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.

fire, and his brain felt like it would explode at any moment. This

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

"UWAAAAAHHHHHH! GUAGHHHHHH!!!"

feel every ligament of his body straining, and every portion of senses

ever—being destroyed, yet perfectly fine. It

and pervasive, felt

Rey didn't even know the cause of

Until—

[SYSTEM WARNING]

Has Been

Levels allocated to said Duplicate will be deducted

your remnant connection with the Duplicate, you will experience this death,

will permanently plummet by

Will Commence As Soon As

"W-wha…?"

pale and lifeless, could barely move as he saw what the System

could

"…EY!"

"… RE…!"

"… REY…!"

heard Esme's scream, it felt like she was distant, too far away

his senses plunged into an abyss, and he found himself sinking as well—though

to the ground after his screech, but rather than the hard, cold ground,

darted from her position and caught him, despite her own confusion on the matter. He could hardly

of the most painful experiences; and Rey had to experience

forgotten the sensation… until

do, only one word proceeded

"W…hy…?"

from his eyes as

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

—FEAR!

meant there was something dangerous in the Capital, and that 'dangerous' thing was capable

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

was meant to act considerably weaker than it

even that didn't mean it was less durable and powerful. The only thing it was really restricted to was

meant the culprit

were only two likely culprits behind this, and Rey was equally