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-!”

was large. Something much larger than the buildings located in Gwangalli was

but he could tell

“Commander, that-”

“Your mouth.”

subconsciously covered his mouth after

Kang Hoon as he put

“Shh.”

about to speak

Silence filled the room.

was the monster approaching from

Closer…

Slowly getting faster…

monster was

Kang Hoon tried not to say anything, but he

a large monster go through the

would not be able to fit inside the subway tunnels even if it was split

into two…!

subconsciously continued

its body into two and

Cale covered his mouth.

“It’ll hear you.”

Kang Hoon recalled what Cale

two heads, each head

stays the same even when the body

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

why it is

own mouth after

yellow head specializes in sounds and

then heard Cale's

“Please get started.”

then shut up as

Kim Kang

Oooooo-

as if the quiet cry

Paat!

Kang Hoon, Cale, and Lee

had an odd expression while looking at

toward

Hoon, the Shadow of

the nickname that would be given to Kim Kang Hoon, the Gyeongnam representative,

special ability related to

him nor sense him when he uses his abilities as long

sense a certain level of noise and presence that came with moving around. Furthermore, the enemies

by the blue light

course, if the enemy caught them once because they made too much noise or failed an attack, it could not be

not be used underneath the

seem like quite the restriction, but the night was

visible because of the thick fog right

the sun was not visible and the thick fog made it feel

Tap.

Kang Hoon gently tapped

nodded his

need to

tell that that was the message being conveyed through

brazenly lifted the blinds a little

was at that

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

the sound of something moving through

the faintly visible large monster was now

“Mmph!”

a gasp and covered

‘…This, what the-!’

one yellow and one blue, cut

‘That’s an eel?’

Won's pupils were

Kang Hoon was having the same thought as

a snake,

His hands were sweating.

should I call it

quite the

Silently.

Majestically.

Eel was moving its two heads in different directions as

if it could see everything even with the fog covering

had this

a

inside the fog but the mixture

It was beautiful.

why

at the level

to get

Rok Soo was

The unranked monsters…

than the monsters

off was completely incomparable to the Grade

we had to face this kind

was starting to

Won was curling up in

large monster started to

Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

buildings were being destroyed as

‘Mmph!’

‘Gasp!’

Shhhhh-

moved past right in

Kang Hoon and Lee Seung

Tap. Tap.

felt a warm hand on their shoulders

It was Cale.

his usual expression

Let’s move.

he was saying with

the roof even

‘Ah. That’s a relief.’

Kang Hoon subconsciously had that thought for a

he felt relief while looking at the person walking in front of him and

back to

on and the three of them soon reached

monster had its body in a straight line and was looking at a single spot

‘As expected.’

Cale started to smile.

looking directly at the Gwangan station entrances heading

“Ssssssssss-”

opened its mouth and let

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

noise

and Lee Seung Won's eyes opened

‘It’s shrinking!’

‘It’s splitting!’

large monster’s legend-like beautiful body

then split in

“Mm.”

Hoon held back

size had shrunk quite

Grade

that it was the same size as a Grade

was now small enough

“Ssssssssss!”

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

at each other

Crackle!

Bang!

the narrow

had a thought as he watched

to get down is smaller compared

at

Bang!

a loud noise and

yellow head should not be

them heard Cale's

Hoon and Lee Seung Won

“Let’s move.”

Swoooooooosh-

wind surrounded the

kicked off the ground and jumped across

him with Lee Seung Won on

“They’re fast.”