I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

138. Wedding of the Century (3)

1.

Drying was also a job.

In fact, for me, three hundred years ago is a very distant past that is nowhere near enough to cover my entire past and present life combined, but for the two people involved, it was not such a distant past.

It took a lot of effort to mediate between Arwen’s anger, who remembered the past grudge without forgetting it, and Sylphia’s avoidance of her gaze.

The process is as childish as reconciling fighting kindergarteners.

“……Even if it was a mistake, Sylphia was more at fault for casting magic on someone else’s pet first.”

“Ludrick……”

“Look. Doesn’t Ludrick say the same thing? And if there’s anything to correct, it’s that they’re not pets, they’re servants.”

In one word, Silphia opened her eyes wide and looked at me with pity as if she had lost her country, and Arwen’s spirits were rising.

But the mood immediately changed with my next words.

“But if you keep calling a perfectly good dragon a lizard, Sylphia will feel bad. Arwen, you were wrong, so apologize to each other. After you apologize to each other and make up, let’s not fight about this again.”

“That, that kind of…….”

This time Arwen looked at me in shock and bewilderment.

I only recently learned that calling a dragon a lizard is a huge insult in this world.

If I were to use a rough analogy to my previous life, it would be like calling a black person a “nigger” in Harlem in the middle of the night. If I was lucky, I’d get punched in the face and that would be the end of it, but if I was unlucky, it would be like getting a bullet in the stomach.

The dragon here is almost like a natural disaster, so in some ways it might be even more dangerous.

Anyway, there was only one reason why Arwen was able to survive the lizard-like behavior from Sylphia. It was possible because she was a true vampire who was no less than a natural disaster-level creature called a dragon.

So, if you roughly think about it in terms of a previous life, it’s a similar situation to a black person and an Asian person fighting each other while saying, “Hey nigger! Hey yellow monkey!”

Well, it’s not exactly a pretty sight.

“So now let’s apologize to each other and make up. Now, shake hands!”

“…….”

“…….”

So I just shook their hands to ask them to let go of all the old grudges, but their expressions didn’t show any sign of brightening.

I wonder if I have to take care of all these things, since I’m not a kindergarten teacher or a nanny, but what can I do? Just as in my past life, there was a saying that all men are still children no matter how old they get, in this world, there is a saying that all women are still children no matter how old they get.

Somehow, this doesn’t feel like marriage, but rather like I’m just babysitting a child who is physically large but mentally immature.

For a moment, I had a suspicious feeling that I had been tricked into marrying someone, but I realized it when I saw Arwen and Sylphia turn their heads when I shook their hands.

“The two of you have reconciled like this, but if you fight about this in front of me from now on, even if you both get married, you’ll have to stay in separate rooms for a month.”

“What are you talking about!”

“Isn’t that explosive!”

As I watched him shout urgently as if it was nonsense, my suspicions turned into certainty in an instant.

How to handle a near-transcendental being as easily as eating cake.

I didn’t want to get into a deadly fight about this, but it was the easiest and simplest way.

You didn’t know this?

“I warned you, but you’re still fighting over this, especially if you two are bickering to the point of deciding to fight for your life? Then I’ll bring divorce papers and stamp them right away.”

Arwen and Sylphia almost simultaneously fell silent at the chilling warning.

Is this what the moment of enlightenment in a martial arts novel feels like?

I’m getting the general idea.

2.

Anyway, the lively discussion continued after that. In fact, it was a mud fight where each side fiercely pushed forward with what they wanted to do, rather than a discussion where they could freely express their opinions.

“……First, let’s roughly summarize the agreed-upon matters. Let’s check the longitude once more.”

I glanced over the agreement that had somehow been reached. The first thing that came to mind was the list of guests to be invited to the wedding.

“Each and every one of them is truly a jewel.”

I glanced over the guest list and muttered absentmindedly. I’d like to add that this is not a slang term, but a literal, beautiful list.

First of all, family was the basic requirement, and because of Elena, most of the royal family, including ambassadors from each country stationed in the empire, and other influential nobles and diplomatic envoys were all on the list.

Elena shrugged her shoulders, her nose raised as she let out an exclamation.

“But since it’s a one-time wedding, wouldn’t it be better to invite at least this many people to save face? I don’t want people to come here to laugh at me for calling it a ridiculous wedding, but instead end up being intimidated by the extravagance. That’s my goal.”

“Just looking at the bride’s list, I think I’ll feel more embarrassed than laugh…”

“You still don’t know, Kyung. Humans are inherently cunning animals. Even if you congratulate them with a smile in front of them, they will immediately turn around and gossip about you.”

“I wonder if that’s too harsh of a view of the world… Anyway, I don’t care about the list.”

“Okay then.”

Elena snickered and replied in her usual tone.

It was a kind of unwritten rule. I didn’t know this, but surprisingly, Elena liked to whine. When we were alone, I would accept it, but when I saw her, I would talk to her like this.

Although no one spoke first, there was a tacit agreement to do so.

Anyway, that’s enough for the guest list, so the important thing is the wedding hall.

Let’s turn to the next chapter, which contains a rough outline of the wedding.

“In the end, we decided to do it at the palace.”

“If you only consider the number of people you can accommodate, it might be better to do it outdoors, but it would probably be less cumbersome to do it in a place with facilities.”

“That’s true. If you think about it, the appointment ceremony for the court magician was also held in the Hall of the Sun, so in the end, it all comes back to the Hall of the Sun.”

“It can’t be helped, since this place was originally designed for this kind of event.”

Honestly, if I were told to just do it, I would just go along with it.

Even to me, a complete layman in this matter, there didn’t seem to be any errors in the plan. Rather, it was as if Elena had put a lot of effort into the plan, and traces of this were evident here and there.

But if there’s a problem… … .

“But you know.”

“Hmm? Is there a problem?”

“Even so, isn’t it too much to have a plan B in case the magic stone lights go out during the wedding? This is just a paper plan.”

Is it really necessary to plan this in such detail…?

If the plan was this detailed, it’s understandable why Elena would stay in her office for almost a week, planning everything.

“Nonsense. I’ve told you this many times. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime wedding.”

“……Right?”

“That’s why it’s even more so. I don’t want my once-in-a-lifetime wedding to be ruined because of such a trivial thing.”

Elena snorted as if it was absurd.

I glanced over and saw a determination flickering beyond his eyes. A strange determination and desire to complete the wedding perfectly, no matter what.

“Well, I agree with that idea, but I wonder if this isn’t too much. I’m not the one who set it up, I’m just a contributing member, so I can’t say anything.”

A hand on the shoulder.

As I turned my head, Rasil, with her bright smiling face, naturally joined in.

“Admiral Repert, if you look closely, Kyung doesn’t seem to have any opinions. Even my cousin, who is not very talkative, was talking excitedly just now.”

“Your Highness the Grand Duke certainly has a different image than usual. I have no complaints about the plans Your Highness the Princess has made, though.”

“That’s a desirable attitude.”

Elena nodded and added.

“My cousin, who never showed any interest in me when I was actually making plans, had extremely excessive demands.”

“If I agree with that here, it will look like I’m gossiping about His Highness the Grand Duke, so I’ll be careful not to say anything.”

Rasil responded with a natural laugh.

And suddenly, I was caught in the middle of it all.

If you listen carefully, it may seem like an ordinary conversation, but when you think about it, you can picture your future married life without much difficulty.

Everyone just agreed to the idea that if you don’t do it, you’ll be the only one who suffers, but inside, aren’t they all thinking that they want to monopolize themselves as the only wife? In fact, this kind of polygamy doesn’t make sense in this world.

If that’s the case, then naturally they can’t get along well, and it’s a structure where they can’t help but bicker with each other over trivial things…

“I can’t help it.”

“Huh? Ludrick, what can’t be helped?”

As I muttered, Rasil, who was right next to me and had now wrapped his arm around my shoulder, asked naturally.

Married life is not difficult to draw. If it continues like this, it will just end in disaster.

There’s really nothing I can do.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can all get along without fighting.”

“huh?”

“I guess we have no choice but to decide on a rotation system for each day of the week…….”

One day each on weekdays, and one day each on weekends. Something like that.

It feels strange to say this, like I’ve become some kind of public property, but there’s nothing I can do about it.

“……What Kyung means is, it seems like we might fight amongst ourselves, so let’s set a day?”

Elena immediately asked back with a puzzled expression, but I nodded. My thoughts remained the same.

I’m telling you, this is really inevitable. If I hadn’t taken the initiative from the beginning, we would have quickly fought each other, gotten tired of each other, and ended up in trouble.

“Otherwise, it’s obvious that we’ll fight every other day, and there’s no way around it.”

“I guess that’s true, but…….”

“There’s nothing I can do.”

Elena trailed off, and I just shrugged.

“I’m used to playing villains…….”