They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 512: No Way I’m Letting This Go

How could he look his best friend in the eye, knowing he stood in the way of a love Arthur never even got the chance to reclaim?

Both paths hurt.

Both led to heartbreak.

Somto looked down, voice low and cracked.

"What do I do?" he whispered.

He wasn’t asking Arthur. Or Carl. He was just... asking.

To Arthur, watching quietly from the side, that whisper only added to the weight he felt in his chest.

He’s furious, Arthur thought. He probably thinks I crossed a line I swore I wouldn’t. That I betrayed our brotherhood.

Carl, on the other hand, had gone completely silent. But he was observing. Reading. Thinking.

His eyes moved between them, quietly forming theories, piecing together half told stories and unsaid truths.

He didn’t fully understand it yet, but one thing was becoming clearer by the second:

Somto wasn’t just protective of Nnenna.

He was attached.

And in Carl’s mind, that attachment might be the reason Somto couldn’t imagine anyone, not even Arthur, being worthy of her.

But one thing was certain now.

Carl finally broke the silence, his voice steady and firm.

looking straight at Arthur, "then yeah, it’s better to

no anger, only

Arthur didn’t hesitate.

conviction. "I already made that choice, the same one you’re

his gaze for a

"Good."

that,

I need my beauty sleep before

let out a breath of

his trousers. He reached out a hand to help Arthur up, not that

turned to Somto, who still hadn’t said a word. His expression remained unreadable, though his eyes

Carl said, stretching

then

pulled him up in

Carl said quietly. "The

but his eyes flicked

hand on

I don’t know where we’ll find someone better for Nnenna than Arthur..." he said with a small, bittersweet smile. "But I’m sure,

was a quiet beat. A fragile

to finally relax,

look. A subtle, loaded look Somto gave him right when he

just like that, one of Carl’s old theories, the one he had buried deep and tossed aside, suddenly roared back to

Does Somto... like Nnenna?

as the three of them walked

call on the night

mentioned had been a minor, close in age

he had clearly said... she didn’t

girls they knew in that age range, but Somto hadn’t responded. Not even once. Just

about it... Nnenna’s recent fondness toward Somto had grown too

a few days ago, when she described all three of them with casual playfulness... but something shifted when she got to Somto. A different