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-”

one obvious reason for it would be the fact that it is

blanked

“…What?”

heard a nonchalant voice

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

Click.

his hand on

him while Lee Soo Hyuk silently removed his scabbard from his hip. He then placed it on

then looked back toward

“Explain.”

make the gesture that

“I.”

Cale started to speak.

am a Kim Rok Soo

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

I'm thirty-eight now. Anyway, I'm

Cale chuckled.

actually the hyung

Soo

was now

morning breeze

to share

world, once I

filled the area for

started to

no longer a team leader Lee Soo

“Mm.”

Soo Hyuk let

Kim. The Lee siblings, Park Jin Tae, none of

Cale stopped talking again.

Hyuk just quietly

realized what the difference he had felt

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

seemed sharper than before and had a way of drawing people to him unlike in

they were both

‘Those eyes.’

the enemy that might show

say that they were the eyes of a twenty-year-old,

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

were a lot of emotions in

Soo Hyuk was someone who had dreamt of becoming

could tell that there

They were always there.

He finally realized it.

finally started to

I am the only one

Everybody had died.

I am still

Hyuk thought Cale looked extremely tired as he

of his eyes. A firm

Hyuk felt this Kim Rok Soo's true age

adult. He’s much

was thinking and just focused

the pieces of emotions that remained in his mind with

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

place was

the past but

“…A parallel universe?”

a parallel universe. This is a different Earth. It is different from the place

that

to do everything I could do

That sentence…

sense the heavy

seen, heard, or experienced everything Kim Rok Soo

‘Anyway.’

word could not explain

‘Everything I could do.’

words were too trivial to

defeat this first unranked monster… I think that I will probably

pointed toward his

He’ll return later. He’s also seeing and hearing this conversation as well as everything that is going

Soo Hyuk stopped

this was very much like Lee Soo Hyuk as he continued to

of this was something that both of

and quietly

was also looking right at

“I see.”

back

don't question whether I am

“Rok Soo.”

walked over

Plop.

placed his

expression was

Soo Hyuk was your hyung in that world

“…Yes.”

team leader, role model,

am this world's

smile appeared on Lee

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

“Ha!”

let out

• of

‘I know, right?’

agreed with this world’s Kim Rok Soo's

to speak as if

sorts of things are happening in this world. Something like this

then picked his

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

Hyuk had seen the despair

not something

Such a person…

who tried to save not just

Soo Hyuk shook

“I can't do that.”

you are,

nodded his head with satisfaction after seeing

nonchalantly

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 leaving the world before I

“Sounds exactly like you.”

“…Me?”

look like you would even get yourself killed to save the person

care of