That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 33

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Chapter 33

“Yes. Your Majesty the Empress.”

With an expressionless face and a voice devoid of any emotion, one could ‘look down’ on the other party.

That was it.

With just one short answer, the Crown Prince was indifferently letting her know that all the Empress’s words held not even a handful of value to him, that she was merely wasting time in vain.

There was no way Empress Carmi, who was right in front of him, couldn’t feel the disregard and contempt that I had noticed.

It was already a crushed smile like a stem that had been broken once. It couldn’t return to its original state.

Despite that, Empress Carmi was smiling. Still.

“Crown Prince.”

“Yes, Your Majesty the Empress.”

“Are you angry because of my concern?”

“I have no particular interest in Your Majesty’s words.”

“I see. Then you should call me.”

The Empress bent her waist slightly toward the Crown Prince.

The small golden ornaments in her reddish-brown hair clinked together, making a beautiful sound.

“‘Mother’ is what you should call me.”

Her smile was cold and soft like a blade hidden in snow, as if one would be cut to pieces the moment they faced it.

“Come now. Go ahead.”

“Your Majesty the Empress.”

“….”

No expression still appeared on Ferdinand’s face.

Only a faint sign that this conversation was boring flickered in his eyes.

“My mother already died long ago. Your Majesty the Empress.”

That was the maximum courtesy the Crown Prince could show to Empress Carmi.

“Above all, to someone who was merely my mother’s court lady.”

“….”

“How could I possibly call you mother?”

“….”

“My bloodline is not so lowly.”

‘Wow. This is insane.’

Unlike me constantly swallowing dry saliva, Empress Carmi’s smile didn’t waver in the slightest.

“I see. Crown Prince.”

Slap!

At the same time, the Crown Prince’s cheek turned.

To the Crown Prince who remained frozen with his head turned, the Empress spoke in that same affectionate and gentle voice from the beginning.

“Come out when your cheek has settled down a bit.”

It was cruelly kind consideration.

“Since the late Empress loved this place so much.”

Empress Carmi turned around.

The gorgeous silk dress with delicately embroidered rose patterns made a rustling sound.

The shoes with ivory heels made that cold clicking sound again as they moved away.

The closing door.

Whether it was the Empress or the Crown Prince who had given orders, no one entered the garden.

Only my head was rolling around busily.

Right. I see.

Timing-wise, this would be when the Crown Prince didn’t have any significant power yet.

‘So this is why I get to see all of this.’

Even in the game, I had never seen such direct confrontation, no, such one-sided humiliation.

‘…Well, of course.’

Before wandering the battlefields, the Crown Prince was someone who was secretly despised like this.

The current Empress Carmi wanted to put the Second Prince, born from her own womb, on the throne, and above all.

“If that were the case, the Crown Prince would have grown up looking like a young man matching his actual age, not this boyish appearance, and His Majesty the Emperor wouldn’t have found it uncomfortable to look at the Crown Prince and avoided him like he does now.”

Just as Empress Carmi mocked, that appearance was the problem….

“Come out.”

Suddenly, my shoulders flinched greatly.

Ah, there must be someone else hiding here besides me.

“I said come out.”

Hurry up and leave, whoever you are, you fool.

“You, behind the oak tree.”

Damn it.

That’s me.

My consideration of running away was brief.

‘If I run away from here, I won’t be able to raise affection levels anyway, so I’ll die.’

But appearing before the Crown Prince who had even been slapped was a bit much.

I hesitantly walked out from behind the tree.

Even in this situation, I was grateful to tears for the etiquette perfectly ingrained in Tulia’s body.

When facing royalty, stand five steps away.

Bow your head first and bend only the left knee halfway.

Lift the hem of your skirt with both hands, but only enough to show your shoes.

And wait until the royal speaks first to greet you.

“Do you want to die?”

When I received a death sentence instead of a greeting….

“No.”

Since there was nothing about this in the etiquette Tulia had learned, I answered creatively for now.

“This is a place only royalty can enter. For a mere noble to invade royal territory.”

“I wasn’t in the garden, but was passing through over there.”

“Do you call stopping and eavesdropping ‘passing through’?”

“The atmosphere seemed serious, so I unconsciously hid myself. I’m very sorry about that, but I didn’t hear anything.”

“From here to there.”

I could feel the Crown Prince pointing to the tree with his chin.

“You’re saying it’s a distance where you couldn’t hear anything?”

“I was covering my ears with all my might.”

“…What?”

For the first time, a voice that sounded dumbfounded flowed out.

By the way, I still hadn’t seen Ferdinand’s face.

Because according to etiquette, I could only lift my head and make eye contact after receiving a royal greeting or permission.

Perhaps noticing that my knees were trembling slightly, Ferdinand irritably spoke up.

“Lift your head.”

“Thank you.”

I, who had almost gotten a cramp in my legs, immediately lifted my head and blinked.

‘Wow.’

Tea with strawberry jam?

Ferdinand’s eyes seen up close were truly a vivid red color.

And his hair was a light bronze color like cocoa with milk poured in.

But the reason I didn’t think of it as a sweet color was because his gaze was too cold.

To put it nicely, they were intense eyes, but to put it badly, they were the kind of eyes that would intimidate anyone, whether they were present or not.

Of course… what caught my attention even more than that was.

‘So this is what Cupid syndrome looks like.’

Eros syndrome, or Cupid syndrome.

The Crown Prince is currently 3 years older than Tulia.

So he should be 18 years old, but right now he looked like a boy younger than Tulia.

He appeared to be about 12 or 13 years old?

‘This is because of the Divine Power excess that the Empress was mocking earlier.’

Empress Olivia, the former empress and Crown Prince Ferdinand’s birth mother, was a beautiful, intelligent woman overflowing with dignity and intellect.

She was the youngest daughter of Imperial Noble Houses, and was crowned empress without wanting for anything.

There was no man who didn’t love her in her youth. The same was true for Alessandro, the current Emperor.

Emperor Alessandro made Olivia his empress, but he was always anxious about something.

This was because Empress Olivia, while possessing charm that lacked nothing in intellect and dignity, had a cold and fair temperament that earned her the nickname ‘Ice Empress.’

Didn’t they say that suspicion and love cannot bloom in the same place?

Emperor Alessandro loved Empress Olivia, but instead of the cold-natured empress, his attention was gradually stolen by another woman.

Unlike Empress Olivia, she was warm and gentle, deeply considerate and kind.

A woman who seemed to stand on the complete opposite side from Empress Olivia.

That was Carmi, the current empress.

Carmi, a daughter of a Viscount House who had been Empress Olivia’s Court Lady, seemed to push Emperor Alessandro away at first, but eventually ended up spending a night with him.

A child was conceived from that one night, and Empress Olivia, who was pregnant at the time, felt great shock and betrayal.

‘The child that Empress Olivia was pregnant with was this Ferdinand, and she almost had a miscarriage from the shock.’

So despite the Emperor and family’s dissuasion, she asked the Temple to protect the baby in her womb with massive Divine Power.

Thus the baby – Ferdinand – was born safely, but Empress Olivia died within five years.

And Crown Prince Ferdinand came to suffer from a peculiar condition called ‘Cupid syndrome’ due to excessive Divine Power in the womb.

‘Well, actually that gets resolved when he meets Coriko.’

More precisely, when he feels love for Coriko, his body that hadn’t been growing suddenly grows all at once.

Anyway, the important thing is that even in this boyish appearance, Ferdinand is dizzyingly handsome and beautiful.

However…

‘He’s quite thin. Well, the Empress hates him.’

With that personality, he probably wouldn’t humble himself to the Empress even if his meals were insufficient.

“Are you done staring?”

…His personality doesn’t seem very good either.

I bowed my head to Ferdinand and apologized.

“I’m sorry. It’s my first time meeting Imperial Family.”

“You…”

That’s when it happened. Ferdinand’s words stopped as if a machine had been unplugged.

“It’s raining.”

He was right. Raindrops were falling from the clear sky.

Ferdinand, hit by a raindrop, turned his head as if even his minimal interest in me had disappeared.

“Go. If you go toward the door you’ll be punished, so figure out how to find a back route yourself.”

It was somewhat welcome that Ferdinand was letting me go without further questioning, but the timing was the problem.

It was the worst possible first impression, and…

‘…Why does it have to rain now of all times?’

Ferdinand’s Divine Power excess had one more side effect.

‘When it rains, his hearing gets temporarily impaired…’

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