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-!”

buildings located in Gwangalli was slowly cutting through the

but he could tell that it had

“Commander, that-”

“Your mouth.”

subconsciously covered his mouth after hearing

look at Kim Kang Hoon as he put his index

“Shh.”

been about to

Silence filled the room.

they could hear was the monster approaching

Closer…

Slowly getting faster…

was

Hoon tried not to say anything, but he couldn't

how can such a large monster go through

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

when it splits into two…! There should

Hoon subconsciously

its body into two and

Cale covered his mouth.

“It’ll hear you.”

recalled what Cale had explained about the ‘Electric

this monster has two heads, each

stays the same even when the body is

Electric Eel would be split following the abilities of each head

why it is possible

Hoon covered his own mouth after Cale removed

yellow head specializes in

heard

“Please get started.”

then shut

Kang

Oooooo-

cry of an animal could

Paat!

half-transparent blue light surrounded Kim Kang Hoon, Cale, and Lee Seung

expression while looking at the

toward Kim

Kang Hoon, the Shadow of

that would be given to Kim Kang Hoon,

had a special ability

be able to see him nor sense him when he uses his abilities as long as the sun is

that came with moving around. Furthermore, the enemies would

people surrounded by the blue light

because they made too much noise or failed an attack, it could not

not

restriction, but the

not visible because of the thick fog

the sun was not visible and the thick fog made

Tap.

gently

then nodded his

don’t need to worry

was the message being conveyed

was why Cale brazenly lifted

was at

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

different noise than the sound of something moving through

the faintly visible large monster

“Mmph!”

gasp and covered his mouth with

‘…This, what the-!’

yellow and one blue,

‘That’s an eel?’

Seung Won's

Kang Hoon was having

a snake, no, an

His hands were sweating.

I call

with quite the presence

Silently.

Majestically.

Eel was moving its two heads in different

could see everything even with the fog covering the

had this thought in his

a monster

the fog but the mixture of blue and

It was beautiful.

why he

looked like a monster at

to get the

Soo was

The unranked monsters…

monsters they had

off was completely incomparable to the Grade 1

had to face this kind of monster without knowing

Hoon was starting

Seung Won was

monster started to

Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

buildings were being destroyed

‘Mmph!’

‘Gasp!’

Shhhhh-

moved past right in front of the Moonlight

and Lee Seung Won froze where they were

Tap. Tap.

of them felt a warm hand on their shoulders

It was Cale.

his usual

Let’s move.

he was saying with

to walk toward the roof even though their

‘Ah. That’s a relief.’

subconsciously had that thought

started to melt as he felt relief while looking at the person walking in

back

got on and the three of them soon reached the hotel's

monster had its body in a straight line and was looking at a single spot with both of its heads

‘As expected.’

Cale started to smile.

Eel was looking directly at the Gwangan station entrances heading

“Ssssssssss-”

mouth and let out an

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

noise as well and then something shocking

Lee

‘It’s shrinking!’

‘It’s splitting!’

large monster’s legend-like beautiful body

body then split

“Mm.”

Hoon held back

size had shrunk quite a

similar to a Grade 1

that it was the same size as a Grade 1

small enough

“Ssssssssss!”

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

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

Crackle!

Bang!

broke through the narrow

had a thought as he watched the

down is

at that

Bang!

loud noise and half

be able to hear us

them heard Cale's

Kang Hoon and Lee Seung Won

“Let’s move.”

Swoooooooosh-

of wind surrounded

the ground and jumped across buildings to head

followed behind him with Lee Seung

“They’re fast.”