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

about this next question? What do you spend your spare

world." Rey answered

That's so brave of you.

"No."

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

smiling, and their words contained an

could see that they had both departed from the

cleared his throat and made sure

Lady Vida back to the

got a little carried away. My

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

and took their gaze away from Vida Origa, while

the hostile gaze she was directing

answer our questions, we can't

prove my guilt

Rey said this, Conrad

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

wasn't out of the woods

person to be panicking, but Rey

if he had expected

was able to leave the Royal Estate. You all know my Skill and its abilities, and you know I was telling the

his gaze to Adam Sanchez, who was already showing

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

was now buried under an overwhelming amount of

don't doubt the nature of my

specifics of his Skill, Rey knew his entire case would

him, his

please rise on

The boy obeyed.

us the details of how Rey escaped the Royal Estate and… evaded

Conrad was already recognizing how ridiculous the entire thing

enough

"I… erm… well…"

Truthseeker, so he had to be