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.

his brain felt like it would

consumed him from the inside out, causing his whole body

"UWAAAAAHHHHHH! GUAGHHHHHH!!!"

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

gruesome death ever—being destroyed, yet perfectly fine. It truly felt

sensation, raw and pervasive, felt perpetual in its

didn't even know the cause

Until—

[SYSTEM WARNING]

Has Been

said Duplicate will be deducted and permanently

you will

functions will permanently plummet

Will Commence As

"W-wha…?"

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

agonizing mind could hardly

"…EY!"

"… RE…!"

"… REY…!"

like she

abyss, and he found

screech, but rather than the hard,

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

of the most painful experiences; and Rey had

forgotten the

do, only one word proceeded out of his trembling lips—almost as if he was

"W…hy…?"

his eyes as they

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

—FEAR!

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

the strict order it followed was not to display any power that exceeded the current level that Rey had revealed to his

meant to act considerably

thing it was really

killed meant the culprit had enough power to deplete all of Rey's

were only two likely culprits behind this,