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-!”

much larger than the buildings located in Gwangalli was

couldn't see its shape properly, but he could tell that it had two

“Commander, that-”

“Your mouth.”

subconsciously covered his mouth after hearing Cale’s

Hoon as he put his index

“Shh.”

Seung Won, who had been about to speak as well, quickly

Silence filled the room.

the monster approaching from

Closer…

Slowly getting faster…

was getting

to say anything, but

such a large monster go through

large monster that was covered by the fog would not be able to fit inside the subway tunnels even if it

smaller when it splits into two…! There

Kang Hoon subconsciously continued to

body into

Cale covered his mouth.

“It’ll hear you.”

recalled what Cale had

heads, each

when

Electric Eel would be split following the

is possible to take

Kang Hoon covered his own

head specializes in sounds and

then heard Cale's

“Please get started.”

shut up

Kang Hoon quickly formed a hand

Oooooo-

quiet cry of an animal could

Paat!

Kim Kang Hoon, Cale, and Lee Seung

expression while looking at the

toward

Kang Hoon, the Shadow of

would be given to Kim Kang Hoon, the Gyeongnam representative, in

had a special ability related

to see him nor sense him when he uses his abilities as long as the sun is not

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

surrounded by the blue light could sense each

enemy caught them once because they made too much noise or failed an attack, it

it could not be used underneath the

quite the restriction, but the night was scarier than the

sun is not visible because of the

was not visible and the thick fog made it feel quite

Tap.

gently tapped on Cale’s

then nodded

don’t need to worry about our presence

message being conveyed through Kim Kang

was why Cale brazenly lifted

at

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

noise than the sound of something moving through the

visible large monster

“Mmph!”

Won held back a gasp and covered

‘…This, what the-!’

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

‘That’s an eel?’

Seung Won's pupils were

was having the

snake, no,

His hands were sweating.

call it

with quite the

Silently.

Majestically.

heads in different directions as it slowly looked

if it could see everything even with

Kang Hoon had this thought in his

a monster

fog but the

It was beautiful.

was why he

like a monster at the level of

to get the

Rok Soo was

The unranked monsters…

the monsters they

off was completely incomparable to

we had to face this kind of monster without knowing

was starting to

was

to

Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

being destroyed as it moved past

‘Mmph!’

‘Gasp!’

Shhhhh-

right in front of the Moonlight

Hoon and Lee Seung Won froze where they were

Tap. Tap.

a warm hand on

It was Cale.

his head with his usual

Let’s move.

he was

the roof even though their presence

‘Ah. That’s a relief.’

Hoon subconsciously had

looking at the person walking in front of him and his

back

and the three of

looking at a single spot with both of

‘As expected.’

Cale started to smile.

at the Gwangan

“Ssssssssss-”

opened its mouth and let out

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

to make a noise as well and

Hoon and Lee

‘It’s shrinking!’

‘It’s splitting!’

large monster’s legend-like beautiful body was slowly

then

“Mm.”

Kang Hoon held

had

similar to a Grade 1 snake monster

size as

was now small enough

“Ssssssssss!”

“Chhhhhhhhhh!”

split into two made noises at each other before they went

Crackle!

Bang!

through the narrow entrance

Hoon had a thought as he watched the monsters

to get down

at

Bang!

yellow head made a loud noise and half of its body was inside the

be

of them heard

Hoon and Lee Seung Won turned their

“Let’s move.”

Swoooooooosh-

wind surrounded

off the ground and jumped across buildings to

Kang Hoon followed behind him with

“They’re fast.”