Trash of the Count's Family

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Lee Seung Won started to use his ‘Recording’ ability.

“It is currently 12pm on November 6th.”

Time had flown by since they left the shelter yesterday.

The words coming out of Lee Seung Won's mouth were being recorded.

"We are currently stationed on the third floor of Moonlight Hotel located directly across from Gwangalli beach.

There were many hotels built on the street facing Gwangalli beach.

Lee Seung Won was currently standing inside Moonlight Hotel, one of those many hotels.

This hotel was originally over 10-stories high but only about four stories of it now remained.

Shaaaaaaaaaaa-

They could feel the ocean breeze.

“The area around Gwangalli beach is covered in a thick fog, making it difficult to see anything.”

The fog made it impossible to tell where that breeze was coming from.

"Forget the Gwangan Bridge, we are unable to even see the sand on the beach.”

Boom. Boom. Boom.

Lee Seung Won’s heart was beating wildly from nervousness.

The fog had suddenly pushed in from the horizon at midnight.

That fog covered a part of Gwangalli and the entire Busan area according to their reports.

It was as if it was announcing the arrival of the enemy king.

That was why Lee Seung Won was anxious as he stood here without being able to see much.

He felt his lips drying out as he started to speak again.

"We are currently waiting for the first unranked monster, the Electric Eel.”

He was scared.

His ability would not let him defeat a Grade 3 monster let alone a Grade 1 monster.

But he was in the vanguard in the fight against this unranked monster.

‘…It’ll be fine.’

Lee Seung Won consoled himself.

In this hotel room with the windows all broken… There was someone leaning on a pillar by the window sill with his arms crossed.

“Are you done recording?”

“Yeah, I'm done, hyung.”

Kim Rok Soo was here with him.

Lee Seung Won's finger started to move.

Click.

Lee Seung Won’s first recording ended with that quiet click.

“My heart is beating so quickly.”

Lee Seung Won's gaze started to move.

Kim Kang Hoon, the Changwon Seongsan-gu shelter’s leader and current Gyeongnam representative, was sitting on an old couch he found from who knows where.

Cale, Lee Seung Won, and Kim Kang Hoon.

Only these three people were here right now.

They were the only ones in all of Gwangalli.

‘…I didn’t really think that only the three of us would come here.’

Kim Kang Hoon was getting a bad feeling as time passed on.

The fog had slowly started to cover Busan starting on November 6th as Commander Kim Rok Soo had mentioned.

He could feel the foresight becoming a reality with his own body.

“There’s no need to be nervous.”

He turned his head after hearing a voice.

Kim Rok Soo was looking at him.

“There’s no need to be worried either.”

Kim Kang Hoon became even more worried after hearing his calm voice.

Why?

"We are not attacking the monster from here. We are just here to watch.”

‘Exactly! That’s why I'm even more scared! That’s the reason only three of us are here!’

Kim Kang Hoon was wondering if he should not have stepped up.

This combination seemed more unreliable the more he thought about it.

“…Lee Seung Won is not an attack-type ability user. He isn’t a defense-type either. He has zero fighting ability.”

And…

‘I heard that Kim Rok Soo is strong, but I have not seen it with my own eyes.’

That was why he could only trust himself.

Kim Kang Hoon bit down on his lips with nervousness.

“Uhh, uhh-!”

He then heard Lee Seung Won's voice and…

“It's here.”

He also heard Kim Rok Soo's calm voice.

Chhhhhhhhh!

Cale pulled on the string of the blinds they had installed yesterday.

About two-thirds of the window was covered starting from the top.

“Put the light out.”

Lee Seung Won, who had been stuttering, quickly put out the candle after hearing Cale’s stern voice.

“Huuuuuuuu-”

The room instantly turned dark.

But that darkness was not what Lee Seung Won and Kim Kang Hoon were focused on right now.

Chhhhhhhhhhhh-

This noise was different from the sound of the wind.

It was definitely the sound of something moving through the water.

It was the sound of the monster getting closer.

They could then see it.

Kim Kang Hoon moved over to Cale who was crouching and looked out the open third of the blinds.

“…M, my goodness.”

He could see it.

Out in the distance where the water should be but he could only see white fog right now…

“…M, monster-!”

located in Gwangalli was slowly cutting through

properly, but he could tell that it had

“Commander, that-”

“Your mouth.”

subconsciously covered his

Hoon as

“Shh.”

about to speak as well, quickly shut

Silence filled the room.

was the monster

Closer…

Slowly getting faster…

monster was getting

Hoon tried not to say anything,

large

covered by the fog would not be able to fit inside the

smaller when it splits into two…! There should still

subconsciously continued to

if it splits its body

Cale covered his mouth.

“It’ll hear you.”

what Cale had explained

two heads, each head has different

when the body is split into

meant that the abilities of the Electric Eel would be split following the abilities of each head

it is

own mouth after Cale removed

yellow head specializes in

heard Cale's quiet

“Please get started.”

shut

was enough. Kim Kang Hoon quickly formed

Oooooo-

if the quiet cry of an animal could

Paat!

blue light surrounded Kim Kang

an odd expression while looking at

toward Kim Kang

the Shadow of

be given to

ability

be able to see him nor sense him when he uses his abilities as

that came with moving around. Furthermore, the enemies would not be able to see

blue

because they made too much noise or failed

it could not be used

restriction, but the night was scarier than the day in this

not visible because

middle of the day, the sun was

Tap.

Kang Hoon gently tapped

nodded his

don’t need to worry about

the message being conveyed through Kim Kang

brazenly lifted the blinds

was at that

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

different noise than the sound of something

faintly visible large

“Mmph!”

Won held back a gasp and covered his

‘…This, what the-!’

different looking heads, one yellow and one blue, cut through the sand and

‘That’s an eel?’

Won's

was having the

snake, no, an

His hands were sweating.

I call

monster with quite

Silently.

Majestically.

Electric Eel was moving its two heads in different directions

was as if it could see everything

had this thought in his

a monster from

scales were inside the fog but the

It was beautiful.

was why he

looked like a monster at the level of the

started to get the

Rok Soo

The unranked monsters…

the monsters they had fought

off was completely incomparable to the Grade 1

this kind of monster without knowing

Kang Hoon was starting to

was curling up in

monster started to move at that

Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

destroyed as it moved

‘Mmph!’

‘Gasp!’

Shhhhh-

past right in front of

Lee Seung Won froze where they were

Tap. Tap.

a warm hand on their shoulders at

It was Cale.

his usual

Let’s move.

was what he was saying with this

the roof even

‘Ah. That’s a relief.’

had that

frozen body started to melt as he felt relief while looking at the person walking in front of

offered his back

three of

and was looking at a single spot with both

‘As expected.’

Cale started to smile.

Eel was looking directly at the Gwangan station

“Ssssssssss-”

head opened its mouth and let out

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

started to make a noise as

Kang Hoon and Lee Seung Won's eyes opened

‘It’s shrinking!’

‘It’s splitting!’

large monster’s legend-like beautiful body

then split

“Mm.”

held

had

Grade

as a Grade 1 monster

enough to go

“Ssssssssss!”

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

that had split into two made noises at each other before they went down the seventh exit and

Crackle!

Bang!

the narrow entrance

a thought as he watched the monsters

to get down

was at that

Bang!

a loud noise and half of its body was inside the

should not be able to

two of them heard

Kang Hoon and Lee Seung

“Let’s move.”

Swoooooooosh-

wind surrounded

the ground and jumped across buildings to

behind him with Lee Seung Won on

“They’re fast.”