That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 104
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Chapter 104
I sat down in front of the guild boss… No, the head of the Information Guild and smiled brightly.
“You’re speaking casually?”
“…”
Yes, a battle of wills.
The setting is that Tulia doesn’t lose in battles of wills even against her mistress Coriko.
“As you can see, am I not much older than you? I’m almost the same age as your grandfather…”
“Same age?”
I chuckled.
“You’re only twenty-four. Same age, you say.”
Our grandfather isn’t that young, you know?
The head laughed and said.
“Twenty-four? You must be talking about my grandson. That child is exactly twenty-four, but how do you know even my family tree?”
“Talking nonsense about a grandson.”
I looked at the head’s silver hair cut in a sharp bob and laughed.
“You’re unmarried yet going on about some damn grandson.”
“Unmarried?”
The head shrugged as if hearing an amusing joke.
“Unfortunately, I married decades ago.”
“You’ve been without a lover for decades then.”
“My. How could a woman with a husband have a lover?”
“Right.”
I didn’t back down and drove the point home.
“It’s possible since you’re not even a woman.”
But the head wasn’t flustered at all.
“I heard the direct line Miss of House Frazier has a shitty personality, but should I strip and show you my underwear for you to believe me on our first meeting?”
It was a cheeky remark, but listening carefully, I could tell.
His tone was gradually becoming more polite unlike at first, and his gaze was definitely growing sharper.
Then what reaction would he show if he heard the next story?
“Oh right. You haven’t told anyone your real name, have you? Ramus.”
“Ramus?”
The head burst into loud laughter.
“If you’re going to keep talking nonsense and playing detective, wouldn’t it be better for the young lady of House Frazier to head back now?”
“Hmm. Should I?”
Contrary to my words, I finally took off the robe I’d been wearing the whole time. My vision cleared and I felt much better than before.
I spoke in a voice as sweet as my improved mood.
“Ramus Jeremiah. Nice to meet you?”
“…”
“The alias you use among people is Raimi, right? Well chosen. Since it’s a name mixed with lies.”
The head of the Information Guild.
Raimi, no, Ramus Jeremiah’s mouth finally closed.
That’s right.
There’s no one in this world who can win a battle of wills against Tulia.
That was the same even for Ramus Jeremiah, the head of this world’s greatest Information Guild.
“Jeremiah is from a slave family, right?”
“…”
“If that’s revealed, even as the Information Guild head, you’d face many difficulties.”
As I spoke, I glanced at his left hand. Those spaces between his fingers must be full of poison needles, right?
If I made a wrong move, they’d pierce straight into my neck and I’d die instantly.
But I knew he would absolutely never attack me.
“You must have already obtained the information that I’m Grand Duke Frazier’s precious treasure. You know, right?”
“…”
“That if you kill me, the Information Guild business will be completely destroyed.”
No matter how great the underworld people are, they pick their targets carefully before messing with them.
For example, the Imperial Family.
And the Grand Duke Frazier House.
“Now then, could you please remove that pathetic disguise? When making a deal, we should at least see each other’s proper faces while talking.”
“…Ha.”
He definitely muttered a curse under his breath.
Ramus Jeremiah abruptly pulled off his wig.
As if he’d cast magic, the wrinkles on his face instantly disappeared and even his build seemed to change.
Where a sharp-looking grandmother had definitely been sitting, now sat a twenty-four-year-old young man.
That’s right.
This is Ramus Jeremiah’s true appearance.
One of the people Coriko absolutely had to win over to bring down Tulia.
In , Ramus Jeremiah helped Coriko with this and that.
In other words, Ramus was a top-grade card with infinite uses.
So this time, for me!
For Tulia!
I planned to make him do this and that!
“Tulia Frazier.”
“Address me properly.”
“Miss Tulia Frazier.”
“Yes.”
“Did a noble young lady come to threaten me about my lowly bloodline?”
It was a sarcastic tone. And eyes filled with strong wariness.
Well, if I were him, I’d probably be wary too, wondering what the hell this person was.
But.
‘We’re the same kind. You don’t know that, do you?’
I’m also a slave to the system, you see. Tearfully so.
I decided to ease his wariness somewhat for now.
“Ramus Jeremiah.”
“…”
“Since you’re the head of the Information Guild, you must already know this information?”
“…What information?”
“The information that I too was in a position of being looked down upon at the Grand Duke’s Main Castle until recently.”
Seeing no particular reaction to those words, he apparently already knew.
‘He really is impressive.’
On one hand, I thought I’d need to clean house among the Grand Duchy’s servants when I returned.
I sighed inwardly.
Why was there so much to do?
What exactly had Viscount Lilius and Aubrey been doing all this time?
They were always showing off about everything, yet they’d been having internal information stolen by a mere Information Guild head.
‘Pathetic people.’
“Then what did you come all the way here for?”
“Why would I come? I came to buy information.”
“What information are you looking to buy?”
He got straight to the point.
Though I was surprised and flustered, it was indeed a swift topic change befitting the head of an information guild.
As someone who couldn’t stay here long, this attitude was much more welcome to me.
I placed both elbows on the desk and rested my chin on them. Then I tilted my chin slightly.
That’s right. The meeting hall act had begun once again.
“The life and death of Sorsen Kingdom’s youngest prince, Benjamin Fluas.”
“…That prince is currently alive.”
Well, I know that.
He did attend the Empress’s tea party, after all.
Covering his face somehow, sitting at the lowest seat.
So the information I really came to buy was something else.
“To be specific, the ‘daily’ life and death of Benjamin Fluas.”
“…Daily?”
“Yes. If he dies, you need to inform me within at least 3 hours. That’s the information I want to buy.”
I still have an unused benefit remaining.
[System] ‘Master of Life’ Benefit: Can revive a dead male protagonist once only (One-time use)
Actually, I still didn’t know who this benefit was meant to save.
‘I originally thought it might be Ferdinand.’
No matter how I thought about it, he wasn’t someone who would die anytime soon.
He already had tremendous divine power flowing through his body and was an outstanding genius himself.
And returning from the battlefield with distinguished service was also a setting from .
What I was worried about was Benjamin, whose bones were broken because of me.
I couldn’t immediately deal with or eliminate those nasty-looking brothers of his.
If they brought up today’s incident to torment Benjamin further and he ended up dying.
Where would my A-grade go?
And where would my life go?
Moreover….
Before being a male protagonist, seeing that already skinny boy smile even while being beaten was pitiful.
Ferdinand at least had the title of ‘Crown Prince’, but Benjamin somehow made me keep thinking he might really die.
“Hmm.”
In the meantime, it seemed his organizing and calculating were roughly finished, as Ramus Jeremiah opened his mouth.
“So the information you want to buy isn’t one-time but ongoing information. What’s the timeframe?”
“3 years.”
“Quite long. Then what about the compensation estimate?”
“You should quote it, shouldn’t I have to?”
Making a customer do the calculating.
When I bared my teeth and growled, Ramus Jeremiah subtly pulled his body back.
After clearing his throat, he flicked his abacus and answered.
“The compensation would be 10 billion gold.”
“Are you insane?”
10 billion? He wants me to pay 10 billion?
“Give me a discount.”
“That’s not possible. We need to dispatch capable personnel to both Sorsen Kingdom and the Grand Ducal House, and that cost isn’t trivial.”
“Give me a discount on the condition that I’ll never reveal your top secret forever.”
“It seems you want to gain the upper hand in this deal using my secret as leverage, precious young lady of House Frazier?”
Ramus Jeremiah said with a cold, sly smile.
“Even if an information guild like this collapses once, we can just start anew. We can just rebuild it.”
Listening quietly, I raised an eyebrow slightly.
“Really?”
And I stood up from my seat.
“Then that won’t work. 10 billion is excessive by anyone’s standards.”
“Is the deal off?”
“No?”
I turned to look at Ramus Jeremiah and smiled brightly.
“From now on, I’m going to use all of the Grand Ducal House’s personnel to post wanted posters with your real name.”
“…!”
“I’ll make sure your face and name are known throughout the entire continent within 3 days, okay?”
Ramus Jeremiah, who had been wearing a leisurely expression, shot up from his seat. Finally, the moment when that annoying mask was stripped away.
“Are you joking?!”
“Joking? I’m Tulia Frazier. Does it seem like a joke? Or do you think I can’t do it?”
“Miss Frazier!”
“Don’t raise your voice higher than mine.”
“…You have a terribly bad personality, just as the information we collected indicated.”
“Yeah. I’m a total piece of trash.”
When I readily accepted this without showing any sign of anger, now Ramus Jeremiah started grinding his teeth.
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