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…'

right, but they had to deal with their lateness to their

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

even use his Skill to create another duplicate to take his place, since that

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

the end, he messed

our Party

in that

"Mine is over there."

which clearly meant they would have

at all, but something about the

each other till

We won't be able to talk

in silence, feeling the awkwardness creep in on their

but it seemed like neither of them wanted

I…?' Rey swallowed his saliva and clenched his

how precarious their situation was. Before he could be the

should go now.

as fast as the gust of

raised his hand

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

close…' He closed his eyes, clenching his fist

we forget this

Rey wasn't sure.

deny now, though, and that

pretty sure she

that he could scream at the top of his lungs in

that was exactly what he

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

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

just felt so

to her when

but that time wouldn't be

Plus, the most vital reason is the