I Became an Extra Who Died Instead of the Main Character

34 – Discovery (1)

“Then, shall we go?”

“Huh? Uh…”

Once I got my permission, Adele grabbed my hand and started to stride.

At the same time, in Adele’s right hand, which was not holding her hand, the cane that disappeared as she entered the classroom reappeared.

Perhaps it appeared spontaneously after realizing that I was moving from one classroom to another.

This might be a bigger stick than I thought.

“······Cane?”

For a moment, admiring the cane’s superior performance than I thought, Adele, who was walking away holding my hand, seemed to have discovered the cane that had suddenly appeared.

“Somehow it looks cool…”

Of course, if I openly mentioned the use of the cane, it would be the same as admitting something about my eyesight, so I roughly dismissed it as an accessory.

“Yes, I think it’s cool.”

Fortunately, Adele seemed to let it pass without much thought.

‘I almost got caught.’

Sure. It almost took a day after I started pretending to be fine. To the person I hated the most.

As I was being led by Adele by the hand, I heard a buzz around me.

“Wow, it’s the Princess of Listonia.”

“I’ve only heard of it…But I think I know why they praise it so much.”

“You are so pretty…”

Although it was mostly praised by Adele, the popular figure of the academy.

“Who’s that bastard next to you?”

“Don’t you know? It’s Lian Kindred.”

“Oh, is that crazy?”

Sometimes I heard a story about me being a popular person in a different sense.

I was worried that Adele might be getting caught again because of me, so I called to Adele in a cautious voice.

“Me, Adele?”

“Why are you calling me, Lian?”

“Is it okay to walk like this?”

“······What do you mean by that?”

Adele just asked back as if she really didn’t know what I was talking about.

I’m frustrated with such Adele, and I said it quite bluntly.

“Other students gossip… What if bad rumors spread about you because of me?”

Honestly, I always thought that there were good rumors and bad rumors.

As there is light, there is shadow, and where there is light, there is negative. When there is good news, it is natural for bad news to arise.

But Adele’s relationship with me was another case.

The relationship between me, who has only abnormally bad rumors, and Adele, who has only abnormally good rumors.

To put it simply, most of the bad rumors about Adele were my fault.

I hear bad rumors that I don’t have to hear because of my existence. As I was keenly aware of this fact, I couldn’t easily pass over the students’ hum.

“······Really?”

“Yes. I’m avoiding you because of me…”

Adele seemed to agree with my story, so I was excited and tried to add more words.

“But, Ryan. I told you the other day.”

The words just stopped.

Perhaps it was my misunderstanding that seemed to agree. hahahaha.

“Anyone who spreads bad rumors about me like this is no longer my person.”

“···”

“So don’t pay attention to unnecessary things and just follow me.”

“Yes.”

After hearing my answer, Adele seemed to be satisfied and began to walk even more vigorously.

‘······Is it your preference to live in captivity as a contractor?’

I decided to ignore Ifrit’s words at this time.

I’m not living in captivity. Maybe…

***

The place Adele led me to was in a cool building.

Is it possible to maintain the cooling magic all the time? The inside of the building was so cool that I forgot how fast I had just walked.

As I was enjoying the coolness for a while, I heard Adele’s voice in front of me, who let go of my hand and disappeared.

“Sit here, Ryan.”

Sit here. It was a very easy thing to do, just go to the seat and sit down.

‘······Ifrit? Are there any obstacles ahead?’

To me, it was about the same level of difficulty as asking a 2nd-circle magician to succeed in a 3rd-circle magic.

After hearing my example, Ifrit asked what the problem was.

‘Hasn’t it already succeeded?’

Of course, as Ifrit said, it is true that I succeeded in the 6th circle magic, which far surpassed the 3rd circle magic, with the body of a 2nd circle magician, but I am suffering these terrible aftereffects thanks to that.

It was an unchanging fact that it was a very difficult job.

‘······Be careful only with the desk on the right.’

After hearing that, Ifrit spoke as if he was very pitiful.

‘Thank you so much.’

I was just thankful that hearing Ifrit’s pitiful voice was a hundred times better than getting my eyesight.

After struggling to sit down like that, Adele explained about this place.

“It’s the reading room of the academy. It’s usually always full of people, but as you can see, there aren’t many students during lunchtime, so I stop by every once in a while.”

“······It was a reading room.”

“Is this your first time with Lian?”

“Oh, come first.”

Unlike all the lies I’ve been telling so far, this is really true.

I only saw the reading room at the academy when I was walking around with Tinia-senpai, but I didn’t go into it.

Somehow, it was very cool. You keep the cooling magic like this so that students can study comfortably.

‘It’s nice to be cool.’

‘······So.’

Like Ifrit’s exclamation, it seemed like he had come to know a pretty good place.

Sometimes I thought I should come when it was hot, so I asked Adele without thinking.

“So… What do you want to talk about?”

An important question, if it is important, posed without much thought.

Because there’s no way someone as smart as Adele would call me out for a casual talk. I really wondered why they called me.

“······Still straightforward in that respect.”

“···”

Why is it that I feel as if I am longing for something in Adele’s low voice?

I was caught up in a feeling I didn’t know and couldn’t answer, so Adele continued.

“I want to tell you… A real story.”

“······Real story?”

“Uh, a real story. A real story that we don’t hide from each other.”

When I heard that, I suddenly felt uneasiness.

That sentence rather than the word real story. That sentence, ‘without hiding from each other’, caught my heart.

It sounds like Adele already knows something.

And my prediction soon turned out to be true.

“Undine, come out.”

“Did you call, master?”

Adele summoned Undine, her own spirit, with her own magical power.

I couldn’t confirm if the spirit called Undine really came out because of my eyesight.

I could tell that Adele’s spirit had been summoned by hearing another sudden voice and feeling the magic of the spirit that I had learned through Ifrit.

And I can hear Adele’s voice, which is a bit low.

“Can you call me too, Ryan?”

“······What do you mean?”

Actually, I knew what Adele was asking for from the time she called Undine.

However, she denies that she was caught, and it is the last flipper or the last push.

I could see it as just fear that Adele found out about my abilities.

But Adele said bluntly, as if he wouldn’t give me a chance to run away.

“Your spirit. I miss you.”

“···”

I was able to stick out my flippers until just now, but now I really don’t have time to run away.

I felt like a mouse running away from a cat and being driven to a dead end.

But no matter how many times I felt this way, the situation in front of me wouldn’t change. Giving up on running away any longer, he called for Ifrit.

“······Ifrit.”

“You got caught after all. Contractor.”

Ifrit spoke calmly as if nothing had happened, but I, connected to Ifrit through the line of a contract, could see that Ifrit was also in a very flustered state right now.

‘······Wouldn’t it have been better not to get caught?’

Sure. How did you get it

I guess I did it too openly in the forest.

In that forest full of danger, I almost openly absorbed Adele’s inherent magic.

Of course, the sound I chanted was so low that I don’t think Adele could hear it, but since Adele also had a spirit called Undine next to her, it was easy to see that my magical powers had changed.

I could also sense that Adele had summoned the spirit without seeing it with my own eyes.

‘But what… I couldn’t help it.’

That doesn’t mean I regret my actions at the time or anything like that.

If I hadn’t taken that action then, the reality I’m talking to Adele here wouldn’t exist.

“Lian’s spirit looks like that.”

“Amazing, Master!”

As if I didn’t know that my head was so confused, Adele and her spirit were calmly talking about how amazing it was.

Now that Ifrit’s true identity was revealed, this was my next thought.

‘How far did they get caught?’

How far did all my lies go?

If only Ifrit had been caught, I could have simply thought that I had awakened the same unique magic as Adele.

However, if not only that, but my unique magic, ‘absorption’, was caught, the words have changed enough.

Because I was in a situation where they would find out that I absorbed Adele’s disease.

There was no way Adele, who is usually meticulous, would not take the disappearance of her disease lightly, and in the midst of that, if she found out that my inherent magical power was ‘absorption’.

It was really a piece of cake to find out that Ryan Kindred took her bottle.

If there is a fortunate fact, it is that the probability that Adele will know the identity of my unique magical power is very low.

Before returning, I didn’t use absorption itself except for absorbing Adele’s disease, and after returning, I haven’t been caught using absorption yet.

The odds of knowing that Adele was ‘absorption’ were slim.

‘Isn’t that simply the wish of the contractor?’

‘······That’s right.’

But as Ifrit said, this is just my wish.

If for some reason Adele already knew about my unique magic. It was as if everything had already been taken.

Not only Ifrit, but all of the fact that she absorbed Adele’s disease.

And, the foreboding always came true.

“Did that spirit called Ifrit also take my magical power and make a contract?”

“···”

“Like you took my bottle.”

Princess Adele of Listonia.

Praised as the most beautiful in the empire, she is my undeserved fiancé.

I knew the identity of my unique magical power.