An Extra’s POV

'Adrien Chase… it all makes sense now.'

As Rey's thoughts trailed, he wondered why he never pieced together all of the information beforehand.

'Back then, when I first saw him standing behind Scylla… I instantly knew he was involved. I just didn't know why…'

However, now that they were standing opposite each other, Rey had a good idea of what was going on.

"Did you manipulate the events thus far? Pretending to be a part of the Criminal Underworld… acting like someone you're not… just to gain all the benefits?"

Rey thought along these lines because they were the kind of things he had done and would do in order to get what he wanted.

What were the chances that Adrien had a similar thought pattern as him?

'He has been controlling Scylla without her knowledge. He probably wants all the resources of the Underworld for himself.'

This was an elaborate way to set things up, but he was able to orchestrate the events thus far.

'Or am I the one overthinking it?' Rey thought to himself.

"No, you're not overthinking things."

The moment Rey heard Adrien's voice and saw the boy move, Rey instantly took an offensive stance.

"Relax…" Adrien reached for his mask and began to pull it away.

"… I don't want to fight."

As Adrien revealed his face to Rey, it precisely matched the smiling boy who turned back back then.

His black hair swayed as his blue eyes gleamed with some sort of hidden motives.

He instantly got shivers when he remembered that event, but [Dead Calm] suppressed everything in an instant.

"I know what you're thinking, and you're not completely wrong… but you're not completely right either."

maintained his offensive stance as Adrien began to advance

personal gain. I mean, look at the results? The Black Market, the Mercenary Gang, and the

"And?"

conclusion?" Rey narrowed his gaze as he listened to Adrien

believe a single word

was here to ensure whatever plan you cooked up didn't

response to Rey's words,

how you think I didn't account for your

"What?"

main player

any longer. Adrien was

the stage for

to reap the maximum profits, you

I already said, I did all of this

obvious in

this entire Criminal Empire that the Triumvirate founded is stupid. It'll only get in the way of the Alliance's progress in the long run." Adrien drew even closer, until he got to the place

resources and potential. They're a detrimental

head and

why I had to cut them

Alliance?' Rey had already had the exact same thought about the Criminal Underworld some time back, so he knew Adrien wasn't

be best distributed to the Alliance in order to

be more helpful in the mainstream market—especially in times of

from it would disagree, but if the Underworld kept hoarding things from the mainstream,

the Mercenary Gang also committed atrocities for the other branches

would eventually burn itself

just

enterprise isn't sustainable.' Rey agreed on

However…

to believe that you did all of

blade from seemingly nowhere,

an idiot and just accept

he could pretend to be a heartless killer as Ralyks, then it

such a low opinion of me,

do.' Rey gritted his teeth