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…'

mood not right, but they had to deal with their lateness to their respective Party

he wasn't aware that time was passing and that he was supposed to be in

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

Alicia—especially in the later

end,

our Party Meeting…" She muttered, causing Rey to

in

"Mine is over there."

separate places, which clearly meant they would have to part ways at that

wise thing to do was to dash off, not wasting any time at all,

each other till the Conquest.

able

from each other in silence, feeling

reluctance, but it seemed like neither

I…?' Rey swallowed his saliva

right that they were still delaying despite how precarious their situation was. Before

go now. Bye

as

He slightly raised

in the disappointment that now

fist while his upper and lower teeth grated against

Will we forget this moment? Will we try it

Rey wasn't sure.

couldn't deny now,

sure she likes

made him so happy that he could scream at the top

that was exactly what

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

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

felt

to her

be appropriate considering how many moving pieces there would be after

Plus, the