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…'

but they had to deal with

would be lying if he said he wasn't aware that time was passing and that he was supposed to

use his Skill to create another duplicate to

Alicia—especially in

end, he

get going to our Party Meeting…" She muttered,

is in

"Mine is over there."

pointed to separate places, which clearly meant they would have

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

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

We won't be able to

in silence, feeling the awkwardness creep in

it seemed like neither

I…?' Rey swallowed his saliva and

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

should go

She ran off, almost as fast as the gust

He slightly raised his hand

like that for a while, soaking in the disappointment that now filled his body at

fist

forget this

Rey wasn't sure.

he couldn't deny now, though, and that

sure she

him so happy that he could scream at the top of

exactly what he

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

his thunderous shout of triumph, so

felt

definitely confess to her

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

the most vital reason is the