Trash of the Count’s Family - Chapter 570

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The moment Kale Heniatus spoke, the Dark Tiger’s eyes widened.

“…!”

But soon they returned to normal, and those black eyes slowly swept across the grade-1 monster under its command, then the monsters encircling the building at a slight distance, and finally the people themselves.
It gazed particularly slowly at the people who had emerged from the building, as if searching for something.

“Hmm.”

The Dark Tiger’s eyebrows twitched slightly upon seeing something, and finally it looked back at Kale Heniatus.

“…Who are you?”

Kale Heniatus’s lips curved upward at the sight.

‘It’s showing interest in me.’

He realized that one of the words he had spoken had triggered the Dark Tiger’s curiosity.

“Me?”

Kale Heniatus observed the Dark Tiger’s wavering pupils.
They were quite confused eyes.
Kale Heniatus spoke with ease.

“I’m someone who might just know where you came from.”
“…!”

The Dark Tiger’s mouth fell open.
It was a genuinely shocked expression.

“…Hey, Kim Rok-soo. What are you doing right now?”

Kale Heniatus heard Park Jin-tae’s whispered voice, but he ignored it and kept his gaze fixed on the Dark Tiger.
That was when it happened.

“Grrrrrrr!”
“Hisssss—hisssss!”

Suddenly, two grade-1 monsters unleashed their roars.

Thud, thud-thud, thud!
Poison Bear took a step forward.

Kale Heniatus observed the Dark Tiger behind Poison Bear.
As he met the Dark Tiger’s gaze, which was quietly assessing him, he opened his mouth.

“Is this your intention?”

The will of the Dark Tiger that commanded these grade-1 monsters.
From the movements of Poison Bear and the Human-faced Spider, Kale Heniatus understood its meaning without words being spoken.

‘It wants to see if I’m worth talking to.’

Just as the records in the documents suggested, if I proved unworthy of conversation, this Dark Tiger would attempt to kill me.
But if I was worthy?
Regardless of what that meant, something would certainly unfold.

Kale Heniatus shrugged lightly.

“Well, fine.”

The corners of his mouth lifted.

“Let’s clean this up and have a quiet conversation.”

Then he spoke to Park Jin-tae and Lee Chul-min.

“Kill the two of them. Capture the Dark Tiger alive.”
“What?”
“You lunatic!”

Capture it alive? That monster?
Capturing it was far more difficult than killing it.
Park Jin-tae and Lee Chul-min gasped in shock, but they had no time to argue further with Kale Heniatus.

Boom, boom, boom!
Poison Bear closed the distance to Kale Heniatus, Park Jin-tae, and Lee Chul-min in mere strides, its massive frame covering ground with terrifying speed.
Park Jin-tae’s mouth fell open.

“…Poison!”

Black smoke billowed from Poison Bear’s skin.
The colossal body hurtled toward them in an instant.

“Dodge!”

At Kale’s command, Park Jin-tae and Lee Chul-min scrambled desperately out of the way.
Poison Bear’s fist crashed down upon the earth.

Crash!
A massive furrow split the ground, and dust scattered in all directions.

“Ugh!”

As Park Jin-tae squinted against the billowing dust, he heard a chilling sound.

Tap, tap, tap-tap-tap!
Light but rapid footsteps.

‘The Human-faced Spider!’

Through the dust cloud stirred by Poison Bear, the spider descended upon the group.

“Ssssshhh—ssshhh!”

The spider’s maw gaped wide.
Park Jin-tae couldn’t see its form through the dust, but the creature’s shriek painted a vivid picture in his mind.
That was when it happened.

“This time we finish it fast! Park Jin-tae!”

Kale’s commands began to flow.

“Move three meters to your right, aim for its mouth!”

Park Jin-tae couldn’t see anything through the dust, but he immediately moved three meters.
That’s when he saw it.
Through the settling dust, the gaping maw of the spider.
At the same moment, Kale’s voice rang out.

“Fire!”

A bullet streaked through the air.

“Shrieeeek!”

Simultaneously, green webbing began pouring from the Human-faced Spider’s mouth.
The bullet and the green webbing collided.

Boom!
Flames erupted.
The green webbing caught fire.
But the webbing didn’t melt in the flames. Instead, the fire simply spread along the strands toward the spider.

“Lee Chul-min!”
“Damn it!”

At Kale’s call, Lee Chul-min reached behind his back with his hands.

Clang!
Two enormous scythes materialized in Lee Chul-min’s hands.

Whoooosh—
He felt the whirlwind coalescing around his feet. In that instant, Lee Chul-min understood Kim Rok-soo’s command perfectly.

“You crazy bastard!”

Lee Chul-min’s body shot skyward, curses spilling from his lips.
And he came to a halt above the burning webbing.

Sizzzzle—
Lee Chul-min’s shoes began to burn.
But Lee Chul-min’s feet did not.

Lee Chul-min.
He possessed resistance to both fire and ice.
In that instant, Kale shouted.

“Run!”

Lee Chul-min ran.
Simultaneously, Kale cried out.

“Park Jin-tae, ten o’clock direction, fire twice!”

Bang! Bang!
Park Jin-tae watched as the bullets flew toward the Poison Bear behind the spider.

“…Kim Rok-soo, you absolute madman!”

At the same time, he saw a golden lightning bolt being fired alongside his bullets.

Crackle. Snap.
He could see Kim Rok-soo engulfed in golden light.
Like a deity from mythology wrapped in lightning itself.

And that golden lightning and the bullets were fired together toward the Poison Bear, and Park Jin-tae opened his mouth.
He understood instinctively.

“Detonate!”

This was the moment to speak those words.

Kaboom!

The bullets detonated before reaching the Poison Bear.
The shockwave affected both the front of the Poison Bear and the rear of the Human-faced Spider.

“Screeeee!”

The Human-faced Spider shrieked, its web held in its mouth as flames rushed toward it.

“Lee Chul-min! Eyes!”

Running across the spider web covered in flames, Lee Chul-min reached the spider’s face.
He contorted his face and opened his mouth.

“…Damn it! How many eyes does this spider have!”

When would I ever finish cutting all of them!
I’m good with precision and strength, not speed!
At that moment, Lee Chul-min heard Kale Heniatus’s voice.

“Human-faced Spider!”

Ah!
Lee Chul-min realized what kind of eyes they were.

“Park Jin-tae! The spider’s jaw!”

Simultaneously, Lee Chul-min felt a tremendous attack being unleashed on the spider’s jaw.
It must be Park Jin-tae’s bullets.
From the impact, the spider raised its jaw.
Lee Chul-min kicked off the spider web and launched himself upward.
He watched the spider writhing in agony as it shook its head from Park Jin-tae’s assault.

‘…I can see it!’

Lee Chul-min, wielding a scythe as his weapon, possessed precision that nearly rivaled Park Jin-tae’s.
The fact that his precision approached that of Park Jin-tae, a national shooting champion, demonstrated just how delicate and sharp Lee Chul-min’s scythe truly was.

“Hisssss—!”

The spider’s eyes met Lee Chul-min’s gaze.
Lee Chul-min’s dual scythes, thrust upward into the air, descended downward.

Crack!
The sharp points of the dual scythes struck with perfect accuracy at the human face mark on the back of the spider’s head.
The pupils of the human eyes were pierced.

“Screeeeee—!”

Green liquid burst from the pierced eye socket.
The spider writhed in agony, its body convulsing.
Lee Chul-min cried out in astonishment and exhilaration at the sight.

“Insane! That’s actually its weak point!”

Who would ever think that the mask was the Human-faced Spider’s true weakness?
Everyone would assume it was merely camouflage.

‘…Insane data ability.’

He found Kim Rok-soo’s data ability terrifying.

‘…The real Kim Rok-soo is….’

Kim Rok-soo with his awakened ability was frightening.
In every conceivable way.
Lee Chul-min hadn’t heard the conversation between Park Jin-tae and Choi Han, but he recalled Choi Han’s piercing gaze that seemed to see right through him.
A chill ran down his spine.

“Lee Chul-min!”

Then he heard Park Jin-tae’s cry, and in that instant, a cold sensation swept across his left side.

“Gasp!”

A massive spider leg, sharp as a spear, hurtled toward Lee Chul-min. The spider, now bleeding green from not just its mask but its actual eyes, lunged at him with desperate fury.

“Shrieeeek, shrieeeek!”

It was like a final death thrash—a last-ditch attempt to drag him down with it.

“Damn!”

He rolled across the ground, narrowly avoiding the strike.
He rolled his body on the ground to avoid it.

Lee Chul-min watched the massive spider leg sweep past just above his head.
Lee Chul-min saw a giant spider leg passing over his head.

‘Insane!’

I really thought I was going to die.

‘…I survived.’

Lee Chul-min was about to feel relieved when he quickly lifted his head. A sudden question crossed his mind.

‘Those high schoolers were being handled so carefully, so why do I have to roll around like this?’

However, he wasn’t afforded the luxury of dwelling on such thoughts.
The mere idea that a single strike from the Human-faced Spider’s legs could kill him made that impossible.

But the moment he lifted his head.

“…Gasp!”

Kwaaaang!
A golden lightning bolt crashed down upon the spider’s eyes, which were covered in a sickly green liquid.
With a deafening roar, flames erupted from the creature’s eyes.

The spider’s body trembled violently as though struck by actual lightning.
Then it collapsed downward with a heavy thud.
Its legs had lost all their strength.
The spider lay with its legs splayed out, quivering for a moment before the movement ceased entirely.

“…Is it… dead?”

Did we really just kill this Grade 1 monster so easily?
Of course, it hadn’t been simple.
It required Lee Chul-min’s level of attack precision, Park Jin-tae’s marksmanship, and Kim Rok-soo’s abilities.
Still, not a single one of us had been injured.

Only now, in actual combat, did Lee Chul-min truly grasp how extraordinary Kim Rok-soo’s power was.

‘Watch and learn.’

Those words echoed in my ears.
At the same time, I felt afraid.
In that moment, an unbelievable sound reached us.

“Cough!”
“Kim Rok-soo!”

Along with Park Jin-tae’s cry, Lee Chul-min watched Kim Rok-soo cough up a mouthful of blood.
Dark blood streamed down from Kim Rok-soo’s mouth.
Only then did Lee Chul-min recognize Kim Rok-soo’s frail, weakened form that he had forgotten about.

“…Ah.”

Lee Chul-min’s heart sank at the sight of Kim Rok-soo wavering.

‘This guy—’

He can’t collapse!
Without thinking, he tried to move toward Kim Rok-soo.
Park Jin-tae did the same.

Then, both of them heard Kale’s voice.

“It’s not over yet!”

Lee Chul-min lifted his head.
A massive black shadow bore down upon me.
It was the shadow of the approaching Poison Bear.

“…Ah.”

As Lee Chul-min’s eyes widened, Park Jin-tae heard Kale’s voice.

“Fire bullets at the Poison Bear’s navel!”
“The navel?”
“The white spot!”

The spot referred to as the Poison Bear’s navel was the only white mark located on the creature’s lower abdomen.
It was the size of a child’s palm—incredibly small compared to the Poison Bear’s massive body.

But Park Jin-tae could do it.

Park Jin-tae twisted his body urgently and fired a bullet.
Bang!
With the gunshot, the bullet flew toward Poison Bear’s navel.

Boom, boom!
But the bullet exploded before it could reach the navel.

“Damn it, poison!”

Park Jin-tae watched the bullet detonate in the poisonous smoke enveloping Poison Bear.
At the same time, he furrowed his brow.

‘…I don’t have much left!’

I had very few usable bullets remaining.
The bullets were determined by the amount of my ability.
Because I’d been using my ability almost without rest today, I didn’t have much margin left.

“Hey! I don’t have many bullets left-”
“Shoot.”

Then, Kale’s firm voice reached me.
My gaze turned toward him.

“I really only have one or two bullets left!”

Kale’s quiet voice reached me.

“Fight with all your strength.”

In that moment, I recalled the words I had spoken to Lee Chul-min about fighting with all my strength.
Kim Rok-soo was bringing up those words.

“Squeeze it out. Then I’ll come.”

Kim Rok-soo’s indifferent gaze seemed to overlap with Park Jin-tae’s perception of Choi Han.
Strangely, the two men’s eyes held a similar quality, and Park Jin-tae found that Choi Han’s words sounded exactly like something Kim Rok-soo would say.
Park Jin-tae squeezed his eyes shut before opening them again and speaking.

“Fine! I get it! I’ll just squeeze out the shot!”
“Now.”

Kale Heniatus had been waiting for this moment.

The bullet burst forth from the toxic smoke.
Because of it, flames erupted into the air.

The size was barely larger than a navel.

Poison Bear was terrifying because of its monstrous strength and massive body, combined with the lethal toxins that enveloped its form, making it impossible to approach.

But if that poison were burning in flames.
Then those flames would become the perfect opportunity to pierce through Poison Bear’s toxins and strike at its skin.

Of course, the size was small, barely larger than a navel, but that didn’t matter.

“Park Jin-tae! Shoot at the flames!”

A glimmer of understanding flickered in Park Jin-tae’s eyes.
He understood Kale Heniatus’s command.
The gun aimed at Poison Bear’s white spot.
His index finger pulled the trigger.

That was when it happened.

“Grrrrr! Grr, Kraaaaagh!”

Poison Bear’s monstrous cry reverberated through the surroundings.
No—it was a scream.

“Kraaaaagh!”

Black fangs drove deep into Poison Bear’s nape.
As though the poison meant nothing at all, the black fangs thrust forward with such force that Poison Bear’s neck snapped in an instant.

“Grrr, grrrrr—”

Poison Bear couldn’t even produce a proper sound as its massive body tilted forward.

“Insane, what the—!”

Lee Chul-min stumbled backward in shock.
The colossal five-meter body slowly collapsed to the ground.

Boom!
Poison Bear’s massive frame crashed down atop the spider.
Thud.
And then a tiger’s front paw came to rest upon the bear’s corpse.

“…Why?”

Park Jin-tae’s eyes trembled.
It was the Dark Tiger’s black fangs that had torn through Poison Bear’s nape just moments before.
Drip. Drip.
Blood from Poison Bear dripped from the fangs.
The Dark Tiger stood motionless, and that elegant bearing intertwined with its lethal grace to inspire a different kind of terror.
Silence descended upon the sudden turn of events.
In that quiet, Park Jin-tae realized something.

‘Ah!’

He understood where the Dark Tiger’s gaze was directed.

‘Kim Rok-soo!’

The Dark Tiger wasn’t even looking at Poison Bear—it was staring at Kim Rok-soo.
Kim Rok-soo was gazing back at the Dark Tiger with equal intensity.
Park Jin-tae anticipated the silence would break soon.
Kim Rok-soo’s mouth was opening.

“Did I pass the test?”

Kale Heniatus slowly approached the Dark Tiger.
Without a trace of fear.

“Do I even have the right to have a conversation with you, Dark Tiger?”

The Dark Tiger’s mouth opened.

“I am.”

Ssshhh.
The corners of the Dark Tiger’s mouth curled upward.

‘Is it… smiling?’

Kale Heniatus hesitated, bewildered by the sight.

“My name is Albert Crossman.”
“…What?”

What did this tiger just say?
Who?
Kale Heniatus’s mind went blank, his pupils dilating.
In the Dark Tiger’s eyes, he could see the reflection of Kim Rok-soo—of himself.

The Dark Tiger spoke to Kale Heniatus.

“I almost didn’t recognize you because of this shell.”
“…What in the—”

Kale Heniatus was at a loss for words, and the Dark Tiger continued with an elegant smile like someone else’s.

“Let’s have a conversation. About what’s happened and how. I’m curious about a lot of things too.”

Kale Heniatus finally uttered.

“…You crazy—”

The Dark Tiger shook its head slowly.
Its beautiful mane swayed.
The Dark Tiger exhaled as if sighing.

“How irreverent, as always.”

At those words, Kale Heniatus was certain.

“This is insane. It’s really him.”

It was truly Albert Crossman.

‘No, what is this—’

Why was Albert Crossman here?
And as the Dark Tiger, no less?
What in the world was happening?

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