Credits to the Owners 5

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While everyone was still having a commotion.

A sudden error happens. A black and white smoke fumes out from both sides making the center the only one visible.

Harsh coughing was heard on both sides.

"MOM!"

"Youngest!"

tcf!Raon in his frantic run towards his mother's side with On and Hong hot on his tail.

"Raon! On! Hong!" tcf!Cale shouted as he saw the children go through the glass-like wall towards the smoke.

As the Cales runs toward them, they were blocked by the glass-like wall not letting them through.

Just about tcf!Cale was readying his ancient power the smoke cease revealing all of them safe.

... with additional people, one on each side.

"Ah, is this a new scenario?" The new person said. He has a thin face and pale skin that has long eyelashes and dark circles with thin and black hair.

"This place is too weird to be a dungeon," said the other new person who has pale skin and black hair with bangs that reach up to his black eyes. He is wearing a black choker with a blue gem, a bracelet, and red pair of earrings.

But before anyone could react something exploded towards the new additions.

...!

As the smoke disappeared so were the two people.

"..."

"Well, that was weird?"

"I wonder who those people are?"

Everyone was confused.

While tcf!Cale was curious but he had other priorities. "Raon, On, Hong"

"Human! We're fine!"

"It's ok Cale, nya~"

"We made sure our youngest is safe, nya~"

The children were crowded towards the transparent dragon as the Cales let out a sigh of relief.

"Pyah!" The slime splashed into a puddle. Which was ignored.

"We'll take care of them"

tcf!Cale finally relax, nodded, and return to sit down on the couch. All of them there are allies and he knows that no harm would come to them with ancient dragons at their side.

As tboah!Cale and og!Cale follows suit.

[Start]

Chapter 2: Drunk.

"Ohhhhh"

"Well this seems familiar"

tcf!Cale flushes glaring at them.

When a report came in saying that the firstborn Henituse became an alcoholic after his fifteenth birthday, Antonio sighed. His grandmother furrowed her eyebrows when she heard that the boy had thrown bottles at a gathering of northeastern nobles.

"The future Duke of the Gyerre Household" tcf!Alberu said, "Why is he keeping tabs on a fifteen-year-old Cale?" Before he could ponder more on it-

"That smell delicious!" tcf!Raon was in his face.

The crown prince smiled delightfully as he shows what he was eating. "Oh, this? It's my handmade cookies"

The children were lured by the sweet delicious smell.

Well everyone on the tcf side was also being lured by that smell since long ago, they just have the decency/pride to not ask for one- wait.

"It was homemade?"

"You made it crown prince? Nya~"

From the beginning, tcf!Alberu ask the slime to deliver his handmade cookies because he still couldn't trust the slime completely but since no one has yet to die from consuming the food the slime provided he decided to taste some of them.

Anyway "Would you like some?"

"Hmph! well if you're insisting then sure!"

"Meow!"

"Meow!"

Meanwhile,

"... a fifteen-year-old Cale Henituse..." tboah!Alberu taught-

Slap!

tboah!Mary tilts her head confused about why the crown prince slapped his face and has a red face.

Another meanwhile,

"Tsk. So it's about us"

"Why? We're not useful in the war"

og!Cale and tboah!Cale huffed bored that it was about them.

"Well, I hope it's not angsty" tcf!Cale sighed hoping because whenever they read about the original Cale it's always angst. He really wants them to be happy and "hopefully it's about your love quest." Smirk

tboah!Cale and og!Cale chokes.

Antonio didn't focus too much on that, avoiding dwelling too much on things like that when he had a duchy to attend to.

"Oh, so he wasn't eyeing the crazy" the Mercenary King was a little disappointed.

"What do you mean by eyeing?" The father figure menacingly asks.

"What do you mean by crazy?!" tboah!Cale and og!Cale haughty ask.

A few days later, Antonio was looking for his grandmother to ask her opinion on a business contract that came across his desk that day. He couldn't find her at Gyerre Household, so he asked his trusted subordinates. They inquired the location of the Duchess from some guards.

[]

Why was his grandmother drinking outside the house?

Antonio got his answer as he walked through the door and blood-red hair filled his vision.

Cale Henituse was there, drinking straight from a bottle of wine. The boy's face was flushed and his hair stuck to his forehead, Antonio blinked and looked toward the other person in the room. His grandmother was drinking from a glass, filling it up as she finished it all in one shot.

"15 is too young to drink," the future queen of the whale tribe said in concern.

"His liver" the jungle queen knows that it's legal to drink at such an age but it shouldn't be overdosed.

"And to think he started doing this for his stepfamily" the whipper kingdom's strongest warrior snorted.

Said step family flinch.

"What are they doing?"

The two people looked toward him. The two people had a clear look in their eyes.

Neither of them was drunk yet.

Antonio looked at the pile of bottles beside the two people's chairs. According to the owner of the inn, they had been here since noon. It was getting dusk now, and they had only had a break to order snacks two hours ago.

"Did these happen?" Someone asks.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale looks at each other and just replies with a teasing smile.

"So did it happen or not?" Everyone thought.

Anyway, when did Cale Henituse arrive in Duchy Gyerre? Antonio didn't hear about his arrival.

"Competing."

Cale Henituse replied simply, uncorking another bottle before steeping it to his lips. His grandmother nodded.

"I was expecting an easy competition, but it seems I underestimated my opponent."

"Hmph!"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale was brimming with smugness.

Which tcf!Cale just sigh.

He wants to smack this two.

Wait.

He can.

And so he did.

"Ack!" A cry of pain was then heard.

Even though tcf!Cale's palm was red he has a satisfied face with accomplishment.

In the end, Antonio ordered food from the menu for the three of them, crossed the field of bottles with careful steps, and sat down in the vacant chair in the center of the two.

Cale Henituse and his grandmother paused the competition with a tie when the food arrived. Antonio was perhaps a bit impressed by the resistance of the firstborn Henituse.

His grandmother ate gracefully, she still looked perfect even as she spent the afternoon drinking. Cale Henituse still had a red face and was wiping a handkerchief across his forehead. The weather was hot for the summer, and unlike the Henituse Territory, where the north winds came to temper the weather, in the Gyerre Territory summer always came with a vengeance.

"A sweating Cale- what am I thinking!? The crown prince blushed.

"He's fifteen there for crying out loud!" He was having an existential crisis.

After the meal, the two continued with the competition, Antonio was not even able to ask his grandmother what to do about the business contract when he was given a cup of beer to drink.

Antonio drank it.

It was a mistake he would regret later, with a hangover headache and a warm body asleep in his arms.

"..."

"Did he just mean what I think he meant?" tcf!Bud wolf whistle.

"What does he mean?" sweet Raon asks.

"Kiddies shouldn't concern about it" the golden dragon sighed.

"I'm not a kid!" Said not-kid pouted as he fly towards the golden dragon.

"Raon-nim do you want more cookies?"

"Us too!"

"Thanks, cookie prince!"

tcf!Alberu's smile twitch at what he was called. Oh well, he's going to have dragon allies anyways. The things he does for his Kingdom. Sigh

Meanwhile,

"Well, well, well" tcf!Cale wants to milk this but they were fifteen here so he decided to just settle with this one teasing.

"F-!"

But tboah!Cale and og!Cale curse.

***

Sonata Gyerre was having a great time.

Time at the duchy had been duller and more monotonous since her grandson began taking on management duties. Sonata's burdens were lightened greatly, but it was hard to get used to having time off when she spent the last couple of decades taking care of everything.

So when Sonata heard that the eldest son of House Henituse had started frequenting bars, she sent a letter to invite the boy to her duchy.

Sonata believed that letting such a young boy drink and get drunk was very negligent. Count Henituse was too focused on pampering the boy that he didn't even make an effort to restrain him instead filled the boy's bags with gold coins.

"Daaaaang"

"The arrow has been thrown!"

"She ain't wrong tho."

While some were commenting on that truth. og!Cale and tboah!Cale never really thinks of it like that, he knows that his father loves him. His father was just clumsy in showing his love to him, that's all.

And he knows his father was trying really hard to reach out to him. "It was my fault that father was having a hard time approaching me, with all that trash act and all"

Like reading their thoughts, tcf!Cale said "I'm not really sure but I also think that a good father should've reprimanded you when you did things wrong and was ruining your own life"

He wasn't going to say outright that it wasn't their fault so they shouldn't blame themselves. Mostly because he feels that it's between them. And they need to resolve this between themselves.

Not because he was a tsundere or anything.

So Sonata wanted to chat with the boy to find out if really that smart kid she had known years ago had turned into an uneducated trash boy.

The boy was still that smart kid. But he was hiding under a firm shell.

Sonata, who had once had a chat with this boy on subjects that even other high-ranking nobles could not follow, did not eat his 'spoiled, trash boy' tale.

"Wow, an outsider noticed while the family was convinced!"

"To be fair some-no most of us believe in that rumor"

Hearing that, tboah!Cale and og!Cale smiled with pride. "Well, we're just that good."

Everyone sigh. Those idiots.

The boy noticed and stopped pretending in front of her. Sonata decided to make a bet at that moment.

"Let's have a bet. If you get drunk first, you'll stay in the duchy for six months. If I get drunk first, then you can leave and keep this encounter a secret."

"Why do you want me to stay in the duchy?"

"Because I want to."

"Dang! I like how free and authoritative that sounds"

"It's like 'I do what I want and I give no s***'"

Both Mercenary King said in awe.

The boy looked confused but accepted the bet.

Sonata had already figured out what this boy needed with the little talk they had had. The boy wanted affection.

"No!"

Was the fast reply.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale flushes after realizing that.

"She doesn't know anything"

"She doesn't know what she's saying"

They try to play it cool as they defended.

Failed miserably.

How long had it been since someone had hugged the boy?

That struck something inside the Count, when was the last time he had hugged his son? The son that he neglected. The son that he failed. All he ever had was regret and shame.

tcf!Deruth was jealous of his other self because his other self could still fix their bond with Cale. while he, his son was already in a far place away from him.

No.

He won't make any more excuses to run away.

He was thankful for getting a new son but he will not erase his eldest son. He will make sure to fix his mistakes and get to know more about the now-known Kim Rok Soo.

He'll invest with magicians to create a dimension communicating device if he had to!

Meanwhile,

"Don't worry Humans!"

"We'll give you lots of hugs!"

"And lots of love"

Raon, On, and Hong go toward the glass-like wall. They were just planning to place their hand on the wall.. when they pass through it.

"Huh?"

"We could go through the wall, nya!"

Seeing that, some tried to go through the wall but it was no use. They couldn't go through.

"So I guess only On, Hong, and Raon could go through the glass-like wall" the youngest of the Henituse family pouted. She wanted to go and hug her Oraboni. Hmph! Stupid wall.

Sonata didn't know if she wanted to know the answer, but she did know that the boy would shy away if she simply reached out to hug him, it wasn't his style either, so that wouldn't happen.

Too late.

The children are already hugging them.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale was so stiff in the center of the cuddle pile.

"What is this tingly feeling?" What is this feeling of warmth?" Was what they were currently processing.

But the boy would accept if it were to lose a bet.

"Lose a bet, got it"

the Count is trying his best to find ways to have a father and son bonding.

He acknowledges his failure. And he wouldn't continue being a failure as a parent.

Her grandson had been very attached to her since the death of the rest of her family, Sonata had the same feeling of wanting to hug the boy as she did her blood relative. Is this old age?

[]

It was getting dusk now.

Sonata was internally amused when her grandson took the beer with poor technique. Her grandson was a bad drinker.

That was another reason Sonata was bored. There was no one to drink with on the duchy. Her grandson had no resistance, Sonata saw her grandson getting drunk on the lightest beer on the menu.

After a cup.

"He's really bad at drinking."

Cale Henituse said in awe as he looked at Antonio's slumped form. Sonata nodded with amusement as she filled her cup again.

"I've never seen someone so bad at drinking in my life" tboah!Cale commented in awe.

"At your age maybe but now I've seen too many" og!Cale said as tcf!Cale nodded along.

"Ah, the experience of an old man" smirk

Scowl (pout)

"Meet my grandson, the worst drinker in Gyerre Household. He's still awake, so don't get too close."

"Is he going to throw up on me?"

"No, he'll just get sticky."

"Ooooh, the foreboding!"

"Is that how you end up in his be-eck!"

The Mercenary King couldn't finish that sentence he was too busy dodging the short swords that were being thrown at him.

As Cale remained confused, Antonio sat up in his seat, then staggered to one side, hugging Cale Henituse's waist with both arms and pressing his head against the other's side.

"T-those filthy hands will be severed!"

The Count of the Henituse family promised retribution!

Antonio rubbed his face against Cale's side several times, like a feline seeking a comfortable position. Then he looked up from his position.

The Count is dying inside. H-how dare he!

tboah!Cale and og!Cale was also dying inside. They're not blushing! He's choking in this nonsense!

Meanwhile, a certain assassin was planning to have a visit at the Gyerre Household with a sharp dagger in hand.

"Don't drink in front of others again."

[]

"Why not?"

Cale frowned, waving his arm unsure what to do with it. The boy decided to drape his arm over the back of the chair and continue drinking liquor with the other.

"Your... your face is, hmm."

"Kyaaaaaaaaaa~!"

"Oooooooohhhhhhh~"

Some squealing was happening.

While the Cales was utterly confused at what they were reading and why are some squealing.

Both Cale and Sonata waited expectantly for Antonio's next words.

"Your face becomes very erotic when you're drinking."

"kYaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~"

The squealing continues.

Like... why??

"..."

"..."

"...hic."

While Sonata and Cale were speechless, Antonio fell asleep after giving a little hiccup.

Cale Henituse looked at her with that flushed face he had when he drank.

"I don't look...like that, do I?"

"That's right! I don't look like that!"

"He's being ridiculous!"

og!Cale and tboah!Cale was in complete and utter disbelief.

Sonata was honest.

"A little, yes."

tboah!Cale and og!Cale gawk.

"I second the motion" was said by the transmigrator.

"It's now your face mind you!"

"..."

Oh

"Well I don't make an erotic face when I drink, right Choi Han?" tcf!Cale defended as he ask Choi Han because he was the only one here right now who had seen him drink.

"Of.Course.Not." tcf!Choi Han stiffly answered.

What's with that terrible acting!!?

Everyone thought.

"Note to self, never let Choi Han act" tcf!Cale decided, completely ignoring the fact that Choi tried to lie.

When it was time to return, Sonata called for a trusty guard to carry Antonio back. Antonio protested when the guard tried to lift him.

Antonio's arms curled tighter around Cale's small waist.

"I'll break that arm" The Count cursed.

"My baby would not be touched by any grabby hands!"

The guard looked at Cale guiltily. Cale Henituse blinked at her.

"What's next?"

The guard had to walk with Antonio still clinging to Cale's side, fortunately, there was no one outside because it was already too late.

Sonata decided to let Cale Henituse sleep with her grandson. There shouldn't be any problems because the boy didn't seem to have any thoughts against the duchy, so he could be considered an ally.

"No!"

"Why would she do that!?"

"And I thought she was a sensible duchess!"

"I'll smack that Duchess for allowing my fifteen-year-old son to sleep with a drunk stranger"

The Henituse couple was complaining and exacting a devious plan.

And her grandson... well, he brought it on himself.

Sonata waited until Cale Henituse settled Antonio with him on the bed. They were in a guest room. She helped remove her grandson's jacket and belt, hesitating a bit before removing his shirt as well.

"Why!?" tcf!Pendrick who was covering his face in mortification said. "What is she thinking!?" He could not believe how the Duchess would strip them both in one bed!

"Isn't fifteen in the human world considered an adult?! So she shouldn't do that!?" tcf!Paseton agrees with what his elf was conveying.

"But in Korean, I think it's 18 for females and 21 for males?" tboah!Choi Han thought. Though he kind of not want to let that stupid idiot in someone else bed, especially with a drunk man with him in said bed.

Summer made the nights hot even with the cooling magic.

Sonata left when Cale Henituse indicated that he was going to remove some layers of clothing. He seemed to think it would be a difficult task, considering her grandson was still clinging to the other's clothes, it's probably correct.

"Why would you let him Cale!"

"I didn-"

"You dense idiot!"

Surely they would be fine.

"Another famous last word"

The Mercenary Kipnce again said.

[]

Ctto: Verzy from ao3

[End... Preparing next]

"Wait! What happened next!?" The Countess all but demanded. She wants to know if she would loot the Gyerre Household or raze it to the ground depending on what they did to her precious son.

"Calm down mother, its's ctto"

"Still! The slime said it was different information Not wrong information!"

"Right! For all we know, it might happen or it did happen just not to us!"

The Mercenary King was pouring oil into the flame.

"I'll believe what I choose to believe"

The Cales defended because some of that ctto are just-no... Just NO!

[Start]

"Cale-nim?"

Cale flinched. Holy fucking shit, his soul almost escaped his body from how hard he flinched. He turned around slowly, squinting in the darkness to look at Choi Han. He hadn't expected company at all. Not at 3 am in the morning.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale was about to say how exaggerating that reaction, but then they imagine Choi Han standing behind you at 3 in the morning... Yep, it's safe to assume his reaction was justified.

That vicious b******.

"Why are you still awake?"

"Why are you the one asking that question?" tcf!Hannah snorted at this idiot young master.

tboah!Lock agrees as he adds "that question should be directed to you."

The audacity of this transmigrator still amazes everyone.

Choi Han blinked as though that was the question he wanted to know. Regardless, he answered the question politely as he always did.

"I woke up when I heard footsteps outside the door, and came out to investigate. What about you, Cale-nim? Is everything okay?"

Cale sighed.

This ridiculously light sleeper.

Scratching the back of his head, Cale tried his best to think of what to say. Oh, to hell with it. If it's Choi Han, he would definitely understand.

"Sometimes you get a late night craving." Cale paused, waiting for the words to sink in. "The craving haunts you, making you unable to sleep. There's nothing you can do except to feed the craving or to wait for it to go away."

"So in short you got hungry?"

tcf!Cale shrugged in response.

"Midnight snack it is then"

Meanwhile,

Hearing that, "Oh good! I thought he was pregnant, that's why the craving" was a sigh of relief from someone who now realizes he was being ridiculous.

"...And what is this craving, Cale-nim?"

Cale smirked.

"Choi Han, would you like to eat some tteokbokki?"

"Tteokbokki?" They ask.

"Oooohhhh Tteokbokki! It's freaking delicious!" og!Cale said "Hey slime! Get us some!" Such is his demand.

And thus the slime(slave) who just returned served Tteokbokki to everyone.

"...What?"

Choi Han never expected to hear that sentence in this world.

"Cale-nim, I didn't know you knew how to cook."

"Oh wait. Now that he mentions it"

Everyone looks at tcf!Cale.

tcf!Cale shrugged. "I don't need to cook now" was his answer.

He's lowkey flexing his richness.

"Ah, well. I never had to cook as Cale Henituse," he said with a wry smile. He was born with a golden spoon, having his every need tended to by servants. It wasn't like he could cook Korean cuisine, with constant surveillance. The kitchen was Beacrox's territory, and he was never allowed to take a step in and cook himself. Furthermore, how was he to explain himself if he cooked strange food no one else ever heard of?

Choi Han nodded in understanding. In his memories of Kim Rok Soo, there wasn't much cooking done together, other than eating cup noodles. He had always been so busy. He looked at Cale with eyes of sympathy.

"Do you like to cook, Cale-nim?"

"Hm? Well, I suppose it can be fun sometimes," Cale mused. Even in a life as a slacker, there were other hobbies people had to waste time. The games in this era didn't suit his tastes, but he liked to read in his spare time.

Cale's cooking hmmm.

Everyone thought.

tcf!Beacrox thought "guess I wouldn't mind letting him cook in my kitchen... of course with close supervision" he won't let his kitchen be dirty or get set on fire.

Choi Han hummed. A delicious smell filled the entire kitchen. Choi Han couldn't help but feel excited. He listened earnestly as Cale continued to talk about himself. It was not often that Cale opened up like this.

"As Kim Rok Soo, I grew up alone as an orphan. Naturally, I learned how to cook. I'm too lazy to, usually. But I'd call myself pretty decent. You don't have to worry about getting a stomachache or anything like that."

"I'll eat it even if it's bad, Cale-nim. Since you cooked it for me."

"Aigoo, this smooth talker. It's no wonder why you're so popular."

"And there were butterflies in his stomach"

"The way to a man's heart is to their stomach"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale sighs dramatically and bats their eyes toward tcf!Cale.

Which said person flushed as he ignores the idiots.

A piping hot pot of tteokbokki was set down on the table. Choi Han couldn't believe his eyes. He missed having Korean cuisine. After he shared descriptions of food from his hometown, Beacrox had tried his best, making kimchi and jjajangmyeon, but this was another food he never knew he missed until now. Cale smiled at the starstruck look in Choi Han's eyes.

Kimchi and jjajangmyeon?" another new word that they're learning.

tcf!Beacrox thought he should ask the slime for that and recreate it when he gets back to his kitchen.

Choi Han swallowed his saliva as Cale handed him a pair of chopsticks. Not just rice cakes, there was sausages, kimchi and cheese as well. It reminded him of high school days spent around snack stores with his friends. It made him think of his family. His heart twinged with nostalgia. He tried to change the topic so he wouldn't dwell on the sad thoughts.

"I've never had meals this late. It feels so sinful."

Cale made a 'tsk' sound, shaking his head. "Choi Han, this is how you be a slacker. Eating whenever you want, sleeping whenever you want. Understand?"

Yes! Finally! He finally achieves his slacker life!

tcf!Cale almost swoons at his beloved accomplished future rich slacker.

"Yes, Cale-nim."

The two men each grabbed a rice cake, blowing on it to cool it down. They put it into their mouths, chewing.

[]

"Hey, you know what else I crave?"

"What, Cale-nim?"

"Fried chicken and beer. The perfect midnight snack. Imagine, sitting in front of the Han river late at night while eating. Ah, just perfect."

Choi Han laughed lightly under his breath. He was so thankful to have Cale with him. No, Kim Rok Soo. It made him feel less alone to have someone understand his culture and past.

"You sound like an old man," Choi Han remarked as he shook his head.

"He is" tboah!Cale says in a sing-song voice. Oh yes, he was milking their double age. Heh.

As said person scowls (pouts)

"Old man? You're the one who's old. Should I call you hyungnim? Ajeossi? You're my friend's uncle once removed. If I'm old, what are you?"

tboah!Cale had a sudden realization "Apparently I got beat up by a grandpa" he also thought "And a very strong and good-looking grandpa" he clicked his tongue.

"What grandpa? He's ancient!" og!Cale grumbles. Also, how is it that he's still hot and sexy even though he's ancient?

They decided there and then that Choi Han is not human. No human can still look drop-dead gorgeous at a grandpa age! Hmph!

Choi Han laughed at Cale's offended expression. Cale's facial features softened at the sound of Choi Han's bright laughter. With a smirk, he said, "Hey, wait till you hear this dad joke then."

[]

They were having so much fun that they forgot it was 3 am in the morning. Their cheerful laughter echoed throughout the house, travelling down the corridors. This was the life Cale wanted. Being a slacker with his friends and having fun. Being comfortable and relaxed. He was so happy to finally be able to live the life he always dreamed of. He was glad he had Choi Han as a friend, who understood him so well.

"...What the hell are you two doing?"

Cale and Choi Han froze. They turned towards the door, where a fuming Beacrox stood. Sheepishly, the two men turned to look at each other as their brain churned with excuses. They chewed their mouthful of food slowly.

Of course, it was Cale who first got his bearings. He swallowed.

"Choi Han was unable to sleep, so he cooked food from his hometown that he missed. I came down because I was thirsty, and caught him in the act," Cale lied smoothly. Choi Han turned to look at Cale with a wide-eyed look.

They look amused at the transmigrator's antic.

Meanwhile,

"Oi! Do you have a death wish!"

"Why would you blame that vicious punk that could break you in half!"

og!Cale and tboah!Cale shouted-whisper towards tcf!Cale who was also questioning himself.

"Why future self! Why!!?" And he finally achieves his slacker life just to doom himself!

Beacrox squinted his eyes in suspicion. He knew that Choi Han was bad with cooking. The last time Choi Han tried to do so, he ruined an entire pot. However, the food on the table was definitely unfamiliar.

"...We'll make sure to clean up properly," Choi Han said instead with an odd expression. Cale held his tongue at the sight of Choi Han's face. This kid. He was thankful Choi Han was going along with it, but he was a seriously bad actor.

"Unfair! Eating food without me!"

"I want to try it too, Human!"

"Something smells good!"

"It's past 3 in the morning, why are the children awake?" tcf!Cale scrunches his face. Children should sleep and wake up at the right time to grow up healthy and strong.

"They get it from you" was the reply from both of his sides.

Which tcf!Cale ignores.

The kitchen got more crowded as more people gathered. On, Hong and Raon entered the kitchen. They had woken up from the two men's laughter. Choi Han smiled awkwardly as everyone tried the cuisine which they believed was cooked by him. Cale watched the children with a stoic expression as they ate what was actually his cooking. He seemed to be trying hard to not let anything slip.

"So it was our fault. Tsk"

It was because they were noisy, tcf!Cale thought.

He then plans that if he ever does this he'll do it as quietly as possible.

"It's delicious!"

"I like it!"

"It's chewy!"

"...It's not bad."

Everyone approved of the food. Choi Han couldn't resist a smile, looking at Cale with a warm look. The young master of the house looked a little embarrassed.

"Human! Cook for us too!

"Yes, Cale when we go back cook those Korean foods!"

"I want to taste your cooking Cale!"

The children ask (demanded).

"Aigooo..."

"If you told us how to cook this we could've done it," Beacrox said grudgingly. Choi Han's hometown food were all interesting and fun to experiment with. He felt annoyed that Choi Han kept this cuisine a secret from them.

"I... only remembered it today..." Choi Han lied awkwardly.

Sigh, this punk. Cale shook his head. How was Choi Han still so bad at acting after all these years?

"I'll watch you cook the next time to get the recipe right."

Choi Han froze when he heard Beacrox's words. With a panicked expression, he pointed to Cale. "Actually, it was cooked by Cale-nim. I just... told him about tteokbokki."

"Busted~"

Was what teasingly said by some.

Meanwhile,

"At least he didn't beat you up"

"Yea, that's a win"

whispered by both people besides tcf!Cale.

"Our young master knows how to cook?"

Beacrox narrowed his eyes again.

Cale sipped a cup of water, wetting his tongue before speaking. "Yes, well... I picked up a thing or two on my travels."

Everyone gave him odd looks. The young master learned how to cook while he was on the road? When? There was always someone else with him. Did he learn from the dark elves? Who would dare to make a Count's, no, a Duke's son cook?

Something just pop up on tboah!Cale's mind.

"Do you know how to cook?" He ask his future(?) self since well now he was pretty much sure he isn't a young master there.

"Let me enlighten you" og!Cale gave him a serious look lace with confidence and said "there is this amazing thing called instant food" was what he mysteriously answered.

tcf!Cale sighed as he frown hoping the idiot isn't killing himself with everyday instant food and preservative.

Raon looked between Choi Han and Cale.

Cale smiled when he heard Raon's voice in his head. Yes, Raon truly was great and mighty. He always caught on so quick. He hid his smile by eating another piece of tteokbokki.

"No need to hide it, everyone here already knows"

"so now you could cook anytime you want" cough "do bring some of your cooking to the palace"

Smooth Alberu smooth. Aunty Tasha approves with a smirk.

"I would also love to taste Oraboni's cooking!"

"Me too hyung-nim!"

tcf!Cale has a complicated expression, he could ignore his highness, but not his siblings. MY SlaCkEr life!

"Why are you guys standing around and staring? Hurry up and eat and go back to bed," Cale chided. To the kids, he reminded, "Also, you have to brush your teeth properly after eating. You don't want to get cavities, do you?"

"Awww mama Cale," some said.

tcf!Cale pales.

What?

He can't be a parent! Let alone a mother!

The adorable children nodded their heads.

Ah, this was nice.

Sharing Korean food at the same table with their new family. Choi Han and Cale exchanged a warm smile.

This truly was the best slacker life.

Ctto: Drowninginworkbutstill from ao3

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Everyone gasp as they witness tcf!Cale's very rare genuine smile.

It was beautiful.

They were pretty sure he let that out unintentionally, that's why it was also very precious.

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"You plan to sleep here?"

"Yes, your bed looks very comfortable."

"Haa..."

Alberu glared at the man that stood on his private balcony. The middle length red hair fluttered in the wind. The cold autumn air kept flowing into the room, making the hairs on Alberu's arms stand up. His dongsaeng was too troublesome. Another heavy sigh escaped his lips and the blonde man shook his head.

"Oh la la~"

"the moon is so beautiful tonight~"

Two idiots teasingly said.

As the transmigrator and the crown prince cheek's tint red.

"Suit yourself. It's not like you would listen to me anyway."

"Ohohohohoh"

There was the laugh that was being a cute menace.

"I only meant sleeping in his bed, that's all!" tcf!Cale hiss still red.

"Raon left for a while, I can't leave until he comes back so I might as well stay. Unless you want me to go and inform everyone I arrived in your room in the middle of the night?"

"Why are you in his room in the middle of the night?"

"Suspicous~"

"Shutit!"

"As if you would do that. Don't make threats that would trouble you way more than me, you bastard."

Cale only clicked his tongue but didn't say anything else. Alberu expected him to... do something. He was surprised when Cale and Raon appeared in his room but it's not like it'd never happened before. What was unusual was the fact that the little dragon just grabbed the cookies and disappeared, leaving a quiet Cale with him. No plans? No flipping the board?

He couldn't have come to the crown prince's room just to steal his bed, could he? Cale Henituse, the man who was more allergic to rest than humans to dead mana, came to him and said nothing? Although he tried to focus back on the papers on his desk, his gaze kept being drawn to the red haired man.

"Ooooo wow~"

"Oh my~"

"Oh dear~"

"Oooohhhhh~"

"Ehihihihihi"

"Ughh why are they increasing!" Now it was not only his aunt and two idiots who is being urgh!

His slender figure was illuminated by a mixture of moonlight and the shine of Alberu's candles. The shadows danced on his fragile looking back as his loose shirt moved with the wind. Did this bastard eat properly? No, was he eating at all?

Looking at him like this was unpleasant. Sometimes Alberu felt that if he blinked for too long, Cale would start falling apart. It was a disturbing thought, one he pushed away as far as he could, but it always came back. One day, he would hang up on Cale and never see him again-

Finally, he couldn't take it anymore. He stood up and approached the open door.

"If you want to sleep, at least come in-"

His voice caught in his throat. His head began pounding, the emptiness echoing like a void bell. There was smoke coming from Cale's hand. A smoke, coming from his hand, like in his nightmares when Cale fell apart-

"Don't come closer. The crown prince should live a long life."

The teasing was stopped at the sudden turn of event.

Was Cale alright?

Is he vanishing?

Is he returning to his original world?

Many thoughts clash with one another as they worried about the transmigrator.

"W-What-"

"Cigarettes are bad for health, you know."

What?

"You smoke Cale?"

"... I haven't tried it yet" was his answer which worried everyone.

So there is a chance that he might.

While everyone was having a dilemma about the transmigrator's future health.

tcf!Cale thought "Even if I can, I wouldn't want to" he was in the belief that poisoning himself would be disrespectful to the people who sacrifice themselves to let him live. "I mean I'm already drinking wine, and smoking would be excessive"

"What's a cigarette, Human?" tcf!Raon ask.

"It's something for adults" tcf!Mila explains in a simple and gentle way.

tcf!Dodori was not gentle "isn't that something that most probably lowers a human's lifespan?"

Well... He's not completely wrong.

"Human! You're banned from this cigarette!"

"That's right! Nya!"

"I'll burn all the cigarettes!"

"I think that's a bad idea.."

But they left it at that.

Cigarettes? Alberu inhaled sharply once he noticed that it wasn't Cale's hand that was producing the smoke, it was a small object held between those slender fingers. Apparently oblivious to his moment of terror, Cale made a face at him.

"I just told you not to inhale this, I will be fine but you-"

"Oh, shut up and close the damn balcony, you bastard."

His pulse was so fast Alberu feared it might be audible even to Cale. How dare this asshole scare him like this? And cigarettes? 'He will be fine'? He ignored the man's grumbling and slammed the balcony's door closed. Cale had the audacity to make a face like he had been wronged and Alberu craved violence.

This Alberu also craved violence.

"What is that idiot doing? He's already weak and now he wants to let his body deteriorate!?"

He sighs thinking that after all their problems resolve, he'll make sure that Cale would have that slacker life.

He pauses.

"Why does it feel like I want him to have his slacker life more than himself?" He could only sigh.

"What did you come here for anyway?"

"Ah, well... I can't smoke at home, the kids are always there, and explaining it would be too bothersome-"

"You came to the crown prince's bedchambers to have a smoke."

Alberu clutched his temples and groaned. He didn't know what was worse, the blatant disrespect or the fact his commander was actively seeking ways to poison himself while keeping everyone around him healthy. This self sacrificial bastard.

"You self-sacrificing idiot"

Almost everyone echoes.

tcf!Cale didn't deign that with a response. Because he knows that it's not true. He huff.

"You think the old Molan won't notice the smell on you?"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale wonders why would the old man care if he smokes or not.

"..."

"Must be because it's the current Cale now" was their conclusion.

They really don't care.

Hmph!

The man opened his mouth, then closed it. It seemed Cale didn't think about this beforehand, which made Alberu want to grab him and shake like a pine tree.

"Well, I guess you will need a bath and a change of clothes, Your Highness."

"Woah where is this conversation going?"

"Quickly! The children! Cover their innocence!"

"..."

"Um.."

"Raon, On, Hong..."

"Why are you covering our ears?"

"But they said cover the innocent?"

The Cales spluttered.

"I'm not helping you cover up poisoning yourself. Also have some respect for my staff."

"Mission abort!"

"We were misled"

"I don't know if I should be relieved or disappointed" someone commented.

"I told you I will be fine!"

Grumbling Cale laid down on his bed and started rolling around.

"Aww!" tcf!Tasha squealed "That's soooo cute!"

"What's cute? He's leaving his scent in my bed!" tcf!Alberu complains.

"That sound so fruity~"

Splutter!

Alberu sighed and glanced at his work, still barely touched on his desk. After another sigh he walked up to it and slowly blew out the candles, until only moonlight was illuminating the room. His eyes worked well in the dark so he had no problem with arriving at the bed. Cale didn't comment on his actions but he hogged all of the duvet to the side. What a child.

"Move over and get your own blanket."

"I'm sure the sun's radiance will warm you enough- Ouch, okay, okay."

"Aww, you two are so cute!"

"Tehehehehe"

Said by the greatest aunt of all time.

The transmigrator and the crown prince groan in misery as they cover their flush face.

He finally went insane. There was no other explanation for why he was laying down next to Cale Henituse. The red haired man kept complaining about the lack of light as he searched for a spare blanket next to the bed. Alberu's duvet smelled like cigarettes and petrichor. It still held Cale's warmth.

"What's the real reason for your visit?"

"Can't I just visit my favorite hyung?"

"What a hypocrite" tcf!Albery snort. He needed to give incentives just so the idiot would call him hyung.

Someday he would make it that the Cale would call him hyung willingly.

What a hypocrite. Wasn't he always saying he didn't want to see Alberu's face more than absolutely necessary? The sentiment was mutual, seeing Cale always brought troubles...

Or was it? Couldn't they just meet like this? Couldn't he make sure that Cale was still there-

"Teheheheheeh"

"Stop it, aunt!"

Meanwhile,

"Oh la la ~"

"Shut it you idiots"

The bed dipped again as Cale settled down with his blanket. Alberu's bed was big enough to accommodate even three people if necessary, yet he felt hyper aware of the other's every move. The scent of cigarettes was strong, making his nose itch. He didn't crave to reach towards the man and hold his hand. He didn't.

This goddamn bastard, he wasn't safe from Cale Henituse even in his own room.

"He's making it seems like I'm a hazard" tcfCale grumbled.

"You are"

tcf!Cale ignores that.

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"Human, I'm back! Oh, you're sleeping? Are we having a sleepover? Sleepovers are fun!"

"We can go back if you want to sleep with Hong and On."

Raon did a flip in the air and landed on Cale's chest. The red haired man huffed a little but pet the dragon's head with a smile on his face.

"Did you finish everything?"

"Yes! And thanks for the cookies, prince, everyone liked them!

"Yes! the cookies are the best!"

"It's delicious!"

"I want to taste this every day!"

Said by the children who were currently camping at the crown prince's table that have cookies.

Human, why do you smell so funny?"

"Don't worry about it."

"Haa..."

Suddenly too tired to take part in this, Alberu turned his back to the other two. After a short burst of shifting around to make themselves comfortable, both his guests settled down. He couldn't tell how much time had passed before Raon's breathing got slower.

"We will be gone before anyone comes."

He refused to acknowledge the shiver that Cale's whisper caused.

"...Do what you want."

"Ravish him Cale!" The mercenary king shouted.

WTF? They thought.

"WTF!" They said.

"What? He said he could do what he wants"

"I mean I would ravish him if he said that to me"

Both Bud defended.

"Run your highness run!"

"Aigoo..."

Ctto: Yazu from ao3

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I'd hope y'all know who was who that was talking here.

My OOC Cales is innocent in you-know-that matter and also doesn't smoke. It's not canon of course (≧∀≦)

The next chapter is still ctto but sad to say that will be the last CTTO that I will do. I already started it, I only need some finishing touches to complete it. I apologize for those requests that I couldn't make a reaction. I'll elaborate in the next chapter as to why.

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