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Chapter 220 The Protagonist’s Team 

Maya realized she’d been overlooking something. 

If this were a romance comic, the world would at least be mostly normal. There wouldn’t be outlaws running around everywhere. 

But an action series was a different story. Dangerous professions, life-threatening situations at every turn. and the plot usually built toward a final boss fight. 

So in this comic she was living in, who was the boss? 

Her mind raced through the possibilities. 

“The comic’s central theme is that the protagonist’s team helps each other along the way, working together to survive the schemes of the villains, defeat them, and build a better world.” 

Her suspicion was confirmed. And it sounded even worse than she’d thought. 

Given what her family was like, they sounded a lot less like the heroes and a lot more like the villains the protagonist’s team was destined to take down. 

George had already settled into easy conversation with his friend, ordering a drink he didn’t actually taste. He just swirled it under his nose and breathed it in. 

The boy’s name was Liam. A senior in high school. Talkative, friendly. 

Maya rested her chin on her arms at the edge of the table, listening in, studying him from time to time. She wanted to see what was so special about a supposed member of the protagonist’s inner circle. 

The two boys chatted comfortably about ordinary things. 

“Oh, and thanks for lending me money lately. I’ll pay you back eventually.” 

George yawned. “Sure. Don’t worry about it.” 

It didn’t matter anyway. If he hadn’t lent it to Liam, George would’ve just lost it at a casino. 

“I’ll save up and get it to you in a few days.” Liam said it seriously, like a promise. Then he hesitated, lowering his voice. “But George, can you stop doing those things? The bad stuff?” 

George sighed. “Why do you always bring this up every time we hang out?” 

“You’re not exactly swimming in cash yourself, are you? You’ve still got student loans. You can barely feed yourself. You’ve got a sister to take care of now. And you’re really gonna sit here lecturing me?” 

He didn’t mean it as an insult. He was just genuinely puzzled why they couldn’t talk about something lighter 

for once. 

Every time they met up, Liam launched into some kind of motivational intervention. It was exhausting. 

Maya filed that away. So Liam knew what George did for a living. Being friends with someone like George probably weighed on him. Could Liam be the reason George ended up dying in the story? 

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Chapter 220 The Protagonis!: Team 

Liam’s expression tightened. He dropped his gaze for a long moment, and when he spoke again his voice had gone stiff. “I don’t need you telling me how to live my life. I said I’ll pay you back. And we re just friends aren’t we? That’s all.” 

George gave a lazy half-shrug. “Yep.” 

He’d always been easygoing with his friends. He’d started out with plenty of them, and now there were only a handful left. Liam was the only one who hadn’t bolted after finding out what he did for a living. 

Maya marveled again at George’s temper. He wasn’t even going to push back? 

When she thought about it, out of all her brothers, George was the only one who never got angry no matter how much he got hit or yelled at. 

She stayed draped over the bar top, chin on her arms, and cut in with idle curiosity. “If you already took the money, maybe don’t lecture him on top of it? It just makes you look like a hypocrite. And you got defensive the second anyone pointed it out. What, you want charity and the moral high ground?” 

Liam hadn’t expected that. He stared at her, caught off guard. 

“Why are you looking at me?” Maya tilted her head, not shifting her position or her tone. “Am I wrong”” 

Color crept up the back of Liam’s neck. Being dressed down by a kid was humiliating, but the embarrassment stung worse than the anger. 

He gripped his glass until his knuckles went white, his voice flat and hard. “I said I’d pay it back. Do you really have to talk to me like that?” 

Maya blinked, the picture of innocence. “But weren’t you just doing the same thing to George? I said one thing and you’re already upset. What’s that about?” 

She hugged her juice to her chest, straw resting against the corner of her mouth. “You ever heard the saying ‘telling people to be good is a thankless job? 

“Besides, your life’s already this hard. You really want my brother to end up the same way? Follow in your footsteps?” She took a sip. “That’s not advice, Liam. That’s a curse.” 

Liar’s face cycled through expressions like a slot machine. First the shock of being shut down by a little girl, rendered completely speechless. 

Then anger, the raw kind that comes from having a nerve hit dead center. His voice went cold. “What does a kid know about any of this?” 

His volume ticked up. “I don’t have money because I’m not like you people. I don’t do terrible things to get 

it.” 

Maya almost laughed. Her lips curved and she looked at him with total sincerity. 

“You say that like you’d actually be any good at it if you tried. Crime takes brains and skill too, you know 

Liam’s face went from white to green and back again. 

That one cut deeper than everything else combined. 

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He’d always looked down on criminals. He studied hard, worked part-time, pinched every penny and still came up short at the end of every month. 

Chapter 220 The Protagonists Team 

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