Trash of the Count's Family

Chapter 573: Night of Potential (9)

At the central shelter closest to the one Cale was at…

“Fuck!”

Jae Ha-Jung who was taking on the role of supporter at this location was frowning with both of his hands shaking.

The tree trunks coming out of his hands were tightly binding a large iron door.

Baaaaang! Bang!

But the iron door looked ready to break at any moment from the banging.

No, it was already starting to break.

The door had dents here and there and it was starting to bend, slowly causing gaps to appear on the sides.

And beyond the iron door…

“Kihehehe!”

They heard the laughter of an animal that resembled a monkey.

The banging on the iron door became louder every time it laughed.

“Fuck!”

He started to frown.

‘It’s toying with us!’

The monster was toying with the people who were hiding inside and doing everything they could to resist.

But that was slowly coming to an end.

“Hyung-nim!”

Bae Cheol-Ho, the ‘General’ at this central shelter, clenched his hand that was holding a piece of paper after hearing Jae Ha-Jung's desperate voice.

It was the information that Park Jin Tae, the leader of the nearby central shelter, had brought him last night.

He had thought that the fearless Park Jin Tae had finally gone crazy after hearing that it was information from one of his shelter’s ability users with the power of foresight.

But everything on that paper was true.

The monsters appeared along with the solar eclipse. The weaker Grade 3 monsters came charging in first.

Then, seven taster monsters appeared.

This extremely accurate foresight gave him the chills, but this information allowed them to last until now.

…Yes, until now.

It didn’t look as if they could last any longer.

“Ugh.”

“Huff, huff!”

There were injured people groaning in pain behind Bae Cheol-Ho.

And in front of him…

Beyond the breaking iron door…

“Kihehehe!”

He could hear the red monkey monster’s laugh as the other monsters started to approach.

He could see the Grade 2 monsters getting closer through the only crack on the boarded windows that they had purposely left in order to be able to look out.

The other Grade 1 taster monsters that had been leisurely enjoying the situation from the rear were approaching as well.

This all started to happen once the Steel Feather Hawk disappeared.

“Hyung-nim!”

"General-nim!”

Bae Cheol-Ho could hear people shouting for him from multiple directions.

The veins on the hand clenching the paper looked ready to burst, but he was just looking at the iron door that was on the brink of breaking with a stoic expression.

But he could not do that any longer.

“Hyung-nim! I can't hold on any longer!”

Jae Ha-Jung shouted toward Bae Cheol-Ho while looking as if he was going to cry.

His shaking hands and sweat-drenched body were telling them that he had reached his limits.

Bae Cheol-Ho grabbed his weapon again.

If it was difficult to last inside the building, he needed to at least head outside and lure the monsters away.

Bae Cheol-Ho started to speak.

“…Jae Ha-Jung.”

Jae Ha-Jung started to frown as if he knew what was about to happen.

Bae Cheol-Ho and Jae Ha-Jung started to speak at the same time.

“You can sto-”

“Hyung-nim, I will do what I can to hold on a little loon-”

It was at that moment.

{Starting now.}

Everybody inside the building shut up.

It was that voice.

They could not forget the voice that they heard during the solar eclipse. It was the voice that had been providing them with information every hour.

{We will now send the first round of reinforcements.}

Jae Ha-Jung and Bae Cheol-Ho looked toward each other.

Bae Cheol-Ho clenched his fists again.

{Please hold on a little longer.}

The woman continued to speak.

{The first round of reinforcements will take care of all taster monsters.}

Bae Cheol-Ho released his clenched fists.

Jae Ha-Jung started to mumble.

“…What? Is that even possible?”

all taster monsters? How was

Everybody had those thoughts.

Cheol-Ho’s voice echoed inside the

hold on

with an arm injury started to shout toward

way that

what, it means that someone

speaking to Bae

Bae Cheol-Ho looked around.

up on running

give up on the central shelter and run away when the Grade 3 monsters came to attack, but most of

they knew it was

convinced them

holding on here even if

last just

Cheol-Ho made up his

walked over to Jae

it

the iron door that was barely being maintained by the

to frown

I have no choice but

into his shaking

“Sigh.”

“Hey, let's go.”

their heads but still walked over to the iron door and

who were not

to quickly move

and

See if they have anything else to throw outside! What is up with the kid making the flaming

out right now from lack of

Throw whatever we can! We need to

stopped for a

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

was because the monster’s laughing started to become

snapped out of

of the

send the

a little better than now if they could hold on for just a

starting to take hold in people's

they didn’t

to think about how much time must

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

could feel his legs slowly starting

“Ugh!”

the strength to

could

watched him struggle

they’ll get here? Hopefully they get

could not respond to that question. It

them a

about the distance between Park Jin Tae's central shelter

central shelters, but it

we have to worry

to get past the monster obstacles to

but Bae Cheol-Ho was certain that it would be

sun goes

passing 5 pm as they fought against the monsters to get here, if the sun

‘…They might not come.’

about the worst possible

his job to

only thing he could say

get here if we keep

was to give them at least a small amount

his mind was full of concern about how to get past this difficult situation, as he could not just

Jin Tae gave

information had

thing he could trust

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

then heard the person who was looking out the crack in the window on his

‘Are they already here?!’

the person

"General-nim!”

down the stairs in shock as he called out

who

“Ah.”

let out a

person's face

heard the scout who was coming down

that appeared in the sky! It seems to

faces

with by the Steel Feather Hawk that was 1.5 times stronger than

nobody worth

that had toyed

after that and the Grade 2

monster in

help but become

to

“…That's not possible.”

that only seven Grade 1 monsters would

was another

Was this information wrong?

Cheol-Ho’s mind started

looking out the window

the monster is heading down! I, it seems

His voice was shaking.

of fear. That fear quickly spread to

started to frown

“Damn it!”

his hands away from supporting the door and

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

person at the window pointed in a direction

“…Ho.”

let

put even more fear on the

person next to Bae Cheol-Ho

it is

extremely quickly as he mentioned. It looked as if it wanted to destroy

whispered quietly so that

should we run away? We

Cheol-Ho looked up at the sky

We will start with the

the old

“Hold on!”

stop talking

Bae

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

closer to the window instead of looking at

focused on the monster that was descending faster

said

“…A person?”

filled the

mumble in disbelief through the

a person on top of the