I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

14. The Princess and the Grand Duke of the North are in total chaos (3)

1.

Around the time when Rudrick was captured by an evil wizard and stamped as a graduate student.

“…….”

“…….”

In the office of 2nd Princess Elena Esgeland, a chilly air lingered along with silence.

The second princess of the Ezeland Empire, Elena Ezeland.

The Grand Duke of the Principality of Nord, also known as the Northern Grand Duke Eileen Nord.

Privately, it is a relative relationship, and publicly, it is a place where the grand duke and princess of the empire meet alone. It was a dangerous meeting that some might think that the second princess and the Grand Duke of Nord were plotting a political scheming, but at least the two of them had no time to care about such views.

“If anyone sees it, they’ll think I’ve already laid a hand on Rick. Don’t they? Sir’s eyes look especially bloody today. As if he’s going to eat me.”

“……There’s nothing I can’t do. Also, don’t call me by nicknames pretending to be close to you alone. It’s annoying.”

“Sir Eileen.”

“Leave the fish to the cat? That’s ridiculous. I wonder if I don’t know you and no one else.”

“You misunderstood again. That’s why I’m afraid of stereotypes. Isn’t it sad?”

At Eileen’s sharp criticism, Elena pretended to cry and touched her forehead. With a light sigh.

“Wonder, no cousin, that may sound funny to you, but I really did change after meeting Rudric.”

“……Ha.”

Eileen snorted at her just before Elena finished speaking.

Eileen’s current appearance was the same as the cold appearance of the Grand Duke of the North, as people think. His sharp attitude, his cold voice, and his sharp eyes, as if they were going to eat Elena.

As Eileen, who knew Elena’s splendid history, he gave her an artifact that could connect directly with her, but she was not at the stage where she could be relieved.

That’s why she waited until this late in the imperial palace and came to negotiate with Elena.

“The meaning of the word conversion seems to have changed without my knowledge. Then, because he was converted, he must have killed his parents and sisters and put a crown on his head. Isn’t it?”

“You touch a sore wound. I was just making a rational decision, but it doesn’t seem to be the case with Kyung.”

“That doesn’t even sound funny.”

In the end, Eileen couldn’t stand it and growled, baring her teeth first.

“Make no mistake, Elena. The reason I supported you was simply that you were the option to end the civil war as quickly as possible. Remember, I did not side with you because I liked you.”

“Then again, I’ll have to set the stage so that my cousin will be on my side. It’s already been done once, so twice is easier, isn’t it?”

“In that case, I have no choice but to blow your neck first with my own hands.”

“Cousin, let’s resolve it peacefully. Like intellectuals, through conversation. If you blindly wield a knife just because you’re wrong, that’s a savage, right?”

Elena’s cynical reply raised the corners of her mouth with a smirk. As if she makes an offer she can’t refuse.

“Wouldn’t Rick be offended by his cousin, let alone the political aftermath of cutting my neck first for the heat?”

“Helena…!”

“To him now, I’m just a little kind, kind Princess Highness who helped me get out of the country estate and play in the big water. What should I do with this. That kind Princess Highness was decapitated by the Norse Grand Duke who suddenly appeared. Then you can easily predict how Rick will react.”

A nasty way of speaking that makes you want to punch him.

Elena shrugged her shoulders and placed her hand on her chin on Eileen’s shoulder. Contrary to her attitude of responding softly just before, this time her face hardened and her voice lowered low.

“Kyungdo and I would have remembered if everyone returned. We respectfully respected Rick’s choice and accepted the result. Were we not the only two competitors?”

“……You.”

“When you think about it, it’s quite funny. I, who became the emperor of a country, as well as the Grand Duke of Norse, who said there is nothing to be afraid of in the world, and Admiral Leppert. In addition, all of the original vampires and dragons stepped forward to one man. It’s like hanging on.”

Tuk-tuk.

Elena, who lightly tapped Eileen on the shoulder, said again with a soft, friendly smile.

“And don’t forget. Right now, it’s not important to wait for Rick’s choice while arguing with each other, it’s more important to fix his curse before Rick makes his choice.”

“…Only this time. Not the second time. In case you laid your hand on Rick.”

Eileen, who roughly cut Elena’s hand, shook her head with a cold tone of politeness.

She swallowed her afterwords without speaking them out, but Elena was able to guess what Aileen had swallowed her afterwords. It would be a civil war, a nabal, and a threatening to kill Rick first.

Elena smiled brightly.

“If I had intended to do that, I would have chosen her as the empress the moment I ascended the throne.”

“…You say that it’s a pierced mouth.”

“The mouth is meant to speak, Sir Eileen. It’s not like there’s some leather left over and pierced.”

Eileen left her room without answering the mischievous reply.

As soon as she left, the temperature in the office, which seemed to have dropped by well over 5 degrees, slowly began to return to normal, and left alone, Elena frowned.

“……Hmm, then, besides Sir Eileen, the other flying flies will slowly start getting entangled again.”

It would be nice to have something sharp.

Helena’s murmur faded away.

2.

I longed for all the general explanations Master had given me and Sylphia to be grouping, but unfortunately, that was the reality that confronted me.

At first, the graduate student drip, which I thought deeply, came true.

I’m a 30-year-old graduate student in the Yankee anime where people’s skin is yellow! Last year I made $600! I enjoyed the part where he makes fun of graduate students, but I didn’t know that would come true for me.

If that was the case, I wouldn’t have been giggling and laughing there.

But regret is always too late.

“……Ah.”

First day at the lab.

In Yeongji, I used to keep eight hours of sleep like a knife, even if I couldn’t get enough of it in a day.

But Master was full of enthusiasm from early morning.

I hate to see it.

“Heh heh, I’m a little late today because it’s my first time. It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s the first day, so it could be.”

Only ten minutes late from the scheduled time, the tone of giving it a thumbs up was implied that it was the first day, but from the next time onwards, it was not worth it, so I had no choice but to nod my head with a blank face.

Magic is essentially a study of truth.

More precisely, it is a discipline whose ultimate goal is to peek into the world beyond the source reached in the process of exploring the truth.

Simply, I read the magic books in the manor and learned one or two magics on my own. To put it in an analogy, when the process of reaching the truth is called a marathon, I would tie my shoelaces and eat bananas or energy bars one by one so that I could endure the marathon. It was an act of forgetting and replenishing calories.

What I have to do is to expand the base of the magic I use and explore magic not as a means but as a study itself.

And in the process, it was a set procedure to establish numerous hypotheses and conduct research to prove the hypotheses.

“Mr. Rudrick, do you know what your greatest talent is?”

Without knowing what it was, I mixed the magic reagents Master ordered, observed the reaction that occurred when mixing the ingredients, and wrote them down on paper for a long time.

Master, who was conducting an experiment similar to the one I was doing, came up to me and asked.

“……Even if you ask me that, I don’t know.”

“It’s almost time to eat. I’ll have my man bring you some food, so take a break and listen while you eat. First of all, your greatest talent is insight.”

“……Insight?”

“That’s right. It’s insight. You have the best ability to intuitively grasp phenomena.”

This vicious master always had a summoning magic receiving artifact in his lab so that he could have meals here as well. Just simply pouring magic power into it would immediately send a signal to the kitchen of the imperial palace, where attendants would deliver food, a vicious system prepared to somehow get the apprentice to roll.

Master, who sent a signal with the artifact and gave me a gift of a short rest that I was thankful for to the point of tears, continued.

“This old man has been researching all his life, but in fact I still don’t know what truth is or how to arrive at it. Had I known, I would have become an archmage who has mastered the truth of the world long ago.”

“…….”

“And you don’t seem to have a good sense of how great of a talent it is to be able to intuitively understand the numerous phenomena that occur in the process. The reason why you don’t have trouble learning magic is similar. He has excellent insight, so he immediately grasps the structure of magic and fully understands and acquires it as his own.”

“……Then, how about Miss Silfia over there?”

Sylphia suddenly looked this way as if asking why she tripped and stumbled. Her eyes widened, but Master didn’t mind and answered.

“If Rudrick-kun’s intuitive understanding is excellent, Miss Silfia’s ability to learn, supplement, and develop is excellent. In any case, you are the hope of the Tonali School. It is a mutually complementary relationship in which each other complements each other.”

Sylphia looked at her with her eyes wide open, then quickly turned her head away. He seemed to be finishing his research again, but I could feel his ears were open this way.

I’m sorry.

Still, his name is Dragon, so research like this would be a piece of cake.

That’s why he must have been so full of composure that he wasn’t tired.

As I was lamenting that I was the only one who suffered again, Master patted me on the shoulder to encourage me and stood up with a smile.

“Then I’m going to get some fresh air for a while, so when the meal comes, eat it slowly. Let’s eat the rest first and finish.”

It is already noon since it has already started at dawn.

I skipped breakfast and my head is spinning from doing what I’m told to do now.

That’s a great consideration, Master.

The desire to be sarcastic was like a chimney, but it was suppressed inwardly.

Ahhh, it’s my darling.

I was glaring at Master as he left the lab grumbling like that, but Sylphia, who had been concentrating on this, opened her mouth as soon as Master left.

“Is it worth it? Tell me if you’re having a hard time. I might be able to help you a little. Even if I do a little bit of Rudrick’s research, I don’t think I should collapse from overwork.”

“……Ah.”

I knew it was a trick that couldn’t be done with my head, but it felt like he was comforting me with his sweet voice.

…… This is a foul

For no reason, I missed my parents in both my past and present lives, and tears welled up in my eyes.

…… I just want to go back to the manor I hate being a wizard.