The Villain Changed the Ending

Chapter 41

041 If I take that woman away

****[Prince Robert]****

He is always in the way.

Ever since they met as children, Robert has always been hidden behind the Duke of Weiss’s shadow.

My father and mother always tell me to look at the Duke of Weiss.

He’s younger than you, but he’s so brilliant, that young duke learns the means to enrich his territory, and no one can move in the presence of the duke, still young… younger than you, but already a dignified duke.

‘boring.’

Oscar became a duke because of unavoidable circumstances.

He didn’t become a duke because of his excellent abilities.

The situation after becoming a duke may be evidence of his excellence, but the throne of the people around him must have been great.

It’s not his only ability.

‘If I had a subordinate and title like that, I’d be able to look even better.’

It’s just that Robert wasn’t given that opportunity.

Until the king dies, the prince is just a prince and has no power.

Although she is supported by her queen mother and her patrons, she cannot make any decisions for herself and must follow the instructions of her father, the king.

In such a situation, it would be too much to ask him to compete with the duke, who is a complete absolute in his own territory.

He arbitrarily puts him and the duke on the same line and weighs them, but it was not fair from the beginning.

‘Damn it.’

Robert cursed inwardly and glanced around.

Duke Weiss is some distance away from him.

Seeing the woman in his arms, Robert’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

she is a beautiful woman

She looked up at Duke Weiss with starry eyes and smiled.

I thought it was like a delicate flower.

I had never seen such a beautiful woman before.

‘Looking at her partner wearing a white dress, she must be her fiancée. Does the duke even have such a beautiful woman?’

My taste became bitter.

Robert does not yet have an official fiancée.

Talks of an engagement with a princess from another country have been going on, but only the process of adjusting the conditions has been going on for six years.

Still can’t see the end.

The thought of the woman’s portrait made him even more angry.

Although better than her own mother, the princess was not very beautiful.

If you consider that it is common for the portrait of the betrothed Ta Jin-yong to be drawn more beautifully than the real person, the actual appearance will be even worse.

‘But what is this woman?’

Robert looked at the woman who was being followed by his hand.

In the circle of the round and round dance, the woman turned her gaze to and fro with a dazed face.

First of all, I was stepping on it, but it was not a proper movement.

If it hadn’t been for Robert’s lead, who had been learning to dance since childhood, I would have stepped on his foot or stepped on my own dress a long time ago.

‘This woman… probably… was the daughter of Baron Mayer.’

She is the daughter of a family with bad stories.

Not long ago, I heard a rumor that the daughter of the family had died of an illness.

This woman must be the twin brought in instead.

They gave birth to twins, but they didn’t abandon them when they were young and kept them secretly in a remote countryside.

The nobleman who taught Robert the job said that Baron Mayer had brought his twin daughters to sell.

He is trying to get money by marrying his beautiful daughter to a man who runs a bad loan business.

‘He’s a really ugly person.’

It seems that the eyebrows will frown on their own.

However, without making a mark on the outside, Robert looked at the woman in front of him.

What part of this woman is special?

The icy Duke of Weiss was staring at this woman for an instant.

Robert’s eyes caught the moment.

‘Is there something that could catch the man’s attention?’

Although she has a beautiful appearance, there are many more lovely women than her.

Countless women who were confident in their beauty gathered around Duke Weiss, so it might not have been such a surprise.

‘Wearing shabby clothes and behaving like a country boy.’

Maybe this caught his attention.

Robert said a few words to the woman and smiled softly.

Anyway, it was the woman who attracted the man’s attention.

If you keep him close, you might hurt Duke Weiss’s heart even just a little bit.

No, I hope so.

Robert glanced through the circle of people at the Duke of Weiss and his beautiful fiancée.

beautiful.

It felt like my heart was being grabbed by her.

‘If I could have that woman…’

At the sudden thought, Robert swallowed and looked away.

If you do it wrong, you will be pulled in a direction you shouldn’t go.

But when the music ended and he watched Weiss dance with his fiancée again, Robert swallowed again.

beautiful.

Anyone who sees her will fall in love.

Perhaps the Duke of Weiss is the same.

His eyes, always icy, curved gently toward his fiancée.

‘If I take that woman away.’

If so, wouldn’t Duke Weiss go mad with anger?

Suddenly, Duke Weiss’ eyes met.

“!”

For some reason, I feel frightened.

It felt like my heart had been touched by cold ice.

Leading his fiancee, the Duke of Weiss narrowed his eyes and looked at Robert.

It was as if they were greeting each other with their eyes, but a strange sensation ran down his spine and Robert involuntarily looked away.

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

At first, it was difficult to use mana.

No matter what, the mana leaked out little by little, and even when I released my mana to threaten it, I couldn’t just target a specific person.

However, as I learned the ways of the grasslands from Goruka and as Sven’s research progressed, I became able to handle magical powers almost perfectly.

Now, it is possible to threaten only one person with magical power, and to control the concentration.

“…”

Both this guy and that guy.

‘It’s serious.’

Humble glances poured from all sides.

Catherine, who is still young, has no idea what the stares on her mean.

With their eyes sparkling, they are simply amazed at the splendor of the palace ball they have never seen before, and smile happily at my face.

I shot back one by one the low gazes pouring down on Catherine with magic power.

‘But… I can’t believe Prince Robert did that.’

At first, I thought it was just a gaze sent because he hated me.

He said that because he hates me, he must hate his fiancée, Catherine, that much.

It is not yesterday or today that Prince Robert is against me.

I didn’t even care that much.

But I soon realized.

Because hatred and greed are completely different things.

Prince Robert’s gaze was not simple hate.

I thought that the eyes looking at Katrin were like greedy pigs.

When I looked at him threateningly with magic, the prince immediately lowered his gaze.

But the prince glanced at Catherine several times.

When I noticed and looked at it, it was already after I had averted my eyes, but it seems that the back of my head is being pulled.

I don’t know why the main character, the prince, sees the villainous girl and looks at him like that.

‘It’s just that it wasn’t expressed, was it like that in the original work?’

Catherine was written to be very beautiful even in the novel, so there is a possibility.

If so, I hate it.

Unlike Oscar, who is executed, Catherine is cut off from her family and banished to a foreign country.

What happened after that is not recorded.

However, if such a beautiful woman was left helpless, it would be obvious what happened after that.

I took Katrin, who smiled brightly without knowing anything, and entered the crowd as if flowing.

My maternal grandfather, the Marquis of Hoven, spotted me and approached me.

My maternal grandmother is with me.

“The Marquis of Hoven.”

Even if it was in a private setting, a conversation in a place like this would follow the title of a nobleman.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a mother or a grandfather.

Even if it’s in the middle of a conversation, it’s bad manners to call him grandfather.

It was the rule of the aristocratic society to respond according to the title in an official setting.

As I smiled, the Marquis Hoven cast a stare at me.

It’s a face that looks like it’s staring at you every time you see it.

I can’t believe it when I see it for the first time.

“Duke Weiss, it’s been a while. It’s been a month.”

If you see it in a month among the nobility, it cannot be said that it has been a long time.

However, it seems that my maternal grandfather was quite dissatisfied with it.

Even so, the stern face became even more frightening.

Grandpa, Katrin is going to play.

The Marquis of Hoven and my grandmother laughed as if they had noticed my feelings.

Did Grandma stab her in the side?

The Marquis Hoven’s gaze turned to Catherine next to me.

“Duke, can I introduce you to this beautiful lady?”

“This is my fiancée, Catherine.”

Catherine must have known who the Marquis of Hoven was.

Katrin calmed down a bit and bowed politely.

“I am Catherine, the youngest daughter of the Marquis of Petri. I have been hearing a lot about this from my father.

Catherine’s eyes twinkled like stars.

“I’ve been looking forward to the day we meet. I’ve heard many stories of how the Marquis decapitated countless enemies and hung their heads on the wall. I really want to hear from the Marquis too.”

“hahahaha. It must be a bloody and burdensome story for a woman, but if you want, I’ll gladly tell you about this old man’s embarrassing past.”

“I really want to hear it, Marquis.”

Catherine laughs brightly.

I really wanted to hear about it, so I was a little worried inside.

A girl who is happy to talk about cutting off her head and hanging it on the wall.

Don’t you feel like you’re going to open a bad door?

Something like the path of the villainous lady.

But the Marquis of Hoven seemed very happy.

If you think of them as grandsons and daughters-in-law, you’ll have cuteness that wasn’t there, but if you’re looking forward to your own heroic story, well, that’s really cute.

Wouldn’t it be highly appreciated that he wasn’t afraid of the Marquis Hoven’s stern face at all?

After talking for a while, I left Katrin with my grandmother and headed to the place where the men were gathering.

I want to continue to be with Catherine because it is her debut stage, but the main purpose of attending such a banquet is to obtain information.

Besides, Goruka, a steppe tribe, is attending this year.

You must introduce him to the head of a closely related family, such as the Marquis of Hoven and the Marquis of Petrie.

Suddenly looking back, Catherine was guided by the Marquis de Hoven into a crowd of women.

At some point, old wives surrounded Katrin and were talking.

Behind Katrin is the wife who is the supervisor of today’s banquet.

In an instant, a wall of women was created that was so hard that men couldn’t even come close.

At the center, besides Katrin, there were a few women who were making their debut this year.

My eyes met suddenly with the Marquis of Hoven.

Grandmother nodded slightly.

I’ll keep an eye on it, so I guess it means don’t worry.

Maybe that round group of women is like a nest where older women protect younger ones.

I turned around in relief.

This was the first time Marquis Hoven and Marquis Petri had met Goruka, but they were already used to the steppes.

I know that steppe tribes don’t like to talk in circles or be approached with useless rhetoric.

After I introduced Goruka and briefly greeted them, the two immediately got down to business.

“The Grasslands are really amazing. One warrior can easily outrun ten of our soldiers. One-on-one, they’ll never win.”

It was Marquis Petrie who said that.

Goruka smiled and tilted her glass.

“thank you.”

“Hmm, but we’re not losing either. If you can’t do it one-on-one, you can fight with five or ten people at a time. War isn’t about form. If you win, that’s it.”

Marquis Hoven looked at Goruka with cold eyes.

It seems that he has a sense of rivalry with the younger Goruka.

Marquis Hoven and Goruka seem to have good personalities.

Goruka seemed to think so as well, so she glanced at me and smiled happily.

Little by little, the wish that the contempt for the steppe tribes would disappear went back and forth between him and me.

In the meantime, I have been preparing for war step by step by attracting the Marquis of Hoven and the Marquis of Petri as allies.

However, it was only two years ago that he was able to summon several warriors from the steppe tribes to join the training of other families.

The dukedom had been training with steppe warriors for a long time, but in the meantime, it was difficult to soften the gaze of other families on steppe tribes.

However, thanks to direct witnessing my family’s training and my persuasion several times, the Marquis Petri and Hoven’s gaze towards the steppes has softened to some extent.

However, many people still despise the steppe tribes from the bottom of their hearts.

Even the ducal family I was the head of had someone like that, so it was needless to say about other families.

However, if you keep coming into contact with this place, it will eventually get better little by little.

‘Well, if the steppes invade later, I’ll know how great they are, even if I don’t like it.’

Like the duchy, the Hoven and Petrie marquises also have numerous families under their command.

When they attend a banquet, they greet the head of the owner’s family and blend in with the surroundings.

I diligently introduced Goruka to such people and spent time talking to them.

Among them, there were those who had already been mobilized for training by the owner’s family and had met steppe warriors, so there were people who were unexpectedly kind to Goruka.

Such people are mostly people with a boneless temperament.

Those who believe that being strong tends to accept steppe warriors after fighting them firsthand.

I meticulously remember such a family, and in the next training, I have to send steppe warriors there as well.

No matter how much I like it, I don’t want it for myself.

‘I’m glad though.’

I wondered if I had to fight with only the power of the dukedom, but at least I had two allies.

“…”

Suddenly, there were eyes pouring down on me, so when I turned around, my maternal grandfather was glaring at me with fearful eyes.

No, it’s not that he’s staring at me, he must have something to say.

But I’m not sure what you want to say.

“Grandpa, what are you doing?”

“…”