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

a stinging sensation

'Why…?'

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

was due to the sole reason that Noah had slowly become his friend over the course of their

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

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

though.' Rey found himself leaking a sad

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

considerable amount. I'm sure he could retire and

was no doubt that he would be a formidable force for

course, if Noah encountered a Dragon then that would be 'Game

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

in his pocket and sighed

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

to them by the Royal Estate were excluded from

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

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

or two items they left in their rooms to fetch them and return, all the deserters were ready to

told to leave

the students would have acted like entitled brats and asked for at least some measure

they were no longer the one with

had any cards to

leave, he looked to his side and spotted the eight that chose to remain, like

I expected more people

the Alpha Class students bailed on the United Human Alliance; especially considering the fact that they were

slaves, and Adonis' squad almost

all of them remained

saviors

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

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

been abandoned by the Royal Council or Rey was

just logical to keep him on board

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

there was one other person Rey

most of your puppets leaving the

at the glassy facade that Belle displayed,

enough that she would just choose to remain

did she simply have other