I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

101. Totally Chaotic Season 2 (1)

1.

If you are a master class superhuman, in fact, you don’t even need to secretly release magical power; just momentum is enough to make people kneel.

It was the kind commonly referred to as a murder.

If you encounter a wild beast in the mountains in the middle of the night without warning, ordinary people will panic and not even think about running away, but will just sit there. This is because even martial artists who have trained to the limit know that they cannot fight and win against wild beasts like tigers, lions, and bears without any equipment, and they cannot escape either.

It’s a way of exploiting a kind of psychologically drawn limit. When a master class superhuman who has made a name for himself with a sword radiates a killing spirit, the opponent immediately feels it and instinctively reacts before the head can think, and instinctively realizes that he cannot win and shrinks back.

But what would happen if Eileen, the North’s most powerful swordsman by all accounts, who entered the master class at a young age and is called the Empire’s Black Lion, decides to unleash her killing spirit?

Gooo.

As if to show the result directly, a blizzard was raging. The surrounding air temperature seemed to have dropped by about ten degrees in an instant, so the wind from the snowy mountain, which was already cold, was now blowing like a knife.

Eileen, who was momentarily enraged by Sylphia’s obvious provocation, couldn’t hold it in this time.

“……Please repeat what you just said.”

“You asked first.”

Silphia answered with a smile, covering her mouth with an elegant hand gesture.

“I think this should be enough of an answer to why there was my hair stuck to Ludrick’s robe.”

“……You’re mistaken. Just because you talk with a closed mouth doesn’t mean everything makes sense.”

“If I were just making things up to tease you, Ludrick would have objected, right?”

As soon as Sylphia finished speaking, sparks flew at Ludrick.

Oh my, oh my.

Ludrick, who was trying to stop Sylphia from suddenly provoking Eileen, stopped as soon as he saw Eileen’s cold gaze directed at him.

He was asking with his eyes. Was what Sylphia was saying right now true?

It was a very difficult situation.

It was clear that Ludrick had made up his mind and made up his mind because of this incident. Rather than just picking one side and leaving room for conflict, or being indecisive and unable to make a decision like Ludrick before his return, I thought it would be better to do this.

‘… … Wait a minute, but if you say something like that here, won’t you really get slapped?’

A hint of hesitation was making Ludrick hesitate.

In fact, it was obvious that this would be an unprecedented event in this world. Well, it seems that game and novel protagonists are quite good at it, but Ludrick, who was not a protagonist in the world he encountered through letters or media but was actually living this life, had no choice but to think deeply.

But soon, Ludrick shook his head and slapped me on the cheek.

Eileen, who had just asked him a chilling question at his sudden action, tilted her head in bewilderment, while Ludrick opened his mouth calmly.

“That’s true.”

“…….”

As soon as Ludrick gave a cool affirmation, Eileen’s expression darkened rapidly.

No, Eileen muttered, covering her face with her hand, her expression darkening like that of a tragic heroine who is on the verge of suicide due to pessimism about life, to the point where it was doubtful whether she could simply dismiss it as something that had gotten dark.

“That, that kind of…….”

The mental shock that Eileen received was even greater because it was Ludrick’s words that he had decided to say. In the past, she had decided to respect Ludrick’s choice and accept the result, regardless of who he chose, but when the situation actually came, she couldn’t help but feel a mental shock.

As she was given a second chance to return, the shock of not being chosen had a greater impact on Eileen. As a result, the fact that it was not her but Sylphia that Ludrick chose came to her in a way that was difficult to accept.

As Eileen staggered in shock, various words lingered in her mouth.

Starting with the same old cliché line, “I understand that’s your choice after all,” to why you chose Sylphia over anyone else, or even to the point where you were asked if you made the decision too hastily.

I couldn’t even utter the words that were lingering around like an empty echo.

And although he had expected it, Ludrick sighed at the sight of Eileen looking more shocked than he had expected.

“……That’s true, but that’s not what I meant.”

“yes?”

“huh?”

Rudrick’s words mixed joy and sorrow.

Silphia, who had been reminiscing about her first kiss just a moment ago and was intoxicated with the sense of relief that she had finally won, opened her eyes wide as if she had come to her senses. On the other hand, Eileen, who had been holding onto a sliver of hope, opened her eyes wide and asked, as if asking what that meant.

To begin with, the two of them had no real experience in dating.

Especially considering that Eileen was slowly coming to terms with her status as the Grand Duke of Norse, and that she was already at an age where she had to start a family and think about having a successor, even though it was already quite late.

In Ludrick’s previous life, it was extremely rare for someone to get married in their mid-twenties, but in his second life, which was closer to the Middle Ages, his mid-twenties were still very late.

But since she had never held a man’s hand before, other than Ludrick, until that age, it would have been natural to think that if they had kissed, it would have been closer to an engagement, dating with the intention of marriage.

“Ah… How should I explain this?”

“…….”

Two silences fell in front of Ludrick, who hesitated for a moment. The knights of the duchy, who had noticed the situation going on, had already moved far away and left the place, leaving only three people in this place.

“…That means, I didn’t necessarily choose only Sylphia. If I say it like that, it’s not like I’m choosing items at a market, so the picture is a bit strange.”

“You didn’t necessarily choose just one person…?”

Since there was no one to see it anyway, when it was time to say it out loud, Ludrick hesitated for a while but ended up just saying it out loud.

Eileen only looked confused as she belatedly tried to figure out what that meant.

“that’s right.”

“……Ludrick, I still don’t understand what you’re talking about. So, you didn’t necessarily choose one person.”

“Actually, I thought about it carefully.”

The story is going to be long, but it’s not good to just stand there and be hit by this cold wind blowing.

Ludrick opened his mouth, having created a space where the wind was blocked by a curtain of air using magic and lighting a fire just enough to warm up the dome.

“There are five people.”

“That’s true, isn’t it…?”

Sylphia took the word. She cut through the words and said five people right away, but there were five competitors targeting Ludrick, including her.

Sylphia understood what he was saying right away and answered with a puzzled look.

“But let’s say I had chosen just one person in this situation. I didn’t even want this choice in the first place, but in any case, the sword was passed to me.”

“…….”

“No matter how much I think about it, if you pick one person and a fight breaks out, it doesn’t seem like it’ll just end with them bickering, right?”

Ludrick’s desperate excuses to somehow give it a plausible justification began to stick.

If I were to cut it short and get to the point, I could have summarized it as, ‘Can’t all five of them date? If you don’t like it, then don’t. If you don’t like it, then leave.’ However, Ludrick’s face wasn’t thick enough to say that out loud.

‘If you say that and then the Nice Boat ending comes out, what are you going to do?’

Ludrick thought to himself.

Even if you say something with the same intention, it can be received very differently depending on the context. This is especially true when it comes to sensitive topics like this.

If you say something as cleanly as possible, it can be passed over nicely, but there’s no need to just say it so bluntly.

“……You didn’t seem to know. No matter what choice you make, we will respect your choice──”

“You were just making an expression like you were a person who had experienced everything in the world, so it makes the picture look weird when you say that.”

“Ahem……”

Eileen cleared her throat.

In fact, it was true that she had just suffered a tremendous mental shock.

“So instead of just picking one, I decided to just pick them all.”

“…….”

At Ludrick’s continued words, both Eileen and Sylphia kept their mouths shut as if it were a lie.

Either choose none at all, or choose them all.

“It’s called utilitarianism. It means the greatest happiness for the greatest number, something like that.”

“…So you’re saying you’re going to choose them all? It’s a better option than choosing no one, or choosing only one?”

“As expected of a dragon, you understand quickly.”

Sylphia looked speechless as Ludrick nodded.

Obviously, if you think about it logically, it makes no sense at all. In this world, it was not uncommon for women in high positions to have mistresses in addition to their husbands. But I had never thought of the opposite.

If you think about it simply, it’s an affair, nothing more, nothing less.

‘… … Maybe this is better.’

The problem was that this absurd change of thinking began to sound plausible, starting with Eileen, who had just thought that Ludrick had been taken away from her before her eyes.