I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

Side story 1. Our pet cat (complete)

1.

“Why on earth does something like that come out of there?”

“I don’t know. I remember seeing it vaguely as an antique or something collected as a collection… but how did this come out here?”

Arwen’s light gesture split the space. Arwen put her hand into the pitch-black darkness between the split spaces, and as she searched for something, she soon took out two fishing rods with antique decorations.

As far as I know, that space is connected to Arwen’s domain. More specifically, I’ve never been there, but I think it’s Arwen’s castle somewhere in the far north. I think it’s further north than the Norse Mountains where I met the blue dragon before.

Anyway, the perception in my head was already solidified as Dragon Lair due to the action of taking out the fishing rod just now.

Look, he suddenly says he has one and then he takes out a fishing rod and if it’s not a Dragon Lair then what is it? If it’s not that then it’s Doraemon’s Fourth Dimension Pocket.

“Then I got a fishing rod too… I’ve never tried it though.”

“I’ve never done it before. There was no bait to begin with… I don’t know. Just think of it as fishing for time like Jiang Taigong.”

Although I started fishing with only one fishing rod, I glanced at Arwen’s expression and saw that she was smiling faintly as if she was expecting something.

Well, I guess you could think of it as part of a date. I didn’t really want to go fishing in the first place, I just made a spontaneous decision to kill time, right?

I should be getting used to it now, but it seems I still haven’t completely shaken off my previous life’s way of thinking.

There is no need to distinguish between men and women when preparing a date course, but usually in a previous life, it was established that men were in charge of where to go and what to do. Likewise, in this world, there is a strong perception that it is the woman’s job.

“……Just wait a moment. In these kinds of situations, clothing is usually important.”

“huh?”

What stopped me as I was getting ready to go out with my fishing rod was Arwen’s expectant voice. Even her eyes sparkled, and I felt strangely uneasy, but Arwen reached into the subspace again, took something out, and handed it to me.

“……clothes?”

“There is such a thing as clothing that fits the situation.”

A short-sleeved T-shirt and shorts in an old-fashioned design, plus a straw hat and sandals.

All the clothes that would fit the expression “It was summer.”

Arwen, who had taken out her one-piece dress and straw hat, opened the door and went in, then stuck her face out and spoke.

“I have no intention of peeping, so change without worry.”

“huh…….”

This is a garment with temperature control magic, so it can be worn all year round.

I swallowed the words I couldn’t bring myself to say and quietly changed my clothes as I was told. It seemed like she was really excited because it was a rare opportunity, but I didn’t have the bad temper to sprinkle ashes on her.

Arwen seemed to be quite excited. Come to think of it, it was understandable since the two of them had never been out together like this recently. First of all, it was a hassle to have to set up a perception-disrupting spell by default whenever we went out, so we didn’t go out much.

Still, I guess I have to pay some attention to it.

As I was changing my clothes, doing some minor reflections that weren’t really reflections, the door opened with a creaking sound.

The first thing that caught my eye was her unique purple eyes, like jewels, shining brightly beneath the straw hat pulled down low to block out the sunlight. Her skin was so pale that it was almost as if it had never been exposed to sunlight, and she was wearing a luxurious one-piece dress and high-heeled sandals that showed off her skin.

“……This is my first time wearing clothes like this, so I’m not used to it. Does it suit me?”

“Huh? Oh, uh… It’s pretty, it suits you well.”

“Well then, that’s fortunate.”

Arwen covered her mouth and laughed softly.

And I thought I had seen everything I could and couldn’t see in the past year, but that wasn’t the case. It was so destructive in an instant that I stuttered a little.

In fact, you may ask why I am so nervous about this now that I have seen her completely naked on the bed, but it was similar to the saying that a scene with parts covered is more destructive than a scene where she is completely naked.

It looks like a scene from a youth animation has popped out into reality.

“I think it was a good decision to get married.”

“……Don’t put gold on your face all of a sudden. Even if you do that, nothing will come out.”

“No, I was serious.”

“Ugh……”

Arwen, her face flushed, fanned herself with her hand. I, who had been captivated by Arwen’s appearance for the first time, shook my head and came to my senses.

If this was all intentional, Arwen was a genius. A genius at love, at that.

Since ancient times, marriage is a process of going through a sweet flirting period, then dating, and when you have enough trust in that person to spend the rest of your life with them, then marriage is the process.

It may be a bit of a boring view of love, but in our case, it wasn’t a marriage that went one step at a time.

I have to take into account the special nature of regression, but somehow, before I could do anything, I ended up getting married. It was far from taking steps.

The introduction was long, but the gist of what I wanted to say was simple.

“……My heart was pounding.”

“…….”

Arwen shut her mouth.

It’s clearly been a year since we got married, but the honeymoon period where you feel like you’re pouring out honeymoon water has long passed, but it feels like a flirting period that I’ve never had with Arwen.

If Arwen was aiming for this, she’s a genius.

The two of them chattered leisurely for a while, and I naturally placed my hand on Arwen’s shoulder. The moment I placed my hand on her, Arwen flinched slightly as if an electric current had run through her, but I thought that it could be because the atmosphere had suddenly become sweet.

Go fishing with just a fishing rod.

Since this area was originally a place where monsters were said to appear, neither the locals nor the hunters came, so there was no need to worry about the eyes of those around them.

Nana Arwen, well, even if we met a monster, it didn’t matter because we would have to worry about its life rather than ourselves.

It’s a bit tricky to call it a river, so I sat down on the edge of a quiet stream and cast my fishing rod.

“Does this help catch fish?”

“Well, I did it once, but it was so long ago that I don’t remember very well. I think I just waited endlessly.”

“……You don’t get caught right away.”

“There’s no bait. The fish aren’t stupid, so it would be strange if they bit this.”

Arwen looked strangely disappointed, but she nodded and went under the shade of a nearby tree.

Actually, I lied earlier that I was a fishing king, Kim Fishing, but was it really when I was young that I went fishing? And that experience was in my past life, which I can barely remember now, so I wasn’t sure. Even then, I waited for a long time, but I couldn’t catch a single fish, and I only remember having a hard time pulling out the hook that got caught on the rocks.

Will it really be caught without any bait?

Arwen spread out a mat that she had brought out from somewhere, and as I sat down in the shade, half in doubt, my fishing rod began to shake.

“uh?”

“huh?”

I ran over and pulled the fishing rod, and I felt a rather heavy weight in my hand. I thought I had to pull hard to catch it, but judging from the way the rod bent, it seemed like I had caught something bigger than I thought. Still, I thought the rod wouldn’t break, so I used my magic to strengthen my muscles, and as I pulled hard on the rod, a large carp appeared, cutting through the current.

“This is catching.”

I felt bewildered. How could I catch this many carp without using any bait?

At first glance, it looks like a large fish, probably 70cm long. Can a carp like this be caught on a fishing rod without any bait?

While receiving admiring glances from the side, Arwen quickly took out a box with a freezing spell and placed the carp in it, then cast the fishing rod again. The large carp I had just caught was just the beginning. Now, fish of all kinds, of which I didn’t even know the species, would come up one after another like skewers whenever I cast the fishing rod.

Meanwhile, Arwen, who was fishing right next to me, didn’t catch a single fish.

Arwen’s eyes, which had been clapping and congratulating him as if it was her own business for the first three or so, slowly began to die down. She glanced around and saw that he was going to explode if he caught just one more fish, so at the moment when she was about to put down her fishing rod, the rod began to shake again.

This time it’s my fishing rod.

As I silently lifted my fishing rod under the stinging glare, my eyes met with one stupid fish that bit the hook without any bait as if it were a given.

Arwen’s fishing rod still remains silent.

“…….”

“Oh, well… Well, no one is good at it from the start, right? Or maybe the fish are just stupid and just pick my hook and bite without any bait.”

“……You were doing well from the beginning.”

“Let’s say I… had talent!”

“Sometimes I really hate that about you……”

Finally, Arwen couldn’t stand it anymore and lowered her head, burying her face between my squatting legs.