That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 140
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Chapter 140
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“First Young Master, have you arrived?”
Max bowed his head respectfully toward Lisian.
As if boasting of their influential family’s power, news that the Frazier twins had departed for Belus Territory had already been delivered to Tulia’s knights several hours ago.
“I heard that Leon Young Master will arrive after briefly stopping by another territory. Was your journey comfortable, Young Master Lisian?”
Snow-white gloves. A neatly tailored suit. Silver tassels symbolizing noble status swayed in the sunlight above his straight shoulders. Not a speck of dust was on the tips of his polished shoes.
“Where… is she?”
A voice that only remained steady when calling out a few specific names.
“Tulia.”
His voice was calm and quiet as he called the name of his younger sister, who was one of those few and perhaps occupied the most important portion of Lisian’s life. As always.
“The young lady is in her bedroom. She’s been working hard these past few days and is finally getting some rest.”
“About the forest land development… I heard about it.”
“Yes. The young lady was more enthusiastic than expected, no, beyond imagination. Moreover, it seemed like she had run countless simulations in her head. The progress speed is truly remarkable.”
“Does Tulia… have some helper we don’t know about?”
“I wouldn’t know about that. She hasn’t said anything about it.”
“I see.”
“Are you planning to ask the young lady about it separately?”
Lisian looked up at the sky once. His answer was brief.
“No.”
“Then…”
“Wouldn’t it be rather terrible… for an older brother to try to dig into… his younger sister’s secrets?”
Max couldn’t help but smile.
“That’s true.”
Thud, thud.
The sound of the finest shoes walking straight across the corridor was elegant and rhythmic.
The dignity of a noble young master who was guaranteed all sorts of blessings from the moment of birth—noble bloodline and beauty, tremendous wealth and power, great status—naturally emanated from even such trivial things as the sound of his footsteps.
The owner of those refined steps only stopped in front of Tulia’s bedroom.
His white-gloved hand knocked on the door carved from zelkova wood a couple of times, but there was no response.
Following the gentleman’s etiquette tattooed in his brain like a tattoo, Lisian gazed once at the maid guarding the door.
That gaze was a silent command.
The maid hurriedly bowed her head, entered the room, and came out immediately.
“The young lady is sleeping, Young Master.”
“On the bed?”
It was too ambiguous a time for that.
“No, First Young Master. She’s sleeping with her head down on the desk…”
“I see.”
Due to his innate imperfection, Lisian was a man of few words. Short and concise.
Lisian lightly dismissed the maid and Max with one hand and entered Tulia’s bedroom.
Belus Castle was different from Frazier’s main castle. It had once prospered, but that was hundreds of years ago, and when the surrounding land was abandoned, the castle was abandoned with it.
An abandoned castle where the Grand Ducal House’s most beloved granddaughter was sleeping.
Even that felt like hearing a secret fairy tale that shouldn’t be told, passed down through oral tradition.
Lisian moved his steps inward.
His deliberately muffled footsteps stopped behind Tulia’s back.
It was exactly as the maid had said.
Tulia was sleeping with her head down on a large, old desk that exuded a unique antiquated elegance as subtle as death.
Her two arms were draped in a circle around a crystal vase, as if treasuring it at the center.
Perhaps due to the composition, those slender arms also looked like castle walls protecting the vase.
The peculiar thing was that nothing was placed in that vase.
The crystal vase had beautiful and delicate patterns carved in relief, but that was all.
It was certainly not something the Grand Duke’s legitimate granddaughter would cherish so dearly.
Lisian quietly looked down at the pink hair scattered across the desk.
Long and abundant, that pale-colored hair that swayed like beautiful bubbles in a boiling teapot.
Hair of such a delicate color that it seemed almost unreal when midday sunlight passed through it…
If there was something different from ‘that time,’ it was that years had passed and he had grown so tall.
However.
If there was something the same as ‘that time,’ it was that the woman Lisian had loved most on this entire continent had also been…
Sleeping with her head down on a desk, just like this.
Exactly like this.
With the same pink hair as Tulia hanging down.
Embracing an empty vase just like Tulia, as if treasuring it in her arms.
“…Mother.”
The fact that she was sleeping so deeply that she didn’t notice Lisian’s approach and continued to be lost in slumber.
The fact that even that appearance was so beautiful and sublime like a painting floating on paint that this silver-haired noble young master said nothing and simply waited for her to wake up.
Ah.
He almost missed one thing.
The fact that now the woman before his eyes was the only woman Lisian loved most on this entire continent.
He quietly moved his gaze.
When his twin still couldn’t let go of his hostility toward Tulia.
Back then, Leon hadn’t hated Tulia. He had hated their mother who abandoned them and left.
He had simply loved her that much.
Lisian quietly gazed at the last warmth left behind by their dead mother.
Because he was a man of few words, because he stuttered, because of his personality.
Because he had learned that it was a gentleman’s duty never to pry into a lady’s secrets.
Young Lisian had never asked his mother back then either.
“Why do you take naps embracing an empty vase whenever Father is away?”
And how Tulia, who hadn’t had time to build a proper bond with their mother, had inherited their mother’s peculiar and strange habit exactly.
Why the empty crystal vase that light passed through seemed to shimmer faintly with mysterious rainbow colors, as if expensive preservation magic had been cast on it.
Whether all of this was merely his delusion or fantasy.
Or some unknown mystery of the world.
Lisian thought about waking Tulia to ask, but worried it might trouble her.
“…”
He simply smiled quietly. A dimple formed faintly on his handsome cheek.
This exemplary noble young master, who received such trust and affection from all the Academy professors like a tidal wave that he was unrivaled, began unbuttoning his shirt one by one from the collar.
Lisian silently removed his jacket and covered Tulia’s shoulders with it, then sat down on the sofa a few steps away, leaning against the back.
Like tulips blooming in spring sunlight, embracing all the sweet colors of the world.
The time spent waiting for his younger sister to wake up was not boring at all.
The time spent watching her temperamental habit of tossing and turning in her sleep and kicking the desk was amusingly quite entertaining.
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[System] Item ‘White Tulip Seeds’ has bloomed!
[System] Item ‘White Tulip Seeds’ can now be planted!
[System] Item ‘White Tulip Seeds’ and item ‘Rainbow Fertilizer’ interact to create synergy effects!
[System] Synergy effect: Full bloom probability increased by 20,000%!
‘Yes!’
I excitedly scattered the seeds.
No, to be precise, I was grinning from ear to ear watching the Territory Residents diligently sowing the seeds.
Honestly, I wanted to dance too, but I held back since I’m supposed to be a lady.
“Miss, what are those seeds?”
“White Tulip Seeds.”
“White tulips?”
“What are those?”
“That’s what I want to know.”
Grans and Max looked at each other with puzzled expressions.
Hmm, well, such things exist.
“You guys better look forward to it. Yeah. If there’s anything you want, make a list in advance.”
“…?”
“…?”
I learned on the first day that the items ‘Rainbow Fertilizer’ and ‘White Tulip Seeds’ were invisible to others.
So I was a bit despairing.
If others couldn’t see them, I would have to personally scatter the White Tulip Seeds across that vast Forest Land.
Moreover, the white tulip flower was mysteriously shaped exactly like a tulip.
It might be different if it were like a sunflower that spits out countless seeds. But tulips aren’t flowers that produce seeds so abundantly, are they?
‘No, in the game you just plant one and it grows on its own.’
Thinking about it, that was just game mechanics.
If I used such magic here, this place already has rumors about being Abandoned Land and whatnot, so I might be mistaken for some devious sorcerer.
It was then that the System Window sparkled as I was pondering what to do.
[System] Would you like to bloom item ‘White Tulip Seeds’?
[System] Upon acceptance, gain 1 million White Tulip Seeds!
‘Kim Ddongbyeol, you know what?’
You made me experience both the bitter and the sweet together.
The method to bloom White Tulip Seeds was simple.
Place a vase in a sunny spot, put the White Tulip Seeds inside, and sleep for half a day.
As a result of completing the quest, that night I obtained an enormous amount of White Tulip Seeds.
Most importantly, one of my worries – that White Tulip Seeds were invisible to others – was also resolved then.
‘Because the White Tulip Seeds obtained this way were visible to others too.’
I found out in the morning when the maid who came to help Sosse with grooming showed curiosity upon seeing the piled-up White Tulip Seeds.
In other words, I could assign additional work to the Territory Residents I had hired for Forest Land development!
‘From now on, Kim Ddongbyeol and I are one body.’
I looked at the beautiful Kim Ddongbyeol, whom I used to dream of smashing daily, with reverence, then suddenly tilted my head.
‘But, it seems to have grown a bit… is it just my imagination?’
Because Poop Star, who always floated around me like a small shooting star, seemed to have grown a little.
‘Am I mistaken?’
I was frowning and staring at Kim Ddongbyeol for just a moment.
“Hey! Tulia Frazier!”
A familiar voice rang out loudly from far away.
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