I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

51. Prom Partner Selection (3)

1.

“…….”

The corners of Elena’s mouth twitched involuntarily as she walked through the corridors of the villa.

It was perfect.

I drew the picture I was drawing in my head perfectly and neatly without any errors. It couldn’t be more perfect than this.

Looking back slowly at the situation just before, she succeeded in conveying to Rudrick what she would say very naturally. He never trembled or stuttered, and he was always confident, so was Rudric inadvertently? To the extent that I can’t help but think that.

In other words, it was a very natural injection of information.

‘Due to Rudrick’s personality, if I had asked him first…… Of course he said no.’

Of course, he wouldn’t have said “I don’t like it” Right in front of his face. However, if he had been given the right to choose, it was obvious that Rudrick would have thought of the position as a nuisance and would have devised ways to get rid of it.

At least that’s how Elena had observed Rudrick for nearly a decade before her return.

Unlike other ordinary aristocrats, Young-sik was bold and assertive, and had a naive personality that was untainted by the so-called dirt of the world, but apart from that, Rudric didn’t like crowded places.

Because having a strong personality and being an introvert are two separate things.

However, if it is not ‘recommendation’ but ‘information’ as before, the story is a little different.

‘He didn’t ask if he could be a partner, the point was to say he was chosen as a partner.’

Thinking inwardly, Elena shook her head.

If I told him that it was decided like that, Rudrick was the type to think about it and agree, but why? Because it wasn’t the style to ask back.

And, as Elena expected, Rudrick did not seem to be reluctant, but did not accept that he knew about the fact itself and passed it on.

“Now, if there is something to be careful about… Is Rudrick trying to break the board at all…”

Elena muttered quietly as she walked through the corridors of her villa.

Since he told me that it had already been decided, Rudrick’s pattern of behavior was obvious. Either he just nods and accepts it, or he starts figuring out how to make the ballroom attendance a blank slate.

But Elena wasn’t a fisherman enough to let go of her fish, which had already caught most of them and came into her net.

Data learned from past experiences and piled up one by one.

Because predicting Rudrick’s behavior patterns was easy and simple.

“……Whoops.”

With a low laugh of hers, Elena walked away towards her own office.

And.

At the place where Elena disappeared, someone who had been hiding with magic in one corner of her hallway quietly turned off her invisibility magic.

“……That’s right. The princess was doing something interesting.”

A low murmur.

And before she disappeared again with her invisibility magic, her vertically split pupils stared at the back of the princess as she receded.

2.

Elena naturally told Rudrik that she would be the partner of this prom, and some time had passed after the infusion training was completed.

And the imperial palace somewhere.

Precisely, the laboratory where Lorenzo vacated his seat, saying he would stop doing research and get some fresh air, as he always did.

The door opened and a cat with silver fur and purple eyes, who could be considered beautiful by anyone, entered with a proud gait and cried low.

…… Meow.

However, unlike the outward appearance of a cat, even if anyone saw it, the cry could not erase the awkwardness somewhere, as if a person imitated a cat.

A dog with an impressive red bridge cautiously poked out its head, as if that cry had become a signal.

Dogs.

It was the same awkward dog barking sound, but the two confirmed each other’s identities…… No, the two animals looked around and opened their mouths.

“Do you have ears around you?”

“No. At least within a hundred meters. I just cast a detection spell once.”

“The Prince of Norse and Admiral Leppert?”

“Looks like they haven’t arrived yet.”

Sylpia responded to Arwen’s question with a tone that said it was nothing.

Unlike Arwen, who hides her identity and lives in Ludrick’s room as a pet, or Sylphia, who has nothing to do except magic research, the two have their own positions and duties, so they show up right away. The truth is that it’s difficult.

Returning to their human form, Arwen and Silfia each took their seats and reaffirmed what Arwen had heard before the other two arrived.

“……Are you sure what you said?”

“I’d say it’s because you can’t go around openly because you have a lot of things to hold on to, but I’m not.”

“Somebody’s saying that there’s a lot to be concerned about. But I don’t want to bother Rudrick…”

“Well, play with something like that.”

“It’s not something like that, what the truth is…!”

At first, it was a meeting to overthrow the public enemy of Elena, but in essence, they are incompatible like water and oil.

A brief argument ensued, and as soon as they confirmed the fact that there was a deep emotional gap between them, the door burst open and another person appeared.

“What, are we fighting among ourselves again? I’m still full of energy.”

Rasil, who opened the door and came in, brushed her hair and grasped the situation, and she added that she didn’t care much.

“Fight even. They say that children grow up fighting. If you grow old and still don’t live up to your age, you’re not an adult, you’re a child.”

“……Hmmm.”

“…Well, not when we’re fighting among ourselves.”

Awake to Rasil’s subtle criticism, Arwen and Sylphia stopped arguing for a moment.

Anyway, this place is a place prepared to put aside old feelings for a while and join forces in order to overthrow our common enemy, Elena.

When the two realized that they had been rude, they made a truce, and Rasil scratched her head and asked.

“So, is it true that Her Highness the Princess tricked our Rudric like that?”

“The word ‘we’ is a bit jarring, but if what I’ve heard is correct, I’m sure.”

Sylpia nodded her head.

By chance, Elena came out of Rudrick’s room, and she was the one who clearly witnessed her muttering to herself as she crossed her corridor.

According to Elena’s self-talk, Elena had already taken her hand as the person who opened the ball.

There was a limit to grasping the exact situation just by talking to yourself, but at least it was important that Elena had done something and Rudrick had already been baked and boiled.

“Because Rudrick is careful not to break the plate at all… First of all, it’s definitely not an honorable method.”

“And that means that the lizard lady over there lied to Rudrick?”

“Now who is who is a lizard!”

Sylpia, stimulated by her pride as a dragon, raised her voice and screamed for a moment, but she soon regained her composure and managed her breathing.

“Whoa… That’s right. Everyone knows Rudrick’s personality, right?”

“……That’s definitely the case. Although it looks tough and brittle, it has a weak corner in strange parts.”

Arwen, who had been listening silently, nodded silently.

The first expected scenario was simple.

Notifying Rudrick of the fact that the prom is going on, naturally letting him know that Rudrick has been chosen as Elena’s partner at the prom.

The hypothesis that the three came up with as soon as they met was surprisingly similar to the truth, but there was one blind spot.

“This is very difficult.”

Rasil narrowed his brows and murmured.

Even if that were true, there was no way for the three of them to break the table.

It was almost impossible to overturn the matter decided by the country’s princess in a normal way. If Rudrick, the person in charge, said she didn’t like it, Elena wouldn’t be able to force it anymore, but wouldn’t it be strange for her to run to Rudrick and say that she was Elena’s trick?

And crucially.

“…….”

Arwen looked around her, frowning slightly.

It’s natural that Elena’s tricks don’t like her, but apart from that, she doesn’t really like Rasil or Sylphia either. In any case, everyone had one thing in common: Elena did not really want her to be her partner at the prom.

Dongsangmong.

Though they have the same thoughts, they all have different intentions.

How can we unite when our individual greed is ahead of us?

While each of them were unable to come up with a sharp move and were groaning with their heads tied, the door to the lab opened once again.

Bang.

The rough opening of the door and the figure beyond it were the last people to gather here.

Eileen Nord.

There was a subtle displeasure in his normally expressionless expression, and as evidence of that, his eyebrows were slightly raised. If you’ve been by her side for a long time, you’ll be able to notice that she’s uncomfortable with her planting.

“……Sylphia Andres.”

“Yes.”

“Is everything you told me true?”

“That’s right. Your cousin jumped first. And in a very naive way.”

Eileen, who opened the door and strode towards Sylpia’s unstoppable response, frowned at her.

The girl who had just arrived could read this stuffy air and this current in her eyes. First of all, everyone gathered together in the face of an emergency, but this obvious situation where they couldn’t come up with a sharp number and were repeating empty puns.

In this eventful operation to decide Rudrick’s prom partner, the last puzzle to block Elena’s demonic hand, the primary goal.

Eileen opened her mouth with a somewhat harsh and overbearing tone, in contrast to her clear and elegant voice.

“How pathetic.”

And the words that came out of Eileen’s mouth were sharp accusations.