An Extra’s POV

'What should I say?'

Rey racked his brain to think of a way to circumvent the issue and avoid lying, without also saying the truth.

"How do you suppose I did that? My Skill is to temporarily transform my body and—!" He tried to do just that.

However, before he could get very far, Lady Vida silenced him with her next words.

"Just answer the question. Did you leave the Royal Estate or not? If you indeed left the Estate, where did you go?"

These were extremely precise questions that required direct answers for him.

'She's trapped me!' Rey greeted his teeth as he watched her chuckle slightly.

It seemed she truly took pleasure in seeing him like this.

'I really don't like how she's looking down on me. That condescending gaze… it irks me!'

The more he hesitated, the more suspicious he looked. Rey knew that much already.

'I've already denied an ample number of allegations, and successfully at that.'

If he made a blunder now, it would reduce the reliability of his words, practically ruining all his efforts until now.

Left with nowhere else to go, Rey finally gave up and used his last ditch option.

"I… I refuse to answer that."

Gasps escaped from the lips of the audience as they heard his response.

"Oho?" Lady Vida seemed to be even more excited once she heard that. "Are you sure that's how you want to respond?"

"Yes. I'm sure."

As the entire room heard this, the Lady was greeted by Rey's defiant stare. Anyone with such high standing would feel understandably dissatisfied with that.

But not Lady Vida.

only caused her smile to widen

to see the pink shades that subtly appeared on her

question? What do you spend your spare time

to save the world." Rey

of you. Mind

"No."

forth occurred between Rey and the Lady, and it soon became just them engaged in what couldn't be classified as

were smiling, and their words contained

that they had both departed from the confines

That's enough of that…" Conrad Listrio cleared his throat

snap Rey and Lady Vida back to the reality that everyone lived

seems I got a little carried away. My

with a smile, she seemed to be a tad bit dissatisfied that she was interrupted by

had nervous looks and took their gaze away from Vida Origa,

the hostile gaze she was directing towards

you are not properly cooperating with the trail, Rey Skylar. If you do not properly answer our questions, we can't fully determine the truth and prove your innocence." Conrad successfully brought the topic of the Trial back

you can't prove

this, Conrad narrowed his

Since the Truthseeker confirmed he was telling the truth from him, that means you're still

out of the woods

person to be panicking, but

he had

was able to leave the Royal Estate.

gaze to Adam Sanchez,

like me be able to get past so many guards? Why not ask the man himself what he

who was now buried under an overwhelming amount of attention that he never planned

nature of my Skill. That Truthseeker

the specifics of his Skill, Rey

his

Sanchez, please rise on your

The boy obeyed.

of how Rey escaped the Royal Estate and… evaded

recognizing how ridiculous the

was enough to

"I… erm… well…"

the Truthseeker, so he had