That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 252

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Chapter 252

“Oh Animus! Oh Saint! Please take the successor of the Sacred Tree!”

The kneeling High Priest lifted me up with both hands.

Then the woman’s pink hair instantly grew longer, writhing like living snakes as it stretched toward me.

Just like those hair tentacles that had dragged me away in the Grand Temple!

I screamed internally.

‘Aaah! No!’

I knew this wasn’t reality, but I hated it so much!

I reflexively struggled to escape, and immediately something strange happened.

‘Huh?’

Like a water droplet being duplicated, my soul’s form ‘popped’ out of Tulia’s small body.

‘Popped?’

Even in my confusion, my instincts didn’t die. I got as far away as possible from those horrible hair tentacles.

Like a mermaid swimming through water, or more accurately, like a fish desperately fleeing from a harpoon.

And when I came to my senses, the Sacred Tree, Becrux, was right in front of me.

‘Wow. That pink hair must have been quite terrifying.’

To think I swam through the air so frantically and ended up here.

The fact that that woman’s hair color was the exact same pink as mine was also horrifying.

Even back when I knew nothing and only played , I always thought Tulia’s pink hair was so fresh and lovely.

Even after I became Tulia, I really liked this coral-like shining hair.

But now…

‘You gave me nightmares.’

I had a strong premonition that when I returned to being the original Tulia, I’d tie up my long hair neatly in a straight line…

‘Sigh.’

Anyway, only after clinging to the Sacred Tree did I feel somewhat calm.

‘At least right now, those hair tentacles aren’t targeting me as a soul.’

The pink hair was only directed at little Tulia’s body.

And since the Becrux I was clinging to was the Sacred Tree of stars, I had a vague belief that it would somehow, even just a little, protect me as the successor’s soul.

‘By the way, my soul is also in baby form.’

Was it because I had been possessing little Tulia’s body?

I was clinging tightly to the huge tree in the translucent form of a baby. In that state, I was tensely watching how the situation would unfold when.

Suddenly fanfare exploded before my eyes.

‘…?!’

My startled reaction was brief.

[System] You have completed the Hidden Quest ‘Meeting with the Sacred Tree’!

[System] Your coins have increased to ‘infinity’!

‘What?’

My jaw dropped as if it would fall off.

[System] Hidden Benefit ‘The Full Story of Hidden Secrets’ is revealed!

[System] Coins used: 999,999

Suddenly, everything spun before my eyes.

‘How many? How many coins?’

Just as I was about to count again in confusion, the system window disappeared without waiting.

I was startled and checked my coin balance, then had no choice but to cover my mouth with my small hands.

[System] Coins held: ∞(infinity)

‘Cra, crazy…’

It wasn’t long ago that I was pitifully collecting coins one by one like the Little Match Girl, and now it’s infinity? I didn’t misread the symbol, did I?

‘It must be the Sacred Tree’s blessing…!’

Just as I clasped my hands together in rising reverence.

Suddenly a strange window appeared.

[System] What will you choose between the Sacred Tree Beta Cruxis and the Male Leads’ lives?

[System] 1. The noble Sacred Tree Beta Cruxis

[System] 2. The Male Leads’ lives

Though I was puzzled by the sudden choice, I selected without hesitation.

‘Number 2.’

When I returned to my body, the Sacred Tree would be withered and dead anyway. So I had no particular attachment to it.

But.

‘Klaus is dead, so if I choose 2, he’ll come back to life, right?’

[System]

I quietly waited for the text to continue.

[System]

‘…?’

[System]

What?

‘Why isn’t anything appearing?’

I’m dying of urgency, why is it just sitting there?

‘Hurry up and appear.’

Was it my imagination?

The system window seemed to be trembling. Strangely, I felt like this system window was expressing dissatisfaction with me.

That couldn’t be…

‘Could it?’

But I could just ignore it. If you’re dissatisfied, try giving me another trashy quest!

‘I don’t know anymore either! I’ll just not do it and die!’

Since I always said I’d somehow survive, it must have been fun to torment me!

But!

I had noticed one fact while watching the past.

The pink-haired woman who killed Klaus and laughed madly was the same person as ‘that’ pink-haired woman who tried to sacrifice little Tulia with the High Priest.

And that woman was clearly an enemy of the Sacred Tree, while the system window gave me tremendous rewards just for making contact with the Sacred Tree.

Therefore.

‘System window, this thing is definitely related to the Sacred Tree. Very favorably related. My instincts are telling me so.’

So listen up, system window!

If you want to see me stand against that woman!

If that’s the case!

You better crawl and beg me with everything you’ve got… no, no.

Cooperate!

It seems my inner shouting was almost the right answer.

[System] Public and private matters must be distinguished! Though I feel slightly betrayed by your choice… the special Benefit ‘The Full Truth of Hidden Secrets’ is revealed!

At that moment.

While looking at the system window, I was also glancing sideways at that crazy High Priest and the woman.

“Aaah!”

I stumbled backward at the unthinkable catastrophe that suddenly unfolded before my eyes.

“H-High Priest!”

“Aaaaah!”

The High Priest had severed the neck of a priest who had been following them in one strike. That strength was already hard to consider human.

“It is glory! Become His strength through glory!”

Quite a few priests met their terrible end without even being able to close their eyes.

“Hahaha! Hahahaha!”

The High Priest, with fresh blood splattered all over his face, already had eyes rippling with madness. He roared out.

“Our Saint! New god Animus!”

As the High Priest shouted excitedly, the woman’s hair tentacles writhed and began sucking up the priests’ blood.

“Success, success… Cough!”

The High Priest suddenly gasped heavily. A pink tentacle, thickened from thin hair to the size of a fist, had pierced through the High Priest’s heart.

“Cough… Cough…”

Even in this situation, the High Priest didn’t let go of little Tulia. Even while coughing up blood, he only had an ecstatic look in his eyes.

“Until the day you succeed in perfect replication! I will make all these sacrifices turn back time eternally! My god! I will thoroughly offer even this blood!”

Even to that disgustingly terrible devotion, no answer came back. All the exposed skin just turned pale by the second as blood was drained away.

Thud.

The High Priest finally died with his eyes rolled back, smiling. It was a disgusting sight.

I blankly replayed the High Priest’s words.

‘…Turn back time eternally?’

That’s when it happened. The woman who had been lying down only moving her hair finally rose from the altar. Again, it was an unnatural movement like a doll being pulled by strings.

At the same time.

“W-what are these monsters?!”

“Attack! Don’t retreat!”

“Retrieve the successor!”

The dead priests transformed into ‘creatures’ and rushed at the Hania Tribe who had been watching all this in shock.

The Hania Tribe fought bravely, but they were no match for those bizarre monsters.

I couldn’t bear to look in that direction anymore, and the moment I turned my head back.

‘…?!’

I froze like ice.

“Hehehe!”

Because the woman’s blood-stained face was right in front of my nose, near the Sacred Tree.

Between the pink hair clumped with blood and dust, two terrifyingly sunken eyeballs moved freely.

“Soul? Hehehe! Did you think I couldn’t find you? I can find you anytime! Hehehe!”

The woman’s face thrust right up to my nose, laughing madly…

I realized while unable to even breathe.

‘It’s Coriko.’

This wasn’t Han Ina’s face, nor Tulia’s face.

It was exactly that face of Coriko I had always seen when starting !

The woman’s mouth opened wide like a whale’s. The bright red, wet mucous membrane writhed constantly, and the black hole beyond was so deep I couldn’t dare look further. Just as that abyss was about to swallow me.

Bang!

Stiff tree branches blocked my view.

“Sacred Tree! Sacred Tree! I’ll kill you! Ehehehehe!”

The sound of frantically tearing at branches and mind-numbing laughter could be heard from far away.

I gasped for breath.

Then, the rainbow-colored text that began appearing before my eyes…

[Sacred Tree]

It wasn’t the usual ‘System’ I had always seen.

[Sacred Tree] What the Fanatics want is Tulia Frazier.

[Sacred Tree] More precisely, the successor who will inherit the Sacred Tree’s final soul, Tulia Frazier.

‘The Sacred Tree, Becrux… is speaking?’

But why is it speaking to me in the format of a system window?

As if the Sacred Tree had been the System all along…

My brain stopped at the thought that came to me unconsciously.

‘…Huh?’

[Sacred Tree] The Fanatics will infinitely kill Tulia Frazier to make their Saint gain power.

[Sacred Tree] To die infinitely, one must live infinitely.

[Sacred Tree] This was the beginning of the infinite regression that Tulia Frazier, also known as ‘Han Ina’, came to experience.

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