I Became an Extra Who Died Instead of the Main Character

30 – Aftermath (3)

The next day.

As soon as the day dawned, I went to the principal’s office with the help of Ifrit.

Although I didn’t have any tools like a cane to help me when I was walking.

“That side is the wall.”

“Not this way! Turn a little more to the right!”

Although it’s tricky, thanks to Ifrit who became my personal guide, I was able to reach the principal’s office without much difficulty.

It was a moment when I realized once again how important Ifrit is.

“Welcome, student Lian.”

When I arrived at the principal’s office, I was greeted by the principal’s voice that I heard in the health room yesterday.

At first, Principal Lapis greeted me quite warmly.

“······Loss of sight?”

After I explained everything, my attitude changed 180 degrees.

Of course, I didn’t talk about Ifrit’s story or Explosion or something related to my own hidden magical power, I just said that it happened while I was fighting monsters in the forest.

To the principal who reacts as if he heard something he didn’t hear.

“hahahaha… I don’t know why.”

I couldn’t help but laugh awkwardly.

“Now the laughter… Ha ha…”

Of course, the principal made a heart-thumping sound as if he was frustrated when he saw me like that.

That did not solve the problem with my eyesight.

Since the principal knew that, he let out a deep sigh and moved on.

“······Is there any way to cure it?”

“It would be correct to assume that there is no right now.”

According to Ifrit’s words, I said that I would come back because there was no problem with my eyesight in my body itself, but I didn’t know exactly when, so I said no.

“Whew…”

After hearing my words, Principal Lapis sighed even louder.

‘······Shouldn’t have said there was a way to fix it, even if it wasn’t clear.’

When I started to feel regret for what I said for a while, the principal continued.

“Then. How can I help Lian?”

“······Is there anything the principal can help me with?”

“Of course. Even if it is impossible to improve one’s eyesight, there are tools that can help a blind person.”

Oh…

A tool for the visually impaired. I’m just here to tell you about my current situation, but I feel like I’ve received unexpected help.

“Please sit here for a moment.”

The principal who told me to wait a moment opened the door and headed somewhere.

And when the principal disappeared, Ifrit, who had been quiet while the principal was there, started talking.

“The contractor must have been blind, so he couldn’t see it… But when that woman, the principal, said that her contractor had lost her eyesight, she really did look like she had seen a ghost.”

“······Really?”

It’s a pity I didn’t see that.

The expression on which the 6th-circle archmage saw a ghost. It’s not something you see very often.

When I regretted not having witnessed the principal’s expression, I suddenly became curious about Ifrit’s feeling when he first saw the 6th circle mage.

“Ifrit, what do you think of the principal?”

“Are you referring to the woman herself, or are you asking about her magical achievements?”

“Um… Both?”

Hmm… After making a sound like he was thinking for a while, Ifrit released his thoughts as if he had exhausted his thoughts.

“First of all, you seem to be the most outstanding human being I’ve ever seen.”

“Isn’t it?”

This was the reaction I expected.

Until now, the only humans Ifrit had seen were me, the other class 1 students, and their mentors.

“And… The woman herself…”

“On its own?”

“He pretends to be full of charisma, but when you look at him, you think he’s an idiot.”

“···”

To think that Principal Lapis, the 6th Circle Archmage and the most powerful member of Selenium Academy, is an idiot.

‘I can’t match at all.’

Principal Lapis and an idiot. It was a really odd combination.

The first thing I thought was that it was a really unsuitable combination, but thinking about it a little more, I didn’t think Ifrit’s words were completely wrong.

“······Looking at how I acted like an idiot without noticing my condition yesterday…”

The 6th circle archmage and the academy principal couldn’t even figure out the student’s physical condition.

If this is the case, isn’t the principal really an idiot?

“You waited a long time, didn’t you?”

Fortunately(?) Principal Lapis returned before the serious contemplation of whether or not the principal was an idiot was over.

“No.”

I greeted the principal as if nothing had happened, hiding the fact that I had been thinking about it until recently.

Fortunately, the headmaster didn’t seem to notice that I had such an irreverent concern.

“I brought a few of them… Can’t you see them?”

“······That’s right.”

“Let me explain in words.”

To be honest, I also had a problem with what to do after receiving it, but when the principal said he would kindly explain, I quickly listened and focused.

“The first is colored lenses.”

“Did you say color…Lenses?”

For a moment, I thought I had heard it wrong.

Certainly, the color lenses I know are not for the visually impaired, but are used to decorate one’s own appearance.

Color lenses were a tool used to change the color of one’s own eyes by putting magical energy into water and making it the desired color, and fitting it into the eyes.

“I don’t know about student Lian right now… But student Lian’s eyes, which were originally red, have turned gray.”

“······Is that true?”

My eyes are gray now?

It was the first time I had heard of it. No, since I’ve been confined to the health room ever since I came back from the forest, is it natural?

‘That woman is right. Right now, the contractor’s eyes are stained gray.’

I had no choice but to believe that the words of the headmaster, who were full of confidence, were conveyed to Ifrit’s testimony.

“Maybe when Ryan lost her eyesight, the color of her eyes also changed, so I prepared it. If you don’t mind, it’s a tool you don’t need to use, honestly.”

Is that why you don’t use it? To the principal who asked after that, she answered after thinking for a while.

“No.”

“Then here. Keep your hands out. I’ll bring them up.”

As the principal said, I was waiting for a while with my hand outstretched, and I felt something on my palm.

When I received the lens case, Principal Lapis asked me curiously.

“But you worried as if you wouldn’t receive it, but in the end you did. Is there any reason you were worried?”

“There’s no particular reason…”

“······So what?”

The principal passed over as if he was bland, but in fact, there was a separate reason for worrying.

At first, I wondered if I had to hide my changed eye color, but there was a reason I had to hide it.

The problem was how other people would react to the color of my eyes.

If Tinia-senpai or Adele see my changed eye color and begin to question the reason, can I stop talking about my eyesight?

Not at all.

No matter how much Ifrit continues to help me by my side, there will of course be some limitations unless I see it myself.

It was obvious that if I was caught that there was something wrong with my eyesight, I would have to explain why my eyesight was like that.

To talk about why my eyesight became like that, I would have to talk about my own magical power and Adele’s chronic illness that is currently progressing in my body, but I really didn’t want to.

It’s not easy to believe even if you say that, and if you believed it, I didn’t want to see you worried and sad about me.

I didn’t want to see Tinia-senpai, whom I’ve become quite close with, especially Adele, who looked sad or hurt.

So, in order not to get caught, I received a colored lens case.

“······I don’t even have to hug you, right?”

While I was turning the lens case by hand while thinking about this and that, Principal Lapis said dully.

“No. I can do this much.”

I was lost in my thoughts for a while, but thanks to those words, I was able to get out of my thoughts.

I tried hard to find the opening part of the case by rolling it around with my hand, and as a result of that effort, the lens case opened with a clicking sound.

“Lian’s eye color is third from the left.”

“Thank you.”

Thanks to the principal, I was able to find lenses more easily.

‘Well, it’s really the same color as the original contractor’s eyes.’

I didn’t forget to ask Ifrit to check it out just in case.

Perhaps he was satisfied with my contact lenses, the principal said with a nod.

“Next is a cane that will help Ryan when he walks.”

Okay, get it here. With the words, I felt something being squeezed into my hand.

When I rubbed it with my hand, I could tell that it was made of wood that vividly conveyed the feeling of annual rings.

I couldn’t see it myself, but I was a little surprised to realize that this wand was quite expensive just by feeling it.

“How on earth do these wands exist in schools?”

“This isn’t the first time a student with vision problems has been admitted to the academy.”

Well, it’s Selenium Academy where so many different people enter. There wasn’t even a single person with vision problems.

“The wand will give Lian a detailed route to follow along with his school schedule.”

Oh…

Is it some kind of navigation?

Of course, I already had an Ifrit, but as I said earlier, there is definitely a limit to receiving Ifrit’s help, so it didn’t seem like there was anything wrong with having it.

After handing me the cane, the principal clapped and said as if he really had nothing left to give me.

“That’s all I have to offer. It’s time for the first period to start soon, so please hurry up and go to class.”

“Thanks for your help.”

I expressed my sincere gratitude once again,

“Then see you next time, student Lian.”

Leaving behind the principal’s farewell message, I opened the door to the principal’s office and left.

******

The principal’s office after Lian left.

“Whew.”

Today too, Principal Lapis sighed over and over again.

She usually sighs often, but today she has a reason to rest even more.

That’s when Lian Kindred brought the news that she had lost her eyesight since he had been in and out of the woods.

“At least it’s fortunate that I’m a Lian student.”

Lian’s family, the Kindred family, treats Lian almost as a child, which was rather fortunate.

If a noble student other than Lian had suffered something like this, Selenium Academy would have had to accept the protest of that noble family with all its might.

“Eww…”

I completely forgot about the student who killed Professor Tillian, which I was supposed to ask when Lian came, and sighed in the reality of the piling up of work.