Trash of the Count’s Family - Chapter 600

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Those golden eyes were locked directly on Kale Heniatus.

“How troublesome.”

Kale Heniatus murmured softly, his assessment of the Yellow-Haired Monster complete. But the others could not share in his composure.

“…It arrived so quickly!”
“There was another one coming? I didn’t know! Has the operation fallen apart?”
“Damn it. This creature is far more serious than—”

The appearance of the Yellow-Haired Monster sent the gathered fighters into a frenzy of reactions, each responding according to the extent of their knowledge.
Yet that chaos would not last long.

Splurch!
Blue blood erupted skyward like a river flowing in reverse.

“Gack, hack!”

The torso of the Blue-Haired Monster, sprawled upon the ground, convulsed violently.
Click.
And what met the eyes of those watching was Lee Soo-hyuk, drenched in the surging blue blood.
Lee Soo-hyuk’s gaze was not fixed upon those staring at him, but elsewhere.

“Roaaaaaaah!”

The Yellow-Haired Monster’s eyes began to radiate light.
Crackle. Snap!
Golden electricity coiled and blazed across the creature’s body.
The golden eyes and Lee Soo-hyuk’s black eyes.
The two locked gazes with perfect precision.

“Commander.”

Lee Soo-hyuk called out to Kale Heniatus as he moved forward slowly.
Toward the Yellow-Haired Monster, he advanced.

“If you can just handle that electricity for me, I’ll slice it apart again.”

He had said he would stand at the very front, that he wanted to.
Lee Soo-hyuk was the one keeping his word.

‘According to Kim Rok-soo, only I can cut through those scales right now.’

Crackle, crackle!
The yellow-haired figure, wrapped in brilliant golden light, slowly opened its maw.

“Grrrrr, grrrrr-”

The monster’s eyes, emitting sounds like those of a beast, burned with fury.

“Regardless.”

Shing.
Lee Soo-hyuk drew his blade from its sheath once more.

“You are merely my prey.”

His body surged forward toward the enemy again, his feet driving hard against the ground.

“Stop!”

It was then.

“Kim Rok, or rather, Commander?”

Lee Soo-hyuk halted his advance, startled by Kale’s urgent voice.
But Kale had no time to look at Lee Soo-hyuk.

‘I lost sight of it for a moment!’

Kale had prepared everything with the others, but the sudden appearance of the Yellow-Haired Monster had caused him to momentarily forget.
There might not be time to use what he had prepared.

‘That cannot happen!’

Crackle. Crackle!
The beautiful monster, engulfed in dazzling golden electrical current, resembled a golden dragon.

Kuuuong—
The monster fixed its gaze on Lee Soo-hyuk, its neck rigid and stretched skyward.

“Cover your ears! All of you!”

Kale Heniatus’s voice erupted from his throat, raw and urgent.
He shouted again immediately.

“Cover your ears!”

What?
Lee Soo-hyuk hesitated for a moment at those words, then a realization struck him.

The Yellow-Haired Monster’s newly discovered ability—the power to manipulate earth.
And now, the brilliant electricity crackling around its yellow head.

One final piece.
Another power of the Yellow-Haired Monster that the commander had mentioned.

Sound.

Lee Soo-hyuk had been so mesmerized by the golden electricity that he hadn’t noticed the monster’s neck stretched rigid toward the sky.
But once he saw it, everything became clear.
The Yellow-Haired Monster had inflated its body.
It had drawn in a massive breath of air.
As if preparing to unleash a scream.

“Damn it!”

Lee Soo-hyuk’s face twisted as he frantically dropped his sword from his hand.
Simultaneously, he thrust his hand into the inner pocket of his shirt, desperately searching for earplugs.
But he realized it too late.

‘Too late!’

Lee Soo-hyuk’s eyes locked with the Yellow-Haired Monster’s.

Sssick.
Those yellow eyes curved into crescents—a sinister smile.

‘Is it laughing?’

It laughed as if mocking me, just like a human would.
From that action, I understood.

‘That bastard deliberately wrapped electricity around its body!’

It had drawn my attention to its electrical ability and acted as if it were furious, as though it were about to attack Lee Soo-hyuk.

‘But in the end!’

Its true intention was to use its sound ability.
Lee Soo-hyuk looked at one person.

At the same moment, the Yellow-Haired Monster’s mouth opened wide.

“Keeeeeeee———!”

Kale shouted at everyone to cover their ears and managed to protect his own in time by pulling out his earplugs.
But Kale realized his mistake.

“Hey, I should have prepared-!”
“…Brother!”

That’s right.
Alberu was here.
Kale lowered his head.
The Dark Tiger’s face contorted, its ears far larger than mine.

“Keeeeeeee—–!”

The Yellow-Haired Monster’s relentless shriek was no ordinary sound.
It created vibrations in the air that sent the hem of Kale’s clothes fluttering, and even with earplugs in, the sound was deafening.

“Ugh!”

Alberu’s body staggered.
Kale hastily dismounted from his back.

“Ugh!”

However, Kale Heniatus’s exhausted body swayed slightly.

‘Damn!’

Still, his condition was better than the others.

“Kugh!”
“My ears, my head—!”
“Gasp!”

Throughout the passage, Ability Users who hadn’t managed to cover their ears completely stumbled, unable to maintain their balance.
Some had blood trickling from their ears, while others clutched their heads in agony.

Most of them were completely disoriented.

‘Except for a few who would recover in seconds at minimum, most would remain in that state for several minutes at most!’

Kale Heniatus’s gaze turned toward the people positioned closest to him.

“Ugh! What a blunder—!”

Park Jin-tae staggered, clutching his ears with the hand that held his gun.

“Min-ah!”
“…Quiet.”

Bae Pureun stumbled toward Kim Min-ah, who knelt on one knee, and steadied her. Fear glistened in Bae Pureun’s eyes.

‘To think mere sound could unleash such devastating power!’

He finally understood Kim Rok-soo’s persistent warnings about the unranked monster.

‘With such a terrifying unranked monster, the Commander ensured the Blue-Haired Monster never had the chance to mount a proper attack.’

Bae Pureun squeezed his eyes shut at the sight of even Lee Soo-hyuk sitting motionless with his eyes closed, gripping his head with both hands.

“Damn it, and this happens the moment we climb up!”

Kim Gang-hun, Lee Sung-won, and Joo Ho-sik, who were ascending from the Subway Tunnel, clutched their ears.

“Sssss!”

In that instant, goosebumps erupted across Bae Pureun’s back.

“Shhht!”

In this brief moment when everyone’s senses were overwhelmed.
There was an enemy who would not miss this opening.

It was the Yellow-Haired Monster that had screamed.

“Ah!”

Bae Pureun steadied his blurred vision, fighting through the throbbing pain in his head, and looked toward one person.
He found the very one who had shouted for everyone to cover their ears.

And that person was charging alone toward the Yellow-Haired Monster.

“Ah, no…this can’t…”

This was the person who, mere moments ago, had unleashed a brilliant golden lightning strike and coughed up blood.
Seeing such a person charge recklessly at the monster alone looked perilous.

“Sssss! Sssss!”

The Yellow-Haired Monster moved swiftly, seizing the window while everyone remained disoriented.

“…Snap out of it—!”

Bae Pureun heard Kim Min-ah’s murmur. She too must be watching the Commander’s retreating figure as he charged at the monster.

Crack!
Then, Bae Pureun heard the sound of something breaking.
He could see Lee Soo-hyuk slowly, rigidly raising himself upright, his sword planted firmly in the asphalt.

Drip.
Blood trickled from Lee Soo-hyuk’s ears.
He seemed to have taken a far greater impact than Bae Pureun. After all, Lee Soo-hyuk had been positioned closest to the monster, second only to Kale and the Dark Tiger.

Lee Soo-hyuk’s tightly shut eyes slowly opened.
Fury burned in those bloodshot eyes, the capillaries burst from the blast.
Though that rage wasn’t directed at me, I found myself shuddering involuntarily.
That was the moment.

“Roooaarrr!”

With the Yellow-Haired Monster’s cry, the sound of its massive body surging forward at tremendous speed echoed through the passage.
Bae Pureun’s eyes darted toward Kim Rok-soo in alarm.
He would be charging in alone, after all.

And the moment Bae Pureun located Kim Rok-soo, he caught sight of the corners of his mouth curled upward in a smile.

‘He’s smiling?’

Before the question could escape my lips.
Kale’s gaze fixed on a single point.

It was not where the Yellow-Haired Monster stood.
His mouth fell open.

“As expected.”

With that brief murmur, he called out to someone.

“Choi Han!”

The Underground Tunnel from which the Yellow-Haired Monster had emerged.
A figure burst upward from its depths.

“Yes, Rok-soo.”

Choi Han, his ears covered, emerged from the Underground Chamber to the ground level.
And immediately drew his sword.

Screeeech—!
A glimmering black aura blazed outward in all directions with savage ferocity.

Kale Heniatus and Choi Han’s eyes met.

“You were covering your ears?”

Kale Heniatus chuckled as he spoke, and Choi Han answered with an innocent expression.

“I always listen well to what you say.”

Then Choi Han’s blade surged toward the Yellow-Haired Monster.
The black aura crashed down upon the torso covered in golden-gleaming yellow scales that crackled with electrical current.

Kwaaaaaang!
A massive explosion erupted.
Thick dust and smoke engulfed everything so completely that even Kale Heniatus could not discern the Yellow-Haired Monster’s condition.

Choi Han had unleashed his full power for a swift hunt.

“…Such power!”

Those witnessing Choi Han’s strength for the first time gasped in shock, clutching their dizzy heads and ringing ears as they scrambled backward as fast as they could.

And it was a wise decision.

“Graaaah!”

Through the cloud of dust, the colossal monster still advanced with terrifying speed.

“Damn it! A clever bastard!”

Kale Heniatus’s face twisted as rough words spilled from his lips.
He swiftly drew upon the Ancient Powers.

Choi Han’s face also contorted.

“Shhhhsss!”

The Yellow-Haired Monster summoned the earth beneath the asphalt the moment Choi Han’s assault crashed down upon it, wrapping its body in soil as though donning impenetrable armor.
Choi Han’s blade shattered that earthen carapace without hesitation.
Yet the aura, already diminished from the collision, could not inflict even the slightest scratch upon the Yellow-Haired Monster’s hardened golden scales.

The corners of Choi Han’s eyes twisted subtly.
But he had no time to linger in observation of the Yellow-Haired Monster.

“Block it!”

Kale Heniatus’s urgent voice pierced through the chaos.

Kale was right—the Yellow-Haired Monster possessed keen intellect.
Having evaded the attack, it now lunged toward the humans who remained dazed and disoriented by the shockwave.

With its maw stretched wide, the Yellow-Haired Monster’s ferocious charge cast despair across the faces of those huddled on the ground.
The moment Kale witnessed that despair in their eyes, his body moved.

‘The attack is not the issue!’

I must save these people.
Kale Heniatus, channeling the Voice of Wind, propelled himself forward with blinding speed, and the instant his feet touched the ground, he thrust one hand outward.

Whoosh!
A silver shield adorned with two wings unfurled before the people.
The unbreakable shield materialized, cutting through the mist.

‘Tch.’

Kale swallowed a silent curse within himself.

Destructive Fire. Voice of Wind. Unbreakable Shield.
Powers he could only wield at half their usual capacity, yet he had expended far more than anticipated.

A trickle.
Blood streamed from the corner of his mouth once more.
But the people, their gaze fixed upon Kale Heniatus’s back before them, did not witness the crimson flow.

Kale Heniatus himself did not see his own blood.
His eyes remained locked upon the Yellow-Haired Monster’s gaze as it bore down beyond the shield.

And the moment Kale saw those eyes, his face contorted.

The Yellow-Haired Monster was truly cunning.

Hisss.
The Yellow-Haired Monster’s eyes widened as it grinned.

In that instant, Kale realized what it had been aiming for.

Because the Yellow-Haired Monster seemed to be lunging at the people, I hadn’t properly grasped its true direction of movement.
The moment I saw the people’s eyes filled with despair before an unranked monster, memories of my days as a temple employee named Kim Rok-soo resurfaced, and I failed to notice in time.

The Yellow-Haired Monster bent its massive body in an instant.

“Sssssss!”

The Yellow-Haired Monster was now charging toward the Blue-Haired Monster, which was dying and occasionally spitting out blue blood.
The Blue-Haired Monster barely clinging to life, with no possibility of revival.
The Yellow-Haired Monster changed its direction toward where it lay.

And that massive body seemed about to reach it any moment.

Kale realized this.

‘If they merge!’

No!
If the two combined to form the true body, it would become several times stronger than now.
That was something I had to prevent at all costs.

And there were three people who had the same thought as Kale.
No—they were ones who had realized it before Kale.

Kale’s mouth opened.

“Choi Han! Kim Min-ah! Lee Soo-hyuk!”

Choi Han, and Lee Soo-hyuk and Kim Min-ah, who had regained consciousness first, were charging at the Yellow-Haired Monster from different directions.
Kale shouted further to them.

“Dodge!”

In that instant.

Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!

Golden electricity erupted from the Yellow-Haired Monster’s body, spreading outward in all directions like a spider’s web.
The tendrils of energy lashed out toward everyone attempting to strike at me.

“Ugh!”
“Argh!”

Lee Soo-hyuk and Kim Min-ah staggered backward, forced to retreat.
The weapons in their hands were a sword and a spear.
Both forged from metal.

Boom!
Only the black aura clashed directly against the golden electricity.

‘It’s breaking through!’

Choi Han seized the infinitesimal gap created as the black aura collided with the electricity and lunged forward toward the Yellow-Haired Monster.
But the Yellow-Haired Monster was faster.

Crack.

The tail of the Blue-Haired Monster, barely clinging to life, made contact with the Yellow-Haired Monster’s face.
Choi Han thrust his sword toward the Yellow-Haired Monster and shouted.

“No!”

They cannot merge together!
Urgency flooded Choi Han’s expression. Simultaneously, I felt the power of wind gathering around my ankles.
It was Kale.
Kale was using his power once more to propel me forward even further.
It was painfully obvious he was already overextending himself; at this rate, Kale might collapse.

Choi Han bit his lip and threw his full weight into the momentum carried by that wind.

Crash!
A small fissure formed where the black aura collided with the electricity.
Through that gap, Choi Han’s blade pierced out like an awl, stabbing into the yellow scales.

Thud.
As Choi Han felt his blade sink into the earth armor once more, his face twisted in anguish.

“Ah.”

In that brief moment when someone uttered a single sigh.
Everyone’s eyes widened.

“…What?”

They witnessed it.

Crack!

The Yellow-Haired Monster, who had barely managed to approach the Blue-Haired Monster using every trick in its arsenal.
People thought they were becoming one, combining their strength.
Even Kale thought so.

Crack, crackle!
The Yellow-Haired Monster bit down on the Blue-Haired Monster’s tail and yanked its body forward.
Then it devoured the Blue Monster’s head.

It began to eat.
No—it severed only the head and shoved it into its mouth.
And it chewed.

The motion was extraordinarily swift.
The Yellow-Haired Monster, without a shred of hesitation, brutally severed the head of the Blue Monster—a being that had once been one body, almost like a brother—and crammed it into its own mouth.

Roar!
And simultaneously, it began burrowing underground.

It was fleeing.

During the few seconds when people were stunned by the Yellow-Haired Monster’s savage cruelty, the creature moved with terrifying speed.

“This crazy bastard!”

Kale Heniatus dropped his shield and tried to summon another Ancient Power swiftly.
But he couldn’t.
The Yellow-Haired Monster burrowed beneath the ground while unleashing one final electrical assault.

People who had escaped the shockwave’s aftermath now pursued the Yellow-Haired Monster rapidly.
Choi Han, Lee Soo-hyuk, Kim Min-ah. And Ability Users from various regions, including Jo Min-ye.

The cunning Yellow-Haired Monster did not direct its electrical attacks toward them.

Those who had struggled through these few minutes of chaos and were only now beginning to regain their senses.
Golden currents rained down upon them like razor-sharp daggers, like hail.

“Damn it!”

Crash!
With a deafening roar, a silver shield blocked the current once more.
The impact shook the ground itself, and dust, mist, and smoke swirled together, obscuring everyone’s vision.

“Ugh!”

Kale Heniatus staggered once again.

“Commander!”

Jo Min-ye caught Kale Heniatus as he began to collapse.
Those who had regained consciousness from the shockwave latest were some of the Ability Users who had been holding the spider web.
Jo Min-ye, who had been about to deploy the web to save them, instead caught Kale Heniatus, who had faced that electricity in her stead.

“…Haa….”

Rough breathing and dark crimson blood flowed from Kale Heniatus’s lips.

“Did we… miss it!”

Then, several figures poked their heads out from the Underground Tunnel that the Yellow-Haired Monster had dug—the same tunnel where Choi Han had appeared.
They were Kang Il-rae and Park Young-hun, representatives of the Ability Users who had evacuated the people from Yeonsan Station and pursued afterward.

Jo Min-ye shot back sharply at Kang Il-rae, who asked if they’d missed it.

“We saw everything, didn’t we?”
“We only just arrived and barely caught the end of it!”

Kang Il-rae spoke urgently, then fell silent as the dust settled and the scene came into view.

People struggling to their feet, blood trickling from their ears as they regained consciousness.
A landscape ravaged by electrical attacks and torn earth.
And the massive corpse of the Blue-Haired Monster, its head severed clean off, lying cold in death.

Kang Il-rae had hurried as much as he could, but now he reproached himself for not moving faster, finally opening his mouth.

“…Sorry. If I’d known we’d miss it, I would’ve—”
“Who said we missed it?”
“…What?”

His gaze shifted to Kale Heniatus, who was being supported by Jo Min-ye.
Kang Il-rae hesitated at the sight of Kale’s pallid face bleeding, but the moment he met Kale’s eyes, his shoulders stiffened once more.

Kale’s eyes had grown cold and still, burning with the relentless intensity of a hunter.
Kale spoke slowly, deliberately.

“Missed it? Who said that?”

In that moment, everyone’s attention turned to one person.
Kale looked at the ground where the monster had vanished and spoke.

“It’s heading to Seokmyeon.”

No matter how far it fled.
No matter where it hid.
No matter how it ran.

“That’s the only place it can go.”

In the end, whether it was the monster or myself, our destination was the same.

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November 6th—the day the first unranked monster appeared.
More than a day had passed since then.

Current time: November 7th, 11 PM.
The Electric Eel monster still had not revealed itself.

Only the thick fog that blanketed the Busan area served as proof that it was still alive, lurking somewhere and waiting to strike at us.

Standing atop the Watchtower, Kale Heniatus heard Lee Soo-hyuk’s voice from behind him.

“Rok-soo. Isn’t tomorrow your birthday?”
Author’s Note

Hello.
I’m Yoo Ryeo-han, greeting you at Chapter 600—over 200 chapters multiplied by 3. ^-^

Chapter 500 feels like it was just yesterday, and now we’re already at 600!
I’m truly happy, so very happy.
Episode 700 will come soon, right? ^-^haha

These days, many things pile up on me, and countless thoughts flood my mind.
Yet whenever I sit before my monitor and face the words, those many thoughts quiet down, and thoughts about the story fill me instead.
I cannot express how grateful and thankful I am to be able to write the stories I wish to tell.
Holding this gratitude close to my heart, I intend to continue writing “I Became the Villain of the Count’s Household” with all my effort.

Sincerely, thank you for being with me.
The wonderful thing about writing an afterword is being able to convey this grateful heart like this. 🙂

I look forward to your continued support. 🙂

In this sweltering summer, please take care of your health and may your days be filled with peace and joy.

-Yoo Ryeo-han-

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