I AM EXTRA IN A SHONEN MANGA

Rael's words echoed, calm yet absolute.

"I don't know you. But you reek of Void Shinrei… and that means you're evil."

He raised his hand, and a ripple of emerald light burst outward. Behind him.

"Seraphis."

The Echo Spirit bowed its head silently, wings folding with divine poise.

Rael's eyes glowed, and his voice cut the air like judgment itself.

"Echo Art: Mirror Shift."

He blinked, disappearing.

The Clown Man's twitching head jerked.

"Hoh…"

A sudden blur. Wind whipped. Stone cracked. Lightning flashed.

Rael appeared behind him, blade not yet manifested but his Shinrei sharpened to a cutting edge. The air itself cleaved, a line splitting across the floor.

The Clown tilted his head back unnaturally, bending like broken glass. A void-clad arm lashed out, but Rael's reflection shimmered and the strike passed through nothing.

Rael's voice rang from the side.

"You're too slow."

Lightning crackled across his hand, forming a thin line of energy that danced along his still-sealed scabbard. He slashed no blade, only lightning condensed razor-thin.

The Clown's cheek tore open, painted blood spraying like ink.

For the first time, the man's grin twitched with irritation.

"Tch… cocky little bastard."

Rael didn't smirk, didn't flinch. He simply stepped forward, movements sharp, exact. His Echo Spirit mirrored him, every strike and gesture overlapping like synchronized warriors.

"Echo art: Triple Resonance."

Wind surged, hurling debris into a spiraling gale. Stone pulsed beneath his feet, anchoring his stance like an unshakable fortress. Lightning roared, lashing outward in predatory arcs.

The three affinities bled seamlessly into his Bloom, weaving together like a symphony.

Kaen, still kneeling in pain, could only stare.

Kaen thought, "(He… he's using them all at once. Effortless. Like he was born for it… Damn it, Rael.)"

The Clown roared laughter, spinning unnaturally, his body bending in impossible angles. His Shinrei pressure surged, shadows tearing the walls apart.

Clown Man screamed, "YES! Show me more!! Cut me, burn me, shatter me—HAHAHAHAH!"

He lunged, void-oozing limbs snapping forward like whips. The air tore, the floor corroded.

Rael's emerald eyes narrowed.

"Echo Art: Mirror Bloom."

Seraphis raised its hand, and three perfect after-images of Rael split outward, each wielding a different Affinity. One whipped a gale like a blade, another raised jagged stone pillars, the third launched bolts of lightning that cracked the void apart.

The Clown snarled as the attacks slammed in unison, driving him back, tearing through his painted flesh. For the first time, his body staggered.

But then, his grin widened again, blood dripping down his chin.

"YES! YES!! YOU'RE SHINING SO BRIGHT—AND THAT MAKES IT FUN TO RIP YOU APART!"

He erupted, void shadows bursting like fireworks, slamming into the mirror projections. One shattered instantly, another crumbled under the crushing Shinrei. Only the lightning affinity held a moment longer before it, too, shattered like glass.

The Clown blurred forward, faster than before, his grin splitting wider than his face should allow.

"Caught you, golden boy!!"

Rael turned Seraphis raised its wing like a shield. The void crashed down, black tendrils biting deep into the spirit, cracks spreading across its mirrored body.

Rael clenched his teeth.

Rael thought, "(He's stronger than I calculated… but that just means— I'll cut deeper.)"

With a single motion, he drew the scabbard's seal loose.

The Shinrei within roared awake.

The air brightened as his blade finally manifested, pure light coalescing into a slender longsword that sang like truth itself.

Rael lowered it, stance flawless, Shinrei blooming with devastating intent.

"Clown. This is the end of your act."

The painted man shrieked with delight, shadows flaring wider.

"YES!! BRING DOWN THE CURTAIN!!"

The collision detonated like a thunderclap—Rael's Lumen Blade of light and the Clown's void-slick claws grinding against one another. Both were blasted back, crashing through the cracked stone chamber.

Rael staggered, coughing. Blood spattered the pristine embroidery of his white uniform.

"You are strong… I admit."

The Clown licked the blood from his own cheek, laughing like a hyena.

"YES!! THAT'S IT! YOU TASTE OF HOPE—AND HOPE MAKES THE BEST DESPAIR!!"

But Rael didn't flinch. His hand tightened around his Lumen Blade. Behind him, Seraphis, the Verdant Mirror, spread its wings wider. Its eyes, normally closed, opened fully for the first time.

The air warped trembling with a holy weight that pressed down on everyone's bones. Even the Clown twitched, his manic glee briefly faltering.

A mechanical, serene voice echoed from Seraphis itself:

"Authorization… 80%."

"Initiate—Phase Bloom."

The Echo Spirit's body shifted, growing vast and terrible. Its wings multiplied to six, each feather radiating refracted light like prisms. Its mirrored armor pulsed with divine radiance, every movement heavy with inevitability.

The survivors who could still move fell to their knees, their Shinrei quivering under the pressure. It was not just power—

it was divinity made manifest.

Rael raised his left hand, his expression calm, almost solemn. A radiant sigil carved itself into his palm, burning bright like judgment itself.

"Judicator Form."

The instant he whispered it, Seraphis merged closer into his frame. Its wings wrapped around him, light engraving itself into his uniform, turning him into a walking sigil of divine law. His eyes sharpened further each emerald iris split with mirrored fractals.

The Clown chuckled at first, but his laughter cracked into a grunt. His painted skin blistered under the pressure of Rael's Phase Bloom aura.

"Tch… your Shinrei… it's climbing too fast… What ARE you, boy?"

Rael leveled his Lumen Blade, now glowing like the core of a star.

"I am Rael Eluron of House Eluron. Verdant Mirror. Hope's heir.

And I will erase you."

[Author Note: Shinrei & the Paths of the Soul

Shinrei is not just energy but a living current, responding to the wielder's emotions. Rael's "hope" is what fuels Seraphis's purity.

By invoking Phase Bloom (a lineage-exclusive state), he is pushing his 3rd Vein Gate (Stabilization) into synergy with his Echo Spirit, granting multi-affinity dominance at lethal efficiency.

"Judicator Form" is essentially a Verdant Mirror Eclipse Precursor — an advanced state bridging between mortal Shinrei and Eclipse-class authority.]

Back in the fight—

The Clown man's shadows boiled, lashing outward like vipers. His grin split wider, cracking his painted flesh.

"YESSS! THAT'S IT! A JUDICATOR! A HOLY ONE!"

But Rael was already gone, his body dissolving into mirrored after-images. The Clown's void strikes pierced illusions, tearing nothing but light.

Rael's voice whispered behind him:

"Echo Art: Prism Judgement."

The six wings of Seraphis flared open each firing a beam of condensed Bloom, Wind, Stone, and Lightning resonance. They converged on the Clown in a prismatic crucifix of annihilation.

The painted man shrieked, void aura shattering against the blast, body twisting in grotesque contortions as he tried to contain the light.

And yet through the radiance his laughter still rang.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAH! BEAUTIFUL! THE CURTAIN'S STILL UP, LITTLE JUDGE!!"

When the light faded, the Clown's body was half-melted, dripping with void ichor. Yet his eyes glowed wild, and his grin was wider than ever.

Rael stood steady, though blood still dripped from his mouth, his Judicator Form holding.

"You laugh now, voidborn… but your act ends here."

To be continue