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!”

Cale only focused on

Han bite down on his lips and move

enemy like Kim Rok Soo's reddish-brown eyes had done back on

recording the snake right

to

Han decided to trust Cale as he stepped back. However, he was ready to jump in to

any of that at

Boom. Boom. Boom.

red snake every time his heart beat. How it was moving, what it was

Hyuk’s voice he had heard at

Soo, the opportunity came knocking

The opportunity has come, team

‘In that case…’

The snake that was now as large as

good look. You're better than me

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

You'll be able to see the center

Cale waited.

looked at the approaching snake and felt

he could see the center of

was because this snake was still an

Wind was a top underneath a boulder surrounded

a pit

was a stone in

Destruction was a sculpture at the center of

was a stone pillar

Eating Water was

"What are you?”

was not it’s true

what is

person from earning an ancient power. Ancient powers always existed at the center

What do you think? You should be able

repeated Lee Soo Hyuk's voice in

Boom- boom!

mountain peak. The snake continued to gobble up boulders as it approached

gobbled up the

those

Cale started to smile.

‘Can you see it?’

are you

can you see

I can see

2

recorded the snake's appearance

was being compared in

then

body that continued to get

scales that continued to get

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

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

head in front of Cale… Once it raised both

“I found it.”

had finally

looked toward the snake’s

The cracked bell.

cracked after being

continued to get bigger as the

Craaaaaaack.

once that crack went from

the small

red rock caught Cale’s

‘That must be it.’

Rok Soo. You can see

body started

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

open mouth moved

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

your Embrace power will run wild,

Listen when I'm telling you about my great ability!

Baaaaaang!

snake’s head slammed down

“Cale-nim!”

Han’s shocked shout could be heard through the loud

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

snake also screeched in anger

snake’s mouth was only full of broken rocks. The snake’s red eyes started to move. He noticed the running

“Huff, huff, huff.”

Cale ran.

Wind. He felt like he would faint if he used any more of his

didn’t get Choi Han's help

get any help if I want to have full

running

was observing. It

It was anticipating.

at me

snake charged toward him again

only a few ways

needs to aim

“Ugh!”

leave scratches on Cale's body.

‘3, 2, 1.’

counted down and kicked

up as far as this feeble body

“Cale-nim! Behind you!”

Choi Han's

him.

Drip. Drip.

liquid fell

However, Cale didn’t care.

“Got you.”

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

it to the ability. The Embrace ability will take care of everything for you as it

is,

flowed through his two hands. It then

Embrace, but… Ah, I'm only telling you, okay? That ability is more of a binding than an embrace? No,

Hyuk had

dominates the target and binds them into your

violent