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 holding them

Rey 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 had slowly become his friend over the course of their time

to the aspects of Rey's life that he would

couldn't be replicated

Rey found

could only hope the boy had toughened up from all his experiences and would make better

I'm sure he could retire

Skills, there was no doubt that he would be a formidable force for any native of this world that tried

a Dragon then that would be

Rey shrugged and decided simply to let the

placed the envelope in

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

by the Royal Estate were excluded from this, so they didn't have much of a

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

the way the nineteen abandoned the very people that saved them from death, fed and trained them

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

greeted them as they were told

past, the students would have acted like entitled

longer the one with the

had

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

expected more

Alliance; especially considering the fact that they were the ones that experienced the

were nearly sold as slaves, and Adonis' squad almost died

all of

the kind of saviors this

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

to keep my eye on Billy. Now that

only reason Billy hadn't been abandoned by the Royal Council or Rey was due to his

just logical to keep him on board if he

danger to the denizens of this world—if we just let him roam free

was one other person Rey

most of your puppets leaving the Estate?

glassy facade that Belle displayed, feeling a lump

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

other intentions? It was difficult