I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

102. Total chaos season 2 (2)

1.

From the moment it started to sound plausible, the game was already over.

Of course, Ludrick did not anticipate all of this and make a calculated proposal based on a meticulously designed plan. To be blunt and honest, Ludrick was prepared to get slapped in the face. Even if this were not a world where the roles of men and women were reversed, if he had said something like that out loud, it would have been a remark that would have earned him at least a slap in the face.

Since I can’t choose one out of five, I’d rather choose all of them than none or just one.

It was a de facto declaration of a harem.

It was indeed an unimaginable choice.

‘I heard that the Middle East is also a place where conditions are strict and tough, so only really rich people can do it… ‘

Ludrick shrugged his shoulders, thinking to himself.

In the Arab culture, where polygamy was commonly thought of in previous lives, polygamy was legally permitted, but there were various restrictions in the law. Considering the financial burden and the clause that all wives had to be treated equally, it was absurd to think that it was rarely practiced except by Arab oil tycoons.

Moreover, this life was a little, no, a lot different from my previous life, so it couldn’t have been allowed by common sense.

But the key point is that if you look at this relationship as a superior-possessive relationship, Ludrick is thoroughly in the superior position.

A relationship where the old adage of ‘if you don’t like it, then don’t do it’ is used as is. In reality, Eileen gave up, saying that she couldn’t tolerate this, but what if one of the other four people accepted it without hesitation?

The blind spot was that only Eileen was like a dog chasing a chicken, looking up at the roof.

“……I guess I’ll have to think about this a bit more. No matter how much I think about it, I don’t feel like I can make a decision right now──”

“I don’t mind?”

As soon as Eileen trailed off, Sylphia quickly came to her senses and accepted the words.

Eileen glared at her with a shocked expression, but Sylphia shrugged as if it didn’t matter.

“Then why don’t you do it? I don’t care, so I’ll do it. There’s one less competitor. This way, I’ve eliminated one, and out of the remaining three, one of them is likely to say no more……”

“Hey, I didn’t say no!”

A flustered Eileen raised her voice. She was usually the type to have little change in facial expression, but even when she got angry, the pitch of her voice didn’t change.

It was rare for Eileen to raise her voice like this.

It was proof of how urgent it was, so Sylphia couldn’t hold it in any longer and burst out laughing.

“You must have been in a hurry. You don’t want to be left out and left out, do you?”

“…….”

Eileen kept her mouth shut. Since she knew that no matter what she said, she would be influenced by the excuse anyway, she would rather refrain from saying anything.

And, as I said before, Ludrick, who was prepared to get slapped in the face, stuck out his tongue as if to say that it was good.

Luckily, I thought I didn’t get hit even once.

2.

A lot has happened.

I’ve had so much going on, I’m so tired…

I picked it up and chuckled, recalling the vague memories of the internet memes in my head, then laid back down on my soft bed. Now I feel like I can finally live.

Although I had adapted to some extent by the middle, the cold of the snowy mountains beyond the barrier was not so easy. I had a thick winter coat made of fur and even had a heating function with magic stones, but every time a cold wind blew through it, my spine would shiver.

So, whenever I saw a monster, I tried to hit it with fire magic, but in reality, if I decide to use it, it would be normal for it to change the terrain.

The problem is that the environment is so cold and harsh, it’s a fucking disaster, so all that happens is that the snow that has piled up just melts and that’s it.

A lounge in the Grand Duke’s residence.

“Anyway, it’s all over, right?”

It was a bleak landscape, without even a single ornament, as if someone might call it the North, but the bed was soft enough to be compared to my bed in the capital’s villa.

And then I lay on that soft bed and muttered.

Anyway, the reason I went north, beyond the barrier where the snow and bitter winds blew all year round, was to eliminate the monsters that had been increasing recently. This was essentially a verification process for being appointed as a court magician.

To be more precise, the barbarians, whose survival was threatened by the rapid increase of monsters, began a great migration like the Germans who were pushed out by the Huns, and came to eliminate the cause.

But as I was beating up the monsters, it seemed like I didn’t catch that many, but the problem was solved.

‘… … But is that really why you were fighting?’

‘That’s true, isn’t it…? I couldn’t hold back for a moment because you said you’d kill Ludrick… … .’

After the situation had been sorted out a little while ago, I thought back carefully to the conversation I had with Sylphia.

As a result, I shudder to think that I went through all this trouble because of a single lizard concept, and it bothers me that I forgave Sylphia, but the essence of the problem is the same as when I left the capital… … .

“I don’t know.”

For now, I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes. I wasn’t really trying to sleep, but I had exhausted myself too much over the past few days.

I would say I was constantly under mental stress and was pushed to my limit.

Now that things have settled down to a certain extent, I don’t want to keep worrying about problems that won’t be solved even if I worry about them.

But, I feel like I’m forgetting one important thing…

“Oh, that’s right. Arwen.”

I instantly jumped up from the bed and muttered.

Silphia, whose whereabouts were unknown, was found fighting with another lizard in the north, and I saved her. It was surprising that my magic had grown to the point where it could even work against dragons without me knowing, but if I hadn’t intervened at the right time, Silphia would have been seriously injured.

Of course, Sylphia wouldn’t have died since she was a humanoid, but if she had been caught by that large foreleg while in a polymorphed humanoid state, she wouldn’t have been able to escape unscathed.

However, Arwen, who disappeared at the same time, was nowhere to be found.

Where the hell did you go?

“Did it rise to the sky… or did it fall to the ground…?”

Anyway, this was the problem with these foreign races. They all had such grand titles, like dragons or true ancestors, that their whereabouts were unknown. If they wanted to, they could move around the entire continent like crazy, so how could I find them?

Even when we first met Arwen, she had to go through a process that was like a Matryoshka doll, such as infiltrating the imperial palace located in the heart of the capital, going through the court magician’s laboratory, the hidden secret laboratory, and the other space beyond the secret laboratory.

At that level, it was almost like a five-fold life sentence, but thinking about it again, I managed to get through it somehow.

I stuck my tongue out for a moment, then slowly reached out my hand just in case.

Color magic.

Originally, it was a magic that was used to track down enemies based on something that could serve as a clue, but now, I could roughly guess Arwen’s location with just the faint aftertaste of magic power that remained in me.

In fact, if we’ve been apart for this long, it would be normal for there not to be any aftertaste left behind, but since I regularly donate blood to Arwen, I lightly scanned my body just in case, and found that there was still some left.

“……I think it might be in the capital.”

First, I cast a spell to find out the general direction. It probably wouldn’t go far, and it would be near the capital, so I expected the direction to be south when I detected it.

however.

Beep!

A sharp alarm sounded.

Of course, it wasn’t the sound of an alarm magic or alarm device in the Grand Duke’s residence. I wasn’t stupid enough to not be able to distinguish the sound from the magic I had used.

“…….”

I shut my mouth as soon as I heard the ear-piercing alarm sound. Fortunately, the break room was located far from the official residence, so I was able to avoid the unfortunate incident of people rushing in after hearing the sound, but an eerie silence lingered around the area.

And, it seems like the culprit who made this sound has already been caught but has no intention of revealing himself first.

“……You, were you by any chance peeking?”

“…….”

There was no answer to the words I spoke first.

If a stranger saw me, they’d think I was a lunatic talking to the air.

As the saying goes, the darkness is under the lamp, and the person I was trying to find with magic was right next to me.

It wasn’t that he was hiding with a simple hiding magic or hiding his identity with a disguise magic. If that was the case, I would have noticed it right away because I’m particularly sensitive to magic due to my damned constitution.

If there is a place where you can hide so perfectly that you can fool me, it is only one place.

As I sat up, a shadow was cast by the moonlight streaming in through the window. I squinted and looked at the shadow, and soon the shadow began to ripple.

“……Well, I wasn’t peeking.”

“Since when?”

“Right after you headed north…….”

The shadow that had been swaying began to shake erratically, and then Arwen emerged from the shadow as if nothing had happened.

Her silver hair, revealed through the dark shadows, sparkled in the moonlight, and her purple eyes shone clearly even in the darkness.

Arwen added in protest, looking extremely embarrassed, as if she had been caught doing something bad in secret.

“I had my eyes closed while you were washing and changing clothes. I had no intention of spying on you……”

“…….”

“……I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you in advance. That dragon lives on the other side of the mountain range, and if you happen to collide with it, I’ll take precautions to protect you──.”

Arwen soon shut her mouth.

It seems that even he thought it was a poor excuse.