I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

56. The prom, now with no attendance (1)

1.

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My head was spinning. I don’t know if the symptoms of anemia came from sucking too much blood or what.

“What is so strong?”

Grunting at the red handprints left on his gripped wrists, he gulped down blood until he was satisfied, then rolled his eyes at Arwen, who had a harmless expression on his face as if to say “I don’t know-“.

“Because it’s not convincing to have to make that expression with blood on your mouth?”

“……Hmmm.”

Taking out her folded handkerchief, Arwen cleared her throat shyly, then added, wiping the blood from her mouth.

“For me, drinking blood is no different from eating food for humans. If you serve a delicacy when you’ve starved for a few days, what’s the difference between being a human?”

“The problem is that it’s all my blood. Originally, after donating blood once, I had to wait two weeks before doing it, right?”

“……I don’t know what that means, but I haven’t had a drink in four days already.”

She must have realized her shame belatedly.

Well, to be honest, it doesn’t matter much except for getting dizzy.

As I placed her enchanted hand near the nape of her neck where she had been bitten, I felt her wound heal quickly as a cluster of her light spread. She doesn’t even need to stop the bleeding, she can easily heal the wound by using recovery magic.

Of course, magic isn’t all-powerful.

The only thing magic can do for you is to heal the trauma from the fang bite without the need for cumbersome hemostasis.

“Then is that enough?”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“I’m going to sleep now. I haven’t had a bad night’s sleep for four days, but I’ve had a bit of trouble sleeping at night. I’m getting sleepy.”

“……Ah.”

It was as he said.

The tent made with the magic kit was excellent enough as a camping item, but it was still not comparable to the fluffy bed in the imperial palace.

Furthermore, I was quite tired once or twice because I had trouble sleeping because of the footsteps and talking of the knights patrolling on duty.

I was about to go to sleep when four people suddenly rushed in.

When Arwen changed back into her cat form and tried to get off her bed, she tried again her invitation, which had been rejected the other day.

“Wouldn’t it be uncomfortable to try to sleep under the bed all the time?”

“Hmm…? Oh, it’s fine while transformed into a cat. It’s cozy.”

“Then do you want to sleep next to me today?”

“…….”

What came back was silence instead of an answer.

No, it’s not a strange intention, it’s in the state of being transformed into a cat anyway.

If there is a woman next to you while you are sleeping, that would be quite, no, very burdensome, but I wonder if it would be okay if it was a cat.

It seems that there are many excuses, but people who have never had a pet have thought of sleeping with a dog or cat next to them at least once.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“…….”

However, Arwen was looking at me with an expression of what to do with the cat.

If you look at me with pitiful eyes, no matter how much I am, it hurts.

“……You can’t use it if you make fun of adults.”

“Oh.”

Arwen, who was staring at me, immediately shook her head.

From the outside, anyone can see a cat. It’s hard to imagine that he used transformation magic, so sometimes he treats Arwen like a real cat.

However, it was also a proposal that was handed over in the sense of teasing Arwen halfway, but when it hit the point like this, I ran out of words to say.

…… Is this age it’s scary, it’s scary

The moment I was about to lie down under the blanket while thinking silly thoughts.

Poljjak.

A jumping cat filled my field of vision.

The composition exactly matches the picture I saw on the Internet in my previous life, where the cat is looking down at the camera below. Arwen’s unique self-awareness was staring at me in silence, so I opened my mouth with an awkward smile.

“Ahahahaha… That, are you angry…?”

“……If you keep playing around like that, maybe you’ll get scolded someday?”

Just like this.

With a low mutter, I wondered if the magic would dissipate, and Arwen’s face instantly drew closer.

And.

Page.

I felt something soft touch my cheek and then drop it.

…… Therefore.

“So it is.”

She turned her head and saw Arwen, as if nothing had happened, transforming into her cat and going down her bed.

So the situation just now…… Is that what I think is right?

“…….”

I also silently switched the magic stone lighting to a sleeping light. I muttered indifferently in the dim light, where I could only make out the outline.

“……It was the first time.”

It’s not the lips, but the cheeks, but it’s true that it’s the first time.

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from under the bed.

2.

Boom!

The sound of hitting the desk in the office leaked into the hallway late at night.

If I had to pick one of the most serious places in the villa, it would be the second princess, Elena’s office. The sound was so loud that the knights guarding the outside of the office flinched inadvertently, but it was extremely rare for a sound like that to come out of the office, so the knights also looked puzzled.

‘…… Why is His Highness doing that?’

‘Do you know Nandle? Didn’t something bad happen?’

Elena wondered if she could overhear the conversation, while each one of them was making a puzzled expression with her mouth wide open.

Helena, the person responsible for the sound, had a distorted expression on her face.

“……At this late hour?”

“Yes.”

The person reporting to Elena’s sullen voice lowered her head as if it was her fault, as if it was her fault.

I was about to post her report that Aileen had just arrived in the capital via a teleportation magic circle, and she had returned to the Principality of Nord.

To borrow Elena’s expression, it was the sudden arrival of the ‘f*cked cousin’, so it was only recently that Elena, who was intrigued, asked for a more detailed explanation.

Laboratory.

That goddamn Lorenzo’s lab was the problem.

“…Since the owner is away recklessly, don’t you think damn things are coming and going like they’re in their own house?”

“…….”

At Elena’s rage-filled voice, only the piteous practitioner lowered his head.

Eileen and Rasil met secretly in Lorenzo’s lab. If so, the picture was clearly drawn without thinking too deeply.

Since it was Lorenzo’s laboratory, of course Sylfia would have been there, and it wouldn’t be strange if Arwen, who had been brazenly walking down the hall lately, joined in as well.

And it’s pretty obvious what the four people of interest would have said if they had gathered together at this point.

Everyone must have conspired together to distort Elena’s big picture, her great plan.

“Damn it.”

Elena touched her forehead, muttering her curse words.

I was confident in the brain fight, but in the midst of the tight deadline, a big unexpected variable intervened in the plan that was proceeding smoothly.

I don’t know what kind of cunning plan the rivals might have come up with, but first I had to find a way.

How did you prepare the plan and how did you seize the golden opportunity, but you can’t blow it away like this.

If I missed this opportunity, this thought would come to my mind when I lie down in bed before going to bed for at least a month. Then even if you get angry, you won’t be able to calm down unless you kick the covers off.

“…You showed ugliness. Sir, it’s okay to leave.”

“……Excuse me.”

The practitioner, who was shivering in front of the angry Elena, didn’t miss this opportunity and suddenly disappeared, leaving Elena alone with no one to disturb her, lost in thought.

Since this happened, it was right to discard all existing plans.

It’s hard to guess what variables will come in, especially if you keep in mind that there’s nothing strange about getting stabbed in the back of the head in a really unexpected way.

In that case.

“Now that it’s like this, I think it’s right to go with plan B.”

After calmly thinking, Elena muttered, regaining her usual composure. Her gaze involuntarily turned to the doorway.

During this festival period, to be precise, he gave up his original plan to attract everyone’s attention by making Ludrick his debut in the social world as his partner at the ball.

If everything went according to plan, it would have been a great opportunity to impress Rudric with the attention of the central nobility and the fact that he promised himself a future or that he was in a position equivalent to that.

Tsk.

Added Elena, who clicked her tongue.

“You have to have a corner to like it, so you can’t have it.”

That chance was blown up when three other people, including his goddamn cousin, ran afoul of his plans.

Then, just as there is a saying that the more urgent you are, the slower you go, the existing plan to monopolize Rudrick is discarded and the only way to approach it is as conservative and safe as possible.

Besides, as he had already had the experience of pushing Rudrick forcibly once and getting blacked out, this time his approach was more cautious.

And preparing for such a time is Plan B.

It was a plan written after taking into account all imaginable variables.

At the extreme, it was a plan that assumed everything, even the situation where Rudrick went on a so-called dive with various excuses, hiding somewhere until the festival was over.

As much as it was possible to deal with variables stably, the risk was low, so of course it was inevitable that the return was small.

“I can’t.”

It’s not like I know anyone as an idiot.

Elena muttered grimly as she looked out the window. More precisely, to the north.

The fact that Aileen had enjoyed a one-day date with Rudrick in the capital city was also something she had just heard from her report a while ago and only had her feet stomped.

Eileen wasn’t actually leading this plan, but whatever.

In Elena’s mind, Eileen had already been designated as the #1 target of concern.

“……I’ll show you the truth this time.”

Elena’s eyes were burning with vengeance.