An Extra’s POV

Esme ended up building strongholds for the people in those settlements and teaching them a few things they could use to develop their lands.

She aided in their agriculture, helped to defeat the Monsters that terrorized them, and solved a lot of their crisis; both internal and external.

The process was long and arduous—hence the reason for her late arrival.

"You should have seen them, Rey. They looked so miserable…"

To say his heart ached upon hearing all about what Esme witnessed would be an understatement.

"I… always thought I was helping all of humanity by siding with the Alliance. But, I guess I was wrong." He mumbled.

"I was only helping some."

"Yeah. From what I heard, the Alliance doesn't even bother with these small regions. I find that to be very distasteful." Esme's face darkened even further as she frowned.

"The people in charge here… I despise them."

"Is that why you barged in and caused such a commotion? You didn't care about them?" Rey chuckled as he sat on the bed, right beside her.

"It's not funny, Rey. The people out there were suffering greatly, yet the Alliance that's meant to be aiding humanity sat by and did nothing!"

"No, Esme. You're being a little too shortsighted." Rey sighed, finally settling in on the bed, crossing his legs as he sat up.

"What?"

"We still have insufficient information to blame the Alliance for the suffering of those people."

"Did you not hear a word that I said? Those people were—!"

"I did. I heard you quite well. And I understand that those people have been through rather unfortunate times."

"Then—!"

"It, in no way, means the United Human Alliance is at fault here." Rey sighed.

The United Human Alliance was—at its core—an amalgamation of different countries and cultures. When the war of the Dragons came, they gathered their strength together to fight.

"So it only follows that the Nations you saw were excluded from the amalgamation—either of their own accord, or due to their inability to reach the standards of an alliance."

you

said the United Human Alliance is doing nothing to help them, but

"Y-yeah. I mean…"

fighting in the war against the

"…"

question. Perhaps because she already knew the obvious

makes no logical sense that they would ignore potential fighting power, so chandes are that the Nations in question are the ones at

heard Rey refer to the very people she saved—the ones who suffered before her eyes—as

"Re, you—"

the Dragons, while the Alliance was better off. They said all those things, presenting themselves to be the

bias existed, the way their perspective would be shoved into a potentially

the Alliance would abandon those people unless, for some reason,

could already think of a few reasons why that could

that they don't have much to offer in terms of resources or military power. It's possible that

people would rather cling to the ultimate power they had as the ruler of

was better to rule in hell than become

to me? I don't think so, Rey. I can see their Alignments, rememeber? I also know when

deal with the Alliance, and they refused. The people were perhaps fed another narrative, which passed around until everuone

leaders were

such insecurity and crisis, it's possible that the previous leaders who were approached with the deal

silent once

to disappear, but she was also not

were perhaps not as innocent as she thought. And even if some were, if the narrative they fed her was wrong,

wrong. After all, the Alliance could have some hidden motives I am unaware of. There's also the fact that they hid the information about those other Nations from us as Otherworlders—which

itself was in a crisis, it wouldn't make any utilitarian sense to divide

be focused on the group that was actively fighting against

in my mouth…' His eye narrowed

Alliance in front of Esme, he didn't like the

his logic

from that. There are many unsavory parts about them. Still… we can't blame

solution I

for

barely spent a week in each settlement, so it wasn't like she could do much work for each

weren't able to join the Alliance and enjoy its benefits, I don't want to sit by and let

both hands on

don't want

of red and blue, reflecting

They both smiled.