I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

24. True Vampire (was)

1.

It took some more time to calm Arwen down.

In common sense, it is not a village, but the capital that can be called the heart of the empire, and even in that capital, the most heavily guarded imperial palace.

Right now, apart from the information Rudrick originally knew about the regressors, he could glimpse a kind of deep abyss the moment he faced Arwen.

If she were simply an ordinary vampire, she would not have been able to hide in the imperial palace, but the fact that she is not an ordinary existence is a sense that comes from a kind of survival instinct that she can intuit the moment she encounters it.

Of course, Arwen agrees that the easiest and quickest solution is to transform into a cat and pretend that it is Rudrick’s pet, since there are no people more powerful than Rudrick in the imperial palace.

The problem is not that they feel repulsed by pretending to be ‘pets’ anymore, but Arwen’s main argument was that if they transform and stick together like that, it’s practically the same as living together.

But in the end.

“No, think about it. Then I’m still a vampire? I’m very dangerous? I secretly hid in the imperial palace! Are you going to keep going like this?”

“No matter how much, living together…”

“Then Arwen, do you want to leave the palace again?”

“That, I hate that.”

“Then what do you mean?”

“…….”

Arwen, who was repeating the same words like a parrot, must have been frustrated. Rudrick, who had removed her initial ambiguous respect, shouted, and eventually she also raised her white flag.

“……I see. Yes, there is no other way than your words.”

“Why can’t I understand something so simple?”

“It’s not that I didn’t understand. But I’m just worried about you…”

Arwen, who muffled her words, swallowed her afterwords.

I knew from the beginning that he behaved differently from normal men and had an open mind unlike ordinary aristocrat Youngsik.

That’s why he didn’t despise himself as a filthy vampire, and after admonishing him for acting like he’s carrying all the burdens of the world on his own, he probably gave up his own blood.

It was a strange feeling to hear such words from a boy who lived less than one tenth of her life, but wasn’t that what attracted her?

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Just.

‘…… You are bold. I wonder if all kids these days are like this.’

As times change, thinking tends to change to openness. For Arwen, who was still stuck with the way of thinking of hundreds of years ago, Rudrick’s proposal was not something that could be easily accepted or easily tolerated.

That’s the reason why I didn’t step out until the end even though I had already drawn the conclusion that Rudrick’s proposal was the most reasonable in my head.

Other than that, she had nothing else to think of that she deserved, so she agreed, but Arwen made up her mind.

According to what he had already experienced in the past, there were times when Rudrick’s unaware behavior was seen as temptation in the eyes of others.

So, no matter what situation comes up, don’t panic, stay calm and maintain your dignity as a true ancestor.

You must have made that decision.

“Then Arwen, try transforming into a cat.”

“……Eh?”

“I think a cat would be better. Or a dog?”

The moment he met those innocent, innocent eyes, Arwen stiffened.

“……Did you mean to change right here and now?”

“When I came in, I was alone, but when I left, the two of us couldn’t go out. Once we left, it was Master’s lab.”

“That’s true…”

“Cat.”

“……Ugh.”

Of course, compared to Rudrick’s previous life, the concept of a pet was much rarer in this life. Like Middle Eastern royalty in their previous lives, it was almost all high nobles raising unusual animals as personal hobbies to show off their wealth, and for ordinary people, the concept of livestock rather than pets was much more profound.

For various realistic reasons, Rudrick was unable to raise a pet either in his previous life or in his present life.

Since this kind of event occurred at the right time in such a situation, it was an innocent request, asking if it was okay to transform into an animal anyway.

The problem was that it was sudden, even before Arwen was ready to accept it, but it was big.

Pong!

A group of lights covered Arwen’s blushing body with a meager transformation sound, as if the wind was going away.

A flashing halo of light rose for a moment, and then Arwen’s body behind the light shrank rapidly.

Soon, the glow will completely disappear.

“Wow, that looks cute.”

“Ears, ears, how cute…!”

A cat with silver fur, like Arwen’s, was there.

A silver-haired cat that looks arrogant and prickly at first glance. Her amethyst-colored eyes shimmered like cat’s eyes in the literal sense.

The fact that Arwen jumps up and panics at Rudrick’s muttered words inadvertently is an additional element.

“Wow.”

“……!”

Rudrick, who lifted up the cat, Arwen to be exact, muttered as he stroked the fur without thinking.

“It’s amazing. It’s not transformed, it’s really just like a cat.”

“……There’s no way my transformation magic could be that weak. I’d rather let it go than that.”

“Are you uncomfortable? I think I’ve heard of a cat hugging comfortably, but I can’t remember.”

“It’s not uncomfortable…”

Arwen, trapped between Rudrick’s arms, groaned.

It was strange to speak human words with cat’s vocal cords, but Rudrick passed it off, thinking it was roughly the power of magic, and enjoyed the soft touch.

Of course Arwen, the person in charge, was in a creepy mood.

Fortunately for Arwen, who was trapped in an impossible situation, her footsteps could be heard from beyond her dim passage.

“Master is here.”

“……Don’t keep your mouth shut from now on.”

“Yes.”

As soon as Ludrick, who had let go of Arwen, raised her body, Lorenzo revealed her face from between the aisles.

“The coldness is quite strong. Ludrick-kun, it looks like he used ice-type magic… Isn’t that a cat?”

“They came in through that aisle.”

“I don’t remember seeing a cat like that in the imperial palace… It looks like the space distortion magic has been pierced. I guess I’ll have to repair the magic circle later.”

Lorenzo tilted her head as soon as he saw Arwen calmly pretending to be a cat, but he shook her head, probably concluding that there was a flaw in the magic circle.

“It looks like a cat brought in from the garden of the imperial palace. I’ll release it outside again.”

“It doesn’t look like it was touched by human hands… It looks cute, but I’m just going to keep it.”

“You mean Rudrick-kun? Hmm… Well, it doesn’t matter. I see.”

Lorenzo, who was indifferent to his own interest, specifically magic, nodded his head.

A disciple from old times said he would raise a cat he had picked up somewhere, but there was no particular problem.

Lorenzo, who quickly took an interest in Arwen, asked an insinuating question.

“How about it. How did you feel about using magic with all your might?”

“……To be honest, I’m a bit confused. I’ve tried using it while adjusting the power so that the explosive power doesn’t become too strong. And there was no reason for me to learn only attack magic.”

“Remember how you feel right now. Magic is not biased in any direction, and only when you have mastered all kinds of magic, you have reached the pinnacle, and you will be able to claim the title of Archmage.”

Lorenzo, who lifted the staff, added while drawing a magic circle in the air.

“I went to Her Highness the Princess and asked for it. She said that she was positively considering a plan to accompany the Imperial Guard Knights to the regular monster subjugation. I said that it would be better to go through a real battle in the north, but at least that’s what I wanted to say. You objected.”

“……Ah. There’s a reason for that.”

Rudrick clicked his tongue.

The reason was obvious. If he went to the north to practice, he would inevitably stay away from Elena and stay close to Eileen.

It’s like setting a table for your rival, so it was clearly pictured in your eyes that you would have objected, saying that you wouldn’t want to see him even if he died.

Even in the midst of their conversation, the magical energy emanating from Lorenzo’s staff drew a pentagram in the air.

The pentagram has been considered to have the power to prevent evil since ancient times, and it has been used as a kind of magical basic symbol all along.

As if to support the theory that all magic circles are based on the pentagram, when Lorenzo infused a little more magic onto the basic pentagram, countless magic circles were engraved on top of it as if overlapping.

And right after.

Arwen, who was watching from a distance, her hair trembled, and it was almost the same time that Rudrick realized the change.

“……Is this?”

“I haven’t entrusted the study of alchemy to Rudric-kun and Miss Silfia. Didn’t I tell you before? The ultimate purpose of magic is to seek the truth and to peek into the world beyond the source.”

Lorenzo Tonali.

I didn’t reach the realm of the archmage, but the title of court mage was not a good feeling.

As if to prove that fact, the empty space was gradually being painted over with a single color.

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Just as an artist completes a painting by painting on an empty, white drawing paper, Lorenzo was an artist who created a desired space by painting a magical paint on an empty space.

I couldn’t describe it. He couldn’t even define it.

In a novel that Rudrick had read in his previous life, there was a story about taking a certain drug that caused the world to flow and the moon to appear as if it were melting.

And I wondered if the view Rudrick was seeing now was the one he had when he took the drug.

A world distorted in full color.

A world where the colors that make up objects melt like paint flowing on drawing paper.

Lorenzo spoke proudly in the midst of the bizarre scenery that is difficult to describe with the pencil.

“It’s the result of this old man’s lifelong research.”

“……A passageway, this.”

I wasn’t particularly versed in space magic, but the insight that came from my natural talent was able to see through Lorenzo’s magic without difficulty.

At Rudric’s answer, Lorenzo smiled as if he knew how to recognize it.

“The passage to the world beyond the source. Ludrick-kun is right. Although it is still unfinished, the goal is to devote all my remaining lives to complete it.”

Lorenzo, who was looking around with a vague look, immediately raised his staff and canceled the magic circle.

Naturally, the surrounding scenery returned to the secret space prepared in Lorenzo’s laboratory, and Lorenzo’s eyes stared at Rudrick clearly.

“If this old man can’t complete this before he dies, Rudrick-kun and Miss Silfia will complete it.”

“……This magic?”

“That’s right.”

As soon as Lorenzo finished speaking, Arwen, who had transformed into a cat, frowned at her.