I Became an Extra Who Died Instead of the Main Character

4 – First Steps

In the carriage to the academy.

I was having a very boring time in this carriage with the only people there being the coachman and me.

“It’s too expensive, but even if it wasn’t, I’d go by teleport.”

If you use teleport, a circle 5 magic, you can get to the academy right away without having to spend such a boring time.

Unfortunately, however, among Count Kindred’s connections, there were no wizards with a level of 5 or higher, and it was too expensive to move through a teleport professional wizard.

The price varies depending on the wizard, but in general, you had to pay around 100 gold.

Before I was branded as an idiot, the allowance I received was 15 gold per month, so it was a very expensive fee.

Teleport magic requires a lot of mana, so once you use it, you won’t be able to use teleport again for about 3 days.

“But 100 gold is a bit…”

I was branded as an idiot and the allowance given to me by the Huron family was suddenly cut off, so it was impossible for me to use teleport.

“······Let’s make a plan for now.”

It took at least 5 hours from Count Kindred’s residence to ‘Selenium’, the capital of the empire where the academy is located, so it seemed like he would be able to endure the tedious time by making plans for the future.

“How should I do the placement test…”

The first trouble was the placement test.

Academy operates a grading system that divides students according to their ability.

The criteria for accepting new students is that the academy directly selects students and sends an admission notice.

In this way, after receiving freshmen each year, ranks are assigned according to individual skills, and classes are divided according to the ranks.

Class 1 from 1st to 20th, 2nd class from 21st to 39th, and so on.

And at the end of each semester, the ranking match will be held again and the class placement test will be conducted.

If you raise your ranking here, you can rise to the top half, and conversely, if the ranking drops, you can fall to the bottom half.

Of course, it’s not entirely determined by the ranking match, but depending on how the written test and practical test were taken, it is added to the ranking match.

No matter whether you are aristocrat or commoner, high or low rank, the academy was to prove yourself only with your skills.

If you just graduated from the academy, most places would welcome you, but it was also true that if you graduated from an upper class, you would be treated differently even if you were a graduate of the same academy.

That’s why everyone wanted to go up to a higher class, regardless of whether they were nobles or commoners.

Except for a special case like mine.

“I’m going to die in about 3 years anyway, so there’s no need to go through the ranks.”

It’s quiet now, but as time goes by, this unknown disease that was Adele’s chronic disease will gradually eat away at me.

I didn’t think it would be possible to treat it.

If treatment would be easy, Adele wouldn’t have to suffer from a chronic disease.

Anyway, a bright and shining future wasn’t an important factor to me, so I didn’t have to work hard to rank up.

What is important to me is that I want to live a normal life like other people do, not a movie of wealth or fame that I will enjoy later.

“I’ll just do whatever I want.”

That said, I wouldn’t intentionally look at the entrance exam as strange or anything like that.

I plan to take the test according to my ability, according to the characteristics of the academy, which values individual skills.

“I don’t think I’ll get a high ranking anyway…”

Before awakening my unique magic, my level was around 2nd circle.

It may seem like a very low level to say that it is a 2nd circle, but it was absolutely not a low level if it was a 2nd circle before entering the academy.

Most of the first year students in the academy are in the 1st or 2nd circles, and from the 3rd circle, which is the next stage and Adele’s circle in the first year, they are called geniuses.

“This is a bit disappointing.”

Actually, my body, Lian Kindred’s body, had a talent for magic.

I reached the 2nd circle very quickly, and if I hadn’t derailed in the middle and stopped trying, I would have reached the 3rd circle by now.

Every time like this, I start to resent my past self who lived like an idiot… But what can I do, it’s already in the past.

It was already too late to regret it, and now was the time to think about the near future.

“First of all, it’s best to fully understand my unique magical power.”

This is the reason why I emphasized ‘before the awakening of the unique magic’ while talking about my circle just now.

Inherent magic had a penalty that made it impossible to use normal magic instead of possessing more powerful and effective magic than most general magic.

Before awakening my unique magical power, I was a wizard who used fire magic as my main magic among elemental magic, but now that I have awakened, it is a story that it doesn’t matter what kind of magic was my main specialty in the past.

Because I can only use my own magical power anyway.

Isn’t the circle important though? That wasn’t it again

Because the level of unique magic is also determined by the person’s circle.

Summarizing, it can be said that ‘the importance of the circle is the same for the possessor of inherent magical power and ordinary people, but unlike ordinary people, the possessor of inherent magical power determines only the realm of inherent magical power.’

In this respect, I could see that I was at a great disadvantage in the entrance exam.

When the other students take the entrance exam with the magic they have been practicing so far, I have to compete with my newly awakened unique magic.

Of course, as I said before, I didn’t have to obsess over rankings, so it didn’t matter if I did well or not.

That said, taking the entrance exam roughly was against my wish to live like everyone else, so I thought of doing everything I could.

“But to do my best… You should know my abilities.”

But the problem was that there was no one to test my abilities even though I wanted to do my best.

All I’ve seen so far is that daini can absorb diseases from people.

“Should I slowly find out after the entrance exam?”

I want to do my best, but if there is no way to do my best, I can’t help it.

“Let’s think about it slowly.”

No matter how much I thought about it, there was no way I could find out my ability alone, so I decided to postpone the issue of my unique magical power until later.

“Actually, this is a bigger problem than the entrance exam…”

The entrance exam, which was due just a few hours later, was a big problem, but there was a much bigger problem than this entrance exam, and that was the existence of my fiancée, Adele.

“I thought we’d break off the engagement like we did in our last life.”

When she first realized she had regressed, she hadn’t given much thought to Adele.

She took it for granted that he would break up the engagement right away.

But for unknown reasons, the breakup between me and Adele, which happened in my previous life, did not happen, and because of that, Adele and I were still engaged.

“I’ll definitely meet you at the academy.”

There was no reason why the genius, Adelistonia, would not go to the academy, so it was safe to say that she would meet Adele again.

“······Really, why didn’t you break up the engagement?”

At this time, Adele hated me almost to the point of disgust.

Even before rumors spread that I was in and out of entertainment districts and brothels, Adele didn’t like me very much, but when I met her after the rumors spread, I got the feeling that she really didn’t treat me like a person.

Isn’t that why the notice of breakup was also sent?

She couldn’t predict why she didn’t break up anyway, but it was clear to her that Adele would still hate me.

Furthermore, if it became known that I was engaged to Adele, the princess of the most famous family in the empire, the Listonian family, there was a high possibility that my wish of ‘living normally’ would not be kept.

“What should I do with this?”

As a result of thinking about it for almost an hour while wrapping my hair like that, the conclusion I came to was simpler than I thought.

‘Let’s not be interested.’

It was true that we weren’t really close, but it was clear that Adele wouldn’t want to show off that she was her fiancé with someone like me, so unless I did something, she wouldn’t be interested in me.

As I recall, Adele had a few boyfriends at her academy and made many other friends, so she wouldn’t be interested in me.

“A bit… Bitter.”

As a fiancée, it was quite bittersweet to not be able to say anything about the fiancee dating her boyfriend, but I had nothing to say because of my sins in the past.

“If you get a boyfriend like that… While you’re at the academy, you’ll probably ask to break up.”

You may think that I hate Adele because I keep saying it as if I want to break up the marriage, but like I said before, I don’t hate Adele, but I like her very much.

A pretty and talented woman, and the main character of the novel is a fiancée. What fiancé would hate?

But Adele wasn’t the kind of person who would presumptuously be greedy for an extra with a terminal life like me, and she’s a protagonist who deserves to meet someone better, so it was right for me to give up.

That would have been the least painful way for me and the happy way for Adele.

“We have arrived, sir.”

Perhaps it was thanks to the hard planning, we arrived at the main gate of the academy before we knew it.

The front gate was huge, and the academy behind the front gate was so huge that it could be seen as a royal palace, not a school.

“······I don’t think it’s for nothing that the empire’s budget goes there.”

With a small admiration, I packed my things and got off the carriage.

“Thank you, sir.”

I paid the driver a fare with a little extra tip, and I set foot in the academy for the first time in my life.