That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 62

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Chapter 62

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leaning against the backrest with thin cushions, I blinked my eyes, slightly anticipating what kind of state Tedrick would appear in.

 

“No, why does his face look like that?”

 

“I heard that Young Lord Leon Frazier…”

 

“He was so angry that they had a big fight right there on the spot.”

 

No, that’s not right.

 

It wasn’t a big fight, but rather that bastard Tedrick Frazier getting one-sidedly beaten up.

 

“It seems Young Lord Leon cherishes his blood relative, Miss Tulia, very much.”

 

“It’s completely different from the rumors that were going around.”

 

No, that’s not right either.

 

He’s just crazy and beat up the young lords including Tedrick.

 

I knew others were glancing at me and whispering, but I pretended not to hear anything and just looked back and forth between Lisian and Tedrick.

 

‘He really wrapped himself up thoroughly.’

 

Tedrick Frazier had bandages wrapped around his jaw and entire face. Anyone who saw him would misunderstand that Leon Frazier had smashed Tedrick’s face.

 

He just got beaten to a pulp, but he probably came out like this on purpose to evoke sympathy from the retainers.

 

What was strange was that his hands were also wrapped tightly with bandages.

 

Lilius looked at his son with pitying eyes and then spoke.

 

“That day, Tedrick said this. His hands kept getting cut while using the magic tool, making it difficult to aim.”

 

‘That’s ridiculous!’

 

The mages had expressions that clearly wanted to shout exactly that.

 

“Tedrick’s archery skills are well-known throughout this vast Grand Duchy. Moreover, Tedrick is neither foolish nor evil enough to attack his cousins in a public setting.”

 

‘Wow, uncle, really.’

 

Did you sell your conscience?

 

But one thing was correct.

 

The point that he wasn’t amoeba-level intelligent enough to attack us in a public setting.

 

The retainers also slowly began to agree.

 

Not many retainers knew the fact that Tedrick hated me terribly.

 

Before I became Tulia, I had also depended on Tedrick’s parents. If anything, they might have known us as being on intimate terms.

 

Even if he did hate me, they seemed to newly realize that he wasn’t stupid enough to try to kill me openly in a place crowded with numerous nobles.

 

“There’s nothing wrong with the magic tool!”

 

“This is unfair!”

 

The mages cried out in indignation.

 

It would be burdensome to just shout at the direct line of the Grand Ducal House. Seeing them full of grievance, it seemed they would request a superior from the Magic Tower as soon as they returned.

 

“Lisian Frazier. Do you have nothing to say?”

 

Nigella asked.

 

Lisian, who had been sitting at the head table observing the situation all along, shifted his gaze.

 

“I, I also, also think. It’s strange, str, strange.”

 

Nigella looked at Lisian with a troubled expression.

 

Then he said.

 

“It’s a bit… difficult to understand what you’re saying.”

 

In that moment, my two hands resting on my knees turned pale white.

 

“Can’t you call a representative?”

 

‘Bad people.’

 

In such an official setting, to say something like that so openly?

 

Moreover, it’s not like Lisian was speaking an alien language – he was using the same language, so what kind of character does it take to specifically point out that it’s difficult to understand?

 

I can understand everything just fine.

 

I only thought that Nigella Frazier, who was using such lowly tactics to deliberately crush Lisian’s spirit, was pathetic and vicious.

 

However, it seemed I was the only one whose anger was uncontrollable.

 

Lisian simply answered with his usual kind smile.

 

“As, as you can, can see, Leon is still lying on, on his sickbed…”

 

“Then you have no noble who can serve as your representative.”

 

Strictly speaking, even Lisian was a representative of Marquis Aster Frazier.

 

So for Lisian to use another representative, he would need someone who matched the appropriate rank and status.

 

That’s why Leon Frazier was mentioned first.

 

But.

 

“No. There is one.”

 

By the way, that voice just now wasn’t from Lisian.

 

It was me who opened my mouth.

 

Murmur murmur.

 

It wasn’t just the retainers who were surprised.

 

The leisurely Count Nigella Frazier and Viscount Lilius’s eyes immediately shifted toward me.

 

As if he had been waiting for me to speak, Lisian said with a smile mixed in.

 

“I will des, designate my dear sister Tulia as, as my repre, representative.”

 

“…?!”

 

Right.

 

The time has come.

 

I can feel Tedrick suddenly turning to look at me.

 

I don’t know what he thinks he did well or what he finds unfair, but he’s glaring at me desperately.

 

‘You just came wrapped up in bandages, didn’t you, Tedrick?’

 

Looking like a mummy, trying to gain sympathy votes.

 

I didn’t take my eyes off Tedrick and lightly gestured.

 

“Assistant Butler?”

 

“Yes, Miss.”

 

“I need to move.”

 

“Leave it to me.”

 

The Assistant Butler moved me to the prepared ‘that thing’ with calm yet swift speed.

 

And he began to personally push and transport me to the center of the grand conference room.

 

The personal physician carrying an enormously large box of medicinal materials began following behind.

 

Murmur murmur.

 

The grand conference room, which had been briefly quiet, was now shocked in a different sense.

 

“Huh…?”

 

“No way. Are you saying she was injured that severely?”

 

“She can’t even walk at all. Just how savagely did they shoot those arrows…”

 

The shocked voices of the retainers couldn’t be more reassuring.

 

I looked at Tedrick while being carried like a half-corpse in the wheelchair.

 

He also seemed quite flustered and surprised.

 

‘You didn’t expect me to come out in worse condition than you?’

 

This is what you call a K-meeting performance.

 

You dim-witted bastard.

 

 

 

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A moment of silence.

 

The first to speak was, as expected, the somewhat seasoned Count Nigella Frazier.

 

“Tulia.”

 

“Yes, Uncle.”

 

“To the point where you can’t even walk?”

 

Of course I can walk.

 

Several servants must have seen me walking.

 

Whether there were thorns in Nigella Frazier’s words or not, I had no intention of judging or cursing him.

 

Rather, I had been waiting for those words.

 

“Personal Physician.”

 

I called the personal physician in a sad voice.

 

“Please unwrap the bandage on my foot. Since uncle suspects me so much… it would be better to show him directly.”

 

“…?”

 

Nigella, who always pretended to be dignified, seemed unusually flustered.

 

He hadn’t said a single word about ‘suspecting’ me, and maybe he didn’t even intend to go that far, but I suddenly declared I would unwrap the bandage.

 

“Tulia…”

 

“Gasp!”

 

Nigella’s words were even cut off in the middle.

 

Thanks to coordinating with the personal physician beforehand, that thick bandage was unwrapped in truly an instant.

 

Brief shock, screams, and devastating silence flowed through the Grand Conference Room.

 

And rightfully so.

 

Even I think it’s a disgusting and frightening wound.

 

Moreover, it’s a literally ‘raw’ wound that hasn’t even been a day old.

 

“As you can see, my foot is almost completely shattered.”

 

I looked back and forth between Nigella and Viscount Lilius as I spoke clearly.

 

“Tedrick and the other Young Lords attacked me with a Magical Bow Device.”

 

“That’s a misunderstanding, Tulia!”

 

Viscount Lilius shot up from his seat.

 

His voice was so booming that I reflexively flinched in surprise, and in doing so, my body shrank back, causing my unbandaged foot to throb with burning pain.

 

“It hurts…”

 

I hadn’t intended to say this.

 

It really hurt enough to bring tears to my eyes.

 

“Oh, this won’t do. Miss. I’ll wrap it back up right away.”

 

The personal physician’s voice must have been clearly heard by everyone. Including his muttered words.

 

“It’s too severe…”

 

And the fact that his expression was extremely serious.

 

While the personal physician carefully wrapped bandages around my foot and secured the splint, no one could open their mouth.

 

For a moment, silence so deep that you could hear a needle drop flowed through the room.

 

‘Is there really a need to wait so quietly?’

 

It’s just rewrapping a bandage around a foot.

 

The moment I raised my head, feeling slightly puzzled.

 

“…!”

 

I understood the silence that had settled over the Grand Conference Room.

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