An Extra’s POV

[Moments Earlier]

Alicia slowly opened her eyes.

Everything was so loud, and the world seemed to be collapsing on itself. As everything trembled and rumbled, she was slowly pulled out of deep slumber.

Casting her blurry gaze to the darkened sky above, she was met with a bombardment of voices from all her classmates and teachers.

"Alicia!"

"You're up, Alicia!"

"Are you fine, Alicia?"

"Take it easy! How do you feel?"

She remained still despite being overwhelmed by all of these questions. The faces of her classmates began poking into her field of vision, blocking her view of the evening sky.

'I'm still not dead, huh…?' Her thoughts trailed as she tiredly blinked, fighting back the urge to cry once again.

"I know you're just waking up, but I need to ask you something…" Adonis' voice echoed in the air as he drew closer.

"Hmm…?"

Tilting her head slightly, ignoring all the chaos and devastation that lay in the background, she looked at the Hero's troubled face.

"Did you know… about Rey? About his power and—?"

"R-Rey…?"

Painful memories began to surface, and she began to feel the urge to close her eyes once again—perhaps forget all about what she knew.

… What had just happened.

"R-Rey is—"

~BOOOOOOOOOOOM!~

the grounds ominously shook, causing everyone who

Someone in the crowd

bit closer than last time, don't

I'm

among the audience gave mixed responses, Adonis sighed and

returned hs gaze, and their expressions oozed

sure we shouldn't retreat to

much safer there than to stay out in the open like this. I'm sure the Councilors are already

and

it to that place. That would endanger even more lives, and fighting in an enclosed space would offer us a

brows as she trembled a little. "You're thinking about

succeed, then we have

to handle. You can hear the sounds. I'm sure half of

as his resolute face clung

awaken all our powers and win. We have more numbers now, so we should be able to do

currently five Otherworlders on standby. Adding Lucielle and Brutus, that meant there would be a

their chances

this. I don't think we can win, even with that

you want us to do?! Abandon our comrade? I can't accept that! She's one of the heroes who will save the world! I… I can't… like last time… I… this world…"

thin air as an obsessive air surrounded him. With widened eyes, he seemed to

saw this were shook to their

of the group to grow downcast. Some might have thought to abandon Alicia and simply save their own skins in the bunker, but no one was bold enough to make

to be a much more feasible plan than

Dragons with just about the same level of ease—the same ones you were struggling

then we didn't

displayed a lot of Skills and abilities from what I am told. If none of those have been effective on

"Lucielle, listen… I—!"

discounting the curse that you mentioned earlier. The duration of this upgrade is also something that bothers me. All in all, Adonis…