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.

had no other word than foresight to describe how this man who looked like a teenager could know

who was next to Jo Min Yeh, was keeping his mouth shut

before continuing

guess I will stop

Han was by the

Cale started to speak.

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

unranked monster in Seomyeon? Why do I need to do that? It's hard

many thoughts going through people’s mind

aware of

atmosphere inside

now make

Prophecy.

word caught people's

“The future.”

making a prophecy; he was just telling

shelters and people will start to create

nodded

recognized the defensive

ability users will develop their abilities even more. Beyond that, there is

with a smile

gain data by facing these monsters and we will

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

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

were now

what they want in the

will slowly start to

after

as many people, if not all of them,

the greedy people, even they

of them to experience taking down

was the only way to give them the data to survive

Because of that…

speak with a smile on

of you here will die in order for us to

the auditorium and it felt as

his face as he continued

half of you will

That was the truth.

was the future that Cale

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

smile disappeared from

of that will happen in the next 15

looked down at the people underneath the

change what I saw

started to speak

change something that you saw

made eye contact

after seeing the gaze of the person he

with an unfathomably deep gaze, started

“0 people.”

could even think about the meaning

the number of people who died at the original central shelter

started to

not the number of survivors but

Nobody had died.

less than 100 people would have

past that Kim Rok Soo had

changed and therefore, the future

the others had changed

hope that everybody here

He really meant it.

Why?

more we shape the foundation to expand the number of people,

to save as many people

but he just had to pass a list with the names of those

strong enough to look after those people

you heard this

to again

“Nothing beats numbers.”

monsters were strong or not,

There's nothing. There are no monsters that can win when

humans managed

Kim Rok Soo's memories

monsters are the greatest enemies for humans to recreate society

focused on what

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

but it was still loud enough for everybody in

you don’t know when that enemy might attack

meant that they could die whenever and wherever because of a strong enemy with unfathomable

was heavy to these people who were slowly starting to trust

of the people who were

You can just use your

when

who asked flinched and