That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 207
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Chapter 207
“Hey! Are you insane?!”
This was truly a harsh outburst that came from my instincts without going through my brain.
What did it say?
To hurt the Male Leads like the original Tulia would?
And seriously hurt them at that?
“Are you telling me to die?! I won’t do it! I won’t!”
[System] Success Reward Guide
-You will be able to check Affection Levels numerically.
-All curses currently affecting you will be resolved.
-You will acquire the Benefit ‘Secret Key’.
-You will permanently acquire deferred and temporary Stats.
-You will meet ‘Coriko’.
[System] Failure Penalty Guide
-You will lose all Coins you possess.
“…”
Trying to buy me with money? Not a chance!
‘…Though it was way too much money to say that…’
Why am I remembering that line…?
My feelings were complicated. While I couldn’t take my eyes off the reward list.
[System] Due to the success of ‘Unavoidable Foundation’, you are given a chance to acquire a special Benefit!
[System] A special Benefit will be granted if you complete the Quest according to the guide!
[System] Limited Special Benefit Details
-‘Coriko’s status will be downgraded from female protagonist to ???.
“…!”
I was already in a situation where I had many doubts about Coriko.
More importantly, I only had doubts but the information I knew about her was woefully insufficient.
A special Benefit that could downgrade Coriko’s position in such a disadvantageous situation?
This was a Benefit I absolutely had to acquire, even for my own survival.
[System] Will you accept the Quest?
I felt a bit depressed learning something I’d rather not have known, but it couldn’t be helped. Yes. What else could I do?
‘The reward is too enormous to give up.’
Come to think of it, I still had the Benefit ‘Barrier 2 Times’ that I’d acquired before!
If any Male Lead I hurt tries to swing a sword or strangle me, I could use it then and run away!
“Accept!”
As I shouted with power from my core, light instantly returned to the gray world.
Klaus, who had been frozen kneeling on one knee, also returned to his original state.
And…
That time that had stopped, however briefly.
So this male protagonist, Klaus Rosevar, who didn’t know about the time that had disappeared for everyone except me, was still looking up at me with eyes filled with intense affection.
So fiercely that even my cheeks reddened for a moment.
Perhaps that soft and romantic word called pure love also contained some amount of wildness.
Klaus’s brightly shining pupils were as blue as the full moon.
“Marry me.”
“…”
“Become my Queen. Tulia.”
I had never seen Klaus’s proposal in either.
So I had never once seen this Male Lead’s sincerity…
So this is how it is.
My heart pounded for no reason.
It felt like I was being asked to entrust my soul rather than receiving a proposal.
I only now realized that another person’s deep sincerity, while romantic, also has the power to make one feel somewhat melancholy.
Like how staring at a full moon clearly positioned in the dark night sky, or being alone in an endlessly black Vast Ocean, somehow makes you feel depressed without knowing why.
I looked down at Klaus blankly, caught up in an indescribable feeling.
Ridiculous, right? It was ridiculous.
Yes. I was fiercely mocking my earlier self.
What god. What arrogant sense of victory from briefly becoming his god.
I actually knew nothing at all.
What I had luckily foreseen was merely the two sentences Klaus would say to me. Just a few ripples that surfaced.
Getting cocky over predicting just a few words in advance, when I couldn’t even properly notice the emotions hidden beneath the surface.
I had dared to feel smug about briefly becoming his god.
Because of that, I had easily misjudged Klaus’s emotions…
“I like you. I want to give you everything.”
“…”
“So, I… Yes. I’d like you to become my eternal companion…”
“…”
“…That’s what I wanted to say. I don’t know. You have some childlike aspects, so you might not have known my feelings at all. But still. My feelings for you are like that. Tulia Frazier.”
“…”
I felt like I had climbed a Small Mountain with Klaus.
What I thought he would show me was just a small spring. But it wasn’t. What spread out behind the Ridge we climbed was a vast Ocean.
A Vast Ocean so deep that thousands, tens of thousands of springs wouldn’t make a dent even if they threw themselves into it.
How had Klaus hidden his feelings for me so well?
Or had I simply failed to notice at all?
Was it because he was just a hidden Male Lead, and I was karma-laden trash who had to survive bound by Quests?
Had my eyes been bound along with being bound by shackles?
What had I been thinking This World was?
My eyes moved down to the Bouquet Klaus was holding out. My voice trembled slightly too.
“Klaus, I…”
Even so, a hollow laugh escaped me without knowing why.
I wasn’t mocking Klaus.
I was mocking myself, no, my situation.
Because I only now realized this wasn’t a matter of whether to run away from potential violence.
Yes.
The reason I couldn’t accept This World as one complete world wasn’t just because I had entered a ‘world Inside the Game’.
Quest.
The Quest that suddenly appeared before Klaus proposed to me, as if it had predicted everything.
This mysterious Quest that restricts all my actions, predicts them, and drags me in the direction it wants…
Yes, if there really is a god, wouldn’t this Quest window be that god?
Even if it can’t influence this world, at least it perfectly reigns over me alone, watching over my everything and manipulating me at will.
Had there ever been a time when I felt so utterly wretched as I did now, rejoicing in this mysterious power that held my life in its grasp, shook my fears, and threw me rewards?
Before my eyes, as I struggled to hide my bitter laugh, this mysterious immortal existence, this untouchable system window, still stood majestically present.
[System] Inevitable Quest begins!
[System] Within 3 nights, inflict serious wounds on all male protagonists like Tulia in 『Why Did That Lady Give Bread to the Handsome Man』
[System] Limited special Benefit ‘Guide’ linked to Inevitable Quest appears!
[System] Guide: Please respond to ‘male protagonist’ Klaus with the following sentence.
[System] Guide Content 1
-I don’t love you.
In that moment, I couldn’t even count how many conflicts and worries passed through my mind.
“…I don’t love you.”
However, following the guide and speaking to Klaus was easy.
Right.
Up to that point, it was honestly easy.
[System] Guide Content 2
-Everyone who proposed to me was either a Crown Prince or a Prince, but what about you?
Probably from that moment on, my heart began beating wildly and my hands and feet started to grow cold.
It was such an infuriating sentence that I wanted to stop time once more if I could.
‘No, this is really too much, isn’t it?’
Why are you making me say such cruel things?
Because it’s a Quest that requires inflicting wounds?
For the first time in that moment, I looked back at my Quest.
Was it actually not me that the Quest wanted to torment, but the people of This World?
The male protagonists?
Or the people who had suffered because of Tulia?
Did it want to kick them harshly?
Finally, my doubts about what This World was began to shift into doubts about the Quest window itself.
Just because I questioned that existence didn’t mean the Quest would show me mercy.
As always.
I eventually put strength into my two clenched fists and continued speaking.
“Everyone who proposed to me was…”
“…”
“Either a Crown Prince or a Prince… What about you?”
My throat felt completely parched as if I had swallowed a handful of sand.
A silence as desolate as a desert night enveloped us.
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