Reborn: Apocalypse Ready. War Goddess by My Side novel Chapter 123

Chapter 128 Maybe It’s True

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Chad turned the thought over quietly. “What if Steven really does have bad blood with her? What if they genuinely don’t get along?

Seamus went quiet for a moment, then waved a hand. “Fine, I forgive him. It’s not like her introducing us would’ve done anything for me anyway.”

Luke had nothing to say to that.

Chad had nothing to say to that either.

Chad clapped his hands together. “Let’s head in. This is his personal business. Class is starting.”

The three of them pulled away and went inside.

Lilliana fell into step behind Steven as he walked.

Steven’s brow creased with impatience. “Make it quick. I have class.”

Lilliana looked at him steadily.

“You’re a member of Team Ashen, aren’t you?”

The question hit him like a bolt from the blue.

Steven’s composure cracked for just a fraction of a second.

How does she know that? Who said something?

Steven kept his expression neutral and pushed back.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about. Why would Team Ashen want a One–Sigil Awakened like me?”

Lilliana had already caught the micro–expression flickering across his face before he buried it.

She needed no more confirmation than that.

He really was a Team Ashen member.

But the question of how nearly broke her mind open.

Lilliana’s shock ran just as deep as Steven’s, though she was better at keeping it off her face.

She couldn’t work out how any of it was possible.

He could cut down a level 2 beast right now, and that wasn’t something a One–Sigil Awakened could do.

Even a level 20 Divine Envoy might struggle with that, but Steven pulled it off.

Vita didn’t lie, and Vita witnessed Steven solo–kill a level 2 Iron Devouring Ant with her own eyes,

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That meant the B–rank Awakened Steven presented to the world was a front.

He was carrying a secret powerful enough to rewrite everything she thought she knew about him.

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“If you came here just to say things that make no sense,” Steven said, his voice flat and cold, “then we’re done here. I’m leaving.”

Steven turned away from her.

Lilliana’s expression shifted into something tangled and unreadable.

“Then explain the level 2 beast kill.”

Steven’s footstep hitched.

The pieces clicked together in his mind instantly.

It was her.

The girl I pulled out of danger that day. She told Lilliana.

Steven let out a quiet, inward sigh. The leak was there all along and he never saw it.

Fine. She knows. There’s no undoing it now.

Steven kept his back to her. “So what? You came all the way here to bring that up?

Lilliana’s eyes went red at the rims, and she didn’t fully understand why Steven’s words were pulling this reaction out of her.

“That’s not okay! You cared about me for so long, and now you’re just throwing that away like it meant nothing?

“I’m not just some trash you can dump whenever you want! Even if I never returned your feelings, we were still friends before, weren’t we?

“I know you have feelings for Bianca now. I’m not asking you to feel anything for me anymore.

“But I didn’t do anything wrong here. Why am I the one being cut off and discarded?”

Lilliana pulled in a slow, steadying breath.

“Tell me the truth. After I turned you down, before the Divine Awakening, you got close to Bianca. Was that specifically to get back at me?

“I just want a straight answer!”

Steven almost laughed out loud at that.

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She spent years in her own private altitude, never once thinking of him as a friend, only ever seeing him as someone convenient to keep around.

Now that she knew what he was actually capable of, she was wrapping herself in the borrowed costume of a wronged party and asking him to restore something that never existed the way she was framing it. And underneath all of it, she was probably more interested in what Bianca’s future was going to look like than in anything else.

“First of all,” Steven said, his gaze settling on her with full, unsparing clarity, “I didn’t get close to Bianca to get at you. Don’t flatter yourself.

“And you call us friends?” Steven made a short, contemptuous sound. “When were we ever actually friends? Be honest.

“I pulled back because of who you are. You never thought of me as a friend. You never thought of me as

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someone genuinely pursuing you. You thought of me as a placeholder, someone to keep on standby for a rainy day.

“You were waiting on your Divine Awakening the whole time, and the moment someone ranked below you, you’d cut them loose without a second thought. You treat everyone around you the same way. There’s no real feeling there, only calculation”

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