[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-goblin-king-my-innate-skill-is-op":3,"chapter-goblin-king-my-innate-skill-is-op-goblin-king-my-innate-skill-is-op-chapter-144":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Goblin King: My Innate Skill Is OP",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1335837,1780,"Chapter 144: Confession","goblin-king-my-innate-skill-is-op-chapter-144",144,"\u003Cp>\"Are you truly a goblin?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My brow furrowed at once, the muscles pulling tight across my forehead. I stared at her, trying to decide whether she was mocking me or if her words carried some deeper suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you mean by that?\" I asked, my voice quieter than I intended, but edged with a sharpness that betrayed how unsettled I felt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her lips curved faintly, not into a smile exactly, but into something that carried a trace of wry amusement, as though she knew she’d struck a nerve and was gauging how I’d respond. She repeated herself, but twisted the blade in a way that made the air between us suddenly heavier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you truly human?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time my brow knitted even tighter, the confusion clawing deeper into me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way she asked it — calm, deliberate, and with no hint of jest — didn’t sound like a careless remark or some wild guess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, it carried the weight of certainty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I rose slowly to my feet, unable to sit still under the weight of her question, my eyes fixed on Flogga as if I could dig the truth straight out of her calm, unyielding expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t flinch, didn’t so much as twitch. Her face remained composed, almost serene, while mine betrayed me completely — muscles tightening, lips parting and pressing together again, a mess of confusion spilling across my features as my thoughts ran wild in a dozen directions at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you mean, am I truly a goblin?\" I demanded, my voice sharper than I intended. I searched her eyes for even the faintest sign of mockery, of playfulness, anything that would make this easier to dismiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she only tilted her head, her tone frighteningly casual as she replied, \"What do you mean, Chief? Aren’t you human?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My eyes widened, the breath catching hard in my chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, like a knife twisting, an old thought resurfaced — one I’d buried the moment it had crept into my mind. The day I discovered the other Chosens were human like me, the possibility had struck me then: if I could be human in a goblin’s body, what was to say the others in my clan weren’t the same? They laughed in ways too familiar, argued with tones that reminded me of people I once knew, carried themselves with habits that felt far too human for creatures of the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I had dismissed it earlier, brushed it aside as nothing more than a passing thought born from fatigue and the strangeness of my new reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now... now that suspicion was clawing its way back to the surface, no longer something I could easily ignore. The weight of it pressed down on me until I could no longer keep silent. I steadied my breathing, forcing my voice to come out slow and deliberate, each word heavy with intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Flogga... are you human too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time since I’d known her, something slipped through the cracks of her composure. Her brow twitched, the smallest betrayal of emotion, but I caught it instantly — because I was staring at her with an intensity that bordered on desperation, watching for the faintest flicker that might confirm what my gut was already screaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No way...The thought rippled through my head like a whisper I didn’t want to hear but couldn’t silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said nothing at first. The silence stretched, thick and uncomfortable, and my fingers curled tight against my sides. A part of me wanted to shake the answer out of her, to shout, to demand the truth before the weight of uncertainty broke me. But I bit it back, grinding down on that urge and forcing myself to wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then she sighed — not the kind of sigh that came from weariness or frustration, but one that carried the weight of something she had been holding back for far too long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I suspected as much,\" she murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words hit me like a jolt, and I stepped forward before I could stop myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you mean?\" I asked, the question spilling out almost instantly, sharper than I intended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t flinch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her response came calm, steady, with none of the hesitation I had been expecting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" she said softly, \"you are right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mind lurched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right? About what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then she revealed it, clear and unshaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am human... just like you are.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words tore through me, stopping everything inside me at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body froze where I stood, my chest rising but refusing to fall, air caught somewhere between my lungs and my throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, it felt as though even the cave itself had gone silent, holding its breath with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No way...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought thundered in my head, louder than anything I could force past my lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am a human... was human, Chief. A long time ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words cracked something inside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mouth fell open, but no sound came out at first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... how... what—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stammered, the words tripping over each other until they collapsed into nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mind grasped at fragments of thought, but none of them held steady long enough to form into a sentence. I didn’t even know how to react. My chest felt tight, my pulse erratic, as though my body was lagging behind the reality that had just been laid bare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about the rest?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I finally managed to let out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are they human as well?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact...were all goblins human?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, I didn’t couldn’t say otherwise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shook her head, the motion stiff in her thin neck, yet calm and certain, and that quiet weight alone grounded me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No. Not at all. Only a select few.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My thoughts scattered, searching desperately for footing, for an example that might prove or disprove what she had just said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zarah?\" I asked suddenly, the name slipping out unbidden. I didn’t even know why I chose her — maybe because she had always felt so different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flogga’s answer cut clean through my spiraling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No. Zarah is not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am the only one in this clan who was human.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1025,"2026-06-05T20:04:08.077Z",1,"novelbin.me","5fdd0791425f74ecc56fe02f9b7a73b5b58350ee0e60cee1996fc58c3c6f8b2d","goblin-king-my-innate-skill-is-op-chapter-145","goblin-king-my-innate-skill-is-op-chapter-143",375,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgoblin-king-my-innate-skill-is-op-cover.jpg"]