I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

34. Northern Anti-air Special) Very strong

1.

The territory of the vast Nord duchy was so huge that it encompassed the entire northern part.

The Principality of Nords is a country that has been guaranteed near-unlimited autonomy while being subordinated to the Esgeland Empire, fighting an endless war with barbarians and monsters beyond the barrier to protect the Great Wall from the frozen land of the harsh cold.

The Great Wall is the significance of the existence of the Principality of Norse, and at the same time, it was the forefront of the empire that the grand dukes of Norse had firmly defended for generations.

Thus, it was not unusual for Archduke Eileen of Nord to directly inspect the wall, even if he had not been informed of suspicious trends from the rangers who had gone out to scout.

“…….”

Black hair unique to northerners.

Eileen, dressed in a uniform with her ebony-black, glossy hair hanging down naturally, looked at the endless snowfield beyond the barrier.

There has been no significant armed conflict for several months.

The northern ice cap that never melts in all four seasons has already embroidered her white snow with red blood hundreds or thousands of times just by looking at it.

“The timing is perfect.”

“Yes?”

Eileen murmured softly.

The aide-de-camp standing next to him asked with a puzzled face, but Eileen continued with his usual expressionless face.

“Adjutant, how long will it take to reach the nearby post when the beacon is lit?”

“……If you start moving as soon as you raise the beacon, it will take about 30 minutes.”

“It takes quite a while.”

“As your Highness knows, the barrier is too wide and it takes a long time for troops to move. Unless it’s a major base where wizards are deployed…”

“Okay.”

Eileen cut off the adjutant’s excuses in the middle and gave a cynical smile.

Clap.

With a thud, the sword that had been gripped in her scabbard was pulled from her waist.

“Light a beacon to signal all 16 nearby outposts. If it takes 30 minutes to arrive, you’d better move quickly.”

“……Yes!”

Her adjutant wasn’t stupid. The adjutant, who understood Eileen’s meaning in an instant, saluted and moved quickly.

On the other hand, the corners of Eileen’s mouth twisted up and drew her arc.

The timing was perfect.

As usual, while she was thinking about taking a walk in the capital city, an incident broke out when she went out to inspect it like this.

As long as it is not unusual for barbarians to attack, if it is a hawk that must be hit someday anyway, now is the best timing.

A savage that has been quiet for the past few months. I don’t know, but I must have selected the attacking point of the wall, stocked up on supplies, and prepared more troops than usual. It might have been a bit dangerous if I had been careless.

“The timing is perfect. No, I don’t know if I should say they were out of luck in this case.”

A muttered Eileen spurred her barrier and jumped off after a light helping close.

“His Highness the Grand Duke!”

“Are you all right, Your Highness!”

Unsurprisingly, the soldiers who were standing guard with a lot of tension around them shouted something with their flagship faces.

The vassals who had served Eileen for a long time did not look very embarrassed. Rather, it was as if he knew Eileen would act like that.

“It’s an enemy raid! Everyone get ready for battle!”

“Close the gates and boil the oil! Supply soldiers distribute supplies! Move, hurry!”

To see the grand dukes of a country starting their respective tasks with a calm expression, considering that they jumped out of the castle wall single-bloodedly without even wearing armor.

On the contrary, the soldiers and low-ranking military officers showed more bewildered expressions.

“Isn’t His Highness just jumping out of the castle wall?”

“His Highness likes to wield the sword himself. You’ll get used to it after a few more trials.”

“……No matter how hard it is, going out without armor and helmet.”

“Who cares about who?”

At the cautious question of the soldier standing guard, one of the vassals snorted.

“Is His Highness the Grand Duke called the Black Lion for nothing?”

The vassal’s words were terrifying.

A group of troops began approaching, shaking the earth from beyond the far-flung snowfield.

It was nothing new.

The Principality of Nord is basically a cold and barren land, but even that has become enough for people to live on. On the other hand, the land beyond the Great Wall is a place where the climate is so harsh that people cannot live at all.

Naturally, it was a structure where barbarians coveted the fertile land of the Ezekielland Empire and had no choice but to attack.

It was a normal thing. However, this time it was only slightly larger.

And Eileen, who had jumped out of the barrier, landed lightly on the snowy field, holding her sword and breathing slowly.

A cursory glance at the number of barbarians numbered more than a few thousand, but as if that was not a problem.

“……After being quiet for a while, the number seems to be quite high.”

It was just that level of sentiment.

There are hundreds of troops on the wall. If you hold out for a little while, reinforcements will arrive from the organically arranged nearby guard posts, and then the barbarians, who have lost their numerical advantage, will repeat unreasonable attacks and retreat leaving only corpses behind.

Because the battle situation so far has always been like that.

In that case, it was a problem that could be easily solved if she, one of the strongest swordsmen in the empire who was allowed the name ‘Black Lion’, stood in front of the castle gate and waited for reinforcements to arrive.

Since she is a human being, she cannot fight and defeat thousands of armies single-handedly, but if she can take her time in a narrow street, she can take three hours instead of thirty minutes.

‘…… I miss Rudrick.’

Drawing Rudrick’s face in her head, Eileen took her mind.

The barbarians attacked at just the right time, so after repelling the barbarians, the post-war handling was left to the staff, and a wicked plan was being built in his mind step by step to get him out of the capital.

The staff will shed bloody tears when they hear it, but what about it?

Her practice should be left to her staff, and she just needs to stick to the role she can do best.

And also, didn’t it be said that men usually feel thrilled when they see women’s feminine side?

Glance.

Eileen looked up at the castle wall with a sidelong glance.

Witnesses were the adjutants and staff who were busily running around.

Since the last time I ran away from home, the staff have been begging me to go to the capital after repelling the invasion, so I planned to take some of them with me when I go to the capital after repelling this invasion.

And, as Eileen intended, she would serve as a faithful trumpeter.

If Eileen talked about how heroically she performed against the invasion of barbarians, the story would reach Rudrick’s ears as well.

If that happens…….

Eileen’s earlobes turned slightly red as she inadvertently imagined her embarrassing to let others know.

“……Hmmm.”

Eileen clears her throat and evokes her atmosphere.

It’s good to imagine and anticipate a pleasant future, but it’s a situation where thousands of barbarians are running right in front of your eyes.

Eileen had a twisted smile as she watched the savages running away screaming loudly.

The grip of the sword in my hand was heavy. As if foreshadowing the massacre that would happen soon after.

2.

There was one convenient thing about coming to the capital.

Being able to receive newspapers comfortably from the morning. Of course, I didn’t pay a lot of money to subscribe to it, it was a newspaper that Master subscribed to.

I wonder if I’m paying the subscription fee every morning, when a pigeon sits on the window sill with a newspaper hanging from its leg, I start my day by bringing the newspaper hanging from the pigeon’s leg.

I don’t know what pigeons eat, so I like it when I give them nuts from a restaurant.

And Master didn’t read the newspapers I paid for and subscribed to, so I got into the habit of reading first.

“It’s Grand Duke Eileen.”

In the article written as the headline on page 1, it was written that Archduke Eileen had defeated thousands of barbarians who had invaded the Wall in a matter of months.

After figuring out the rangers’ reconnaissance routes, this invasion came in as a surprise so as not to be seen.

The point was that there was Archduke Eileen, who just happened to be inspecting the barbarians, who had no luck at all, and that he guarded the castle gate alone until reinforcements arrived from a nearby post and took supplies of hundreds of barbarians.

“……Wow, this is not Hangwoo.”

In a world where magical powers exist, it’s not unusual for a powerful superhuman to take pictures of matchless men alone, but Archduke Eileen was stronger than I thought.

…… If you mess with it, you won’t even be able to find this bone.

I stuck out my tongue while reading the newspaper.

And I used artifacts to communicate with such human weapons and complained, “Oh, Rudrick, I was scammed,” “I’m having a hard time,” He said.

Thinking about it again gave me chills for no reason.

Actually, I don’t know if the regressors are the main heroines or not, but that’s why they have a crush on me, so they treat me comfortably and well, but it’s true that they’re difficult to look at if they were originally.

The princess, the grand duke, the admiral, and even the dragon and the true ancestor.

…… The name value is too high for a rural aristocrat to handle. Especially in this world where men and women are bizarrely reversed.

“Mr. Rudrick. Good morning.”

“Hello, Master. Could it be that you’ve been researching all this time?”

And while I was enjoying my leisurely morning tea time and reading the newspaper, the inner door opened and Master walked out of the lab with a blank face and greeted me.

Looking at his appearance, he must have been studying all night.

As I expected, Master yawned and nodded.

“That’s right. I was recalculating the formula to find the dimensional coordinates. I’ve made some progress, so I concentrated on it, and it’s already morning.”

“Then go in and sleep now. Don’t even think about going somewhere in the morning.”

“Wandering around. This is all a walk to call attention to focus. Please don’t misinterpret it.”

“The average person doesn’t call this a walk when he meets this person and chats for four or five hours, and snoops on all sorts of incidents here and there.”

“hahahaha, then I’ll just call it that. Anyway, I’m very tired today, so it would be right to go in and close my eyes for a while.”

Master raised his staff and muttered his first language.

The person who stayed up all night was clean again with the Clean Magic. Even if you can’t do anything to the dark circles that have come down and the face that has come down, at least the appearance is clean again.

“Unfortunately, His Highness, the Archduke of Norse, has decided to visit the laboratory today. I really should go and close my eyes for an hour or two and then come back.”

“Huh? Your Highness the Grand Duke?”

I asked reflexively.

No, I’m new to this? Why is the nobleman who was beaten up by barbarians in the newspaper just now suddenly in the lab?

“I was notified that I was visiting in the morning. I don’t know if this old man knows why… Anyway, I’ll just go and close my eyes for a while, so tell Miss Silfia that later.”

“I’m sure I’ll tell Sylphia too, but this is a bit sudden. It’s normal to talk about this a few days ago.”

“Do you understand, Nand? I’m sure His Highness has an idea. The amount that His Highness decided to donate to the laboratory this time isn’t small.”

“……Ah.”

I realized.

Still, a sudden visit like this is rude, even though he’s a court wizard by name. Even so, I found out why the snarky Master was silent.

…… Science and engineering labs and wizard labs all have the same circumstances.

Well, the person who gives money is the best.

I realized the obvious reason of the world and shook my head. If you’re a lab sponsor, you can’t help it. They said they would give money, but what was the point of notifying the lab the morning of the day and coming back?

Master seemed to have read my expression and shook his hand.

“Anyway, I’m only going to sleep for an hour, so see you later. If the Grand Duke arrives sooner than expected, send someone.”

“Okay, then go to sleep.”

“Please.”

Master waved his hand and left, and the door to the laboratory closed.

And then, left alone, I sipped the teacup I had just been drinking and thought about it.

It’s almost certain that the reason Archduke Eileen suddenly decided to sponsor the lab was because of me…….

Thinking about it, I needed to be careful.

As usual, Arwen suddenly turned into a cat and came to the lab, but what if Archduke Eileen was in that situation?

…… I don’t know, but I think something happened between you and Sylphia. It would be nice if Archduchess Eileen didn’t know Arwen’s true identity, but since she’s a regressor, she’s likely to notice.

Then aren’t the two meeting again and fighting?

Ugh.

When I imagined it in a bad way, I shuddered for no reason.

…… Something, something didn’t feel right today. It shouldn’t be like this in the morning.

An ominous feeling suddenly came to mind. I pray that this worry will be over, and after emptying the teacup, I am ready to start the day.