Chapter 413: Lairine’s Good Mood Gone Berserk
The Reincarnated Extra
Lairineâs Good Mood Gone Berserk
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This is a side story related to Arcs 13 and 14.
âHmm~, hmm~, hmmmm~â
There was a woman walking down the hallway of the white building⦠the Adventurersâ Guild headquarters⦠on a tropical island surrounded by a beautiful sea, humming happily.
Her name is Lairine Rune.
The leader of the strongest Adventurersâ Guild, a Demigod who has lived in the human world for a long time, and Emiâs mother-in-law.
âHmm~, hmm~, hmm~â
Lairine is, in a word, in a good mood.
Why?
She had just been attending a regular meeting with the executives of the Adventurersâ Guild.
A pointless meeting where pointless people gather to discuss pointless things.
So itâs not that âsomething good happened at workâ.
Incidentally, the topic of this meeting was about the murder of the Special-rank adventurer, âGreat Mageâ.
His death, being a Special-rank adventurer, a genius inventor, who had established private schools for learning magic called âGreat Mage Schoolsâ in various locations, and even served as the headmaster of Somatoko Academy in the academy city-state of Somatoko, was major news worldwide.
Moreover, it was a suspicious death, and a young woman who was found in a daze near his body was arrested as the murderer and imprisoned in the Delenezo Maximum Security Prison, which is quite unsettling.
Everyone was paying attention to the background of the woman who was identified as the murderer⦠and it became a topic of discussion at this regular meeting.
Well, people were saying things like, âIt was a crime of passionâ, or âShe was an assassin from the Holy Maiden Consortiumâ, and the truth hasnât been revealed yet.
The Adventurersâ Guild is also conducting their own investigation, but they havenât been able to uncover the truth.
Well, thatâs about it.
In other words, for Lairine, it was a pointless story.
âGreat Mageâ was a pretty competent man, and Lairine remembered his name, but she wasnât that interested, just thinking, âHuh, is that so?â when she heard he died.
So she was smiling, listening to most of the story with half an ear.
âhmm~, hmm~, mmm hmm~â
Anyway, her good mood is completely unrelated to work.
So why is she in a good mood?
Itâs because of the black sphere sheâs holding in her right hand.
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The name of that black sphere, squirming in Lairineâs right hand, is Himetal.
Heâs a Darkness Spirit who has a contract with some old geezer she doesnât know very well, whoâs working surrounded by documents in a room at the Adventurersâ Guild headquarters, looking like heâs about to die.
He possesses several supernatural abilities as a Darkness Spirit, one of which is indispensable to Lairine right now.
â¦As for what that ability is, letâs actually see it.
Lairine, humming, finally arrived at her office.
âHmm~â
She opened the door cheerfully, and immediately closed it roughly, then jumped over her desk with a spin, landing gracefully on her office chair.
She opened a drawer with practiced movements, and took out a world map.
Several red dots were marked on the Golden Continent part of that world map, with dates written next to them.
And those dots were connected with red lines.
Looking at the recent dates, red dots were marked on top of each other on the royal capital of the Ashgo Kingdom.
What is this?
âNow, Himetal, tell me⦠tell me where Emi-chan is today!â
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â¦Yes, those are the locations of her beloved daughter, Emi.
The Dark Spirit, Himetal, has a supernatural ability called ãMarkingã.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
He⦠marked Emi due to certain circumstances, and because of that, Lairine is using him as a device to check her daughterâs location.
âIf youâre so concerned, why donât you just go see her?â, Himetal thinks, but Lairine promised Emi that sheâd let her travel alone, and in order to keep that promise, she just checks her location and is satisfied.
Well, since that level of cooperation is easy, Himetal doesnât resist unnecessarily and does as heâs told.
Lairine is a Demigod, and if she leaks even a little bit of her power, itâs dangerous enough to kill a weak creature just by being exposed to it, but Himetal is a Spirit.
Heâs not some fragile lifeform.
Rather, from being in contact with Lairine for so long, her divine energy has been flowing into him, and his rank as a Spirit has started to rise.
In other words, itâs also beneficial for Himetal to associate with Lairine⦠so he readily accepted being treated as a convenient device.
But, however.
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Himetalâs growth bonus time⦠came to an abrupt end this day.
âWhatâs wrong?â
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Himetalâs body trembled with fear.
Why?
â¦He canât find her.
Emi Rune.
âHey, hey, is something wrongâ¦? Hey, donât dawdle, tell me what happened? Do you want to die?â
Lairine, sensing Himetalâs abnormality, lost her beautiful smile, and killing intent began to leak from her.
Crack.
A crack appeared on the windowpane.
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Himetal, trembling, but knowing he couldnât hide it, after a moment of hesitation, blurted out the truth.
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âWHAAT!?â
PA-PA-PA-PAN!
The air vibrated with Lairineâs angry shout, and all the windows in the room shattered and were blown away!
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âWhy canât you find her?â
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âWHAAT!?â
BAAANG!!
This time, the wall near where Lairine was sitting, on the window side, was blown away!
The dragons living nearby instinctively sensed danger and began to flee the island!
The Adventurersâ Guild staff also started evacuating, saying, âNot again.â!
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âTeleportationâ¦?â
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ââ¦â¦â¦â¦â
Lairine, still emitting killing intent, placed her hand on her chin.
She looked down at the world map, lost in thought.
âEmi-chanâs last known location is⦠the Forest of Urimarekinoruâ¦â
And then, muttering that, she left the trembling Himetal, walked briskly⦠casually kicked a hole in the wall, stepped out into the corridor, and headed for the teleportation room.
To get straight to the pointâ¦
Lairine was able to find the teleportation magic circle in the Forest of Urimarekinoru.
But that magic circle was no longer usable, and its destination remained unknown.
So, it would be several years before Lairine could locate Emi again.