An Extra’s POV

Profit and Loss

Buying and Selling.

Stakes and Rewards.

Business was simply a complicated game where the players were the buyers and sellers.

In the end, both sides wanted to win, and it was often the case that only one party became ultimately victorious.

The seller would desire to sell at the highest price possible, while the buyer desired to get the product or service at the cheapest rate available.

In the end, the one with the lesser bargaining power or skill ended up losing and compromising their positions.

That was how Rey saw it.

"It's not technically a lie…" He smiled at Noah, who didn't wholly understand his thought process.

"Don't worry. I doubt it'll get to that level."

The United Human Alliance was in a precarious state. Rey doubted they would have the luxury of worrying about where Rey got a single Enchanted Item.

'I even asked Aldred, and unless the item is appraised, there's no way of telling what it really does…'

Why would the United Human Alliance go to all the trouble of yanking off and appraising the property of one of their strongest assets?

It was never going to happen.

'It's a relief we're able to use Enchanted Items now, though.'

Rey wondered what his classmates had gotten with their Gold Coin.

'I doubt they'd spend it wisely…'

*********

'Ahh… I was right!'

As Rey joined the gathering students at the agreed-upon rendezvous point, he could see the junks they were proudly holding in their hands.

from all their chattering, he realized that those were the things

idiots…' Rey wanted to slap his face and say, but he

they weren't financially literate

'Oh wait… it is!'

was certain that if his classmates had taken their time to study the economics of H'Trae, or at least that of the United Human Alliance Capital, they

the value of a Gold Coin. Look at how they're all treating it as if it's

could imagine the grinning faces of merchants who had

up in stalls and asked "Hey, what can I get

they

And the worst part?

things are so cheap

so much just

my

a

impressed with what they had gotten that they

than a silver coin, idiot!' Rey wanted

But, from what he was hearing his classmates

grew exasperated with hearing their adventures that he shut his ears off from their noise

what

didn't seem to have anything in particular, so it

stranger I saw back then,

Adonis with a mask, and

people who had met someone who looked exactly like them—or who resembled them to a

guess doppelgängers and lookalikes

A feminine voice startled Rey, causing to nearly jump

been so focused on Adonis, blocking everything out, that he didn't sense the one who was right

glanced behind him and saw Trisha standing

startled me, Trisha." He rubbed his head as

she

seductive body already put Rey

between his teenage hormones and

wearing a tank top and very tight jeans today…' His eyes did their best not to

wearing stuff like this, but after hearing her talk to one of her new

apparently easier for her to move in, since to

Rey that wasn't any

extraneous material hindering her movements and fluidity, but Rey considered the