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Chapter 543 - 542: One Time to be Pathetic

Knowing and seeing were two different things. None of them knew she was injured to such an extent.

Arachne quietly stared at the serpent for several moments without speaking.

Truthfully, she never cared much for Ophis.

The serpent rarely interacted with the others, nor did she make any attempt to grow closer to them.

And Arachne, in turn, never tried to connect with her either.

Yet even Arachne found herself feeling pity after seeing her like this.

Because the emotions Ophis carried right now were something Arachne deeply understood herself.

To lose the qualifications needed to stand beside Noah... That fear had always existed inside her.

It was the same fear that made her desperately chase strength. The same fear that made her terrified of being replaced one day.

Because if she could no longer support Noah... Then what purpose would remain for her existence afterward?

Arachne’s gaze lingered silently on Ophis afterward.

And truthfully, if Ophis asked her to end her misery right now... Arachne didn’t believe she would hesitate to do it.

Meanwhile, Ophis was slowly moving toward Noah.

Even without her eyes, Noah’s presence was impossible for her to mistake. Yet despite still being able to find him, her movements were painfully slow.

She dragged herself across the ground as though even moving had become exhausting.

It was difficult to tell whether the sluggishness came from her injuries alone... or because Ophis herself was gradually losing the will to move forward at all.

Eventually, she stopped directly before Noah.

”...I’m pathetic, aren’t I?” Her voice sounded hollow as she spoke with the faint lisp one would expect from a serpent missing part of herself.

Noah quietly stared at her for several seconds before speaking.

”Well, when you look like that, then yeah.” His blunt admission immediately caused Ophis’ body to tense faintly.

Was he not going to heal her now?

Behind Noah, Ailetta immediately palmed her face before letting out a quiet, exasperated sigh.

”Seriously...”

But Noah himself looked completely unbothered by what he said.

In fact, he looked genuinely confused by their reactions.

”You look like you’ve already given up. That’s more pathetic than how you look right now.”

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”Where’s the defiance you had before?”

”The same serpent that kept glaring at everything stronger than herself, like she planned to surpass it someday, is now hiding in the dark, feeling sorry for herself because she lost her eyes?”

Ophis’s body stiffened harder.

Noah didn’t stop there.

”You think your future disappeared because of this? Then your resolve was weaker than your eyes were.”

Gwen’s eyes widened slightly at the harshness of the words.

’Is this supposed to be considered motivation for monsters?’ she questioned silently to herself.

And for some reason... She genuinely wasn’t sure anymore.

Yet Noah himself still didn’t appear angry. If anything, he sounded disappointed.

He stared at Ophis quietly while watching the serpent slump further against the ground.

The reaction alone made it obvious that whatever pride she still possessed had only been crushed further by his words.

Noah’s expression subtly shifted afterward.

Then slowly, his body relaxed as he let out a deep breath.

For the first time since speaking, he looked away from Ophis briefly.

He needed to reconsider his approach. Because, despite what happened, Noah still didn’t believe his words were wrong.

But at the same time... This also wasn’t what he wanted.

His thoughts instinctively drifted back toward himself. Toward everything he endured before reaching this point. The countless moments where giving up would have been easier.

And truthfully, if someone had spoken to him the same way back then... Noah believed he would have needed to hear it.

He would have wanted someone to drag him back onto his feet instead of pitying him.

But then another thought surfaced afterward. A version of himself he almost no longer remembered.

The version of himself that truly had given up long ago, before all of this began.

And Noah quietly imagined what would have happened if that version of himself had lost an arm during the beginning of the apocalypse.

Or a leg.

Or something else he couldn’t recover from through sheer stubbornness alone.

His already fragile self-worth back then would have likely resembled exactly what he was seeing in Ophis now.

That self-reflection caused the intensity in his eyes to practically disappear.

’If I’m not going to lie to them... then I also shouldn’t lie to myself.’

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