An Extra’s POV

"You…"

As Rey's defiant voice rang out in the hall, the Oracle's neutral face depicted a light frown. She furrowed her brows, causing creases to appear on her face while staring hard at the defiant human.

"... You weren't given a choice in the matter."

~ZZZTZ!~

All of a sudden, a glitchy effect manifested around Rey—almost as though space itself was collapsing on him.

However, within the fraction of a moment, he removed himself from that position and teleported a few meters from the spatial disturbance.

Swiftly turning his face from the glitch to The Oracle, he could already deduce what had just happened.

"Tch." Her clicking tongue added more to his suspicions.

"You just tried to evict me by force, didn't you?" Rey asked, a deep glare forming on his face as he began to address The Oracle with enmity.

"Yes. Your purpose here has been consummated, and you have become an eyesore."

Rey gritted his teeth as he watched The Oracle's condescending gaze upon him. A lot of emotions swirled within him, including a certain tinge of regret.

'I shouldn't have brought Esme here. I knew something was shady from the start, but if I could have known it was this bad, then…' He briefly glanced at Esme, who was busy sighing and shaking her head.

"Rey, just stop."

Despite hearing her saying those words to him, he just couldn't stop and listen.

'I know I'm being selfish, Esme. But… we need to talk about this at length first. This is all just happening too fast. We could be making the wrong call here…'

Rey wondered if he was the one being unreasonable? He just didn't want to quickly abandon their bond the moment they found something convenient.

Was that so bad?

Yet, the glares he received from both sides—Esme and The Oracle—somehow told him he was in the wrong.

"If you stubbornly choose to remain here, then…"

Rey's full attention returned to The Oracle as soon as he heard this, but once he turned to her location, she was nowhere to be found.

It was almost as though every trace of her had been removed.

"... You leave me no choice."

voice, his instincts screamed at him,

~WHOOSH!~

bolt of lightning, he dashed away from his

~BOOOOOOOOOM!~

direction, but the loud explosion caused the entire area to tremble violently. 'Damn… what an impact.' Rey couldn't afford to think, as he swiftly left his

this, trying to sense patterns in the explosions in an attempt to deduce how they worked. He also strained his eyes very hard to

be able to at least detect her with my senses. My Eyepatch is off too, so my perception is at its peak right now.

understand where the explosions

to avoid the destruction that would certainly not be very pleasant to

~BOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

moment was that there was no use searching for The Oracle

were one and the

whisper into his ear, and a hand held his

'H-huh…?'

~BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

the area where Rey stood,

but it swiftly disappeared thanks

he struggled to make sense of everything and find an escape from the situation

wasn't able to pick her up with my eyes was because

explosion would occur, which Rey

Until now, that is.

yield. There doesn't have to be any sort of conflict here, Rey

than he was, and her experience most likely dwarfed his. The only thing he

those… how far could they really

growled, once again vanishing from his kneeling position before The Oracle could send him

to get rid of

he had to take the current match completely seriously if he was ever

that she doesn't want to kill me, but that doesn't mean I

resolved this within himself, he decided to go all

a heightened degree. He went on to include all the other Buff Skills he recently obtained from the

small increase in his Stats, but their effects stacking up meant that he was good to

I'll be needing your assistance

~Understood, Master!~

his [Doppel], she could replicate parts of other Monsters and replicate their abilities—making her a perfect

on the Magic front, so that's canceled. Using [Perfect Divine Ray] might cause her to get very lethal with me, since it's a

getting so much leeway was

keep it that

Of The Divine] to create a considerable space around me

done with his

the point of nigh-nullification, I

his arsenal. Playing his cards well, he could find a way to somewhat keep up with The