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 the number of survivors from shelters around

keeping his mouth shut as he glared at Cale with a piercing

looked around before continuing

I will

the wall

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

fight with them to kill an unranked monster in Seomyeon? Why do I need to do that? It's hard enough for

were many thoughts going through people’s mind even without Cale having to

was aware of that

the atmosphere inside

now make a

Prophecy.

word caught people's

“The future.”

a prophecy; he was

new central shelters and people will start to create a

people nodded

the people who had recognized the defensive strength and expansive capabilities

users will develop their abilities even

speak with a smile on his

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

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

our territory once again; similar to

people were now nodding

seemed to be what they want in the future as

slowly start

after

many people, if not all of

the greedy people, even they needed to

needed all of them to experience taking down an unranked

way to give them the data

Because of that…

continued to speak with

here will die in order for us to get

auditorium and it felt as if it had suddenly gotten many

still had a smile on his face as he continued to

half of

That was the truth.

was the future that Cale

people will die. Selfish people will die. People who were chasing after greed, going after the greater good, sacrificing themselves, running

smile disappeared

of that will happen

down at the

change what I saw through

Il-Rae started to speak

something that you saw

contact with Kang

the gaze of

an unfathomably

“0 people.”

even think about the meaning behind that

at

started to gasp in

survivors but the number of

Nobody had died.

less than 100

the record of the past that Kim Rok Soo had

present had changed and

and the

hope that everybody here is able to

He really meant it.

Why?

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

to save as many people as

go on to become the worst possible people, but he just had to pass a list with

enough to look after those people and make sure they

you heard this

to again

“Nothing beats numbers.”

strong or not, whether monsters

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

humans managed to survive

people in Kim Rok Soo's memories would overcome

for humans to recreate

was focused on what

with unbelievable

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

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

die whenever and wherever

these people who were slowly starting

the people who

You can just use your foresight to tell

knows when I will

who asked flinched and