That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 291

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Side Story 9

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‘Wow. Tulia’s personality is really no joke.’

How could she kick the Second Prince, slap the Female Lead, and on top of that, order Klaus, the Hidden Male Lead, to be skinned alive…

As expected, a villainess who draws aggro from all directions was on a different level.

‘Of course, I burst in at the last moment and barely saved Klaus.’

I looked down at Coriko, who was still sniffling in the Imperial Palace’s spacious hall, and examined Klaus with an even more complicated expression.

We were still in the Imperial Palace.

To be precise, it was one of Dave’s assets that I had endlessly extorted while going on and on about compensation, wanting to drive Dave into a corner.

Imperial family members could use their private wealth to offer luxurious palaces to guests. This was one of the things I had learned before being appointed as Crown Princess.

I planned to play around here and spend Dave’s private funds—that bastard’s allowance—to the very limit.

Thanks to this, a small orchestra directly under the Imperial Palace was playing music in this separate palace, and thanks to that, Coriko’s sobbing sounds were drowned out.

I was cursing the Sacred Tree inwardly.

‘How did it implement the original Tulia’s personality from so perfectly?’

It was so absurd.

And what should I do about Klaus now…

Just as I swallowed a sigh.

“Tulia Frazier.”

A familiar voice rang in my ears. The servants around me screamed in shock.

“Kyaah!”

“The, the dog is talking!”

“Call a priest, call a priest!”

The surroundings turned upside down. If it weren’t for Tulia’s fierce glare attack, everyone would have already run away.

But Tulia was scary, and the Frazier Knights were even scarier.

The surroundings were instantly organized, and the orchestra, which was too far away to notice the commotion, started playing again with puzzled expressions.

Everyone eerily quietly ignored Klaus—the talking puppy.

“Anyway, those from the Spring Continent are so noisy.”

Though the actual center of that commotion grumbled like this.

‘Now I have to push Klaus away, right? I have to act as mean as possible like Tulia from , right?’

The moment I took a deep breath inwardly to display tremendous acting skills.

Klaus instantly jumped into my arms.

My confusion was brief.

“I came to find you. Tulia.”

My tongue froze at Klaus’s whisper.

“Are you scared? Don’t be surprised. I was shocked when I opened my eyes too. Why did your twins become vegetables? And why is that Crown Prince bastard dead? Why is the world turned upside down like this? And why is that woman wearing such skin…”

Unlike before, Klaus whispered in a voice only I could hear.

“Don’t worry. I’ll protect you. I came all the way to the Spring Continent to get you. Let’s go, I’ll protect you…”

Klaus, who had been muttering, suddenly looked at my face and made a strange expression.

“Tulia. Don’t you recognize me? No.”

He suddenly whispered in a cold voice.

“Why are you pretending not to know me?”

I was so flustered that I hurriedly escaped from Tulia like someone burned by fire.

Then the ‘real’ Tulia’s personality immediately emerged.

“Interesting. The dog speaks human language properly?”

Tulia examined Klaus with a greedy expression.

“What are you talking about? Tulia Frazier! Don’t you know me? It’s Klaus! Your half…”

Thud.

Tulia seemed to have little interest in hitting small creatures.

She threw Tulia straight into Coriko’s arms.

“You take care of it. It works out well since you’re both ‘merchandise.'”

“Ol… Tu, Lady Tulia…”

Coriko finally seemed to have corrected her speech habit as she spoke through tears.

“I’m tired. Prepare a meal.”

“Yes, Grand Duchess!”

Tulia stretched and walked away. Klaus stared at my retreating figure with a dazed expression, unable to look away.

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“I’m sorry, Older Sister doesn’t have a good personality…”

“Older Sister?”

“Yes. Older Sister Tulia. Right now I’m calling her ‘Young Lady’ due to circumstances, but she’s also my older sister… I’m really sorry. I’ll apologize on Older Sister’s behalf.”

Klaus responded indifferently to Coriko’s apology.

“That Pink-Haired Woman is better than you? You threw me to the wolves earlier.”

Instantly, Coriko’s face turned bright red.

She had lived half her life in the temple, always taking pride in her high moral character. But to think he remembered what happened earlier…!

“Th, that was because I was too scared! I did it without thinking… People do anything when they’re about to die…!”

“You only make excuses for your own actions. Yet you apologize on behalf of others.”

“You…!”

Coriko suddenly disliked this puppy in her arms.

Just moments ago, he had seemed cute and lovable with soft fur, but now he felt like he was possessed by a demon.

“Get lost! You said you came from the Summer Continent? You heretical symbol!”

“This is why those from the Spring Continent are noisy.”

Coriko burst into tears, but Klaus wasn’t interested.

He was just following Tulia’s retreating figure with his eyes.

‘Why doesn’t she recognize me?’

Is she fake?

Is this an illusion?

No, what is this world in the first place? Why is the time and axis different from what he knew when he opened his eyes?

Moreover, in this world, Crown Prince Ferdinand was already said to be dead. He was supposed to be the man who would belong to Tulia…

Klaus felt like his head would explode.

He felt like he was going crazy wondering if this was an extension of the dreams he always had.

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Meanwhile, there was one more boy experiencing similar hallucinations.

“Prince Benjamin… It’s time to take your medicine…”

Benjamin was blankly looking at himself in a broken mirror.

It had been truly a long time since he had seen himself so gaunt, with scars remaining all over his body.

What could it be?

Was it a dream?

At first, he wondered if he had returned to the past, but upon immediate examination, the major events were different.

He couldn’t know the inner affairs of Grand Duke Frazier House in detail, but everyone knew that the Crown Prince of the Briyang Empire was already a deceased person who had left this world.

Many other historical events had changed as well.

Benjamin couldn’t bear it.

The boy who had already been an adult once could act more cunningly. With just a few words, he lured his brothers and came to the Imperial Palace of the Briyang Empire.

Though it still didn’t feel real, Benjamin was lucky.

He had heard that Tulia, that is, Grand Duchess Frazier, was at the Imperial Palace.

The time when she was granted the title of Grand Duchess was different from what he knew, but anyway.

As long as she was alive, that was enough.

As long as she was alive and well, that was enough.

Benjamin wanted to see Tulia right away.

But she was noble, and he was the son of a lowly concubine at the bottom…

He couldn’t approach her with just a few simple schemes like he had done so far.

How could he get close to Tulia?

How could he…

God must have taken pity on Benjamin as he pondered.

The moment Benjamin casually raised his head, he felt as if time had stopped.

In the distance, no. It wasn’t even that far.

He could see pink hair nearby. It was her, the one he had longed for even in his dreams.

Just looking at her made him feel like his body was floating above the clouds.

Benjamin couldn’t think of anything.

Before he knew it, he was walking toward Tulia, then running.

And he threw himself forward.

But…

“Is this bastard crazy?!”

“Do you even know who that woman is before approaching her!”

Thud.

Benjamin’s brothers were startled and beat him up. They hit him again and again, asking if he dared to approach Grand Duchess Frazier and wag his tail at her without knowing his place.

It was painful, yet it wasn’t painful. He felt such contradictory emotions. Even while being beaten, Benjamin could only think of Tulia.

I need to get close to her.

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