That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 107
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Chapter 107
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“Miss!”
The knight who had been restlessly anxious came running over as soon as I safely emerged from the tavern.
“Nothing happened. Calm down.”
“Yes. That’s a relief.”
Despite his answer, the knight was glaring sharply at what was behind me.
It seemed Ramus Jeremiah’s subordinates were hiding throughout the tavern, watching us.
‘Not my concern though.’
I’ve finished all my business with your master, you know?
And next time we meet, I’ll be a VVVVIP, you know?
“Let’s head straight back to the main castle.”
“Yes, miss. But about your visit here today…”
The knight, being one of Grandfather’s seasoned knights, seemed to have noticed this wasn’t an ordinary tavern.
“You don’t need to report to Grandfather. I plan to tell him directly later.”
“Ah, if that’s the case… Yes. Understood.”
That was a lie.
Grandfather would naturally know about that guild information broker’s existence, but I had no intention of telling him I’d been there.
If I get caught later, I’ll just say I happened to learn about it at Empress Carmi’s party and visited out of curiosity.
Sitting on the plush carriage seat, it was the moment the knight closed the carriage door.
[System] You have completed the Hidden Quest ‘Justice Prevails’!
[System] A hidden benefit will be granted!
“Huh?”
I blinked at the sudden appearance of text.
“Hidden Quest?”
This system window, which had always dutifully notified me of quests I needed to complete, was for the first time informing me of completing a quest I didn’t know about.
‘So that’s why it’s hidden?’
Meanwhile, the quest name was different in nature from all the previous ones.
Justice Prevails.
[System] Justice Prevails: Everything eventually returns to the right path.
“Hey. I know that too…?”
Since was an all-ages game, whenever four-character idioms appeared, interpretations would often appear below for young users.
I knew it, but it felt weird that they added it as if worried I might not know.
It felt like this system window saw me as some stupid fool.
But getting an unexpected benefit was good news anyway!
I immediately checked the hidden benefit.
[System] Hidden Benefit ‘Life is One Shot’ acquired!
[System] When you raise a specific stat by 9 or more at once, the same stat from people within a 500-meter radius will temporarily concentrate on you. (One-time use)
“…Life is One Shot?”
All the luck of people within a 500-meter radius temporarily becomes mine?
All of it?
Are they telling me to go to Gangnam and buy lottery tickets?
No, at this level, shouldn’t I go to America and play the Super Bowl?
Having such silly thoughts, I raised my head.
To raise a stat by 9 or more at once…
I called up my status window with a glance.
[System: Status Window]
Tulia Frazier (15 years old)
-Coins Held: 2 (Deposit Coins: 2,000)
-Personality: 1
-Beauty: 8
-Ability: 5
-Wealth: 0
-Luck: 1
Overall Rating: D
“Hmm.”
Previously, when I sent Viscount Lilius to his doom, I had raised my Luck Stat considerably.
Thanks to that, my overall rating had also been promoted from D- to D.
I scanned through the status window.
‘Beauty is already at 8, so I can’t exceed the maximum of 10.’
Since Tulia was originally set to be pretty.
‘Ability is already at 5, so that won’t work either.’
That was a stat I had to raise to survive.
Let’s see.
What’s left are Personality, Wealth, and Luck.
‘Somehow it feels like raising Personality to 10 would be useless.’
Unless I had coins to spare, Personality felt like a stat that didn’t need coin investment.
Especially for me, struggling with coin shortage.
Moreover.
‘Overlapping positions is definitely not good.’
This was probably due to memories from when I was Han Ina.
Mother loved me most before my younger sibling was born.
Because I was her only child.
But once she had a younger sibling with my stepfather, Mother’s attention and affection almost all flowed to the younger sibling.
I tried not to care about my much younger sibling.
Because that young sibling made me feel ugly and inferior emotions like jealousy and inadequacy.
It felt like I was becoming a vicious and pathetic minor villain.
So I hated both my sibling and myself.
‘Of course, the situation is different now.’
Even as Tulia, I wanted to distance myself from Coriko as much as possible to avoid overlap.
Just in case, I should prepare emotionally in advance.
Besides, Tulia’s only advantage is being an official villain who can say whatever she wants!
Therefore, I’m putting Personality Stats on hold!
‘In that case…’
The most appealing was the Wealth stat, but I had ways to raise this without using coins.
Also.
I had an instinctive hunch.
The wealth stat would definitely require around 100,000 coins to raise by just 1…
A hunch close to certainty.
Then what remained was, as expected, only the luck stat.
‘Life is one shot. This goes well with the luck stat too.’
Benefits had always ultimately helped me in any situation.
This time too, though it was very puzzling, I had faith that it would eventually help me.
‘But what is Ramus Jeremiah that completing the hidden quest called “justice will prevail” gets accomplished?’
Or was requesting Benjamin’s protection the goal of the hidden quest?
Justice will prevail.
Justice will prevail, huh.
I lay almost flat on the plush carriage seat and stared into space.
‘If Benjamin dies, I made sure I’d know within at least 3 hours.’
I really hoped such a situation wouldn’t come.
But if such a thing happened, even if I were in the middle of receiving a 100 billion gold diamond tiara from Grandfather, I would have to rush straight to the Sorsen Kingdom.
‘I did put in a special clause asking them to steal Benjamin’s corpse and deliver it to me if possible.’
That was literally a condition to do it ‘if possible.’
After all, stealing the bloodline of a kingdom, especially a corpse that hadn’t been dead long, was an almost impossible attempt even for the head of a great information guild.
Ramus Jeremiah seemed to see me as a crazy person obsessed with black magic, but that was a minor issue.
Rather than that.
“Miss. Since you’ve become a big spender, shall I do you a special favor?”
After concluding the contract, what Ramus Jeremiah said to my back as I was about to leave bothered me much more.
“You’re naturally planning to return to the Grand Duchy leisurely, right? Staying at the finest inns in every village you stop by, visiting the castles of friendly lords and receiving proper hospitality.”
“Are you jealous?”
“Knights, after all, fear their master lady getting into trouble from pushing too hard a schedule.”
I briefly wondered if he was going to send assassins.
“It would be best to return to the Grand Duchy as quickly as possible. I just obtained information that your tremendous enemy is coming there.”
You were just talking with me until now…?
Setting aside my puzzled feelings.
My most tremendous enemy?
Ramus Jeremiah was definitely not someone who would speak nonsense.
As proof, I tried using Tulia’s signature ‘Horror Eye Widening’ that would make anyone with a heart flinch.
But Ramus Jeremiah only flinched slightly without erasing the smile on his lips.
Then it must be real.
“Lady Tulia.”
The carriage slowed down a bit, then I heard knocking on the window.
When I drew back the curtains and opened the window, a knight leaned close and asked.
“If we go a little further, we’ll reach the castle of Hobron Territory.”
“Hobron? Ah. One of Grandfather’s retainers?”
“Yes. Count Bron personally came out and urgently sent a messenger saying he wants to host you. What would you like to do?”
“…Host?”
The Hobron Count family was famous for having a head chef with tremendous skills…
Even a former Imperial Palace head chef.
Thanks to being able to make even luxurious royal cuisine, all the nobles of the Grand Duchy knew that head chef was Count Hobron’s pride.
I swallowed my saliva.
‘It would be delicious…’
They wouldn’t think I’d just pass by.
Both Count Hobron and that head chef.
They must already be grinding their teeth preparing food.
‘They must be trying to serve beef steak with a sizzling surface… They’re probably boiling mussels with tomato sauce… They might even be preparing large fish wrapped and grilled in big leaves…’
Having rushed from the Imperial Capital to the Grand Duchy, I hadn’t had a proper meal.
I desperately wanted to stop by a village, even briefly, enter a restaurant and taste some warm stew.
“It would be best to return to the Grand Duchy as quickly as possible. I just obtained information that your tremendous enemy is coming there.”
Ramus Jeremiah’s words bothered me so much that I just kept going.
Thanks to that, I was endlessly heading toward the Grand Duchy, chewing on jerky, water, and bread soaked in milk – the kind of food knights eat during wartime – inside the carriage.
But this time too, I swallowed my tears and said.
“We don’t have time, so politely decline saying I’ll visit next time. I need to get to the main castle quickly.”
“Understood, Miss.”
“Yeah. Sorry for the trouble. Please take care of it.”
The knight, whose eyes widened slightly, hurriedly bowed his head.
“Not at all. I’ll do my best.”
Having completely sealed the carriage window, I leaned back on the seat again and opened my pouch.
The bread I had prepared from the Imperial Capital was already dried and hardened on the outside.
Still, because I was hungry, I tore off the hard bread and shoved it into my mouth.
Chew chew chew.
This is soy sauce garlic chicken.
Chew chew chew.
This is kimchi fried rice.
Chew chew chew.
This is a cream cheese bagel.
“…So this is how the Little Match Girl felt.”
After all this, Ramus Jeremiah.
‘If you played me, you’re dead.’
It won’t end with just dying.
That’s when it happened.
This time the carriage slowed down completely and stopped.
Knock knock.
“Miss?”
When I opened the carriage door, a knight stood there breathing somewhat heavily.
“What’s wrong?”
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