “Looks like we’ll be eating steak for breakfast.” “Young master, it looks like we will get the highest quality steak once again.” Taylor, who was staring at Cale with a blank expression, suddenly started to speak. “... Once again?” Cale nodded his head and responded. “We have someone in our party who delivers food for us.” “...Who is it?” Cale snorted before responding. “He is surprisingly shy so you will not be able to see him.” Cale saw the leaves on a tree not far from the campsite moving up and down and shook his head. Cale shaking his head made both Taylor and Cage turn red from embarrassment. “Ahem, I, I see. It seems we had the wrong idea.” “It’s not your fault. Beacrox is an excellent cook, so please have some steak before you go.” Beacrox stopped caressing the boar and looked up at Cale. Cale could not look at Beacrox because of what Taylor said next. “Young master Cale, I heard that you are heading for the capital. If it is okay with you, may we follow behind you?” ‘I knew it would be like this.’ It was as Cale had expected. “Please feel free to do whatever is best for you.” There was no way they would find out that he had written the letter just from them traveling with him. If it was going to be like this anyways, he might as well take care of them until the capital and have them owe him a debt. These two could be very useful in the future if he used them properly. “Thank you. We will be under your care until we get close to the capital.” Cale started to smile a bit at Taylor’s words. ‘At least he’s not completely unreasonable.’ Close to the capital. Taylor was only asking for help until a location that would not make things difficult for Cale or Count Henituse in dealing with Venion or Marquis Stan for associating with the disabled Taylor. There would be all sorts of complications if they went into the capital together. “We will determine that later on.” Naturally, Cale had a different opinion. There were still many items in the magic box waiting to be used by Cale. “Of course. Please feel free to let us know whenever is most convenient for you, young master.” “Sure.” Taylor and Cage looked toward the casually responding Cale with curiosity. However, Cale avoided their gaze and started to speak to Hans. “Bring my meal to the carriage.” “Yes, sir.” Cale headed back to the carriage. At that moment, someone called out to him. “Young master Cale.” It was Cage. She seemed to have a headache, as she started to frown and walk over toward Cale. Cale had a bitter taste in his mouth while watching Cage approach him. “What can I do for you, priestess-nim?” “Do you really not believe in any god?” ‘Now what the heck does she want?’ “Yes, none of them.” “... I understand.” Cale quickly headed to the carriage after hearing Cage’s response. Taylor approached her as she watched Cale walk away. “What’s going on?” Cage rarely engaged with people other than people from the temple or her close friends. That was why it was really odd for Taylor to see Cage frowning and reaching out to Cale. She shook her head and responded with a very bitter expression. “It’s odd.” “What is?” “Well, it’s like.” Cage touched the back of her head. “I have this bitter feeling that the God of Death is caressing the back of my head with a sympathetic expression.” “...What kind of feeling is that? Did you not sleep properly?” “Maybe.” Cage continued to feel that way every time she looked at Cale. The only time she felt this way in the past was when the temple had forced her to do a lot of manual labor in order to build a new temple. She had felt this same feeling when she plopped down from exhaustion and the God of Death was looking down at her with concern. ‘There’s no way young master Cale will order us around like that damn temple.’ Cage decided Taylor was right about her not sleeping properly, and tried to shake the feeling away. That was how Cale’s crew grew bigger and they continued toward the capital with no other issues. Every time Cale got tired of sitting down and stepped out of the carriage, Taylor’s group continued to look toward him, but they did not have any conversations. They continued to travel like that until they were at an inn about one day’s worth of travelling away from the capital. “Young master Cale, you like alcohol, right?” Taylor and Cage came to look for Cale. “What can I do for you?” Cale wanted to know why they came to visit him so late at night, but his expression was not that odd. Taylor smiled at Cale’s demeanor. “Cale Henituse, the trash who cannot go a day without alcohol.” When Taylor was still the potential successor to the Marquis, he had received all of the information about the nobles as well. Cale’s information was so unique that there was no way he could forget it. “But I don’t think that is all.” However, Cale was very different compared to the information. He stayed in the carriage all day so that they would feel at peace, and had the generosity to give them the best treatment possible. His subordinates also trusted and followed him. Most importantly, he treated the two of them like normal people. “You are different from the rumors.” They were now right in front of the capital. Taylor and Cage would need to move stealthily starting early the next morning. Of course, they will have to confidently walk in when they walk into the royal palace. But there were many things they were prepared to research before that happened. However, they had made up their mind to move differently than their original plan. They had been watching Cale Henituse for over a week. This person was now on Taylor and Cage’s mind. “Young master Cale. It should be okay to share a drink with us before we leave, right?”