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 shelters around the

Jo Min Yeh, was keeping his mouth

around before continuing to

guess I will

the platform. Choi Han was by the wall of

Cale started to speak.

that not everybody here feels the same way as I do. Some of you probably just came 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 to do

I fight with them to kill an unranked monster in Seomyeon? Why do I need to do

through people’s mind even

was aware of

atmosphere inside the auditorium quickly

will now

Prophecy.

magical word caught

“The future.”

actually making a prophecy; he was just telling

expand once more through these new central shelters and people will start

people nodded

people who had recognized the defensive strength and expansive

ability users will develop their abilities even more.

continued to speak with a

by facing these monsters and we will be able to hunt monsters with a sense

had felt chills at Cale’s ability just now were starting

will start to expand our territory once again; similar to

people were now

seemed to be what they want in the

slowly start to return

stopped after

people, if not all of them,

the greedy people, even they needed

them to

way to give them the data to survive

Because of that…

speak with a smile on

will die in order for us to get to

filled the auditorium and it felt as if it

his face as

half of

That was the truth.

was the future that Cale

after the greater good, sacrificing themselves, running away on their own, all sorts

disappeared

of that will happen in the next

looked down at the people underneath the

change what I

Il-Rae started

something that

eye contact

of the person he had called

with an unfathomably deep gaze, started to

“0 people.”

about the

at

started to gasp in

of survivors but

Nobody had died.

less than 100 people

of the past

changed and therefore, the future has

Soo and the

hope that everybody here is

He really meant it.

Why?

to expand the number of people, the more

wanted to save as many people as

would go on to become the worst possible people, but he just had to pass a list with the names of those people to Lee Soo Hyuk and

was strong enough to look after those people and

you heard this

to

“Nothing beats numbers.”

or not,

monsters that can win when going up against a large number of

humans managed to survive in

Rok Soo's memories would

the greatest enemies for humans to recreate society in the

what Cale had

because they are monsters with unbelievable strength that can destroy the new central

it was still loud enough for everybody in the quiet

because you don’t know when that enemy might attack where

that they could die whenever and wherever because

weight of Cale’s words was heavy to these people who were slowly starting to trust what Cale had

of the people who were listening

just use

when I

person who asked flinched and closed