Trash of the Count's Family

But he didn’t have time to sit around with a burning gaze.

Cale immediately raised his body.

“Ugh.”

He couldn't help but groan because of the pain he felt throughout his body.

One of the people looking down at him started to smile.

“Hey. Why did you have to run your mouth instead of doing what we told you to do?”

Cale, no, Kim Rok Soo ignored that comment that was directed at him.

‘I don’t have time for this.’

He put some strength into his shaking legs in order to stand up little by little.

This was when Kim Rok Soo's body was weaker than ever.

Maybe that was the reason, but this weak ass body of his was this helpless after only being kicked once by an ability user.

“Ugh!”

As he heard someone sneer…

“Ugh!”

Cale fell on the ground again after someone kicked his calf.

He was flat on the ground looking up at the sky again.

“Hey.”

Someone crouched down beside him and made eye contact.

“Why do you think you’re being beaten up like this?”

Cale recalled the name of the man looking at him from deep inside his memories.

‘Was his name Park Jin Tae?’

This bastard was the leader of this shelter.

Shelter.

A shelter was a place in the early days of the cataclysm where monsters never approached, a safe place in this hell where monsters could appear at any moment.

People considered the shelters a gift from ‘some being’ to allow them the chance to fight against the monsters, similar to how that being had given some people abilities.

‘And Park Jin Tae is the ruler of this shelter I'm in right now.’

This bastard was a tyrant who did everything as he pleased.

He clearly treated the ability users and regular people differently, treating the ability users much better.

Furthermore, he would approve of you even if you were not an ability user, as long as you were useful.

That was why people who were on Park Jin Tae’s good side got to rest peacefully inside this shelter.

Kim Rok Soo's early twenties started at the lowest spot in Park Jin Tae's shelter.

He was hated by Park Jin Tae.

“Kim Rok Soo, are you not going to answer me?”

Although Park Jin Tae was smiling gently and speaking in a warm voice, he was coldly staring down at Cale.

Cale looked into those eyes and started to think.

‘What is going on right now? Is it an illusion? Was it one of those dreams he’s had until now whenever he fainted?’

That didn't seem to be the case, as he could move as he wanted.

He then thought about those blood-colored eyes that called itself solitude and despair and had sent him here.

‘I will make you want me.’

That was what the bastard had said.

‘Call me when you need me. Only I can destroy your despair for you.’

It sounded as if it was going to show Cale despair.

It was telling him to follow it if he didn't like that despair.

It made him want to laugh.

The God of Death…

This blood-colored eyes bastard…

‘Why do they all do whatever the fuck they feel like doing?’

It made him annoyed.

“Hey, Kim Rok Soo. Did you not hear the leader-nim telling you to answer him?”

One of the men behind Park Jin Tae scolded Cale. He lifted his foot up and looked ready to kick Cale again.

“Huuuuuu, enough. That bastard might die at this rate.”

“Yes, Leader-nim!”

Park Jin Tae shook his head before starting to speak again.

“Hey, Rok Soo.”

Cale stopped looking at the sky and looked around him.

He could see buildings.

Most of the building walls were crumbling or cracked, and they were barely standing with their tall shapes mainly gone.

There were many buildings where the metal frames were barely standing as well.

Among those buildings…

He could see a three-story building with one corner destroyed.

But the rest of it was fine.

It didn't seem very different compared to the other buildings.

Park Jin Tae whispered to him while laughing.

“Yes, that building you are looking at right now. Don’t you want to go back to the shelter?”

That building was the shelter.

It didn’t look special or different even though it was a shelter.

But humans barely managed to find that shelter to continue living.

Cale opened his mouth to speak.

“…The shelter that has been maintained for the longest time in this area since the cataclysm.”

“Yes, that is why it is the most comfortable place.”

The damn shelter locations changed every so often.

one day could become overloaded with monsters the

happened, a different building

to bleed the humans, as if to tell

But this place…

Cale was looking at had remained

area had one of these

called these shelters the

Tae continued

I am the owner

turned toward Park

the owner from the

one by one before saying one of the

Soo's calm

the king of this place

Tae's expression turned

called him Park Jin Tae instead of leader, but Park Jin Tae's anger subsided because Kim Rok Soo had accepted him as king in his calm and confident

Kim Rok Soo.

and venomous bastard had accepted Park Jin

leader-nim by his name? Do you really want to die,

at Kim Rok Soo who

“…Jin Tae.”

the shelter

started

uncomfortable than

grandmother cautiously walked over to Park Jin Tae

don't you stop? I'll make sure to talk to Rok

eyes teared up

someone whom he could never see anymore except in his distant memories

Grandma Kim.

They just knew that her last

Park Jin Tae could not treat

Grandma Kim’s gaze as she looked at him

the stomach as soon as he opened his

having his calf

This hurt more.

then heard Park Jin Tae’s

you finally realized the reality

reality that Park Jin Tae was

not say that latter part out loud while Cale calmly agreed

right. I need to accept

himself without realizing that Park Jin Tae was

let's consider this to be

the blood-colored

was an illusion that’ll disappear

slowly raised

rid

would get rid of all of his regrets

looked into the eyes of Grandma Kim who was looking

recalled one

shelter will

exactly it was right now,

the end of fall and the start of

an alarm announcing the appearance of the

central shelters that existed on earth

central shelters were attacked by

as

monsters would attack the central

also means that there will

before would appear exactly

not like Park Jin

he could not let the

Himself, Kim Rok Soo.

there was Grandma Kim. Oh, there were some other people as

team leader Lee Soo

Park Jin Tae

in charge

team leader has already

Hyuk who had now left for more dangerous places had been the ‘center’ of this central

this place in

Grandma Kim and Park Jin Tae were good people at

Park Jin Tae revealed his true nature as soon as the team

create a new system under the person who was the strongest

that system was one that

even Park Jin Tae found it difficult to handle Grandma

could not treat Grandma Kim, who had healing

the grandma and looked toward

be smart to act with that

Jin Tae offered him

grabbed that hand

Jin Tae watched Kim Rok Soo sit back down before

walked away

are going to

subordinates followed

Park Jin Tae's right-hand man caught up to him

go like this? Shouldn’t we beat him to a pulp when we have the

Jin Tae's fox-like eyes

Min's shoulders slightly shook after seeing

quietly looked at him for a while before

was

“Excuse me?”

member who still considered Lee Soo Hyuk, the

and went from the central shelters since the

people who

called the initial shelter members and Park Jin

had been over

not returned, and Grandma Kim, as well as the rest of Lee Soo Hyuk's people had started to accept Park Jin

probably had no

to

But Kim Rok Soo…

abilities never accepted Park Jin Tae as the

that bastard is someone who didn't accept the concept of, ‘king’

Kim Rok Soo's acceptance did

the other useless parasites that

found that venomous gaze

user like Lee Chul Min was

Rok Soo was

“Ha, haha-”

Tae started to refreshingly laugh out loud for the first time in

not look toward where Kim Rok Soo was anymore and headed for the hunting

Hunting.

it was called, but it was more of a difficult

was

Jin Tae was moving away before putting her hand on

you just

slowly remembered why he had been beaten

In other words, starting

always made Kim Rok Soo,

have been beaten up today after trying to

this is an illusion

Cale touched his stomach.

It hurt.

hurts

‘Let’s change it.’

was at that

think it will

Flinch.

Cale’s shoulders shook.

It was that bastard.

voice of the bastard who sent Cale into