End of the World? I'm the Boss novel Chapter 435

Chapter 435 An Icy Threat

Her hands had been on

tely empty just a moment ago.

The blade had appeared from nothing, which meant only one thing: the impossibly beautiful woman standing over him was an ice ability ust

But that kick had sent a strength–type ability user crashing to the ground without even trying.

Elemental ability users were supposed to be physically frail. Everyone knew that. That was supposed to be the rule.

That realization hit him like a second kick to the chest. He finally understood exactly what kind of monster he’d provoked.

“I really didn’t like what you just said.”

A dangerous light flickered deep in Robin’s eyes. “What exactly is wrong with women like me?”

When social order collapsed, the first crack always appeared between men and women.

Biologically, women were physically weaker. That was simply a fact of the world.

After the apocalypse, women without abilities fell straight to the bottom of the food chain. They became objects for others to use and throw away.

In her previous life, Robin had witnessed more of that than she could ever forget. This time around, her own strength had largely shielded her from it.

But rarely seeing it didn’t mean it had stopped happening.

The man’s eyes were wild with terror. He raised his own hand and slapped himself hard across the face, twice. “I was wrong, completely out of line, every single bit of this is my fault, please just let me go and I swear I’ll never do it again…”

He was nothing more than the man in charge of garbage hauling. The work was filthy and foul–smelling, and nobody with any standing ever came near this area voluntarily. Even base leadership skipped inspections here when they could get away with it.

When the cat’s away, the mice will play.

He’d lorded over this grimy little corner of Heningford for so long that the possibility of being humbled had simply never crossed his mind.

She’s just some new arrival. Just a girl! How’s she this powerful?

Regret twisted through his gut like a blade.

A new, sharp smell suddenly spread through the air around him.

Robin glanced at the slow, spreading stain blooming across the ground and wrinkled her nose.

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Chapter 435

The man had been so frightened he’d wet himself.

“Didn’t you just say I was yours to do with as you pleased?” she said.

The ice blade pressed forward another fraction of an inch.

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The cold, biting pressure against his throat made his whole body contract violently. The shock had stolen his voice entirely.

“Ms. Neel, Ms. Neel, please, take it easy.” A figure stepped out from somewhere in the shadows behind them. “I’m sure he didn’t mean any of it…”

Staying hidden simply wasn’t an option anymore.

Robin’s lips curved upward. She arranged her face into something that looked convincingly surprised. “What are you doing here? Don’t tell me you’ve been following me this whole time?”

The man’s mouth twitched twice. He wiped his forehead with visible discomfort. “You’re joking, Ms. Neel. I wasn’t following you. The commander just didn’t want you out here alone, so he asked me to keep a quiet eye out, that’s all…”

It was the most unconvincing thing he’d ever heard come out of his own mouth, and he knew it.

The man on the ground stared up at the exchange with eyes gone wide and glassy.

The commander… personally worried about her…

Keeping quiet watch over her…

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This woman has a direct line to the commander himself.

Lord almighty. He’d walked straight into the worst trouble of his entire life.

“Really?” Robin drew the word out, slow and knowing.

Whether she believed it or not was anyone’s guess. It left the man beside her deeply unsettled either way.

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