An Extra’s POV

"Be strong. Stay strong."

That was Trisha's family motto, and for all her life, she abided by those principles.

Her father was a well-respected Martial Artist in the community, and he even used to have a dojo before retiring.

Despite her being the only child of the family, her parents treated her with love and didn't try to turn her into a boy.

However, she could see it in her father's eyes—the desire he had for an heir.

Someone to carry on their family's legacy.

"Father, I want to learn Martial Arts!"

In the end, she was the one who thrust herself in the world she became immersed in for most of her life.

Everything she did after that revolved around training, learning, trying her hardest to be strong.

It was difficult, but she comforted herself with the happiness of her father.

… With the success of her family.

Even now, Trisha had no real regrets. She still desired to be strong and every day, she strives to reach even more of the unattainable height that was the Martial Peak.

She couldn't blame her father for this path.

Everything she was, and all she had become… Trisha chose it of her own accord.

Which was why she began to crumble when she looked around her and found out a truth she couldn't see before.

In this world, where her father and the entire community she grew up with, weren't present… what was the purpose of everything?

Sure, she was strong… but did that really matter here?

Her Martial Arts were rendered obsolete by Skills and Magic, and she wasn't even the best at that.

the pretty girls and handsome guys

heavy frustration

person whom she could truly look at without hints of

That was Rey Skylar.

knew he was strong…

Skills, yet she knew

was a truly

with Alicia already being much closer to him than she was, Trisha already

she backed

there was only so much a girl

stomaching everything for so long, Trisha felt like

couldn't she be as strong as

wasn't she as attractive as

It… just wasn't fair.

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you saw things that way." Alicia was the first to speak after a long moment of

had a genuinely compassionate expression on her face; one that felt completely different from

of myself as special in any way. My beauty is all due to genetics, and I had to

of those compared to Trisha's hard work and experiences, but… Alicia hoped her own story could show her

might choose to believe this or not, but… I actually had a

air, and the

"I don't believe it."

not possible, right? Your

little

By choosing a Skill or

disbelief. There was no way they

is that while I was popular, I wasn't well-liked by a lot of

about her on multiple occasions, and how she nearly got into trouble

were mind-shattering revelations to the girls

things don't matter. I won't deny that I was lucky to have gotten these powers here, and that my appeal played a big role in making me popular

what we choose to do with what we have,

she wanted to, but