That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 194

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Chapter 194

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As if he had just finished bathing not long ago, his ash-gray hair was somewhat wet. He was even holding a towel in one hand.

 

“….”

 

Klaus strode into my bedroom while vigorously rubbing and drying his hair.

 

“Why are you coming in?”

 

“Didn’t opening the door mean come in?”

 

“No? Don’t come in.”

 

“Well, fine. If you say not to come, then I shouldn’t.”

 

Then he turned around far too obediently. Klaus stood right at the boundary line connecting the terrace and my room, staring blankly at me.

 

Not forgetting to occasionally wipe the moisture from his hair.

 

What on earth is this situation?

 

“Why are you here? No, why are you holding a towel like someone who’s in the room right next door?”

 

“What? Didn’t your father and grandfather tell you?”

 

“Tell me what?”

 

We just had a cozy meal together today, didn’t we?

 

Father and Grandfather only exchanged sarcastic remarks with each other, but they smiled when looking at me, so it could be called a rather affectionate dinner.

 

“Geez. They deliberately didn’t say anything.”

 

Klaus puffed out his chest and said.

 

“I got permission from your Emperor, you know? Starting today, I’ll be staying at the Grand Duke’s Annex for a while as an honored guest.”

 

“What? Why?”

 

Since when was the Grand Duke’s Estate the Imperial Palace?

 

“Why? Because I’m an honored guest.”

 

“No, then you should stay at the Imperial Palace, why are you staying at the Grand Ducal House?”

 

“It’s the honored guest’s choice. When I told your Emperor that the Lupinus Kingdom originally has such customs, he granted everything?”

 

As I immediately turned around to draw the curtains, Klaus reached out his hand.

 

“Hey! Hey! Tulia Frazier! Why are you leaving in the middle of talking!”

 

“Where are you pulling this scam? The Briyang Empire isn’t just some ordinary kingdom, and does our national power look so pathetic that we’d grovel to a mere prince from the Summer Continent?”

 

“…This won’t work.”

 

Even though I was growling, Klaus looked rather pleased instead. His voice was full of refreshing and clear laughter like summer greenery.

 

“Your Emperor showed a lot of interest in trade with the Summer Continent. He’s trying to establish trade routes through me.”

 

“So what does that have to do with you coming to our house?”

 

“I said I wanted Grand Duke Frazier as the Briyang Empire’s representative.”

 

“What?”

 

At the unexpected words, I whirled around.

 

Even without hearing detailed explanations, I could guess what kind of profit Klaus was forecasting for the Grand Ducal House.

 

After all, don’t the hands that carry rice cakes get covered in bean powder?

 

‘Should I take this chance to push the white tulips…?’

 

I was lost in thought with my chin cupped when my body suddenly flinched.

 

Klaus, who was much taller than me, had bent his waist and was looking up at me from below.

 

At the same time I stepped back in surprise, Klaus caught my waist as I stumbled and lost my footing, setting me upright.

 

Perhaps from the shock, my heart was pounding loudly.

 

“Why were you looking at me like that?”

 

“You look best when you’re filled with desire like that. So I was admiring the view.”

 

‘Should I just tell this guy to get lost?’

 

Unlike my rough thoughts, the words didn’t come out that way.

 

Ridiculously, Klaus was a prince with the blood of the Wolf King, and tonight’s full moon was illuminating him more beautifully than anyone else.

 

Klaus’s eyes, which held a wondrous wildness, took on an even deeper hue under the pale moonlight.

 

“Put off telling me to get lost for a bit.”

 

“Are you reading my mind?”

 

“…Was that really it?”

 

Klaus let out a deep sigh, shrugged his shoulders, then bent his waist slightly. Meeting my gaze, he opened his mouth.

 

“Actually, I came because I have something to tell you.”

 

“What is it?”

 

Klaus didn’t answer immediately. He just stood there staring intently at me. That gaze that looked into me intently as if counting the number of my eyelashes.

 

“You know, you have a nasty personality.”

 

“What?”

 

“So I was a bit worried, you know? That I might get beaten up by you?”

 

Suddenly, all sorts of thoughts swirled through my head, and soon my eyes flipped wide open.

 

“If you’re about to confess that you secretly stole white tulip seeds, I’ll shake out every last coin from your pockets right here….”

 

“No, no. Hey!”

 

Klaus grabbed both my shoulders as if he was dumbfounded.

 

“Am I crazy? I want to live too, you know? And I’m not originally the type of bastard who steals other people’s stuff without permission!”

 

“Stealing with permission isn’t stealing? What are you even talking about?”

 

“Ugh. Talking with you always tangles up my words like this.”

 

Klaus roughly tousled his hair that still had moisture in it.

 

“Let’s meet with a mage from the Lupinus Kingdom in the near future, you.”

 

“A mage? Why… Ah.”

 

Having a guess, I asked just in case.

 

“Is it to release the oath? Does the mage release it?”

 

Suddenly, Klaus, who had been looking down at me, made a strange expression and chuckled.

 

“How could a mere mage arbitrarily break the great Wolf King’s oath? It’s not that.”

 

“If it’s not that?”

 

“From what I can see, you.”

 

Klaus narrowed his eyes and observed me, then continued speaking.

 

“I might be mistaken, but you have a scent.”

 

“What? A scent? But I washed?”

 

As I raised my arms and sniffed, Klaus grabbed both my wrists and lowered them. He was frowning slightly.

 

“Not an unclean scent, but an ominous scent.”

 

Not unclean but ominous?

 

‘Is that an insult?’

 

“How should I express this exactly….”

 

Klaus, who had been pondering, lifted his head a beat later.

 

“Right. It would be the scent of a…curse?”

 

Suddenly, I blinked.

 

‘A curse?’

 

“It’s like traces of a curse that passed through, I don’t know. Anyway, since I’m of the great Wolf King’s bloodline, it wouldn’t hurt to be sure.”

 

Suddenly, what struck my mind was the content of the system window that appeared as a reward when I solved the hidden quest with Schulz Schmidt.

 

‘The system window definitely said something about a sea of blood and curse. Does he know about that? How?’

 

Because he’s a dog?

 

Because he’s a wolf?

 

‘But could the system window be detected by other characters too?’

 

No matter how developed one’s intuition is, isn’t this a problem of a different dimension?

 

Or perhaps… that unknown curse that was on me wasn’t a system window issue but actually a curse placed on Tulia’s body?

 

‘Then why did it show as released in the system window?’

 

Meanwhile, the fact that Klaus smelled this scent only after the curse was released bothered me in many ways.

 

‘So I was… in a sealed container state?’

 

Even if mold grows on food inside a sealed container, no smell leaks out until you open the lid.

 

But to wash away the rotten food, you have to open the lid, and no matter how hard you scrub it clean, the rotten smell that has seeped into the sealed container will leave faint traces for a while.

 

In short, it seems like my body with the curse lifted is in a state like a bowl that’s been washed clean of moldy, rotten food….

 

“….”

 

So Klaus, with his keen nose, figured it out….

 

‘Why am I treating myself like a sealed container.’

 

It’s all because of this damn talented Wolf Prince in front of me.

 

When I glared at Klaus, he tilted his chin and then, surprisingly.

 

Really surprisingly, he smiled faintly.

 

“Do you like my face?”

 

“….”

 

‘What is he saying….’

 

How absurd I felt in that moment.

 

But thanks to that, the layers of veils covering my expression were instantly lifted.

 

At the same time, my random thoughts disappeared, and all that remained was just ‘confusion.’

 

That was right.

 

I was extremely confused.

 

Why had Klaus, who should be nothing more than the male lead Inside the Game, noticed the System Window’s penalty?

 

Then is this place Inside the Game, or is it reality?

 

Is it correct that I entered Inside the Game?

 

What’s the right answer?

 

I don’t know what kind of confusion filled my expression. However, I momentarily fell into an illusion where pink completely filled my vision.

 

It was because a warm night breeze blew in through the open window.

 

My loose pink hair fluttered long, making my vision momentarily brilliant as if buried in countless Tulips.

 

Klaus’s hand tucked my hair behind my ear. It was an intimately bewildering action.

 

No, to be a bit more precise, it was an unfamiliar action.

 

Too much so for Klaus to do.

 

“Hey.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“And there’s one more thing I want to say.”

 

Was it because of the shadow with his back to the moonlight?

 

Klaus’s blue eyes gazing at me looked like Sapphire. A hardness that wouldn’t get a single scratch no matter how hard you struck it.

 

Deep within those jewel-like blue eyes, some emotion that couldn’t be easily noticed seemed to be gathered. Like some mineral that had held layers of accumulated time for a long time.

 

Few people wouldn’t be overwhelmed for a moment seeing the massively revealed layers of strata. Because I was such a person too, or perhaps because Klaus was really staring at me intensely beyond belief.

 

I couldn’t urge him at all and just stared blankly at Klaus. We were briefly immersed in silence.

 

“I don’t care if you don’t break the Oath.”

 

Was Klaus’s face red when he said those words? Or were his ears flushed?

 

“…I’d like it if we just stayed like this.”

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