Trash of the Count's Family

The man next to Jo Min Yeh stiffened up.

He opened his mouth to speak.

“…How do you know the number of survivors from our original shelter-”

The auditorium had become silent. The people slowly started to realize the meaning behind the numbers Cale was mentioning after hearing Kim Tae Hoo's comment.

Everybody here were leaders or chief executives of the newly created central shelters.

That meant that the chances of them being leaders or people in charge of an original central shelter or smaller shelters were high.

The people Cale had just called had all been leaders of the now destroyed original shelters.

Kim Tae Hoo instantly started to sweat.

‘176 people. That’s the number of people who survived from our shelter!’

The numbers Cale was saying was the number of people who managed to survive through the hell that had appeared when the original shelters were destroyed.

Of course, there were more people in the new central shelter where Kim Tae Hoo was the leader.

But that was the number of people who had made it out of his original shelter.

“…How did you?”

‘How does this person know about that?’

Cale started to speak again as the ability users started to stiffen up.

He was looking at the man next to Kim Tae Hoo.

“Ability user Park Young Hoon. You had quite a lot of survivors. 412 people.”

Park Young Hoon's jaw dropped.

Cale looked at the people who couldn't hide their shocks and held in the bitterness he was feeling.

Kang Il-Rae, Jo Min Yeh, Kim Tae Hoo, and Park Young Hoon.

He didn’t know what these people had experienced when their original shelters had fallen.

What monsters appeared, what buildings were destroyed…

How these people managed to survive…

He didn't know about any of that.

Cale remembered what happened around Korea on that day but had not been there to record it.

But he did remember the numbers.

Numbers were data that could give an overview of what had happened even without knowing the details.

The number of survivors from the original central shelters.

That hellish time had been recorded on a few sheets of A4 paper.

It did not record the number of dead people.

They could not check those numbers.

There were too many people.

When the world first experienced the cataclysm…

Quite a lot of people had died.

Then, when the original shelters crumbled…

Humanity faced danger once again.

That was the reason that the new central shelters that could fit tens of thousands of people had less than 10,000 total occupants.

This was why only the number of survivors were recorded.

There weren't any records of you if you died.

The original central shelters…

Cale slowly looked around at the people who had been leaders of those shelters as he started to speak again.

“Do I need to keep going?”

The entire auditorium was quiet.

Jo Min Yeh quietly started to speak.

“Is this the power of foresight?”

The number of survivors.

That wasn't enough to claim it to be foresight.

foresight to describe how this man who looked like a teenager could know the number of survivors from

next to Jo Min Yeh, was keeping his mouth shut as he glared at Cale with

looked around before

I

platform. Choi Han was by the wall of the auditorium and looking around as if he was Cale’s

Cale started to speak.

for information and there may be some of you who will fight with us here in Seomyeon, but many of you likely do not wish

an unranked monster in Seomyeon? Why do I need to do that? It's hard enough for me to survive. It’s hard enough to care

mind even without Cale having

aware of that

the atmosphere inside the

now make

Prophecy.

word caught

“The future.”

wasn’t actually making a prophecy; he was just telling them the things he

these new central shelters and people

people nodded

defensive strength and expansive capabilities of

develop their abilities even more. Beyond that,

continued to speak with a smile on his

these monsters and we will be able to hunt monsters

Cale’s ability just now

happens, people will start to expand our territory once again; similar to what

people were now

seemed to be what they want in the future as

slowly start

after

needed to lead as many people, if not all of

people, the greedy people, even

to experience taking

to give them the data to survive the

Because of that…

continued to speak with a

order

it felt as if it had suddenly gotten many degrees

still had a smile on his face

of you

That was the truth.

the future that Cale

people will die. People who were chasing after greed, going after the greater good, sacrificing themselves, running away on their own, all sorts

disappeared from his

will happen in the

down at the people underneath the

I wish to change what I

started to speak

can you change something that you saw

made eye contact with

after seeing the gaze of the person he had

the man with an unfathomably deep gaze, started to speak

“0 people.”

about the

of people who died at

to gasp

of survivors but

Nobody had died.

than 100 people

was the record of the past that Kim Rok Soo

and therefore, the future

Rok Soo and the others

hope that everybody here is able

He really meant it.

Why?

the foundation to expand the number of people, the more chances humanity has for

wanted to save as many people as

people, but he just had to pass a list with the names of those people to Lee Soo

enough to look after those people and make sure they don't end up

you heard

started to

“Nothing beats numbers.”

unranked monsters were strong or not, whether monsters continued to

nothing. There are no monsters that can win when going up against a large number

managed

Kim Rok Soo's

unranked monsters are the greatest enemies for humans to recreate society

on what Cale had

because they are monsters with unbelievable

was quieter but it was still loud enough for everybody in the quiet auditorium

don’t know when that enemy might attack

and wherever because of a strong enemy with

was heavy to these people who were slowly starting to

people who were listening

use your

knows when I will

who asked flinched and closed