Trash of the Count's Family

“Rok Soo, is your body feeling okay?”

Cale started to think after hearing what Lee Soo Hyuk said to him as soon as he came up.

‘Is this the right time to tell him?’

The Kim Rok Soo of this world responded to him.

• You're probably thinking about telling him after taking care of the monster. But who knows when you will go back?

‘That is true. But what if his mind is a chaotic mess during the battle because I tell him the truth right now?’

• Soo Hyuk hyung already knows that you are different from before, doesn’t he?

Cale recalled what Lee Soo Hyuk had told him earlier in the night before they started the battle.

‘Kim Rok Soo, I know that you are hiding something.’

‘You are the same Kim Rok Soo I know from the past, but I know that something has changed.’

The Kim Rok Soo of this world calmly continued to speak.

• I understand why you are hesitating.

“Pffft.”

Cale subconsciously chuckled.

Although the Kim Rok Soo of this world was only twenty years old, Cale thought that the only one who could truly understand him was himself.

‘It is beneficial to tell him.’

• Yes. Plus, Soo Hyuk hyung isn’t the type to carry a chaotic mindset into battle.

‘That’s true.’

It was beneficial to tell him.

However, Cale couldn’t help but think about the Lee Soo Hyuk of his world who had left his side a long time ago.

‘I also need to think about your situation once I leave.’

• Yes.

The situation once Cale left this body.

It was possible that the Kim Rok Soo of this world would take over the body right away, but it was also possible that he might faint or something and take some time before he woke up in his body again.

It would be great to have at least one helper in case something like that happened.

“Rok Soo.”

Cale made up his mind.

“Yes, hyung?”

“Your body?”

Cale nodded his head after hearing the question again.

Lee Soo Hyuk felt relieved seeing Cale smiling and nodding his head unlike how he had been earlier.

Cale's condition was much better than earlier now.

‘Objectively speaking, it’s still not good though.’

He was still pale.

But the fact that he was no longer convulsing or coughing up blood was a relief.

Cale started to speak at that moment.

“My body is still not in a good condition.”

Flinch.

Lee Soo Hyuk's shoulders flinched.

‘…I thought he had been okay since our meeting in the grand assembly hall earlier.’

Had all of that been an act?

Had he pretended to be okay because he was concerned that the others would be worried?

Lee Soo Hyuk's face completely stiffened after hearing what Cale said next.

“Soo Hyuk hyung, to be honest with you, my body's condition has been terrible since before I met up with you here.”

Step step.

Cale slowly walked to the railing of the watchtower. He then looked far out in the distance.

It was morning.

Cale Henituse’s day would end in that world soon.

“Rok Soo.”

Cale could feel Lee Soo Hyuk moving over and standing next to him even without looking at him.

“What’s wrong with your body?”

“There are many issues.”

Lee Soo Hyuk had a rare frown on his face.

Lee Soo Hyuk and Kim Rok Soo. Lee Soo Hyuk brushed his hair back and started to speak again since only the two of them were up here right now.

“Okay, what kind-”

the fact that it is

Soo Hyuk blanked out for

“…What?”

nonchalant voice

that the Kim Rok Soo you know is not the one

Click.

his hand on his

his scabbard from his hip. He then placed it on one side

then looked

“Explain.”

to make the gesture that he would listen to what Cale had

“I.”

Cale started to speak.

Rok Soo

Soo Hyuk here was much younger than the final memory Cale

years old. No. I guess I'm thirty-eight now. Anyway, I'm

Cale chuckled.

actually the

Soo Hyuk whose eyebrows had

now early

breeze brushed past his

to

once I turned

filled the area for

started to

longer a team leader

“Mm.”

let out a

The Lee siblings, Park Jin Tae, none of you are

Cale stopped talking again.

Hyuk just quietly

what the difference he had felt from Kim

because Kim Rok Soo had used very odd abilities to be considered as having

was because Kim Rok Soo had seemed sharper than

they were both

‘Those eyes.’

enemy that might show up at

to say that they were the eyes of a twenty-year-old, even if they had become deeper because he

say that it was just because he

lot

someone who had dreamt

that there were numerous

They were always there.

He finally realized it.

started to

the only one who

Everybody had died.

I am

looked extremely

his eyes. A firm yet stoic gaze was directed at Lee Soo

Hyuk felt this Kim Rok Soo's true age

much older

didn’t know what Lee Soo Hyuk was thinking and just focused on explaining

emotions that remained in his

up one day and I ended up in this world's Kim Rok Soo's body. I had thought that

was

the past but a different

“…A parallel universe?”

I realized that it was a parallel universe. This is

that Cale's voice was

I started to do everything I could do

That sentence…

Soo Hyuk could sense the heavy weight of

experienced everything Kim

‘Anyway.’

explain the time that had

‘Everything I could do.’

were too trivial to explain everything he

monster… I think that I

toward his

later. He’s also seeing and hearing

Hyuk stopped

very much like Lee Soo Hyuk as he continued

telling you about all of this was something that both of

quietly observed

was also looking right at Cale as he

“I see.”

he got back

question whether I am

“Rok Soo.”

walked over

Plop.

his

expression was quite

Hyuk was your hyung in that

“…Yes.”

his hyung, team leader,

I am this world's

on

call me hyung. It’s rude to

“Ha!”

let out a short

• expected of Soo

‘I know, right?’

with this world’s Kim

Soo Hyuk continued to speak

are happening in this world.

his sword back

Soo, I've seen how much you’ve struggled. Not just me, everybody saw it. How could we suspect

seen the despair

was not something anybody

Such a person…

tried to save not just me but everybody

Hyuk shook his

“I can't do that.”

how you are,

satisfaction after seeing that Cale had returned to speaking

then nonchalantly made a

I die in

Cale nonchalantly responded back.

“Saving my life.”

Hyuk turned

our team members and other people as well. You saved people left and right before

“Sounds exactly like you.”

“…Me?”

exactly how you look right now. You look like you would even get yourself

take care