An Extra’s POV

[Privilege Readers might be confused, because you've all read this chapter as an extension of the .

Sorry for the mixup, but I accidentally skipped a chapter in the earlier chapters, so by the time I was done adding it and editing it, things ended up like this. So please, go read the chapter called 'The Departure' right before 'Finding The Lost Item' so you can get the chapter that you missed.

I'm sorry for the mixup!]

"AHHHHHHHH!"

He suddenly began to hear noises coming from within the hideout.

'Hm…?'

More noises greeted his ears, though they were very muffled since Gary was outside.

"Are they fighting again?" He grumbled. "Those idiots… they'll wake up the Leader!"

Gary quickly finished his activity, inserting his stick inside his boxer shorts, ignoring the remnant liquid that dropped down his dirty underwear.

This wasn't the first time he had rushed the progress anyway, so he wasn't too concerned.

He closed the pouch and tied it back around his Wesson, covering everything with his boxer shorts.

Right as he was done, he heard another scream echo within the place.

It was a blood-curdling one—not resembling one borne out of a fight among comrades.

Gary felt his heart skip a beat, but this fear was swiftly overruled by the fear of what their Leader would do to everyone if he was woken up by their screaming.

Even if Gary wasn't among, he knew the Leader's punishment was one he could not escape.

Spurred by this, he rushed inside the building, neatly ripping the door from its hinges, as he yelled—like the idiot that he was—at his noisemaking comrades.

"You guys, STOP! You'll WAKE the LEADER!"

As Gary rushed in, shutting his eyes to make this declaration, he realized something.

… There was no noise—at least, not anymore.

'E-eh…?'

Instead, a certain smell caused him to slowly open his eyes as it overwhelmed his senses with a familiar sensation.

'W-what is… this…?'

as he noticed the severed parts of his comrades on the

Gary's feet,

"N-no…"

organs—intestines, brain matter, and a bunch of

around, and chunks of human meat dipped in the stew that was their own

all…

Repulsive!

he collapsed

contents, mixed in with the gross smell of the blood around him, combined

… Something worse.

felt like vomiting once again, but he was stopped

and you'll suffer

he automatically swallowed his

the sight of his earlier vomit sinking into the blood before him, he instinctively knew that he

so would mean certain

'W-why…?'

raised his head as he spotted three figures

was a man who appeared like a gentleman—the kind of handsome noble that any pauper like him would want to punch in the

was a young lady who had

as she looked at him, and the blood splattered on her pretty face told

that sliced off his comrades into these disgusting bits and pieces was most

voice from

a dark cloak whose back was rested on the walls

had a black mask on, so his

and it was the kind that told Gary that instant death awaited him if he made

incredibly powerful people wanted from him and his comrades, but

have to join his now-dead companions in the deep pits

"… Where is she?"

moment he heard a question from the man of darkness, Gary's

but confused face greeted the obsidian mask with

"I… I don't understand…"

me ask again…" The man's crimson eyes shone

with the ring.

eyes widened in utter fear and

ring? The one

why these three were here? Because of how valuable the ring was? They probably came to retrieve it due to its