That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 271

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Chapter 271

 

 

 

“You don’t love me.”

Klaus muttered. His voice was different from usual. It was filled with rough breathing like an injured beast.

“Then why are you doing this much for me?”

“That’s because you too…”…”

The words came out in fragments due to the pain.

“You saved me too.”

“Do you think there’s something more painful than having a Life Pact betrayed?”

Life Pact. Yes, that’s how we first met.

Companion’s Promise or whatever. A Life Oath that descendants of the great Wolf King can make only once in their lifetime, or whatever.

I took a deep breath. I couldn’t lose consciousness here. If I did, it felt like everything would end.

“You were the first to say that our pact wasn’t normal. Klaus.”

“…Yeah.”

Klaus muttered in a low voice.

“I said that first…”

The strength gradually left his grip that had been clutching my wound.

However, not a single drop of red blood fell to the ground. It seemed to be absorbed into Klaus through our touching skin, through blood vessels intertwined like branches.

“Tulia Frazier.”

Klaus’s eyes changed to cold, three-white eyes.

“Do you like that bastard so much?”

He asked while consuming the red blood.

“Why? Because you met that bastard before me?”

“…”

Throughout his questioning, he never closed his eyes once. He only stared with gleaming eyes like a wolf that would devour all my blood vessels if it could.

Following those two eyes, tears flowed down for the first time.

“…Damn it.”

“…”

“I don’t know why I love you this much either…”

“…”

Endless flowing tears. As his cheeks became wet, Klaus’s eyes that had been murky black slowly began to change.

“I wanted to lock you up.”

“…”

“I wanted to make you look only at me. But I also.”

“…”

“I owe you my life again. How annoying.”

Klaus’s sharp claws fell away from my arm. Slowly. Very slowly.

“Descendants of the Wolf King must respect the will of those who saved their lives.”

Actually, Klaus was the one who saved my life first.

But I didn’t question his words at all. I thought that perhaps those words might be Klaus’s last pride.

“Not knowing I would come to love you like this was the cause of my downfall.”

Klaus completely let go of my arm.

He stared at me intently, then wiped his wet eyes. With his face messy with blood and tears, he bent down without hesitation.

And he kissed the top of my foot.

“…What are you doing…”

My confusion was brief.

I belatedly realized that as Klaus’s claws came out, a few drops of blood had fallen onto the top of my foot.

And he had willingly swallowed that blood.

Klaus let out a long sigh, closed his eyes, then opened them.

There were no longer any traces of Coriko’s black ink-like remnants in his eyes. Just clear and clean eyes of a Prince who inherited great bloodline.

Klaus, kneeling on one knee and sitting upright, smiled with his blood-covered face.

“In the next life, I’ll be the first to meet you before anyone else. Tulia Frazier.”

They were the same eyes as when he once approached me in his small wolf form, wagging his tail gently.

Straight and clean blue.

“I’ll dedicate my victory to you.”

Klaus, who brought his lips to the back of my hand, had no strength left in his body. I thought he had done well pretending to be strong while kneeling on one knee even with such a body.

“…If it hurts, just lean on me.”

Klaus chuckled softly, then lost consciousness and collapsed onto my body.

I almost fell with him but stubbornly held on. Supporting the sturdy Klaus with my arm that was torn and tattered from his bite was not an easy task.

“Kyung. Kyung!”

When I shouted, numerous Knights all turned around at once.

‘Right. They all have ears, so they must have been dying of curiosity.’

They looked like they might faint seeing me and Klaus covered in blood.

I embraced him.

“Take him away and get him treated. You can use any medicinal materials from the Frazier Family, but you must save him.”

“Understood.”

A few Knights immediately moved Klaus, while others stayed with me to perform first aid.

“Grand Duchess. You shouldn’t be doing this, but should evacuate to the rear area together to properly stitch up your wounds.”

“To stitch it up, you need anesthesia.”

“…That’s right?”

I had never seen surgical operations here.

“You use anesthesia when stitching?”

“We do.”

“When anesthetized, you fall into deep sleep?”

At those words, the Knights hesitated and looked at each other.

“Demotion for lying.”

“Yes. You fall into deep sleep.”

“We use medicinal materials that make you sleep for at least two hours…!”

“Then that’s fine. There’s no time either.”

First aid was literally just emergency treatment.

“Call a physician. I’ll have it stitched without sleep anesthesia.”

“What?!”

“Right now!”

“Y-yes…!”

I wanted to ask them to prepare a go board, no, a chess board too, but I had to admit.

‘I’m not Guan Yu…’

Treating and stitching up this tattered arm without sleep anesthesia was like mustering courage to the maximum.

‘What can I do.’

Even the anesthetic powder the Knights temporarily sprinkled didn’t have much effect. Since it’s a half-severed arm, there’s no way it wouldn’t hurt.

Yet I strangely felt this pain was deserved. Just like this, it seemed fair to share and bear some emotion with Klaus.

Just.

It was just that kind of feeling.

When I sighed and got up from my seat.

 

[System] Changes are occurring in your stats!

 

“…Huh?”

 

[System] Stat ‘Personality’ suspended points permanently deleted

[System] Personality: 10

[System] You have achieved maximum Personality stats and gained a new permanent buff!

.

.

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[System] Permanent buff ‘Obsession’ acquired!

 

‘A buff? Not a benefit?’

Whether question marks floated above my head or not.

 

[System] Due to the ‘Obsession’ buff, your body condition is being set to an optimized state for victory!

 

‘Is my body a machine? A machine?’

 

[System] Soul purification work begins simultaneously for perfect setting!

[System] Detecting and purifying the residue accumulated in your soul through repeated regressions!

[System] This process will take some time.

 

At the same time, choices appeared.

 

[System] Setting for victory: Choices appear!

[System] Your arm is torn to shreds in this urgent battlefield! What is your choice?

1. Maximize the natural healing of your arm.

2. Cast pain nullification magic on your entire body.

 

My eyes sparkled.

‘Number 2! Number 2!’

As soon as I chose number 2, all the pain I felt in my arm completely disappeared.

“Grand Duchess! The physician has arrived!”

The physician arrived with a pale face, saying I needed to take sleep anesthesia or that anesthetic powder should be sprinkled all over, but I didn’t even pretend to listen.

“I’ll take responsibility for the pain!”

The system window is taking responsibility!

“Stitch it up right now!”

“…Yes!”

Eventually, the physician began stitching the wound with a pale complexion.

It didn’t hurt at all, but I didn’t want to see the raw sight of the wound being stitched.

I completely ignored that side and looked at the next choice.

 

[System] Setting for victory: Choices appear!

[System] You must defeat ‘Coriko’ to achieve victory! However, the enemy is a monster and you are human, so there’s a significant difference in absolute combat power!

1. Increase your attack power.

2. Use auto attack.

 

‘Huh.’

I hesitated for a moment.

‘If I choose number 1, won’t I become like a real sword master?’

Just holding a cheap sword and going on a rampage?

If that happened, I could go beyond just slapping cheeks and really beat up Coriko like a dog…

My heart started pounding.

I might even be able to make Leon kneel later…

Right!

‘Number 1 would be good!’

In that brief moment when I made my decision.

Suddenly my vision sparkled, and the system window displayed new content in the air.

 

[System] Auto attack is automatically selected due to the soul purification passive.

 

“…Huh?”

 

* * *

 

Assis Grand Duke Frazier glanced at the young man standing beside him and said.

“Crown Prince.”

“Please speak.”

“If this old man’s eyes aren’t deceiving him, that ogre monster seems to be writhing quite violently since earlier.”

“I was thinking the same thing as you, Grand Duke.”

Ferdinand quietly observed the ogre monster with black hair, that is, the Saint’s true form.

The monster that had been screaming eerily and frantically devouring creatures until just now suddenly seemed to be under attack by some invisible force.

Ferdinand continued cutting down creatures without rest while occasionally glancing toward Coriko.

“…”

It was strange.

He kept having the illusion of seeing hundreds of sparkling lights targeting Coriko’s body.

 

* * *

 

‘Wow. Auto is indeed auto.’

As expected. Automatic is better than manual. For a beginner like me, anyway.

As soon as I selected auto attack, a choice window asking if I wanted to attack Coriko immediately appeared, and I immediately selected ‘YES’.

At the same time, thousands of pure white lights from an unknown source struck Coriko’s body like arrows.

Coriko let out a horrible scream, but people couldn’t understand why. They just murmured that the monster’s power seemed to have weakened because the number of creatures had decreased.

‘I guess others can’t see those lights.’

It seemed even Coriko couldn’t see them.

‘I wonder if the Male Leads can see them?’

Judging by how they were selectively taking down only A-grade creatures earlier…

I continued to watch Coriko while carrying out attacks, and Coriko’s black hair tentacles were helplessly cut off each time they were hit by the light.

“Aaaahhh!”

The moment I thought Coriko’s scream had become particularly sharp.

Coriko’s hair stopped growing. The tentacles that had been piercing through people and creatures had stopped.

Which meant.

Coriko’s face, which had been hidden all along, was finally revealed!

“Gasp!”

“S-Saint…?”

‘She’s also wearing Han Ina’s skin.’

How disgusting.

But that was only for a moment.

Just like Coriko’s clone had done, the Han Ina skin that Coriko’s main body was wearing peeled off like molted skin and dissolved like mist.

And the face of Coriko from inside the game that I knew was revealed.

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