I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

21. There was some fuss

1.

“That doesn’t sound like something else…!”

I was close to having a seizure.

Elena, who jumped up as if a switch had been pressed or as if an electric current had been passed on, snarled with her awe-inspiring face.

There are many people with different tastes in the world, and I heard that some people get s*xually aroused when they see their lover or her husband hugged by another woman.

However, she had never had such thoughts since she was born, and she did not like that either.

Never.

“……Or it’s not, well, don’t be so serious. Obviously, Your Highness said things that could be misunderstood.”

“…….”

However, when she looked at Rasil with a puzzled expression on her face, as if she were asking what she was, Elena was experiencing in real time the feeling of being angry all the way to the tip of her head after a long time.

Yeah, she obviously didn’t like that side of me, so I didn’t want to have a business relationship with her.

What makes a country’s naval commander, an admiral, so frivolous and light-hearted?

And Eileen, who was standing next to me, was thinking the same thing. A long-standing and deeply entrenched regional conflict between North and South.

As a typical northerner, she firmly believes that all southerners are frivolous and unsociable, so Rasil’s attitude did not please her.

If Rudric had seen it, he would have shook his head, saying, “The local sentiment is the same here.”

“So, Elena, you think that’s for the best?”

“……If my hypothesis is correct, maybe.”

First of all, Eileen and Elena put their heads aside and discussed it.

The basis of her magic is that she accepts and uses Mother Nature’s mana herself.

If that’s the case, not only mana that exists in its natural state, but also ways to extort and use other people’s mana are likely to exist.

If there’s one problem…….

“If you absorb someone else’s mana and use it, you’re probably a warlock.”

“I will.”

Elena nodded her head in affirmation.

There can be no normal way to absorb or extort mana from others through various means, rather than mana in a normal state of nature.

A deviated apostle.

The conclusion naturally came to the conclusion that he was not an ordinary wizard, but a black wizard who used magic as an apostle.

Aside from how to recruit the persecuted black magicians, the fact that Rudric is entrusted to the black magicians itself is a situation that is somewhat confusing.

But since there was no clear alternative, Elena shook her head.

“I will issue an edict and instruct me to capture the warlocks once. I hope my cousin captures all the warlocks hiding in the duchy.”

“……I don’t like the idea of entrusting Rick to a warlock. I can’t help it because there’s no other alternative.”

“Hey, by the way.”

Among the two of them discussing with serious expressions on their heads, an awkward tone interjected.

Rasil, who had been treated like a sack of barley he had borrowed, suddenly stuck her head in with a snarky tone and hit the spot.

“If excessive accumulation of mana is a curse, you can try to heal it. Anyway, if that itself is a problem, isn’t there the easiest and fastest solution?”

“What is it?”

“That’s right, Rick is marrying someone.”

A long silence passed before Rasil finished his words.

“……Marriage?”

Aileen, who had come to her senses belatedly, asked back as if that was nonsense, but Rasil tapped her chest as if feeling frustrated.

“Well, let’s think about it carefully. Anyway, if Rick chooses someone to marry, then of course he will have to have a baby first, so he’ll do it on the first night… Oops!”

“Sir Leppert, stop fluttering your filthy snout.”

Elena could be sure.

She had never had such a dirty imagination while watching Rudrick. She could swear to God if her assurances weren’t enough.

If she actually ascends the throne and then welcomes Ludrick as empress, she will have to pay for ‘something like that’ because she needs a princess to inherit her throne anyway, but in Elena’s mind, Rudrick is a kind of sanctified state.

She couldn’t bear to listen to Rasil’s words.

That’s why I hit the scruff of her neck with the blade of her hand and made her shut up.

“……Seeing, this hurts.”

“Hmmm, I’m embarrassed to even say such frivolous words… Anyway, I understand what Sir’s words mean. If you absorb mana in the process, it shouldn’t be a problem. Doesn’t it?”

“Well, that’s roughly it.”

When Elena, her face flushed, cleared her throat and asked, Rasil grumbled as he held her by the back of her neck.

I don’t know if you don’t know, but it’ll hurt quite a bit since you’ve got a little bit of emotion in an urgent situation.

‘…… Is there really no need to apologize?’

But she said something embarrassing to even say, and that was also for Rudrick, so did she even need to apologize?

After consulting Elena, she soon concluded that she didn’t have to, and then she opened her mouth to leave.

“… First of all, we will arrest all warlocks throughout the empire by decree, interrogate them, and then talk about it.”

“Then, as soon as I capture the warlocks of the principality, I will send them to the capital.”

“My cousin would appreciate it if you did that. And Sir Leppert…”

“There are no warlocks among pirates.”

“That doesn’t help.”

“……It’s true, but strangely, it’s sad to hear that in front of your face.”

Neatly ignoring the grumbling Rasil, Elena drew her conclusions.

“Then it’s decided. Sirs, let’s disperse.”

2.

There was literally a little fuss.

Returning to the laboratory, Rudrick clicked his tongue at Lorenzo, who was absent today, and continued his research while sitting down again.

Even if I had to say research, it was about mixing the potions by changing the ingredients, and then going through the magical refining process to figure out what kind of medicinal effect the combined potion exerts and why it exerts that medicinal effect.

Sylphia, who was silently doing her part even while Rudric was away, asked insinuatingly.

“Where have you been?”

“……Ah, I went to Her Highness’s office for a while. At first, I went because I had something to say, but they were fighting a bit.”

“In Her Highness’s office?”

At Rudrick’s answer, Sylphia made an expression of surprise.

“Yes. What are people old enough to be fighting about? I tried to stop them because they were ready to fight, but I was afraid.”

“It deserves it. It must have been Her Highness, the princess, not someone else.”

Sylpia, who had almost said that she could think that way if the princess and the Grand Duke of Nord were fighting, swallowed her words behind her back.

If I told her that she had already grasped the situation in which the two were fighting with magic, she would only raise doubts about her own identity.

A strange sight where there are no deceivers, only deceivers.

Besides, maybe it’s because of Rasil, who appeared at the end, that Rudrick’s thoughts became a little more complicated.

I couldn’t concentrate on my research because the hair that covered the back of my neck was tickling.

Rudrick bit into his hair tie with his mouth and nervously tried to tie the back of his hair together, but every time he failed to tie his hair up, he let out a sigh.

“……Ah, this doesn’t work well anymore.”

“……?”

“That, Mr. Silfia. I’m sorry, but can I ask you a favor?”

“Please?”

Of course, it is more comfortable to have someone else tie your hair than to tie it yourself.

“Could you tie my hair? I tried to tie it because it bothered me, but it doesn’t tie well.”

“……Ah.”

It was a request that Rudrick gave with that thought in mind, but Sylpia’s thoughts became complicated when he took over his hair tie.

‘…… I want Rick to tie my hair up.’

It wasn’t really a favor to ask an extramarital woman. Her hair was obviously a part of her body, and it was a request that she let someone touch her body. A type that is not particularly common in this world where men and women are distinct.

Moreover, when she gathered her hair and lifted it up, the nape of her neck that was visible involuntarily made Sylphia nervous.

A thin white nape that could be broken if you stretched out your hand and grabbed it.

‘I can understand Arwen’s feelings a little bit.’

Why do vampires prefer young men when they drink blood? Also, Sylphia, who was of a completely different species, could understand a little why she stuck her teeth in her neck and sucked blood.

The most tense moment in her long life.

Rudrick’s meaningless request encourages Sylphia to overinterpret, rather a contradiction that forces her to interpret in that direction.

The simple process of gathering hair with trembling hands, tying it up, and fixing it with a string felt like an eternity to Sylphia.

And Sylphia, who managed to complete the simple act of ‘tying her hair’, let out a sigh of relief.

Looking at that figure, Rudrick tilted his head.

“……Do you have any problems? Perhaps.”

“No. It’s not like that…”

Silently avoiding Rudrick’s gaze, Sylphia added in a small voice.

“……I didn’t think anything strange.”

“Yes?”

“……Rudrick-kun, you need to be a little more careful. If you ask other women for a favor like this, it could lead to a strange misunderstanding. But that doesn’t mean I had a strange idea.”

“……?”

I just asked her to tie her hair because she couldn’t tie it up well by herself.

Only Rudrick tilted his head as if he didn’t understand at the sight of Sylphea fanning her hands while covering her flushed cheeks.