That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 256

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Chapter 256

[System] Now there’s only one left.

The system window’s tone suddenly changed, but I wasn’t even surprised anymore.

I finally understood the situation where I was experiencing the past memories I couldn’t remember, one by one.

The essence of the system window was a being mixed with the Ancient Magic Binding Hania Souls and the ghost of the Sacred Tree Becrux.

‘So sometimes the Hania Tribe’s consciousness emerges, and other times Becrux’s consciousness comes out.’

The Hania Tribe respects and protects me as their successor.

Becrux recognizes me as a companion… should I say. Anyway, it treats me casually as an equal being.

From observing the system window’s behavior so far, it seemed to be mixed with the Hania Tribe’s respectful tone as the base while Becrux’s nature popped out.

And now, the Hania Tribe and the Sacred Tree must have felt the need to show me the past. That would have been the best they could do for me while under attack from the heretics.

I fully accepted the scene before my eyes changing once again.

“Ugh…”

The first thing I felt upon opening my eyes was crushing pain in my chest. It hurt. My whole body hurt terribly as if stabbed by needles.

“Tulia? Are you awake?”

A voice came hurriedly. I lifted my head while enduring the surging pain.

‘It’s these two this time.’

Seeing that it said this was the last one, does Ferdinand not have a separate past?

That puzzlement was brief.

“Older Brother Lisian. Leon… Older Brother.”

I added ‘Older Brother’ at the end because of the system window’s last words.

[System] 3 of the Male Leads will die randomly.

This must also be a result of the heretics’ attack.

My heart grew heavy.

‘Come to think of it, the Sacred Tree is the most pathetic. How can you not even block one attack from heretics?’

[System]

‘What.’

[System]

‘Hmph.’

I turned my head away primly, but I was actually feeling it. My eyes were gradually getting wet with tears.

‘Is Klaus… dead?’

Maybe he wasn’t dead yet. Until just before I was dragged into this benefit, Klaus was breathing weakly.

That thin breath that might stop at any moment…

He won’t be dead.

Besides, aren’t we bound by the Great Wolf King’s Magic Companion something?

Since nothing’s wrong with me yet, he must be alive.

Plus, my A-grade is right around the corner.

I’ll be given a benefit too, so if I can use it as a ‘wish’ like the other Male Leads.

Even if Klaus is dead when I return, I can just revive him.

‘I’ve revived Klaus before with a special benefit when his breath had stopped.’

Even if other Male Leads die, couldn’t I revive them with benefits?

Yes. That’s what will happen.

Mother said I always win.

And now I’m the Female Protagonist of this survival story.

Protagonists always achieve everything they want…!

If I didn’t inject courage into myself like this, I felt like I’d immediately bury myself in Lisian’s back and cry loudly.

That was right.

I was currently being carried on Lisian’s back.

‘Everyone’s in their young state again this time.’

Compared to the first past I saw, when I secretly rode in Mother’s carriage, they looked a bit older.

The twins looked at least seven or eight years old.

This version of me also looked about four or five years old to match them.

After checking the twins’ faces, I gritted my teeth inwardly. There were scars everywhere that were clearly made by that woman Coriko!

“Older Brothers.”

“Yeah?”

“What?”

Lisian and Leon answered simultaneously.

They can hear my voice.

Tap.

When I reached out, I could physically touch the twins’ faces too.

“Both your faces are a mess.”

“…Ah. We got a little hurt somehow.”

Unlike Lisian who lightly glossed over his words, Leon Frazier puffed out his chest and said proudly.

“Of course! We fought our way here.”

“You fought? Who did you fight?”

“Who else. You were unconscious so you didn’t know? Betrayers appeared from Mother’s tribe.”

Leon Frazier’s bright and brilliant expression gradually darkened.

“And Mother, while protecting us…”

He couldn’t continue his words. Though he would later grow into a handsome and fearless man, the current Leon Frazier was just a young boy.

He rubbed his eyes roughly with the back of his hand to wipe them.

“Never mind. Let’s talk about this later.”

I seemed to understand his feelings, so I pretended not to know and nodded innocently.

“Then where is this… huh?”

I was trying to change the subject appropriately but ended up genuinely surprised.

“Isn’t this Under the Sacred Tree?”

That was right.

The giant tree gradually withering. The mysterious mist draped like waves.

It was the altar Under the Sacred Tree, Beta Crucis.

Why were the three of us squirming around up here? Why were three people sitting on this altar so obviously of their own accord?

“This was Under the Sacred Tree?”

“No wonder the tree was incredibly huge.”

“…?”

I frowned at the twins’ reaction.

“Didn’t you know when you came?”

“No, Tulia.”

Even though he was younger and didn’t stutter, Lisian was still Lisian.

His white hair was matted with blood and dust, but still noble like frost flowers blooming at dawn.

“We followed the pendant’s light to get here.”

His tone toward me was still gentle.

“Pendant?”

“Yeah. Mother’s reli….”

Lisian, who had almost said relic, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Even at that young age, I could clearly feel his consideration for not wanting to frighten his little sister.

“Mother gave it to me before. Light was shooting out from here, so I thought it might be some kind of guiding sacred relic and followed it.”

Saying this, Lisian showed me the pendant hanging around his chest.

“…!”

My eyes widened.

‘What? That light!’

It was such a familiar color. Like a red laser pointer, that exact shade that reminded me of a targeting sight!

Once it had targeted Klaus’s eyes, another time Lisian’s forehead! And finally, that relic Mother left behind, completely shattering the pendant!

To think that light was coming from the pendant itself.

‘Guide. Yes. I suppose you could call it a guide.’

The first time it shot light at Klaus’s eyes, I had covered his eyes with my hands.

Then something about the great Wolf King and companion, binding us with some strange Covenant Magic.

The second time….

‘Thanks to the relic being destroyed, I successfully completed the event of hurting Lisian.’

To think all of that was an attack by the Heretics. My small baby teeth ground together.

“But why here of all places?”

This altar.

The place where that High Priest or whatever had placed me in the past I first witnessed.

A place that made me feel absolutely terrible….

Suddenly, a certain hypothesis crossed my mind.

I began to struggle.

“Tulia? What’s wrong?”

“Lisian. Put me down for a moment.”

“You hurt your leg, so you need to be careful….”

Though Lisian frowned, he carefully set me down.

‘Ugh! That hurts!’

The moment I tried to move my body directly, unimaginable pain washed over me. But I couldn’t stop my actions.

Instead, Leon jumped up.

“Hey! Tulia! What are you doing?!”

“Leon. Lower your head for a moment. Quickly.”

“Why your head again. Hey. Did she hit her head or something?”

Though grumbling, Leon Frazier obediently lowered his head. He practically knelt down for me, who was much shorter than him.

I rummaged through Leon Frazier’s jet-black hair.

“….”

Then with a coldly hardened expression, I also searched through and examined Lisian’s silver hair.

And I took a couple steps back and collapsed with a thud.

“Tulia!”

“Did your legs give out? That’s why you shouldn’t do strange things when you’re hurt!”

The twins hurriedly approached and supported me. As I was dragged along like a doll in a daze, I felt like tears would burst out at any moment.

“Lisian, Leon….”

I asked slowly, being as careful as possible to keep my voice from trembling and tears from bursting out.

“Both of you, go over there and press your bodies close to the Sacred Tree.”

“…Huh? Why all of a sudden?”

I said, struggling to hold back my sobbing voice.

“The pendant’s light is pointing to the Sacred Tree anyway, right? So just do it.”

“Ah. Is that so?”

Leon scratched his head.

“I just thought it was pointing that we should come this way. Did we need to press our bodies against it too? Hey. Come here. Let’s try it.”

Lisian was half-dragged by Leon while staring intently at me. I smiled brightly at him. I barely managed to smile.

“Older Brothers.”

I hugged my injured leg and asked the two boys who were pressed against the Sacred Tree.

“Can you see the mist on the Sacred Tree?”

“Yeah.”

“Of course. We have eyes.”

“Then can you also see the mist moving right now?”

“Is it moving? It looks the same to me.”

“It looks the same to me too.”

“I see….”

I wanted to bury my face in my drawn-up knees.

It seemed invisible to their eyes. The sight of mist gathering above their heads and then quickly dispersing.

The Sacred Tree’s holy mist circled around the twins’ heads several times, but soon disappeared without a trace.

A hollow laugh escaped through my lips. I said, struggling to hold back tears.

“Now come back and sit here. I guess it was pointless.”

“…?”

They looked at each other, then came back to sit beside me. I clasped my hands tightly together, holding back my desire to cry.

‘Mother’s pendant must have deliberately pointed to the Sacred Tree….’

Hoping for some possible purification effect.

Hoping that fraternal conflict caused by Heretics wouldn’t occur.

But Mother’s hopes scattered futilely like mist.

Everything was meaningless.

My sorrow accumulated bit by bit in the empty air.

On Leon’s black hair, and on Lisian’s silver hair too.

Because I had seen the star pattern clearly engraved in the center of their hair that shone in their respective colors….

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