I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

27. Marriage is the grave of life

1.

My head went blank for an instant.

So you asked me if I was thinking of getting married right now, right?

He quietly raised his finger and pointed at me.

“Me?”

“Yes, wonder.”

“With whom?”

Princess Elena trembled as if she had been waiting for my question.

“As you may know, the arranged marriages of nobles usually take place between similar families. Your mother must have been looking for a marriage partner with that in mind.”

“…….”

Actually, it was.

In light of the times, our brother and sister were an unusual case. The youngest, I am in my twenties, but it is already at a dangerous point because I am not fully married, and my older sister and younger sister are not yet in their mid-twenties, but they are branded as old virgins.

But if you look at the precedents, marriages in our family were usually between nobles from the countryside in the nearby territories.

Because it’s not an unspoken rule that ghost marriages exist for nothing.

“But what if there is a married wife that will definitely benefit you and your family?”

“Is that so…?”

He shrugs her shoulders with a somewhat calm face, then raises her hand and points at himself.

Wow, shameless.

Still, I couldn’t hide the small blush that bloomed on her face, but Princess Elena’s red eyes shook dizzyingly in contrast to her expression.

“I don’t mind saying this with my own mouth, but it doesn’t do me any good and guarantees a certain rise in status to you.”

“Uh…”

“Isn’t there anything to worry about? She’s not the crown princess, and if it’s the marriage of the second princess with a distance above me, it’s a bit of the opposite. If I go ahead with it, she’ll be able to die.”

To sum it up, Princess Elena’s words are that she has no benefit to herself, but she is to me, so she wants to marry her of convenience…….

So this is a marriage proposal.

And now I’ve been proposed to.

Thinking like this makes my head a little dizzy. Before the problem of likes and dislikes, it was so sudden and sudden that I was embarrassed and couldn’t organize my thoughts well.

Princess Elena hurriedly added, as if she had read my expression.

“I just want to make it clear that I’m not forcing or coercing, and that the judgment is entirely up to you.”

“…….”

How can you not know what’s going on unless you’re an idiot?

I don’t know what the hell happened in the past before I returned, but I was well aware of the present situation where the five of us were bickering over me.

To be honest, I didn’t really like the situation where they tickled me like the main character of a romance novel, but I was slowly thinking about what to do with that aside.

But at this point, it was out of the expected range to step on the full accelerator with such a sudden acceleration, so the embarrassment preceded it.

Confessing as a joke in my previous life is the final confirmation step right before we start dating after we’ve already ridden everything, but I didn’t know that and we weren’t close to each other.

Honestly, my feelings were similar.

I don’t know what kind of crisis Her Highness felt, or what kind of change of heart she had…… It’s not like I’m dating right away, but a marriage proposal is a bit different.

“…….”

Because embarrassment preceded the situation, the silence grew longer. When I raised her head, I saw Princess Elena looking at me with a nervous expression as if she had committed a sin.

“……Her Highness the Princess.”

“Speak.”

“According to Her Highness’ words, isn’t it a marriage that doesn’t need to be done? As the second princess, it’s less, but there are still many people who oppose it, and there’s nothing to benefit the person.”

“…….”

I couldn’t hear an answer for a long time, probably because Princess Elena was speechless.

“……I lied to you sir. There is really no benefit to me in this arranged marriage.”

“Yes?”

“I ask straight forward.”

Princess Elena, who brushed her hair behind her ears with her graceful motion, wiped away her expression as if it were her acting, and asked with a serious expression like never before.

“It may sound like a story that only makes sense for you. It really is.”

“Then why…?”

“In return, I get respect. That one merit more than offsets all the other disadvantages.”

Bang.

Princess Elena hit her table.

“I’m going to go to the middle of the day. I want Sir… No, Ludrick Weiss.”

“Do you like me?”

I knew.

If you return to the past, don’t you turn the entire fleet around, or don’t you jump out of the coffin? Until now, Princess Elena, who had been quietly watching, had a change of heart, and only stepped on the accelerator first.

That’s why I answered the question without much thought.

“……Maybe.”

Princess Elena, who blushed her proud appearance until just now, was silently engulfed.

2.

The office where Rudrick left.

Elena let out a sigh as she leaned back in her chair as if she had melted away.

“……Ha.”

She knew it well enough. The fact that there was no mood, and that it was a marriage proposal that I made out of nowhere as if I was suddenly seized with a sense of crisis and asked to be whatever it was.

The dice were cast, and the spilled water could not be picked up again.

Her first gamble in her life came back as the sweet reward of being an emperor, but her second gamble was unsuccessful. It wasn’t just a failure, it was completely destroyed.

‘…… I’m sorry, but I don’t have any intention of getting married yet. Honestly, even if I were to get married, I might not be able to help out.’

‘I know. Kyung has a free-spirited personality that is not typical of an ordinary aristocrat Youngsik. Taking all of that into consideration, the proposal was made———’

‘Let’s talk again next time! For now, I don’t think it’s a bit.’

Ludrick, who unnaturally avoided the place no matter who saw it, and herself who, if others saw her, clung to her to the point that it wouldn’t be strange even if she felt that she was ugly and not like Elena.

Elena’s sigh grew thicker as she remembered her moments before.

The fortunate thing is that there is room left, not a complete rejection. If so, it means that as Elena, she still has the option of slowly gaining favor with Rudrick and aiming for her next opportunity to recover.

Of course, this was only a hopeful observation to the extent possible, and in reality, she proposed marriage out of nowhere, talking about an arranged marriage, and only she was rejected.

Thinking like this made her Elena feel very depressed.

To put it a little more specifically, she didn’t do anything for at least three days, and she completely stopped eating and drinking, lying in her room to the point where she wanted to slowly chew on her regrets.

“……I’d rather die than get sick.”

Elena grumbled and forced herself to stand up.

Apart from what she wants to do, she puts her hands on her, and her tasks are still piled up everywhere.

As if forcing her to do something she didn’t want to do, she sat down at her desk again and brought the documents that required her urgent approval.

The white one is paper and the black one is text.

I stared at the documents, but the contents didn’t catch my eye at all. Except for leaving Rudrick both before and after her return, she never suffered a single failure and faithfully followed her elite course. To the princess, the pain of her broken heart was a fresh shock.

At any rate, I thought that the current mental shock wouldn’t be resolved in a day or two, so I just burst out laughing.

“Your Highness, what else happened to you?”

It is rude to dare to enter a country’s princess’s office without knocking or asking for permission. And a voice with a touch that can’t be hidden.

As Elena looked up with her wide eyes, sure enough.

Rasil was standing in front of the office door that was wide open.

Imperial Navy Vice Admiral, Rasil Leppert.

Elena said weakly at the appearance of an unwelcome guest.

“……I don’t have enough time to argue with you right now, so please come back next time.”

“I have no intention of arguing with Your Highness.”

Rassil, who replied kindly, sat cross-legged on his chair and asked quietly.

“How does it feel to be rejected after proposing?”

“……Have you heard?”

“I heard about it by chance. It’s something I have to live for a long time. Your Highness, the Princess of the World… No, I saw His Majesty the Emperor push her man against her.”

“Racil Leppert. If you want to live long, you’d better keep quiet.”

“Why are you so proud of players who have gone through everything that each other has to go through anyway? I took Your Majesty’s side in the civil war though.”

Only the title changed from Her Highness the Princess to Her Majesty the Emperor, but Rasil’s tone was still casual.

At the time the desire to stab the giggling Rasil slowly blossomed in Elena’s heart, Rasil stopped laughing and moved on to the main topic.

“That’s what Rick said. How come Rick uses funny expressions when he’s making something up or doing something.”

“……What?”

“They said that the two of you should shoot a movie together. I don’t know what a movie is, but His Majesty will also shoot a movie with me.”

“……I will forbid you from calling Lord Ludrick by any nickname in front of me. It’s annoying to hear.”

“The person who tried to attack and got knocked out once.”

“…….”

As soon as she heard Racille’s grumbling, Elena was almost furious for a moment, but Elena, who suppressed her anger with her superhuman patience, asked:

“What do you mean sir?”

“It’s simple. Between me and His Majesty, no touch. I hope we don’t interfere with each other as much as possible. And I’d like you to use your hand properly so that I can stay in the capital.”

“……It seems that Sir is mistaken, but only my mother holds the royal power. ‘So far’, as a mere princess, I, Lord, must know that it is not something I can wield.”

“Instead, it’s possible to take a leave of absence or a personnel order.”

“…….”

As Elena’s silence lengthened, Racille drove a wedge with a grin.

“I’m not going to go and tell the other three that His Majesty is Rick… No, she proposed to Rudrick and then got caught, so please be kind to me.”

“It’s not a deal, it’s a threat.”

“Well, it would be convenient if you think of it as a transaction to make things easier for each other.”

Her heart was like a chimney, not wanting to punch Rahsil, but wanting to punch her with her true heart.

However, Rasil’s conditions were not unreasonable, and considering that she, who had limitations on her movement compared to others, would use appropriate measures to overcome those constraints, even Elena could not do anything about it. .

At least it’s better than having her goddamn cousin come back to the office and grab her by the throat for what she’s doing.

C.

Elena bit her lip, feeling that things were getting more and more complicated.

She wasn’t meant to be like this…….

Her sigh grew deeper.