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.

man who looked like a teenager could know the number of survivors from shelters

was next to Jo Min Yeh, was keeping his mouth shut as he

before continuing

I will stop

the platform. Choi Han was by the wall of the auditorium

Cale started to speak.

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

them to kill 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 for

thoughts going through people’s mind even

aware of

the atmosphere inside the auditorium quickly

will now make a

Prophecy.

word caught people's

“The future.”

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

central shelters and people will start to

nodded their

defensive strength and expansive

ability users will develop their abilities even more. Beyond

to speak with a smile on

will gain data by facing these monsters and we will

at Cale’s ability just now were starting

expand our territory once again; similar to what our ancestors had done, starting from the area around

people were now

seemed to be what they want

destroyed environment will slowly start to return to

after

needed to lead as many people, if not all

greedy people, even they

to experience taking down

only way to give them the data

Because of that…

continued to speak with a smile on

of you here will die in order for us to get to that

auditorium and it felt as if it

a smile on his face as he continued to

half of you

That was the truth.

was the future

were chasing after greed, going after the greater good, sacrificing themselves, running away on their own,

disappeared from

of that will happen in

at the people underneath

change what I saw through

started to speak

something that you saw through

made eye contact

Il-Rae flinched after seeing the gaze of the person he had called a

an unfathomably deep gaze, started

“0 people.”

about

number of people who died at the

started to gasp

number of survivors

Nobody had died.

100 people

the past that Kim Rok Soo had

the present had changed and therefore, the

Soo and the others

that everybody here is able

He really meant it.

Why?

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

wanted to save as many people

had to pass a list with the names of those people to Lee Soo Hyuk and say that it was the result

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

you heard

to again

“Nothing beats numbers.”

monsters were strong or not, whether monsters

monsters that can

was how humans managed to survive in the

people in Kim Rok

unranked monsters are the greatest enemies for humans to recreate society

on what

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

it was still loud enough for everybody in the quiet

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

meant that they could die whenever and wherever because of

words was heavy to these people who were slowly starting to trust what Cale

people who were listening urgently shouted

use your

when I

who asked flinched and