Chapter 1006: Argument
"When did it start..." Hesta murmured softly.
Simoya frowned. Hesta's incoherent reaction struck her as both ridiculous and contemptible. She turned to leave, but Hesta caught her by the arm.
"What are you doing?" Simoya glared at Hesta. "Let go—"
"When did you start finding me so annoying?" Hesta looked at her. "At first, you did think I was troublesome and wouldn't listen to reason, that's true. But it didn't seem to be this bad, did it? Did I do something that made you hate me that much... or something that made Kendall hate me that much?"
Simoya shook off Hesta's hand. "Do you think everyone's loves and hates in this world ultimately come down to personal grudges? How shallow!"
Simoya's voice drew glances from several nearby people. She immediately fell silent and headed uphill. After walking six or seven steps, she looked back to make sure Hesta had not followed. Hesta indeed had not. She stood where she was, gazing thoughtfully at Simoya.
Only then did Simoya feel some pain in her wrist, but Hesta's gaze filled her with an even greater unease. She was not sure whether she had said too much just now, whether she had given Hesta cause for unnecessary suspicions and associations.
As noon approached, the clamor in the council chamber subsided. Before long, the lights in the hall dimmed slightly, and an enormous white screen slowly descended from above the dais. Hesta could tell the equipment here was extremely old. The screen got stuck several times halfway down, but fortunately, it finally descended intact. The last time she had seen such a screen was probably in some school buildings in District 14 that were about to be demolished and rebuilt. It truly did not seem like something that belonged in