That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 237
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Chapter 237
The morning of the coming-of-age banquet dawned a week later.
“Miss should be getting up soon… What if she stayed up all night again today… Oh my, Miss?”
Adel, who had been carefully drawing back the thick curtains draped over the bed, paused. I was buried deep under the blanket and stretched drowsily in a half-asleep state.
“Miss. Did you get some sleep today?”
“Mmm. I slept well. Good morning, Adel.”
“My goodness. That’s such a relief. You have to go to the Imperial Palace today of all days, so I was so worried.”
“Were you that worried?”
When I laughed with a drowsy voice, Adel let out a light sigh.
“Of course. You haven’t been able to sleep at all for a whole week since returning from the temple. It was worth bringing lavender, jasmine, lemon balm, and even snake plants to your bedroom.”
I laughed as I slipped on my slippers. As Adel said, my room was full of all kinds of indoor plants said to help with sleep.
“You can go to the bathtub and sleep a bit more. You need to get a little massage too.”
“Okay.”
As I headed to the bathroom and looked out the window, I could glimpse the dark dawn sky where the sun hadn’t risen yet through the curtains.
“Adel.”
I asked as I got into the marble bathtub that was already filled with hot water.
“Is Coriko going to the Imperial Palace banquet today too?”
Adel nodded and lightly answered yes, then added.
“Miss. Since you have to attend banquets for three days, you need to sleep whenever you can. Close your eyes even now.”
I obediently closed my eyes. As Adel said, I hadn’t been able to sleep for a week.
Even now, many thoughts were rolling around in my head.
‘How could I possibly sleep well.’
[System] Let
[System] me
[System] Let me go
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[System] Let me go instead.
‘What kind of existence is Kim Ddongbyeol?’
From the moment it spoke, that is, from the moment it conveyed its own opinion to me through the system, that bastard is a living being in some sense.
Then what kind of existence is it?
The soul of the Southern Star divine tree that Mother was the guardian of?
Or Mother’s soul that couldn’t depart?
Wandering the nine heavens?
No, no.
‘There’s no way our Mother would have such trashy personality.’
Besides, how much have I cursed Kim Ddongbyeol all this time… That would make me unfilial. It’s somewhat unsettling.
‘Then is Kim Ddongbyeol really the divine tree after all. Something like the soul of the divine tree.’
But why would such a sacred existence keep tormenting me?
‘Mother said she failed at some ritual to protect me.’
That’s what Father said.
I wanted to know more details about that, but Ramus Jeremiah didn’t have much to offer either.
‘Gasp. So am I under some curse where Kim Ddongbyeol torments me because of that?’
If so, then Kim Ddongbyeol must definitely be the spirit of the Southern Star’s divine tree, Becrux!
‘Then wouldn’t it be better to just go to the Southern Continent and cut down the tree?’
I mean, it’s going to torment me for life.
Mother might not have been able to do it because she had some sense of duty as the divine tree’s successor, but I’m different, right?
I could chop it up and burn it to ashes, right?
I could turn it into complete ashes and have a pork belly barbecue on top of it, right? I could lay out charcoal for a whole week and grill meat, mushrooms, pineapple, and corn, right?!
‘You started it first. Damn Star.’
As I turned my head away with a huff, I immediately screamed.
“Ah!”
It was because my hair was pulled taut.
“Oh, Miss! I’m sorry! I didn’t know you would suddenly move your head…”
The maid who had been diligently working on my hair was startled and apologized. I waved my hand while pressing my throbbing scalp.
“No, no. I was lost in thought. It’s okay.”
“I’m sorry, Miss…”
“It’s fine, so please finish my hair. It’s my coming-of-age ceremony, right? You know I like your hairstyling the best?”
“Miss…!”
The maid, moved to tears, burned with determination and quickly moved her hands again.
‘Hehe.’
Thanks to that, I was able to put aside my complicated thoughts and smile triumphantly to myself, if only for a moment.
Actually, I was in a subtle competition with Leon Frazier. I called it competition out of wounded pride, but in reality, I was competing all by myself.
So Leon Frazier probably had no idea about my competitive spirit.
‘Ha. Of course Leon Frazier’s appearance is powerful. I’ll admit that. But!’
I was originally the princess of this mansion!
When the twins finished their Academy courses and returned to the mansion, the number of princesses doubled!
One was me!
The other was Leon Frazier!
‘Lisian is more like a sacred being. Something otherworldly. Our Lisian, the incarnation of an archangel…’
But Leon Frazier was human. Not only was his face amazing, but his height and physique were close to perfect too.
Perhaps because of some mysterious feminine aura he gave off, while the maids worshipped Lisian as an object of reverence, they seemed to feel something like real romantic feelings toward Leon Frazier.
‘Of course! I understand! I felt that way when playing the game!’
But now he’s just blood relative I want to pick fights with over every little thing!
The maids who used to bake cookies as gifts only for me and bring me baskets of freshly picked bright red cherries or ripe apples had changed.
When Leon Frazier passed by, their faces would turn red and they’d nudge each other’s shoulders while whispering among themselves. The fruit baskets coming to me were also reduced by half.
‘Hmph.’
That’s right!
I was upset that the maids’ attention had been stolen away by Leon Frazier!
What’s more, Leon Frazier, true to his Male Lead origins, didn’t even notice the maids’ interest.
That was even more infuriating! So infuriating it was an eyesore!
To prevent the maids from getting hurt in advance, I was trying even harder to act gentlemanly and win over their hearts.
In other words, I was trying to charm the maids whenever I got the chance!
Me, Tulia.
A woman who is endlessly kind and gentle to ladies.
A woman who would coldly say ‘You’re here. Report. Are you done? Go.’ and coolly discriminate against Ramus Jeremiah even if he waited outside for a thousand years…
My thoughts suddenly stopped.
‘Wait a minute.’
Waiting for a thousand years…?
I felt like I was about to grasp some hint, so I calmly settled my mind.
And I began to reason by coldly distinguishing between ‘me’ who experienced Han Ina’s past and ‘Tulia’ from .
‘If Tulia’s mother failed the ritual, doesn’t that mean the guardian would continue to be Tulia?’
They said the qualification of Sacred Tree Guardian is passed down through the maternal bloodline. When you think about it, the next guardian after mother would be Tulia.
‘The failed ritual… would naturally be related to Tulia and the Sacred Tree.’
That’s why mother deliberately took young Tulia and followed someone from the Summer Continent back there.
I suddenly felt grateful to Tulia’s father, that is, father.
Thank goodness!
Thanks to father being a wife fool!
Thanks to him remembering and telling me every single word of his conversation with mother without missing anything!
Thanks to that, I too was able to succeed in reasoning without much difficulty!
‘Historically, this is the answer. Henpecked husbands and devoted husbands.’
Anyway.
Protecting Tulia was said to be mother’s purpose.
In other words.
If Tulia were to inherit the position of Sacred Tree Guardian as destined by bloodline…
‘Tulia would die.’
Mother wanted to avoid that.
That means from the time mother began to realize it, there were already problems with the Sacred Tree.
‘That would naturally be the work of the heretics.’
So…
I recalled the thought I had hesitated over earlier.
‘Waiting for a thousand years…’
What if the Sacred Tree of the Southern Star completely withered and died because the next guardian ‘Tulia’ disappeared?
What if it died waiting for the real ‘Tulia’?
‘So that bastard is taking revenge on me now? Leaving behind a soul called Kim Ddongbyeol to torment me at every turn and take revenge like this?’
‘No. Wait a minute.’
A chilling sensation ran up my spine.
Because according to my current reasoning, only one answer came to mind.
I had been living thinking of myself as Han Ina who possessed Tulia Frazier.
Tulia Frazier, the ultimate villain in , a scoundrel boss who dies if things go well, dies if things go wrong, dies when bored, and dies at the drop of a hat.
Han Ina who was unluckily possessed by her…
‘But then…’
Then why would the Sacred Tree deliberately send me an evil spirit, no, no. A ghost like Kim Ddongbyeol to torment me this way and that way?
If I’m not Tulia, why would it torment me so much just because I was possessed by Tulia?
‘It’s not like it only tormented me either.’
I was able to survive this much because Kim Ddongbyeol was there.
My relationship with Kim Ddongbyeol was very complicated. Though I really hate to admit it, I couldn’t deny that I had grown this much thanks to Kim Ddongbyeol.
So…
The answer is…
‘What if I wasn’t possessed?’
What if I was originally ‘Tulia’ from the beginning?
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