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

consumed him from the inside out, causing his whole body

"UWAAAAAHHHHHH! GUAGHHHHHH!!!"

could feel every ligament of

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

pervasive, felt perpetual in its

didn't even know

Until—

[SYSTEM WARNING]

Duplicate Has

said Duplicate will

Duplicate, you

will permanently

Commence As Soon

"W-wha…?"

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

mind could hardly process the

"…EY!"

"… RE…!"

"… REY…!"

like she was distant,

into an abyss, and he

rather than the hard, cold ground, he found

and caught him, despite her own confusion on the matter. He could hardly see her worried

the most painful

had forgotten the sensation…

several things he wanted to say or do, only one word proceeded out of his trembling lips—almost as if he was having a

"W…hy…?"

his eyes as they began to

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

—FEAR!

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

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

was meant to act considerably weaker

and powerful. The only thing it was really restricted to was

that the Duplicate was killed meant the culprit had enough

two likely culprits behind this,