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

a different building became

shelters continued to bleed the humans, as if to tell them that

But this place…

at had remained

had one of

called these shelters the

Tae continued to

am the owner of

toward Park

owner

one before saying one

Rok Soo's calm voice

the king of this place

Jin Tae's expression turned

would normally have been angry at the fact that Kim Rok Soo 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

Kim Rok Soo.

arrogant and venomous bastard had accepted Park Jin Tae as the owner of this

you call the leader-nim by his name?

to look at Kim Rok Soo who was

“…Jin Tae.”

out of the shelter building

Tae’s subordinates started to frown at her

seemed more uncomfortable than angry or

cautiously walked over to Park Jin Tae

you stop? I'll make sure to talk

up at that

someone whom he could never see anymore except

Grandma Kim.

just knew that her last name was Kim and

Park Jin Tae could not treat horribly in this

as she looked at

getting kicked in the stomach as soon as he

having his

This hurt more.

Park Jin Tae’s low

realized the reality of the

that Park Jin Tae

part out loud

need to

thinking to himself without realizing that Park Jin Tae was looking at him

this

the blood-colored

this situation was an illusion that’ll

slowly raised

rid of

all of his

into the eyes of Grandma Kim who

then recalled one very important

shelter will be destroyed

didn’t know when exactly it

end of fall and

was an alarm announcing the appearance of the unranked

existed on earth during

the central shelters were attacked by monsters and

than normal, as if they were trying to invade

attack the

there will be new central

different than before would appear exactly 24 hours after the first central shelters were

not like Park

let the

Himself, Kim Rok Soo.

Grandma Kim. Oh, there were some other people

leader Lee Soo Hyuk

Tae

Hyuk was in charge of

the team leader has

left for more dangerous places had been the ‘center’ of this central shelter before Park

the team leader left this place in Grandma Kim and Park

Tae were good people at that

Tae revealed his true nature as soon as the team leader left and started to rule

to create a new system under the person who was the strongest

that system was one that Park Jin Tae

Tae found it difficult to handle Grandma

Grandma Kim,

the grandma

act with that reality in mind

offered him his

hand and stood

sit back down before letting go of

walked

are going

followed

Park Jin Tae's right-hand man caught up

go like this? Shouldn’t we beat him to

fox-like eyes turned

shoulders slightly shook after seeing

him for a while before finally

was the only

“Excuse me?”

who still considered Lee Soo Hyuk, the

came and went from the central shelters

some people who had survived

Park Jin Tae just considered them

it had been over

Soo Hyuk who left to help a different region that was having difficulties had not returned, and Grandma Kim, as well as the rest of Lee Soo Hyuk's people had started to accept Park Jin Tae's

probably had

to

But Kim Rok Soo…

abilities never accepted Park Jin

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

Rok Soo's acceptance

same as the other useless

found that venomous

Min was worried that he got on Park Jin Tae's nerves just

Kim Rok

“Ha, haha-”

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

toward where Kim Rok Soo was anymore and

Hunting.

more of a difficult battle for food that could result in

was his

Jin Tae was moving away before putting her hand

didn't you just run the errand for

slowly remembered why he had been

other words, starting

Soo, who didn't accept him as

to have been beaten up today

an illusion or

Cale touched his stomach.

It hurt.

hurts

‘Let’s change it.’

at

will go

Flinch.

Cale’s shoulders shook.

It was that bastard.

blood-colored eyes. It was the voice of the