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 focused on the snake charging

Choi Han bite down on

the enemy like Kim Rok Soo's

recording the

to trust

Cale as he stepped back. However, he was ready to jump in to save Cale

any of

Boom. Boom. Boom.

it was moving, what it was destroying, what noise it was making… Cale was seeing and listening to everything as he recorded it

Lee Soo Hyuk’s voice he had heard

came knocking on

team leader. The snake is coming

‘In that case…’

snake that was now as large as a large building was destroying

You're better than

at it. I'm still looking at it now. I am recording it. I am recording everything about

to see the

Cale waited.

snake and felt his heart beating as

he could see the center of

this snake was still an

a

Shield was a pit

a stone in

a sculpture at

a stone pillar at the center of

Eating Water

"What are you?”

red snake was not it’s

Rock, what is

person from earning an ancient power.

do you think? You

Hyuk's voice in his mind as he focused

Boom- boom!

The snake continued to

it gobbled up the

would those boulders have

Cale started to smile.

‘Can you see it?’

leader, are

you see

team leader. I can see it

second, 2 seconds,

the snake's appearance

record and the present was being compared in Cale’s

then

body that

scales that continued

to drip out in larger amounts

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

of

“I found it.”

finally found

toward the snake’s

The cracked bell.

bell that cracked after

to get bigger as the snake

Craaaaaaack.

finally, once that crack went

small rock hiding inside

red rock caught

‘That must be it.’

can see the center, right? In

body started

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

mouth moved

it? Kim Rok Soo, run toward the center. Then, your Embrace power

your Embrace power will

when I'm telling you about my great

Baaaaaang!

snake’s head slammed

“Cale-nim!”

could be

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

screeched in anger as

of broken rocks. The snake’s red eyes started to move.

“Huff, huff, huff.”

Cale ran.

he would faint if he used any

get Choi

if I want to have full

he was running so fast that he was almost

observing. It

It was anticipating.

at

him again as

were only a few ways that such a large body could move on this

to aim for

“Ugh!”

the broken rocks started to leave scratches on Cale's body. However, Cale had already anticipated when the snake’s scale would

‘3, 2, 1.’

down and kicked off

up as far as this feeble body could

“Cale-nim! Behind you!”

heard Choi

breath behind him. It was the snake's rough

Drip. Drip.

fell

However, Cale didn’t care.

“Got you.”

were holding onto the snake’s bell. One of his fingers then touched the red

will take care of everything for you as it shoots up from your heart. What do you think, doesn’t my

really is,

could feel a strong power shooting up from his heart. The power flowed through his two hands. It then passed through his fingers to touch

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, hmm, is there

Hyuk had laughed

dominance. It dominates the target and binds them

violent to call it