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

Rey couldn't help but feel a stinging sensation in

'Why…?'

sad, and slightly frustrated, to

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

the relationship was a bit unbalanced, but Noah was privy to the aspects of Rey's life that he would never show

that couldn't

he's fine, though.' Rey found

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

considerable amount. I'm sure he could

he would be a formidable

Noah encountered a Dragon then

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

placed the envelope in

or not they had any personal properties they would like

were excluded from this, so

tell the students to strip

people that saved them from death, fed and trained them for about two

they left in their rooms to fetch them and return,

told to leave the gates without any

have acted like entitled brats

they were no longer the one

longer had any cards to

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

I expected more people to

Alliance; especially considering the fact that they were the ones

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

all of them remained

saviors this place needs…'

reasoning, he couldn't help but look at a few people

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

hadn't been abandoned by the Royal Council or

to keep him on board

the denizens of this world—if we just let him

was one other person Rey was

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

Belle displayed,

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

have other intentions?