The Retired Hero is an Extra

Jash glanced at the security personnel beside him, silently inquiring about the so-called daughter.

Without any regard to the man, the security personnel nodded and touched a few times on his bracelet.

A hologram depicting the figure of a pink-haired girl with black eyes appeared, frightening the man at once.

"Is she your daughter?" Jash asked for confirmation, his eyes still fixed on the image.

He signaled the security personnel with a look. The hologram shifted to display her fights during the Entrance Test—both videos and photos.

'Hmm. Interesting,' Jash mused with a smirk, terrifying the man opposite him as realization dawned on the latter.

The man seemed to have forgotten that Jash was the son of a duke and even if he did something to the man, there would be next to no retaliation.

Though the law was advanced and strict, it was still subject to manipulation by those in power.

In essence, the man was more worried about his daughter as Jash could directly abduct her, making her never enter the Academy.

Then, everything he sacrificed for her happiness would be for naught.

The man gritted his teeth, fighting back his own fear and resolve, "I-I'll do it! Just leave her out of this!"

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"Hm?" Jash got confused at the sudden words, but didn't seem to mind it.

The situation just became advantageous for him, after all.

"Alright, you can rest assured that nothing will happen to her as long as you do not tell her anything about today."

"Can you do that?" Jash asked with an eerie smile, instilling fear in the man's heart despite being stronger than Jash.

Alas, the man seemed to have understood his situation and just nodded quietly.

"Good," Jash nodded, relaxing his expression as he ordered, "Get used to the computers here and tell them if you need anything."

Jash referred to the security personnel despite knowing they would never come here after escorting him back.

Leaving the man with them, Jash walked to another room on this floor, heading to the basement using a secret passageway.

Naturally, he had asked for an escape route, secret passageway and everything personally, but left the design and everything to them.

The design was intentionally conspicuous to avoid any accusations of shady dealings.

Although it wouldn't really matter except it being annoying, and Jash hated annoying stuff more than anything.

"Finally," he muttered, alone in the hidden basement that was nothing more than a training area.

It was constructed from materials so resistant that even B-Rank Hunters would struggle to even scratch them.

"Really now, just how did they get this all done in one day?" Jash wondered aloud as he walked to one end of the area.

Without any reservations, he pressed a button on the wall as an opening appeared.

Passing through it, Jash finally found what he was looking for, a super comfortable chair and a simple computer.

Although it was the best one amongst all the computers, Jash just used it to surf through the information of his future classmates.

"At least they will be my future batchmates," he shrugged, filtering the information into nobility, orphans and commoners.

—Click!

In under a few minutes, he skimmed past hundreds of students belonging to nobility, not focusing on them at all.

His core focus was examinees who he could recognize based on the novel's memories and orphans with good performances or suspicious ones.

With no backing, it was extremely hard to rival the noble scions, and those who could do it had some hidden backing.

And Jash was trying to figure out such candidates and stay on guard against them.

Even though they weren't really threats in themselves, who knew what kind of suicidal techniques they learned.

"Why should I risk it when there's no need to," he mumbled before focusing on the information of the pink-haired girl.

'So she's the strategist of the hero, huh?' Jash mused, noting her feats in the Entrance Exam and how brief her role was in the novel.

Sadly, there were no arcs dedicated to her, except for her father's sudden abduction and her dying while trying to find him.

"Urgh, whatever, I have no interest in her, there's a better person suited for this," Jash grumbled and stood up.

—Tak!

He picked up his bracelet and phone after putting all the data into them, planning to peruse it later.

It had already crossed dinner time, and he would get an earful about getting close to strangers on the road and whatnot.

"At least, it's just the last two days," he sighed, returning to the second floor and exiting the building.

Jash didn't wait for anyone and directly sat in the car, commanding, "Back to the Estate."

Not waiting for any response, Jash casually sat in the backseat, looking outside the car window to enjoy the sights of Adonia, for the last time.

'Who knows what will remain of it by the time I am out of the Academy,' he thought, wanting to enjoy the ride home.

It was quite obvious that he was going to be grounded for protection and the same would be the case for Caera and Ziva.

No parent wants anything to happen to their children and the same was the case for them.

Well, calling it "no parent" would be wrong, as some had just abandoned their children for failing the Entrance Test or for other reasons.

Not like it mattered to Jash as he enjoyed the night scenery of Adonia as memories from his past life and world flashed.

They were vastly different, with his previous world having been destroyed by the lack of people being able to harness mana and use it for betterment.

'This world is at least 1000 times more advanced than my previous one,' he mused, the images overlapping within his head.

As time passed, they reached the Ramille Estate and Jash entered the living room, ready for his round of scoldings.

"Hm? No one?" he blurted out, seeing the empty living room as his steps led him to the dining room.

Again, the room was empty.

Sighing, he gave up and returned to his room for the night..

Before entering his room, however, he said to no one in particular, "Tell Emma everything I said and let her be in charge of that place."

—Click!

Opening the door, he entered it, not waiting for any response or presence to show itself.

And he directly threw himself onto the bed, choosing to get plenty of rest for the upcoming opening ceremony and the trouble that came along with it.

Naturally, he'd be getting targeted by all kinds of nasty rumors and demeaning comments, but that wasn't his concern.

'Urgh, I would have to go to school again?' he grumbled inwardly, comparing the school to the academy.

But that wasn't accurate.

The Academy taught him to fight and survive as a Hunter, while school... Well, that's pretty annoying, if you don't have friends to bunk it and have fun.

Unfortunately, Jash couldn't do the same for the academy, but it gave crazy amounts of freedom in comparison, so what did it even matter.

"Just a small sacrifice to reach your goal, Jash," he motivated himself one last time before falling asleep.

For the first time, Jash knew that this was going to be his last peaceful rest for many years to come, so he enjoyed it fully, sleeping for more than 12 hours in one go.

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