Barin

From The Heretic Knowledge Vault

Barin
Race:	Elves
Gender:	Unknown
Introduction:	2007/07/18
Appearances
Chapter 28 07/18 Chapter 30 10/10, 10/12, 10/15, 10/17, 10/19
Mentions
2007/10/22, 2008/04/02

Barin is a Peregin, just like Sarine Elle, working as a messenger for Rarune. He joins the story as part of Rarune's Honor guard when the horny cad makes a short-notice visit to Tsuirakushiti. Later he shows up (accompanied by some muscle) at Miyo Hinadori's pad to give the drunkenly heartbroken Miyo the news that Rarune and his entourage are splitting early. This, of course, coincides with the elves having bagged Meji at the diplomatic reception that night. Pure coincidence? Right...

In one of those turnabout-is-fair-play things, he himself is currently being held by the Tsuirakuans while negotiations with the elves proceed to try to win Meji's release. Based on the line that elven high mucky-muck Nisotta gives Sarine, these aren't going well, or at least the elves are ignoring them. Check out the Wikipedia article on Mokusatsu (and remember that Tsuiraku has a bunch of resemblances to real-world Japan) for a sense of why this is ironic. Sarine's Mom may think that Sarine has something to do with this state of affairs, or she may be thinking that Sarine is guilty of ... other ... indiscretions. Either way, Sarine isn't telling.