That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 215
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Chapter 215
For a moment, I almost dropped the fork and knife I was holding straight to the floor.
‘Could it be, Coriko? This quickly?’
I couldn’t tell if the food went into my nose or my eyes.
I was sitting in the reception room with a tense heart, and when the butler brought the guests, I jumped up from my seat.
I swallowed dry saliva several times. Moving my head with a trembling heart, I doubted my eyes for a moment.
The girl standing neatly behind the high priests was…
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“Honestly. The Grand Temple really has consistent taste. My brother said he looked like an archangel in a holy painting and really wanted to have him.”
Leon Frazier crossed his arms and grumbled.
“I heard she’s a noble young lady from another country who was raised as a prospective priest… It’s good that my brother refused. He almost had to pray morning and evening.”
After Empress Olivia gave birth to a child with stronger divine power than anyone else and died, the Grand Temple placed even more importance on relations with the Briyang Empire.
The Grand Temple kept an eye on unmarried nobles in the Empire who had good conduct and excellent reputations.
And they would bring boys or girls carefully raised in the temple to arrange marriages.
‘Looking at it this way, it’s similar to marriage diplomacy.’
Anyway, in , it was for this background reason that Coriko came to the Grand Ducal House as Lisian’s prospective bride.
‘Not this time though.’
Lisian surprisingly firmly refused this marriage proposal, and Grandfather and Father respected his wishes.
So the marriage fell through.
In the first place, the girl they brought wasn’t even Coriko, just an ordinary young lady who was prettily born.
“Does my brother still have no thoughts of marriage? Well, my brother is someone whose whole world is books…”
Leon Frazier kept poking Lisian’s ribs. But Lisian smiled his usual gentle smile.
“I have to finish… the Academy first. Tulia’s… birthday is also… right around the corner…”
“Is her birthday some kind of national holiday or something? What does that have to do with anything. Ugh!”
I diligently stepped on that brat Leon’s foot while piling cookies like a mountain in front of Lisian.
“You don’t… have to give me… so much, Tulia.”
“No, I brought all of these to give to you, Older Brother. Adel baked them with black tea and jam, and they’re all really delicious, so eat them all, Older Brother.”
“Thank you.”
Even though I broke Mother’s keepsake, Lisian smiled so affectionately like that.
Isn’t this truly the true nature of a real male lead…!
“That kid’s discrimination is extreme, extreme.”
Leon Frazier spoke in a tone of giving up. I smiled brightly and looked above his head.
[System] Leon Frazier’s Affection Level: 100
Thanks to completing the Quest, I could clearly check the male leads’ affection levels in numbers.
‘It would have been better if I could check affection levels anytime, but this game is like that.’
Once I checked an affection level, there was a cooldown time, so I had to carefully calculate the timing. It meant I couldn’t just look whenever I wanted to.
What was fortunate was that the affection cooldown time applied differently for each male lead?
Thanks to that, I could check Leon’s affection level and immediately see Lisian’s affection level too.
I slightly moved my head toward the shining silver hair.
[System] Lisian Frazier’s Affection Level: 100
As expected…
I momentarily wanted to put my fist in my mouth and wail again.
I broke Mother’s keepsake yesterday, you know? I broke it! But still, really…
‘Lisian must definitely be an archangel descended from heaven.’
When the three of us were spending a rare leisurely time.
Suddenly, urgent knocking sounds were heard.
As soon as Leon’s permission was given, the door burst open.
“Ah, Young Lady! Young Masters! You must come down to the Great Hall right now!”
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
Leon asked while getting me up and dragging me along. The assistant butler wiped his cold sweat and said.
“Right now downstairs there’s big trouble, big trouble! The Marquis told me to bring all three of you quickly… Hurry!”
“What is it. Did the temple bring about a hundred new women this time? Thinking there might be one among them that suits my brother’s taste?”
Leon was bewildered but made quite a plausible deduction. Lisian didn’t even answer.
I honestly felt inwardly that it was possible, and went downstairs quickly with the tension that one of them might be Coriko.
The Great Hall was noisy with murmuring sounds. If there was something different from expectations, it was that not a single priest could be seen.
Leon frowned and muttered.
“Why are there so many retainers here?”
“Right. They should all be in Frazier Territory.”
I also felt that the atmosphere was somehow going strangely.
Normally, I would have enjoyed the thrill of going down the stairs escorted by two handsome male leads, but not now.
“Oh! Young Masters! Young Lady! You’ve come!”
The retainers who spotted us made a fuss and cleared a path.
In the center of the Great Hall stood Grandfather and Father, and among the retainers, those with particularly high positions occupied the space beside them.
And in front of them was…
“…Tedrick?”
Leon immediately raised his eyebrows.
“Tedrick? That’s that Tedrick guy? Ah, that’s right. He’s changed so much I almost didn’t recognize him.”
Tedrick.
The biological son of Lilius and Aubrey, and the crazy bastard cousin who shot an arrow at me and was eventually banished to some insignificant position at the border.
Tedrick had lost so much weight that his features had become so sharp he was almost unrecognizable.
When he spotted us, he immediately stepped back like a frightened mouse. Thanks to that, we could discover one person who had been half-hiding behind him with their head bowed.
Lisian slowly asked.
“Who is… that girl?”
It was Father who answered Lisian’s question as he stood in the center of the hall.
“Say your greetings, children.”
However, Father’s expression was coldly hardened, unlike usual.
“Grand Duchess Frazier… that is, your late aunt, the daughter of Aunt Hyacinthia, was alive.”
I reflexively looked at Grandfather.
Grandfather had his usual dignified expression befitting a family head, but I could tell. The fact that Grandfather’s jaw was trembling slightly.
Father continued speaking.
“Hia, exchange greetings. Like Tedrick, these are your cousins. All three are older than you, so you can call them Older Sister and Older Brothers.”
As if unaccustomed to focused attention, the girl who had been keeping her head deeply bowed slowly raised her head.
Seeing her face, I blinked blankly.
“Hello, Older Sister, Older Brothers. My name is Hyacinthia…”
An unconfident, passive voice.
A small, thin build.
Soft, lustrous black hair and large brown eyes that seemed timid.
Overall, it had mysteriously changed to be more Western-looking, but…
That face was definitely…
‘…It’s me.’
It was Han Ina’s face.
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