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.

mental state had been at a point where he could not take

to take care of most of the process, but Kim Rok Soo had enough on his plate just taking care of the send off for Lee Soo Hyuk, Choi

‘I was young.’

Soo was young and rough around the edges at this

‘However…’

man in front

Kim. Even though Lee Soo Hyuk's funeral was not over and Kim Rok Soo had not

‘Team leader Kim?’

Lee Soo Hyuk’s wishes and named Kim Rok Soo as the new team leader, but this was still wrong.

“…Team leader Kim……?”

once more to Kim Rok Soo, who did not shake his hand and was staring at him. Cale grabbed the man’s hand. He then

on my team is team leader

man’s eyes

that this is an illusion, but it

the flustered man smile even

you're going to be the team leader now, aren’t

a young and rough around the edges person; They held even more years of experience

hard to deal with, isn’t

that the guy was trying to be respectful and

released the man’s hand and

It is very

man seemed to be at a loss for words as he looked at Cale. There were a lot of funerals for different team

understood why they

spent this time without any emotion,

was the

he now knew that that was not

sadness,

not to stand firm without being shaken up by them. It was okay to be shaken up by

during 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

older, and felt as if he now knew what the best method was

in his dream and heard that Choi

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

Cale could now say

time, it was

He was sad.

That was still

“I am sad.”

moment came

time. He wasn’t too young, but the fact that the cataclysm struck just as he was about to become an adult made him mature but childish at the same

that Lee Soo Hyuk had created and his friends had helped to develop and

up and

“That is why…”

Because of that…

do my best

do even better for his friends who had

smile appeared on Cale’s face. However, nobody frowned after seeing the smile. Everybody could tell that it was a smile that was full of emotions, a bitter smile that appeared

a way to persist if

the method of overcoming

will simply persist through it for

now I can persist through it

Jung Soo with the smile still on his face. He then turned to look at the man who had just shaken his

him as if this was quite unexpected and could not hide his

“This isn’t bad.”

“Excuse me?”

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

isn’t

At that moment…

Crack.

of the man in front of him

Everything Cale could see started to

symbolized sadness soon

soon saw yellow light rising at the

Yellow.

That symbolized sloth.

* * *

highness! You

“It’s fine.”

“But!”

Knight Captain to stop him. The Knight Captain could not say anything

prince Alberu Crossman

a lot of things regarding the orb on top of the

of the first dispatched team were fighting against a fake Cale, but the chaos and fear

opened his eyes

Kingdom’s soldiers in

happened even though Alberu had not

Captain realized something while

is already the

the incidents at Puzzle City led to people both inside and outside

heading for the temple as soon as he opened

“…Fuck!”

hesitate to swear despite a lot of people being around