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

couldn't help but feel a stinging sensation in his

'Why…?'

so sad, and slightly frustrated, to see that Noah was leaving just like

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

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

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

though.' Rey

toughened up from all his experiences and would make better choices in the

amount. I'm sure he could retire and

that he would be a formidable force for any native of this world that tried to

Dragon then that would be

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

the envelope in

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

didn't tell the students to strip and

death, fed and trained

for a few minutes, specifically for those who had one or two items they left in their rooms to fetch

them as they were told to

past, the students would have acted like entitled brats and asked

no longer the one

longer had

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

expected more people to have

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

as slaves, and Adonis' squad almost died

all of

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

he couldn't

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

hadn't been abandoned by the Royal Council or Rey was due

logical to keep him on

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

other

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

facade that Belle displayed,

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

simply have other intentions?