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.

'living' entity to vent on, rather than the automated 'Dungeon

even possible that he was

BUT—

I think Adrien

was behind this, one way or the other,

do you

immersed in his thoughts to offer a coherent

this?' Rey gnashed his teeth as he considered the

games? How will

perhaps this was never about

what was going to be beneficial

if thousands die in the

Just rooms that Rey considered

a lot more dangerous than they

turned bloodshot. With his fists

Everything shook tremendously.

"… I'll KILL him!"

point, his gaze happened to reach Esme, whose face seemed to be pale with hints of

body was vibrating, almost as if it was being shaken by

'H-huh…? What?'

thoughts and stopped the intense bloodlust that was being released from him without his knowledge or

been deprived of air for

and his raging heart instantly

apologized, rushing close to her until he

he could reach her, she raised

raised her head, and streams of tears were falling from

on to

"I'm so… so sorry."

her two hands on his shoulder,

ever do

dangerous, almost like she was warning

seen Esme so mad at him before, but it seemed like she genuinely was upset for his action; something

"Do you understand?"

head, causing her