That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 54

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Chapter 54

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“That bitch. She came out all dressed up so brazenly.”

Meanwhile, Tedrick muttered to himself and ground his teeth.

Originally, Tedrick would only be able to attend Assis Grand Duke’s birthday banquet, but Viscount Lilius had persuaded the retainers to allow him to participate in the hunting competition as well.

The brief moment when he felt like he might burst with the taste of power was short-lived.

As soon as Tedrick spotted Tulia Frazier, curses immediately rose to the tip of his throat.

It had been about three months since Tulia Frazier betrayed her parents.

That crazy bitch seemed to have chosen the Marquis House’s twins as her new backing.

The tall, silver-haired boy walking alongside Tulia.

‘Lisian Frazier. Look at that stuttering bastard strutting around so triumphantly.’

Even though he cursed like this inwardly, these were words he could never say out loud.

The nobles of the Briyang Empire pursued perfection.

The higher they rose in the great nobility, the more severe this tendency became.

By their standards, Lisian Frazier’s flaw of stuttering was a fatal imperfection.

Despite this, Lisian Frazier often received love letters from numerous ladies and noble ladies.

‘It’s all thanks to his pretty face.’

Silver hair that seemed to emanate pale moonlight.

A perfectly balanced beautiful face and clear light green eyes that reflected like a mirror made Lisian Frazier look like an archangel descended from heaven.

‘His act of being virtuous is also disgusting.’

Someone like that should have been born among lowly commoners instead of being the eldest son of Marquis Frazier House.

With just that pretty face, he would have been perfect to be used as some noble lady’s lover for a few years in his youth before being discarded.

It was too infuriating that even such a stutterer was above him just because he was a young master of a marquis house.

While he could somewhat ignore Tulia since she was younger than him, there was absolutely no chance of that with Lisian Frazier.

It was then, as Tedrick was trembling with rage and inferiority complex.

“Brother Tedrick.”

A voice calling his name.

“What happened while I haven’t seen you? Why have you lost so much weight?”

Only then did Tedrick turn his gaze away from Lisian and Tulia.

There stood Kanes Frazier.

Though he was the son of Count Nigela Frazier, he was actually of illegitimate birth, so strictly speaking, he was lower than himself, the legitimate heir of a viscount.

The illegitimate son of a count, lower than the son of a viscount.

When such a Kanes Frazier looked at him with worried eyes and showed concern, Tedrick’s mood finally improved a little.

“I haven’t been eating well. There were some issues.”

Tedrick didn’t say a single word about the humiliation he had suffered because of Tulia.

The same was true for Viscount Lilius and Aubrey, so only Count Nigela Frazier knew to some extent what had happened during that time.

‘Uncle Nigela must not have told him about it separately.’

Tedrick’s mood became a little more generous.

“Actually, I became like this because of that bitch Tulia.”

“Huh? Because of Tulia Frazier? Why?”

Kanes Frazier asked back with rabbit-like eyes.

“She was always the type who couldn’t even make a peep in front of you, brother.”

“Exactly!”

Tedrick felt like he had gulped down a refreshing drink. His chest, which had always felt stuffy and blocked, finally felt clear.

Right.

She was that kind of bitch.

A bitch who always watched her father’s mood.

Even when she couldn’t control her personality and attacked him, she would eventually bite her lips tightly and shed tears while apologizing for her mistakes when scolded by her mother.

She was just a bitch in that position, but somehow their positions had completely reversed.

“Tulia Frazier does have a bad reputation. Her personality is even worse. You told me she doesn’t have a single friend in the Grand Duchy’s high society, and I still remember that.”

At Kanes Frazier’s words, Tedrick felt a slight pang of guilt inwardly.

Just a little bit though.

Tulia was the only direct lady of House Frazier residing in the Grand Duchy.

Under normal circumstances, ladies her age would have been desperate to befriend her, and she should have had dozens or hundreds of followers.

It was his mother and father who had cleverly blocked that.

‘But still.’

Even if they had created opportunities for her, with that violent and extravagant personality, she wouldn’t have been able to make a single friend, right?

Tedrick easily rationalized it this way and said to Kanes.

“You don’t know how cunning and fox-like that bitch is. Grandfather gave me an absurd confinement order.”

“What? How could he do that to you, his cousin?!”

Kanes was the one who got excited instead.

“So that’s why you suffered so much mentally, brother. You lost weight and muscle too. I thought you had caught some serious illness and came running in a panic.”

“…Damn it. Because of that bitch.”

At Kanes’ words, Tedrick began to worry about his appearance anew.

Solid muscles.

Well-defined shoulder lines.

Thick, sturdy thighs and sleekly extended legs.

Such a physique was the desire and pride of noble men in the Empire.

Unless they were aged old nobles, young noble men like himself put great effort into creating and maintaining excellent physiques.

But during that time, he had only overturned every meal that came cold.

Because of the confinement order, he couldn’t participate in any swordsmanship lessons.

Unlike the main castle where warm water would fill the bathtub with just a gesture, in that run-down warehouse, only one or two servants resided, and it took forever just to boil water.

Exercise? He would freeze to death.

He was on the verge of actually freezing to death while exercising, so what could he have done!

In the end, Tedrick had to come out to this massive social venue called the hunting competition with such an unsightly physique.

Thanks to Aubrey having new expensive hunting attire tailored with plenty of gold thread, he thought it would provide some cover.

But listening to Kanes now, it seemed that wasn’t the case at all.

He felt so embarrassed and angry that he wanted to wrap himself in a cloak and hide his body immediately.

Especially since Tulia’s older brothers, those damn twins, were displaying bodies that were perfect specimens of male nobility, making his anger flare even more.

They were already far above him, who was just a mere viscount’s heir.

To crush him like this?

And at this massive hunting competition where it seemed like every noble in the Grand Duchy had gathered?!

The hatred and rage that had been accumulating layer by layer while shivering in the old bedroom of that shabby warehouse.

His insides boiled and bubbled until at some point, they crossed a breaking point.

And suddenly he realized.

‘Ah.’

That’s right!

This wasn’t a place where only he would be humiliated.

Unlike Tulia who had no parents, he had parents who loved and supported him.

Thanks to that, Tulia’s reputation was still rock bottom.

Unfavorable rumors about himself hadn’t spread very far.

Crowds always have expectations.

How many nobles in this place would be secretly hoping to see that brat Tulia get humiliated, to witness such a spectacle?

Tedrick, who knew the nature of nobles well, smirked.

“Brother? Why are you suddenly laughing?”

“Kanes. That bitch Tulia, shall we teach her a lesson?”

“Huh?”

“You honestly find those marquis family people annoying too, don’t you.”

“Well… but…”

It seemed he didn’t like the idea of attacking Tulia when the twins were together.

I thought ‘that’s why he was just a lowly bastard,’ but I needed allies for now.

“I’ve thought of a way. Just trust me and follow along.”

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While Lisian left my side to follow the adult nobles for hunting.

I was leisurely counting the number of people.

‘I wonder how many retainers there are in total in the Grand Duchy.’

No matter how I looked at it, it was truly an enormous crowd.

It was amazing that all these people were nobles.

‘My eyes are having a feast.’

Whether female nobles or male nobles, they all came dressed luxuriously.

Well, Frazier Grand Duchy was famous for rarely holding banquets.

‘Right now there’s no hostess in the Grand Ducal House to host banquets.’

Grandmother, who was the Grand Duchess?

She passed away.

Next in line, the Marquis’s Wife, Tulia’s Mother?

She passed away.

Next in line, Marquis’s daughter Tulia?

She’s a scoundrel.

“…”

‘Tch.’

When Viscountess Aubrey held the domestic authority, she at least regularly held tea parties and small balls.

But now Aubrey was literally in a ruined state.

It’s not like I had domestic authority either, and Viscount Lilius, who barely held domestic authority alone, seemed too busy racking his brains to have time to pay attention to banquets.

‘This year’s birthday banquet for Grandfather might be somewhat meager.’

Since there’s no hostess substitute to prepare the banquet.

Even Ruk and the advisors were away on territory inspection with Grandfather.

Though Grand Duke Frazier House had countless servants including the butler, the difference between having and not having a hostess to direct preparations was significant.

‘The Grand Banquet Hall where the birthday banquet will be held is still sloppy even now.’

Compared to the splendid appearance of the current hunting competition, it would feel shabby.

‘Why is that bastard Viscount Lilius so mean and petty?’

It was Viscount Lilius who prepared today’s hunting competition.

While he was at it, if he had prepared Grandfather’s birthday banquet together, he could have held quite a decent party.

Viscount Lilius deliberately pretended not to know about preparing Grandfather’s birthday banquet. I was completely disgusted by his petty behavior.

To call such a thing a son.

Probably when Grandfather returns, only then will Ruk and his subordinate advisors, who confirm the state of the Grand Banquet Hall, hurriedly prepare.

‘Rather, couldn’t the birthday banquet preparation be entrusted to Adel later?’

Our Adel works well, and.

Anyway, she and Ruk are siblings.

‘I hope it gets resolved well later.’

My head maid taking charge of the major affairs of the main castle means my position also rises a level.

I was giggling with selfish thoughts as I slowly moved my steps.

Thunk!

A swift arrow stuck dangerously close to my feet.

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