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

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

'Why…?'

so sad, and slightly frustrated, to

Noah had slowly

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

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

hope he's fine, though.' Rey

could only hope the boy had toughened up from all his

I'm sure he could retire and

was no doubt that he would be a formidable force for any

Noah encountered a Dragon then that

sure he thought of all these, though…' Rey shrugged and decided simply to

envelope in his

all the nineteen students were gathered, they were asked whether or not they had any personal

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

tell the students to strip and

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

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

greeted them as they were told to leave the gates

students would have acted like entitled

they were no longer the one

longer had any cards to

nineteen students leave, he looked to his side and spotted the

expected more people to

especially considering the fact

nearly sold as slaves, and Adonis' squad almost

all of them remained

saviors this place

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

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

Billy hadn't been abandoned by the Royal Council

keep him on board if he chose to

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

other person Rey

surprised you stayed, Belle. Aren't most of your puppets leaving the Estate? Wouldn't it be

at the glassy facade that Belle

to destroy Adonis and Alicia strong enough that she would just

did she simply have other intentions? It was difficult to