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…"

slowly being reminded of the obnoxious side of his Familiar,

this kind of person.' His thoughts trailed, but he still strained

of her tactlessness and a bunch of other qualities

manage to fool Adrien?"

strange to think someone like

was actually the one who proposed the

"Huh…?"

his playful mood vanished. His eyes remained wide open and he stared keenly into Emil's

did you just

to keep it as a surprise for you, but… when you were asleep that one time, he told me of a plan that he thought would

rubbed against his chin as the image of Ater appeared in his thoughts.

were very excited to see the surprise,

didn't reply immediately. Instead, his thoughts

to plan something this intricate. I can understand the end goal, but… now that I think of it, this entire thing with

The Oracle, and a whole host of issues; it all stemmed from Ater 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 didn't restrict his activities. I'm also not with him very often, so

Rey wouldn't bother thinking too much about it,

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

Emil.

"Yayyyyyyy!!!"

use Emil—his own Familiar—to perform a task that he wasn't even aware of, Rey was slowly beginning to worry