That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 57

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Chapter 57

I don’t know when he came running.

Leon Frazier, who had rushed over like lightning, pulled me into his arms like a human barrier and took an arrow in my place.

“No, no!”

A scream escaped me without my knowing.

“Get out!”

Leon Frazier’s affection level for me is already rock bottom. I can tell without even checking.

But now, if he gets hurt because of me, won’t he hate me even more?

Won’t the sub mission fail too?

I struggled, but he didn’t budge an inch.

Thunk.

Instead, like a lie, that terrible sound was heard again.

“Miss Tulia! Young Master Leon!”

“Young Master!”

The ear-splitting sound of the magic tool completely shattering.

The sound of knights and doctors rushing over.

Truly, a festival of enormous noise in complete chaos…

“Leon.”

How did my voice come out?

“Leon?”

Only after calling twice did he turn around.

Leon’s expression as he looked down at me was completely distorted.

Black hair splattered with blood.

His face clearly looked pained. He seemed angry too.

I was afraid.

Leon’s dark green eyes made people afraid.

‘I can’t be hated by this guy any more…’

That would really be a disaster.

So much so that three arrows would seem like nothing.

“Leon.”

I barely managed to squeeze out my voice to ask. Whether from pain, my teeth were chattering. Even in this situation, I wasn’t annoyed by Leon’s usual glare.

I just wanted to hurry and ask, hurry and confirm.

Leon Frazier.

“Are you okay?”

You’re not angry at me, are you?

“…”

“I asked if you’re okay.”

Did your affection level for me drop again?

“…”

“Right now, the arrows… Two of them…”

This guy already hates Tulia.

“…”

“I’m sorry.”

What should I do?

“I’m really sorry.”

How can I get even a little forgiveness from this bastard?

“For making you get hurt because of me, really…”

I’m sorry.

Leon slowly opened his mouth.

“You really…”

A voice that sank like an iron ball in the sea flowed out.

“…are you an idiot?”

Leon asked in that sunken voice.

Leon’s hands that had embraced me were covered in blood, and seeing those red traces, Leon’s face became expressionless like a lie.

Thanks to that, I experienced a moment of confusion.

Why does he seem angry?

No, he can be angry.

But why does he look angry at himself rather than at me?

It was strange.

Am I thinking wrong?

But like a meteor that suddenly flew in, once the thought occurred, it stuck tenaciously and wouldn’t let go.

My head felt like it was completely malfunctioning.

Like a person suddenly thrown into boiling water.

Like when skin can’t handle the sudden heat and makes the error of perceiving the boiling water as cold.

That’s how it was.

I realized very slowly.

The fact that Leon Frazier was now furious to the top of his head,

“You got beat up way more than me.”

“…”

“Yet you’re worrying about me?”

That was the end of it.

“Young Master, Miss!”

“My goodness, there’s too much blood!”

Leon handed me over to the personal physician and knights who had rushed over. It felt like only a short time to me.

Several doctors swarmed around making noise, then put a towel in Leon’s mouth and pulled out the arrows embedded in his back and shoulder.

Leon Frazier gritted his teeth for a moment, but that didn’t last long either.

“Take her away. Treat her.”

With those brief words, Leon Frazier stood up abruptly.

“Young Master, you need to have bandages wrapped!”

“Young Master Leon!”

Completely ignoring the urgent voices calling from behind.

Leon Frazier walks with long strides.

No, he runs.

His destination was nowhere else.

Tedrick Frazier, frozen in place like a salt statue.

That bastard.

“L-Leon, brother…”

A voice trembling like an aspen tree.

“I’m sorry. I really didn’t hit you on purpose. Really. Why would I hit you? Huh? Really…!”

He ignored me like that, but Leon’s appearance of being so afraid and apologizing to Tedrick was disgusting, ridiculous.

And a little pathetic.

“You’re sorry?”

Leon asked back.

And the moment Tedrick frantically nodded his head.

Thwack!

“Ahhh!”

Leon’s fist flew straight at him.

“Y-Young Lord Leon!”

“Young Lord! Please calm down!”

“I, I was wrong. Brother Leon. Brother Leon, I, I was wrong… Agh!”

Leon seemed to hear nothing at all.

He just kept pounding Tedrick with his fists until he was a bloody mess.

“Young Lord Tedrick!”

Leon was like a starved wild beast that had gone completely mad.

The young lords began trembling.

These were the ones who had shot arrows at me along with Tedrick.

“Y-Young Lord Leon Frazier. It, it was a mistake!”

“We really didn’t know the arrow would hit the young lady, agh!”

“Urgh!”

“Young Lord Leon, Young Lord! Please calm down, please!”

In just a few blinks of an eye.

The young lords collapsed helplessly like paper dolls dropped into a bucket of red paint.

Not a single one was left standing.

“…Personal Physician.”

“Miss Tulia, the bleeding is severe. Please don’t speak! Lean back!”

“No, look. Personal Physician. Am I seeing things right now?”

“Miss! I told you not to speak!”

“Leon’s back seems to be bleeding heavily too, no… Look. Personal Physician…”

“Miss!”

“Please come to your senses!”

“Miss Tulia! Miss!”

“Prepare the carriage immediately!”

With the mixed shouts and screams as the end, I completely lost consciousness.

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“If I get hurt too, will someone worry about me?”

“If I get injured too, will my family come running to me?”

Han Ina reflected in the mirror mutters.

Yes, there were times when I was curious about such things and it gnawed at me.

There was an age for that.

Young, and therefore more fragile, and therefore building up an even stronger shell, saying I wouldn’t be hurt by small things. That I was indifferent and didn’t dwell on things.

Those young days when I thought I was no longer a child.

A time when I would occasionally fool even myself without realizing it.

“Could I be loved like that too?”

And then suddenly feeling blind jealousy toward all the happiness in the world during some dawn hours.

Those countless nights of childhood.

The insatiable thirst was like an angry child.

I shattered the Han Ina in the mirror as if bursting into tears.

Blood flows along the arbitrarily broken mirror.

Since I had to clean up what I broke, having always grown up that way.

As I wiped the bleeding mirror with my fingertips, suddenly.

I see pink hair strands tangling between my slender fingers.

“…lia.”

A voice slowly bringing my consciousness to the surface.

“Tuli…a.”

My eyelids were heavy.

But to fall asleep like this.

“…Tulia.”

The voice calling my name felt so desolate.

I slowly brighten my vision.

Silver hair white as snow slowly pours down on me.

“…Lisian.”

His complexion was always straight and pale. Lisian would habitually smile at me when he saw me.

At those times, I would truly feel like he was family.

Even when I was this sick, Lisian’s smile that he gave me unchanged was unusually dim compared to usual.

It strangely made my heart ache.

Because he seemed to truly worry about me.

Because he seemed to truly think of me as family.

‘I was fooled like this during Han Ina’s time too.’

When I was very sick, there was a time I cried and opened my heart to family members who showed worried expressions.

I didn’t know that their concern was only about the level of interest briefly shown when a pet dog suddenly starts dying.

And that they exchanged glances with each other, bewildered by my crying and rambling appearance.

So I won’t be fooled twice, how many times did I unconsciously vow this.

How many times had I pulled my disheveled heart together in that way.

“…”

Why are Lisian’s eyes looking down at me sunken as hopelessly as fog hanging in the winter sky.

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