Sylvia's POV:
It never crossed my mind that Noreen also disguised herself as Layla. No wonder Layla hadn't returned to the imperial capital afterward. "When did you start pretending to be Layla?" I questioned Noreen in a frosty voice.
She returned to her own appearance and casually replied, "From the very beginning. From the moment you met Layla, it has always been me."
"Where is the real Layla?" I was so furious that my whole body trembled. Noreen not only made fun of us, but also played with our lives.
When I'd first gone to the stone chamber, I'd searched for the mechanism everywhere like a fool. I didn't know that had been Noreen's plan all along. She forced my hand to use the pendant and suspect the relationship between my mother and black witch race. Then Noreen deliberately led me to discover the lab. And finally, she engineered an opportunity to rescue Flora and me from the stone chamber. She must have felt so smug at that time. We looked stupid when we couldn't locate her, and didn't know she was right there with us.
No wonder Flora was so resistant to Layla at the beginning. Layla's weird actions towards me also made sense now.
"The real Layla already passed away in an accident. She was never a student at the military school. I took her place, tampered the enroll list, and purposely created the scent of werewolves. Although the process was a little complicated, making you believe that I'm just an ordinary werewolf made it all worth it in the end."
When I heard that the real Layla was dead, I was shell-shocked and hastily asked, "What about the real Maya?"
Noreen wasn't surprised I was asking this question. In an indifferent tone, she answered, "She's dead."
"What? She's dead?" I couldn't believe my ears.
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