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.'

essence, there really wasn't

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

'Why…?'

slightly frustrated,

sole reason that Noah had slowly become his friend over the course of their time

was a bit unbalanced, but Noah was privy to the aspects of Rey's life that he would never show anyone

secrets, and they both shared a bond that couldn't be replicated anywhere else—even though it was mostly tied

though.' Rey found himself leaking a sad

up from all

I'm sure he could retire and

that he would be a

encountered a Dragon then that

shrugged and decided simply to let the matter

placed the envelope in his pocket

the nineteen students were gathered, they were asked whether or not they had any personal properties they would like to take

Estate were excluded from this,

Council was even benevolent enough that it didn't tell the students to strip and return the current attires they

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

minutes, specifically for those who had one or two items they left in their rooms to fetch them and return, all the

they were told to leave the gates without any

like entitled brats and asked for at

longer the one with the

longer had

he looked to his side and spotted the

more people to

on the United Human Alliance; especially considering the fact that they were the ones that experienced the most danger in the

nearly sold as slaves, and Adonis' squad almost died at the hands of

all of

the kind of saviors this

had this general line of reasoning, he couldn't help but

Billy. Now that he's been exposed, there's no telling how

by the Royal Council

to keep him on board if he chose to

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

there was one other person

most of your puppets

the glassy facade that Belle displayed, feeling a

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

she simply have other intentions? It was difficult to