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-”

the fact that it is

Hyuk blanked out for a

“…What?”

heard a nonchalant voice respond

Hyuk, I'm saying that the Kim Rok Soo you know is not the one possessing

Click.

his hand

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

then looked back

“Explain.”

to make the gesture that he would listen to what

“I.”

Cale started to speak.

Kim Rok

the Kim Rok Soo of this world was still young, the Lee Soo Hyuk here

thirty-six years old. No. I guess I'm

Cale chuckled.

actually the hyung

Lee Soo Hyuk

was now

cold morning breeze brushed

started to

world, once I

filled the area for

soon started to speak

a

“Mm.”

Hyuk let out a

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

Cale stopped talking again.

just

the difference he had felt from Kim Rok Soo

Rok Soo had

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

were

‘Those eyes.’

future and the enemy that might show

of a twenty-year-old, even if they had become

say that it was just

were a lot

Hyuk was someone who had dreamt

he could tell that there were numerous emotions

They were always there.

He finally realized it.

started

I am the only one

Everybody had died.

am

thought Cale looked extremely tired as he said

out of his eyes. A firm

Rok Soo's true age for

adult. He’s much older

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

the pieces of emotions

Kim Rok Soo's body. I

was not the

was not the past but a different

“…A parallel universe?”

is a different Earth. It is different from the

Soo Hyuk was thinking that Cale's voice

I could do

That sentence…

sense the heavy weight of everything through that single

or experienced everything Kim

‘Anyway.’

explain the

‘Everything I could do.’

words were too trivial to explain

I think that I will probably return to my own

toward his

in here. He’ll return later. He’s also seeing and

Soo Hyuk

this was very much like Lee

Soo Hyuk, telling you about all of this was something that both

quietly observed

right at Cale as

“I see.”

got back was that short

don't question whether I am

“Rok Soo.”

walked over

Plop.

placed his hand

expression was quite

Hyuk was your hyung

“…Yes.”

his hyung, team leader, role

am this world's

smile appeared on Lee

me hyung. It’s rude to call your hyung, ‘you.’ Don't you

“Ha!”

out

• of Soo Hyuk

‘I know, right?’

with this world’s Kim Rok

continued to speak

happening in

then picked his sword back

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

Hyuk had seen the despair

something

Such a person…

someone who tried to save not just me but everybody else

Soo Hyuk shook

“I can't do that.”

you are,

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

nonchalantly made

I die in the

Cale nonchalantly responded back.

“Saving my life.”

Hyuk

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

“Sounds exactly like you.”

“…Me?”

That’s exactly how you look right now. You look like you would even get yourself

care of