An Extra’s POV

"Can I ask you something, Rey?"

Esme was back to laying on Rey's bed—not that he minded, of course.

At some point, a thought did cross his mind that once Esme left, her sweet flowery scent would remain imprinted on his bed.

He didn't consider this a bad thing, though, so he let her have at it.

'But… what would Alicia think if my room starts smelling like a different woman?'

He had heard from someone that women had that kind of superpower, but he wasn't so sure about how valid the claim was.

Still, was it a risk he was willing to take?

The fact that he still let Esme lay on his bed proved that to be the case.

"What is it?" He responded with a question of his own.

With the two of them already talking about the Grand Calamity, Rey's rising fame, and pretty much all of the current things that had happened in Esme's absence, she was pretty much up to speed with his life.

As for Rey, he also got the gist of what Esme had been up to for the past couple of months.

It only took four to five hours, give or take, but the time was well spent. There were no holes or gaps in their memories any longer.

Plus, as a bonus, they enjoyed every second of the interaction.

'I initially thought Esme would need to rest and freshen up before we began our long talk, but I was wrong.'

Thanks to her high Level and Stats, she could go on for a while without getting too exhausted.

She also claimed to have rested considerably before arriving at the Capital and gatecrashing the Gala.

As for freshening up—even though Rey didn't smell any slightly bad odor from Esme, but rather the opposite—he still thought it would be nice for her to take a long shower after such an arduous trip.

That was until she reminded him of her elemental abilities—one of which was generating and controlling water.

She had also taken a long, hot bath before arriving at the Gala.

Rey could no longer argue with any of her points, so he couldn't wiggle out of a conversation with her—not that he wanted to anyway.

His introspection into all of these things was interrupted by Esme's request.

"Can I see her? Alicia, I mean…"

he heard this, Rey's body shook a little. The System controlled his emotions at

forced suppression now that

but after improving sensitivity to that facet of his being, he felt

was it suppressed? Because I reacted as a result of Alicia and

moments earlier; with Ater

His thoughts trailed as

than that of the favored one entered the

the end, I still have to be in

order to prevent their

if you don't want to, but…

Rey's calmer voice took over, and

tell that much from how her brows were raised in response to

again? The emotion

said nothing. He only nodded,

"I see…"

Privilege problem he was dealing with. However, when he mentioned it, he told her that it wasn't working when he was with

made her happy for some

now, after his reaction upon hearing about Alicia, he knew she could already guess

don't have to talk about

it's fine." Rey swiftly responded,

from the

was just caught off guard is

rose from her comfortable

"You sure?"

warp in space occurred, causing everything around them to shift

~VWUSH~

eye, the two of them were in a

close to the windows, with a very

in the change that happened when Rey's

uttered those words, his eyes on the

conflicted expression filled his face, but all of them remained

"Oh…"

as well. She silently

one said anything within

Then—

really pretty." Esme said

She is." He

would befall him.

so excited would befall him. As

as he

very fierce, she's the kindest person I know. I… even though I know the entire disaster wasn't my fault… I sometimes… wish… I was… mm… I was… there to