That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 51

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Chapter 51

“…Mo, money, you said?”

Their last conversation had not gone well.

Violence had been involved, and cold glances exchanged were the last thing between them.

Quite some time had passed since then, so he naturally expected they would regard each other as enemies.

“I’m completely broke right now.”

Leon Frazier’s words all made Lisian feel bewildered.

So much so that the mutual probing and awkwardness that should have naturally followed was quickly buried.

“Why, are you, broke, broke?”

“Because of this. Look.”

Leon Frazier pointed to his cheek with his fingertip.

Conspicuous traces of treatment.

It was noticeable enough the moment Leon entered the room.

Several layers of gauze attached to his cheek.

Perhaps to keep the gauze well fixed to his cheek, Leon had his entire face wrapped round and round with bandages.

Anyone would mistake him for a patient with a dislocated jaw.

“Hyung. Do you know what’s applied to my cheek right now?”

“…?”

“What was it again. Wood Flu, Thousand Year Snow, and also… there was something else.”

He couldn’t remember the names of nearly ten medicinal materials exactly.

But just mentioning a few was enough.

Lisian seemed sufficiently bewildered.

“Wh, where did, all, all that come from.”

“Tulia Frazier brought it.”

“…Tulia?”

Lisian laughed with a deflated sound, one beat late.

While he wouldn’t even deal with Leon Frazier, he had met with Tulia.

That child strangely liked to come find him and liked talking with him.

Even though he worried it might be frustrating to talk with him all day when he stuttered.

Tulia just smiled when she saw him.

That child had smiled even at their first meeting.

But Tulia, that child wouldn’t have known.

Their reunion after so long.

From that very moment, Lisian had guessed Tulia’s strange intentions.

Back then, Tulia was calculating something while looking at them.

Considering, calculating, and only with pretense.

That’s how she was treating them.

At first, it didn’t matter.

At the Academy, in High Society.

Even the direct relatives of the Frazier Family.

It was a world full of people who treated them that way.

Even if Tulia, just one little sister, was added to such calculating gazes, Lisian didn’t care at all.

He really didn’t care.

But then…

That child changed very quickly within just a few days.

In just those short few days, he came to know.

He noticed that child was so filled with thirst and longing for family.

He realized anew that they had left that child alone for so long.

Even knowing that long conversations with him would be frustrating, Lisian spent days together with Tulia.

Because he realized that he too was smiling when he saw Tulia.

“It would be, good to, ta, take her to the Aca, Academy.”

“Hyung!”

Leon Frazier immediately jumped up.

“You’re thinking that Tulia is a good kid right now, aren’t you? That’s why you’re saying that, right? Didn’t you hear what I said earlier?”

“…Huh?”

“I said I’m broke. These expensive and expensive and expensive and expensive incredibly expensive medicinal materials, the Grand Duke personally gave them all to Tulia, anyway, so these incredibly expensive medicinal materials!”

Tulia, who brought them in a basket and made his personal physician dizzy and unable to think straight, said very boldly.

“Pay up.”

“She forced me to buy them!”

The already dazed personal physician didn’t listen to his words, and there was nothing wrong with what Tulia had said either.

The relationship between Tulia and themselves was already the subject of rumors throughout the Grand Duchy so it didn’t matter, but there was no need to reveal the twins’ discord as well.

Such things were weaknesses.

The fewer weaknesses, the better to hide them.

He had to recover as quickly as possible, and according to the personal physician (who seemed to have been bought by Tulia), he chimed in that all these medicinal materials had to be used to barely calm the wounds.

Leon didn’t know, but Tulia had already consulted with his personal physician about this ‘transaction’.

It wasn’t something Leon could handle from the start.

“I don’t know if that’s my personal physician or Tulia’s lackey…”

Even while sighing repeatedly, he had no choice but to buy them.

“Anyway, I really got all my money taken by Tulia, so lend me some. Hyung.”

“The hun, hunting tour, tournament is in a few days.”

Lisian said while getting up from his seat.

“Catch a bear and sell it.”

“No, hyung. I don’t even have money to last until then. Tulia, she really has no mercy, you know? She cleaned me out completely without missing a single penny…”

Ding-a-ling.

A clear bell sound was heard. A servant who had been waiting outside at the bell cord summons immediately entered.

“Did you call for me, Young Master Lisian.”

“Leon is go, going back, es, escort him.”

“Yes, Young Master.”

The servant who bowed politely approached Leon and spoke in a respectful tone.

“I shall escort you, Young Master Leon.”

“Ah, hyung!”

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“Lisian, Lisian.”

I poked his side repeatedly.

“Yeah. Tu, Tulia.”

Lisian’s light green eyes, which had been turning book pages, immediately looked at me. I pointed to a distant place with my eyes.

“Look, look. Leon Frazier’s face. Is it because the medicinal materials were expensive? The effect seems really good.”

Then Lisian’s gaze turned toward Leon Frazier, who was practicing with his sword in the distance.

The big black bruise that had been on Leon Frazier’s cheek was now almost completely gone.

Even seeing it every day, it was truly an amazing effect.

“Indeed. I did well to sell him the medicinal materials.”

Lisian chuckled softly.

“Right. You, you did well. Tu, Tulia.”

Whether it was because I had sold all the medicinal materials for him, or because he had become a beggar.

Leon Frazier, who had been busy bristling with hostility whenever he saw me, seemed to have his spirit slightly dampened.

‘Wouldn’t it be better to just keep him as a beggar for life instead of bothering with affection level work?’

Such a sinister thought crossed my mind, but I soon shook my head vigorously.

‘Unlike me, he’s receiving proper support money from Marquis Aster Frazier.’

Just looking at the clothes he wore and the sword he wielded, it was obvious what a wealthy young master he was being raised as.

‘Does the Marquis hate Tulia that much?’

Enough not to send even a single penny.

Despite being such a high-ranking noble with great authority.

‘Well…’

Since she’s supposedly the daughter born from his wife’s affair, it would be difficult to feel affection for her.

I shrugged my shoulders.

In just a few more days, the cooldown period for checking affection levels for free would be complete.

It had been almost a full week.

Of course, the hopeful expectations of ‘maybe’ and ‘what if’ had long since scattered like dust.

I had been strongly convinced for several days that Leon Frazier couldn’t possibly be someone who loved me while spouting such destructive words.

‘Then could it be another male lead? Who would it be?’

My deduction didn’t last long.

“Lisian, Tulia. Since when have you two gotten along so well?”

“Little Uncle?”

When had he arrived?

Viscount Lilius Frazier approached and smiled at us.

“Come now, hurry and get ready. We have a guest.”

“A guest?”

“Yes. It’ll be quite a long time since you’ve seen him, Tulia.”

Lilius spoke kindly to me as I blinked.

“Count Nigela Frazier, that is, your great uncle has arrived.”

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