That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 204
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Chapter 204
Tulia’s Mother, no, our Mother was truly an amazing person…
‘But why did her daughter grow up like this…’
You could plant watermelons and get peaches, but isn’t this more like planting light only to have evil orcs sprout up and go around tearing off people’s heads?
‘But then again, when I think about it, Tulia’s Mother is also the mother of the real male lead Lisian and that Leon Frazier guy.’
It seems like they were born first and took away all of Mother’s holiness.
“But what exactly is the Sacred Tree?”
“A very sacred tree with stars circling above its head.”
Klaus spoke curtly. He had been looking at me with his arms crossed the entire time. Kaitan shouted excitedly.
“To discover a bloodline we thought was extinct! As expected, Your Highness is amazing! How did you manage to pick such a person as your companion!”
“Shut your mouth.”
“Yes!”
Unlike Kaitan, who was so excited he seemed ready to fly away at any moment, Klaus’s expression was not good. He was staring at me with complicated eyes like someone standing before a maze.
“What’s wrong?”
“Did you really not know? That your Mother was…”
“I half knew and half didn’t.”
So, I knew about the Guardian bloodline, but I didn’t know about the Sacred Tree and such things.
Especially the fact Klaus had just told me.
‘Stars circling above the head?’
Ha. Well, this is something.
There happens to be a star floating around above my head too.
‘That Kim Ddongbyeol guy.’
I chuckled and stood up from my seat.
“I’m going to head back a bit early.”
“What? Miss!”
I said goodbye to Klaus, but Kaitan grabbed my wrist and made a fuss.
“Is that all your reaction? This is truly amazing! An incredible bloodline! Is it because you’re from the Spring Continent that it doesn’t resonate much? Tsk! So you’re currently a more amazing existence than the Empire’s only Imperial Princess! There’s no comparison!”
“Mm-hmm. Thanks. But don’t talk about that stuff outside since it’ll put me in an awkward position.”
“This really shouldn’t end with just this kind of reaction…”
Kaitan, who had been full of excitement, deflated like a balloon losing air.
I walked briskly toward Klaus and stood in front of him.
“…What’s wrong?”
“Klaus, you know.”
“Huh?”
Klaus suddenly drew in a sharp breath.
It was because I had grabbed Klaus by the collar and pulled him down. I whispered quietly into the stiff Klaus’s ear.
“You figured it out, didn’t you?”
“…”
“You understand, right?”
“…Yeah. I got it. I understand.”
“Good.”
I followed Adel back to the Main Building.
No, I was trying to go back, but…
“Father? Why are you at the Entrance?”
“Ahem. I was taking a walk because I had something to discuss with your Grandfather.”
“At the Summer Annex Entrance?”
‘Were you waiting like this because I came back too late?’
Well, the timing worked out perfectly!
I laughed heartily and ushered both of them inside for now.
Both of them had eyes that looked like they were dying of curiosity about why I had gone to the Annex and what I had talked about with Klaus until this hour, but resolving my own questions came first!
“Father. I have something to ask you.”
“What is it?”
“It’s about Mother.”
Instantly, Father and Grandfather looked at each other.
* * *
That night at midnight.
Soft muslin Curtains fluttered endlessly through the open Terrace window.
So just standing still and watching made me feel like I was being drawn into a dream.
The moonlight was particularly deep, and the man who leaped through it was also eerily beautiful.
“I came exactly at the time you mentioned.”
“How do you hop around on those rooftops like that? Could I learn it too?”
“Well, it would be possible if you were reborn. With the bloodline of the great Wolf King.”
“Really so annoying…”
How can he be so shameless!
Is that also a quality of a male lead!
I was dumbfounded, but I approached Klaus.
My head was packed full with the conversation I had with Father and Grandfather today.
“Your Mother was, yes. Originally the successor of the Guardian who protects the Sacred Tree of the Summer Continent.”
“Successor?”
“Yes. But Railan, that is, your Mother, gave up all her rights as a Guardian instead of marrying me. So one of her other sisters would have become the Guardian, but we didn’t know that far.”
“Then why did Mother go back to the Summer Continent again?”
“…Because Railan’s sisters were all massacred.”
“What? Massacred? Why? Why were my Aunts massacred?”
I couldn’t forget the shock of that moment.
Father rubbed his dry face with both hands and continued speaking.
“We couldn’t find that out. The immediate problem at hand was the successor’s qualification.”
“…”
“The Sacred Tree’s successor is passed down through the maternal bloodline. Your Mother had given up all her qualifications as Guardian, but the problem was…”
I could understand without hearing the rest of Father’s words.
The Sacred Tree Guardian. Where that heavy and tremendous power had flowed to. To whom it had gone!
The only Daughter among the living successor bloodlines.
Precisely.
“It flowed into me.”
“…”
“So Mother… left for the Summer Continent taking me with her. To bring the Guardian’s power back to Mother through a Ritual.”
I told Klaus everything I had heard from Father today.
In any case, since it was a story closely related to the Summer Continent.
I judged it would be good for Klaus, who is a Prince of the Lupinus Kingdom, to know the details.
It left a bitter taste.
Leon Frazier had never forgotten how Mother took only me and left far away when he was young, never to return, and had continued to hate me because of it.
As a mother, it must have been agonizing for her, like cutting away living flesh.
But I was her only daughter, and the Guardian’s power was passed down from mother to daughter….
“Above all, a Guardian cannot leave the Sacred Tree’s side. Your mother, Railan… she wanted you to grow up simply as a precious young lady in this safe and prosperous Empire.”
“….”
“So she tried to become the Guardian herself through a complex ritual….”
Father’s voice became wet with emotion.
“Still, sometimes, once every few years, she said she’d be able to come to the Spring Continent….”
“But Mother never came back.”
I murmured quietly.
“She passed away… We couldn’t find a single member of that tribe either….”
A moonlight-like silence flowed.
“Tulia.”
It was Klaus who first broke the quiet. His hand brushed my hair aside.
“Aren’t you curious about the name of the Sacred Tree your mother protected?”
“…!”
I immediately lifted my head. A rarely gentle smile appeared on Klaus’s lips.
“What’s the name of the Sacred Tree?”
“Beta Crucis, shortened to Becrux. It’s the Sacred Tree of the Southern Star.”
“The Sacred Tree of the Southern Star….”
A star.
Another star.
The entire world in all directions was full of stars.
What Mother protected was also a star’s Sacred Tree.
What I’m trying to appease is also Kim Ddongbyeol.
Lost in thought for a moment, I slowly opened my mouth to ask.
“Klaus.”
“Yeah.”
“That Southern Star’s Sacred Tree, Crucis… what happened to it now?”
“It withered and died.”
“Oh my.”
“Since it was a Sacred Tree without a Guardian, it died. Since then, it’s been unofficially called Mimosa.”
“Mimosa?”
“This might sound unpleasant, but that name was also given by those damn Fanatics who came over from the Autumn and Winter Continents.”
“What does it mean? Does it have a meaning?”
“I know it’s derived from the Ancient Language words for ‘to imitate’ or ‘to mimic.’ The Old Man told me once while grumbling about it.”
“….”
“I guess since it’s a withered Sacred Tree, they thought it couldn’t bear its original sacred name. Ominous names spread faster too, don’t they?”
“That’s right. The Spring Continent is the same way.”
Even I was a direct victim of how far young Tulia’s misdeeds spread when she caused some trouble.
“So Commoners all call it that in private. Mimosa.”
“Mimosa, Mimosa….”
I suddenly frowned.
“I don’t need to call it that. I should call it Becrux.”
“Yes. Call it that. The glorious Royal Families of the Summer Continent still call that Sacred Tree by that name.”
Klaus seemed unaccustomed to comforting, but his words were filled with sincerity.
“It’s also the Sacred Tree your mother protected as a Saint.”
Suddenly, my expression hardened.
“What did you just say?”
“That it’s the Sacred Tree your mother protected?”
“No, before that.”
“That your mother was a Saint?”
“…!”
I bolted upright from my seat.
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