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…'

they had to deal with

about Alicia, but he would be lying if he said he wasn't aware that

he kept pushing it aside. He couldn't even use his Skill to create another

want to do that with Alicia—especially in the later parts of their evening

the end,

to our Party Meeting…" She muttered, causing

in that

"Mine is over there."

clearly meant they would have to

thing to do was to dash off, not wasting any time at all, but something about the atmosphere caused their feet to be

other till

won't be able

away from each other in silence, feeling the awkwardness creep

neither of them wanted to be the

how do I…?' Rey swallowed his saliva and clenched

delaying despite how precarious their situation was. Before

should go now.

She ran off, almost as fast as the gust of

raised his hand

a while, soaking in the disappointment

so close…' He closed his eyes, clenching his fist while his upper

we forget

Rey wasn't sure.

was one thing he couldn't deny now, though, and that brought

sure she

that he could scream at the top

that was exactly what he

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

shout of triumph, so he didn't really care how

felt

to her when we

Conquest, but that time wouldn't be appropriate considering how many moving pieces there would

busy. Plus, the most