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

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

Skill to create another duplicate to

didn't want to do that with Alicia—especially

end, he messed

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

in

"Mine is over there."

places, which clearly meant

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

won't see each other till the Conquest.

won't be able

in silence, feeling the awkwardness creep

just reluctance, but it seemed like neither of them wanted to be the one to say

I…?' Rey swallowed his saliva

wasn't right that they were still delaying despite how precarious their situation was. Before he could be the bigger person and tell

go now. Bye

ran off, almost as fast as the gust

slightly raised his hand

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

his fist while his upper

now? Will we forget this moment? Will

Rey wasn't sure.

deny now, though,

sure she likes

made him so happy that he could scream at the top of his

exactly

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

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

felt

to her

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

Plus, the