End Times, Surviving with My Beastly Army novel Chapter 204

Chapter 204 Panicking Noah

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One mistake was all would take. Without their patrol positions, and with nothing to show for themselves, they’d be thrown straight back into Outerville.

Both Noah and Zelda knew exactly wh Outerville was.

If Outerville’s conditions hadn’t driven him to desperation in the first place, he never would’ve done what he did. He never would’ve handed Zelda over to someone else’s bed just to crawl out of that place.

They’d bled for every inch of ground they’d gained in Centerville. Losing it all over Robin was a thought too agonizing to sit with.

Outerville didn’t just wear people down. It devoured them, body and soul.

After even a few days of livable conditions in Centerville, the thought of returning to that place was enough to hollow a person out completely.

The memory of Outerville crashed into Zelda like a wave, and her legs buckled beneath her. Every last trace of color left her face.

“Robin… Robin.”

The true weight of what she was facing hit her all at once, and every other thought evaporated. She stumbled forward and threw herself at Robin’s feet, her eyes spilling over with tears.

“Robin, I was just messing around before. We were best friends once, you know that…

“Whatever got between us, we can’t just throw all of that away over a misunderstanding like this.

“We’ve known each other for years. You know who I am. Everything I said back there was just noise. I didn’t mean a word of it. You know that, right?”

Robin’s expression tightened in revulsion. Zelda’s face had come dangerously close to her leg, and the proximity made something visceral crawl up her spine.

Zelda caught the recoil in Robin’s body and stiffened. Something dark and poisonous stirred behind her eyes. “Robin, you’ve always been the bigger person. If you let this go today, I’ll let everything from before go too. Whatever happened before the apocalypse, it’s forgotten. Right now, we start over as friends.”

The delivery was polished and sincere-sounding, but the words themselves were almost too absurd to absorb.

Robin stepped back, unhurried, and the amusement in her eyes was unmistakable. “Zelda, you’re even more shameless than I thought.”

Zelda lowered her gaze and softened her voice. “Can’t we just end this here, for the sake of what we used to be? Why are you pushing so hard? I can’t believe you’re actually this ruthless.”

“You can’t believe it?”

Robin’s brow lifted, and a slow smile crossed her face. “Then I’ll change your mind

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Chapter 204 Panicking Noah

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She turned to the two enforcers without the slightest urgency. “The solution you proposed works for me. Carry it out.”

The silence that followed was total. It wasn’t just Zelda and Noah who froze. Both enforcers looked visibly thrown.

They hadn’t known what lay beneath the surface between these three, but the tone of the exchange made one thing clear: they’d all known each other before.

The enforcers had assumed Robin would show some leniency because of that history.

They hadn’t anticipated this

at

all.

Both enforcers dipped their heads. “Understood, Ms. Neel. We’ll handle it according to your wishes.”

Those words were, in every practical sense, a death sentence.

Noah’s legs gave out entirely. He crumpled to the ground and sat there, muttering in a hollow, fractured voice. “It’s over. It’s all over.”

Zelda’s expression twisted into something raw and desperate. “You can’t do this. Robin, you can’t do this to us. This is personal, and you know it. You’re doing this out of spite.”

Robin let out a short, disbelieving laugh. “Zelda, are you seriously just figuring that out now? I wanted you both gone from the very first day the apocalypse started.

“But what was I supposed to do? You two somehow survived all of it, and somehow ended up here at Redwood Military Base. That part I genuinely didn’t anticipate.”

The unmasked lethal intent in her voice leached every last bit of color from Zelda’s face. “We worked so hard to get here. We worked so hard just to make it into Centerville…”

She was still murmuring when Noah, who’d been slumped on the ground a second ago, suddenly exploded to his feet and closed the distance between them. His palm drove across her face with bruzal force.

“It’s your fault. Every bit of it is your fault!

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“If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t be here right now. If you hadn’t gotten into my head, I never would’ve gone after Robin.”

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