I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character - Chapter 155



Side story 2. The Northern Grand Duke Wants to Flirt (Complete)

1.

Silphia, with a distorted expression, stopped the magic she was using for peeping.

It’s already been a year since they got married. Whether Sylphia trembles in anger at Eileen, who has already started to run ahead of them alone, or not, that is Sylphia’s problem, who has been secretly peeking at them with her magic.

Ludrick opened his mouth with a bewildered expression.

“It’s a bit surprising.”

“Really? I did that too.”

Eileen smiled shyly and carefully stroked her belly, which was so swollen that no one would have known she was pregnant if she hadn’t told them.

Ludrick’s brain, which had once stopped due to feelings of embarrassment, began to spin quickly.

There is no such thing as an ultrasound machine in this world, and the most reliable method is to first guess the menstrual cycle and then use magic. The fact that Eileen speaks so confidently means that she has already completed all the verification.

It wasn’t that I hated that fact or thought it was a disaster. It was just something that happened so suddenly and vaguely.

In fact, in this world, Ludrick is barely at the marriageable age, while the rest of them have already long since passed the age of marriage. In their previous lives, they were at an age when they would have just taken their first steps into society.

Only twenty-one years old.

“I wonder if it’s a little too early to be a father…….”

Ludrick muttered.

“It’s not that it’s too early… but I can’t say it’s too late either. It’s actually me who’s late to become a mother… so should I just say I was somewhere in the middle?”

“……Well, actually, that’s not important, is it?”

“That’s right.”

Eileen smiled, not caring about Ludrick’s reaction. If you looked at it from a distance, her eyes looked somewhat hazy.

The wedding ceremony has already been held, and legally, they are a married couple. The unrequited love that lasted for over ten years and even went through a regression has been repaid, but now with the addition of a child, they are truly bound together as a family unit.

From the moment I first confirmed that fact, I had a hard time controlling my strangely excited feelings.

Even though she had heard Sylphia’s advice to be honest about her desires, she chose to wear a dress like this, which she would normally not wear even if she felt like it, thinking that it wouldn’t suit her. In a way, this is a product of that.

Hug.

Eileen reached out and took Ludrick’s hand, her face flushed with strange excitement.

At first, she was worried, but then she felt a subtle pleasure and joy at seeing Ludrick embarrassed by this sight. Then, she felt anticipation and excitement for what was to come, and even a longing to fulfill her desires. Eileen whispered with a mixed expression of emotions.

“……The room is empty. Do you have any plans for today?”

“That’s… over there….”

It wasn’t the old Eileen who would get a nosebleed just by holding hands.

Since they had already finished the show and were already pregnant, there was nothing to be afraid of. Eileen’s appearance, as if she had become a different person, was so shocking that Ludrick hesitated and stepped back.

“Why, do you have an appointment?”

“That’s not it……”

“Then it doesn’t matter. Do you not like it?”

“No, it’s not that I don’t like it, but the sun is high in the sky right now and if it’s like this in broad daylight…….”

“I’m sorry. Sometimes I do it in the morning.”

A sticky, sweet voice, as if whispering in your ear.

The way she pushed Ludrick forward without hesitation was truly the epitome of a woman among women in this world.

As Eileen was holding hands and slowly getting closer to him, it was Ludrick who eventually raised the white flag first.

“……Please be gentle.”

“don’t worry.”

The corners of Eileen’s mouth went up, and her crimson tongue lightly licked her lips.

“honey.”

2.

To cut to the chase, Ludrick, who entered the empty room holding hands, was able to have a rather precious experience.

I could intuitively see the sight of Eileen feeding me snacks as if I was a sick person who couldn’t move a single hand, and smiling as if I was full just by looking at her, and I could also realize a new fact that, unexpectedly, when I laid my head on Eileen’s lap, my thighs were really soft.

It was also a time when I learned many new facts.

For example, Eileen likes things to be rougher than expected, or in fact, she has been holding back the urge to sit Ludrick on her lap, hug him from behind, and rub his face against him.

And it was no wonder that Ludrick, who was on the receiving end of all these actions, had a look of dismay on his face.

It wasn’t a question of what kind of behavior had been experienced.

“……?”

The upper body, uncovered without a single thread of clothing, was revealed between the flowing blankets, but Ludrick, who had no intention of covering it up, made a blank expression.

How did things end up like this?

Where did Eileen, the most virtuous woman who would make her nose bleed just by holding her hand, go? Now, is there only Eileen left who torments her husband as she pleases while pregnant with their first child?

Even after thinking about it carefully by myself, I couldn’t come up with an answer.

Right now.

“Huh huh……”

Eileen, with a happy smile on her lips, tirelessly held onto a few strands of Ludrick’s hair, stroking it with her fingers.

From Eileen’s point of view, the current situation was just good.

Because she had broken down a kind of psychological barrier and limitation that she had set for herself. If it had been her in the past, no, if it had been her just a few days ago, would she have been able to express her affection for her husband so nonchalantly and call him with the cringe-worthy title of “honey” without any hesitation?

It was impossible.

‘It all depended on one’s mindset… … .’

Eileen stopped fiddling with her hair and thought to herself as she snuggled into his arms like a puppy.

The first child that was born was merely a catalyst of sorts. It functioned as a device to smoothly express the desires that she had suppressed, saying that they did not suit her personality.

‘Was Eileen originally like this?’

On the other hand, Ludrick was still bewildered. It would be more accurate to say that he simply did not understand the current situation.

Maybe he was too careless because the other person was Eileen. Until now, all Ludrick had seen of Eileen was the series of scenes where she blushed when he held her hand on their first date, or when her name was simply called.

But after experiencing it firsthand, Ludrick was able to understand.

“There was a nine-tailed fox inside……”

“huh?”

“No, it’s nothing. It’s just like that.”

Eileen was no different. No, rather, Eileen, who had to overcome her psychological limitations, was more than the other wives, not less.

‘There was a nine-tailed fox inside, how did they hide it and survive?’

Ludrick stuck out his tongue inwardly. It had already been a year since they got married, and he felt like he had managed to endure it all this time.

There is a saying that a thief who learns to steal late in life doesn’t know how to fly, so Ludrick changed the subject, thinking it was just that.

“So is it a son or a daughter?”

“……Well. I still want a son.”

Eileen expressed the same opinion as before. If you roughly think about it in terms of a previous life, it’s not particularly unusual or strange since the father wants a cute daughter who resembles the mother. Ludrick agreed and asked back.

“What if she’s your daughter?”

“If she’s a daughter… she’ll be the future Grand Duke of Nord, so I have to raise her very well, right…?”

“hmm…….”

Ludrick gave a short snort.

It is said that a couple is one in heart and soul, but unfortunately, the two did not agree on this part. Eileen wanted to discipline her daughter more strictly because she was the next Grand Duke of Nord, and Ludrick, whose way of thinking had not yet been released from his previous life, did not have the confidence to raise his daughter so strictly.

“But isn’t it a bit much since it’s your first child?”

“Honey, then I have a good solution.”

“What? If I tell you that you can have more children, you’ll be really angry?”

“Ahem…….”

Eileen, who was about to suggest that solution, quickly shut her mouth. However, even she thought that one child was a pity. In the first place, it was said that the survival rate of infants was not very high in that era, but that only applied to commoners, not nobles who could receive quick treatment and enjoy the benefits of magic.

Right now, Eileen was an only child in a family with no sons, so if you ask if it was really necessary to have many children, it wasn’t necessary, but she still didn’t feel regretful about having just one child.

“…Elena said she wanted four.”

“So this is what happens in the end……”

Ludrick sighed as he recalled the story Elena had once told him.

It was a predetermined future from the moment Elena made a sort of public declaration out loud that she would have four children.

It may sound nice to say four, but if you have five wives, and each of you wants to have four children, you end up with twenty children.

“Eleven is enough for a soccer team, so why do they have bench players as well as starters?”

Ludrick grumbled and shook his head. Suddenly, the eleven regular members plus a reserve player were made up of children, so grumbling was almost instinctive.

Eileen, who knew that if she pushed Ludrick, he would eventually give in, drew a line at the corner of her mouth.

“……Honey, then should we have the second child right after the first? As consecutive children?”

“Oh really!”

Eileen, who was watching Ludrick’s reaction, chuckled and laughed softly. Then, she thought as she wriggled and dug into his arms again.

At first, I thought it was a ridiculous marriage, but if I could live like this, then accepting it and accepting it was the right choice.

Still, she wanted to spend a little more time with Ludrick and their sweet married life.