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.

frustrated that he needed some 'living' entity to vent on, rather

that he was being

BUT—

I think Adrien is behind

one way or the other, so something

do you mean

immersed in his thoughts

this?' Rey gnashed his teeth as he considered

just one of his games? How will this benefit anyone? How will it

perhaps this was

doing what was going to be beneficial to just

if thousands die in

were no Floors here. Just rooms

I care about, gets trapped in a Zone that is a lot more dangerous than they can handle… maybe a Boss Room or something,

as his eyes turned bloodshot. With his fists clenched, the

Everything shook tremendously.

"… I'll KILL him!"

Esme, whose face seemed to be

it was being shaken by

'H-huh…? What?'

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

almost as if she had been deprived of air for so

and his

rushing close to

she raised a hand and

She slowly raised her head, and streams of tears were

on to

"I'm so… so sorry."

She placed her two hands on his

Don't you ever do

almost

so mad at him before, but it seemed like she genuinely was upset for

"Do you understand?"

nodded his head, causing her to sigh very