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 toward

Choi Han bite down on

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

the snake right

to trust

Cale as he stepped back. However, he was

see any of that at

Boom. Boom. Boom.

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

voice he had

opportunity came knocking on its own,

opportunity has come, team leader.

‘In that case…’

came closer. The snake that was now as large as

a good look. You're better than me when

it now.

You'll be able to see the center of

Cale waited.

the approaching snake and felt his heart beating

see

because this snake was still

Sound of the Wind was a top underneath a boulder

was a pit under

Giant Cobblestone was a

was a sculpture at the center of the

Vitality of the Heart was a stone pillar

Eating Water was a

"What are you?”

snake was not it’s

is

person from earning an ancient power. Ancient powers always existed

What do you think? You

Soo Hyuk's voice in his mind as he focused on the

Boom- boom!

snake was getting closer while destroying the mountain peak. The snake continued to gobble up boulders as it approached right

gobbled up the

would those boulders

Cale started to smile.

‘Can you see it?’

leader, are you

can you

I can see it

2 seconds,

recorded the snake's appearance every

record and the present was being compared

could then see

snake’s body that continued to

that continued to

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 to gobble

“I found it.”

finally found

toward

The cracked bell.

after being hit by

crack continued to get bigger as

Craaaaaaack.

went from the top

see the small rock

red rock

‘That must be it.’

Soo. You can see the

started

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

mouth moved

Rok Soo, run toward the center.

your Embrace power

I'm telling you about my great

Baaaaaang!

snake’s head slammed

“Cale-nim!”

be heard through

"Screeeeeeeeeech!”

screeched in

broken rocks. The snake’s red eyes started

“Huff, huff, huff.”

Cale ran.

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

get Choi

any help if I want to have full

move as he was running so fast that he was almost

was observing. It was

It was anticipating.

come at

toward him again as

much data. There were only a few

needs to aim for

“Ugh!”

the broken rocks started to leave scratches on Cale's

‘3, 2, 1.’

counted down and kicked

as far as this

“Cale-nim! Behind you!”

Choi Han's

behind him. It was the snake's rough

Drip. Drip.

liquid fell on

However, Cale didn’t care.

“Got you.”

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

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

is,

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

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 no

Hyuk had

the target and

violent to