That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 99
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Chapter 99
I immediately changed my expression and smiled more brightly.
I could see the princes’ cheeks turning incomparably redder than before.
That’s right.
Tulia is pretty, isn’t she?
Your eyes must be going blind?
Moreover, this dress cost a whopping 300 million gold.
‘A dress worth 300 million in real money.’
Of course, Grandfather had ordered it for my palace entrance.
Naturally, the jewels adorning the entire dress were also splendid.
The granddaughter of a Grand Ducal House, dressed in an extremely expensive dress.
Even a lady who’s supposedly the greatest beauty in this world setting?
Those princes were making dreamy, dazed expressions.
Just from their faces, it seemed they were already dreaming of marrying me and making it big in the Grand Ducal House.
That’s exactly why I smiled to make them dream such dreams.
Anyway, this game is really overflowing with seduction.
‘Damn seduction, wicked seduction, stone-cold seduction.’
“Your Highnesses.”
“Yes, yes!”
“It seems the servant assisting him is badly injured.”
“Ah…”
The princes looked at each other and briefly exchanged glances.
They looked extremely satisfied with my words, and smiles had already spread to their lips.
“Yes, we are truly sorry for showing such a shameful sight to such a precious lady.”
“Please don’t look at such a lowly thing. We worry your beautiful eyes might be harmed.”
Are they that pleased that I mistook Benjamin for a servant?
They’ve really been rotten since childhood.
I shifted my gaze to look at Benjamin.
Even though he was clearly being treated as a ‘servant,’ Benjamin didn’t look depressed or angry at all.
Rather, he was smiling.
Like a sinner who had to wear a smiling mask, he was just smiling even while limping like that.
‘I did see in the webtoon that if he didn’t smile, they beat him more, so he smiled desperately.’
The difference between what he told Coriko in flashbacks and the shock of seeing it directly with my own eyes was much greater.
“Since you’ve come so far, it wouldn’t look good if your servant became disabled. Moreover, this is a palace that Her Majesty the Empress granted to me, so if she knew such a thing happened here, Her Majesty would also be displeased.”
I deliberately mentioned the ‘Empress’ to make them fearful.
To princes of a mere kingdom, the Empress of the great Empire would be an unapproachable figure.
“…!”
As expected, their faces turned pale.
“My personal physician is quite skilled, so let him receive treatment. And how about Your Highnesses have tea with me?”
“G-good!”
“As expected of Grand Duke Frazier’s granddaughter, you have such a kind heart. Could there be such an honor again?”
Fortunately, it seems Tulia’s reputation as a brat hasn’t spread to other countries yet.
“Lady Tulia.”
Meanwhile, the maid I had sent to bring people returned.
When quite a few servants suddenly gathered, the princes of Sorsen Kingdom seemed slightly flustered.
‘At least they’re scared. Trash-like bastards.’
Throwing contempt inwardly, I instructed the maid to take Benjamin away.
Then I turned to the princes and smiled brightly.
“Well then, shall we go have some tea?”
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Tulia’s personal physician, Aiden, carefully examined Benjamin’s shoulder.
As she had expected, Benjamin’s shoulder bone was broken.
“It will hurt for a moment. Please bear with it briefly.”
“…!”
Even giving him cloth to bite on, Aiden forcefully set the bone back in place.
While most adults would have screamed, Benjamin only held his breath briefly and showed no sign of pain at all.
Aiden focused on treating Benjamin, generously using expensive medicinal materials and high-quality bandages.
“This is tea that nourishes the body. It costs 500,000 gold per cup, so please drink it all.”
With cold sweat beading on his face, Benjamin asked with a smile.
“Why are you treating me so politely?”
“Because our young lady told us to treat you politely.”
“Our young lady, you mean…”
“Lady Tulia Frazier. She is my master.”
“I’ve received kindness from a precious lady. Please tell her I’m grateful.”
“I understand. Your Highness.”
Benjamin’s eyes wavered slightly at the title ‘Your Highness.’
Benjamin looked down at the tea.
His face was faintly reflected in the clear tea.
His half-brothers usually kicked his face mercilessly, but today, since they were in the Empire, they had refrained from touching his face much.
Only his lips were slightly split.
But this kind of violence was familiar.
Right now, his entire body and emotions were numb from something else.
“Because our young lady told us to treat you politely.”
The fact that the lady knew he was a prince.
She seemed to be an amazing possessor of knowledge, even memorizing foreign royal genealogies.
Then she would also know that he was merely the son of a lowly concubine.
His situation… she would have known from seeing it directly with her eyes.
She would have heard the words shouting that his mother was lowly, and the talk about selling him to Empire nobles later.
“It seems the servant assisting him is badly injured.”
Then were that lady’s words consideration, or mockery?
As the direct granddaughter of Grand Duke Frazier, she held a position as noble as his brothers.
All such high-ranking people enjoyed tormenting him.
So it could be mockery.
Even this polite treatment could be an extension of amusement.
Even while thinking such thoughts, his face occasionally reflected in the tea water was still smiling.
“A bastard with a lowly mother.”
“She seduced Father with her body. Filthy child.”
“The royal stud horses are probably worth more than him, brother?”
“How dare you cry?! So annoying! You’re trying to gain Father’s sympathy with tears!”
The mockery and violence of his half-brothers.
The King who knew but turned a blind eye.
The Queen and other high-ranking concubines looked at him and his mother with disgust, as if they were insects.
So he had no choice but to always smile and try to please them.
Living like that, continuing to live that way, this smiling face seemed to have become his default expression.
It had been years since he stopped shedding even a single tear, no matter how much they kicked his stomach, no matter how much mockery and contempt he heard.
And yet.
Drop.
Drop, drop.
In that moment.
With a sudden flash of realization, tears rolling down his cheeks created round ripples on the surface of the tea.
The Personal Physician hesitated and asked.
“…Are you in great pain?”
“No…”
Gripping the hot teacup with one hand and covering his face with the other, Benjamin burst out like a dam breaking.
“I’m ashamed…”
He was so ashamed and pathetic at his own state.
“The servant assisting him seems to be badly injured.”
At that time, the pink-haired girl called Tulia didn’t smile at all when she said those words.
If she had wanted to toy with him like his half-brothers from his home country, she would have surely spoken with a sneer on her lips.
Rather, her light green eyes seemed a little angry.
Having lived his entire life since birth watching others’ reactions, and thus becoming expert at reading people’s moods, the young prince realized…
He belatedly understood that the precious young lady’s behavior was purely ‘consideration’ directed at him.
That his state was so pitiful that a noble lady he was meeting for the first time would show him such consideration.
“…”
His smiling face seemed already carved into his soul with a knife, impossible to erase.
He couldn’t remember how to cry out loud, nor how to make an expressionless face.
He felt as if some part of him had been completely cut away. It had been like that since he was very young.
Therefore.
Still smiling, Benjamin Fluas covered his face and simply let tears fall for a long while.
* * *
‘When he grows up, he’ll really become a playboy character.’
Benjamin Fluas.
Beautiful and dazzling appearance as if embodying a golden angel.
The character summary of Benjamin Fluas when he first appeared in was as follows.
1. Spreads scandals with various women
2. Famous for being a playboy
3. But in reality, he’s a germaphobe who has never even touched a woman’s fingertip
Tremendous popularity.
All kinds of scandals and rumors.
A Male Lead who cheerfully accepts women’s invitations with a sly attitude, but is actually innocent and pure beyond compare.
That was Benjamin Fluas of .
He also suffered from severe germaphobia, so only illustrations of him always wearing white gloves appeared.
‘Of course, a Male Lead’s germaphobia is nothing more than a trivial illness that the Female Lead cures.’
These were all facts that would be disarmed in front of Coriko, but I felt very uncomfortable.
No, I felt uneasy.
‘Why do I keep seeing scenes of Male Leads getting beaten up first?’
When playing as Coriko, they only showed me pretty and nice things, so why do I keep seeing scenes of abuse?
Does Tulia have no human rights?
No right to eye protection either?
‘Leon also got beaten by Lisian.’
Lisian also self-harmed with Loquium medicine.
Could these be the raw scenes before Coriko, the light of the world and savior of the Male Leads, appears?
I felt thirsty for no reason and took a sip of tea. Then I smiled and asked.
“It’s delicious, isn’t it? Princes.”
“Yes? Yes…”
“It, it really suits my taste…”
“That’s fortunate. These are snacks that my Grandfather particularly enjoys. Please eat plenty, Princes.”
“It’s, it’s an honor.”
I smiled while directly crunching on cookies myself. Regardless of whether the princes’ eyes widened or not.
“There are still plenty, so please let me know if you need more.”
“Yes…!”
The princes who were eating cookies generously sprinkled with spicy hot pepper powder eventually took turns leaving their seats, saying they needed to visit the bathroom.
With their eyes red and streaming with tears.
‘Hmph.’
Stomach ache reservation, right?
They’re probably dying of pain right about now.
Why did you beat up the kid? That’s why.
Will you take responsibility if the Male Lead dies because of you?
I’ll die too then, you know? Huh?
I hid my spiteful feelings and pushed the hot pepper powder-sprinkled cookie into my mouth.
I had brought it to secretly season bland food, but ended up using it like this.
Though it was strange food, to my taste it was just at the level of spicy snacks, so I could eat it reasonably well.
Of course, for those princes it would be their first taste of hellish flame flavor.
As the princes disappeared to the bathroom one by one, I soon stood up from my seat.
“Miss Tulia Frazier. I will escort you to the Empress Palace.”
It seemed the party was finally about to begin.
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