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-”

would be the fact that it

Soo Hyuk blanked out for a

“…What?”

a nonchalant voice respond to

I'm saying that the Kim Rok Soo you know is not

Click.

Hyuk placed his hand

Soo Hyuk silently removed his scabbard from

looked

“Explain.”

Lee Soo Hyuk, who unarmed himself to make the gesture that

“I.”

Cale started to speak.

Rok Soo you

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

I guess I'm thirty-eight now. Anyway, I'm older than

Cale chuckled.

the hyung

away from Lee Soo Hyuk whose eyebrows had slightly

now early

morning breeze brushed past his

to share his

world, once I turned thirty-six years

the area for

started to

is no longer a team leader Lee Soo

“Mm.”

let out

siblings, Park Jin Tae,

Cale stopped talking again.

Hyuk just quietly stared at

difference he had

Soo had used very odd abilities to be

it was because Kim Rok Soo had seemed sharper than before and had a way of drawing people to him unlike in the

were both

‘Those eyes.’

and the enemy that might show up at any moment were

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

it was just because he knew

lot of emotions in

who had dreamt of becoming an

he could tell that there were

They were always there.

He finally realized it.

finally started to speak

I am the

Everybody had died.

am still

Soo Hyuk thought Cale looked

out of his eyes. A firm

this Kim Rok

adult. He’s much older than I

what Lee Soo Hyuk was thinking and just focused on explaining things

the pieces of emotions that

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

was not the

past but

“…A parallel universe?”

parallel universe. This is

Soo Hyuk was thinking that Cale's voice

started to do everything I

That sentence…

heavy weight

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

‘Anyway.’

could not explain

‘Everything I could do.’

words were too trivial to explain everything

once we defeat this first unranked monster… I think that I will

pointed toward

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

Hyuk stopped

was very much like Lee Soo Hyuk as he continued

this was something that both of

stopped there and quietly

was also looking right at Cale as he started

“I see.”

got back was that short

whether

“Rok Soo.”

Soo Hyuk walked

Plop.

then placed his hand on Cale's

expression was

your hyung in that

“…Yes.”

was his hyung, team leader, role model,

am this world's Rok Soo's

on Lee Soo

rude to call your

“Ha!”

out a

• expected of

‘I know, right?’

with this world’s Kim

to speak as if

are happening in

picked his sword

everybody saw it. How could we suspect

Hyuk had seen the despair in

something anybody

Such a person…

I would question someone who tried to save not just me

Hyuk shook

“I can't do that.”

you

satisfaction after seeing that Cale

nonchalantly made a

did I die in the other

Cale nonchalantly responded back.

“Saving my life.”

Hyuk turned

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

“Sounds exactly like you.”

“…Me?”

look like you would even get yourself killed to save

take care of yourself