I Became an Extra Who Died Instead of the Main Character

12 – An Unexpected Reunion

Still.

In this uncomfortable silence, you can even hear the footsteps of ants crawling around.

It was impossible for insects like ants to exist in the always-neat Selenium Academy, but the silence was so heavy that I wished I could hear at least the sound of ants crawling.

The situation that befell me was devastating.

I couldn’t get used to that gaze as if I was looking at something disgusting.

Including my previous life, I’ve always lived with those gazes except when I was young, but every time I received it, it felt like my heart was being stabbed by a sharp, well-forged sword.

And that feeling was never pleasant.

‘·······What should we do?’

Now, let’s think about it.

Human beings are creatures that think naturally, and are specialized in getting out of difficult situations through thinking.

How will I look now to the homeroom teacher and other class 1 students?

“···”

No matter how you look at it, you must look like the world’s greatest madman.

It’s shameful that a guy who originally had a bad reputation and rumors passed out while taking the entrance exam, but a guy who skipped classes 1-3 because he fainted entered the 4th period and banged as if he was about to break down the door. Open with a sound?

This was an eccentricity that was hard to comprehend with the common sense of ordinary people.

‘It’s kind of sad that I did such an eccentric.’

“Yes, Lian Kindred?”

In the waves of silence where no one can speak easily, the person who rescued me was a homeroom teacher whose name I did not yet know.

“Yes? Yes.”

“Just about to start introducing themselves. Sit down at the four empty seats.”

“······Yes.”

It was not difficult to find my place.

I took a quick glance through the window outside, and the seat next to Tinia-senpai, who was still giving me a stinging glance, was sitting in my seat.

Of course, when I went to my seat and sat down, I heard a clear but irritated voice from the seat next to me.

“It’s been a while? Hu.Bae.”

“···”

“I’d like to ask you what happened right now, but I’ll hold back since you’re starting to introduce yourself.”

Fortunately, thanks to self-introduction, my punishment was postponed until later, and I was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

“Don’t sigh. I’m going to peck at you right after this class.”

“·······Yes.”

Although I was immediately blocked.

***

After this and that commotion was over, the atmosphere in the classroom went back to how it was before I entered.

“As I said before, this time we will each have time to introduce ourselves.”

As soon as the homeroom teacher finished speaking, there was a student who immediately raised his hand.

“Your name is… Philip Edgar?”

“Yes, this is Philip Edgar.”

“Yes, Edgar. What did you raise your hand for? Do you have any questions?”

The student named Philip Edgar, who raised his hand, was a guy I was very familiar with.

‘Philip… Did he enter the academy too?’

The me of the past, that is to say, before I was rehabilitated, the bad friend I hung out with the longest was Philip.

A villainous aristocrat that typically appears in fiction. Is there any sentence that can describe the person named Philip Edgar better than this?

Born in the Edgar family, which differentiated commoners and nobles the most, Philip inherited the family’s idea of discriminating against commoners and exalting nobles, and became a person of the Edgar family itself.

Those who ignore commoners and think that nobles are a different race from commoners.

Philip, who is immersed in the idea of the chosen people, was a good friend to me in the past.

In the past, when my family almost abandoned me, I had a bad heart and did everything, and I was a very good tool for Philip.

He is a tool that allows you to achieve what you want without having to put your hands on it yourself.

For Philip, Lian Kindred was the best tool.

I was somewhat aware that Philip was using me for his own desires, but I didn’t care about that at the time.

I was only concentrating on figuring out how to do more harm to my family, and realizing the idea I had devised.

However, the relationship between these tools and the user is severed as soon as I wake up.

The first thing I did after realizing that this place was in a novel was to get rid of guys like Philip.

Philip seemed taken aback when I suddenly didn’t answer and ignored him, but he quickly gave up and walked away.

‘Instead, he gave me a present as a false accusation that he went to Changgwan.’

Perhaps they are getting revenge on me for suddenly cutting them off, but they framed me for not even setting foot in an entertainment district.

In this way, the relationship between me and Philip was worse than not knowing.

To me, Philip is a remnant of the past that needs to be cut off, and to Philip, Lian Kindred is just a hypocrite who betrays herself and other young children and pretends to be nice.

Like water and oil that cannot be mixed, he was a person who would never mix with me, who was trying to clear up the past of dirty oil and change into clean water.

“This is a question I’ve been wanting to ask for a long time, but I don’t have the time to ask a question, so I’ll ask it now.”

“Yes, if you have any questions, ask.”

After the homeroom teacher’s permission was granted, Philip immediately brought up his words.

“Are you going to have to take classes in the same classroom as commoners for the next three years?”

“······Can I ask what your intention is?”

“It is literally. The difference between nobles and commoners is as great as heaven and earth. How can you take classes in the same space and take various tests in the same space?”

The words that came out of Philip’s mouth were more differentiated than common people’s thoughts.

‘Does that mean you don’t want to be in the same room with a commoner?’

Class 1 had a higher percentage of nobles who had relatively more study opportunities as it was the best class in the academy.

Even so, it wasn’t that there weren’t any students from commoners, so he must have thought this point badly.

“So you’re saying you can’t have a class with a commoner?”

“Yes, I mean measures such as kicking out commoners…”

“Then you can leave.”

“·······Yes?”

He wondered if he had heard it wrong, and the expression on Philip’s face was worth seeing as he looked back at his homeroom teacher.

A mixed expression of bewilderment and emotion, such as denying the reality whether he heard what he heard correctly.

I was asking my homeroom teacher with that expression.

Am I really listening correctly?

“Have you heard? Then I’ll tell you again. If you don’t like the rules of this academy, you can give up.”

But Philip heard it right, and the chilly homeroom teacher’s voice was not different from what he had just heard.

“Why…? Why are you defending the commoners? If you’re an academy teacher, of course you should take care of the nobles rather than the commoners…”

“Stop it.”

Philip’s unjust voice was weakly blocked by the homeroom teacher’s two-letter words.

“Philip Edgar, there are two things you are mistaken about.”

“First, in this Selenium Academy, it is only your own ability that determines your ability, not family, appearance, or economic power. It doesn’t matter at all whether you are a noble or a commoner, as you just said.”

The homeroom teacher, who watched Philip for a moment with a dumbfounded expression, continued the second reason.

“Second, this teacher is not an aristocrat.”

At the homeroom teacher’s bombshell declaration, not only Philip, who was standing in front of him, but everyone in the class felt a bit surprised.

Sugun Sugun-

“The homeroom teacher is a commoner?”

“Why? Doesn’t it really matter?”

“It doesn’t really matter… But can we learn anything from the common people?”

The whispers and gazes that were directed at me earlier were directed at the homeroom teacher this time.

Nevertheless, the unknown homeroom teacher spoke without hesitation even though so many people were staring at him at once.

“This teacher works here with no family background or other backgrounds, only on the recommendation of the principal based on his skills.”

“If there’s a fool who can’t even trust the principal’s opinion, raise her hand.”

The whispers that had been whispered until just now had disappeared, and everyone was concentrating only on the homeroom teacher’s words.

Even if they ignored the commoner teacher, everyone seemed to have no doubts about the principal, a 6th-circle magician.

“Then, shall we begin by introducing ourselves?”

“My name is Javert. As I just said, I’m a commoner, and I’ll be your homeroom teacher for about a year. Please take good care of me.”

Clap clap clap-!

As if the homeroom teacher, who confidently introduced himself without hesitation, was impressed, the students except Philip clapped.

“Then, come out from the front left and introduce yourself.”

As soon as those words were over, the self-introductions of the first-year class 1 students began.

“Hello, my name is Karina Carter. As her name suggests, I was born into the Baron Carter family. Her main magic is ice magic.”

“My name is Magnus Fire Wall. Her main magic is fire magic.”

“My name is…”

Clap clap clap-

Every time a student introduced himself, applause spread, and even when the student from the commoners finished his introduction, the applause was smaller than the other students (probably due to Philip’s influence), but everyone clapped. .

And as the order passed, it was Adele’s turn.

“I am Adel Listonia of the Ristonia family. The magic I use mainly is water magic through Undine. Thank you very much.”

Clap clap clap-!

The loudest applause ever resounded, and it could be seen that the applause was a testament to the greatness of the Listonian family and Adele.

“Next, Lian Kindred.”

And after a few other students finished asking additional questions, it was my turn.

“······This is Lian Kindred. My main magic is fire magic.”

Clap clap-

After my usual, ordinary self-introduction, I was greeted with the smallest applause I’ve ever heard.

At a cursory glance, Adele was the only one who clapped hard, and since it would be clear that such Adele was acting in front of other people, it was safe to say that no one actually clapped for me.

For reference, we decided not to talk about unique magic unless it was unavoidable.

I almost lost my reason, but first of all my goal is to enjoy a normal academy life like everyone else.

I think it’s already a bit late, but if we work hard even now, we can achieve it.

“Okay, this is how everyone’s self-introduction ended. These are the faces we’ll have to see in the classroom for the next six months, so I hope you can memorize their names and get to know them.”

So it seemed that the first morning class of the academy was coming to an end after the 4th period, but when I looked around the classroom, I felt something strange.

“Senior, isn’t something strange?”

“What is it?”

“···”

Tinia-senpai’s voice was very calm, but it was fortunate that he responded.

“We only had 19 people in total to introduce themselves, but everyone in the class finished introducing themselves.”

“Ah, Professor Javert told me about that earlier when my juniors weren’t around.”

The story I heard from senior Tinia was more surprising than I thought.

“You said you decided not to send a notice from the academy?”

“Yes, it’s unusual, isn’t it?”

A student who should have come initially expressed his intention to come, but later changed his opinion saying that he would not go.

That’s why the semester started without finding a replacement.

And that this period is over and it is time for the replacement to arrive.

It didn’t sound like much when I heard it, but the reason I was surprised was simple.

‘Is there such a thing in the first place?’

As far as I remember, this was not in the original work.

I tried diligently to search my memory for a development that was different from the one I knew, but there were hardly any memories of the original story that came to mind.

Smart-

While I was trying to remember what had happened, I heard a knock at the front door of the classroom.

“Come in.”

Drreuk-

At Professor Javert’s request to come in, the door opened and someone entered.

Perhaps he hasn’t received his school uniform yet, he’s wearing a purple suit instead of the academy uniform.

It was an impressive woman with long black hair mixed with purple that went very well with such purple clothes.

And when I saw Professor Javert’s introduction and the woman’s face, I couldn’t help but be surprised.

“Let me introduce you. I am Stella Dragnis, who entered the school as a substitute for the student who should have come.”

“Hello, I’m Stella Dragnis from the Marquess of Dragnis.”

Because her name and her face were so familiar to me.

Because even his voice gave off a mysterious feeling and was very similar to the person I knew.

“Stella…?”

Stella Dragnis, who entered as a substitute, looked exactly like my maid, Stella, who should be at Count Kindred’s house by now.