The Villain Changed the Ending

033 And then I turned 16

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

‘ah….’

Come to think of it, at the last palace banquet, he was watching me from afar.

Back then, I thought he was just a curious nobleman, but if he’s staring at me like that this time, he must be on business.

Should I speak?

the face is so scary

Um, should I talk to you?

‘If you’re looking at me like that, you’re asking me to talk to you, right?’

In the position of a marquis, no matter how grandson he is, he cannot speak to the duke first.

Besides, he was pretending to be an enemy, but for some reason it seemed like he was trying to engrave his presence on me.

“…”

But it’s a subtle distance.

I can feel the gaze and presence, but for some reason, it is too far to hand over a single word.

It was a distance where it was impossible to pretend to know unless one of the two moved.

hmm. It’s subtle.

This is because you want to meet me or not.

‘But I’ve hardly heard of my maternal grandfather.’

I just knew that my family and I had a bad relationship.

So far, so many things have happened, and there are so many things I need to know.

Wanting to say hello anyway, I took a step towards it.

At that moment, Marquis Hoven hardened his expression and turned away.

The Marquis of Hoven seems to be thinking of not seeing me.

‘No, that would be a little too much.’

The Marquis Hoven trudged away from me and turned around before leaving the crowd.

After looking at me with intense eyes once more, Marquis Hoven turned slowly.

“Benno, can you tell me about the Hoven Marquess when you go back to the mansion?”

“… I see. But I can only speculate on his anger.”

Benno made a troubled expression and lowered his head.

Hmmm, maybe there was something between my mother and my maternal grandfather.

****[Marquis Hoven, maternal grandfather] ****

After seeing an audience with the barbarian envoy at the royal palace, the Marquis Hoven took part in another family’s evening party with her husband and wife.

It was long after dawn when the evening party was over and I returned to the marquis’s house just before the sky brightened.

The Marquis Hoven changed into comfortable clothes and sat down on the sofa in the drawing room.

While I was relaxing my muscles and turning my neck to relieve fatigue, my wife came in.

My wife, too, was changing into an indoor dress.

But her neck is still adorned with lace and jeweled ornaments.

This is to hide the sagging neck skin.

‘To look beautiful in my eyes.’

The Marquis Hoven smiled softly.

He himself, who had once been a stout young man, had grown old.

Wrinkles formed at the corners of her mouth, and soft flesh began to blend into her belly, which had been full of muscles.

Still, for her sake, her wife tries to look beautiful by hiding wrinkles and sagging skin.

‘Well, is that the same for me?’

When he takes off his clothes in front of his wife, he tightens his stomach to build muscle, and in front of her, he overdoes himself and pretends nothing is wrong.

When we were young, we had a creak, but as we got older, our relationship became stronger.

I got a beautiful, strong, good wife.

When he thought of his lovely youngest daughter, who looked a lot like his wife, his warm heart plummeted to the bottom of the icy cliff in an instant.

When I first saw my five-year-old grandson at the palace, I was really surprised.

It was like going back to my daughter’s childhood.

They look exactly the same.

With my lovely and cute youngest daughter.

‘If it wasn’t for that silver hair.’

Only the hair color is different.

The Marquis Hoven let out a small sigh and looked at his wife.

His wife pours him a bottle of fine wine.

The Marquis of Hoven took a sip of wine and began to match the information he had obtained today with his wife.

“… what about the Countess?”

“Well, I think the rumors are right. The dress I’m wearing today is a slight change from the one I saw ten years ago. The eggs in the earrings are a little smaller than last year. The craftsmanship seems to have declined.”

“Are things getting so bad that you can’t cover your appearance?”

When the Marquis Hoven let out a long sigh, his wife took his hand.

“Do you have a lot of money over there?”

“It’s okay. It’s nothing to worry about. We’re only lending out a little money there. Since we went through a moneylender, we’re holding on to collateral. Well, if we withdraw now, there won’t be any big losses.”

When lending money to the count, the name of the Marquis of Hoven was not mentioned.

It was because the moneylender had asked.

In the form of a moneylender lending to the Count, the actual money is paid by the Hoven Marquess.

The moneylender took a commission from the middleman and took care of the convenience of the work.

However, you need to be careful because sometimes you can lose yourself by being bitten like this.

In addition, as they shared information obtained at the evening party, the sky was brightening before they knew it.

I need to take a break now

In the past, I could stay up all night for a few nights, but as I get older, my body becomes more and more strained.

As I gulped down the last remaining wine, my wife suddenly opened her mouth.

“Now stop being stubborn.”

“…”

As I looked at my wife’s face, I let out a small sigh.

“I didn’t see it, but I heard that the Duke of Weiss had a splendid fight today? He said that His Majesty’s face was completely shattered and put back together, and at the evening party, the women went wild over that story.”

“… joy.”

The Marquis Hoven snorted with a disinterested expression and lowered his head.

He stood there and watched the scene.

It was wonderful to see the little one tell a long story with an indistinct childish accent.

Whoops.

The Marquis Hoven pulled the corners of his mouth together and tightened it up, feeling that he was about to burst into laughter.

I can’t show my wife this look.

After making a sullen face, he raised his head, and his wife looked at him with a pitiful expression.

“How long are you going to stay angry? Unmanly.”

“I’m not angry. I am.”

“Admit it, honey. I was jealous that your dear youngest daughter chose a stupid husband and father-in-law over you.”

“T-That can’t happen! I’m the head of the family! My daughter rejected my decision as the head of the family and pushed me away… That’s why we cut off the relationship.”

The Marquis of Hoven jumped up and glared at his wife.

“He has decided that he would rather belong to the duke than to become a member of our family. Now he has nothing to do with our family.”

Annette, the youngest daughter, did not seem to think so, but she was the most beloved child.

He is the last daughter born to his wife.

there’s no way it wouldn’t be cute

However, the position of the head of the family makes it difficult to reveal it on the outside, and Annette seems to have felt a distance from herself who is always busy.

He didn’t think his father loved him.

Maybe that was it.

When the youngest daughter got married, she followed the slick duke like a father, as if her lips were oiled.

Oops, my teeth were grinding without realizing it.

‘With what kind of feeling did I marry that child… how much effort did I put in for that child?’

After deciding to marry the duchy with a feeling of vomiting blood, the Marquis of Hoven still did the best she could for her daughter.

Various conditions were written in the marriage contract so that the divorce could be done at the slightest sign of unhappiness.

If there is no child after one year of marriage, divorce if Annette applies.

If there is no first night for three months after marriage, divorce if Annette applies.

Divorce if assaulted.

It also included the condition that if a son is born, it is okay to have a lover after that.

They negotiated so that they could have a certain amount of money each year as their own pocket money, and put detailed conditions so that they could divorce even if they were insulted.

To the point where I don’t know if it was a marriage for divorce or reconciliation between the two families, the Marquis Hoven did her best not to make her daughter unhappy.

Reading it now, I feel that the dead Duke of Weiss managed to grant all of those conditions.

And in fact, when I found out that my son-in-law had abandoned the child and was only following his lover’s ass, I wrote him a letter to come back.

Divorce and come back to your parents, I will accept.

I sent letters to my reluctant daughter several times, but each time Annette replied that she would wait a little longer.

Lastly, I recommend it, even when I wrote a letter saying that if you don’t obey this order, you will not be a daughter of my family, I received a reply politely apologizing.

Annette refused her birth parents and the family she was born in, saying that she would become a duke until the end.

Instead of calling him father, he chose the future of calling the dead duke father.

“…”

Yes, it cannot be said that there was no jealousy at all.

There may have been a bit of jealousy mixed in.

“At this rate, we’re going to die without ever having a chance to talk to our grandson.”

said the wife with a sigh.

“Huh, that kid is from the duke’s family. Before our grandson.”

“You really are…”

My wife let out a long breath, and as if she had suddenly remembered, she made a sound.

“The child’s portrait is torn.”

“What? But when I saw it the day before yesterday, it was fine.”

Having said that, the Marquis Hoven shut her mouth.

His wife was smiling.

That’s a lie.

The wife leaned out a little and looked into his face.

“Yes. I see you went and watched it. You ordered it to be put in storage. I thought it was strange that the cloth it was covered with was often disheveled.”

The dead duke sent a portrait of Oscar as a baby when he was about a year old.

Because portraits of children are difficult to draw, the only picture that arrived at the Marquis House was that one.

There is only one sheet.

So it’s a problem if it gets damaged.

Because it is the only picture in which you can see your grandson.

The wife smirked and took his hand.

“Honey, put in some jealousy and think about it. We have a grandson who looks just like our daughter. It must be like seeing your daughter again, right? If you miss out on being young, you’ll never see them again.”

My wife made a bad face.

“If you suddenly find it hard to change your mind because of your stubbornness… Okay, I’ll make an excuse.”

And the wife whispered softly.

The former duke is dead.

If so, wouldn’t you be the only adult man you can trust next to that child?

If we get hold of that child now and set our hearts on it, the Duke of Weiss will do what our family wants.

The Marquis of Hoven looked at his wife’s hands overlapping with each other.

And muttered in a low voice.

“Hmm, as the head of the family… it’s only natural to prioritize the interests of the family. Sacrificing for the family is the duty of the head of the family. More than my pride… that’s what’s more important.”

My wife laughed and got up from her seat.

“Seriously, a man takes a hand. Even when he gets older, he’s like a child.”

Looking at the back of his wife as she muttered that, the Marquis Hoven called out to the butler in a loud voice.

Seeing the face of the butler who appeared silently, the Marquis Hoven issued an order in a dignified voice.

“If the day is bright, send an inquiry to the Duke’s family. He wants to meet the day when the schedule is fine.”

A wise wife is a priceless treasure.

If she had said the duke was alive, he would have snorted.

But the duke is dead.

Since there is no equal opponent in the other family, there is no fear of hurting one’s pride.

It was decisive to see the grandson’s appearance there.

The Marquis of Hoven breathed a sigh of relief, letting go of his stubbornness, which he had been running on his own without being able to do anything about it, as an excuse.

it was good.

Only now, I can get out of the situation where I was just biting my fingers and staring.

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

After completing his mission as a messenger, Goruka invites him to the duke’s mansion in the royal capital.

After learning how to manipulate magic from him for a while, when Goruka returned to the grassland, Martin accompanied his wife.

For a while, I was busy attending the evenings held by each family, but by the beginning of summer it was all over and I was able to return to the dukedom.

Then, exchanges with the Marquis of Hoven began.

We met twice, but I don’t know why, but each time I learned the mindset of a head of household.

I was a little scared at first because he taught me while glaring at me with a very scary expression.

It feels like a rabbit being hunted by a tiger.

You’re looking at it with a lot of beaky eyes.

As I found out later, that is the original expression.

‘Then, did he just stare at me as if he was staring at me like he was going to kill me every time?’

After the Marquis couple made an appointment to visit the duchy later, I headed back to the duchy.

*

When winter came and everything was covered with white snow, the marriage of Princess Louise and Goruru of the steppes was announced.

If you make Goruka, who has already reached adulthood, wait longer, there is a possibility that he will have a first wife, so it is said that the princess gets married in advance and waits for her to become an adult in the grassland tribe.

As Martin went back and forth between the dukedom and the grasslands, the exchanges with them became smooth.

As Princess Louise’s patron, the Duchy made a pact to provide a certain amount of food to the Red Hawk every year.

*

At the age of six I graduated from the pony and rode my first big horse.

Benno, the dukedom’s aide, and the captain of the guards were in the opposite position, but the Marquis Hoven heard the story and directly invaded the duchy.

Then, in front of Benno and his opponents, he eloquently said that the former duke had taken lessons to become a knight at the age of seven, and that he had first ridden a horse at the age of six.

“If the duke’s bloodline is only Oscar, he will be a fool who can’t defend himself in case of emergency!”

Everyone had no choice but to be silent as he was secretly referring to his father, Bernd.

‘To that extent, my father was being treated like a fool.’

Somehow I let out a sigh.

And, as a punishment, I rode my first big horse in the presence of the Marquis of Hoven, the captain of the guards, Benno, and numerous aides.

*

At the age of 7, Mr. Sven caused a magical explosion during an experiment.

It wasn’t a big explosion, but one room was half destroyed.

Research tends to take a step back when it advances, and the development of magic bombs did not seem easy.

*

At 8 years old, Benno found out who he was looking at.

Of course, I was the only one who noticed.

I reviewed my mother’s marriage contract again.

OK, there is nothing wrong with my mother’s remarriage.

Let’s wait for love to sprout.

*

9 years old, fiancé Catherine turned 7 years old.

I got married again through a letter.

‘I got a love letter for the first time.’

I was very happy, but the last part of the letter bothered me a little.

[This love to you until I die.]

Who taught a 7-year-old to say that?

*

At the age of 10, I went directly to the steppe people and spent a week.

I thought I was good at riding horses and wielding weapons, but I found that I was conceited.

Steppe tribesmen shoot arrows while a five-year-old child rides a horse.

When I was five years old, what the hell was I doing?

I knew I was wasting my time.

*

At the age of 11, he received another passionate proposal from his fiancee Catherine.

Again and again, the handwriting has become much prettier.

When I replied saying that since we are already engaged, there is no need to propose again, a letter arrived saying ‘This is a woman’s spirit’.

I started to get a little worried about who was in charge of Katrin’s education.

*

At the age of 12, the love between his mother and Benno does not bud.

Benno just looked at her, and her mother didn’t notice Benno’s gaze at all.

Mother, you are too insensitive.

*

At the age of 13, teacher Sven’s lab was destroyed in half.

Fortunately, it was a separate building, so there was no damage anywhere else, but teacher Sven was crying for days and days because a lot of research materials were burned.

*

14 years old, it seems that the relationship between his father and Bianca is not the same as before.

There were reports of frequent fights.

*

In the winter of 15 years old, I heard the news that the daughter of Baron Meyer, the family of the heroine of the novel, had died.

After recalling my previous life, I was gathering information bit by bit about the family, which had a daughter the same age as Rene.

However, the daughter is said to have died suddenly.

Apparently, the heroine of the novel, Renee, was a twin.

Twins are considered unlucky in this country, and it is said that it is common to abandon one of them after birth.

I thought he adopted his lover’s daughter because the baron’s bloodline was on the verge of being cut off, but it seems to have been the couple’s child.

*

And, I turned sixteen.

It is time for the novel to finally begin.