I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

105. Ludrick doesn’t hide his power

1.

A peaceful, comfortable and quiet life.

What do you call a life where you live leisurely, like water in water? Being content with one’s lot? Being content with poverty? Anyway, I was already quite far from that kind of peaceful life.

Actually, if you think about it, Arwen was right.

“If you just wanted to live a normal life like everyone else without getting into any trouble, you shouldn’t have moved from the Vice County to the capital.”

“Do you understand now?”

It bothered me that Arwen, who was grooming me like a cat next to me, was looking at me with strangely warm eyes as if she was looking at a friend who was lacking something, but maybe I had been thinking about it wrong all this time.

You’ve been too tied up in the frame of a ‘peaceful life without any hassle’. In fact, if you think about it even a little bit, you’re already on the tiger’s back.

So what if we just give up on this impossible attempt and coolly admit that we’ve already come too far?

“……Even if it’s just the court wizard thing. Even if it’s a painting that the disciple receives, he’s already the youngest. A great wizard at the age of twenty? Are you talking about some old-fashioned Yangpanso that was popular 15 years ago?”

“I don’t know what that Igokkaeng Yangpanso is… but it’s not a normal case.”

“You’ve already become the youngest Archmage and the Court Magician, so what’s the point of adding another title like the first human to successfully cast a spell on a dragon?”

“It’s not that it’s completely meaningless. It’s true that you’ve succeeded in a feat that was originally impossible, but was only allowed to the heroes of the mythical age. If word spreads, I’m sure they’ll come looking for you in the Magic Tower, too.”

“……Ahem, anyway. It won’t make much of a difference, that’s what I mean.”

He nodded.

At this point, I needed to admit it. Rather than just waving my hand and saying I don’t want to do annoying things like a big, but mentally immature brat, I needed to learn how to take responsibility for my position.

In fact, it is more correct to say that I did not realize and accept the fact through some great mental growth, but rather that I have reached a point where I cannot deny reality, so I have come to accept it in a tearful manner…

It seems better to act like the saying goes, if you’re going to get hit anyway, it’s better to get hit first, and if you can’t avoid it, enjoy it.

Well, that clears things up. When I wake up, the inevitable will probably start to happen to me… … I still haven’t figured out exactly how or in what form.

And then, right next to me, there was a cat-like creature, Jinjo, staring at me with its big, round eyes wide open.

“Then Arwen.”

“Why are you doing that?”

“Before the return, who was the court magician? Master… This person who passed away was exactly the same as now. The only difference was the timing.”

“Could there have been any other candidate?”

“hmm…….”

Well, if I hadn’t become a court magician before the return, Sylphia and Arwen wouldn’t have gone berserk like this this time.

This time, I did it with the mindset that if it was going to be someone else’s turn, it would be better for me to do it myself.

Thanks to that, things got so complicated that I wish I had discussed it with her in advance, but in the end, it was something that had passed. Since I couldn’t turn back time, it was a past that I couldn’t change.

“Then what was the process before the regression? Even then, I don’t think I cast a spell on the dragon or anything.”

“It was something that happened suddenly… but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to learn from what happened in the previous world line. What happened?”

“Well, I’m looking for advice from someone with experience. That’s probably what it means.”

“…If you say experience, I sound old. In the first place, this isn’t the wisdom of an elder or anything. It’s just advice I’m giving you based purely on my past experiences.”

“Wow, you have no conscience.”

He shrugged his shoulders as he looked at Arwen. His playfulness was returning, and he was thinking of teasing her a little.

“Can you count the age difference in thousands?”

“……In the first place, isn’t it absurd to apply the same concept of human age to a species like me for which it makes no sense to discuss lifespan limits?”

“Then what? In human years, you’re in your twenties?”

“……I haven’t even lived half of my allowed lifespan yet, but if you take the human lifespan to be a hundred years, I’m in my twenties or thirties. If you look at it that way, I’m not that different from you.”

“At least two to three thousand years. It may be a bit embarrassing for me to say this myself, but shouldn’t we be listening to the thief?”

“That’s why I told you not to say it so explicitly!”

2.

The next morning.

Elena was struggling with her report.

Although she still didn’t like it, now that the Emperor was seriously ill, the de facto commander-in-chief was her older sister, the Crown Princess. Since the Crown Princess held the decision-making power, even though she was a princess, writing a report was an unavoidable act, even if it was just a formality.

But Elena’s worries were deepening over the report, which was merely a formality.

“…Eileen probably didn’t lie. Even if cross-checking is impossible, I wonder if it was necessary to match the words like that.”

Elena muttered as if talking to herself, and then she marked the report with a dot on top with a quill pen.

There were too many problems to just translate what Eileen had said.

It was nerve-racking that it all happened because of the mischief of a single lizard, but dragons were a kind of natural disaster in this world. They were a race that had not intervened in human history for hundreds of years, but once they made up their mind and started acting, they had the power to redraw the map of the continent.

So even if you’re an empire, you don’t have many options to choose from. Even if you try to hunt, you’re sure to fail, and you can’t go and find the dragons crouching in the mountains beyond the wall.

That part could have been brushed off as just bad luck, but there was so much that people wouldn’t believe that it was hard to take everything that happened beyond the barrier as fact.

First of all, revealing Sylphia’s true identity was problematic, and if Sylphia’s true identity was intentionally concealed, all of this achievement would go to Ludrick.

Is it really possible for a single human to fight on equal terms against a dragon in its true form?

Elena still had a hard time believing even the brief part where Ludrick stopped the dragon’s body with binding magic. She knew very well how great Ludrick’s magical skills were, but from the beginning, it was an impossible possibility.

If we were to use Ludrick’s past life as an analogy, it would be like shooting down a fighter jet or sinking an aircraft carrier with only a rifle.

“……It’s difficult.”

Elena, who had been thinking for a long time, finally put down her quill without coming to a conclusion.

First of all, it was impossible to reveal to the public that Silfia, known only as the disciple of the former court magician Lorenzo Tonali, was actually a dragon. Not only would the repercussions that would result from that be considerable, but it was also obvious that Silfia herself would absolutely oppose it.

So, in the end, until Ludrick arrives, all the credit for holding Abel should go to Ludrick.

It was a difficult problem.

The contradiction is that if Sylphia’s existence is concealed, the achievements made by Ludrick will be elevated to the level of feats made by heroes of the mythical era, which is unbelievable for a human.

Because there were so many people involved, Elena couldn’t and shouldn’t come to a conclusion on her own, so in the end, Elena got up.

“……I guess I’ll have to hear the person involved.”

And just as Elena was about to get up, there was a knock on her office door.

dripping.

“Come in.”

As soon as Elena gave permission, the office door opened and Ludrick peeked out.

And then, as soon as Ludrick’s face came into view, all of Elena’s worries were washed away like melting snow, and she had a strange experience. It was like when a human sees a small animal and thinks it’s cute, and feels the desire to touch it or hug it.

It was something similar, as she was able to momentarily forget all the worries that had been weighing her down until just a moment ago.

“……Wow. What’s going on this morning?”

However, Elena tried not to show it and greeted Ludrick with her usual calm tone and expression.

“Elena, I was thinking about it just now.”

“…What are you worried about?”

“It’s all written on your face, what is it?”

Ludrick glanced at the report on the desk, which didn’t even have a proper introduction, and nodded as if he had expected this, continuing to speak.

“If we were to write it as is, there would be many obstacles starting from Pia, and if we intentionally omit Sylphia’s existence, another problem would arise.”

“……You’re sharp.”

Elena sighed and confessed as if she had no choice, as Ludrick’s words immediately got to the heart of the matter.

Because of that problem, I’ve been holding onto this one report since last night when I finished talking to Eileen, and I haven’t been able to write even a few lines properly.

“I was thinking of asking the person involved directly for his opinion anyway. What do you think?”

That’s why Elena asked Ludrick as carefully as possible.

“I don’t care.”

“As expected, it’s burdensome for Kyung to be highlighted like that… huh?”

“But that doesn’t mean that Sylphia was actually a dragon and was fighting the dragon that was there. Let’s just say that I did it, okay?”

Ludrick nodded coolly.

Actually, thinking about it again, it didn’t seem like buying time would be a problem as long as magic, the greatest weapon, worked. In fact, Abel had to put in all his effort to break Ludrick’s binding magic.

I felt a little guilty since I never actually dealt with Abel, but I thought it was okay since it wasn’t completely fictional.

“Even if it’s known like that, it’s not like they’ll bother you much more than asking you what you did at the Magic Tower. I guess you have to put up with that.”

“……It’s strange. It’s as if it’s not a miracle I know.”

“You’ve grown up.”

To Elena’s muttering with a bewildered expression, Ludrick shamelessly answered.