That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 257

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Chapter 257

I looked up and tried my best to hold back my tears.

“Tulia. Lean on me a bit. Your legs must hurt a lot.”

“Or would you rather just lie down? You’re a patient right now, you know?”

“No. I’ll lean against you. Let me borrow your shoulder.”

“Huh? Oh, okay.”

The Twins pressed close to both my sides. I looked down at my bloodied knees, feeling like a marshmallow squeezed between soft bread.

‘Vicious. Really, so vicious.’

They called Tulia a villain. The greatest villain in .

But was Tulia really a villain?

Tulia Frazier, at least, even while committing all sorts of misdeeds, never did such cruel things. She never went so far as to drive someone’s heart into hell like this.

How much time was left?

The star pattern carved into their heads. The symbol of the Heretics.

‘Both of them will change like Benjamin.’

Their eyes will turn pitch black, and they’ll be used as tools to kill me.

Maybe like Benjamin, they’ll struggle and then just shed silent tears.

And yet still have to kill me in the end.

My vision went dark as if I had fallen into a deep well.

The Twins looked completely unaware. They seemed to be barely holding on with fear and childlike bravado and courage they had desperately gathered.

“….”

That made my heart ache even more. I could no longer distinguish between physical pain and emotional pain.

Was the Successor’s blood such an intense temptation to them?

“If that thing’s Protective Power wasn’t so strong, I wouldn’t have had to spend such a long time scratching my face, drinking blood, and wrapping bandages. You have no idea how much I hate that thing.”

Coriko said she hated me while grinding her teeth.

How ridiculous. She chose this path herself, yet she blamed me for how difficult it was?

‘If anyone should hate, it should be me. Really now.’

I slowly exhaled while imagining chewing Coriko to pieces.

Right. Whether I chew her up, roast her, or turn her into blood pudding with Beauty That Topples Nations, for now….

“….”

I quietly leaned my head against Leon’s shoulder. And I took Lisian’s hand.

Both seemed to hesitate for a moment, but that was all. Somewhere in this Mysterious Space, I could hear the sound of dew dripping, and the silence made it feel infinitely vast.

“You know, Lisian, Leon.”

I continued speaking slowly.

“Later, if you get a chance to make a wish, don’t wish for anything else….”

“…?”

I could feel Lisian and Leon turning their eyes toward me. I spoke firmly while feeling their warmth.

“Wish to save your own lives. Got it?”

“…What?”

“Don’t wish for anything else, just wish for that. Got it?”

“….”

“Hurry up and promise. Promise you’ll make a wish to save your own lives, not something useless. Got it?”

“…?”

Both looked puzzled. Just as I was about to urge them to promise quickly.

Lisian asked.

“Then Tulia, what about you?”

“Huh?”

“What about your life, Tulia?”

“…Ah.”

I immediately said firmly.

“Of course I’ll wish to save my own life too. So we’ll each make wishes to save our own lives. Got it? Promise me, will you? Hurry.”

“….”

Eventually Lisian nodded slightly, and Leon Frazier answered as if exasperated.

“Geez…. Fine.”

“Good.”

I was greatly satisfied inside.

‘Now when my meeting with these two ends.’

I’ll return to being the original Tulia.

[System] 3 out of the Male Protagonists will die randomly.

There are five Male Protagonists total.

The Twins, Lisian and Leon.

Ferdinand.

Benjamin.

And Klaus, whose life already hangs by a thread.

Ferdinand, Benjamin, and Klaus, who each expressed their love to me in different ways along with the two people before me, came to mind one by one.

As I was slowly sinking into despair, I soon bit my lips tightly.

‘I have Benefit and A-grade.’

Like a poor child reflecting on their meager Emergency Fund secretly saved and buried underground, I repeated the same words over and over.

‘As if I’d lose.’

At least I won’t lose to that vicious Coriko. I’ll win no matter what.

I’ll somehow beat her with Beauty That Topples Nations and save these people.

I gritted my teeth and tried hard to think cheerful thoughts.

When I return to reality after this past ends, I should create vast Plains filled with Tulips. I’ll plant them in sections of different colors, and when all the Flowers bloom, I’ll walk through them with my Family Members.

The colorful Tulips bathed in spring light would be joyful and delightful just to look at.

‘I want to face something joyful quickly. I want to let the sad things flow away quickly.’

So I hope this death in the past ends as quickly as possible, I thought as I closed my eyes.

Click.

Suddenly my throat was grabbed.

I could tell whose small hands were gripping my neck without even looking down.

‘Ah. So it’s starting.’

The situation where Older Brothers with stars already carved in their heads try to kill me.

I tried not to open my eyes. It’s the past anyway, and I’ve finished preparing to return to reality. I need to make plans to fight Coriko.

I have to.

I have to, but….

‘…But what if this is really the last time?’

What if I never get to see one of these two again, or maybe both of them forever?

“….”

The courage I had built up layer by layer unraveled so hastily. When the emotions I had desperately piled up with all my strength crumbled in the blink of an eye, my vulnerable inner self was revealed.

In truth, I was young Tulia, terrified and not knowing what to do. That was me. That was my real heart.

I could no longer keep my eyes closed.

Trembling with fear, I lifted my eyelids. The Twins’ faces were right in front of me.

Their eyes, which had always shone with various colors, sometimes vivid and sometimes mischievous, were now dead black like crow feathers.

…They were exactly the same color as Benjamin’s.

“Lisian, Leon….”

My throat was being strangled, so only a thin sound could flow out. Just that short pronunciation made my throat tremble and my stomach ache completely.

I’m going to beat up all those crazy bastards and definitely overcome this.

So this won’t be our farewell.

Even while constantly repeating this to myself, I actually wondered if we were truly facing a farewell.

Because I kept thinking that I might fail.

Like the fuse of lit explosives, I absolutely couldn’t cut off these anxious thoughts.

“….”

In the end, the tears I had been holding back flowed down my cheeks.

“I’m in pain….”

“….”

“….”

There was no response.

It was natural. Their eyes were already bewitched by sorcery.

Being able to kill me without Coriko’s hands meant the sorcery had become much more sophisticated than during Benjamin’s time.

So the twins.

These two probably don’t even know that star patterns are carved above their heads.

It seems Coriko, or her fanatics, had already erased those memories.

So when they followed Mother’s relics, they thought all three of us could somehow survive.

Even while barely carrying me on their backs and fleeing, they didn’t give up hope, right?

Even though their entire bodies became covered in wounds from sword cuts like that….

‘Bad bastards. Inhuman bastards. Trash-like dirty, cowardly bastards worse than cockroaches.’

I was angry. I felt sad enough to die. So sorrowful. So unfair. I wanted to scream. Childish complaints swelled up like a balloon and burst all at once.

“Both of you… don’t die….”

Please promise me you won’t die.

I will definitely save you both, but just in case my strength is insufficient, or the benefit goes beyond my expectations again.

Or if I fail….

Even if I can’t save you, survive on your own strength.

You’re the male leads, so you can do that.

And you’re my older brothers.

You can’t be worse than your younger sibling.

“Both of you… promise you won’t die… make that wish….”

These were words I barely managed to say while gasping. Maybe the two of them can achieve A-rank right now too.

My voice might not be heard, but Benjamin also eventually broke that sorcery and achieved the main completion.

So I believed the twins could do it too.

‘The sorcery seems to have gotten too strong, but anyway.’

You both inherited half of Mother’s blood, didn’t you?

So if the main Quest completion appears.

When they tell you to make a wish then, I wanted to repeatedly urge you not to wish for anything else but to take care of your own lives.

I didn’t have the strength left to say this much, so it ended up being a short demand instead.

“Huu….”

Hoping my feelings would be conveyed, I closed my eyes. Tears flowed down endlessly.

Was being on the verge of death such a sad and despairing thing?

“….”

Then, suddenly.

Like a lie, the small hands that had been strangling my neck stopped.

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