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.

day could become overloaded with monsters the next

different building

humans, as if to tell them that there was no eternal

But this place…

Cale was looking at had remained a

had one of these

people called these

Tae

am the owner of

turned toward Park Jin

owner from the

his memories one by one before saying one of the

Soo's calm voice

is the king of this place right

Jin Tae's expression turned

at the fact that Kim Rok Soo called him Park Jin Tae instead of leader, but Park Jin Tae's

Kim Rok Soo.

bastard had accepted Park Jin

dare you call the leader-nim by his name?

who

“…Jin Tae.”

grandma walked out of the shelter building

subordinates started to

seemed more uncomfortable than angry or

walked over to Park Jin

I'll make sure to

up at that

except

Grandma Kim.

that her last

Tae could not

Grandma Kim’s gaze as

stomach as soon as

than having his

This hurt more.

then heard Park

realized the reality

Park Jin Tae

did not say that latter part out loud while Cale calmly agreed with

right. I need

thinking to himself without realizing that Park Jin Tae

consider this

is the blood-colored

this situation was an illusion that’ll disappear

slowly raised his

get rid

rid of all

Grandma Kim who was looking

recalled one

shelter will be destroyed

when exactly it

of fall and

announcing

on earth during this time

central shelters were attacked by

they would attack differently than normal, as if they were

the central

also means that there will be new

before would appear exactly 24 hours after the first central

Park Jin Tae and his

let

Himself, Kim Rok Soo.

Oh, there were some other people as

that team leader Lee Soo Hyuk had saved

Tae showed

in charge

team leader has already

had now 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

Park Jin Tae were good people at that

soon as the team leader left and started to rule over this central

the person who was the strongest attack-type ability user after Lee Soo

system was one that Park Jin

found

not treat Grandma Kim, who had healing

bowed to the grandma and looked

be smart to act with that reality in mind next

Tae offered him

that hand and stood

Tae watched Kim Rok Soo sit back down

then turned around and walked away from the

are going to

subordinates followed

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

to let Kim Rok Soo go like this? Shouldn’t we beat him to

Jin Tae's fox-like eyes turned

shoulders slightly shook

looked at him for a while before finally starting

bastard was

“Excuse me?”

Soo is the only initial shelter member who still considered Lee Soo Hyuk, the person who

people came and went from the central shelters since

people who had

members and Park Jin

been over 10

Hyuk who left to help a different region that was having difficulties had not returned, and Grandma Kim, as well

probably had

to survive

But Kim Rok Soo…

never accepted Park Jin Tae as the owner of

didn't accept the concept of, ‘king’

Kim Rok Soo's acceptance did

as the other useless parasites

found that

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

Rok

“Ha, haha-”

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

Soo was anymore and

Hunting.

but it was more of a difficult battle for food that could result in them losing

it was his

Tae was moving away before putting

you just run the errand for

slowly remembered why he had been beaten

other words,

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

to have been beaten up today

this is an

Cale touched his stomach.

It hurt.

hurts

‘Let’s change it.’

was at that

will go

Flinch.

Cale’s shoulders shook.

It was that bastard.

blood-colored eyes. It was the voice of the bastard who