That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 265

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Chapter 265

‘Right. Who else besides me would have dismissed Coriko so completely all this time.’

As she turned around with a pitiful expression, the delegation nobles immediately stepped forward.

“Saint!”

“We will stand with you as well, Saint!”

“God will surely watch over us!”

Here comes another grand emotional scene about to unfold.

I found Coriko’s performance amusing, and at the same time thought it was truly dirty and underhanded.

‘Anyway, the fewer knights there are, the more advantageous it’ll be for Coriko Main Body.’

So she’s trying to lead the knights down a path where their unnecessary deaths are obvious.

“Older Sister Tulia.”

That’s when Coriko threw the first punch.

“You should go to the rear and stay under the protection of the Holy Knights.”

“…?”

I frowned. Unless I was an idiot, I couldn’t miss that Coriko’s words about ‘protection of the Holy Knights’ meant ‘confinement.’

“There’s no need for that. I’m fine.”

“No, Older Sister.”

Coriko clasped her two faintly trembling hands together.

“This is an order I’m giving as the Saint.”

“An order? What’s the reason?”

“Because… that strange monster defiling the temple has the exact same hair color as you, Older Sister.”

“…!”

“…!”

“…!”

Instantly, the surroundings erupted in commotion. But I just narrowed my eyes and watched Coriko.

“Is that so? So what you’re saying is that I seem like I’m in cahoots with that monster?”

“I can’t be certain, so that’s why I’m saying this. And.”

Coriko spoke like a girl who had barely managed to summon courage in an urgent situation.

“Now that the High Priests have fallen into a powerless state, I am the only one who can oversee this grand temple as the Saint.”

The nobles murmured. These were people who had been thinking of me in connection with that main body from the start.

I let out a chuckle and stepped forward.

“So Coriko, what you’re saying is that your will is now the will of the grand temple?”

Coriko didn’t answer. Unlike her faintly trembling shoulders, her upright neck showed no wavering.

She looked so fragile yet at the same time frighteningly noble.

“So the grand temple considers me, Tulia Frazier, Grand Duchess Frazier, to be something like an appendage of that monster of unknown origin?”

Instantly, the eyes of the Briyang Knights subtly changed.

Frazier was the house representing all Briyang nobles. Its history and prestige flowed like an eternal stream through the blue blood of Briyang.

Even within Frazier, the Grand Duchess was the one who held official peerage and an independent position.

That glory. That honor.

For such a Grand Duchess Frazier to be treated as a monster in a foreign country.

Of course, because Coriko Main Body happened to have pink hair, I had been receiving hostile glances since earlier.

But the Saint saying such things carried a different weight entirely.

This was something that could easily be read as an insult to all Briyang nobles and a humiliation to their home country.

As the atmosphere among Briyang nobles and knight orders changed, the foreign embassy nobles grew tense.

A powder keg situation. I gladly set off this situation.

“Coriko.”

Slap!

“…!”

Coriko grabbed the cheek I had struck with disbelieving eyes.

“Older Sis… Kyah!”

Slap! Slap! Slap!

I only stopped after hitting her three times in succession.

“Grand Duchess! What is this disgraceful behavior!”

“To use violence against the Saint!”

The High Priests who rushed out couldn’t even approach me and were caught. Because the Frazier Knights blocked them like the wind.

It was because Grandfather had given orders with a brief gesture.

“Your Grace the Grand Duke!”

Angry voices erupted from the captured High Priests.

“Even if you are the Empire’s Grand Duke! Do you have the authority to block us?”

“That’s right! The Saint is God’s messenger who descended to the continent!”

“All of you be quiet.”

Grandfather continued in a cold voice.

“This is a family matter.”

The High Priests’ eyes widened in shock.

“Grand Duke Frazier!”

Grandfather, towering like Mount Tai, clasped his hands behind his back.

“Tell me, Marquis Aster Frazier! Both the Grand Duchess and the Saint bear the Frazier name! So is there a problem with my saying this is a family matter?”

Father lightly bowed his head.

“There is none, Father.”

“…Your Grace the Grand Duke! You cannot do this! No matter how much you dote on the Grand Duchess, there are limits!”

“Be quiet!”

This time it was me who shouted. The High Priests who had been glaring at me as if to devour me flinched in surprise.

It was the shout, but also probably because of the tears flowing down my cheeks like pearls.

I looked at Coriko and cried out sorrowfully.

“Coriko!”

You think only you can cry? I can cry too, you know?

“I know you’re jealous because I usually receive a lot of love from Grandfather! But to lie and say I’m in cahoots with monsters…”

Coriko’s eyes widened greatly. Right now she was shedding tears, but in her heart she must have torn me apart a hundred times over.

“Older Sister! What kind of ridiculous false accusation is that! I don’t even care about such trivial things, and above all, I’m the Saint! How could a Saint tell such wicked lies…!”

“So in your eyes, I’m a monster?”

Without even waiting to hear Coriko’s answer, I turned toward Ferdinand and cried out tearfully.

“Your Highness!”

You think only you can act? I can do it too, you know?

“They’re treating me, your fiancée, like a monster! Do you believe what they’re saying? Do you?”

I didn’t even have time to give Ferdinand a brief signal. Because he suddenly embraced me tightly.

The bewilderment was brief.

“My fiancée being in cahoots with those terrible monsters? How could that be possible.”

An ice-cold voice settled heavily.

“My divine power doesn’t reject the Grand Duchess in the slightest.”

‘No. Why does he have to do that even when speaking.’

It made me think of all those nights we spent sleeping in each other’s arms. At least my hair covered my burning ears, which was fortunate.

“Surely the Saint of all people isn’t doubting my divine power.”

“….”

“Are you really suspecting my fiancée of being in cahoots with that monster, Saint?”

Coriko had no answer. No, she seemed unable to find an answer.

“What about the priests? What are your opinions?”

The High Priests looked back and forth between Coriko and Ferdinand, then ultimately couldn’t say anything and bowed their heads.

“What on earth is this….”

“Who would dare doubt the Crown Prince’s divine power.”

“But the Saint is someone chosen by God.”

The murmuring around us grew more intense. Coriko’s shoulders trembled delicately.

But I knew better than anyone that all of this was an act.

Under the pretext of protecting the ‘Saint,’ Holy Knights were gathering toward the front, and as crowds pressed in, what Coriko’s main body was doing beyond became harder to see.

Even at this very moment, the main body was probably busy devouring Creatures.

The Coriko in front of me seemed to be just buying time. If not that, then maybe she really had planned to lock me away somewhere and secretly kill me.

‘It’s probably both, from the feel of it.’

“Let me go.”

I whispered quietly. Ferdinand’s arms tensed for a moment, but then he obediently released me.

I looked at him with a slight smile and stepped forward.

“High Priests.”

Those being held by the Frazier Knights glared at me with reddened eyes. There was no response.

“Is Coriko really the true Saint?”

Those words seemed to set fire to the High Priests’ heads. Roars erupted.

“How impudent, Grand Duchess Frazier!”

“How dare you question the High Priests’ decision! Are you doubting the sacred artifacts bestowed by God?!”

“Does the Grand Duke Frazier House truly wish to wage holy war against the Holy Nation!”

If their limbs weren’t restrained, they would have immediately struck my cheeks with that fury.

I stared at them blankly, then looked at Coriko, who was now crying profusely.

The unrestrained High Priests were earnestly comforting and embracing Coriko.

‘How ridiculous.’

“That’s right. The sacred artifact acknowledged Coriko as the Saint.”

I held out both palms. Simultaneously, people’s eyes grew as wide as they possibly could.

[System] Your star is materializing!

[System] Others are beginning to perceive the star!

“So with this sacred artifact.”

Kim Ddongbyeol shone with dazzling splendor above my hands.

I smiled brightly.

The reason I summoned this for others to see?

It was simple.

[System] Using Benefit Beauty That Topples Nations!

Because I wouldn’t be able to sleep unless I repaid the violence I suffered a thousand times over.

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