That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 273
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Chapter 273
In that instant, I don’t know how my face changed. Ferdinand burst into laughter and lightly kissed my cheek. It happened in a flash.
“Tulia.”
A shadow resembling loneliness invaded his eyes where a faint smile lingered, making him look desolate.
However.
“I’m glad I was the first to meet you.”
In Ferdinand’s voice that followed, there was relief like a child who had finally found their way.
Such emotions were scattered throughout.
I had no choice but to embrace Ferdinand with my one good arm.
This Crown Prince who had been young for so long.
* * *
Meanwhile.
The High Priests still couldn’t believe that the High Priests were monsters.
They pushed away the knights trying to stop them, even harming themselves as they rushed toward the High Priests.
If word spread across the continent that the High Priests were monsters, that would truly be the downfall of the Grand Temple!
It couldn’t be!
There was no way it could be…!
Crunch.
“High Priests…!”
The Regular Priests froze in place. The others weren’t much different. The High Priests who had transformed into creatures were shouting with their blood-soaked mouths.
“My God! Please accept the blood of these sacrifices!”
“Kehehehe…!”
The High Priests’ blood was instantly absorbed by Coriko. The same went for the Divine Power they possessed.
Simultaneously, gasps of shock erupted from everywhere.
“She, she really was the Saint…!”
“This can’t be…!”
Before the people who had only heard but couldn’t believe, Coriko returned to Han Ina’s pristine face.
But only briefly. She laughed pleasantly as she tore off her face.
“As expected, maintaining this face is too exhausting…”
Coriko’s tentacles had grown nightmarishly long at some point. She threw back her head and laughed loudly.
“Yes! It was a mistake, a mistake! We didn’t know the sacrifices would love you for such various reasons! It was our mistake!”
As Coriko continued word by word, the creatures that had been swarming like bees began falling to the ground one by one.
Like tools discarded after serving their purpose…
Coriko’s eyes gradually turned bright red.
“Tulia Frazier! I should have devoured you faster, I should have sucked out the Sacred Tree’s power down to the bone marrow without leaving any behind! Ahahaha!”
Most people couldn’t understand Coriko’s words at all. No, they didn’t even have time to look back at Tulia to understand.
Thud.
Thud.
“…?!”
People suddenly began kneeling toward Coriko from all around.
With more than half the people suddenly showing strange behavior, the surroundings became restless.
“Count! Please get up! Count!”
“Why are they all acting like this suddenly?”
Those who knelt toward Coriko had something in common.
Red squares floated above their heads without exception, and their pupils were dyed black as if holes had been punched through them.
Coriko burst into laughter as she extended her tentacles.
“Sacred Tree, Sacred Tree! If I can’t eat the real sacrifice, I’ll just absorb and devour all the fake sacrifices! All of these will become sacrifices to offer to my god!”
Along with chilling laughter, those who hadn’t knelt clung to each other in terror.
“They seem to be controlled by that ogre monster…”
“Why are we fine?”
“What is it? What is it?”
In fearful situations, minds work urgently.
People quickly figured out the common trait of those who weren’t being ‘controlled.’
“All the Frazier Knights are fine, aren’t they?”
“Most people from Briyang are fine too!”
“The priests too…!”
After excluding those, the remaining people were even more bewildered. They weren’t Frazier people, Briyang people, or priests.
Then suddenly.
“Um… we have one thing in common.”
“What, what is it?”
“We were hit by the Grand Duchess earlier, us…”
“…!”
“…!”
“…!”
In that moment, a storm-like silence flowed.
It had been so humiliating at the time, but now the situation was completely reversed.
“I, I think that’s right! I think I’m fine because I was hit! The Grand Duchess summoned a holy relic too!”
“…!”
“…!”
People’s hearts were pounding so hard they felt like they might vomit.
“But there are quite a few people who weren’t hit!”
“Why are you fine? Huh? You’re not from Frazier, not from Briyang, not a priest, and you weren’t hit either!”
“I, I am…!”
A man dressed particularly luxuriously said hurriedly.
“I’m a merchant guild leader who recently made a big deal with Baektul Salon…! Grand Duchess Frazier gave me many gifts of fabric dyed with Baektul, and the clothes I’m wearing today happen to be made from that fabric…”
“…!”
People could no longer distinguish whether they were believing in superstition or had gone insane.
As if bewitched, they turned their gazes here and there looking for Tulia.
“There, she’s over there!”
“‘Han Ina’ is shining above the Grand Duchess!”
The star shining above Tulia’s head had even transformed into a more sacred appearance.
The people who had been in panic from fear and terror felt worship and relief simultaneously, shedding tears without exception.
“The Grand Duchess! She’s been protecting us with ‘Han Ina’!”
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‘Yes. It’s Han Ina.’
Since the Frazier Knights guarding me were hardly brainwashed, I could hear the people’s tearful stories in real time.
I smiled brightly at them.
“Grand Duchess!”
“Grand Duchess!”
“Han Ina! Han Ina!”
People cheered while crying, but in reality, I, Tulia, was on the verge of going crazy and jumping around.
‘The Han Ina who is protecting you is currently one step away from going insane.’
“But what are those red square boxes floating above people’s heads?”
“I don’t know. It’s definitely something that monster created though…”
“Is it some kind of curse?”
The murmuring voices of the Knight Orders.
‘Can others see those red system windows too?’
I quickly turned to the side. A knight who met my eyes muttered as if entranced.
“Oh God…”
“Grand Duchess.”
“Y-Yes!”
The Frazier Knights who had been looking at me with worship snapped to attention.
“Kyung. Can you see something floating above people’s heads?”
“I can see it!”
“What do you see?”
“I see something like red square boxes!”
‘Hmm. So everyone can see them.’
“Do you think there are letters inside the square boxes?”
I asked as if testing them, but the knights quickly shook their heads.
“There don’t seem to be any letters!”
“Right?”
“Yes!”
“Then can you see red dots on top of the red squares?”
“I can see them!”
“Only shoot arrows at the squares marked with red dots.”
“Yes, my lord!”
Arrows immediately flew out.
‘They can’t see it, it seems.’
In my eyes, the text ‘Grade A Value’ was clearly visible, but it seemed that while others could see the status windows, they couldn’t read the text inside.
Even as I continuously attacked Coriko with Beauty That Topples Nations, I was feeling puzzled on one hand.
‘This is strange.’
My stats are completely maxed out now.
‘Why isn’t the main quest completing?’
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