I Became an Extra Who Died Instead of the Main Character

21 – Forest (2)

Karina couldn’t believe her eyes.

“Senior…Senior.”

She assured her that nothing would happen as long as she stayed by her side before the assignment started, and she became her senior mentor.

“Senior Alfred…?”

“···”

“Grrr…”

I was knocked down in a single blow by that unknown monster.

“That… What the hell is that?”

She must have said that there were only common wild animals in the forest.

But what the hell is that monster?

Karina had to put up with her barely going out of her mind.

The whole story was like this.

In order to find the golden flower, which is the goal of this task, she was wandering around the dark forest.

“Oh, it’s so spooky in here.”

“Don’t worry, junior. Alfred is next to you.”

The person next to her who spoke confidently like this was Alfred Clark, her senior mentor.

‘You pretend to be strong again. It’s disgusting.’

I couldn’t put it into words, but Karina really didn’t like her mentor, Alfred.

First of all, there was a baron family that was a lower title than her family, Viscount Carter.

“This Alfred-sama is invincible!”

I didn’t like that he pretended to be so tough on the subject, who was at the bottom of the 2nd grade 1st class in terms of actual skills.

“You are so reassuring, senior!”

Even so, she flattered her by saying words that didn’t come out well.

Although she is from a lower family than her, her rank system at Selenium Academy was meaningless.

She looked the wrong way to her second year senior, but she could also be hated by the other seniors.

It was a no-brainer for her future student body president.

“Isn’t it? Just trust this Alfred.”

“Yes, senior.”

The level of difficulty was also very easy, as she laughed so hard even if she flattered her a little.

‘I just need to endure for about a week after this assignment is over.’

With the thought that her mentoring period was coming to an end, she had to endure a little longer, she flattered herself while enduring the rising disgust.

Brush-

It was then that something appeared in front of her and Alfred.

“Is there something there?”

“Hmm, it’s a wild animal. Let’s deal with it quickly and go.”

Alfred immediately chanted toward the bush where the sound came from.

“Fire Burst.”

Shuaak-!

With the chanting, the flames that started from Alfred’s hand exploded toward the bush.

And the sparks that headed for the bushes exploded when they hit the bushes.

Since the magic was successful, Alfred’s self-congratulations followed naturally.

“How was it, junior?”

“Awesome!”

Carina was arguing with Alfred’s compliments with her mouth, but inside her, as always, she was thinking of something completely different.

‘It seems like a sophomore can use one or two 3rd circle magic.’

Fire Burst is a 3-circle magic that creates a small explosion in a targeted area.

It was quite a powerful magic enough that the hot heat reached this place far away from the bushes, but even that seemed no big deal to Carina, who already had a bad opinion of Alfred.

‘······But, well, it’s quite usable.’

Anyway, as a result, Alfred’s magic succeeded, and only smoke filled the spot where Alfred’s magic hit.

“Then let’s get going again.”

After confirming her appearance, Karina turned around and tried to head towards the center of the forest.

“······Senior?”

Seeing Alfred motionless as if he was frozen in the spot where he cast the spell, he had no choice but to stop and stop.

“What are you doing there…”

I tried to scold Alfred for not coming from there.

“······Shh.”

Alfred stopped it by putting his index finger to his lips, and it broke down.

‘What, why are you saying that?’

She was Karina who made an expression of incomprehension when she saw Alfred suddenly acting incomprehensible, but despite Karina’s reaction, her mentor was still as hard as a stone.

‘There’s something…Something.’

In fact, Karina might not have felt it because she was a mage who had barely entered the early 2nd circle, but she felt it slightly to Alfred, who had reached the middle of the 3rd circle.

In that smoke where his magic exploded, something was moving.

‘The magic must have succeeded properly.’

She clearly confirmed with her own two eyes that the magic had succeeded and the explosion had occurred.

Even so, it was invisible to the naked eye, but it was alive and moving within the smoke.

“······Did it survive the fire burst?”

“Yes?”

His mentee, who could not understand the current situation, responded that he did not know why, but he did not have time to explain in detail in the current situation.

His instincts were telling him that the guy in the smoke was someone he couldn’t defeat with his skill.

“Miss Karina, leave this place to me for now and go somewhere else quickly…”

So she tried to send his mentee to a safe place.

“Kiyaaagh!”

At that moment, a mysterious creature broke through the smoke and rushed at him.

“Quaaah!”

“Barrier!”

Alfred was usually teased by other classmates for being in danger of being relegated to class 1.

He was in the bottom ranks of the 2nd year 1st class, but he was also a 1st class student, so he reacted immediately and chanted a barrier magic to block the monster.

Kyaaagh-

“Whew.”

Fortunately, the barrier was successfully cast and succeeded in protecting the body from the monster.

However, before I was relieved for a moment.

With the sound of something cracking, incontinence began to form in the barrier.

And as the barrier gradually began to crack, Alfred muttered nonsense.

“No way… Something powerful enough to pierce my barrier…”

“Kiyaaagh!”

With that murmur, Alfred’s barrier was finally broken.

“Senior!”

“······Cheuk.”

Her mentor couldn’t even scream and flew off, crashing into a tree and collapsing.

“Seon… Senpai?”

“·······”

She desperately called for her mentor, but Alfred had already lost consciousness from the impact of hitting the tree and the magic breaking.

“Kleur…”

And that unknown creature, she said, was coming towards her, looking around for her next prey.

“Quick… Get away…”

In her head, she was filled with a survival instinct that said she had to run away immediately, but her legs didn’t obey her words in so great fear.

“Please… Move. Move!”

Puck- Puck-

I tried to force myself to move while hitting it until my legs turned red.

Her legs seemed unwilling to move at all, as if they had escaped her control.

Kiyaaah

With a strange cry, a strange creature rushed at Karina.

As if it was the end for her, she couldn’t help but look devastated at her own end that was soon to come.

“Wind Spear!”

It was then that I heard someone’s magic chanting.

“Kiyaaagh!”

The monster, pierced by a green spear that suddenly flew in, stepped back in pain and turned its head around to find where it had come from.

“Who…”

The embarrassing thing is that Karina and her were the same, so I looked in the direction the spear flew.

“Here, you stupid monster!”

With a short stature and a very impressive green hair.

“···”

“······Lian Kindred?”

Standing there was Lian Kindred, whom she talked about daily with her friends.

*****

It was dangerous.

If Tinia-senpai’s wind spear had been a little slower, the Karina sitting over there wouldn’t be a person from this world.

It’s fortunate that that monster felt pain, but if it hadn’t felt pain, Karina would have died.

‘That… What the hell is that?’

There was no such thing as a monster appearing in the novel he remembered.

In the first place, the novel itself was about Adele’s peaceful academy life.

At that time, Senior Tinia, who was watching the mysterious creature closely, muttered and said.

“That… Looks like a monster no matter how you look at it…”

“A monster…?”

“Yes, I think so.”

I knew it was a monster.

A normal animal transformed into a bizarre form through magical powers.

It is close to impossible to find traces of the original animal, and the aggression becomes very strong, and the actual strength is several times stronger than the original strength.

It seems that it can be used here and there with its strong power and various uses, but it was okay to say that people have virtually no chance to see monsters in their lives.

That’s because the creation of monsters is legally prohibited in the empire.

Scientists clamored that they wanted to use it for research, saying that it could be used for various purposes, but the reason the royal family wouldn’t lift the ban was simple.

‘Because I can’t control it.’

Because there was almost no way to control the monsters due to their extremely strong aggression and power.

“But…Why are the monsters here…”

It was as Tinia-senpai said.

Why does such a monster exist in the forest right next to Selenium Academy?

It was impossible to occur naturally.

Because monsters can never be created naturally, they are artificial creatures created only by transforming animals with magical powers.

So, someone artificially created and released monsters in this forest.

Who? Why? Why?

I couldn’t find a single reason easily.

“Junior?”

“······Yes.”

“Does he look at us?”

As they said, the monster was staring at us with its back completely turned away from Karina, who had been interested in it until now.

“······It’s fortunate.”

“Eh? Good luck?”

“At least I won’t run into Karina now.”

“···”

As I just said, I was genuinely rather fortunate.

Seeing her still sitting like that, her legs seem to have loosened up in fear, but if we attract the monster’s attention like this, at least Karina won’t be safe.

Just when I was thinking that, I heard Tinia-senpai’s annoyed voice.

“Do you know that junior Lian is more hoggo than I thought?”

“Yes?”

“Isn’t that him?

“······That’s right.”

“But do you want to take care of me like that?”

Thinia sunbaenim’s words were correct.

Is it really necessary to help someone who deliberately disparages and puts me down?

Since I’m on an assignment anyway, I could just say I didn’t pay attention to it and let it go.

But.

“How can people live like that?”

How could a human being dori do such a thing?

Even if it’s a kid with whom I don’t get along well, he’s still my classmate, and one day I might shake off my uncomfortable feelings and become a friend.

For me, who had only a few days left to live, even people who could become friends were too precious to me.

I didn’t want to lose a prospective friend who could become a friend already.

After hearing my words, Tinia sighed as if she would not be able to stop her.

“Ehh, the best idiot in the empire is a b*tch. The best huguguman in the empire.”

“·······?”

“Don’t look at me like that. I like it.”

“Yes?”

What does that mean?

Suddenly, he cursed at me for being a hogu, and now he tells me not to look at him because he is fond of it.

“Okay, now let’s focus on that monster.”

When I made a gesture to ask for something more, she was Tinia senior who cut off even that, telling me to focus.

“·······Yes.”

Of course, it’s true that I don’t have time to chat in front of monsters, so I obediently obeyed even if I wanted to ask what he meant right away.

To prepare for her fight, Karina’s mentor senpai stretched out her hand towards the place where she had fallen, and she chanted quietly so that no one could hear.

“Absorption.”

‘Sorry. A senior whose name I don’t know.’

I didn’t commit a single sin, but I felt guilty after absorbing mana from someone who had fallen.

“Kyaaagh!”

As soon as I finished absorbing it, the monster came out and started running towards Tinia-senpai, as if the understanding was over.

“Wind Cutter!”

“Fireball.”

Tinia senior and I chanted accordingly.

Aiming at that monster running towards you.