That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 27

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Chapter 27

Now it’s not just a bystander but bystander’S’?

‘Aaah!’

I hastily opened the Status Window.

[System: Status Window]

Tulia Frazier (15 years old)

-Coins Owned: 995

-Character: 1

-Beauty: 8

-Skill: 1

-Wealth: 0

-Luck: -10

Overall Rating: F

The temperature of the meeting hall, which had been as fragrant and beautiful as the Angels’ Tea Room just moments ago, was dropping by the minute.

Without thinking any further, I immediately spent the coins.

Clang!

[System] 2 coins have been consumed.

[System] Skill 2 achieved!

‘N-now it should work, right?’

But once again, Frazier’s Necklace writhed like a snake with a soul and tried to fall to the floor.

Driven by survival instinct and fear, I hurriedly caught the necklace and frantically spent more coins.

Clang!

[System] 3 coins have been consumed.

[System] Skill 3 achieved!

[System] 4 coins have been consumed.

[System] Skill 4 achieved!

In the midst of all this, unlike with the character stat, I was internally shedding tears of relief that the skill stat was surprisingly cost-effective, when—

Clang!

[System] 986 coins have been consumed.

[System] Skill 5 achieved!

In that instant, my eyes froze in mid-air. No, did my breathing stop?

How much?

How much did you say?

As if answering me, the system window kindly sparkled.

[System] Current Coins Owned: 0

[System] 1 coin will be additionally awarded as a second evaluation rank-up bonus.

[System] Coins Owned 0 → 1

Current Overall Rating: D-

“…Tulia Frazier?”

I snapped back to my senses from staring blankly into space.

Assis Grand Duke Frazier was looking at me with a strange expression.

“Are you feeling unwell?”

If I had been in my right mind, I would have been startled by the subtle concern I could detect in Assis Grand Duke Frazier’s voice, but I wasn’t in my right mind at the moment.

I couldn’t be.

I barely managed to collect myself, or rather, pretended to collect myself as much as possible, and opened my trembling lips.

“I-I’m sorry, Grandfather. I was so surprised that I keep losing strength in my hands…”

Then Assis Grand Duke Frazier said “Hmm” while frowning and looked toward the Lilius Family.

Of course, I didn’t have the luxury to look back at them.

I simply moved like a machine, slowly, half-unconsciously, and began putting Frazier’s Necklace around my neck again.

If I failed to put the necklace on my neck this time too, it would be the end.

Anyone would see it as intentional, and Glory would naturally be confiscated.

Without Glory, according to family law, I wouldn’t be able to go outside, and I wouldn’t be able to meet Male Lead 1, the very first condition for achieving A-rank.

If that happened, the Main Quest would naturally be a complete failure.

‘That’s basically saying I’ll just die…’

Thanks to that, my hands were trembling terribly.

But the necklace hung safely around my neck as if it had been born to be worn by me, shining beautifully.

Despite feeling wronged, frustrated, and confused from recklessly spending coins, it was strangely moving enough to feel emotional.

It was beautiful.

“Congratulations, Miss Tulia!”

“Glory suits you very well.”

“It seems to have found its rightful owner. You’re absolutely radiant.”

The retainers’ cheerful laughter didn’t reach the depths of my heart, scattering emptily like warm clouds.

My eyes were simply fixed on empty space.

[System] Current Coins Owned: 1

‘T-this crazy…’

Haha.

I learned for the first time that when a person is too dumbfounded, they just let out hollow laughter regardless of the situation and place.

They said once you raise a stat, you can never reverse it.

If I had known this would happen, I should have spent coins without saving and put them into wealth, but regret flooded in like crazy, though a departed bus never returns.

‘A villain who recklessly raised skill stats instead of wealth stats.’

What kind of behavior is this, like a barbarian learning golf before learning how to hunt?

There’s a villain who indulges in luxury with stats, and that’s me.

“Congratulations, Miss Tulia.”

“Congratulations. Has there ever been a Frazier who received Glory this early in history?”

“Miss Tulia seems destined to become a dignified great person who will bring honor to House Frazier in the future.”

“How does the jewelry color suit you so perfectly?”

Amid the pouring congratulations, I barely swallowed my tears.

“Thank you. Thank you.”

Even while bowing to each of the retainers one by one, Glory, Frazier’s Necklace, dangled from my neck and shone magnificently.

“That’s enough. Tulia Frazier.”

While I was bowing repeatedly, Grand Duke Assis approached.

“Go rest now. You don’t look well at all.”

Normally, I wouldn’t have missed an opportunity to make a good impression on the Grand Duke, but right now I really needed to rest.

Otherwise, I would have grabbed that obliviously fluttering status window, that winged star, torn it in half and burned it.

“Thank you, Grandfather….”

My energy was completely drained, so my voice trailed off weakly at the end.

That night.

I only found out the next morning that Assis Grand Duke Frazier had sent over a pile of extremely expensive and precious medicinal herbs.

* * *

The long-awaited day had dawned.

After eating a late breakfast and finishing washing up and brushing my teeth, I summoned the maids and lined them up in a row.

“Rilda?”

“Yes, yes. Miss Tulia.”

The incident at the meeting hall would have already spread as rumors throughout the main castle and all the annex buildings in the Frazier domain.

Since the retainers had also participated, by now there probably wouldn’t be a single noble in that vast Frazier domain who didn’t know about it.

The same would be true for the maids assigned to my quarters.

I sauntered over toward Rilda. Her face was as pale as a patient’s. Cold sweat was pouring down like rain.

Well, the other maids looked similar.

‘Was Rilda the only one who received bribes?’

Was she the one who hid that bastard Tedrick’s exam paper in my room?

Neither I nor Adel, the head maid, knew that much.

Anyway, all the maids here were girls that Aubrey had sent.

Whether there were accomplices among these maids who had been bribed by Aubrey was absolutely impossible to know….

‘Wait a minute?’

I clicked on the star that was flying around me like bird droppings today as well with my gaze.

And I looked at the maid standing on the far left who was sweating cold sweat profusely.

At that moment.

[System: Profile]

Marie (23 years old)

-From a southern city of the Briyang Empire.

-First entered the Grand Ducal House as a maid 3 years ago….

‘No, I don’t need a detailed profile!’

As I slowly moved my gaze, once again this time too.

-As for secrets she’s hiding…(Show more)

I immediately clicked on show more.

-Accomplice bribed by Viscount Lilius and Aubrey.

‘Crazy!’

My eyes widened like an astronomer who had just picked up a freshly fallen meteor.

Profile Check could be used for this purpose too!

After quickly checking all the maids’ profiles, I was now smiling very brightly.

This must be the kind of smile someone who won the lottery twice would have?

“Rilda.”

“Yes, yes….”

“Marie. Beckley. Cindy. Jeje. Clara.”

The maids whose names were called flinched in surprise.

‘How are they all accomplices without a single exception?’

It was a bit bitter, but what could I do.

Aubrey was a person in power who held domestic authority, and until yesterday I was just an abandoned marquis house young lady with nothing particularly outstanding about me.

“Girls.”

I approached right in front of Rilda and raised my hand.

Then Rilda reflexively hunched her shoulders and squeezed her eyes shut.

Since Rilda was quite old, if she handled this matter well, she probably would have been promised a position like assistant head maid of a viscount house?

I took Rilda’s hands very gently with my raised hand.

And I greeted her with all my heart.

“Thank you.”

No violence, no reproach.

I just said thank you with the kindest smile Tulia could make.

Rilda, who opened her eyes a beat late, asked back with bewildered eyes.

“…What?”

“It’s all thanks to Rilda and the rest of you five.”

How many people could immediately understand a thank you with all the context removed?

Especially in a situation where there was so much to feel guilty about.

But Rilda was indeed a maid that Aubrey had boasted had noble blood flowing through her.

Because she understood my words, even if a beat late.

My thank you with no beginning or end had one meaning.

“Thank you for betraying your real master Aubrey’s conspiracy and helping me.”

Words with that implication.

Similar words would be false accusation.

Or perhaps cornering?

“Ah, Miss. When did I ever…!”

When did she ever betray Aubrey and help me – a protest that she couldn’t even finish seemed to be bursting up to her throat.

Anyway, this wicked person probably wouldn’t have been able to say those words to the end.

If Rilda spoke that way, it would give me a way to attack in return.

I could interrogate her asking what on earth she was talking about, and whether she was the one who played the role of accomplice in yesterday’s false accusation incident.

Most importantly….

“…Tulia. I’m sorry for entering without knocking, dear.”

The voice of Aubrey, who always smiled pretending to be a kind aunt or secretly glared at me as if looking at Tedrick’s enemy, fell upon my ears.

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