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-”

it would be the fact that it is not Kim Rok Soo in this

Soo Hyuk blanked out for

“…What?”

a nonchalant

Soo you know

Click.

his hand

him while Lee Soo Hyuk silently removed his scabbard from his hip.

looked

“Explain.”

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

“I.”

Cale started to speak.

Rok Soo you

still young, the Lee Soo Hyuk here was much younger

years old. No. I guess I'm

Cale chuckled.

the hyung

looked away from Lee Soo Hyuk whose eyebrows had slightly

was now

cold morning breeze brushed

started to share

I turned thirty-six years

area for a

started

longer a team

“Mm.”

Hyuk let out a small

siblings,

Cale stopped talking again.

just quietly stared at

had felt from

Rok Soo had used very

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

were both

‘Those eyes.’

future and the enemy that might show up

of a twenty-year-old, even if they

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

a lot of emotions

had

why he could tell that there were

They were always there.

He finally realized it.

started

the only one who

Everybody had died.

am still

Soo Hyuk thought Cale looked extremely

A firm yet stoic gaze was directed

felt this Kim Rok Soo's true age for the first

adult. He’s much older than I

what Lee Soo Hyuk was thinking and just

the pieces of emotions that

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

place was not the

the past

“…A parallel universe?”

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

that Cale's voice was quite

I could do since I realized

That sentence…

the heavy weight of

heard, or experienced everything Kim Rok

‘Anyway.’

could not explain the time that had

‘Everything I could do.’

were too trivial to explain everything he had

unranked monster… I think that I will probably return to

toward

return later. He’s also seeing and hearing this conversation as well

Hyuk stopped

much like Lee Soo Hyuk as he continued to

about all of this

stopped there and quietly

looking right at Cale as he started

“I see.”

back

question whether

“Rok Soo.”

Hyuk walked

Plop.

then placed his hand

was

your hyung in that

“…Yes.”

hyung, team

am this

on Lee

to

“Ha!”

let out

• of Soo Hyuk

‘I know, right?’

this world’s Kim Rok

speak as if he

are happening in this world. Something like this

then picked his sword

I've seen how much you’ve struggled. Not just me, everybody saw

seen

something anybody could

Such a person…

someone who tried to save not just me

Soo Hyuk shook his

“I can't do that.”

you are,

Soo Hyuk nodded his head with satisfaction after seeing that Cale

nonchalantly

die in

Cale nonchalantly responded back.

“Saving my life.”

Hyuk

as well. You saved people left and right

“Sounds exactly like you.”

“…Me?”

how you look right now. You look like you would even get yourself killed to save the person next

take care of yourself