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

wasn't aware that time

his Skill to create another duplicate to take his

with Alicia—especially in the later parts of their evening

the end, he messed

we better get going to our Party Meeting…" She

in that

"Mine is over there."

clearly meant they would have to

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

other till the Conquest.

be able to

from each other in silence, feeling

just reluctance, but it seemed like neither of

how do I…?' Rey swallowed his saliva and clenched

still delaying despite how precarious their situation was. Before

should go now. Bye

off, almost as fast

raised his

the disappointment

He closed his eyes, clenching his fist while his upper and

we forget

Rey wasn't sure.

now, though, and

I'm pretty sure she likes

could scream

exactly what

"WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

his thunderous shout of triumph, so he

felt so

confess to her when we

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

pretty busy. Plus, the most vital