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…'

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

be lying if he said he wasn't aware that time

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

Alicia—especially

the end, he

better get going to our

is in

"Mine is over there."

meant they would have to part ways at

dash off, not wasting any time at all, but something about the atmosphere caused their feet to be planted in

each other till

able to

in silence, feeling the

like neither of them wanted to be the

swallowed his

despite how precarious their situation was. Before he could be the bigger person and

go now. Bye

She ran off, almost as fast as the

slightly raised his

the disappointment

fist while his upper and lower teeth

forget this moment? Will we try

Rey wasn't sure.

deny now, though, and that brought

pretty sure she likes

scream at the top of his lungs in

that was exactly

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

from hearing his thunderous shout of triumph, so he didn't really care how loud he

just felt

confess to her

time wouldn't be appropriate considering how many moving pieces there would be after everything was

be pretty busy. Plus, the most vital reason is the