I Became an Extra Who Died Instead of the Main Character

25 – Fire Elemental

It’s hot.

It felt like a fire was raging inside me.

I felt like the hottest fire in hell filled my body.

I had to tremble.

And since there was something I could feel inside of me other than a burning fire.

It was mana.

A level of magic that is completely different from my own.

Having such a high level of magical power, I felt like I was being denied all the magic and magical powers I had been using.

I wonder if the master of magical power wants to teach me that this is what fire magic is!

I felt such a powerful magic within me.

‘Human, is that your enemy?’

Intense electrical sounds echoing in his head along with him.

It was a spirit that was the owner of the abnormal phenomena occurring in my body.

And in the midst of this hectic situation, I muttered quietly.

“······I didn’t expect it to be real.”

To be honest, I really didn’t think I could succeed.

Unlike the normal mana absorption I’ve been doing so far, this is the first time I’ve absorbed my own mana.

You could say it was half a gamble.

But there was no other way than this gamble.

In this situation, seniors Adele and Tinia are no match for that monster.

Because there was no one other than me who could step out.

Because it was so clear that if I didn’t act, everyone in this forest would be torn to pieces by that monster.

The rat, facing a crisis, absorbed Adele’s unique magical power with the feeling of biting the cat.

If it had failed, everyone would have died, but fortunately, the gamble with everyone’s lives as collateral was a success, and the price of success was the strength that I can now feel within myself.

To be honest, after I succeeded in absorbing Adele’s inherent magic, nothing special happened.

Before returning, I just remembered the article that interviewed Adele about his experience when he summoned the spirit for the first time.

At that time, I didn’t appear in front of Adele because I was gripped with guilt for hurting her, but I listened intently to the news of Adele behind the scenes.

After Adele awakened his inherent magical power, he also knew how to summon the spirits.

I don’t have anything to say if you ask why you remember that and say you sound like a stalker.

At the time, I wanted to see Adele in that way.

Anyway, I succeeded in summoning the spirit, and it seemed that I could defeat that monster with the power of the summoned spirit.

‘I refuse. Contractor.’

“······What?”

‘He said he would refuse the contractor’s request.’

Until the spirit I summoned didn’t listen to me.

***

“Why, why don’t you help?”

I couldn’t understand the spirit that didn’t listen to me.

No, it was just impossible to understand the situation itself with my head.

Are you saying that the contracted spirit won’t listen to the contracted person’s request?

‘Adele’s spirit… Would never have been like this.’

In an interview with Adele I read in the past, it was said that the spirit who had made the contract had been kind to the contractor from the beginning, and had granted all of his requests.

By the way… Why the hell is this guy?

I wondered and asked, and the spirit relayed the message by telephony.

‘I can’t see the contractor I just signed die right in front of my eyes.’

“······Can’t you see me die?”

I’m dying. What is that all of a sudden…

‘······· Ah.’

At that time, a thought crossed my mind.

“······You know my condition too.”

This spirit who made a contract with me must also be aware of my current physical condition.

And as if my thoughts were correct, a positive message came through.

‘Yes. If I borrow my strength and fight against that guy, the contractor will die with a probability of over 80%.’

After hearing that far, I could understand the spirit’s words that he would not help me.

If you fight, you’ll die with such a high probability, you wouldn’t want to risk the life of the person who just signed the contract on such a gamble.

But I had something to say about that part.

“······If I don’t fight, everyone in this forest will die, including me.”

Even if I don’t fight to save myself, it’s certain that everyone, including me, will eventually die to Professor Tillion and that monster.

My opinion was that I would at least try to fight if I was going to die like that.

However, the spirit snorted at my thoughts and said,

‘Ha, did I look like a spirit that couldn’t save even a single contractor?’

“Can you get out of this situation?”

‘Yes. Other humans don’t know, but I’m not a spirit that can’t protect even a contractor.’

In short, it meant that I could take responsibility and save at least one student, even if I didn’t know about the other students who had collapsed.

I should have been moved by the spirit’s words that he would protect me unconditionally, but instead I chose to speak coldly.

“······What’s the use of that?”

‘What’s the reaction like, this body said it would save the contractor.’

It was an innocent question, as if he sincerely didn’t understand why I was angry.

“Let’s say I get out of here alive. Then what about the others?”

‘Are other people important? Isn’t it enough for the contractor to live?’

From the perspective of the spirit, that thought was not incomprehensible.

If you fight now, you say that you will save me, who is almost certain to die, but you won’t understand me getting angry at those words.

“······Really?”

But.

“Then I’ll try it myself.”

What was important to me right now was not my comfort or safety.

Senior Tinia behind me, the fallen Class 1 students and mentor seniors.

And even Adele, who was attacked instead of me and fell bleeding.

All of them were more important than myself.

As soon as he hinted that he would fight alone if he didn’t help, the spirit immediately freaked out.

‘Are you crazy? If he fought in that state… No, if I didn’t help him in the first place, there would be no chance of winning.’

The spirit was right.

Even if my body was filled with high-level magic power, it was all useless if I didn’t know how to use it.

The magic I’ve been using so far is at most 2nd circle magic, so I can’t handle it properly.

And there was also my physical condition, not knowing when I would break down.

During the entrance exam, when I accidentally used the 4th circle magic, Inferno, I passed out and lay in the nursery room all day.

If you use this magic filled with higher mana than Inferno.

I really couldn’t figure out what would happen to my body.

“······Still. We have to do it.”

But despite these reasons not to fight, I did not give up fighting.

As I said before, the important thing to me is not myself.

I was determined to fight with only that one thought.

“Fire Spear.”

After a brief chant, I felt the spear of blazing fire in my hand.

It wasn’t hot.

Because more heat than this was running through my body.

Fire with heat. Did you say that hot things are treated with hot things?

As I prepared to fight, I heard the spirit’s transmission again.

‘… Are you really going to fight?’

“·······Uh.”

‘Even if the contractor dies unconditionally in a fight?’

I will die unconditionally…

I thought about death for a moment and let out a smirk.

“I’ve already died once.”

If you think about it, I was already dead once.

A lonely and useless death with only one person watching over it.

“If you die fighting like this now, at least it won’t be a useless death.”

If you pass the time fighting, Professor Javert and the other professors will notice that something is wrong in the forest and come to rescue the students.

A death worthless like that.

I was already ready to accept it.

From the time I started this life again.

‘Maybe I returned to protect Adele and the other students.’

Suddenly, I had an idea.

After hearing my answer, the spirit sighed and said.

‘I don’t know what you mean when you say you’ve already died once… But it really can’t be helped.’

No matter how much I think about it, I think I heard that I picked the wrong contractor… It must be because of my mood.

Shuuu-

After the spirit’s words, I felt another energy in my body.

“This is…”

It’s not completely different from the energy I’ve felt so far.

If it felt like hot iron that hadn’t been refined before, now it feels like holding a completely refined iron sword.

‘I can’t help but fight if I threaten you with such words.’

“Thank you.”

‘Ehh.’

The spirit that has been sighing ever since.

To be honest, it was a little unexpected.

‘I thought you wouldn’t help me because you said no.’

I thought he wouldn’t help me while trying to stop me until the end, asking why I was committing suicide.

When you said earlier that you would only save me, I thought you signed a contract with a bloodless spirit.

Looking at the situation like this, it seems that he did it because he was sincerely worried about me, the contractor, and didn’t want me to die.

So I expressed my sincere gratitude to the spirit whose name I did not yet know.

“Thank you, unknown fire spirit.”

‘Ifrit.’

“······What?”

‘Ifrit. That is my name.’

With those words, a young-looking girl dressed entirely in red appeared in front of me.

That moment was the first meeting between me and Ifrit.

It was the beginning of a counterattack towards Professor Tillian, who was staring at this side with a frowning expression, not knowing what it was.