Cale just ignored the signals. He then debated how he could pretend not to know Venion. However, all of his contemplations were for naught, as Venion greeted him first.

�Long time no see, young master Cale.�

Venion Stan. He seemed to have gotten many more wrinkles since the last time they met, but he was still showing a gentle smile, fitting for a noble. However, Neo Tolz was behind him looking extremely anxious.

Cale smiled brightly and started to speak.

�Hello, young master Venion. This is our first meeting since we met in Viscount Tolz�s territory last time.�

Venion�s gentle smile became thicker, while Neo�s face became completely pale.

Marquis Stan was one of the four leaders in the kingdom�s politics. The successor of such a person visited the Northeast region. Not only that, it was to a low ranking noble territory like Viscount Tolz�s territory. It was obviously showing that Viscount Tolz was under the Marquis�s faction.

Naturally, the Northeastern nobles all started to frown, and the other nobles in the hall started to pay attention as well. The Northeast was a region without a leader right now.

�Correct. I went to visit my friend, young master Neo, and was heading back home.�

Venion Stan did not care about the gazes that were heading his way. There was no problem for him to go to the Northeast region. Venion was looking at Cale, as if he was observing him, but his voice was still gentle.

�Yes. We said we would share a drink at the capital.�

�We did indeed.�

Both Cale and Venion seemed very calm while chatting with each other. However, the people watching them could not be as calm.

Cale looked toward Neo Tolz, who was peeking at him and started to smile. Neo flinched while looking at Cale�s smile.

�Ah, right. The day after I met you, young master Venion, one of the Viscount Tolz�s knights came to find me.�

Cale started to speak to Neo with a very concerned expression.

�I heard the villa was ransacked completely clean. Is everything okay?�

Neo�s shoulders flinched, and Cale could see the corner of Venion�s lips starting to twitch.

�Did you hear about it young master Venion? I�m sure you have since you said the two of you are good friends.�

Venion finally responded after a bit of time. He was speaking very naturally, but Cale could feel the anger inside Venion�s words.

��Yes. It was very sad to hear.�

�Yes. You don�t know how shocked I was to hear about it while I was having my hangover drink. How could they ransack the place clean and not leave anything behind! They said you lost something very important, young master Neo?�

The most annoying people in the world were the ones with loose lips, the ones with no tact, and the righteous.

Cale was acting like all three right now. He was having so much fun. ( (PR: I love this little bastard.) ) JrNovels.com