An Extra’s POV

Adrien was sincerely impressed with Rey.

At first, he didn't really have an opinion of him—just as he didn't have an opinion of anyone else. He had no clue if he could 'use' him, or if he had to be wary of him.

In the end, it turned out the latter was the case.

Their relationship had somewhat evolved and devolved over the months that were spent in H'Trae, but at the moment Adrien was in a rather complicated position when it came to Rey Skylar.

'He's brilliant, and he's outsmarted me in many instances already… almost as though he is a completely different person from the one I am used to.'

Still, anytime he interacted with Rey, something seemed off.

'He seems just like the Rey I had profiled. All those features… his easily-readable expressions, incredible agitation and aversion towards me, and a bunch of other staple things I had associated with him after our interactions.'

Yet… those observed characteristics ran contrary to a lot of Rey's actions.

It was so puzzling.

'That version of Rey would not have been able to manipulate all of these scenarios to such a level of sophistication.'

Not only was he easy to read, but his scope of knowledge seemed very lacking. He expected the competent Manipulator that pushed him to such an extent to be much more knowledgeable and mature, but Rey showed no such thing.

The entire thing almost felt like Adrien was dealing with two different people.

persona is meant to mislead me into profiling him a certain way, and

that many of his predictions had been affected—including

monster.' Adrien didn't particularly despise Rey for any of his actions, and he didn't think much would change

gained nothing. 'Thanks to the death of all the Dragons, I have some decent Undead in my army. I even got my hands on the corpses of the

well as a great deal of the Mana I stored up, but the results were worth it. Now that I have more powerful pawns in my

essence, he gained

should be satisfied with this outcome, especially since there are future prospects in sight. But…' A certain glint appeared in Adrien's eyes as his lips

can't help my

fell on a particular entity he could not help thinking about ever

too fascinating and useful

be Rey—they ended up having a deep conversation, and he got to know a lot about the Symbiote

even Rey knew

why I'm so perplexed about who he really is. Perhaps… I

interactions, he was able to sow enough seeds to guarantee him some measure of rewards in the

He wanted Emil.

I suppose there's also

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by darkness, having no one around

over her face, and her body hung to the walls

and there was nothing about his countenance that displayed any kind of

He was absolutely serious.