I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

Side story 1. Our pet cat (4)

1.

Suddenly, I had a short break of a couple of hours. Anyway, there was nothing I could do in the tiny Vice County, and I was back in the capital. And honestly, I didn’t quite understand, so I asked to clarify.

“Arwen, by the way.”

“Huh? Is there a problem?”

“Of course. Let alone building a house to live in for a day in two hours, you can build a castle in a week?”

“Wouldn’t it be impossible under normal circumstances?”

“Then again……”

“of course.”

Arwen stopped walking and stopped talking. And sometimes, I saw Arwen’s proud expression that made me want to punch her in the face. At that moment, when my fists were clenched in frustration at the annoying expression that I couldn’t get used to no matter how many times I saw it, Arwen spoke politely.

“If I command my servants and servants, it is entirely possible. Think about it.”

“…What do you want me to think about?”

“Are you short on money? Or are you short on manpower? I have more than enough of both. Furthermore, my subordinates can even use magic, so they are dozens of times more efficient than a mere architect.”

“……Is that so?”

Actually, if you think about it, it’s not wrong, and I quickly realized.

I’ve never done it, but if I think about building a building using magic, I think I can build it without much difficulty. It’s something that can be roughly cut and stacked with magic. Even if I tried, it wouldn’t require such an incredibly high level of technology for a medieval building.

Magical engineering is not my area of ​​expertise, so even if I try my hand at it, I won’t get any amazing results, but that’s something that can be quickly resolved by calling in a specialist.

Thinking about it as Arwen said, it wasn’t wrong, and I nodded my head in fear as Arwen pointed to a cafe on the street.

“So let’s take a short break. Two hours is actually a bit generous, and it won’t be long before it’s done.”

“We just cast a perception-impairing spell.”

“Ah, somehow I couldn’t feel the eyes of those around me…….”

Sigh.

He let out a short sigh. Just a moment ago, he was making a fuss about building a whole new castle, but now, seeing him acting so bashful that he doesn’t even know if he’s under a spell or not, who would think Arwen is the true king?

I’ve never really asked him how old he is, but he’s definitely been around for a long time, and what’s so weird about him?

He asked with a shrug.

“Arwen, how old are you?”

“……Why are you suddenly curious about that?”

“Just. I know you’ve lived a very long time, but I was wondering how old you are. Who would think you’re Jinjo when you’re this dapper?”

“T, tsk tsk… Take back what you just said!”

Arwen screamed loudly.

If only I had put a perception-impairing spell on you beforehand, but if I were to yell in the middle of a crowded street like this, anyone who saw me would think I was crazy.

“Eek,” he said, pretending to cover his ears.

“It’s true that he’s a fool. Even so, he’s a true man, so he doesn’t even know if he’s under a spell or not.”

“That, that’s… That’s because I was concentrating on talking to you. Even if your magic has reached an inhumanly high level, how could you not see through that when you’re called a true ancestor?”

“Well, I’m single-minded – you don’t have to beat around the bush like that to know. Anyway, I don’t know why the conversation has diverged here, but how old are you?”

“…….”

Arwen shut her mouth with a sullen expression. Her face seemed to say that she didn’t want to tell anyone.

But when I think about it, it’s annoying. Even though I’m married, how can I not know how old my wife is? I’ll have to go ask Sylphia about this later.

“So how old is our Arwen?”

“……is.”

“huh?”

“……I don’t know for sure because I haven’t counted since I was 1,500 years old.”

“and.”

I expected it to be quite old, but when I actually heard the age, my mouth dropped open. So, even at the very least, it would be over 1,500 years old.

Let’s think about it for a moment. Rather than being vaguely old, like ninety or a hundred, it’s better to be so old that it’s unimaginable… … That’s better. That’s actually better, yeah.

“……I didn’t want to tell you because I thought this might happen.”

And as soon as she heard the age, Arwen lowered her head with a blush on her face, muttering, perhaps because she had failed to control her expression.

At least one thousand five hundred years older.

To begin with, their basic lifespan is different from that of humans, so they are a different species, so you can’t directly apply their age to humans… … If you think about it, this isn’t your average medieval fantasy, it’s a world where the genders are reversed.

A brilliant idea flashed through my head.

If we apply it to my original world, that is, my previous life, then the relationship between Arwen and I would be… … a couple where the man is one thousand five hundred years older.

“eww.”

I was momentarily disgusted. Even though the concept of time itself is different from that of humans, that’s a bit too much. Arwen seemed new to me. If I were to ask her to meet a woman who was 1,500 years younger than me, she would have said something like, “That’s beyond a lump of blood,” and asked if that made sense.

I feel like I was that desperate for love, but I still need to check what I can.

“There, Arwen.”

“……?”

“I’m not joking or anything, this is a serious question. Do you have any pedophilia or something like that──”

“Ludrick.”

Arwen looked at me with her face flushed red and her expression looking as if she was about to burst into tears.

“……Yes, I really hate that kind of thing.”

“sorry.”

I immediately apologized because I thought it was a bit too much.

2.

There was a minor incident.

No, is it trivial?

In order to cheer up Arwen, who was already very upset, I bought her a sweet dessert and even used a secret technique that I had never used before – wiping the cream off her mouth – to barely cheer her up.

If my friends or I from my previous life had seen this, no matter how offended my girlfriend was, they would have jeered at me and said, “What the heck is that guy, take that thing off the ground.”

Of course, since I had put aside my pride and everything else, it didn’t really matter. We weren’t just dating, and it had already been a year since we signed the marriage papers. No matter how much the husband is the superior in this world, a fight between a couple is a serious matter.

“I just got a call that it’s all done.”

At the cafe we ​​stopped by, Arwen spoke while holding a cup of tea and sipping coffee with a movement that felt almost artificial and elegant.

If it were normal, I would have asked if he was doing that because the female protagonist in the novel I was reading was a dignified and elegant character, but I wasn’t tactless enough to ask that question after having just had a hard time trying to lighten his mood.

“Really? Then let’s go right away.”

“Let’s do that.”

Before using the teleportation magic in the capital, the movement itself was not a big deal because I had memorized the coordinates in advance. Still, it was impossible for a so-called great magician and a court magician of a country to have difficulty with something like teleportation magic.

As soon as I set the coordinates I remembered and started the spell, the surrounding scenery became blurry. A sense of floating and a sense of space engulfed my whole body for a moment, and when I opened my eyes, I was not in a deserted cafe in the capital, but in a forest clearing near the Vice County.

And on that vacant lot stood a neat cabin that hadn’t been there just a few hours ago.

“oh…….”

I let out an exclamation without thinking. It’s actually called a hut because it’s fancy, but it’s only meant to be used for one day at most, and yet it was built quite neatly, contrary to my expectations.

A vampire, presumably one of Arwen’s servants, bowed his head and spoke, one eye covered by his hair.

“I have prepared everything so that the Lord will have nothing to lack. And also for the Lord’s companion.”

“That’s great.”

Arwen nodded and congratulated him, but the vampire disappeared again, saying that he was in the middle of making a contract with the merchant to transport the materials.

“Then let’s go in. If you’re going to say something like that, then you probably didn’t do it carelessly.”

“Are you planning to stay here overnight today?”

“Why don’t you just go to sleep and go early tomorrow morning? Well, if you go even a little late, that lizard’s going to go crazy.”

Well, the weekly order should be observed. It’s like a leash that keeps us from fighting each other. Well, if you say you’ve put on a leash, that’s a bit of an odd expression. It’s more like a kind of rule. The word leash doesn’t sound right, I guess.

I entered the cabin with a thought of nothing. It was so neat and tidy that I couldn’t believe that it had been built in two hours, as I had boasted. I was amazed at how it looked as if it had been built in this place from the beginning, even with the furniture filled in after building it in such a short time.

We’re in trouble again.

“So what do we do now?”

“…….”

Arwen closed her mouth at the question I asked.

So what do we really do now?

It’s still a long way before the sun sets, and I won’t be here for many days, only one night, so it’s probably a bit much to do something grandiose.

“You didn’t think about what you were going to do either.”

“……I’m thinking about it the best I can right now. It’s not that I haven’t thought about it, in fact I’ve been thinking about it since I was at the cafe earlier, but I just haven’t come to a conclusion yet. Do you think I did this without any plan or countermeasure?”

“huh.”

“…….”

I was sure of it. It wouldn’t have been strange if Arwen, whom I had seen for a year, had done something without thinking. After all, I had been watching her for so long, so how could I not know that?

Arwen, who had been hit hard, closed her mouth, and a heavy silence flowed for a while.

Even I, a local who has lived nearby for twenty years, can’t think of anything, but there’s no way Arwen could come up with a clever solution.

Amidst the heavy silence, the only thing that can be heard is the sound of a stream flowing nearby.

After a long silence, Arwen managed to speak.

“……Then, since there seems to be a stream nearby, how about going fishing? And preparing something for dinner as well.”

“Fishing……”

fishhook.

It’s not like I have anything else to do just because I don’t want to do it. I nodded my head in agreement without even thinking about it.

“Yeah. By the way, my nickname is Fishing King Kim Fishing.”

“…….”

For some reason, Arwen kept her mouth shut and looked at me with a strange look.

… …Why?

My real nickname was Jiang Taigong.

It’s a little unfair.