I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

73. Day Four, Arwen Nosferatu (1)

1.

“……You can sleep here. Or we can send you back to the capital. If a place like an inn is more comfortable, that’s okay.”

“I’ll just sleep here.”

“Okay, then have a good night…”

Sylphia’s voice sounded lonely as she strangely finished her words and turned around.

Our conversation stopped the moment I said it.

Conversation is exchange.

Explaining each other’s opinions on a specific topic, or exchanging in the form of language so that so-called tiki-taka can take place.

If you simply reduce it to two letters, it becomes a conversation.

But from the moment I uttered those words, what we had was not a conversation but an empty echo.

For me, bitterness lingered on the tip of my tongue. It’s not like I’m rejecting Silfia’s favor, it’s like I’m thrown into a gutter. The feeling of breaking a taboo or committing a crime.

And Sylphia…….

“He looked shocked.”

The low murmur soon dissipated.

The truth is sometimes cruel. It’s not like there’s a white lie or a white lie for nothing. However, I spoke the truth directly without filtering, and as a result, our conversation was now scattered like an echo that never returned.

No, maybe this is better.

If I had acted indecisively there, acting as if I had accepted Sylpia’s heart even though I had no intention of doing so, and later changing her attitude like flipping her palm, the shock she would receive would have been greater.

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My theory is that there is no such thing as malicious behavior like playing with people’s minds, so it might have been better now that we’ve neatly tied the knot here.

No, definitely will.

After brainwashing himself as if brainwashing himself, he lay down on a bed that looked soft at first glance.

I haven’t washed yet, but I’m mentally tired. My exhausted mind and body were asking me to rest.

But even after lying down and pulling the blanket up to his neck, he showed no signs of falling asleep.

‘…… I’m obviously tired.’

It’s true that I’ve been through a lot of things in the past few days. Moreover, today, in the name of correcting my constitution, I was about to roll wildly like a lab mouse under various magics, but I was still awake, perhaps because what I had experienced was shocking.

I want to go to sleep because I’m mentally tired, but I can’t sleep.

It’s a bit strange to say it’s thanks to that, but thanks to that, I was able to get a chance to slowly reflect on what happened earlier.

First of all, I didn’t like this situation itself.

It wasn’t too bad to be unilaterally courted by a woman so beautiful that you would turn around involuntarily when you passed by on the street, which you wouldn’t have even dreamed of if you had been in your previous life.

Of course, there should be a proviso that this is not a gender-reversed world.

“……This is reality.”

Thanks to the real existence of magic, compared to the Middle Ages in my previous life, of course, the level of technology was so high that it was incomparable. It wasn’t to the extent that I could fully enjoy the selfishness of modern civilization, but it was to the extent that I didn’t have any inconveniences in real life.

But what do you do when the level of technology advances with the development of magical engineering?

Citizenship here is at a medieval level.

The fact that this world is a gender-reversed world, in other words, means that men in this world are treated the same as medieval women in the previous life.

Twenty years old.

At this age, when I would have just become an adult if I had been in my previous life, I was an old bachelor who had already missed the time to marry. In fact, few combinations sound as funny as the age of 20 and the word old bachelor, but that was the reality of this world.

It was at least this much because I was subject to a kind of exception of being a wizard. If it wasn’t for that, or if I’m assuming that there weren’t several episodes that happened in this month.

“You must have been looking at each other by now.”

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Muttered involuntarily.

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My parents were upset because of my older sister and younger sister, who were both great old virgins by the standards of this era. When I was even a little young, I must have been frying me for a long time, saying that I should get married quickly.

The gap between the memories of my previous life and the reality of this life was eating away at my body.

A mischievous laugh leaked out.

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My thoughts are still the same as in my previous life, but I must have been mistaken that I had adapted to this world.

And still I was terribly selfish.

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Maybe I’ve adapted, but I’m still a selfish person who only knows myself too much to adapt.

2.

The next morning.

As promised, now it’s Arwen’s turn. Now I’m used to having each person take turns deciding on a date. It was also something I agreed to avoid just debuting in the social world as Princess Elena’s prom partner.

And Sylphia and I kept quiet about what happened yesterday as if we had promised.

Precisely, as if nothing had happened from the beginning, and if something related came up, everyone was quiet and careful, as if they were saying some taboo word.

“It can be a bit dizzy.”

I was a bit tired from not sleeping until late the night before, but somehow I managed to stay awake and hold Sylphia’s hand.

A harbinger of teleportation magic.

The surrounding magical energy began to boil and distort.

“Didn’t you say there was a magic circle that interfered?”

“It doesn’t matter if you go outside from the inside. It’s preventing the outside from coming inside.”

Everyday conversation and plain tone, no different from usual.

Actually, it wasn’t that important. I just wanted to somehow break the awkward silence just now.

Anyway, just like yesterday, warmth came from Sylphia’s hand, and when the shimmering mana reached a critical level, the surrounding scenery changed completely in an instant.

A distance that would be impossible for a human magician to spread alone without borrowing the power of a magic circle. However, it was an easy task for the dragon, which prides itself on being the strongest creature on earth.

If you think about it, even that dragon made a fuss yesterday to try to fix me, but it failed.

I don’t know what the last resort you’ve been talking about is insurance.

It’s not three months or half a year, but it’s a complex and delicate feeling in many ways to be sentenced to eight years.

And while I was experiencing the teleportation magic in real time, Sylphia insinuated.

“Only Rudrick-kun teleports.”

“Miss Silfia, what do you mean?”

A subtle change in title that is different from yesterday. Is it some kind of gesture to treat them as usual?

There’s nothing wrong with me, so I accepted that, but Sylpia pursed her lips as if she wanted to say something and then narrowed her eyes.

“That vampire begged me to be sent to Ludrick-kun’s room.”

“……Yes?”

“Still, it’s a bit much for me to go into the men’s room recklessly… Thinking like this, who is that vampire? I’m a little pissed off. Anyway, that’s a bit much, so I’ll just send Rudrick-kun.”

“……?”

A word I can’t guess what it means.

As she tilted her head, Sylpia shook her head.

“Go and listen to yourself for details.”

Then, the distorted scenery around them suddenly turned dark.

I could still feel the warmth in my hand that had been holding Sylphia’s hand a while ago, but Sylphia’s figure had already disappeared.

Only black darkness.

In a fleeting moment, as I adjusted to the darkness, I could only tell from the dimly reflected outline of the surroundings that this was my room that I had become accustomed to over the past month.

I didn’t feel the warmth or presence of people.

And.

“Are you here?”

The old-fashioned tone and lithe voice.

Obviously, she didn’t feel anyone, but when she turned her head, she could see Arwen sitting on the bed as if it were her own room.

“Arwen…?”

“You came earlier than I thought. I thought it would be a little later when you come after breakfast.”

“……Miss Silfia told me to go and listen to the person in charge. What does that mean?”

“Isn’t it obvious?”

Asking for something so obvious, Arwen opened her mouth as she sat with her legs crossed.

Even in the dark, the jaan that shimmered like a jewel was clearly reflected, and Arwen spoke leisurely while staring at me.

“You’re not the type of person who likes to go outside. You must have been busy walking around for the past few days, so let’s spend the day leisurely.”

“……Hup.”

That comment was a bit sweet.

If you changed your position and thought I was a woman and Arwen was a man, I would have been thrilled.

“If I don’t take care of you, who will?

“Thank you for taking care of me… But why is the room so dark?”

“The owner wasn’t there anyway. I just turned off the lights and set it to my liking.”

Originally, even when I sleep, I tend to turn on a light for sleep, but I turned it off and covered it with a curtain to block out the light in the room.

Thanks to that, even now, after adapting to the darkness, I can still see it faintly.

Click.

“Kuu, the light…!”

“That typical vampire-like line is a bit…”

When she turned on her light without warning, Arwen, frowning, covered the light with her hand.

I’m the owner of the room, so it shouldn’t matter.

But thanks to you, I can rest well today.