I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

122. Not the end, but the beginning (4)

1.

As a result, Arwen’s anger was only appeased after a full night.

However, one mysterious thing remained.

“……What kind of brainwashing magic is this?”

Usually, when we think of vampires, we think of them as sleeping in a coffin during the day to avoid the sun, and then waking up at night to become active. However, Arwen was not a child of darkness whose day and night were reversed. She slept soundly like a normal person.

“Hmm……”

Even now, he was still sleeping soundly, his mouth watering. Seeing him sleeping so late into the morning that he wouldn’t even notice if someone carried him, I wondered if he was really a vampire, but I just nodded my head in confusion at the unsolvable mystery.

Whether it was Arwen, who would whine like that just now when I slept next to her, or Eileen, who got upset because I teased her too much.

Before long, he just smiled faintly as if all his anger had subsided.

If this isn’t a mystery, then what is?

“I don’t know what to do because it’s so good.”

I shook my head and stuck out my tongue. What on earth happened in the past before the regression that made them stick together so easily and so well?

It may be a bit shameless for me to say this as someone who chose five legs instead of two, but if this was a research subject, it was a research subject.

“Arwen, you should wake up soon.”

“Just a little more….”

“That’s the kind of dialogue you get from a student who has to go to school but is sleeping in late. You’re Jinjo, Jinjo.”

“…My being the real one and wanting to sleep a little more have nothing to do with each other, right?”

As I lifted the curtains, the sunlight streaming in seemed burdensome, and a mumbled reply came from the face buried between the pillows.

It seems clear that the saying ‘Taesan’ is meant to be used in situations like this.

I was in a situation where I had to start preparing to go out, so as soon as I got up, Arwen suddenly reached out and grabbed me.

“……Don’t go.”

“I told you not to go?”

“Let’s stay like this a little longer… Haaam.”

My anger started to creep up on me as I saw her yawning while burying her face in the pillow and saying such things.

“to?”

“I told you to get up.”

Arwen suddenly raised her head with a frown as she suddenly lost where to put her face as the pillow was pulled out.

When a person wakes up from sleep, he or she should be disheveled, but it was surprising to see that not only his or her face but even his or her hair was clean, as if he or she had just washed up.

of course.

Soon, he started to taste something and stared at me, or more precisely, at the back of my neck. I couldn’t help but cover my mouth with my hand and back away hesitantly.

“……Why are you looking at me with such impure eyes?”

“I woke up hungry.”

“Hold on.”

“I don’t want to bear it.”

He shouted, “Stop!” as he held out his hand, but Arwen dodged quickly and buried her face between his necks.

I shut my eyes tightly, anticipating the stinging pain that would come soon, but contrary to my expectations, the fangs did not dig into the back of my neck.

What the heck, why is he like this?

When I opened my eyes slightly, which I had closed in wonder, Arwen was sniffing around with her face buried in the nape of my neck.

“What are you doing?”

“Isn’t there something called the ingredients that make up food?”

“yes……?”

The concept of nutrition was not completely absent in this era. It was not systematically known like in my previous life, but rather a concept that was acquired through experience.

But Arwen tilted her head, thinking that it was not something she should bring up in this situation, and soon Arwen gave an absurd answer.

“I am also recharging your elements now.”

“…What is that?”

“It’s similar to magic stones. Just like objects that operate on magic stones need to be replaced with new ones periodically when the magic power inside the stone runs out, I’m just recharging my fuel.”

“What kind of battery are you?”

“I don’t know what it is, but isn’t it similar?”

“This is just perverted.”

Burying your face in my neck and just sniffing, if that’s not a pervert then what is?

Arwen, who had been burying her face in my teasing for a long time, finally lifted her face with a look of satisfaction on her face.

“……transformation.”

“Say whatever you want. Anyway, I think it’ll be okay if you don’t drink blood for about a week.”

“You keep drinking my blood, and now I have orthostatic hypotension. A week is nothing. You shouldn’t drink it for a month.”

“Isn’t one month too harsh? Try to think about it from the other person’s perspective.”

Arwen, whose face immediately turned tearful, spoke in protest.

“If I told you to go a month without eating anything, would you do it?”

“It’s possible. I’m a wizard.”

“That’s true, but….”

Arwen trailed off.

The appearance of not being able to refute the established theory.

The commonality between a wizard and a knight is that they are both superhumans who control magical power. Now, if you wrap that around your body and enhance your physical abilities, you are a knight, but if you release that magical power in the form of magic instead of wrapping it around your body, you are a wizard. That was the difference.

Anyway, since their metabolism itself is different from that of a normal human, they could survive without eating food for about a month, although they may not be able to eat water.

Of course, Arwen’s example was a simple metaphor, and nitpicking and bickering like this was nothing more or less than childish bickering like children.

Arwen frowned as if she had nothing to say, and just patted my shoulder for no reason.

“It’s just the same as usual.”

And I just ended up giggling.

It feels like a lot of things have passed by in a flash, but in the end, nothing much has changed from my usual daily life.

It’s just everyday life as usual.

2.

“…Elena’s behavior is strange?”

“Yes, Your Highness the Crown Princess.”

The Crown Princess sat with her legs crossed in front of the prostrate knight with an embarrassed expression and answered.

The political situation in the empire was currently quite chaotic. There were so many pending issues that the appointment ceremony for Ludrick as the court magician was just one of many, and the vacancy in the throne, the seat of supremacy over all people, was too great.

To the outside world, it is known that he is simply ill and has difficulty moving due to his severe illness, but it is an open secret that he is in a state of near-death, just waiting for the day of death.

Of course, according to due process and the principle of eldest daughter succession, when the current emperor passes away, the throne will naturally go to the crown princess, but her younger sister, Elena, has officially opposed it.

To be exact, it would be safe to say that they have actually started to revolt, as they have started to gather factions.

So the political situation was completely divided into two factions.

Those who respect the principle of eldest daughter succession that has been passed down from ancient times gathered in the Crown Princess’ faction, while those who believe that the succession should be passed on to the one with the greatest ability gathered in Elena’s faction.

The current political situation is one in which the two factions are sharply divided and in conflict amidst the already chaotic situation.

“Elena seems to be plotting something. Double the number of people watching her.”

“……It has already been two days since the second princess has been staying in her residence. As Her Highness the Crown Princess knows, I cannot enter the imperial residence without permission for personal business.”

“Have you made contact with the secret service? What do Elena’s faction say?”

“The spy we planted there doesn’t know anything about it. It seems like it was the Second Princess’s impulsive action.”

“Hmm…….”

The crown princess trailed off.

The reason Elena is in hiding is to make wedding plans, and the Crown Princess will grab her by the scruff of the neck once she finds out that she has no interest in the Emperor’s throne.

But right now, she wasn’t using mind control, and since Elena was acting like this without saying anything, the Crown Princess’s head naturally became complicated.

“……What are you planning at this point?”

The Crown Princess muttered, trailing off.

Although they were born and raised in the same boat, they are now in a situation where they are in a confrontational relationship with each other without giving an inch to the throne. Furthermore, her younger brother’s clever thoughts were of a type that she could not understand.

What on earth is Elena planning at this point that has her staying in seclusion for two days without showing her face?

Since Elena had been unpredictable since childhood, the Crown Princess’ anxiety began to grow.

“…….”

After hearing the report, the Crown Princess sat with her legs crossed and became lost in thought.

‘What are you up to, Elena?’

Even if you talk to her inwardly, of course there is no answer.

What if Elena’s plan is so destructive that it threatens to upset the current precarious balance?

Or what if he had found a mysterious plan to exploit the weak points that the Crown Princess had not even thought of?

If that happens, it will be too late to move after Elena has already used her hand.

Since ancient times, the desire for power has been something that all humans have. No matter how much you pretend not to be interested, once you get it and taste the sweetness that power gives, it becomes addictive like a drug and you can’t get away from it. Especially when it comes to the position of the Emperor of the Esgelant Empire, where you can do whatever you want.

And the Crown Princess did not want to give up the power that seemed so elusive that it seemed like it could be grasped within her grasp.

“……I guess I should go and talk to Elena.”

Finally, the crown princess got up.

I wonder what Elena’s plans are for her to be so secluded. She won’t tell me outright that she’s going, but it might be a good idea to try your luck.

As soon as the Crown Princess, who had been thinking like that, stood up, the knight who had been prostrating himself moved away.

… … And, there wasn’t much time left until the Crown Princess, who had learned the full story of the incident, was shocked and lost for words.