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-!”

Something much larger than the buildings located in Gwangalli was slowly cutting

properly, but he could tell that

“Commander, that-”

“Your mouth.”

his mouth after

look at Kim Kang Hoon as he put his index finger up to

“Shh.”

been about to speak as well,

Silence filled the room.

hear was the monster approaching from the

Closer…

Slowly getting faster…

monster was getting

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

a large

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

it splits into two…! There should

Hoon subconsciously continued to

if it splits its body into two

Cale covered his mouth.

“It’ll hear you.”

Kang Hoon recalled what Cale had explained about

heads, each head has different

stays the same even when the

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

why it is

own mouth after Cale

yellow head specializes in sounds

heard

“Please get started.”

then shut up as

that was enough. Kim Kang Hoon quickly formed a

Oooooo-

if the quiet cry of an animal could

Paat!

blue light surrounded Kim Kang

expression while looking at

toward Kim Kang

Hoon, the Shadow of the

to Kim Kang

ability related to stealth and

him nor sense him

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

the blue light could sense

if the enemy caught them once because they made too much noise or

it could not be

seem like quite the restriction, but the night was scarier than the day

is not visible because of the

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

Tap.

Kang Hoon gently tapped on

then nodded his

to worry about our presence

the message being conveyed

was why Cale brazenly lifted the

at that

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

noise than the sound of something moving through the

large monster was now

“Mmph!”

gasp

‘…This, what the-!’

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

‘That’s an eel?’

Won's pupils were

having the

snake, no, an

His hands were sweating.

call

indescribable monster with quite the presence

Silently.

Majestically.

moving its two heads in different directions as it slowly

as if it could see everything even with the fog covering

Hoon had this thought in his

a

were inside the fog but the mixture of blue and

It was beautiful.

was why

like a monster at the

started to

Soo

The unranked monsters…

were completely different than the monsters

gave off was completely incomparable

face this kind of monster without

Kang Hoon was

Seung Won was curling up in

monster started to move at

Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

were being destroyed as it

‘Mmph!’

‘Gasp!’

Shhhhh-

body moved past right in front

Lee Seung Won

Tap. Tap.

felt a warm hand on their shoulders

It was Cale.

head with his usual

Let’s move.

was saying with

to walk toward the roof

‘Ah. That’s a relief.’

subconsciously had that thought

relief while looking at the person

his back to Lee Seung

and the three of them soon reached the hotel's

in a straight line and was looking at a single spot with both

‘As expected.’

Cale started to smile.

looking directly at

“Ssssssssss-”

mouth and

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

make a noise as well and then something shocking

Hoon and Lee

‘It’s shrinking!’

‘It’s splitting!’

large monster’s legend-like beautiful body was slowly starting to

body then split

“Mm.”

Hoon held back

size had

a Grade

same size as a Grade 1 monster was not the

enough to go through

“Ssssssssss!”

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

monster that had split into two made noises at each other before

Crackle!

Bang!

narrow entrance to get

Kang Hoon had a thought as

down is

at

Bang!

a loud noise and half of its body was inside

head should not be able

two of them heard

Kang Hoon and Lee Seung Won turned

“Let’s move.”

Swoooooooosh-

gust of wind

the ground and jumped

him with

“They’re fast.”