Trash of the Count's Family

Team leader Lee Soo Hyuk.

Cale started to think about him.

The company that Kim Rok Soo had worked for would have been worth nothing without team leader Lee Soo Hyuk.

That was how influential team leader Lee Soo Hyuk was as one of the legends and heroes of the Korean ability users’ world.

‘Me?’

One of the other employees had once asked team leader Lee Soo Hyuk what kind of person he was before the world flipped over.

He had been curious to know what kind of this person with so many achievements had been.

‘Mm, I was average.’

‘What was your job?’

‘Me? I was a slacker with no job.’

‘Oh, really?’

‘Wow, look at this little punk, Kim Rok Soo. He chimes in because we are talking about being a slacker!’

Kim Rok Soo who did not usually participate in these get-togethers and had come for the first time in a long while was interested about hearing that the team leader had been a slacker.

The team leader who was laughing as he looked at Kim Rok Soo shrugged his shoulders at the employee who was asking if he really was a slacker.

‘Yes. I really was a slacker. A slacker with many dreams.’

‘Boo, too boring.’

The employee lost interest in team leader Lee Soo Hyuk's response and moved away. The table soon became loud and there was only one person who paid any attention to the team leader who was drinking on his own.

‘What are you looking at?’

‘Team leader.’

‘What is it? Our rude youngest punk who speaks to me so informally.’

‘…I am not the youngest.’

‘Once the youngest is always the youngest. Anyway, what's up?’

‘What was your dream?’

Team leader Lee Soo Hyuk picked up a shot of soju instead of responding to Kim Rok Soo’s question. He then stared into the soju inside the transparent shot glass as he started to speak.

‘To become an actor.’

‘…Team leader, you wanted to be an actor?’

‘Is it hard to believe? I'll be honest with you. My dream was to be an actor for an action movie. Doesn’t that sound cool?’

‘Action movie actors are cool, but you aren’t cool at all, team leader.’

‘Ha! What an honest little punk.’

Lee Soo Hyuk chuckled before gulping down the shot of soju. Kim Rok Soo had a thought at that time.

It suits him well.

He was thinking that team leader Lee Soo Hyuk would have been quite successful as an action movie actor. He had a muscular body and his face was perfect for the main character of a thriller or an action movie with a mysterious past.

Of course, Kim Rok Soo didn’t say such praise out loud.

‘Well, the subordinate of the evil villain would have been a perfect role for you.’

‘Aigoo, is that so?’

Lee Soo Hyuk stared at Kim Rok Soo who was spewing such nonsense next to him instead of getting along with the other team members before continuing to speak.

‘You see, here’s the thing with actors. They need to be able to store everything. Sometimes they have to be the judge, sometimes a murderer, and sometimes even the only main character. They have to be able to store the character’s story and their life inside them each time. That’s the only way to become that person.’

He started to laugh before looking embarrassed as he continued to speak.

‘It’s something I realized while being a slacker! It’s all just nonsense, pure nonsense. It’s just shit coming from a bastard who never even made it as an extra, hehehe.’

Kim Rok Soo had asked while looking at the laughing team leader.

‘Team leader, isn’t that your ability?’

Lee Soo Hyuk turned toward Kim Rok Soo.

‘The power to store anything.’

Smirk.

Lee Soo Hyuk started to smile.

‘That’s right. That is my ability. Remember it well. I will teach you how to use it in return for keeping a drunk superior company.’

He filled Kim Rok Soo's glass.

‘The moment the thing you are trying to store comes at you… That is your chance.’

Kim Rok Soo, no, Cale, slowly drifted away from the memory of the past and faced reality.

Team leader Lee Soo Hyuk had not been drunk at all during that time. He had just shared the way to use his ability, something that others would have kept as a secret, with this punk who couldn't get along with others at the get-together.

“Screeeeeeeeeech-!”

Boom, boooooom!

The large snake charged toward Cale with its mouth open.

However, it was not just charging forward.

Crunch, crunch.

The snake was gobbling up all of the granite in its way. The snake's scales turned even redder and resembled blood the more he gobbled up.

The snake's body started to get larger as well. It looked as if the large snake would cover the entire peak and crush Cale.

Drip. Drip.

The red liquid coming out of the snake’s mouth was dying the mountain peak red.

“…Cale-nim!”

but Cale only

down on his lips and

reddish-brown eyes were observing the enemy like Kim Rok Soo's reddish-brown eyes

the snake right

to

was

did not see any

Boom. Boom. Boom.

the Blood-drenched Rock, this red snake every time his heart beat. How it was moving, what it was destroying, what noise it was making… Cale was seeing and listening to everything as he recorded it in

Hyuk’s voice

came knocking on its

opportunity has come, team leader. The snake is

‘In that case…’

snake that was now as large as

better than me when it comes

it. I'm still looking at it now. I am

it. You'll be able to see the center

Cale waited.

approaching snake and felt his heart beating as he

could see the center of this

snake was

Wind was a top underneath a

Indestructible Shield was a

was a stone in the

of Destruction was a sculpture at the

stone pillar at the center of a

Water was a

"What are you?”

snake was not

is your

an ancient power. Ancient

do you think? You should be able to

Hyuk's voice

Boom- boom!

the mountain peak. The snake continued to gobble

gobbled

would those boulders

Cale started to smile.

‘Can you see it?’

leader, are you

you

leader. I can

second, 2 seconds, 3

recorded the snake's appearance

the present was being

could then

snake’s body that continued

that

was slowly starting to drip out in larger amounts from the snake's

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

then, once the snake finally raised its body and lifted its head in front of Cale… Once it raised both its head and tail and tried

“I found it.”

finally

looked toward the

The cracked bell.

bell that cracked after being

get bigger

Craaaaaaack.

crack went from the top to

could see the small rock hiding

rock

‘That must be it.’

Kim Rok Soo. You can see

started to

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

open mouth moved

Rok Soo, run toward the

your Embrace power will run wild,

when I'm telling you about my great

Baaaaaang!

slammed down

“Cale-nim!”

Han’s shocked shout could be heard

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

screeched

rocks. The snake’s red eyes started

“Huff, huff, huff.”

Cale ran.

the Sound of the Wind. He felt like he

Choi Han's help

get any help if I want to have full

mind started to quickly move as he was running so fast that he was

observing. It

It was anticipating.

come at

charged toward him again

didn’t need much data. There were only a few ways that such a large body could move

to

“Ugh!”

rocks started to leave scratches on Cale's

‘3, 2, 1.’

and

up as far as

“Cale-nim! Behind you!”

Choi

him. It was the snake's rough

Drip. Drip.

liquid fell on

However, Cale didn’t care.

“Got you.”

hands were holding onto the snake’s bell. One of his fingers then touched the red rock through the crack on

that, just leave it to the ability. The Embrace ability will take care of everything for you as it

really is, team

from his heart. The power flowed through his two hands. It then passed through his fingers

honest with you. I gave it the name Embrace, but… Ah, I'm only telling you, okay? That ability is more of a binding than an embrace? No,

had laughed as he

is like dominance. It dominates the target and

too violent to call it