The Reincarnated Extra - Chapter 522: The Short Corridor
Chapter 522: The Short Corridor
- The Short Corridor
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The great hall, where I had a fierce battle with a large number of skeletons.
Opening the door, and going through it⊠what I found there⊠is a short corridor.
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I quickly scanned the area, sniffing the air, listening intently, deploying my ăMana Sensing Threadsă.
It seems that there are no enemies, and no traps, in this corridor.
Itâs just an old corridor⊠with dust swirling red in the sunlight pouring in from the small windows.
And in the middle of that corridor⊠the princess, with her out-of-place beauty, is standing there, quietly.
ăYou have come this far⊠brave oneâŠă
The phantom princess, as I approached a certain distance, quietly started speaking to me.
<Itâs not a standard message.>
ăBeyond this point, waiting for you behind the door⊠are the confidants of Tekigataa, the evil general of the Superbad Empire⊠the mages, Deyas and Gaston.ă
âŠConfidants.
<âConfidant subordinatesâ, huh?>
ăTheyâre magic experts, commoners who rose to become the evil generalâs confidants through their extraordinary abilities⊠They are not opponents you can underestimate.ă
<If theyâve been training for five hundred years⊠Thatâs a nightmare for us.>
YeahâŠ
And she suddenly gave me a lot of information.
<Thatâs how much of a threat those two, waiting ahead, are considered to be⊠even to this princess.>
ăBe careful⊠their weakness is fire magic.ă
âŠWhatâs with this âweakness is fire magicâ information, which is the same for everyone?
<Although there are generally no undead in the current Ardyst⊠The classic weakness of undead is fire magic. Perhaps this princess is just influenced by stories she has heard.>
Eh, itâs just an assumption!?
<Itâs not entirely wrong. Most enemies, not just undead, die when theyâre burned to ashes.>
The blunt truthâŠ!
ăPlease⊠please⊠help me⊠brave one⊠I⊠await youâŠă
Lastly, after saying that sorrowfully, the princessâs illusion disappeared.
All that was left is the dust dancing in the corridor.
ââŠâŠâŠâŠFuuuuuuâŠâ
I quietly⊠but deeply⊠exhaled.
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And then, I thought for a bit.
That princessâŠ
<Whatâs wrong?>
âItâs nothing.â
And then⊠prompted by Extra-sama, I stopped thinking.
Because if what âcrossed my mindâ is true⊠I think it would be even more pitiful than what I originally thought.
Too pitiful.
But anyway, what Iâm doing isâ
<Relieving stress.>
Right⊠relieving stress.
Thereâs no need to think about the details.
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After clapping my cheeks, I stepped forward and started walking down the short corridor.
The next door I reached is made of wood.
But perhaps because itâs indoors, itâs not as weathered as the entrance to the great hall from earlier.
There are no holes in it either.
Itâs a fine door⊠one that makes me believe that itâll properly function as a door.
I put my hand on the doorknob, and was about to push it open, and thenâ
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âI stopped.
<Emi?>
What Iâm doing is just relieving stress.
Itâs just an outburst of violence⊠with no righteousness or anything.
Just killing.
If thatâs the caseâ
âRAAAH!!â
I stepped back, took a deep breath, and then kicked the door⊠with the front of my right foot!
Crack, boom!!
The door blew open with the sound of wood creaking, metal snapping, bounced on the floor, rolled across the room, and thenâ
Stopped.
As if floating in the air.
ăGoodness⊠Young lady, youâre supposed to open a door by pushing or pulling it, not by kicking it, you know?ă
ăThis is deplorable, Challenger⊠You should learn some common sense.ă
It was two skeletons, reprimanding me in exasperated voices, who did that.
Both are wearing reddish-black, luxurious-looking robes with gold embroidery on the sleeves⊠and theyâre floating in the air!
âMoving skeletons, talking about common sense.â
I picked up a stone from the floor, and fired it at the floating skeletons, using ăStone Throwingă!
But the pebble⊠just like the door from earlier⊠stopped in mid-air, immobilized!
ăHaa⊠Really, you should listen to your eldersâ advice. âBe politeâ, âdonât go to dangerous placesâ⊠Were you never scolded by the adults around you when you were little?ă
ăShe wasnât scolded⊠was she? I donât know the circumstances, but how pitiful. Thatâs why⊠youâre going toâă
ăăâDie.ăă
The next moment, the eye sockets of the two floating skeletons glowed red!
And at the same time⊠the door I kicked, and the pebble, which had been frozen in mid-air⊠were allâfired at me with incredible force!