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

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

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

sensation, raw and pervasive, felt

know

Until—

[SYSTEM WARNING]

Has

allocated to said Duplicate will be deducted and

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

functions will permanently plummet by 50

Will Commence As Soon

"W-wha…?"

pale and lifeless, could barely move as he saw what

could hardly process

"…EY!"

"… RE…!"

"… REY…!"

scream, it felt like she was distant, too far away

abyss, and he found himself

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

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

of the most painful experiences; and Rey had to experience it all

forgotten the

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

"W…hy…?"

fell from his eyes

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

—FEAR!

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

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

such, it was meant to act considerably weaker

The only thing it was really restricted to was

culprit had enough power to deplete all of Rey's

two likely culprits behind this,