An Extra’s POV

"Uwaaahhh! It feels so good to finally feel your touch again, Master!"

The warmness of Emil's voice, and the jiggly feeling her slimy body had as it rubbed against him made Rey laugh. He couldn't deny that it felt good to have her optimistic voice echo in his ears—the same voice he considered annoying in the past.

Somehow, losing the Symbiote Slime made him realize just how much he cherished her.

"It feels good here, too." He gave an honest reply to Emil's words, causing her to giggle loudly. He felt her body rub off against him even more, and he let her have her fun. He didn't even care that this was happening in front of an entire population of Elves. The current Rey would do anything to spoil Emil for her accomplishments.

'I definitely won't hold back on appreciating her this time.'

"Hehehehehe! Master loves Emil!" Well, there were things Rey thought he would have to clarify, but for the most part… he felt things were still within control. As long as his Slime didn't have any strange ideas, he didn't really mind whatever she said.

"Master and Emil are going to have a—"

"Okayyyy, slow down!" Rey swiftly raised his voice, feeling within his gut that this was the right time to cut Emil off from whatever she was about to say. 'I have some idea about what she was about to say, and… yeah… too far!'

He instinctively stole a glance at Esme, not really knowing why, and he found that her gaze was not on him. Something about that made his heart sink, but also relieved.

"What's wrong, Master?"

"I really need to teach you about filters!" He found himself whispering rather viciously at the Slime.

"That's not the only thing I want you to teach me, Master. Hehehehe…"

Rey was slowly being reminded of the obnoxious side of

Emil has always been this kind of person.' His thoughts trailed, but he still

her tactlessness and a bunch of other qualities that Rey could remember off

did you even manage to fool Adrien?" He mumbled to

like Emil came up

the one who proposed the idea to

"Huh…?"

soon as Rey heard this, his strained smile froze in place, and his playful mood vanished. His eyes remained wide open

you

asleep that one time, he told me of a plan that he

rubbed against his chin as the image of Ater appeared in his thoughts. He could definitely see him

didn't it? You were very excited to see the surprise,

the question, Rey didn't reply immediately. Instead, his thoughts

can understand the end goal, but… now that I think of it, this entire thing with the Elves has all been a part of

guiding Rey to the Elves and working certain things behind the scenes. 'He also hid important information from me, and I still don't know the extent of his knowledge since I

past, Rey wouldn't bother thinking

to be about Ater.' He narrowed his eyes, parting his lips as he resumed

course, Emil. I am

"Yayyyyyyy!!!"

that he wasn't even aware of, Rey was slowly beginning to worry about just how deep his influence was. The worry grew into slight hints of