Trash of the Count's Family

Sadness when it is blue.

Sloth when it is yellow.

Failure when it is green.

Indignity when it is purple.

Wrath when it is black.

Cale looked down at his black outfit and the ends of the sleeves of his white shirt underneath before quietly mumbling to himself.

His friends who had died while going up against the unranked monster…

Even in the company that Cale, no, that Kim Rok Soo worked for, most of the members in the vanguard of his team were people who had gathered at the start of the company. That might explain why they did not have many close people around them.

That was the case for most people after the cataclysm, but this was a team formed by people who especially did not have much family or people close to them.

‘It might also be because team leader Lee Soo Hyuk gathered those kinds of people by his side.’

But it wasn't as if most of the team members had nobody at all.

Some of them had some living family members, while others at least had distant relatives who were still alive. Furthermore, some had friends that they had been close to since even before the cataclysm.

But unbelievably…

It was so weird that it was almost laughable, but…

Choi Jung Soo, the person who had the best relationship with the others on the team… And Lee Soo Hyuk, the person who cherished the whole team and led them all forward…

These two people did not have anybody to take care of their funeral or serve as chief mourner.

‘Only me.’

Kim Rok Soo was the only one for both of them.

Kim Rok Soo, the guy who scoffed a lot and didn't really get along with people… He was all they had.

He was the only one who could take responsibility for sending them off.

‘It's the funeral.’

Cale realized that he had come back to the time of the funeral when he had sent Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo off one last time.

Once the original chaos subsided and people started to form societies and civilizations to press forward after the cataclysm…

One of the things that changed the most was the funeral tradition. The reason was simple.

Too many people had died.

And even more continued to die every day and will die in the future.

Funerals became extremely simple and short. People had to deal with so much sadness that they couldn’t even process it properly. They had no idea when the monsters would attack again. They had to bury the unprocessed sadness in their hearts and push forward to survive.

Of course, there were many who left this world without even getting a funeral. It led to a lot of people thinking that they should be thankful if they could at least say goodbye one last time to their loved ones.

“Team leader Kim.”

Cale raised his head after hearing a voice.

There was someone smiling awkwardly and reaching his hand out toward Cale, who would have been standing in the chief mourner's spot in front of Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo's portraits if this was a normal funeral before the cataclysm.

Cale knew this person very well, although it had been unexpected.

Cale had immediately succeeded Lee Soo Hyuk's position as team leader and continued to work after Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo's funeral was over.

He happened to overhear people from other departments talking about him at one point. They had talked crap about him without even knowing that he was there.

‘Hey. That emotionless bastard Kim Rok Soo didn’t even cry when the person who saved his life died. How can someone be so emotionless?’

‘…Who knows? At least team leader Lee Soo Hyuk picked a good successor before he left. Kim Rok Soo is very good at his job.’

‘He may be an emotionless bastard, but at least he is good at his job.’

Of the two people talking…

The person who was talking crap about how Cale had no emotions and didn’t cry… This was the team leader of a different department.

‘This person was here as well.’

The fact that this person had been at the funeral was new to Cale.

‘Yes, a team leader like him should have been here.’

He should have been at this place.

However, the memories of this moment were not clear in Cale’s mind.

his mental state had been at a point where he could not take in the situation and environment around him such that he only clearly remembered the things he wanted to

in to take care of most of the process, but Kim Rok Soo had enough on his plate just taking care of the send

‘I was young.’

and rough around the edges at

‘However…’

observed the man

was sure that this guy had called him team leader Kim. Even though Lee Soo Hyuk's funeral was not over and Kim Rok Soo had not returned to the

‘Team leader Kim?’

Soo Hyuk’s wishes and named Kim Rok Soo as the new team leader,

“…Team leader Kim……?”

did not shake his

leader on my

man’s eyes looked

I know that this is an illusion, but it feels

the flustered man smile

to be the team leader now,

Cale still silently stared at him. His eyes were not the eyes of a young and rough around the edges person; They held even more years

It's very hard

that the guy was trying to be respectful and

the man’s hand

It is

of funerals for different team members going on here right now, that the numerous company employees all peeked toward or fully turned

why they were acting

without any

thought that something like that was the only way to persist at that

he now knew that

endure past sadness,

to stand firm without being shaken up by them. It was okay to be shaken

typhoons or reeds that sway in all directions. Furthermore, not all humans were the same. They each had their own styles and just had to live

many styles as he got older, and felt as if he

Soo Hyuk in his dream and

memory made it so that he could not forget his sadness, but it also meant that he did not forget his joys

could now say the following. He

time, it was

He was sad.

That was

“I am sad.”

was why this moment came up

young, but the fact that the cataclysm struck just as he was about to become

Hyuk had created and his friends had helped to develop

wanted to fuck up and kill all of those motherfucking monster

“That is why…”

Because of that…

do my best from here

to do even better for his

after seeing the smile. Everybody could tell that it

way to persist if I keep doing

the method of

persist through it for the rest of

now I can persist

Jung Soo with the smile still on his

as if this was quite unexpected

“This isn’t bad.”

“Excuse me?”

man asked after not hearing properly, but Cale ignored him and continued

test isn’t

At that moment…

Crack.

the man in front

Everything Cale

that symbolized sadness soon covered Cale’s

soon saw yellow light rising

Yellow.

That symbolized sloth.

* * *

highness! You must be

“It’s fine.”

“But!”

Knight Captain could

Crossman had

City were saying a lot of things

of the first dispatched team were fighting against a fake Cale,

opened his eyes

soldiers in Puzzle City had mainly

even though Alberu had not said or done

Knight Captain realized something while

highness is already the

seemed disloyal toward his Majesty, the current king, but the incidents at Puzzle City led to people both inside and outside the Roan Kingdom treating

an important individual was leaving City Hall and heading for the temple as soon

“…Fuck!”

swear despite a lot