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

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

Skill to create another duplicate to take his place, since that meant he would be momentarily disconnected

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

the end,

our

in that

"Mine is over there."

separate places, which clearly meant they would have to part

any time at all, but something about the atmosphere caused their feet to

each other

We won't be able

in silence,

it seemed like neither of

swallowed his saliva and

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

go now. Bye

as fast as the gust of

slightly raised his

soaking in the disappointment that now filled his body at a massive

eyes, clenching his fist while

now? Will we forget this moment?

Rey wasn't sure.

he couldn't deny now, though, and that brought him incredible

sure

that he could scream at the top of

was exactly

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Magic blocked anyone else from hearing his thunderous shout of triumph, so he didn't really

felt

confess to her

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

Plus, the most vital reason is the