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-”

obvious reason for it would be the fact that it is not Kim Rok Soo

blanked out

“…What?”

heard a nonchalant voice respond

Soo Hyuk, I'm saying that the Kim Rok Soo

Click.

Hyuk placed his hand

his scabbard from his hip. He then placed it on

then looked back toward

“Explain.”

Hyuk, who unarmed himself to make the gesture that he would listen to

“I.”

Cale started to speak.

a Kim Rok

Lee Soo Hyuk here was much younger than the final memory Cale had of Lee

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

Cale chuckled.

actually the hyung

casually looked away from Lee Soo Hyuk whose eyebrows

was now early

morning breeze brushed past his

started to

I turned thirty-six

area for a

soon started to speak

longer a team leader

“Mm.”

Soo Hyuk let out a

The Lee siblings, Park Jin Tae, none of

Cale stopped talking again.

just quietly

finally realized what the difference he had felt from Kim

originally thought it was because Kim Rok Soo had used very odd

thought that it was because Kim Rok Soo had seemed sharper than before and had

they were

‘Those eyes.’

for the future and the enemy that might show

too deep to say that they were the eyes of a twenty-year-old, even if

was just because

a lot of emotions

who had dreamt of

there were numerous emotions behind

They were always there.

He finally realized it.

started to

am the only one who

Everybody had died.

am still

Soo Hyuk thought Cale looked extremely

pushed that fatigue out of his eyes. A firm yet stoic

Hyuk felt this Kim Rok Soo's true age

adult. He’s much older

thinking and just focused on explaining

the pieces of emotions

day and I ended up in this world's Kim Rok Soo's body. I had thought that I had returned to the past,

was not

was not the past

“…A parallel universe?”

universe. This is a different Earth.

Hyuk was thinking that Cale's

to do everything I could do since I realized that

That sentence…

Soo Hyuk could sense the heavy weight of

heard, or experienced everything Kim Rok Soo had done since

‘Anyway.’

not explain the time that

‘Everything I could do.’

words were too trivial to

we defeat this first unranked monster… I think that

toward

return later. He’s also seeing and

Hyuk

thought that this was very much like Lee Soo Hyuk as he

of this was something that both of

stopped there and quietly observed

looking right at Cale as

“I see.”

he got back was that short

don't question whether

“Rok Soo.”

Soo Hyuk walked over to

Plop.

placed his

was

was your hyung

“…Yes.”

his hyung, team

am this world's Rok

on Lee Soo

me hyung. It’s rude to

“Ha!”

let out a

• of

‘I know, right?’

this world’s Kim Rok Soo's

continued to speak as if

are happening in this world. Something like this

picked his sword

struggled. Not just me, everybody saw it. How could we suspect you

Hyuk had seen the

was not something anybody could

Such a person…

tried to save not just me but

Hyuk

“I can't do that.”

how you

Hyuk nodded his head with satisfaction after seeing that Cale had returned to speaking respectfully

nonchalantly

I die in

Cale nonchalantly responded back.

“Saving my life.”

Soo Hyuk turned

members and other people as well. You saved people left and right before leaving the world

“Sounds exactly like you.”

“…Me?”

you would even get yourself killed to

care