I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

58. The prom, now with no attendance (3)

1.

And I’ll do my best- I left about half of the books to Sylphia, and while I read the remaining books, time passed helplessly.

“This was really useless.”

Well, that was a waste of time.

I closed the book I had been reading to the end after concentrating on it for about 30 minutes and put it down and rubbed my dark eyes.

For almost a week, I tried to concentrate on reading the small print, and the fatigue in my eyes was not negligible. And the fact that the books I’ve read so far were of no use was one of the factors that aggravated the fatigue.

“……I’m just going to look for something like a treasure by looking through the books filled with junk.”

It wasn’t nutritious enough to inadvertently grumble.

I learned magical knowledge that I didn’t know, so it can’t be said that the time was completely useless, but the information I wanted was not even in the imperial library.

“…Is there a place with more books than here?”

I bit the tip of my fingernail.

I don’t know if there might be some books I missed in the imperial library, but I’ve just shaken off all of them if they seem to be related in the slightest.

The other candidates that come to mind are the academy library, or the collection of books owned by the Mage Tower.

The Academy Collection. If I wanted to, I could read it at any time even if I requested cooperation from my line, and if the Magic Tower borrowed the power of power, I could easily borrow the collection I own, but…….

It wasn’t easy.

Should I say it’s a pity that there’s no easy thing in the world, at least I don’t seem to be able to eat it raw.

Still, you can’t be full on the first drink.

I realized that the world is not easy, so this is it. I never expected to find a solution right away in the first place.

There was a lot of time.

“Right now, I only have a few months to live.

I shook my head while blurting my horse’s tail.

I wasn’t resolute in the face of the fear of death, it was just that it wasn’t easy to realize it because it was a story from a very distant future.

And my job was to find a solution before the distant future turned into the near future, and Arwen didn’t really want to use it, but seeing as there was a last resort, it was like having an insurance policy.

I was covering the book I was reading and stretching for a long time when the door to the lab suddenly opened and Master peeked out his face.

“Ludrick-kun, I’m sorry for being busy…”

“No, I just finished reading, so I wasn’t busy. Is anything going on?”

“A guest has come. The day has come.”

As Master moved away with a confused face, a grinning face caught my eye through the open door.

“Hey, has our Mr. Rudrick been doing well?”

“Sir Rasil…?”

“It’s hard to call her that way, and it’s a little like that because she reminds me of Her Highness, the princess. You can call her just plain Rasil. You can call her noona Rasil.”

It was Admiral Geumtaeyang.

No, it’s fair to say that she’s blonde and tanned, but she’s not a bully, so calling her like that was technically rude.

I was more used to calling him Admiral Golden Sun rather than the name Rasil because the language was so attached.

“Uh…”

“Ahahahaha, if it feels burdensome, just call it whatever you want.”

“Then Admiral Taeyang…?”

“Oh.”

Rasil’s laughter stopped as soon as he spoke carefully.

It wasn’t an angry expression, but in many ways it was a complex and subtle expression to describe in writing. Soon, Rasil opened his mouth in a bitter tone.

“Mr. Rudrick… No, since I’m older, can I just call you Rudrick?”

“……Yes, I’m fine.”

“I’m sorry, but I know what that means. I heard they call it Golden Taeyang, which is short for blonde tanned Yangachi.”

“Sorry.”

Before Rasil finished speaking, she nodded terribly and bowed her head.

If you think about it, there was a good chance that I would have told you what it meant before returning, but when I inadvertently spit it out without properly filtering it in her brain, this kind of division took place.

Fortunately, La Sil soon waved her hand to dissuade her.

“No. It’s not that I’m in a bad mood… It’s just that I saw you saying that this time, so I just thought it was you.”

Rasil added with a bitter smile.

A strange remorseful voice and expression. The expression that seemed to miss something naturally made the atmosphere quiet, and naturally I also kept my mouth shut.

It was a rather heavy topic to touch lightly, but it was.

I was only aware of the fact that they had returned because of the system that disappeared in a blink of an eye, but it was natural that I couldn’t know what happened in the past before the return.

But sometimes, in the case of Arwen, there were often times when I was alone, thinking about things in the past.

The past that has passed for them is a scattered and vanished time that cannot be shared with anyone in this world.

“……Um, well. Shall we stop talking about heavy things? It just makes the atmosphere darker for no reason.”

“…….”

“Ahahahaha, you don’t have to look so gloomy. It’s just that I was reminded of the past for a while. Anyway, so you don’t have to be downhearted, boy.”

Racille shrugged her shoulders and held out her hand.

As I stared at the hand, Rasil urged me as if I was not holding it.

“Now it’s time to escape from the imperial palace, Rudrick.”

“……Ah, that’s right. Racyl was the role in that plan, right?”

“That’s right. So thanks to that, I checked the changing times of the guards and the patrol times of the Imperial Knights, but… Anyway! Today is just the right time to escape. The Knights won’t be guarding for the next two hours. “

I grabbed my outstretched hand, and Rasil walked past Master, who was standing there, and led me into the corridor of the villa.

She caught her hand, and while she was led through the hallway, a cat and a dog appeared from the corner of the hallway, strange and suspicious to anyone.

One cat was a face I knew well.

“……Arwen?”

“It goes according to plan. The guards who were turning left for a moment took Iji away. They won’t suspect it even if they pass right in front of them.”

“Okay, nice advice.”

Rasil turned the corner, giving a thumbs up to Arwen, who spoke while licking his front paws.

And the dog with red fur like Bridges, running hard with short legs, followed me next to me…….

“All the remaining guards up to the entrance were put to sleep for a while with sleep magic. You can just walk past them.”

“Good job, lizard lady too!”

“Someone calls it a lizard!”

With a familiar voice, Rasil and Silfia exchanged a conversation like a joke.

No, wait, was that puppy Sylphia? I’m sure I remember passing by in the hallway a few times…… !

Without even time to panic after realizing the shocking truth, I walked past the sleeping guards and left the palace in an instant, just as Sylphia had said. It’s also very leisurely.

Sylphia, standing far away from the entrance, shouted in a shrill voice.

“Make sure to keep your promise! It’s not your turn today anyway, so don’t think nonsense!”

“Oh, do you think I’d sneak around like you do?”

“Who is calling someone insidious, this person!”

Rasil giggled when he heard Silfia screaming from behind. And only here, I was able to finish the Imperial Palace escape comparable to Shawshank Redemption.

As I came down the promenade near the imperial palace, I couldn’t hide my bewildered expression and asked Rasil.

“……So what is this all about? Did this go according to plan?”

“Well then, of course. Our plan has been like this from the beginning, isn’t it? A plan in which the Archduke puts his strength into various ways, and I run away with you, and the two of them use magic to divert their eyes so that there is no noise in the process. “

“Isn’t this enough for us to have come out of the imperial palace almost openly? If you don’t know this, you’re at the level of an idiot…”

“Ah, don’t worry. We’ve been in the imperial palace for several years, don’t you know that much? We’ve adjusted it just enough so that it doesn’t cause a commotion, so don’t worry.”

“I don’t think so…”

I was led by Rasil’s hand to the middle of the capital city streets, but I was still suspicious.

If you put the guards to sleep with sleep magic and hypnotize them in the imperial palace, not anywhere else, it’s normal for there to be a chaos.

Still, since Arwen and Sylphia possess magical skills that are incomparable to those of human archmages, it’s not strange to believe that if it were someone else, there would be an uproar in the imperial palace by now.

Still feeling uneasy as if I had touched the beehive, Rasil, who saw my expression, shook her head as if she couldn’t help it.

“So much useless worry. Anyway, my role ends here. Unfortunately, today is the Grand Duke’s turn, and my turn is tomorrow.”

“……But if I’m not a child and I’m alone-“

“Write.”

Racyl, who interrupted me midway, clicked her tongue.

It’s not like this world has changed the average height of men and women, but Rasil is taller and I’m shorter, so the height difference feels daunting at first glance.

Thanks to that, Rasil, looking down at me from above, clicked her tongue and crossed her fingers.

“Then what would you do if something dangerous happened?”

“……Wouldn’t it be right to first worry about someone who wants to do something dangerous to me? He’s a wizard after all.”

“That’s true, but…”

Rasil, who was speechless at once, looked worried as if she was looking for something to say, and as soon as she saw someone, Rasil was delighted.

“Oh, there you are.”

“Yes?”

“Hey, the Archduke is here? I’m going to go and play with the Archduke today. If that person tries to do something bad, don’t like it, no, don’t do it. Don’t forget to shake it off while saying this?”

“……What?”

“Then I’m done!”

Beyond the back of Rasil, who suddenly disappeared with those words, her familiar face appeared again.

“……As planned.”

A fine crack formed in his usual expressionless expression. A small smile raised the corner of her mouth as if she was satisfied.

It was Eileen.