The Extra of The Lunerra

Chapter 416 - 49: True Identity

Slowly opening my eyes, I lay for a while on my bed, doing nothing for seconds.

After a short while... I let out a deep sigh.

"Sith."

The spirit I had mentioned quickly appeared in front of me, accompanied by turquoise flashes.@@@@

"Yes?"

"Celine... Is she here?"

Sith waited a moment before answering, then sighed, just as I did.

’Yes.’

"..."

I slowly got out of bed, grabbed my cane, and went straight to wash my face. Finally, when I entered the kitchen... I was greeted by the sight I had expected.

"Hm, hm- hm hm... mhm..."

Humming to herself, Celine was in front of the counter... slicing tomatoes.

"You wake up early."

When she called out to me, without even turning around, without making a sound, I remembered again what I often forget.

Sixth Sense... right.

"And you even before me, it seems."

I tore my eyes away from her and turned to the table.

In front of me was an image reminiscent of a mixed breakfast. Fried eggs, cheese, olives, salad, honey and many other things...

How long has she been doing this?

"You don’t have to do this."

Celine stopped chopping the tomato in her hand after my words. She turned slightly and fixed her violet eyes on me. She did this for a few seconds without saying anything. Then, she started humming again and continued slicing the tomatoes without saying anything.

I took a deep breath and sat down at the table. She had done it yesterday too. And she was doing it again now. She didn’t really leave my side the whole time I was at home.

I narrowed my eyes, thinking about what she said two days ago.

In the meantime, she finished chopping the tomatoes, approached the table with a smile on her face, and mixed them into the salad. Then she sat down at the table, looked at the breakfast she had prepared without looking at me, and her smile widened.

"Enjoy your breakfast!"

And without waiting for me, she started eating.

She ate.

She kept eating...

"Celine."

Finally, she paused. She turned to me, her smile not leaving her face.

"Yes?"

"I’m not the real Aiden Tenebra."

Her expression froze for a moment, then her brow furrowed.

"Excuse me?"

"Your skill makes you feel like I don’t belong in this world, because I’m not Aiden Tenebra. My real name is Ethan Subter, and the real Aiden Tenebra committed suicide a year and a half ago, then I woke up in his body after my own death."

"..."

She looked at me with her eyes, never changing her expression. And then...

"So?"

"..."

"I don’t belong to this world, I fool everyone around me with an identity that doesn’t belong to me. In fact, I’m actually twenty-two years old. Not nineteen."

"..."

After all, the Laute Family was... wanted by almost the entire world, not just this kingdom and the elves they had betrayed.

They were known to be in Cevilian, because that’s where most of their operations were taking place.

But it was impossible to know their exact location. They were so successful at disguising themselves, operating so secretly and quietly, that the world had begun to forget what a threat they were.

"H- how did you find out about this?"

"I found Rian Laute’s grandchild."

And again, her eyes widened as if she had been stunned.

"D- don’t tell me..."

I shook my head from side to side without letting him finish her words.

"No, it’s not Adrian."

Even Rian, the man who is now the head of the Laute Family, Alysia and Adrian’s grandfather, doesn’t know Adrian exists.

Well... maybe he does. Considering the ’order’ he gave Alysia...

"But yes, they study at this academy. And no, I won’t tell you who they are, because they’re not an enemy, they’re a friend."

If I reveal Alysia’s identity... I would be neutralizing someone with a lot of potential that I could use in the future.

That’s why I still want to meet Leonard and deal with him about Laute, instead of going straight to the kingdom and finishing everything in just two or three days.

I stretched slightly, leaned back in the armchair, and then raised my eyes to Melany’s again. She didn’t seem to have recovered from what she had heard, to be honest.

"Melany... I need to speak to Leonard."

"A- ah... Sorry."

She quickly opened a holographic screen in front of her, then initiated a call to a number in her contacts.

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The barrier between the Physical Realm and the Spiritual Realm is not something that can be easily broken.

The reason why this barrier was created in the first place was to completely separate the spirits from the Physical Realm and keep them that way forever.

Therefore, many conditions had to come together for it to be ’broken’.

For example, the seals holding the barrier in place had to be found and broken, a connection between the Physical Realm and the Spiritual Realm had to be established, there had to be a few spirits already in the Physical Realm despite the existence of the barrier, and so on and so forth.

And there is a place on Lunerra that fulfills most of these conditions. Though... actually, not completely on Lunerra.

The Alius-type dungeon that Leonard and his team cleaned up.

This dungeon did not harbor any intelligent life forms, because the world that this dungeon connected to Lunerra... was actually the world where spirits created the barrier that separated them from the Physical Realm.

Without even realizing it, Leonard and his team, while completing the dungeon’s assigned task, broke several of the seals that created the barrier, weakening it slightly and fulfilling the conditions that allowed the spirits to break through it.

Although they didn’t tell anyone, two of their team had already made a contract with a spirit even before the descent of spirits. They just hadn’t revealed it to Lunerra.

In short, they are the main reason why the spirits were able to successfully descend to Lunerra.

And that is precisely why Leonard is quite busy at the moment. He’s taking care of the official business of that Alius-type dungeon he cleaned.

Yet he had a great weakness for his family. So when his wife, Melany Quie, who was standing right in front of me, told him to come to the academy as fast as he could... Leonard didn’t even question why.

I have no idea where he was when we told him to come... but it only took that giant seventeen minutes to get here. And with a gigantic smile on his face, he literally burst in, ducking a little to avoid banging his head on the top of the door.

"I’m here, my dear wife! I realized it was urgent and I came as fa-"

His words were suddenly cut short. All the emotion in his eyes disappeared one by one as he realized my presence.

First his lips flattened, then his blood-red eyes narrowed and his expression became deadly serious.

Normally, he had deliberately left the door open so that everyone could hear him and his ’love’ for his wife. But now... not caring about that, he closed the door and gave me his full attention.

"I should have guessed it had something to do with you."

He approached slowly, placing himself in the armchair directly opposite me, despite his gigantic figure.

"What do you want?"

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*(A/N: There will be an another chapter in an hour or so. Sorry for the skipped days, I had some quick things to do. And there will be two chapters tomorrow too to compensate for them.)*