I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

30. Date

1.

A dangerous and precarious atmosphere, like walking on thin ice.

Sylphia treated Ludrick as someone who didn’t exist and had a heart-to-heart fight with Rasil in front of him.

“…….”

“…….”

As if it was a promise, no one opened their mouth. While doing meaningless research, Sylphia glanced sideways at Rudrick, and Rudrick was busy reading books related to recovery magic with a sullen look on his face.

I hope the stuffy atmosphere continues for a while.

Lorenzo, who had returned belatedly, opened his mouth only after the rare spectacle of a naval admiral and a dragon pretending to be human had passed.

“This is really cool.”

Lorenzo spoke first, but no one responded.

Glance.

Rudrick’s gaze, which had been fixed on the pages of the book, and Sylphia’s gaze, which had been observing Ludrick’s gaze, turned towards Lorenzo.

Lorenzo, who succeeded in attracting the attention of the two, trembled.

“No matter how much magicians say they’re a kind of people who only do research in their closets, it’s true that they only use it when the atmosphere is so gloomy.”

“That’s because I didn’t do the research that Master told me to do every time, and I kept wandering around.”

“Kerham, I’m not just hanging around. Instead, I’ll cut down on my sleep and focus on research.”

Struck by Rudric’s blunt words, Lorenzo cleared his throat.

It was an irrefutable fact that I was the type to go out on the pretext of getting some fresh air during the day when other people were doing research, and instead, I was the type to focus in earnest on other people’s bedtime.

“Ludrick-kun, go with Miss Silfia and get some fresh air.”

“You want me to rest?”

“Well, to be blunt, I guess. Ms. Silfia, are you okay?”

“It doesn’t matter to me.”

Lorenzo smiled contentedly at Silfia’s answer.

“Well, sometimes you have to change your mood like this to learn magic well. Do young people these days call it refresh?”

“……Well, that’s what they call it.”

“Ludrick-kun, you haven’t walked the streets of the capital yet. The imperial palace is of course wide, but the streets of the capital are much wider than that. Go buy something delicious and do some people-watching.”

Lorenzo, who had risen from his seat, almost pushed Rudric on the back, and Rudrick, who had been pushed out of the laboratory by chance, put on a dumbfounded expression.

At some point, Ludrick was holding the thick pocket money Lorenzo had given him, and Sylphia, who naturally followed him, was standing next to it.

Sylphia asked with a smile at Rudric, who couldn’t keep up with the series of events that happened in the blink of an eye.

“Where shall we look?”

“……Even if you ask me that, I have never left the imperial palace after coming to the capital.”

“Oh, really?”

Sylpia widened her eyes.

Of course, she knew that, but in the situation where Lorenzo had laid the table for such a long time, Silfia’s brain was spinning at a furious speed.

Sylphia, who made a completely ignorant expression, laughed inwardly.

She could only describe it as luck. Or maybe it’s a phone call.

To quote what Silfia herself said to Rashil just now, in a situation where anger can be distinguished in five stages, Ludrick was angry until the middle stage. Thanks to that, I’ve been watching Rudrick’s eyes for tens of minutes, but who would have known that it would change to an opportunity like this.

‘It’s a perfect date, this.’

It’s still too early to celebrate the victory, but Sylphia thought of it with the expression of a winner overflowing with composure.

If the act of spending time alone walking through the bustling streets of the capital is not a date, what can be defined? If you think about it, this was a date after all.

“I still have a lot of time, so I’ll go in slowly today. Isn’t this a rare opportunity?”

“That’s right.”

At Silfia’s proposal, Ludrick didn’t show any objection. My timetable, which was no different than that of a graduate student, had changed drastically with one word I said to Eileen, so I didn’t have much complaint when she told me to continue studying recovery magic, but it wouldn’t be bad to spend time like this.

Rudrick readily accepted the offer and quietly followed Sylphia.

Rudrick, who was following Silfia, secretly pulled the opening of the pocket money to check. Inside, what greeted Rudrick was a pile of gold coins that shimmered and shone golden.

‘How much is this…… ?’

It was a lot of money for Rudric, who had lived in the Earl of Weiss for 20 years.

From Lorenzo’s point of view, it was a small amount of money that could be enjoyed by his students as pocket money, but Rudrick, who received the money, inadvertently recalled the favor of his teacher.

The two, whose identities were confirmed because they were Lorenzo’s disciples, exited the palace without any restraint and slowly descended the hill where the palace was located.

“It’s pretty. It’s definitely a capital city, so it seems to be paying attention.”

“I will.”

The neighborhood is used as a promenade, so flowers were in full bloom on both sides of the well-paved road. Sylphia looked around and said with a bashful smile, but Rudrick’s reply was sluggish.

Ordinary men would have added some rhetoric to them, but Rudrick, who had a different sensibility than the average man in this world, wasn’t particularly impressed.

Rather, the crowd that rapidly increased as soon as they left the imperial palace was more annoying to Rudric.

“……There are a lot of people today. It could be any day.”

“Oh, I heard there is a festival today. That’s why there are so many people.”

“The perfect day was market day.”

“Wouldn’t Master send us to come and play? Still, it’s a festival that happens once a year, so you should watch it.”

Sylphia said in a cheerful tone.

A date with Rudrick alone. And if the festival was held on the day when the chance of genius came, the situation couldn’t be better.

I don’t have much interest in human festivals, but if the person watching the festival together is Rudrick, the story is a little different.

“Ludrick-kun, you may get lost, so please follow me.”

“It doesn’t matter if you just call me Rudric.”

“Whoops, then I’ll call you Rudric.”

Even the process of completely shaking off the awkward sense of distance caused by the name in the growing crowd was perfect. Since the situation so far has been perfect, the smile that Silfia smiles as she speaks is sincere.

But Rudrick had a slightly different idea.

The street was not narrow as it was the capital of a country, but thanks to the uniqueness of the festival, the crowds were full. It wasn’t a situation where she could afford to keep a delicate distance from Sylphia and not lose sight of her even after walking.

Rudrick took Sylphia’s hand without thinking.

“……?!”

Sylphia flinched momentarily.

My hand was suddenly grabbed without mental preparation.

‘Rudrick is naturally easy-going…… ?’

In my head, I thought that Rudrick was originally easy-going, so he caught him without much thought, and I had no other intentions, but my thoughts became complicated.

The soft feel of your hands paralyzes reason.

Rudrick looked at Sylphia, who flinched as if an electric current had passed through it, as if it were strange.

“……Why are you like this all of a sudden?”

“Ah, ah, no! It’s nothing!”

A voice raised to an unnaturally high tone and a flushed face. It was clear enough proof that even if you looked closely, you could tell that Silfia was shy, but fortunately for her, Ludrick didn’t intend to do that.

I just put on a look that I wanted to do that for a moment, and I was busy looking around with curious eyes, as if the grumbling about the fact that it was a festival just a moment ago was a lie.

I must have gotten a lot of pocket money from Lorenzo anyway, because I was fully prepared to enjoy the festival without worrying about money.

“Sylphia, do you want to eat that?”

“……What?”

Rudrick stretched out his hand and pointed to his seat.

It was a stall selling cotton candy and fruit candy, befitting the festive atmosphere.

Sylphia, who had been hesitant, burst into laughter soon after, even though she had been grumbling until just now, seeing her more excited than anyone else when the seat was laid out.

“Does Rudrick want to eat that?”

“I didn’t really want to eat it, it just reminded me of the old days.”

“Okay, okay. Then go around and eat a little bit of everything.”

Sylpia, who took over her bag of gold coins, paid the price and bought her cotton candy and fruit candy and put them in Rudrick’s hands. Still holding his hand tightly so as not to be swept away by the crowd.

Sylpia turned her head and smiled slightly as she took a big bite of her cotton candy without thinking.

I think that saying that just looking at it makes me happy is for a time like this.

Suddenly thinking about it, whoever sees himself and Ludrick will see them as a couple enjoying a perfect date. When she thought that, her shoulders stood up at the thought of being ahead of the other competitors.

“You’re lucky.”

“Yeah? How lucky are you?”

“Rather than being lucky, I really have to say thank you to Her Highness later on… Fufu, there is such a thing.”

In the same way, Sylphia giggled as she bit into the cotton candy.

Cotton candy was unusually sweet.