That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 172
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Chapter 172
That’s why it was cynicism.
By not placing his mother’s apology even in a corner of his heart, no, by thinking he wouldn’t.
Ferdinand thought that no one could hurt him.
As a child, he always mocked and sneered at others, looking down on all those who saw him as a ‘pitiful child’.
He tried to look down on them.
But Ferdinand didn’t know.
He was slowly crumbling inside.
And on the day he heard Olivia’s apology, everything had completely collapsed.
He was too young to realize that his heart was being torn to irreparable shreds.
Though he had vaguely come to understand those countless scars now that he was of age, what did such things matter at this point?
They didn’t matter at all.
They were of no use at all.
Ferdinand gave a curt greeting to the Emperor, who was coughing incessantly, and headed to the Crown Prince Palace.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
“We greet Your Highness.”
After his return, he had replaced the servants of the Crown Prince Palace.
He deliberately left some of the spies the Empress had planted, but their attitude was different from before.
They trembled and couldn’t even dare to make eye contact with him.
Ferdinand didn’t spare them a single glance. The place he headed to was none other than the warehouse of the Crown Prince Palace.
A large warehouse where precious tributes were stored.
The warehouse that had originally been empty was now filled to the brim with treasures.
But what was stored in the innermost part…
Were hundreds of different dyes contained in small crystal bottles.
Not a single color was duplicated.
“…”
Ferdinand pressed his cold hand against his swollen cheek.
After the triumph ceremony was completely over, his engagement with Sophia Frazier would end.
The annulment decree had already been completed.
Since it was a decree made due to Sophia insulting the Crown Prince to his face, neither the Emperor nor the Empress could reverse it.
However.
Ferdinand wanted power.
The power to kick out Dave, who had been Tulia Frazier’s first dance partner, and to speak of annulment directly to Sophia Frazier on the spot without having to mention any decree.
He realized it today after being slapped.
Despite returning with tremendous achievements, he was still nothing more than a monster or a cripple.
He needed greater power.
The power to have what he wanted.
The hundreds of colors that sparkled brilliantly under the crystal lamp were thousands of times more dreamlike than staring blankly at the night sky while standing guard.
Late that night.
“Has His Highness the Crown Prince’s fever gone down?”
“No. It’s actually getting worse.”
The lights of the Crown Prince Palace did not go out. The palace physician on duty and numerous servants moved about busily.
This was because Ferdinand, the master of the palace, had suddenly fallen ill with a high fever.
The priests who constantly attended Ferdinand looked worriedly at the tightly closed bedroom.
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“That damn mutt did quite an admirable job.”
Assis Grand Duke Frazier.
He spoke while surveying the interrogation room with heavy eyes.
This was an interrogation room quite far from Frazier Grand Duchy.
This space was specially designed as an underground interrogation room built beneath the ground.
To enter here, one had to go through a complex route, so very few people knew of this interrogation room’s existence.
And Assis Grand Duke Frazier wasn’t the only one who had come here.
Marquis Aster, his eldest son and Tulia’s father, was also with him.
He thought he had misheard what Assis Grand Duke had just muttered and asked again.
“Did you just say mutt?”
“Yes. Mutt.”
That Roschva bloodline who would scream that he’d die if he wasn’t stuck right next to Tulia, then suddenly transformed into a small mutt.
He was referring to Klaus, the prince of the Lupinus Kingdom.
The Grand Duke and Marquis turned their gazes together to look ahead.
Those unidentified heretic priests who had been offering children as human sacrifices when Tulia went to obtain the white tulip seeds.
Tulia had said to keep three of them alive, and her faithful subordinates had dutifully followed her orders.
With their tongues bound so they couldn’t bite them off, they had been moved to this underground interrogation room under the Grand Duke’s command.
It had been a long interrogation and brutal torture.
Two who couldn’t endure the torture eventually died, and only one survived.
But they had extracted almost all the information they could.
Assis Grand Duke muttered.
“We’ll need to increase soldiers throughout the entire Grand Duchy. Strengthen security and public safety, with protecting children fifteen years old and under as the top priority.”
“Yes, Your Grace the Grand Duke.”
They had been kidnapping only children fifteen years old and under to offer them to their own god ‘Animus’.
The reason they had specifically performed human sacrifice in the cave of Belus Territory that day was because they had received an oracle.
Since they were fanatics with half-crazed eyes, it was impossible to know if it was real, but then again, precisely because they were fanatics, they probably wouldn’t lie while invoking their god.
Moreover, they had interrogated all three separately, and their answers all matched completely.
“So, what did your god promise to give you?”
The fanatic, whose limbs were already mangled, hung limply unable to say anything.
Assis Grand Duke stroked his chin and asked.
“This continent already has a god to worship. Even if your so-called god truly exists, it would be nothing more than a mere demon right now. No matter how much you worship it, wouldn’t it take ten thousand years to barely become a god?”
Assis Grand Duke remembered something his wife had once told him.
That even lowly creatures could eventually gain divine power if worshipped for a long time.
That such a belief existed on the Summer Continent.
It was a question he threw out on a whim, remembering those words.
“What would ignorant fools like you know?”
As if properly provoked by those words, the fanatic’s seemingly dead eyes suddenly gleamed with an eerie light.
“You who live clinging to the mere shell of a god who has already lost power! Lowly, ignorant, pitiful creatures! Lord Animus will truly descend and chew your flesh and swallow your blood!”
“Your Grace the Grand Duke.”
As if breaking Assis’s contemplation, his son’s voice was heard.
“This bastard still seems able to talk, so may I ask one more thing?”
“Do as you please.”
As soon as permission was granted, Marquis Aster gestured to his subordinate with his chin. When the unconscious fanatic awakened, the Marquis asked.
“If you’re going to obtain sacrifices, you should do it in your Summer Continent. Why are you committing such acts in the Spring Continent?”
In that moment, Grand Duke Assis’s eyes gleamed sharply. It was something he hadn’t thought of.
The fact that these people were definitely from the Summer Continent was already a matter Klaus had verified.
“You… Summer Continent?”
However.
“Spring Continent… Summer Continent… What else? Autumn and Winter? No matter how you divide and rank them… the Spring Continent will end up the same anyway…”
The heretic, who had drunk nearly twenty bottles of truth serum and was on the verge of death, let out a chuckling laugh with his eyes completely unfocused.
“Foolish bastards… It’s just an extinct continent anyway…”
At those words, Grand Duke Assis’s expression turned sharp.
‘Woman of the extinct continent.’
It reminded him of what Tulia had told him about hearing such words from the heretics in the cave.
But further interrogation was impossible.
The heretic, foaming at the mouth, collapsed unconscious. It was a side effect of the truth serum. Soon after, his breathing stopped completely.
“Your Grace.”
Marquis Aster, who had risen from his seat, turned to look at the Grand Duke.
“It doesn’t seem like this will only happen in Belus Territory, that is, the Grand Duchy. Children exist throughout the entire continent, don’t they?”
“Right. If they want to kidnap, they can kidnap as many as they want and use them for human sacrifice.”
“Then for now, we should inform the Emperor as well, and also…”
Grand Duke Assis frowned deeply.
“We’ll inevitably have to inform the Temple as well. Only the Temple can devise means to protect the entire Spring Continent.”
“Yes.”
No matter how much it’s for security purposes or protection, what ruler would welcome foreign knights and soldiers roaming around their land?
It would be absolutely unwelcome to anyone except the Temple’s Holy Knights.
They needed to send people to the Imperial Palace and the Grand Temple, and also organize detailed accounts of this incident to send as a secret official document.
Since he didn’t want to unnecessarily involve his granddaughter, he would appropriately fabricate it so that Marquis Aster had discovered the cave instead…
Just as the two men were about to leave that place, each thinking about what they needed to do.
Marquis Aster stopped abruptly.
It wasn’t a quiet stop, but an unnatural halt, like a horse that had been running suddenly screeching to a stop.
“What’s wrong?”
“…Please wait a moment, Your Grace.”
“…?”
Marquis Aster immediately approached the dead heretic. Not maintaining a proper distance for interrogation like before, but very close, as if he intended to touch the body.
The subordinates positioned around them moved in confusion, but the Grand Duke raised his hand to stop them.
Marquis Aster roughly grabbed the heretic’s chin with his gloved hand. Blood soaked the black gloves and dripped down, but he paid no attention to it.
In an instant.
Marquis Aster’s other hand grabbed the hair near the heretic’s crown and roughly pulled it out.
Like a farmer pulling radishes from a field, it was a force without hesitation.
It wasn’t just any random spot either. The human head. Right at its center.
Hair roughly pulled out by Marquis Aster’s grip scattered to the floor.
“…?”
And on the heretic’s exposed scalp was.
“…!”
Marquis Aster’s eyes widened. He unconsciously clenched his teeth.
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