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.

could become overloaded with

a different building became a

to bleed the humans, as if to tell

But this place…

building Cale was looking at had remained

area had one of these

why people called

Jin Tae

I am the owner of that central

toward

owner

one by one before saying one of the

Soo's calm voice flowed

the king of this place

Jin Tae's

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

Kim Rok Soo.

that this arrogant and venomous bastard

dare you call the leader-nim by his name? Do

who was looking at him even as his subordinate started to

“…Jin Tae.”

out of the shelter building at

Tae’s subordinates started to frown

more uncomfortable than angry

over to Park

stop? I'll make sure to talk to

up at that

see anymore except in his distant memories because she had

Grandma Kim.

her first name. They just knew that her last name was Kim and called her

person Park Jin Tae could not treat horribly in this

avoided Grandma Kim’s gaze as she

than getting kicked in the stomach as soon as he opened

having his

This hurt more.

heard Park

you finally realized the reality of

Jin

Jin Tae did not say that latter part out loud

need

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

let's consider this

the blood-colored

situation was an illusion that’ll disappear

slowly raised

rid

all of

of Grandma Kim who

recalled one very

shelter will

when exactly it was

of fall and the start

if it was an alarm announcing the appearance

earth during this time lost

shelters

than normal, as

would attack the central shelters in

that there will

shelters that looked different than before would appear exactly 24 hours after

not like Park Jin Tae and his

he could not let the people

Himself, Kim Rok Soo.

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

that team leader Lee Soo

Park Jin Tae showed his

Hyuk was in charge

leader has already

Lee Soo Hyuk who had now left for more dangerous places had been the ‘center’

this place in Grandma Kim and Park Jin Tae's

Grandma Kim and Park Jin Tae were good

Park Jin Tae revealed his true nature as soon as the team leader left and started

a new system under the person

was one that Park Jin Tae

Tae found it difficult

treat Grandma

slightly bowed to the

to act with that

Jin Tae offered

that hand

Rok Soo sit back down before

turned around and walked away from the shelter

going to

subordinates followed behind

Tae's right-hand man caught up to

like this? Shouldn’t we beat him

fox-like eyes turned

shoulders slightly shook after

at him for a while before finally starting to

bastard was

“Excuse me?”

Soo is the only initial shelter member who still considered Lee Soo Hyuk, the person who has still not returned, to be this

the central shelters since

people who had

were called the initial shelter members and Park Jin Tae just

been over

Kim, as well as the rest of Lee Soo Hyuk's people had started to accept Park Jin Tae's

had no

to survive as

But Kim Rok Soo…

never accepted Park Jin Tae as the owner of

who didn't accept the concept of, ‘king’ in the first

Soo's

was the same as the other useless parasites that were surviving in this

found that

Chul Min was worried that he got on Park Jin

Rok Soo was

“Ha, haha-”

started to refreshingly laugh out loud

where Kim Rok Soo was anymore and

Hunting.

was more of a difficult battle for food

it was

moving away before

didn't you just

he

In other

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

to have been beaten up today after trying

this is an

Cale touched his stomach.

It hurt.

that hurts was

‘Let’s change it.’

was at that

you think it will go

Flinch.

Cale’s shoulders shook.

It was that bastard.

the voice of the bastard who sent Cale into this