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Chapter 9

Credits to the Owners 2

Reacting to Reading

A/N:

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The following fanfic and Tumblr post are NOT mine, except for one. Credits will be given to the owners and what site I got it from.

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(As always for entertainment purposes only)

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[Start]

Choi Han & Raon: *accidentally set the kitchen on fire*

"They better not be mentioning my kitchen" both Beacrox has a deadly gaze as he frowns.

tcf!Cale shudder when he heard Beacrox's deadly voice.

Choi Han: We need an adult!

Raon: Choi Han, you are an adult!

"Well, he is just a teenager" tcf!Cale said. "He's scary but he is still pure and innocent," He thought as he understands why Choi Han needs an adult.

Both Choi Han just cough and look away.

Choi Han: We need an adultier adult! Get Cale-nim!

"Is he insane!? He should get Ron, not me!" tcf!Cale thought hysterically "I don't want to face the wrath of that scary chef !" He thought as he pale.

Ctto: annerisk from Tumblr

[End... Preparing the next]

tcf!Cale let out a relieved sigh "Good, I don't have to worry about that."

[Start]

"It's You"

Summary:

"Summary? That's new" tcf!Alberu said as he drink some tea.

Choi han, Alberu, Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo confessed to Cale and Cale couldn't answer.

Choked

Cough cough cough

"What the actual-!"

tcf!Cale, both Alberu and both Choi Han have that kind of reaction.

The rest looks at them. Some look amused, some in wonder, some with confusion, some don't really care, some were outright laughing, and some were ready to kill.

Cale looked up at the ceiling of his room. He stared blankly and exercised -exhaled- while contemplating all the events of the week after winning the war against the hunters. Various faces of people he knew appeared in his memory. Of course with the ability to record.

[ Choi Han's face is smiling. ]

Cale closed his eyes.

tcf!Cale was flushing and feeling scared.

One Choi Han has an indecorous face.

One Choi Han was blushing.

And two butler was sharpening their dagger with a deadly smile.

[ Alberu who is smiling broadly. ]

Cale exhaled.

Both Alberu was frozen after having a coughing fit, and unconsciously made eye contact with tcf!Cale. They all flush red. And look away.

[ Lee Soo Hyuk who laughs in amusement at him. ]

Cale opened his eyes.

"Why even him!?" tcf!Cale shouted with an 'I can't believe this' face.

[Choi Jung Soo reaches out to him. ]

Cale snorted. Cale was feeling irritated. His heart was pounding. The voice of the ancient power that had been silent for a week was finally heard.

"Even him!?" tcf!Cale thought covering his face.

"And what pounding!?" He suddenly said "It's palpitations. I'm having palpitations!" He justifies.

"Your not that old" tboah!Cale teasingly said while knowing full well that he was refuting what he previously said a few hours ago.

But tcf!Cale didn't forget that "Shut up! You were calling me old man a few hours ago!"

- Cale, are you okay?

"Oh, so he's not alone" tcf!Jack said but also tilt his head in confusion "hmm wonder what's happening to everyone? I mean aren't they just confessing to young master Cale that they did something wrong? I'm sure the kind young master will forgive them." He smiles innocently.

"I'm fine."

- Cale, your heart is pounding.

"I must be tired" tcf!Cale firmly said "I must have run a whole lot that's why" yup that's definitely it.

"I know"

-Really, poor man. You can't calm down after all this.

"Shut up."

"Yeah shut up" tcf!Cale hiss.

While the two besides him were crackling up.

- Can't you accept them all?

Choked. tcf!Cale cannot believe this!

While both Choi Han was refusing to look at anyone. Especially the red hair mage that was giving him a mischievous smile.

"Can I?"

Cough cough cough The handsome crown prince was having another coughing fit.

As his aunt rub his back while wiggling her eyebrows at him.

Oh gosh, his aunt is enjoying his suffering.

Cale shook his head,

"I can't be greedy."

"I am greedy!" tcf!Cale scoffed.

Everyone looks at tcf!Cale.

He pauses. "But that's not what I mean!" He said once again flushing.

- Cale.. you..

Cale got up from his bed and once again sighed, "No matter what, I have to choose one of them."

"To help with my slacker life! That's probably what I mean" tcf!Cale firmly said. Yup, not because of the love confession, definitely not!

[]

"Cale stepped over to the window and opened it. The cold night breeze greeted him. Cale sighed and looked at the full moon above the sky. He smiled and said something he didn't believe he would say himself.

"The moon tonight is beautiful, isn't it."

"You know, that's another way to say I love you" tboah!Bud said with a whistle, totally forgotten his earlier resolve on not wanting to make tcf!Cale his enemy.

tcf!Cale just glare at him promising murder.

Cale had decided. he had to choose one person.

"..."

"So.." og!Cale start "who did you pic-ouch!" He couldn't finish his question as he rub his head that was smacked by the tsundere beside him.

Ctto: Ckaizu27 from ao3

"Haaaaaa."

Three specific person let out a sigh of relief.

[End... Preparing next]

[Start]

"it doesn't always have to be right "

In the Henituse family, the general consensus is that most of them have brown hair. A common hair color in the Western Continent itself, as such it is not so surprising to see them having that color.

However, a single person stands in the family, with glaring red hair that is so different from the rest of them.

Cale Henituse, the oldest son of Deruth Henituse, whose hair is red just like his mother. His reddish brown eyes even a different coloring than that of the Count himself.

"Now that was mentioned, Cale Henituse really does stand out" tboah!Bud said while thinking of Cale's red hair.

The Henituse family frown. They don't like how it makes it seems that Cale is the outsider. Their frown deepen at that thought.

People like to say that Cale Henituse has inherited everything from the late countess, yet leaving no chance for the count's glaring physical traits to be inherited by him. From his red hair and slim figure, it is easy to mistake that Cale Henituse firmly inherits everything from his late mother, and no one else's.

The Count slumps his shoulder. "My son doesn't have any resemblance to me," He thought as he gloomed.

However, such a conclusion is far from the truth.

After all, Cale does inherit some traits from his father, and this is a fact people closest to him have grown to realize.

Both Deruth perks up. "My Cale inherited something from me!" He was excited to know what it is.

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The first person who realized this is none other than Cale's late mother herself.

Why wouldn't she, when between her and the count, she was the person who spent most time with her son? She carried him and put him to sleep since he was a baby, she was the person who saw his growth milestones, she was the first person to saw him smile sleepily towards her.

Both Cale was reminiscing the past whenever his mother was mentioned.

While both Deruth was thinking "As expected from my Jour, she immediately notice the similarities between me and Cale!"

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The next person who finds out is another who spent most time with Cale.

His caretaker since he was a baby, his personal butler who raised him and stayed with him for over a decade.

Ron Molan, an assassin from Eastern Continent, who lives in hiding as the butler of the Henituse family, started to notice only when Cale Henituse reached the age of one.

"Oh ho did I notice any similarities between the Count and the young master?" The assassin butler said, though he really could hardly see any resemblance with the count and his young master.

From the shape of his nose, to the sight of his smile, and his eyes that are lighter than Deruth's own brown--Ron Molan noticed it all.

[]

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The third person to notice is Beacrox Molan, in which there were little signs he only noticed and paid attention to after his father's damning words given to him that one fateful night.

"Eh, why is there a lot of people who care about the same trait Cale has to his father?"tboah!Toonka said burping.

"Hm? Damning words?" tboah!Beacrox said as he thought "that's ominous."

Beacrox Molan notices the signs, and he watches from the sidelines. Never really trying to get closer, never really trying to bond even as the one sweet child starts to spiral out of control, when the sharpness of his smile becomes darker and darker.

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The fourth person to realize is the Count himself, who watches his son grow up even as he's not as close as Jour, or as hands-on as Ron Molan.

Both Deruth felt ashamed that it was pointed out that he doesn't have much time with his son. Grief once again settled in his heart.

Deruth Henituse saw the red hair the child inherits from his mother, the shape of his nose, the colors of his eyes, his pale skin and the sharpness of his smile, and he wondered.

He wondered and wondered, he questioned and sought out answers, and the answer was delivered to him by his lifelong friend, whispers of mistakes and regrets and wishes of forgiveness.

"Why does this feel like it's not talking about the similarities of me and Cale?" The Count is now frowning hard.

[]

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Cale Henituse grows up with a secret in his heart, a knowledge he's obtained from his father since that day the secret was no longer kept from him, and he laughs.

He laughs, and laughs, and laughs.

"Must be a funny secret" og!Cale said nonchalantly.

"Yeah if it made me laugh that much" as tboah!Cale shrugged.

Incorrigible, these nobles. Annoying, these relatives.

Absolutely hilarious, they are.

"Incorrigible and annoying, absolutely, but hilarious?" tboah!Cale said raising his eye in contemplation.

"Well" og!Cale said, "the nobles and our relatives do some stupid things that it was so stupid that it's funny."

"Yeah that must be it." tboah!Cale nodded his head in agreement.

His smiles are sharp and so are his eyes, dark edges in his smile as he bad mouths his uncles and cousins in one breath, as he insults fellow nobles and brings insolent servants to tears.

("You're a Henituse," Cale said to his little brother that day, staring at the child whose eyes were stained with tears, "Father said you're a Henituse, so you're a Henituse." Words full of conviction, full of faith and acceptance).

"Oh Hyung.." both Basen grips their hand "I'll be sure to be strong that you can also lean on me too," He thought with resolution.

(A reprise to that day many months ago, when his own father sat him down and talked to him. That day when his father told him everything).

"Hm? Did my father tell me that as well?" tboah!Cale and og!Cale doesn't remember.

"Hm? Have I told my son that?" Nevertheless, the count was happily remembering the time when they talk with each other.. when his wife was alive... "I'm a horrible father."

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Cale Henituse has a secret he's known since he was eight years old, a secret he may as well bring to his very own grave.

"Hm? What secret?" tboah!Cale thought as he tries to remember.

"Is it the deal that I made?" og!Cale thought in contemplation.

"Is he talking about his sacrifice for his family?" While everyone was having this thought.

Cale Henituse looks at the hero of the Roan Kingdom fighting the White Star, and accepts the deal given to him by a God who appears out of nowhere with his last breath.

Everyone frown remembering how Cale sacrifices himself to create a better future.

Kim Rok Soo, the person he shall trade places with, may very well be another who finds out about his secret.

"How many secrets do you keep?" tcf!Cale looks at the self-sacrificing idiots beside him.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale just shrugged.

But that's okay, Cale thinks, as long as he can save his family, as long as he can make things right and live well, Cale doesn't mind.

tcf!Cale frown. "Idiots" he sigh "While we're here I'll make sure to instill to them that they should never sacrifice themselves again and be more selfish, just like me" He firmly thought as he nod in satisfaction with his plan.

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Kim Rok Soo, no, Cale Henituse, initially did not think much of his appearance past the fact that this new body of his is incredibly handsome.

"Uhh.." was tboah!Cale brilliant response.

"Thanks, I guess?" og!Cale said questionably.

"It's the truth" as tcf!Cale confidently and shamelessly said.

He had more pressing matters at hand after all, what with the appearance of the protagonist who was supposed to beat him up to a pulp, then new problems that seemed to pop out one after another, multiple baggage he had to pick up and the things he had to do to ensure his slacker life.

"Protagonists ? " tboah!Choi Han thought "Is he talking about me?" He frowns not liking the sound of that.

But Cale Henituse is anything else but dumb, and he's someone who can't forget something even if he wants to.

That's why, when hints after hints are given before him, despite the distance and the different time frames in which they're given to him, Cale is capable enough to remember and piece things together.

tcf!Cale was not liking where this was going as a theory was formed in his mind. "Please let me be wrong, please let me be wrong" He chanted in his head.

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Then, the diary left behind by Jour Thames, the mother of Cale Henituse.

The diary contains everything, from the things he needs to know, the things he needs to search for and find out more about later on--

"Mother left a diary?" og!Cale was shocked. He wishes to read it.

"I'll make sure to get it!" tboah!Cale said with determination and happiness.

And the things he doesn't need to know, yet is brought to his knowledge as well.

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This is a story of a mistake, of sin and regret, of forgiveness between friends for life, of promises made in the middle of the night and a legacy kept safe until the time is right.

"Huh?" Ok now tboah!Cale was having a bad feeling.

"What?" og!Cale was now having a cold sweat.

In one night of desire, where regrets and grief and loneliness seemed to pile up one by one, a married man and woman, though not to each other they were bound to, fell into a sleeping chamber and woke up next to each other.

It was a mistake folded under wraps, a sin never to be spoken to the outside world until the ends of times, a secret told to someone else through their own mouths in the quiet of the night, where no one else but them would be able to hear.

Jour Thames and Ron Molan slept together, once upon a time.

Choked

"What!!"

"What the actual fuuuuuuu-!!!!!!"

"...!"

Everyone was surprised. Especially the Henituse and Molan family.

Nothing but a casual fling, one infidelity regretted immediately afterwards when morning sun touched upon their skin and blinded their eyes.

"....Father?" The son of the butler assassin awkwardly asks, but.. ask what?

But both Ron was frozen too shocked at what he read.

It was supposed to be just one little detail. One thing that could be kept under wraps for a long, long time.

But with it came a gift, or so it is said in Jour Thames' own diary.

Cale Henituse.

Or, if Jour were to be honest, Cale Thames, or maybe even, Cale Molan.

NOOO0000ooooo!!!! Both og!Cale and tboah!Cale dramatically wailed.

"Tell me it's not true! tell me!" They looked at their father.. real father!

"I-ts not!..." Both Deruth said firmly. But then he faltered ".. right?" He hesitantly asks Ron with mixed emotions.

"Of course Count, I can swear to you all that I in fact did not do anything with the late Countess." tcf!Ron said with conviction as he recovered from the shock.

"I can also make a vow of death to prove my innocence." tboah!Ron confidently said as he also recovered from the shock.

"You better!" tboah!Cale and og!Cale stands up shouting.

"Just because I saw you as a father figure, doesn't mean it's ok to be lovers with my mother!"

"Just because I once thought of you as a father, doesn't mean it's ok to have a relationship with mother!"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale said at the same time.

"..." A pause.

"Young Master, you thought of me as a father?" tcf!Ron said with a rare real fond face.

"I'm honored, young master" tboah!Ron said with a rare real smile.

"Wha- "

"that's not-"

"I-Its only one time!"

"Yes! O-one time!"

As tboah!Cale and og!Cale sat down, looking away flushing.

While both Deruth was burning in jealousy.

"Besides.."

A hollow atmosphere had taken place.

"You left me.." a quiet voice that's filled with sadness was whispered.

But both Ron heard it.

Guilt.

That's what they were feeling.

Young master.." tcf!Ron whispered "I didn't leave him.. but who to say that I will not leave if there was no body switch and if my son chooses to go with the punk.. I mean.. my other self did leave" He frowns hating his other self and his potential self that would've abandoned his young master.

"I.. should make things clear" tboah!Ron feel nothing but guilt and shame, he felt like he lost something precious.

"I should make things clear that I did not abandon him" His gaze held determination to have a deep conversation with his young master. And he will make amends. Whatever it cost. He grips his dagger in hand "whatever it cost." As he repeats with conviction in his heart.

Ctto: natanije from ao3

[End... Preparing the next]

A lot of relief sigh was let out.

[Start]

"Triple Trouble"

"That title says a lot already," the queen of the jungle said as she took a bite of a heart-shaped cookie.

"Haaa why am I stuck with you two again?" A long red-haired noble said as he plop on the bed.

"Hey! Is that how you talk to your hyungs?" Said by a short blackish red-haired noble as he raised his eyebrow.

"What a disrespectful dongsaeng tsk tsk" said teasingly by a short reddish brown-haired noble.

"I'm guessing they're that trouble." tboah!Witira said as she wonder who those three are.

Kim just look at them deadpan. "you two are only older than me for 1-2minute!" he hissed.

"Still older~," said Rok Soo in a sing-song voice.

"Yup! still your hyungs." as Cale smirk.

"Ah"

"Those names.." Everyone looks to the center.

The Caleplets look at each other. "No, it can't be.. right?"

"We're triplets!" Kim huff at both of them "the audacity of these two."

"Triplets.. No...But, if my guess is right, I'm going to have a double headache " tcf!Cale thought as he pale.

...

Yes, the triplets of the Henituse Family.

Rok Soo Henituse the older for 2minutes, has blackish red hair. At 40yrs old he died at the hands of White Star and was reincarnated back to 40yrs.

Cale Henituse the middle child, has short reddish-brown hair. He was 20yrs. old when suddenly he regresses to an infant.

Kim Henituse the youngest, has long red hair. He was formerly Korean when he fell asleep reading a novel and woke up as an infant in another world.

"Wait, so there is Rok Soo who is Kim Rok Soo now" tboah!Beacrox said as he cross his arm.

"And Cale there is Cale from tboah sides" as tcf!Beacrox raised his eyebrows.

"While Kim is the transmigrator in tcf side" tcf!Alberu inputs as he nods in understanding.

"Whoever made this doesn't have an imagination." tcf!Cale said as he sigh.

A Reincarnator, a Regressor, and a Transmigrator. They all woke up as an infant in the Henituse family.

And they were right.

"It's obvious that this information is not the right one then" tboah!Lock said while eating some burgers.

"Exactly!" tcf!Cale agrees "and I don't want a double headache as my hyungs" he frowned at that thought. Aigoo my poor slacker life.

Now, these three are currently 18 and were arguing about who's going to the capital for the crown celebration.

"Anyway, I should be the one asking why you two are even going with me to the capital?" Rok Soo said as he look at his two dongsaeng.

Cale huffs "As if I'll stay knowing it's dangerous there."

They knew what will happen in the plaza at the celebration. And he will not feel the same helplessness he felt when Basen was hurt at the plaza.

"Hyung.." both Basen eyes were trembling "No! Hyung, please! Let me go there instead of you!" They were begging in their heart.

As tboah!Basen remembers the horrors of the plaza incident.

As tcf!Basen heard of the event that happened and how his hyung bled.

Meanwhile, a certain crown prince is thinking "Why do I feel like I'm going to have a triple headache?" He suddenly shivers.

Kim scoff "I have the Indestructible Shield with me. I know I'll be fine, but you two on the other hand isn't" as he crosses his arms.

"The youngest should just stay put and not go to danger" Rok Soo hiss.

"You're the weakest out of all of us, so you should stay here" as Cale remember how his dogensaeng just always reads and being one with the bed.

"What's so bad being one with the bed?" tcf!Cale asks while being one with the couch.

"No wonder your weak" tboah!Cale and og!Cale looking at him with a deadpan face. Haaa.

tcf!Cale frowned "It's not like I'll put myself in danger, so I don't need to be strong physically," He thought so he said..

"There's a lot of people around me who are strong, and most of all I believe in my heart," he said pointing in his heart where his shield tattoo is "and that's all I need."

Everyone smiled, "He truly believes in his companions," they all thought.

Said companions swore to themselves to get much stronger.

tcf!Cale suddenly felt chills.

"Pff like I can leave you two idiots alone" Kim huffed.

"Hey! Who are you calling idiot?!"

"Yeah! Since when did we ever do something idiotic?!"

He gives them a stoic face and says "You two were planning to be a trash so that our dongsaeng could be accepted."

Both Basen feel sad "Even in here my hyung is choosing to sacrifice himself" He feels down "just how weak and timid am I to always need protection"

He slaps his cheeks "No! Enough with feeling down! I will take action!" He will be sure that this time he will be the one to protect his hyung.

Rok Soo and Cale shock:...

"Don't pretend to be shocked you dumb fools!" as Kim rolls his eyes.

"Aww, but you did talk us out of it." As Rok Soo gives him a side hug.

"Oooh you love us!" while Cale side hugs him from his other side.

Kim just huffs at them.

These idiots. Unfortunately their my idiots. Haaa.

"I'm glad they're not my idiots" tcf!Cale thought.

"Will things be this different if this happens?" tboah!Cale thought melancholy and sigh "Haaa no use of thinking what if.. at least I get to meet them" He smile at that thought.

og!Cale suddenly rubs their head, patting them.

"Ack"

"Wha-"

"Nothing" og!Cale smile "just thought you two are adorable" he smirk.

Both splutter.

But then tboah!Cale let out a mischievous smile "you do know I'm your past self, soooo technically you're calling yourself adorable."

"Oh how narcissist" tcf!Cale said teasingly joining the mischief.

"Why you little-!" og!Cale said flushing while tboah!Cale and tcf!Cale was snickering.

"Fine all of us will go" Rok Soo gave in at his cute dogensaeng.

"We'll protect you if anything happens," said Cale puffing his chest.

Kim just rolls his eyes at them. Then he said, "Let's take Choi Han with us."

At the mention of his name tcf!Choi Han brightens. "I'm still there with Cale-nim!" He thought excitedly.

They pause.

"Are you insane!" Cale said like Kim is out of his mind.

"Why would you want to take him with us!? His freaking scary!" Rok Soo said hysterically.

Cale nods agreeing with him fiercely.

tboah!Choi Han frowned "I did beat him up in an inch of his life" he could understand how they would be afraid of him. ".. should I.. reconcile with him?" He was having that thought but then felt iffy so he decided to just store that thought for now.

Again these idiots.

"Hey! How many times are you going to call us idiots!" og!Cale and tboah!Cale looks at tcf!Cale as they huff.

"When you two stop being one" tcf!Cale said with a straight face.

Dramatic Gasp.

"I know he's scary, but Choi Han will be very helpful to us. With him and his soon-to-be companions they can find and grab the items with the bombs then throw them in the right timing." Kim patiently explain.

"Ah"

They were contemplating what Kim said.

"I guess that's better than what we plan." as Rok Soo accepted Kim's plan.

"Yeah, that's better than us looking for the items," Cale said nodding.

"Wait, your brilliant plan was to search the items by ourselves?" Kim is looking at them indecorously.

tcf!Cale also looks at the two idiots beside him indecorously.

og!Cale and tboah!Cale just shrugged.

"Idiots" tcf!Cale sigh.

His idiot hyungs just shrugged.

"And they want me to stay behind " Kim just sigh. "Let's just continue planning."

So the triplets continue planning for the upcoming plaza incident and their journey to rescue a certain existence on the way.

Raon perks up. He was happy that even this humans is planning to rescue him.

Ctto: Cortes_01 from in my mind

[End... Preparing the next]

"What kind of place is called 'in my mind'?" tcf!Jack innocently asks.

"Pyah."

"What do you mean by 'an empty one'?" tcf!Hannah looks at the slime with a raised eye.

The slime just rolled around the ground.

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