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

Rey couldn't help but feel a stinging sensation in his chest;

'Why…?'

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

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

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

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

fine, though.' Rey found himself

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

amount. I'm sure he could retire and live a good life

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

Noah encountered a Dragon

shrugged and decided simply to let

placed the envelope in his pocket and

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

by the Royal Estate were excluded

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

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

or two items they

faces greeted them as they were told

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

were no longer the one with

no longer had any cards to

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

I expected more people to

bailed on the United Human Alliance; especially considering the

Adonis' squad almost

all of

saviors this

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

abandoned by the Royal Council or Rey was due

to keep him on board if he

the denizens of

other person

more surprised you stayed, Belle. Aren't most of your puppets leaving

Belle displayed, feeling

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

did she simply have other intentions? It was