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

different building became

the humans, as if to tell them that there

But this place…

three-story building Cale was looking at had remained a shelter since the first day

had one of

was why people called these shelters the

Tae

am the owner of that

turned toward Park Jin

the owner

by one before saying one of

Soo's calm voice flowed

king of this place

Jin Tae's expression

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

Kim Rok Soo.

time that this arrogant and venomous bastard

his name? Do

at Kim Rok Soo who was looking at him

“…Jin Tae.”

of the shelter building

Jin Tae’s subordinates started to

uncomfortable than angry

walked over to Park

you stop? I'll make sure to talk to

eyes teared up at

never see anymore except in his distant memories because

Grandma Kim.

knew her first name. They just knew that her

the only person Park Jin Tae could

gaze as she looked at him with

than getting kicked in the stomach

than having

This hurt more.

heard Park Jin Tae’s low

finally realized the reality of

Jin

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

need to accept

thinking to himself without realizing that Park Jin

this to be

the blood-colored

situation was an illusion that’ll

raised his

rid of any

of all

into the eyes of Grandma Kim who

then recalled one very

shelter will be destroyed

exactly it

around the end of fall and the start

alarm announcing the appearance

existed on earth during this time lost their special

the central shelters

attack differently than normal, as if

monsters would attack the

means that there will be new

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

not like Park Jin

not let the

Himself, Kim Rok Soo.

Oh, there were some other people

Lee Soo

Tae showed

Hyuk was in charge

team leader has already

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

this place in Grandma Kim and

Tae were good people at that

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

had to create a new system under the person who was the strongest attack-type

was one

Tae found it

not treat Grandma Kim, who had healing abilities,

bowed to the grandma and looked toward

act with that

offered him

grabbed that hand and

watched Kim Rok Soo sit back down before letting go

and walked away from

going

subordinates followed behind

right-hand man

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

Tae's fox-like eyes

shoulders slightly shook

at him for a

was

“Excuse me?”

Soo Hyuk, the person who has still not returned, to be this

from the central shelters since the

people who had

initial shelter members and Park

been

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

had

wanted to survive

But Kim Rok Soo…

any abilities never accepted Park Jin

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

Soo's acceptance did not

same as the other useless parasites that were

that venomous

ability user like Lee Chul Min was worried that he

Kim Rok Soo

“Ha, haha-”

to refreshingly laugh out loud for the first time

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

Hunting.

of a difficult battle for food that could result in

it was his

Jin Tae was moving away

you just run the

slowly remembered why he had been beaten

In other

always made Kim Rok Soo, who didn't accept him as king,

beaten up today after trying to not do that

is an

Cale touched his stomach.

It hurt.

hurts

‘Let’s change it.’

was at

think it will go as

Flinch.

Cale’s shoulders shook.

It was that bastard.

It was the voice of the bastard who sent Cale into