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.

brain felt like it would explode at any moment. This sudden sensation overwhelmed his

consumed him from the inside out, causing his whole body to

"UWAAAAAHHHHHH! GUAGHHHHHH!!!"

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

perfectly fine. It truly felt like he was dying. But no… this was a

and pervasive, felt perpetual in its

even know the cause of his

Until—

[SYSTEM WARNING]

Duplicate Has

Duplicate will be deducted and permanently

with the Duplicate, you will experience this death, but

functions will permanently plummet by

Process Will Commence As Soon As

"W-wha…?"

pale and lifeless, could barely move as he

mind could hardly

"…EY!"

"… RE…!"

"… REY…!"

felt like she was distant, too

an abyss, and he found himself sinking as

his screech, but rather than the

darted from her position and caught him, despite her own confusion on the matter. He could hardly see her worried face beyond the blurry lens that impeded his sight, despite

perish had to be one of the most

forgotten the sensation… until

or do, only one word proceeded out of his

"W…hy…?"

from his eyes as

to lose its lustre. However, in

—FEAR!

there was something dangerous in the

always limited his Rey standin, and the strict order it followed was not to display any power that exceeded the current level that Rey

act

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

culprit had enough power to

likely culprits behind this, and Rey was