An Extra’s POV

"G-Glitch Skill?"

Rey's brows furled up as he stared at Esme, obviously confused by what she was asking. "What's that? A Skill that causes Glitches?"

Perhaps she meant that the Skill's name was Glitch. The answer to that was no, obviously.

"No! Like, the Skill itself is glitching. Something like showing random letters, numbers or symbols." She responded. "Did it have something like that?"

"H-huh…?" Rey didn't know what Esme was talking about.

This was the first time he was hearing of Skills like that.

Did such Skills even exist on H'Trae?

"So you didn't see it, huh? That's odd… you even look confused about what I'm saying."

Esme's response only plunged Rey into more confusion.

"Hold up. What are you sayi—?"

"I mean, I thought you would at least know of it, even if you didn't know of its existence… right?" She mumbled, mostly to herself, now pacing around the room.

"I'm not following…"

"I've only ever seen the glitch once too. And I used it as an explanation for you doing all those things you did, having such unbelievable powers despite not having too many Skills on your Status Window."

At this point, Rey grew impatient and grabbed Esme by both hands, stopping her pacing.

"What exactly are you saying here?" He stared into her eyes, pausing to look at the confused expression on her face.

"You have a glitch Skill, Rey. So I thought that if the Skeletal Dragon had one too, it would explain why it was able to resist your power."

"Eh? Really?"

This was news to Rey. He had checked his Status Window more times than he could remember, but he saw no signs of a glitch Skill.

"Yes! It's—!"

"GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Rey suddenly screamed, his body trembling violently as he took several steps away from Esme.

like

him from the inside out, causing his

"UWAAAAAHHHHHH! GUAGHHHHHH!!!"

his body was being split in two, he could feel every ligament of his body straining,

perfectly fine. It truly felt like

raw and pervasive,

didn't even know the cause of his

Until—

[SYSTEM WARNING]

Has Been

and Levels allocated to said Duplicate

the Duplicate, you will experience

will permanently plummet by

Process Will Commence As

"W-wha…?"

barely move as he saw what

mind could hardly

"…EY!"

"… RE…!"

"… REY…!"

like she was distant, too

senses plunged into an abyss, and he found

but rather than the hard, cold ground, he found a soft cushion in

the matter. He could hardly see her worried face beyond the blurry lens that impeded his sight, despite being completely

be one of the most

the

say or do, only one word proceeded out of his

"W…hy…?"

eyes as

to lose its lustre. However, in those final moments of partial consciousness, a new

—FEAR!

was something dangerous in the Capital, and that 'dangerous' thing was capable of killing a

it followed was not to display any power that exceeded the current level that

to act considerably

thing it was really restricted to was its use of Skills and

fact that the Duplicate was killed meant the culprit had

culprits behind this, and Rey was