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.

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

Soo had enough on his plate just taking care of the send off for Lee Soo Hyuk, Choi Jung Soo, and the others who

‘I was young.’

and rough around the edges at

‘However…’

man

had called him team leader Kim. Even though Lee Soo Hyuk's funeral was not over and Kim Rok Soo had not returned

‘Team leader Kim?’

Soo as the new team leader, but this

“…Team leader Kim……?”

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

my team is team

eyes looked

an illusion,

could see the flustered man smile

you're going to be the

around the edges person; They held

hem. It's very hard to deal

that the guy was trying

released the man’s hand

is

at Cale. There were a lot of funerals for different team members going on here right now, that the numerous company employees all peeked

why they were acting like

had originally spent this time without any emotion, surviving through without crumbling

thought that something like that was

he now knew that that was not the

endure past sadness, loss,

without being shaken up by them. It was

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

older, and felt as

had met Lee Soo Hyuk in his dream and heard

but it also meant that he did not forget his

say the

the time, it was

He was sad.

was still

“I am sad.”

moment

too young, but the fact that the cataclysm struck just as he was

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

wanted to fuck up and

“That is why…”

Because of that…

to do my best from

even better for his friends who had

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

will find a way to persist if I keep doing

method of

simply persist through it for the rest

can persist through it

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

looking at him as if this

“This isn’t bad.”

“Excuse me?”

not hearing properly, but

test isn’t bad

At that moment…

Crack.

of the man in front

Everything Cale could see started

that symbolized

saw yellow light rising

Yellow.

That symbolized sloth.

* * *

highness! You must be

“It’s fine.”

“But!”

him. The Knight Captain could not say anything else but his face showed how

Crossman had

in Puzzle City were saying a lot of things

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

Crossman had opened his

soldiers in Puzzle City

happened even though Alberu had not said

Knight Captain realized something

highness is already the

king, but the incidents at Puzzle City led

City Hall and heading for the temple as soon as he

“…Fuck!”

not hesitate to swear despite a