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…'

not right, but they had to deal with their lateness to

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

He couldn't even use his Skill to create another duplicate to take

want to do that with Alicia—especially

the end, he messed

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

in that

"Mine is over there."

them pointed to separate places, which clearly meant they would have to part ways

at all, but something about the atmosphere caused

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

able to talk until

each other in silence,

but it seemed like neither of them wanted

swallowed his

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

should go

as fast as

slightly raised his hand while

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

close…' He closed his eyes, clenching his fist while his upper and lower teeth grated against each

now? Will we forget

Rey wasn't sure.

now, though, and that brought him

sure she

so happy that he could scream

that was exactly what

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

blocked anyone else from hearing his thunderous shout of triumph, so

just felt so

definitely confess to her when we get

be appropriate considering how many moving pieces there would be after everything

pretty busy. Plus, the most vital reason is