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.

day could

that happened, a different building became

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

But this place…

remained a shelter since the first day

had one of

was why people called

Jin Tae continued

the owner of

turned toward

owner from the

through his memories one by one before saying one

Rok Soo's calm

king of this place right

Jin Tae's

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

Kim Rok Soo.

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

by his name? Do you

Rok Soo who was looking at him even as his subordinate

“…Jin Tae.”

the shelter building

subordinates started to

more uncomfortable than

cautiously walked over to Park

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

up at that

see anymore except

Grandma Kim.

name. They just knew that her last

Jin Tae could not treat horribly in this

avoided Grandma Kim’s gaze as

stomach as

having

This hurt more.

Park

realized the reality of

reality that Park Jin Tae was the

Jin Tae did not say that latter part out loud while Cale calmly

right. I need

that Park Jin Tae

this

blood-colored eyes’

this situation was an illusion that’ll disappear

raised

rid of any

rid of all of his regrets during

Grandma Kim who

then recalled one very important

shelter will be

didn’t know when exactly it was

end of fall and

it was an alarm announcing the

central shelters that existed on earth during

shelters were attacked

as

the central shelters in

also means that there will be

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

did not like Park Jin

could not let the

Himself, Kim Rok Soo.

there was Grandma Kim. Oh, there were

leader Lee Soo

Tae

was in charge of

leader

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

in

and Park Jin Tae were

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

person who was the

system was one that Park Jin Tae

Tae found it difficult to handle Grandma

Jin Tae could not treat Grandma Kim, who had

the grandma and looked

smart to act with that

Jin Tae offered

grabbed that hand and

Kim Rok Soo sit back down before

turned around and walked away

are going to

subordinates followed

Tae's right-hand man caught up to him and started to

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

Jin Tae's fox-like eyes

Min's shoulders slightly

quietly looked at him for a while

bastard was the

“Excuse me?”

who still considered Lee Soo

and went from the central

were some people who had

people were called the initial shelter members and Park Jin

had been over 10

Kim, as well as the rest of Lee

probably had

to

But Kim Rok Soo…

useless bastard without any abilities never accepted Park Jin Tae

didn't accept the concept

Kim Rok Soo's

as the other useless parasites

found that venomous

even an ability user like Lee Chul Min was worried that he got on

Kim Rok Soo was

“Ha, haha-”

Tae started to refreshingly laugh out loud for

look toward where Kim Rok Soo was anymore and headed for

Hunting.

it was more of a difficult

it was his

that Park Jin Tae was moving away

didn't you just run the errand

why he had been beaten

In other

Jin Tae always made Kim Rok Soo, who didn't accept him as king, to run errands for

today

an illusion

Cale touched his stomach.

It hurt.

that hurts was

‘Let’s change it.’

was at

will go as you

Flinch.

Cale’s shoulders shook.

It was that bastard.

the voice of the bastard who sent Cale into

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