Rebirth From Ordinary Person To The Strongest Chapter 114: Echoes of Victory

As soon as I climbed the stairs of the Kamiarizuki household, my mother, who had been waiting in the temple grounds, rushed toward with a worried expression.

"Itsuki, are you alright? You didn't get hurt, did you?"

"I'm fine. Nothing happened."

"Thank goodness..."

When I smiled as I said that, my mother let out a sigh of relief and placed her hand on her chest.

"You shouldn't take on too many jobs, okay?"

"...Yeah."

She scolded gently, and I responded quietly.

I understood my mother's concern, but I wasn't planning on doing anything reckless. I just wanted to move forward.

Besides, it wasn't much different from what I always did. Honestly, I thought both my mother and I were worrying too much.

But there was no point in voicing that out loud. After all, she was worried about .

As I reflected on my mother's feelings, Akane-san erged from the building.

"Hey, Itsuki. How was your first job?"

"...It wasn't that difficult."

"I heard you had plenty of energy left. That one told ."

Akane-san glanced at the man in the black suit standing behind .

When I turned around, the man who had been with all this ti bowed his head.

I was a bit surprised. When did Akane-san find the ti to talk to him? After all, we had been together the whole ti. But then I rembered how, during the Shichi-Go-San celebration, Akane-san sohow knew I had exorcised a monster without telling her. She probably has so sort of magic for that.

Honestly, Akane-san was quite the mysterious figure to .

She's the head of the Kamiarizuki household, which governs the exorcists. Despite the deeply ingrained male dominance in the exorcist world, she, a woman, holds the top position.

And she uses all kinds of magic that regular exorcists don't, like sealing talismans, asuring magic power, and sohow always knowing when a monster has been exorcised.

Really, what is this person?

"Kaede, should I transfer the paynt into Souichiro's account?"

"Please send it to Itsuki's tuition fund account."

"Tuition fund? Well, do as you wish."

I was taken aback when my mother casually ntioned the tuition fund.

Tuition fund? For what? College?

"So, Itsuki, how was it? Do you want to take on another job?"

"Yeah, if it's sothing easy."

"Haha! Honest words. That's good."

Akane-san laughed heartily.

Just then, Hina ca running toward .

"Niichaaaaan!"

"Ah, Hina! Wait!"

Nina-chan was chasing after Hina. Aya-chan was usually able to manage Hina, but Nina-chan always seed to struggle a bit. Or maybe it was just my imagination.

Ignoring Nina-chan's efforts to stop her, Hina jumped into my arms.

"Guess what! Nina-neechan did sothing amazing!"

"Sothing amazing? What did she do?"

"She hid it in the ground!"

"In the ground?"

I couldn't quite understand what Hina ant, so I asked, and she turned to Nina-chan with a big smile.

When her na was suddenly called, Nina-chan pouted slightly and replied,

"It's nothing special. I just used Shadow Sending."

"Oh, right. It's Hina's first ti seeing it, so it must've seed amazing."

Shadow Sending is a type of binding magic where a fairy is attached to a target and swallows them into their own shadow. The duration of the bind depends on the difference in magic power between the caster and the target.

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For weaker monsters, they might remain trapped in the shadow indefinitely, unable to escape unless the exorcist releases the magic. It's a pretty powerful spell.

When cast, the target's shadow turns into a bottomless pit, and they're sucked into it. For soone seeing it for the first ti, it probably looks like a pretty flashy and impressive spell.

I'd already seen Shadow Sending a few tis, thanks to Nina-chan and Irena-san, so I wasn't particularly surprised like Hina was.

But I still patted Hina's head in response.

Seeing this, Nina-chan, looking curious, asked a question.

"So, this was your first job alone, right? How was it? Were you nervous?"

"Yeah, I was super nervous. But once I started, it wasn't that hard."

As I answered Nina-chan, Hina suddenly jumped onto my back and clung to , so I ended up giving her a piggyback ride.

"It was only a Second Rank Pawn, right? For you, it must have been a breeze."

"I guess so. But I think it would've been easy for you too, Nina-chan."

That was my honest opinion.

After all, Nina-chan, aside from the tis when she gets anxious in front of monsters, is a skilled exorcist.

She can summon and control multiple fairies like Pixies and Leprechauns, and she's even able to summon other, more offensive fairies.

With enough preparation, I didn't think there was a monster out there that could defeat her.

That's all thanks to Nina-chan being a Fourth Rank exorcist, which ans she has a lot of magic power. Thinking about it like that, it's easy to understand why many exorcists, unaware of how magic power can be increased, believe that talent is everything in this world.

"Oh, right."

In the middle of my thoughts, I rembered sothing I needed to ask Akane-san.

Still carrying Hina on my back, I turned to face her.

"Akane-san, do you know anything about Actors?"

"Actors?"

Akane-san furrowed her brow at my question, looking like it was the first ti she had ever heard the term.

"A monster I exorcised today ntioned them. It said the reason for the increase in monsters across Japan was because of the Actors."

"Hmm… A magic calling another magic, huh?"

Akane-san placed a hand on her chin and seed to think for a mont before pulling out her smartphone from her shrine maiden robes.

She started searching for sothing. Really, she doesn't act like a shrine maiden at all.

"No, nothing cos up. You said Actors, right? Do you know anything about them?"

She turned her attention to the man in the black suit.

The man, who had been standing quietly behind , shook his head.

"No, I don't."

"I see. We should have Tsukishima look into it."

"Understood. I'll contact them."

"Good."

Tsukishima refers to a branch of the Kamiarizuki family that gathers information about monsters.

Unfortunately, their records haven't been digitized, so it takes a while to find things. You'd think they'd digitize everything by now, but there's probably a reason why they can't.

"Still… It seems a magic is creating other magics..."

Akane-san muttered, casting a brief glance at Nina-chan before raising her head again.

"Let us look into it on our end. Leave this to us."

With a sigh of relief, I couldn't help but wonder why Akane-san had looked at Nina-chan just now… That thought lingered in my mind.