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…'

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

know about Alicia, but he would be lying if he said he wasn't aware that time was passing and that he was supposed to

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

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

the end, he

better get going to our Party Meeting…" She muttered,

is in that

"Mine is over there."

of them pointed to separate places, which clearly meant

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

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

won't be able to talk

both stared away from each other in silence, feeling the

seemed like neither of them wanted to be the one to say

swallowed

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

should go

ran off, almost as fast as the gust

slightly raised

a while, soaking in the disappointment that now filled

clenching his fist while his upper

Will we forget this moment?

Rey wasn't sure.

now, though, and that brought him incredible

pretty sure she likes

him so happy that he could scream at

exactly what he

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

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

just felt so

to her when we

doing it after the Conquest, but that time wouldn't be

the most vital reason