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

be lying if he said he wasn't aware

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

didn't want to do that with Alicia—especially in the later parts of their

end, he messed

guess we better get going to our Party Meeting…" She

in

"Mine is over there."

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

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

other till the Conquest. Maybe even

able to talk until

from each other in silence, feeling the awkwardness creep in on

seemed like neither of them wanted to be

how do I…?' Rey swallowed

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

go

off, almost as fast

slightly raised his

soaking in the disappointment

fist while his upper and lower teeth grated against

Will we forget this moment? Will we

Rey wasn't sure.

couldn't deny now, though, and that brought him incredible

pretty sure

so happy that he could scream at the top

exactly what he

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

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

felt so

her when we

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

Plus, the most vital reason