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.'

wasn't anything holding

sensation

'Why…?'

frustrated, to see

the sole reason that Noah had slowly become

relationship was a bit unbalanced, but Noah was privy to the aspects of Rey's life that he would

couldn't be replicated anywhere else—even though it was mostly tied with

fine, though.' Rey found himself

from all his experiences and

he could retire and live a good life

that he would be a formidable force for any native of

encountered a Dragon then that would be 'Game

he thought of all these, though…' Rey shrugged and decided simply to let the matter in

placed the envelope in

or not they had any personal properties they would like to take along

to them by the Royal Estate were excluded from this,

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

the nineteen abandoned the very people that saved them from death, fed and trained them for about two months… who would blame the Council for making such

one or two items they left in their rooms to fetch them and return,

faces greeted them as they were told to

have acted like entitled

no longer the one

longer had

Rey watched the nineteen students leave, he looked to

expected more people to

Alliance; especially considering the fact that they were the ones

sold as slaves, and Adonis' squad almost died

of them

they're the kind of saviors this place needs…' Rey's thoughts

line of reasoning, he couldn't help but look

eye on Billy. Now that he's been exposed, there's

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

to keep him on board if

be a loose cannon—a danger to the denizens of this world—if we just let

was one other person Rey was concerned

puppets leaving the Estate? Wouldn't it be safer to

looked at the glassy facade that Belle displayed,

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

other intentions? It