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?”

care of all taster

Everybody had those thoughts.

voice echoed inside

on

with an arm injury started to

There’s no way that is

matter what, it means that someone

Bae Cheol-Ho

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,

they knew it was hell

had also convinced them with the information in

here even if we end

needed to last just

made up his

then walked over to Jae

it up for a

was barely being maintained by the tree trunks rather than

to frown while

no choice but

into his shaking hands with an

“Sigh.”

“Hey, let's go.”

heads but still walked over to the iron door and pushed against it

were the people who were not

people started to quickly

bring that couch and put it by the

else to throw outside! What is up with the kid

now

Throw whatever we can! We need to prevent as many

those noises stopped

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

the monster’s laughing started

they quickly snapped out of

was because of the

now send the first

get at least a little better than now if they could hold on for just a bit

to take hold in people's

didn’t have

started to think about how much time must have passed

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

could feel his legs slowly

“Ugh!”

the strength to grumble

he could

who watched him struggle asked Bae Cheol-Ho a

do you think they’ll get here? Hopefully

respond to that question.

them a

about the distance between Park Jin Tae's central shelter and this

central shelters, but it was

distance we have to worry about right

past the monster

a little longer, but Bae Cheol-Ho

sun goes

against the monsters to get

‘…They might not come.’

about the worst possible

was his job to

thing he could say to the

here if we keep

give them at least a small amount

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

Jin Tae gave us

information had

it was the thing he could trust the most right

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

was looking out the crack

‘Are they already here?!’

toward the person thinking that the reinforcements

"General-nim!”

who was on a higher floor ran down the stairs in shock as he called out to

saw the person who had called

“Ah.”

Cheol-Ho let

saw on the person's face was despair

the scout who was coming

that appeared in the sky! It seems to be a Grade 1 monster based

faces filled with

toyed with by the Steel Feather Hawk that was 1.5 times stronger than the other Grade 1 monsters

nobody worth chatting

that had toyed with them left after saying

wild after that and the Grade 2 monsters started charging

flying monster in

but become filled

started to

“…That's not possible.”

seven Grade 1 monsters would appear

was another

Was this information wrong?

Cheol-Ho’s mind started

the window

monster is heading down! I, it seems to

His voice was shaking.

of fear. That fear quickly spread to everybody inside the

Cheol-Ho started to frown

“Damn it!”

his hands away from supporting the door and urgently ran toward the crack in

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

pointed in

“…Ho.”

Cheol-Ho let out

the faces of the

Bae

is descending extremely

he mentioned. It looked as if it wanted to destroy

whispered quietly so that only Bae Cheol-Ho

run away? We

the sky before

with the people in

will move the

“Hold on!”

person had to stop talking after hearing Bae Cheol-Ho

looked toward Bae

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

his face closer to the window instead of looking

on the monster

then said

“…A person?”

the building

started to mumble

person on top of the monster’s