An Extra’s POV

The night was awkward after that.

They had to speak to Justin, who was just returning from his meeting with his Party Members when he saw them in that corner.

As expected, he poked jokes at them and tried to probe further into what they were doing alone in the dark, but none of them answered honestly.

Thankfully, Justin only caught about a second of it, so he couldn't make any concrete case.

"Well, I hope your Party meeting went well. I'm supposed to rendezvous with them at our Group Room later, so I'm just whiling the time away exploring the city." He explained with a casual smile.

It might have been casual information from his perspective, but both Rey and Alicia received a rude awakening the moment he said this.

'THE PARTY MEETING!'

The had completely lost track of time, and now the meeting was probably over.

Justin, being the perceptive guy that he was, observed their shocked expressions and cocked his head slightly.

"You guys okay?"

"Y-yeahh…" They both muttered, their heads hanging in disgrace.

Who would have thought that Alicia—the stern and disciplined one—and the Extra—who didn't cause trouble for anyone—would be the ones to default in the plan?

Their heads were still spinning as to the consequences of their actions when Justin waved them goodbye.

"Welp! I gotta go now! You people can continue what you were doing back the—ouch!"

A slight jab from Alicia sent him hopping away, hurriedly waving as he ran off in both pain and fright.

"See you guys at the Conquest!"

As both Rey and Alicia heard his last words, they sighed simultaneously. Rey's sigh was louder, though.

'There's no way we can continue now…'

only was the mood not right, but they had to deal with

aware that time

of his time with her, he kept pushing it aside. He couldn't even use his Skill to create another duplicate to take his place, since that meant he would be momentarily disconnected from

didn't want to do that with Alicia—especially in

the end,

get going to our Party Meeting…" She muttered, causing

in that

"Mine is over there."

places, which clearly meant

to do was to dash off, not wasting any time at all, but something about

we won't see each other till the Conquest. Maybe

be able to talk

each other in silence, feeling the

it seemed like neither of them wanted to be the one

do I…?' Rey swallowed his saliva

wasn't right that they were still delaying despite how precarious their situation was. Before he could be

should go

off, almost as fast as the gust of

raised

the disappointment that now filled his

eyes, clenching his fist

Will we forget this moment? Will we try it

Rey wasn't sure.

now, though, and that brought him

I'm pretty sure

so happy that he could scream at the top of

exactly what

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

shout of triumph, so

felt so

her when we get

would have preferred doing it after the Conquest, but that time wouldn't be appropriate considering how many moving pieces there would be after

pretty busy. Plus, the most vital reason is the