An Extra’s POV

Rey was pissed.

No, that felt like an understatement compared to what he was feeling at the moment.

His friends and allies were all gone, and he couldn't do anything to save them. All his classmates were also caught up in it.

'Alicia too… DAMNIT!'

The rage swelling from within him felt like it could explode him from within.

He hated how he was feeling. He knew he was being extremely insensitive to Esme, who was most definitely still confused about the whole thing.

But… he couldn't stop mulling over everything.

'What was that, though? A Dungeon Trap?' Rey wondered to himself.

If that was the case, then it made a lot of sense. This would be the first time something of this scale had happened—since such traps usually only transported one person or a small group—but that didn't discount the possibility of a much bigger trap.

This was a Grand Calamity Class Dungeon, so something of this scale had to be expected.

Yet… Rey wasn't satisfied with that explanation.

If it was a trap, then that meant there was no rhyme and reason to its effects. The Dungeon just reacted to their presence and used one of its defense mechanisms.

Plain and simple. But…

'It can't be that simple!' Rey found something gnawing at his heart.

He was tempted to leave things as they were, instead focusing on saving everyone, but he couldn't ignore an explanation that was rising from within his depths.

'Adrien! Maybe he… no, not maybe. He has to be the one behind this!'

Everything that had happened thus far couldn't have just been coincidences. Rey had tried his best to consider how they could all be natural, but this was the last straw.

Perhaps he was seeking out patterns where there were none.

he just felt so frustrated that he needed some 'living' entity to vent on, rather than the automated 'Dungeon

possible that he was being illogical

BUT—

Mass Teleportation… I think Adrien

was behind this, one way or the other, so something of this scale could also

you mean

faintly hearing Esme's question, he was too immersed in his thoughts to offer a

from doing this?' Rey gnashed his

this just one of his games? How will this benefit

this was never

doing what was going to

thousands die

no Floors here. Just rooms that Rey

care about, gets trapped in a Zone that is a lot more dangerous than they can handle… maybe a

With his fists clenched, the air

Everything shook tremendously.

"… I'll KILL him!"

gaze happened to reach Esme, whose face

if it was being

'H-huh…? What?'

dark thoughts and stopped the intense

very loudly, almost as if she had been deprived of air for so long. She collapsed to the ground and fell on

and his raging heart

rushing close to

reach her, she raised a hand and stopped

head, and streams of tears were falling from her

to break Rey's

"I'm so… so sorry."

two hands on his shoulder, gasping for more

ever

seemed dangerous, almost like she

before, but it seemed like she

"Do you understand?"

his head, causing her to sigh