The Count Family's Young Master
Chapter 28 - Again (1)

"Sister! Brother has no idea what we just witnessed with Valias!"

Wistar asked Vetra to take them directly to Frey's room and Wistar immediately exclaimed.

Frey controlled himself as crown prince because Vetra was still there. Condemn Wistar's attitude in his heart.

"Yes, brother. Miss Vetra. Thank you for helping young master Valias. You can come back."

"Y, Your honor.."

Vetra remembered what had happened earlier. There were various things he wanted to ask Frey the crown prince and the future king in front of him.

A war? Is Hayden really going to have a war?

Especially to that red-haired young master. Based on Vetra's description, it seems like the young master named Valias is what is at the core of this shocking info.

God's message? Is that possible?

Such a thing has never happened before. Today, it's so shocking for Vetra.

Vetra thought, should he and his friends prepare for war? They are the royal mage Hayden. They live under the luxurious roof of the palace and serve the royal family. Does that mean they'll be Hayden's weapons in the war? Young master Valias even asked the elves for help. A creature that Vetra never thought would exist for real.

Vetra's mind was so full that he didn't know where he should ask. But on the one hand, he was aware of his position. He was just a runaway immigrant and lived in the palace with the permission of the previous King. He had nowhere to get an answer.

"Yes, Miss Vetra?"

"...No, your highness. I'll be back. Excuse me."

Vetra decided to bury his curiosity and let his brain make its own assumptions. If one day he decides to ask the crown prince Frey then he will do it later. The most important thing now was to encourage himself and his friends to practice more so that they could become weapons of war.

The four people inside the room watched Vetra exit the room and Frey finally let out a tired sigh.

"Don't say anything first. Let me sit down. I know everything Valias has to do is make me feel like I have a heart attack. Dylan. You sit down too. You must be tired after being with Wistar for a long time."

"Sister!" Wistar feels betrayed. Dylan simply nodded and sat down next to Valias. Frey and Wistar sat across from them.

"alright. Wistar, shut the fuck up. Valias. You also. Let me just listen to Dylan. Dylan. Tell me what you guys did earlier."

"Hm, Your honor. Valias took us to the border where Miss Vetra was found." Dylan muttered before explaining.

Frey raised his eyebrows. "Why do you know there's an elf there? And, ha. how can you be so sure that they exist." Frey is tired.

"Sister. Valias must have gotten a message from the gods again."

Valias gets annoyed whenever the topic is called.

"God also told you that elves live on the border?"

Is this a coincidence? Frey had just told Valias that the palace knights found Vetra there, and Valias immediately decided to go there and actually immediately found the elf's residence.

Valias was about to open his mouth but the sound of the Wistar cut him off.

"Sister. I don't know what Dylan and I saw. Valias wrote a lot of things on paper with the language he created himself. There are also many books in his room. Probably journals. Could it be that Bardev is secretly looking for an elf without our knowledge?"

"Journals? Is that really Valias?"

"No, your honor. My mum. My mother gave me the books before she died. Then I started studying it from then on."

"You actually wrote those papers in one year until you had a nosebleed like that?"

Wistar's words made Frey frown.

This brat. He just wanted to die that way?

"Alright, alright. I don't care anymore. How did you find the whereabouts of the elves, whatever, I don't want to know. You're just gonna give me a headache. Dylan. Tell me if you're talking to that elf or not."

With how noisy Wistar is, Frey believes his sister and Dylan and Valias might as well have actually met the elf he thought was just the author's joke.

"Yes, your highness. There was a stone pillar and Valias was sticking stones from his journal. The pillar was split in two and there was an entrance hole underneath it. The elf found us. But they just let Valias in. Me and Wistar are also Miss Vetra waiting outside."

"...Alright. I guess in the end I'll have to ask Valias."

Valias was about to open his mouth but Wistar cut him off again. "Sister. Did you know Hayden was going to war? Looks like Valias went to the elves to ask for their help. They initially refused but before we left the elf lady suddenly changed her mind and said she would meet us after conferring with her family."

Frey covered her mouth with her hands, trying to control herself not to scream.

Frey thought, Valias really. Frey did not expect that he would meet someone like Valias who was able to make him speechless with all his actions.

He managed to save himself from death by poison. He became the recipient of the message of God. He informs Frey of the whereabouts of a half-brother he never knew and has the intention to kill him, and Valias tells him Hayden is going to war, and Valias, with his madness sought the existence of the elves to ask for their help.

And he found them.

"good. Thats enough. I understand the big line. So you guys actually met them? How do they look? Is it the same as in the book we read first, Wistar?"

Wistar even forgot his habit of telling Frey to call him Wissy. "Really! Just like in the book. Even though I don't know how they live. Valias. You go in there. How are they staying?"

Valias put on a faint smile. "I'm sorry, your honor. I promised to hide information about them."

"really? Uh.." Wistar's disappointed.

"That's it. You're not a kid anymore. Dylan. You understand that this is all a secret, don't you? You can't tell Duke Adelard either."

Dylan nodded. "Sure, your honor."

"You too, Wistar. Don't tell anyone even Azna and mom. Let's just let us both know."

"I understand, brother." Wistar grinned.

Frey seemed silent for a moment.

"Now, about the southeast.."

Valias heard Frey bring up the topic of conversation that was cut off.

"Yes, your honor."

Frey put his head on the hand he put on the back of the sofa. "What do you think we should do?"

"Have you investigated them?"

Frey already doesn't care how Valias calls him. "really. My personal knight, Uvan does a good job of making observations there."

Frey grinned. While Valias smiled bitterly to know how lacking the talented individuals Hayden had. Valias also feels sad for Frey who does not have a reliable person in running the things he needs.

It seemed that the knight named Uvan was the only person the would-be king could ask for help from before him.

Unlike Kei, who has quite a herd ready to do anything to follow him,

Hayden and Frey lack such people.

"Your highness. I'll meet them."

"...They who? The elf?" Frey raised his eyebrows. Wondering why the red-haired boy suddenly changed the topic and wanted to see the elves again after just returning.

"No. Kei."

"?!"

"So you really know?"

Valias is not planning on seeing Kei and his friends this soon. But he felt sad for Frey. The child was younger than him but had to bear such a huge burden because there was no one he could rely on. At least Valias wanted to help the silver-haired boy.

"Who's Kei?" ask Wistar confused.

"...Ha.. He's our half-brother." Frey sighed while covering her face with both hands in frustration.

".....What's?" Wistar was so confused that he did not exclaim as he usually did.

"Are you kidding me?" Wistar laughed witfully. But Frey, who had reopened her face, did not change her expression at all. Valias was silent. So did Dylan.

".....Seriously brother?"

Frey shrugged. "I don't have the energy to joke."

"....Okay. I-i understand. No problem."

Wistar was silent with a blank look. "Mother or father?"

"Dad. Before you were born. She's the same age as me."

"....So before you marry mom?"

Frey nodded weakly. Too tired of everything.

"Ho.. Yes.. ....Then why would Valias want to see him? Since when do you know? Why is my sister telling me now?" Wistar was silent for a moment. "Did Azna know? Did mom know?"

"They don't know. And don't need to know."

"When did you know?"

Frey moved his chin at Valias. "He. Your god's message recipient's friend. He told me yesterday."

"Yesterday?! When the brother's assailant came?"

Frey lifted his head to the back of the sofa. Groaned. "He was the intruder."

"What?! My stepbrother wants to kill my brother??"

Wistar looked at her brother with round eyes and an open mouth.

"okay.. I-i understand. Means my half-brother is named Kei, and brother Kei is negotiating with brother and Valias. And now Valias is going to see my half-brother??"

"That's it, Wissy." Reply Valias indifferently.

"Oh.." Wistar lost his strength and directly leaned his body against the back of the sofa before straightening his body again. "When are you going to see my stepbrother?"

"Tonight. Ah, it's afternoon now. So now it's just."

"Now?" Ask Dylan.

Valias nodded. "Yes. Now." Now."

"The man named Kei was the one who intended to kill the future king Hayden. He has a herd, and is armed. You can't possibly meet them with your bare hands, right?"

Dylan thought Valias had forgotten about it.

"No. I'll come empty-handed."

"Valias?! Where could you possibly do that? My stepbrother is too dangerous. I can't let you go alone. I'm coming! Dylan! You also. Bring swords! We're going to see my stepbrother!"

Dylan silently waited for the voice from Valias. The person sitting next to him is the key to everything that happens. Dylan will follow Valias' decision.

"No, prince. I'll go alone."

"T, but, you're sick. How about you pass out again? Who's gonna help you? At least take one knight with you."

Valias. Kei is a person who has the issue of trusting people. Valias hopes that, by proving himself that he came empty-handed and had no malicious intent, Kei and his flock will be willing to talk to him.

Valias stands. "I'll go now."

Frey looked at Valias before sighing. "Wait a minute."

Frey got up from the couch and walked over to the table. The three people in the room could hear the sound of a drawer opening and Frey took out a parchment from there.

"Bring this with you."

"...What'sthis?" Valias receives the parchment Frey gave him.

"That's a spell scroll. You rip it off, and you're gonna move straight into this room. Come back if you feel in danger."

"Sister! Big brother really let Valias go alone?!"

Frey breathed again. "That person, Kei is not someone we can deal with easily. Back then, if Valias hadn't fallen and fainted all of a sudden, I guessed that he would have killed me right then and there. I'm not sure, but.. I feel Kei and his group have enough confidence in Valias. Let Valias meet them. Valias. You can't tell us where you're going?"

Valias smiled faintly. "No, your honor."

"I thought so." Frey grunting. "Is far away? You need to bring supplies?"

Valias. "I think I need a vehicle."

"Train? Or horses?"

Valias grimaced in his heart. He forgot that there were no cars and motorcycles here.

"...Horses, maybe." Valias touched his nape. "But I don't know how to ride a horse."

How could he possibly know? He never even rode a horse in his entire life. He had only ever seen young children riding rental horses in a mall that Valias had visited for the first and last time. Even riding the time horse carriage to the palace was a new thing for him. He never felt the sense of riding delman like people.

Dylan raised his hand. "I'll drive you."

"You? You're going to come? Then I'll come too!"

"Ben can only bring two people."

"Dylan.." Wistar. "Then I'll bring my horse too!"

"Valias and his highness Frey told me he had to go alone. There's no point in taking you. You shut up and stay here." Gerakat Dylan.

Frey shrugged his shoulders. "You're right. You can go with Valias. Take him to their place. Wistar, you stay here. Valias. Only Dylan should be okay, right? He doesn't talk much like my brother. He can count on you."

Valias. It's true he needs a way to get there. He could not use a mage like Vetra earlier because he really had to keep this a secret. But if Dylan..

"...Hm.. I think it's okay. Dylan. You don't matter? Your father won't worry?"

Dylan stands. "The old man won't care what I do. We need to go to my house first to get my horse."

Valias nodded. "okay."

"I'm coming! Just until your house." Wistar has not given up. He doesn't want to lose time with his friends.

"Dylan. Just take him. Let him be satisfied and stop bothering me. If you have to leave him at Adelard's. Let him go home on foot."  Cynical Frey.

"Sister!" Wistar feels betrayed again but ends up following Valias and Dylan. Wistar led the way to where the mages were and asked one of them to take the three of them to the coordinates of Adelard's residence.