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.

clear, but 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

Kim Rok Soo had enough on his plate just taking care of the send off

‘I was young.’

rough around the

‘However…’

observed the man

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

‘Team leader Kim?’

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

“…Team leader Kim……?”

not shake his hand and was staring at him. Cale grabbed the man’s hand.

only team leader on my

eyes

I know that this is an illusion, but it

could see the flustered man

you're going to be the team leader

His eyes were not the eyes of a young and rough around the edges person; They

hem. It's very hard to

was trying to be respectful

man’s hand and

is very

Cale. There were a lot of funerals for different team members going on here right now, that the

they were acting

spent this time without any emotion, surviving through

like that was the only way to persist

now knew that that was not

way to endure past sadness, loss, and this motherfucking

being shaken up by them. It was okay to be

were not trees that break during typhoons or reeds that sway in all directions. Furthermore, not all humans were the same. They each had their own

he got older, and felt as if he now knew what

met Lee Soo Hyuk in his dream and heard that

not forget his sadness, but

why Cale could now say

time,

He was sad.

That was still

“I am sad.”

this moment came

fact that the cataclysm struck just as he was about to

Hyuk had created and his friends had

also wanted to fuck up and kill all

“That is why…”

Because of that…

do my

to do even better for his friends who had left

smile. Everybody could tell that it was a smile that was full of emotions, a bitter smile that appeared after a lot

way to persist if I keep

method

simply persist through it for the rest

I can persist through it quite

portraits of Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo with the smile still

as if this was quite unexpected

“This isn’t bad.”

“Excuse me?”

after not hearing properly, but

isn’t

At that moment…

Crack.

saw the face of the man in front of

all. Everything Cale

symbolized

light rising at

Yellow.

That symbolized sloth.

* * *

highness! You must

“It’s fine.”

“But!”

toward the Knight Captain to stop him. The Knight Captain could not say

Crossman had

lot of things regarding

and the rest of the first dispatched team were fighting against a fake Cale, but the chaos and fear did not

opened his eyes at

among the Roan Kingdom’s soldiers

happened even though Alberu had not said

realized something

highness is already the

the incidents at Puzzle City led to people

leaving City Hall and heading for the temple as soon as

“…Fuck!”

to swear despite a lot