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 holding them

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

'Why…?'

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

sole reason that Noah had slowly

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

bond that couldn't be replicated anywhere else—even though it was mostly tied with

hope he's fine, though.' Rey found himself

from all his experiences and would make

he could retire and

there was no doubt that he would be a formidable

encountered a Dragon then that

shrugged and decided simply to let the

envelope in his

they were asked whether or not they had any personal properties they would like to take along with

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

enough that it didn't tell the students to strip

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

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

were told to

the students would have acted like entitled brats and asked for

they were no longer

no longer had

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

expected more people

especially considering the fact that they were the ones that experienced the most danger in

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

all of them

of saviors this place

couldn't help but look at a few people

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

by the Royal

to keep him on board if

cannon—a danger to the denizens of this world—if we just let him roam free without

there was one other person Rey was

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

looked at the glassy facade that Belle displayed, feeling a

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

other intentions? It