The SSS-rank Guide Doesn't Need Saving novel Chapter 98

Chapter 98: Cutting the Threads

The annoyance she felt toward Nykos increased. With this much nonsense, she understood why many people had suffered from him.

"I’m getting off." She walked to the door, waiting for it to open.

"Wait—"

"We’ve arrived. There’s no need for me to stay here." Aisha’s curt reply stunned both the men inside the hover car.

She somehow had returned to her usual indifference, and even they couldn’t keep up with the coldness that dripped off of her.

But what they didn’t know was that this was her original personality. The ones she’d shown other people in this world were something that she could remember in her memories and embodied. But that didn’t mean she had forgotten who she was just because things weren’t the same as before.

"Allow me to—"

"I’ll go with—"

Before both men could even finish their sentences, she shot them a malicious glare.

"Don’t," she warned them. "I think you two are confused about something here. I didn’t tell you this because I thought you were mature and old enough to understand that there are boundaries we shouldn’t cross."

She looked down and waited for the hover car to descend.

But before it opened, she looked at them in the eye one last time. "It’s better to keep our distance from now on. It’s better for all of us if we focus on our own responsibilities and leave it at that."

Pssshhh!

The door slowly slid open, and Aisha took her first step outside.

She didn’t wait for either of them to stop her, and perhaps her words had actually worked because they didn’t follow her.

Well, she didn’t give them any chance to do that as well as she headed straight inside the Novalis house before they could even respond to her.

The silence that followed upon shutting the door behind her somehow made her notice things more acutely. To be more precise, the house that usually was well-lit was now dark, as though no one was home.

She glanced around the living room, which Daisy had told her the Novalis family members had occupied, was now empty. Not even a servant was in sight.

Then suddenly, a slightly uneasy feeling swept over her. Insignificant perhaps, but something crossed her mind as she watched the darkness. As she turned to investigate whether there was really no one in there, she caught a glimpse of a figure in the corner of her eyes.

"You’re back finally."

"What are you doing there?"

Theon was uncharacteristically sitting on one of the steps in the stairway.

"I was waiting for you."

He had propped his elbows on his knees and was using his hand to hold up his chin to look up at her. Theon hadn’t changed out of the clothes he wore for the ceremony. Aisha supposed he had been waiting for her there specifically. But she couldn’t understand why he would wait here instead of trying to devote his attention to his real sister, Irene?

"I heard you got summoned by the emperor..." his voice sounded rough.

Did he cry after having both his parents imprisoned in the palace? Aisha thought that it was possible. But because of the darkness that veiled around him, she couldn’t completely make out his face.

She heard him continue.

"Theon, have you forgotten already what happened earlier? Our father couldn’t wait to announce that I’m not his daughter in front of everyone." Aisha took the stairs, one step at a time. "To save Irene’s face, he ruined what future I could have. I understand it was for the sake of saving his real daughter... but have I not been enough of a daughter all these years?"

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