An Extra’s POV

784 Facade

"A-are there any further questions so far?"

In an attempt to divert attention from the topic of her crush on Adonis, Mi'ja quickly changed the mood back to an official one.

Her stuttering and overtly flustered expression still made it clear that she was simply hiding from her feelings, though.

"Questions?"

"Y-yeah. I mean, I've shown you the Hall, so if there are no questions… we'll move on to the next place on our list." Mi'ja replied with a rather daring smile.

As Class Rep, it was ultimately her decision to escort the two out of them out of the Hall and completely change the kind of conversation they could have.

Thankfully, Lucielle took the hint and decided to stop teasing Mi'ja.

Instead, she went for a rather surprising question.

One that not even Rey predicted—though it was something he had been thinking about, even at that very moment.

"What are your thoughts on humans?"

The moment this question echoed into the air, some kind of tense silence suddenly enveloped everything around the three.

It felt heavy.

"Humans… huh?"

The kind and innocent expression that Mi'ja previously displayed instantly melted off, replaced by a sinister look.

eyes shone bright pink, and from the chilly expressionless reaction she had upon

small lips grew broad and formed a bloodthirsty smile, revealing a suppressed excitement that would cause anyone to

the subject of discussion. "They're our playthings, meant to entertain us in multiple ways. They're stubborn for sure, not knowing their place, but in

and Lucielle were silent as they heard the kind and innocent Mi'ja spew these words with such confidence and

or compassion in

Just blunt honesty.

I kill my first human." At this point, she looked slightly aroused as

joy she felt just from imagining the countless ways she would kill

no further deep thoughts. Just that—pure,

to take in all of these words, he couldn't help but recoil at the rawness of Mi'ja's

expecting…?' He told

had driven humanity, as well as the other races of

for countless atrocities. They were responsible

did

me to search for

Lucielle were in

was no luxury

Humans are soooo dumb!" Lucielle broke the resulting silence with her excited voice, causing the tension to vanish as

you think so too, R'ai?" Rey slowly turned to Lucielle, who now nudged him playfully, smiling with so much

thoughts trailed as he stared

so well, judging by

to this Dragon Civilization a lot better than him, but… just how

more Dragons than I have. She has experienced this war since it started nearly eleven years ago, and I'm sure they've taken a lot from her—more than I can currently understand. Yet… how can she remain so

smile… her clear voice… her natural

anyone else that she didn't feel any of the things she was

it

it be that the Grand Mage Lucielle that he knew was just as real as the Dragon Student Luc'ia

—A complete facade.