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

Hyuk blanked out for

“…What?”

nonchalant voice respond

Soo you know is

Click.

his hand

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

then looked

“Explain.”

observed Lee Soo Hyuk, who unarmed himself to make the gesture that he would listen to what Cale

“I.”

Cale started to speak.

am a Kim Rok Soo you don’t

to how the Kim Rok Soo of this world was still young, the Lee Soo Hyuk here was much younger than the final memory Cale

guess I'm thirty-eight now.

Cale chuckled.

the hyung

away from Lee Soo

now early

morning breeze brushed past

started to share his

once I

the area for a

started to

no longer a team leader Lee Soo

“Mm.”

let out

Jung Soo, Grandma Kim. The Lee siblings, Park Jin Tae, none

Cale stopped talking again.

just quietly stared

he had felt from Kim Rok

thought it was because Kim Rok Soo had used very odd abilities to be considered

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

were both

‘Those eyes.’

were preparing for the future and the enemy

the eyes of a twenty-year-old, even

were too deep to say that it was just because he knew a

lot of emotions

Hyuk was someone who had dreamt of

could tell that there were

They were always there.

He finally realized it.

started

the only one who

Everybody had died.

am still

Hyuk thought Cale looked extremely

fatigue out of his eyes. A firm yet stoic gaze was directed at Lee Soo Hyuk once

Rok Soo's true age for the first

much older than

Soo Hyuk was thinking and just

was no need to share the pieces of emotions that remained in his mind with Lee Soo

this world's Kim Rok Soo's body. I had thought that I had returned

place was not

past but

“…A parallel universe?”

realized that it was a parallel universe. This is a different Earth.

thinking that Cale's voice was

I could do since I

That sentence…

Hyuk could sense the heavy weight of everything through

was because he had seen, heard, or experienced everything Kim Rok Soo had

‘Anyway.’

explain

‘Everything I could do.’

trivial to explain

I think that

pointed toward his

He’ll return later. He’s also seeing

Soo Hyuk stopped

very much like Lee Soo Hyuk as he

Hyuk, telling you about all of this was something that

stopped there and quietly observed

looking right at Cale as he started

“I see.”

got back

don't question whether I

“Rok Soo.”

Hyuk walked over to

Plop.

placed his hand on

expression was quite

Hyuk was your hyung in that world

“…Yes.”

his hyung, team leader, role

this world's Rok

picturesque smile appeared on Lee Soo

call me hyung. It’s rude to call your hyung, ‘you.’

“Ha!”

let out

• expected of Soo

‘I know, right?’

this world’s Kim

Soo Hyuk continued to speak as if he said nothing

things are happening in this world.

his sword

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

Soo Hyuk had seen the despair in Cale’s

was not something

Such a person…

think I would question someone who tried to save not just

Hyuk shook his

“I can't do that.”

how you are,

nodded his head with satisfaction after seeing that Cale had returned

then nonchalantly made

die

Cale nonchalantly responded back.

“Saving my life.”

Hyuk turned

saving our team members and other people as well. You saved people left and right before leaving the world before I

“Sounds exactly like you.”

“…Me?”

now. You look like you would even get yourself killed to save the

care of yourself