Reborn as an Extra - Chapter 34

Chapter 34: Father and Children talks…
Academy, Infirmary.

After fainting during the date with Rio, when Lia woke up, she found herself on a bed in the infirmary.

Her personal maid, who has been taking care of Lia since childhood, was sitting there, beside her bed, looking at her with her usual expressionless face like that of a machine.

“Are you awake, Milady?”

“Yeah, why am I here?”

Maid’s eyes narrowed a bit and she said with an expressionless face, without any emotion:

“You fainted…..On your boyfriend’s lap… so he brought you here… I am quite surprised you charmed a man so early in your academy days…”

“wha-wha, what are you saying!? How did you know!?”

Hearing that the maid knew about Rio, Lia panicked a bit. If the maid knew, then it is possible for her father to know this too.

To Lia’s question, the maid still replied expressionlessly:

“I am your personal maid; it’s obvious that I will know about you.”

“Ye-yeah”

“I even know that you two kis-”

“wha-what are you saying!? I never kissed him! who will even talk to a bastard like him!?I am going to sleep! ye-yeah, I feel tired!”

“You can’t sleep, Milady.”

“Eh, why?”

“Because you may start dreaming about something more lewd stuff.”

“stop fooling around with me already! Who will even think about something like that! Not to mention with that idiot!”

“Yeah, so I wanted to say that you can’t sleep because Master had asked for your presence during today’s dinner in the family mansion.”

“Wh-what father is home!? And he wants me to be present during the dinner today!?”

“Yes, Milady”

“Can’t you just say that I have to attend class tomorrow?”

“Well, due to an incident during the new year, your academy has declared a holiday for a week, so you don’t have any class for now, Milady.”

“Sigh~ do I really have to meet him? Sigh~”

“Your face look like someone has told you about your execution date, you shouldn’t make a face like that, Milady, you can do it.”

“Are you trying to motivate me? Thank you, Mel.”

Lia had no choice but to go and meet her always absent father now that he already knows about Rio; she doesn’t want Rio to get caught up in trouble because of her.

…

(Classified Information!)

The Capital City Astra is divided in several areas; the areas are divided on the basis of how powerful the individuals living in that area are:

Outer Area: Ordinary Humans (Un-awakened) (Most of the population Lives here in ordinary and low-quality houses.)

Inner Area: Individuals from Rank-G to Rank-B all live in this area.

Core Area: Individuals from Rank-A to S live in this area; most of the high-ranked guild and buildings are also in this area, like the academy.

Central Area: Currently only three Families live here along with their subordinates and the highest quality guilds. These three families are backed by an SS ranker each.

They are the Rex family, Croft family and the Aldif family.

…

Central Area, Rex Mansion

Link was heading towards his father’s office.

While he walked towards the office, he passed by an extremely beautiful scenery, which can be seen from the windows of the corridor; all of this is an artificial garden made by the top human engineers.

You can experience any season you want in this place.

The garden around the mansion can be turned into a grassland spread for hundreds of miles, even though this garden is just a few miles long.

This is the extent of spatial technology humans have acquired after hundreds of year’s hard work.

But Link wasn’t interested in this high-tech stuff; he has grown up in this mansion, and he has long been bored from all these things.

He just can’t wait for the day when the academy will open and go back there. That place looks better to him.

‘I wonder what father wants to talk now, I hope he is in good mood today, I wish he won’t scold me for getting Riya in trouble, sigh~’

Link’s father has always been very strict on him; he always wanted that Link work hard and live up to his name as the son of an SS-ranker.

Due to which Link has been trained since the very day he was born.

Moreover, his father always tells him to take care of Riya, and if he fails to do so, he will be punished, as Riya herself is very clumsy and fragile.

Sometimes Link thinks that his father favors Riya more than his own son himself.

Link has been training since birth, and his father has provided him with the utmost care and protection over the years. The amount of resources available to Link for training is no joke.

He even has a talent-polishing technique in his grasp. But it’s a family secret, so Link can’t tell it to anyone as he’s signed a magic contract.

After all, if everyone knew that it is possible to increase one’s talent with rare resources, then it could cause a huge sensation in humans, and several individuals will also go to any extent to do so.

Which will instead be more dangerous for humanity itself.

The method is that, when an individual is still in an unawakened state, if he bathes in water containing at least one or more Perfect rank Mana potion every day, they can increase their chance of awakening with a high rank talent to a very high percentage.

But the twist in this method is that a single Perfect rank Mana potion is so expensive that even A-ranked individuals can’t afford it; only some Rich S rankers can afford it after saving money for several years.

And if this knowledge about the talent improvement method goes public, people will try to acquire the potion at any cost, which will make the already expensive potion increase further in price and the materials needed for it will also become expensive.

No one wants such a situation to happen, so it’s a secret. This is also the reason why you will notice that the children of all strong people are extremely talented too.

After all, no one wants to see others become stronger than you, right?

…

After a while of walking, Link finally arrived at the office. Before he could knock at the door, he heard a rough and stern voice:

“Come in…”

Link didn’t say anything and directly entered the office.

After he entered the office, he felt himself in a totally different area. Even though the office looked extremely small from outside. It was actually very huge inside.

This is also due to advanced spatial magic and high-tech engineering.

Link walked towards the table and sat directly opposite Ashtel.

Sitting here, he can feel the oppressing aura of his father. If Raji’s aura is like a cold and freezing like Ice, then you can consider Ashtel’s aura to be like a domineering and intimidating like a king.

His aura is extremely restrained at the moment; if he does not restrain it, Ashtel might kill Link in a matter of seconds with his aura alone.

This is the difference between a C-rank and SS-rank.

“I heard you saved that girl, Riya.”

“Nope, it wasn’t me; it was a classmate of mine. I was affected by mana overload when fighting with that A-rank assassin… and he helped me calm down instead…”

Hearing this, Ashtel wasn’t surprised at all because he long knew it.

SS-rankers are no joke.

Children like Link and Rio are still too young for this old monster. He has a well-developed intelligence network, and Link also knew this.

That’s why he said the truth and didn’t hide the fact that he failed to protect Riya.

Although he knew that this could make Ashtel angry to some extent, if Link said a lie, that would be more terrible.

“At the end of the day, everything was okay. If you didn’t kill that A-ranker Riya wouldn’t have survived, I doubt that kid Rio would have been able to do the same, right?”

“Not really; he was able to hold his ground against me for several minutes even when I was in the state of mana overload. I think he has the talent to be a peak S ranker… He’s not to be underestimated…”

“Hmm, that’s surprising; well, peak S rank talent is very rare too. Anyway, it’s a good thing that we found him early; you should make him your ally when he is still a hidden gem… or maybe you can have a rival…”

“Yes, father…”

“And since you didn’t cause a major incident this time, I will ignore that little mistake of yours. But you should take your guards with you; don’t be careless like you were at that time. Now you may go.”

“Yes, father.”

After that, Link left the office and the previous silence returned:

“A peak S rank talent, as expected of his son, maybe we will be able to see ‘that sword’ once again.”

“The son of the best Assassin won’t be so weak after all… It’s a shame I didn’t know about his existence; I could have adopted him…”

“Even in death, you were cunning enough to hide a gem like that kid; I guess that’s to be expected of you, Kevin…”

Ashtel shook his head, and an amused look appeared on his face.

…

Core area, Silver family’s mansion

In the dining room, Lia sat on the seat farthest from her father’s seat.

Although her face was normal, her mind was in a great mess, and she was thinking about running away from this depressing place already.

After a while, a burly man woke in and sat directly at the head seat.

This man is James Silver, an S-rank swordsman. He glanced at Lia, who was sitting so far, and frowned a bit, but decided to ignore this.

James has a straightforward personality; he doesn’t like to talk nonsense and hates the people who talk too much.

The only problem is that he is too straightforward.

“So, who’s Rio?”

“H-he…”

“Are you okay with him?

“I-i…”

“does he treat you in the right way?”

“H-he….”

“Should I give him a good beating so that he listens to you?”

“N-No! What are you even saying!?”