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 is not Kim Rok Soo

Hyuk blanked out for a

“…What?”

heard a nonchalant voice

Soo you know is not

Click.

Hyuk placed his hand on

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

then looked back

“Explain.”

who unarmed himself to make the gesture that he would listen

“I.”

Cale started to speak.

a Kim Rok

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

No. I guess I'm thirty-eight now. Anyway, I'm

Cale chuckled.

actually the

Lee Soo Hyuk whose eyebrows had

was now early

cold morning breeze

started to share his

my world, once I turned thirty-six

area

soon started to speak

longer a team leader

“Mm.”

let out

Soo, Grandma Kim. The Lee siblings, Park

Cale stopped talking again.

Soo Hyuk just quietly stared

finally realized what the difference he had felt from Kim Rok

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

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

they were

‘Those eyes.’

eyes that were preparing for the future and the enemy that might show up at any moment were extremely

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

too deep to say that it was just because he knew

a lot

Soo Hyuk was someone who had dreamt of

he could tell that there were numerous emotions behind

They were always there.

He finally realized it.

started to

I am the only one who

Everybody had died.

am

Hyuk thought Cale looked

eyes. A firm yet stoic gaze was directed at Lee Soo Hyuk once

this Kim Rok Soo's true age for

He’s much older than I

what Lee Soo Hyuk was thinking and just focused on

need to share the pieces of emotions that remained in

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

was not

past but

“…A parallel universe?”

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

that Cale's voice was quite

do everything I could do

That sentence…

heavy weight of everything through that

or experienced everything Kim Rok

‘Anyway.’

explain the time

‘Everything I could do.’

trivial to explain

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

toward his

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

Hyuk stopped

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

you about all of this was something that both

quietly

also looking right at Cale

“I see.”

back was that short

don't question whether

“Rok Soo.”

walked

Plop.

then placed his

was

was your hyung in

“…Yes.”

his hyung, team leader, role

I am this world's Rok

smile appeared on Lee Soo Hyuk's

to call your hyung,

“Ha!”

let out

• of Soo Hyuk

‘I know, right?’

world’s Kim Rok

Soo Hyuk continued to speak as if

in this world. Something

his sword back

struggled. Not just me, everybody saw it. How could we suspect you after all of

Hyuk had seen the

was not something anybody

Such a person…

someone who tried to save not just

Soo Hyuk

“I can't do that.”

you are,

with satisfaction after seeing that Cale had

then nonchalantly made

did I die

Cale nonchalantly responded back.

“Saving my life.”

Hyuk

well. You saved

“Sounds exactly like you.”

“…Me?”

exactly how you look right now. You look like you

take care of