An Extra’s POV

There was deafening silence all around.

The students all looked at one another, each glance depicting multifaceted emotions.

Some students already had resolute expressions on their faces, while others seemed unsure about what choice to make.

Either way, it seemed that most people were waiting for who to step forward and leave first, hence the hesitation,

"The doors are open for those of you who wish to leave. Naturally, we wish you good fortune, but that is where our support ends."

Right now, the United Human Alliance had a bunch of its own problems to deal with. They couldn't afford to exert more energy on soldiers who did not wish to fight for them.

"Also, in case some of you are yet to make up your mind, there will be an Expedition for those who choose to remain behind. It will be compulsory, and it will also be dangerous."

The moment Conrad said this, the students who had been so hesitant to make their move soon began to blurt out their true intentions.

"T-then… I'll be leaving!" A random guy said, stepping forward from the bunch.

Before he had room to breathe, many other students blurred out the same thing.

Boys and girls stood out from the rest of their classmates—their numbers being an absurd chunk of the entire class.

Out of the twenty-eight, nineteen students were leaving.

Only Rey, Adonis, Belle, Billy, Trisha, Clark, Justin, Eric, and Alicia remained in place.

Everyone else seemed to have already made up their minds about what they would do.

They all wanted to leave.

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'Even you too, huh, Noah…?' Rey smiled a little sadly as he looked at a crumpled white envelope in his hand.

It most likely contained a letter, and Noah had quickly given him while stepping forward.

'I wonder what kind of message he wrote there for me.'

Rey already knew he wouldn't be able to work with Noah forever. In fact, their separation was inevitable.

'Right now, I don't really need him in my Black Market dealings. Plus, I already decided not to have anything more to do with them.'

really wasn't anything

couldn't help but feel a stinging sensation in his chest; one that he couldn't properly

'Why…?'

did he feel so sad, and slightly frustrated, to see that Noah was leaving

to the sole reason that Noah had slowly become his friend over

privy to the aspects of Rey's life that he would

knew his secrets, and they both shared a bond that couldn't be replicated

though.' Rey found himself leaking a sad

had toughened up from all his experiences and would

he

he would be a formidable force for any

Noah encountered a Dragon then that would be 'Game

and decided simply to let the matter in his

the envelope in his pocket and

they were asked whether or not they had any

course, items given to them by the Royal Estate were excluded from this, so they didn't have much

enough that it didn't tell the students to strip and return

that saved them from death, fed and trained them for about two months… who would blame the Council

specifically for those who had one or two items they left in their rooms to

they were told to

have acted like entitled brats and asked for at least some

they were no longer the

no longer had any

surprised, though…' As Rey watched the nineteen students leave, he looked to his side

I expected more people to have

none of the Alpha Class students bailed on the United Human Alliance; especially considering the fact that they were the ones that experienced the most danger in the most recent

nearly sold as slaves, and Adonis'

all of them

of saviors this

of reasoning, he couldn't help but look at a few

my eye on Billy. Now that he's been exposed, there's no telling how unstable

reason Billy hadn't been abandoned by the Royal Council or

was just logical to keep him on

cannon—a danger to the denizens of this world—if

there was one other person Rey was

of your puppets leaving the Estate? Wouldn't it be safer

the glassy facade that Belle displayed,

desire to destroy Adonis and Alicia strong enough that she would just choose to remain here

have other intentions? It was difficult