That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 244

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Chapter 244

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

“Saint! Has the Saint been poisoned?!”

“Now she’s bleeding from every opening!”

“Count Ryan! Count! Palace Physician! The Count has fainted!”

“Marchioness Atran has also collapsed!”

Nobles were fainting left and right at the horrific sight. Coriko’s condition, unable to regain consciousness, was equally shocking.

Earlier, she had only been spitting blood from her mouth, but now it was different.

Eyes, nose, ears, mouth. Blood was gushing out from every opening in her body.

“Coriko!”

Grandfather was greatly alarmed and kicked the High Priest aside. Then he gathered Coriko, who was bleeding from every opening, into his arms.

My heart stung slightly.

It wasn’t because Grandfather cherished Coriko. It was because his precious one, whom he believed to be Aunt Hyacinthia’s blood relative, was fake.

How shocked would Grandfather be when he learned this truth? How heartbroken would he become?

The Emperor was so furious his eyes rolled back as he shouted.

“High Priest! What in the world are you doing right now!”

“Th-this is why…”

The High Priest’s hands trembled violently. He too seemed unable to grasp the situation.

I spread all ten fingers wide under my long sleeves, then clenched them. This was the moment.

An event that would be recorded in history!

An unprecedented incident of such magnitude!

Slap!

“…?!”

A Grand Duchess striking a High Priest’s cheek in public!

“…”

“…”

For a moment, deathly silence fell over the noisy grand banquet hall.

A bright red handprint remained on the High Priest’s cheek. He seemed completely stunned, just staring at me blankly.

When had he ever experienced such humiliation?

“…Grand Duchess Frazier?”

Emperor Alessandro barely managed to call my name. He too looked like he couldn’t believe what had just happened before his eyes.

Before the High Priest, the Emperor, or anyone else could regain their composure, I shouted first.

“Your Majesty the Emperor! There’s something Coriko Frazier, my cousin, confided to me recently!”

Emperor Alessandro was still an emperor after all. Even without regaining his composure, he responded.

“What story was that?”

“She said the High Priests view the ‘Saint’s’ advent unfavorably and are wary of it!”

“…?!”

The High Priest shot up from his seat.

“What on earth does that mean?! Grand Duchess! Why would the Saint say such a thing?! Don’t mislead people with lies!”

“Lies? This is exactly why Coriko fears you people.”

“What did you say?”

“The High Priests have been the highest-ranking people in the Temple until now, haven’t they? But since the Saint appeared, they’ve had to give up that position, and she said quite a few High Priests think unfavorably of this!”

“The Saint would never say such a thing!”

Right!

She wouldn’t!

Because Coriko never said that!

‘But what are you going to do about it?’

I know best about the solid relationship between Coriko and the High Priests, but others don’t know that, do they?

The fact that you’re all conspiring to sacrifice children is wrapped up tight in secrecy, isn’t it?

Those united by the secret of evil deeds shall crumble from malicious lies…

I replied coldly.

“How can you be so certain that Coriko never said such a thing?”

“Of course it’s obvious…!”

“Obviously what? Besides, the child is dying right now from whatever you’re feeding her!”

“To insult a High Priest while taking advantage of the Saint’s collapse! I will never let this slide!”

“You won’t let it slide? Fine!”

For a moment, the High Priest hesitated. He seemed to realize from my affirmation that something was going wrong.

Of course, it was already too late.

[System] Benefit ‘Super Lotto’ is now active!

From this moment on, I would absorb all the nobles’ luck, so my words were like the words of God.

“Your Majesty the Emperor!”

I spoke with blazing eyes.

“The only blood relative of Aunt Hyacinthia Frazier, who was the previous Grand Duchess, was nearly murdered by poison through wicked schemes! House Frazier formally requests to search the Temple regarding this matter!”

The priests began quickly fleeing the banquet hall with pale faces.

* * *

An unprecedented event.

The Grand Temple was sealed off.

The Grand Temple was an independent power. It was the spiritual pillar of the only god on the Spring Continent, so this was natural.

Under normal circumstances, even the Emperor wouldn’t have dared to search the Grand Temple.

But now the situation was different! The Saint had nearly been poisoned to death by a High Priest!

Moreover, that Saint was a direct descendant of Frazier, and Frazier was a grand ducal house of the Briyang Empire with a renowned reputation across the entire continent!

Fierce debates unfolded in various countries across the Spring Continent. If public opinion leaned toward ‘this is too much,’ the Frazier Knights searching the Grand Temple would have to return.

‘But it takes several days just for delegations from each country to gather. Several days for discussions. Several more days to jointly draft and send an agreement to Frazier.’

By then everything would be finished, so it didn’t matter.

The Grand Temple was located some distance from the Briyang Empire, positioned in the center of an independent city.

Clank, clank.

The Grand Temple was already swarming with Frazier Knights and Briyang Imperial Knights.

Since it was a poisoning incident that occurred in the Imperial Palace, Emperor Alessandro had also decided to dispatch his knights.

‘The Grand Temple is quite large indeed.’

It was even larger than the Briyang Imperial Palace, so its size could be called a small city without exaggeration.

So where exactly had they hidden the children, and which places were suspicious…

‘…We might be slightly short on time?’

As I walked toward the High Priests’ prayer room, I raised one eyebrow.

“This is absolutely forbidden!”

“Do you wish to sin against God?!”

“How can you even try to trample on the High Priests’ prayer room!”

I stopped, seeing the young priests desperately trying to block us.

“Rather, cut off our heads and pass!”

“We will protect this temple with our blood!”

“Just knock them all out.”

When I whispered to the knight, the knight nodded.

Just then.

“Grand Duchess Tulia Frazier! You demon!”

A priest who recognized me from behind the Knight Order screamed at the top of his lungs.

“You incited the power holders of Briyang to create this terrible situation! Do you not fear God!”

“If my Crown Princess is a demon.”

It was right after that when a heavy voice came from behind me.

“Then am I a demon’s subordinate?”

A cold question. My spine instantly turned cold. The chilling voice that echoed was as eerie as frost on a blade.

I turned around.

“…Ferdinand.”

He was striding down the corridor. The embodiment of pure Divine Power that the High Priests loved so dearly.

And the man who had graciously given me the gift of his proposal.

A person’s gaze doesn’t change like flipping a switch on and off. The red eyes that glanced at me also held killing intent that hadn’t been fully erased.

“Y-Your Highness the Crown Prince…”

A completely reversed attitude from before. Ferdinand Cassel Evichkait.

“Priests.”

“Your Highness…”

“When I’m not around, you’re this rude to my Crown Princess?”

“Th-that’s not it…”

“It’s not?”

Ferdinand bent his waist slightly. Since he was so tall, he had to do that much just to barely meet the priests’ eye level.

“Priests.”

“Y-yes. Your Highness…”

“Were you actually looking down on me quite ridiculously? Pretending otherwise while treating me like a complete fool behind my back?”

“No! No, Your Highness!”

“How could we possibly do such a thing!”

The priests fell to their knees and began begging. Their appearance was so pitiful, they looked like sinners who had been excommunicated by God and cast into hell.

However, their God. Perhaps God’s representative. That beautiful, cold, and merciless man only continued speaking in an emotionless voice.

“If not, then prove it.”

“Pr-prove it how…”

A voice carrying the Predator’s breath echoed in my ears.

“Get lost from before the Crown Princess. If there’s anyone who blocks her path even once more, I’ll execute them on the spot, even if they’re priests.”

His red eyes flashed sharply.

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