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.

was on fire, and his brain felt like it would explode at any moment. This sudden sensation overwhelmed his

inside out,

"UWAAAAAHHHHHH! GUAGHHHHHH!!!"

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

gruesome death ever—being destroyed, yet perfectly fine. It truly felt like he was dying. But no… this was

overwhelming sensation, raw and pervasive,

didn't even know the cause

Until—

[SYSTEM WARNING]

Has

Levels allocated to said Duplicate will

with the Duplicate, you will experience this death, but not

functions will permanently plummet by

Process Will Commence As Soon

"W-wha…?"

as he saw what

agonizing mind could hardly

"…EY!"

"… RE…!"

"… REY…!"

felt like she was

and he found himself sinking as

fell to the ground after his screech, but rather than the hard, cold ground, he found a soft cushion in

hardly see her worried face beyond the blurry lens that impeded his sight,

one of the most painful experiences; and Rey had to experience

had forgotten the sensation… until

word proceeded out of

"W…hy…?"

from his eyes

dark realm of the unconscious, the pain began to lose its lustre. However, in those final moments of partial consciousness, a new emotion

—FEAR!

Duplicate was killed, then that meant there was something dangerous in the Capital, and that 'dangerous' thing was capable of killing a

strict order it followed was not to display any power that exceeded

it was meant to act considerably

it was less durable and powerful. The only thing it was really restricted to was its use of Skills and

fact that the Duplicate was killed meant the culprit had enough power

two likely culprits behind this, and Rey was equally frightened for