Reborn as an Extra - Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Kevin Flash- The soul splitter!
“We are here; master is waiting inside.”

After they reached the door of James office. The butler suddenly spoke a few words, and then he stepped aside. Clearly displaying that Rio will be the only one going inside.

Rio didn’t care about it much, and without hesitation, he entered the room.

Once inside, he found a burly man sitting on a sofa in a liesurely manner.

The man seemed to be sleeping at that time, but when Rio entered, his eyes immediately opened and met with Rio’s.

Rio felt as if he was being watched by a beast, a hungry beast eyeing its prey. But after a few seconds, that deadly aura disappeared.

‘He restrained his aura, but why did he release it in the first place, to intimidate me? Old man, these cheap tricks won’t work on me… I don’t have the emotion called ‘Fear’…’

“So, you are Rio…”

“Yeah.”

James then pointed towards the sofa right in front of him and said,

“You can sit…”

Rio nodded his head and quietly sat on the sofa.

Although Rio was still expressionless, inside his head he was actually already thinking about several things.

‘If he suddenly attacks, my chances of running away alive will be 5% and if i use every single skill I have to just run, the chances are still rather slim. But let’s first figure out his motive.’

‘I came here to find more about the original Rio, not to run away…’

While Rio was busy planning his ways of action and making a full-proof plan to not die, James was also eyeing him.

‘Hmm, this guy is clearly vigilant and I am sure that he is capable of dodging a few attacks from me if am not serious. Indeed, he is a talented kid.’

“Do you know about your parents, kid?”

“What do you mean by that? Please be specific, so that I can understand.”

‘Why is he asking about my parents as the first question? I thought he was going to give me some kind of warning like, ‘how dare you deceive my daughter!?’ Or something…’

“Well, you see, Rio Flash, your father was an old comrade of mine; do you remember his name?”

“Yeah, Kevin flash, but how can he be a comrade of an S-ranker like you? I remember that he was an ordinary man; he wasn’t even an awakener.”

“Both of my parents were non-awakeners, or so I have been told by my mother and the people at the orphanage; I remember it as clear as day.”

“Yeah, right, I forgot to tell. In the public’s eye, he was a non-awakener. Well, that’s to be expected with his work of line, I guess…”

“In public’s eye?”

James suddenly got up and walked towards the window; while looking in the distance, he said:

“Yeah, your mother was a non-awakener, but Kevin was a Peak S-ranker… he was a strong man with a proper organization of his own…”

Rio frowned a bit and asked,

“Even an S-ranker can’t hide his aura so thoroughly that others won’t get affected, this is a well known fact; there’s only one way for an awakener to hide his aura so thoroughly… wait! Doe that mean?”

“Yeah, he was an ‘Assassin’—a rare class. He was the most lethal assassin ever recorded in human history.”

“He liked to work hidden from everyone’s sight; even his own family never knew that he was an assassin; his proficiency in his class had reached close to perfect.”

“He was capable of infiltrating the most guarded areas unaffected, and he had collected a huge amount of important information about several races, and all that information was then given to the alliance.”

“He had been a high-ranking member of the alliance and was a very capable man.”

‘Alliance? The alliance of all the S-ranker and above. He was part of that alliance!? Doesn’t that mean he was working with SS-ranker!? Literal f*cking demi-gods!?’

‘Now i understand. It is definitely possible to hide his identity then. But I got reborn in this body Was it really just a coincidence?’

‘But there wasn’t any mention of Kevin in the novel though; even when the alliance was first brought to light, there was still no mention of the name Kevin…’

“He was known by the nickname ‘The Soul Splitter’.”

“Although I don’t know how he got that nickname, one thing is for sure: he was capable enough to sneak right behind any S-ranker without them sensing his presence at all.”

“This is also the reason why he was well known; I have even completed several missions with him, so I can be considered an old comrade.”

“He was killed while fighting with the huge swarm of demons attacking the drift city. I was one of the reinforcements sent that time, but we got late, and that whole city was destroyed.”

“Every single human was killed mercilessly, thus giving that incident the name drift city massacre, I still remember that horrific sight of thousands of dead bodies scattered all over the ground.”

“That day, I literally rescued you with my own team, but I never knew that Kevin had a son otherwise I wouldn’t have let them sent you to an orphanage…”

“Forgive me, Rio… I was incompetent…”

James shook his head in sadness.

He literally was the one who ordered Rio to be sent to an orphanage; if only he had investigated a little bit and had tried to find the name of the kid, he would have found out about Rio.

“Twenty-five thousand humans, including awakeners and all others, were killed on that bloody day; the purpose was to collect enough blood to summon a new SS-rank demon we believe…”

“Twenty-five thousand!? But didn’t the records say that only five thousand had died?”

Hearing this James laughed bitterly and a sad expression appeared on his face:

“Obviously, the information was manipulated so that panic doesn’t spread; even five thousand had created enough panic that people were protesting everywhere and we top rankers weren’t able to give answers to those whose family members were never found.”

“Those who were relatives of the dead, we shut their mouth either by force or by compensation. We had no choice; dead doesn’t come back after all; we were powerless…”

“Then what about by father?”

“He fought until his last moment and created openings for your mother and you. You may not know that…”

“Yeah, I don’t have memories of that time; when I opened my eyes, I was already in an orphanage. I don’t know how I fainted.”

Rio looked at James with a questioning gaze, asking for the reason. But James also shook his head:

“I also don’t know about that. When I reached the place, your father was long dead. Your mother was also just a few meters beside you… her corpse was destroyed beyond recognition…”

“We thought that the father of the child must have died too, but who knew that it was Kevin who was the father all along… sigh…”

‘That means, if i hadn’t come to this world, this guy Rio would have never been able to talk with James and would have died without even knowing about his father.’

‘As I thought, this world is indeed very cruel. Only strong are valued here.’

The room suddenly went quiet for a while, then James looked at Rio and spoke in a weak tone,

“That’s all I know, but there’s one more thing for which I wanted to talk to you.”

James then started to walk toward the cabinet at the corner of the room; he opened it and brought out a small box.

He brought the box with him and then gave it to Rio. Rio held the box and looked at it for a while. He tried to open it but it didn’t even budge.

“This is?”

“When I reached Kevin’s body, I found this box with a letter. On the letter, it was written that ‘anyone who finds this box, please give it to my son’…”

“Originally I thought this was some kind of code word, and the son here referred to the members of his organization or something as he had no children… but it turns out the meaning was more simple than I thought…”

“So I am giving it to you now. I don’t know what it is either. But I think you will be able to find it if you inject your mana in it.”

“Hmm, okay.”

Rio slowly moved his mana towards the box and as if a mechanism has been triggered, the box opened all by itself. A bright golden card came in Rio’s sight.

The card suddenly lightened up and within a few seconds the light started to envelope Rio.

“It seems this is a key to some kind of space; it’s transporting you somewhere, so be careful!”

Before Rio could have answered him, he was engulfed by the light, and his body disappeared with the fading of light. Now only James was standing in the room, looking at the spot where Rio had disappeared.

“Hmm, looks like Kevin prepared something for him. I hope he don’t get overboard; he always did things very thoroughly, so it is possible he will end up beating that kid too.”

James shook his head, he knew that nothing can be done about it now, only Rio can choose what he should do now.

“I have completed my promise; it’s up to you now, boy.”

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Authors note: so here’s the question of the day.

What do you think where has Rio been transported off too?

1. To a trail.

2. To a place filled with monsters

3. All of them.