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.

describe how this man who looked like a teenager could know the

to Jo Min Yeh, was keeping his mouth shut as

looked around before continuing to

I

center of the platform. Choi Han was by the wall of the auditorium and looking around

Cale started to speak.

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

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

through people’s mind even without Cale having to

aware of that

atmosphere inside the auditorium quickly

now make

Prophecy.

word caught

“The future.”

actually making a prophecy; he was just telling them

these new central shelters and people will start

people nodded their

who had recognized the defensive strength and expansive

their abilities even

gently continued to speak with a smile on his

facing these monsters and we will be able to hunt monsters

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

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

now nodding

what they want in the future

will slowly start to return

after saying

people, if not all

the greedy people, even

needed all of them to experience taking

only way to give them the data to survive

Because of that…

speak with a smile on his

here will die in order for us to

filled the auditorium and it felt as if

a smile on his face as

half of you will

That was the truth.

the future that Cale had

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

smile disappeared

of that will happen in the next

looked down at the people underneath the

change what I

Il-Rae started to

change something

eye contact

after seeing the gaze of the person

with an unfathomably deep

“0 people.”

even think about the meaning behind that

of people who died at the

started to

not the number of survivors but the number

Nobody had died.

less than 100 people would

of the past that Kim Rok Soo

present had changed and therefore,

Rok Soo and the others

everybody here is able to

He really meant it.

Why?

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

wanted to save as many people as

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

Soo Hyuk was strong enough to look after those people and make sure they

heard

to again

“Nothing beats numbers.”

monsters were strong or

There are no monsters that can win when going

how humans managed to survive in

in Kim Rok

greatest enemies for humans to recreate society in

focused on what Cale had to

are monsters with unbelievable strength that can

it was still loud enough for everybody in

you don’t know when that enemy might attack

die whenever and wherever because

was heavy to these people who were slowly starting to trust

the people who were listening urgently shouted

use your

knows when I

person who asked flinched and closed his