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."

still maintained his offensive stance as Adrien began to advance

mean, look at

"And?"

conclusion?" Rey narrowed his gaze

believe a single word

to ensure

Rey's words, Adrien

I didn't account for

"What?"

the main player today, Sir

longer. Adrien was skirting around the issue, or perhaps he was

the stage for

wanted to reap the maximum profits, you wouldn't have involved me." Rey narrowed his

I did all of this for

was obvious in

in the way of the Alliance's progress in the long run." Adrien drew even closer, until he got to the place where

Nation's resources and potential. They're a detrimental force… an overall

stepped on Scylla's head and

had to cut them

this for the sake of the Alliance?' Rey had already had the exact same thought about the Criminal Underworld some time back, so

wealth of the Underworld would be best distributed to the Alliance in order to improve its

items would be more helpful in the mainstream

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

was also incredibly vile, and the Mercenary Gang also committed atrocities for the other

created an entire cesspool of wealth that would eventually burn

was just

enterprise isn't sustainable.' Rey

However…

you really expect me to believe that you

a blade from seemingly nowhere, Rey pointed

and just accept

as Ralyks, then it was possible for Adrien to

have such a low opinion of me,

Rey gritted his