Resurrecting the Genius Within

He knew she was hiding pills to commit suicide, but he pretended not to notice and watched her grow weaker every day.

And then he waited for her to kill herself in agony.

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ed on his way there, arriving just in time to witness his mother catch her last breath.

He was the one who showed Deborah the self–inflicted wounds.

The real Joshua would have hidden his injuries.

But he showed them to Deborah, pushing her to the brink. His calculated actions and feigned exhaustion only added to the pressure on Deborah.

In the end, it led her to take her own life for his sake.

He drove Deborah to her death, all to gain Isabelle’s sympathy more quickly and completely.

He indirectly caused the death of that unfortunate woman.

A woman whose life was filled with suffering was killed by the son she had waited for over a decade to

reunite with.

His face turned icy cold and pallid in the dimly lit living room. The impostor glared at Isabelle and said, “I don’t believe you.”

Suddenly, a sharp pain twisted in his stomach, shattering his cold façade.

Black blood started to trickle from the corner of his mouth. The fake Joshua clutched his abdomen, looking at Isabelle in disbelief.

He then remembered Isabelle had eaten so much and should have shown symptoms of the poison by now, yet she was fine.

did you …

his mistake. In an attempt to keep everything looking natural,

sight of

when Isabelle switched them.

bites; if he had consumed more, the poisoning would

not in the mood to mock him.

she assumed they wouldn’t kill an ordinary person like Joshua, but they might hold him as a bargaining chip. Thus, she had been careful not to alert him until she

impostor to be Storm Shadow’s brother. For Dark Shadow, keeping a

organisation’s most vile tactic was

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had killed their own loved ones during missions. It wasn’t

kill their own family. Some even spent a year or more with their relatives before mercilessly killing

midst of their laughter and joy, they killed

truth. They left Dark Shadow, only

meticulously plotted revenge against Dark Shadow, with predictable

continuing as if nothing had happened. These were Dark Shadow’s

organisation preferred

his

turned and fled

chase after him.

the open door, her face

had paid for her

herself, others wouldn’t give her a

her own son. Watching the tragedy unfold, Isabelle’s

blew in through the open door. Isabelle stood in the empty hall,

mood at its lowest.

ran upstairs, grabbing her needle kit before

“Joshua!”

in the direction Joshua had fled.