Exposed
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Noelle just sneered at the unfocused and hate-filled gaze of her mother. "So just because you gave birth to me, I should be indebted to you all my life regardless of how you treat me after that? Do you even know what you're saying?"
Did she really never expect what she did to be exposed to everyone?
"You—!"
The gray-haired girl didn't allow the older woman another opportunity to spew poison, and swiftly knocked her out with a ruthless kick to the head.
Many in the crowd stared at each other, perplexed, but no one dared to say a word. With the elders being behind her, they'd always just assumed that Noelle must be a child hand-picked by them, and must have been taken away from her parents with the consent of everyone involved.
As for the reason why the identity of her parents wasn't exposed, they could only assume that it must be part of Noelle's training somehow.