That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 119

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Chapter 119

And two intensely focused eyes carefully observing Belladonna.

“…Marquis?”

Belladonna’s voice trembled pitifully. Sorrowful tears welled up in her eyes as she looked up at the Marquis.

‘My goodness, my goodness.’

No matter how desperate she was for a lifeline, still.

With Nigella right there beside her, was it really okay to look at Marquis Aster with those eyes?

However.

The Marquis shattered Belladonna’s expectations in a different way entirely.

“Max.”

“Yes, Marquis.”

“Retrieve those shoes as well.”

“…!”

“Those shoes were also all sent to Tulia, yet she’s still shamelessly wearing them.”

In an instant, everyone’s gaze focused on Belladonna and Sandra’s shoes.

Shoes decorated with diamonds and finished with velvet, clearly looking extremely expensive at first glance.

Marquis Aster spoke in a cold voice.

“While the dress had to be reluctantly taken off and handed over, were you planning to secretly steal and wear just the shoes when you left? Miss Belson?”

‘So that’s why she had changed into such a plain dress.’

No, to be precise, she would have been ordered to change.

By Marquis Aster Frazier.

While I glanced at him briefly, Belladonna Mertung spoke in a noticeably more respectful and frightened tone.

“All the other dresses have been sent to the young lady’s quarters. I’m truly sorry for deceiving you all this time.”

I looked down at those beautiful dresses for a moment.

The lace fluttered like butterfly wings, and the countless ribbons attached to the center were soft silk with pearls and diamonds embedded in them.

Precious works that the noble ladies and ladies who attended Sandra’s birthday party had praised endlessly.

The gifts that should have originally come to me, that Marquis Aster had supposedly sent.

What would it have been like originally?

“I don’t even want to put on my body dresses that some former mistress wore, so go and add them to your meager household. It might be the last designer work you wear in your lifetime, you know?”

-I might have moved my devilish mouth with words like that.

No, if it were Tulia, she definitely would have.

But the atmosphere in this meeting room was very solemn, and I felt an unusual moisture in the twins’ expressions as they watched me, so I said nothing.

The twins wouldn’t have known that I was being embezzled of my support money.

They would have learned for the first time at today’s trial.

How poorly I had grown up.

Since I had never asked them, who always went around without lacking anything, why Father only took care of my older brothers.

Because if I asked such things, it might sound like I was being argumentative.

So at first, I was afraid that their affection level, which I had to raise desperately and dutifully, would drop.

Yes.

Because I was always like that.

I silently stared at the things placed before me.

The dresses didn’t particularly catch my eye.

The other jewelry was the same.

Just…

Only the rose vine with green diamonds that Belladonna Mertung had stepped on firmly and asked to be picked up kept catching my attention like something stuck in my eye.

‘Looking at it this way, it seems to resemble the color of my eyes.’

This too was something Marquis Aster had sent, so it must have been confiscated from Belladonna Mertung.

Then did he remember the color of my eyes when he sent it?

But how strange.

I felt no emotion, no moisture, not even proper disappointment.

It was eerily strange.

Just, the moment I saw Marquis Aster Frazier.

The bitter cold winter wind that began to settle in a corner of my heart seemed to indifferently freeze the whirlwind of my emotions.

“The surface of the green diamond is scratched.”

Perhaps because of that, my voice that flowed out was also cold and heartless beyond measure.

Depending on how you heard it, it could sound like a calculating voice.

But no one pointed out that fact or showed disappointment. At least not in this meeting room.

Only Belladonna Mertung cried out in startled surprise.

“How can a diamond get scratched?! Lady Tulia, such slander is…!”

“I don’t mean the diamond itself is scratched, but that the golden ornaments on the border are damaged. Gold is soft, you know.”

I looked down at Belladonna Mertung, whose cheeks had become hollow in just a day or two, and said.

“At Sandra’s birthday party, the Countess did step firmly on this green diamond with her foot. The jewelry must have been severely damaged then.”

“…!”

Belladonna hurriedly protested with a face pale as a fly.

“As soon as I return home, no, no! Within half a year, I’ll properly inlay it with gold again! For me to make such a mistake…!”

“Yes, Tulia! This uncle will take responsibility and compensate you! Don’t be too angry!”

Those who had treated me endlessly rudely suddenly changed their attitude like this.

When I said nothing, their faces gradually turned ashen.

The eyes that looked back and forth between me and Marquis Aster even held desperation.

“What use is it now to say you’ll take responsibility and compensate?”

A voice that fell coldly from the highest seat in this meeting room.

It was Grandfather.

“Even a mudworm from the tidal flats would have more dignity than you. Nigella Frazier.”

“F-Father…!”

Nigella, whose complexion had turned corpse-like, was rather composed.

Because Belladonna and Sandra couldn’t even dare to make eye contact with Grandfather and trembled all over.

“I gave birth to a thief.”

“F-Father…! That’s not it. It’s not like that…!”

“Shut your mouth!”

Grandfather shouted in anger.

His darkly tinted dark green eyes moved toward Belladonna Mertung.

“If you were human, a noble, and direct lineage of the Grand Ducal House bearing the Frazier name, you wouldn’t have dared to live with a vulgar mistress while abandoning your legitimate wife.”

Though she heard the derogatory term ‘vulgar mistress’ to her face, Belladonna could only tremble and didn’t dare to protest.

“Well, what’s the point of arguing now. It’s just a thief meeting another thief.”

“F-Father…”

“I’m ashamed that something like you is my son. Such utterly vulgar creatures…”

“…!”

Nigella Frazier’s eyes widened as much as they possibly could.

Family heads, especially those of great noble houses, don’t easily speak such words.

No matter how angry they are.

Grandfather was the same.

In other words, Grandfather’s words just now meant.

‘It’s a notice of title stripping or territory confiscation.’

Or possibly both.

Whatever it was, it would be the beginning of a nightmare for Nigella and Belladonna Mertung.

As evidence of this, Nigella and Belladonna were now even breaking out in cold sweat.

“Go out and await your punishment. Nigella Frazier. And you as well. You are confined.”

“…!”

Sandra, who knew all too well what House Frazier’s confinement entailed through me, trembled violently.

But neither Belladonna nor Nigella could comfort their daughter as they had before.

Their faces had only turned ashen.

After they left the meeting room following the servants.

Silence lingered for a moment.

Assis Grand Duke Frazier, Grandfather.

Marquis Aster Frazier. Tulia’s father.

And even the twins.

All the Fraziers’ gazes were focused on me.

Since they said nothing, I decided to focus on what was in front of me for now.

It was documents stacked as thick as the two folded dresses.

‘What is this?’

The moment I started flipping through the documents.

“They embezzled quite thoroughly.”

Marquis Aster Frazier’s voice rang in my ears.

I reflexively looked up at him, saw his cold green eyes that looked exactly like Tulia’s, and lowered my gaze again.

So this is everything.

All the money for my upbringing that Nigella had been siphoning off?

Even the jewels, dresses, and other luxury items recorded throughout….

‘How much is all this? Is this much money even possible?’

Perhaps because my Dexterity Stat had improved, I was now capable of speed reading. As I flipped through the papers quickly, my eyes suddenly stopped on one page.

-Embezzled Item 19902: Reply from Lysian Academy

-Also secretly collected the letters that Lisian Frazier had sent from the Academy

-No reason given

-Took them thinking they were money, then threw them away upon realizing they were letters

-Tulia Frazier was unable to read the letters

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