Reborn Apocalypse Ready War Goddess by My Side (Ezekiel Valor) novel Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Taking the Ember Eternal Home!

In eastern Rowenville, tucked inside an aging civilian district, there were no towering apartment buildings in sight, just rows of worn, modest houses.

The girl had only reached the front door and she barely even take off her backpack.

A drunken voice came roaring from inside the house.

“You bitch, where’s my booze? Go buy me another bottle already!”

“With what money? There’s nothing left!”

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“You talking back to me now? You think I don’t know you’ve been hiding money? Go buy me booze right now, or I’ll beat you to death!”

Sobbing broke out from inside.

“Then kill me already, Howard! I don’t even want to live anymore! If it weren’t for Bianca, do you think I’d still stay here taking care of you?

“In all these years, have you ever earned a single cent? All you do is drink and gamble. Are you even a man?”

“Shut up, bitch. How dare you mouth off at me! Without me, do you think you’d still be alive?

“I’ll kill you!”

Smack!

The slap rang so loudly that it could be heard from outside the house.

Something crashed over immediately after.

The girl’s eyes reddened instantly.

She bolted inside like she’d lost her mind.

Then she saw her mother collapsed on the floor, blood running down from her forehead.

Bianca froze for half a second before her entire body started trembling uncontrollably.

“Mom!”

She rushed over and helped her mother up from the ground.

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Her heart twisted painfully at the sight.

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Then she shot a vicious glare toward the drunken man standing nearby without a shred of guilt on his face.

At this point, she hated him more than anything.

Howard White didn’t care about the injured Vanessa White at all when he saw Bianca come home.

“Girl, go buy me booze!”

Tears were already streaming down Bianca’s face.

“Why don’t you just drink yourself to death? Get the hell out!”

The second Howard heard that, his temper exploded.

“You little brat, you think you can talk back to your father?

“You’re dead!”

He staggered forward and slapped Bianca hard across her delicate face.

Smack!

Even through her daze, Vanessa’s heart shattered at the sight.

“You animal! Howard, she’s your daughter!”

The force of the slap knocked Bianca onto the floor, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

But she didn’t cry out. This wasn’t anything new to her anymore.

Her heart had already gone cold. She swore to herself she’d take her mother and escape this monster as soon as possible.

“Bianca, are you okay?”

Vanessa pulled Bianca’s fragile body tightly into her arms.

Bianca shook her head calmly.

“I’m fine, Mom. Come on, I’ll take you to the hospital.”

She tried helping Vanessa to her feet.

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But Howard had no intention of letting them leave.

“You’ve got money for a hospital but not for booze?

“Move! Go buy it, now!”

Howard roared drunkenly, swaying on his feet, as if he could collapse at any second, yet somehow still obsessing over alcohol.

Bianca glared at her alcoholic father with pure hatred in her eyes.

“Then kill us if you’ve got the guts!”

Howard barked out a furious laugh. “Fine! I’ll kill both of you today and be done with it!”

He looked like a wild beast now, eyes bloodshot and completely devoid of humanity.

Grabbing a wooden stick nearby, he swung it viciously at the mother and daughter.

“This is what you get for not buying me booze!”

At that moment, Bianca truly fell into despair.

She could only hold her mother tightly. If they were going to die, then fine. Living like this had stopped meaning anything a long time ago.

Vanessa let out a terrified scream.

“Ahhh!”

Right at that critical moment, someone suddenly charged into the house.

The newcomer wrapped both Bianca and Vanessa in his arms and used his own back to take Howard’s blow head–on.

A heavy thud echoed through the room.

Bianca waited for the pain that never came. Stunned, she realized someone was shielding both her and her mother from behind.

She turned sharply and found a face right beside hers. A familiar stranger.

It was Steven from her class. The same Steven who liked Lilliana.

Why is he here? And why is he protecting us?

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At that instant, Steven felt like the first ray of light to break into Bianca’s pitch–black world.

Meanwhile, Steven’s face was twisted in agony. Forget being anybody’s light. Right now, he didn’t believe in light. He believed in fists.

Damn it. With this weak body of mine, taking a hit like that hurts like hell.

Without a Divine Sigil protecting me, this body really is pathetically weak.

But there was no time to worry about that now.

Steven whipped his head around and stared at the drunken Howard.

Howard cursed furiously, “You damn bitch, is this your boyfriend?

“Good! I’ll beat both you cheating bastards to death today!”

Howard raised the stick again and swung it down.

How could someone this disgusting even exist?

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