The Villain Changed the Ending

032 Why do you look at your enemies?

****[King Richard, Weber Kingdom] ****

It is difficult.

It got really difficult.

King Richard had a headache inside.

The first meeting of a foreign delegation is usually attended by several officials or nobles.

It was the same this time too.

No, in fact, they gathered more people than they should have.

At this point, King Richard intended to make the barbarian Red Hawk his vassal and hand over Princess Louise.

Barbarians can’t read the kingdom’s documents anyway.

Some subtle nuances, I thought, would go unnoticed.

It is not a subject country unless it says ‘subject country’.

If you twist the expression a little, you can create enough phrases that you will later notice ‘was it like that’.

That’s what diplomatic documents are.

Oh, it’s different, and uh, it’s different, so it was possible enough if you used a risky expression.

However, it would be impossible if the other party had an interpreter and an official who could properly verify the document.

Even the wording of the treaty was carefully crafted, but it was useless.

‘If I knew this would happen, I’d call the minimum number of people.’

King Richard sighed deeply as he exchanged greetings with the barbarian youth.

It is no coincidence that the officials in charge of the barbarians are incompetent.

I deliberately added the most useless and despising savages.

Interpretation was also in charge of someone who only knew the language of the barbarians on the surface.

Even so, the king himself did not instruct him to do anything.

There’s no way a king would do something so obvious, and there’s no need for that.

It was the barbarian’s reception, which was considered the most insignificant task.

Work goes to useless people by itself, and Richard just naturally approves of it.

‘Everything was going well.’

I had properly thought about what happened after the conclusion of the treaty.

Even after the treaty had been signed, Martin could not be entrusted with the work of an incompetent person, so Martin was called in as an interpreter for the nobles during the banquet.

Originally, when the treaty was over, he was going to call Martin and entrust him with the barbarians.

I never thought that someone would take him away in the first place.

I don’t know if it’s just an ugly curiosity.

In the true sense of the word, no nobles are interested in barbarians.

The savage envoy was barely exposed to public attention after arriving at the palace, and among the nobles who were dark in information, there were even people who didn’t even know that such a person was here.

‘ha.’

Although once a competent diplomat, his marriage to a barbarian woman made Martin’s situation worse, so if the king ordered Martin, he would have had no choice but to accept it, even if he did not like it.

When Martin, married to a barbaric woman, is attached to Princess Louise and sent to the steppes, everything goes well.

There was nothing wrong with his plan.

if it’s original.

But Duke Weiss, the kid ruined everything.

Without even noticing, Martin was snatched away.

On the last night of the banquet at the palace, Martin seems to have worked as an interpreter for the duke as soon as the official duty was over.

King Richard signaled with a wink to pull back the original memorandum, then looked at the little boy standing among the nobles.

The young Duke of Weiss was watching with an innocent face.

‘What the hell are you thinking?’

I don’t know.

The royal family has reasons to do something with the barbarians, but the ducal family has no need to relate to them.

It is not bordering, nor has it been plundered by barbarians.

No matter how much he thought about it, King Richard couldn’t find a reason for the duke’s friendship with them.

‘Whoa.’

Recalling the matter of the border, Richard sighed and took his gaze away from the duke.

I see a savage youth.

The young man, who identified himself as Goruka, stood tall and said that they had not received the food they had promised.

In a word, since your underling couldn’t keep his promise, you, the head of the head, should give it up.

It was accompanied by a legal interpretation that seemed a little complicated.

There is no way out.

In this place, he is about to take on the stigma of being a king who unsightly succumbed to the barbarians.

‘Really, what are you going to do, that little guy?’

King Richard involuntarily glared at the Duke of Weiss.

Even if the plan is ruined, can it collapse this far?

Barbarians are an excellent fighting people.

In the regions bordering them, the kingdom’s soldiers always lost badly.

If the barbarians had retreated after seeing the number of soldiers in the kingdom, they had never fought and won.

For that reason, when barbarians invade, the kingdom’s nobles lock themselves in the castle and wait for them to leave.

If you plunder the crops outside the castle or the livestock that graze and feed the grass, they will go back.

However, if you continue like that, it will be difficult to feed Youngmin this time.

If the barbarians do not have food, they go deeper and plunder and return quickly, but the people of the kingdom who live in the land cannot do that.

Even if there was nothing to eat, even if women and food were plundered, Youngmin, who was tied to the ground, had to live there.

In the end, the territories of the regions bordering the barbarians were becoming more and more impoverished, and it was now difficult to even survive on their own.

Still, if they do not hold out on the spot, the savages will come deeper into the kingdom.

For that reason, the royal family was giving some assistance.

However, their livelihood is still tough.

The fact that he did not keep his promise to give food to the Red Hawk tribe this time was not intentional, but was inevitable.

Because they have nothing to eat and live on.

So what I came up with was a way to suppress other barbarians by making the barbarian tribe a vassal state.

The Red Hawk tribe is on the mild side among the savages, and their language is quite communicative.

Sending a princess there to strengthen the relationship, yes, seemed possible enough.

however.

‘That kid did something really unnecessary.’

Now, let alone vassalage, they even have to pay a penalty for not keeping their promise.

That too in front of many aristocrats.

****[Oscar, the main character] ****

Goruka did a great job.

In a short period of time, with explanations and a little practice, he was able to lay out his point in a straight line while maintaining a good attitude.

It’s just that he’s not used to the situation in the kingdom and socializing, and his brain isn’t bad.

In addition, his ability to keep his cool was considerable.

Even though he eventually knew how the kingdom made fun of him, he acted with reason rather than emotion.

I’m only 16 now and it’s amazing.

However, if you push too hard here, the king’s heart will turn bad.

If that happens, even if the marriage with the princess is canceled, it will be difficult.

‘I think it’s time to pick up the face of the king who has fallen to the ground.’

I caught my breath and stepped forward.

As I moved, the people around me cast curious glances and stepped aside.

I had already discussed the general flow, so when I stepped forward, Gorukawa and interpreter Martin immediately stopped talking.

The king’s gaze was on me.

You seem quite perplexed.

Somehow, it seems that I am a little resentful.

Well, I understand that feeling, but forgive me. I’m thinking of saving you now.

I opened my mouth politely.

“Duke Sinbais, as a faithful servant of Your Majesty, I would like you to allow me to say something.”

The child’s distinctive muffled pronunciation echoed in the audience room.

This audience room is smaller than when I had an audience with the King before.

Because of that, people also stood close to each other.

My voice rang just as resoundingly.

The king seems nervous.

He looked at me with a face that wanted to say something, but nodded his head.

“Permission to speak.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty. Since God is still listening to the words of the Steppe Reaper, I have doubts.”

“… what?”

King Richard asks.

I glanced at the interpreter and the official in charge standing near the king, so that the king could guess what I was saying.

This way, the king will guess what I want to say.

It was then.

‘what?’

I guess I saw something I shouldn’t have seen.

Diagonally behind the king, through a crack in the curtains, a small hand could be seen.

Could it be… Princess Louise?

My mouth seems to open without my knowledge.

I quickly tightened my mouth and lowered my gaze.

The curtains were full, and Princess Louise was hunched over, probably invisible to others.

It only stood out because of my short stature.

Yes, it will.

nobody knows

‘But that tomboy, why did you come to this place where everyone gathers?’

If he had come when there were people, he would have been noticed, so he must have been hiding here from the start.

It would be disrespectful of the kingdom to say that a young princess secretly came out to an official meeting with a god of death.

I hid my agitation and smiled at the king.

“God hears, I know that Your Majesty is a very fair and tolerant person. However, judging from the disgraceful incidents at the border and the treatment of envoys until reaching the capital, the treatment is pathetically narrow. Maybe it’s because the meanings got mixed up unintentionally…”

In a word, it means that someone deliberately instigated conflict.

Of course, the only people who would do that here were the officials in charge of interpreting and diplomacy.

The king seemed to understand my words right away.

“Lungs, Your Majesty! It is!”

“Duke! What are you talking about!”

The king yelled at the interpreter and the official who were trying to say something.

“Shut up! I thought the words of my steppe messenger were strange! Was it your trick!”

“Oh, no. No, Your Majesty.”

“Nu, nu, nu, framed.”

The official looked at me as if he was going to cry and cried out.

“Duke! Why are you doing this to me?”

“M-Martin! Didn’t you agree to speak nicely? But why is this happening!”

The interpreter cried out to Martin.

Martin didn’t lie.

Surely Martin had said something to that effect to me.

I thought I would tell you well.

But the promise would have ended there.

It wasn’t that I promised something, but that I would simply tell the Duke well.

I’m sorry for being tricked, but I can’t help it.

Someone must pay the price for the insults received by the steppe tribes.

It’s something you just can’t get over.

If I go overboard, Goruka’s faithfulness will not turn against me.

From the point of view of Goruka, I also become a person of the same kingdom.

And I also had some feelings for those two.

Maybe it’s because I’m an Asian, or maybe it’s because I sympathize with Goruka, who has simply become a joke.

‘Besides, even if I’m punished, it won’t have anything to do with my life.’

I asked Benno and the civil servants in advance, and they said that I would be subject to administrative punishment.

However, I was told that I would not be able to work as a palace official again.

The sea that I really wanted.

Because there are people like that, the country goes to the brink of collapse.

So that the two could not speak further, the chancellor gave the order to drag them away.

After that, everything went smoothly.

He must have thought that the prestige of the king would be diminished if he waited any longer.

Of course, the king’s face has already been ruined, but anyway, it hurts less to shake off a little dirt.

After all, this king pretends to be wise and good on the outside, but in reality he is a jerk.

Well, even the nobles say it’s like that, so it would be rather strange if the king wasn’t like that.

The king promised to pay the red hawk tribe properly, and the officials standing next to him wrote an agreement.

The documents were, of course, checked by the civil servants of the duchy.

Even though it didn’t look like that, Goruka must have been quite nervous. Upon receiving the agreement, Goruka bent slightly at the waist and took a long breath.

The king left the audience room, and the nobles came out from a distance and saw Goruka.

At that time, an attendant broke through the crowd and bowed to Goruka.

“Your Majesty would like to see you for a moment.”

Maybe you’re talking about a princess?

Goruka looked at me and Martin with a slightly puzzled face.

I have already told you that he might marry the princess.

I nodded to Goruka and Martin and asked them to go, then looked at Benno.

“Master, why is that?”

“There’s Princess Louise behind the curtain. Could you please make sure I can get out of the public eye properly?”

“All right.”

Benno left and returned while I chatted with the nobles for a while.

“The princess sent it to the second queen’s maid.”

“okay.”

“They said they were curious about Goruka-san’s face. He seemed to like it very much.”

“…”

yes, i’m glad

But I hope I never do anything like this again.

My heart is beating so fast I think I’m going to die.

I let out a small sigh and looked at the man standing in the distance.

“By the way, Benno, who is that person? He’s been looking at me since before, but he doesn’t come close.”

He is a fairly old man.

But even on top of the clothes, you could see bulging muscles.

It’s like some kind of body builder.

In this era, the pants are very tight, so people with a lot of muscles can see them.

Benno answered in a low voice.

“That’s the Marquis of Hoven. He’s the master’s maternal grandfather.”

huh?

But why are you acting like you’re looking at the enemy who killed the three generations of readers?

I looked once more at the Marquis of Hoven, my maternal grandfather.