The Villain Changed the Ending

084 Wife’s Attack

***[Heroine Oscar]***

After the duke’s hunting banquet officially ends, each family begins hunting in various parts of the dukedom.

This year’s hunt will continue right up to the royal road because of the New Year’s banquet.

I saw off each member of the Bongsin family as they prepared and left.

Catherine, of course.

Until last year, my mother was with me, but this year, I handed over the position to Catherine and did not come out.

To make it clear to people that the mistress of this house is now Catherine.

I still thought a few more years would pass, but my mother seems different.

Perhaps it was because the women of the feudal lord were friendly.

For some reason, Catherine, who was a troublemaker in the marquess family, was accepted here more easily than anyone else.

It’s not even that there are not a few outbursts, and in some cases, she doesn’t hesitate to say that she really wants to be an aristocratic woman.

‘I don’t understand.’

I don’t know anything else, but it really doesn’t make sense to open your eyes because you want to see my naked body.

As I smiled, Catherine, who had been looking at the carriage moving away, tilted her head and looked at me.

“Oscar, why are you laughing?”

“…”

As I continued to smile without answering, Katrin came closer and raised her head.

but i can’t tell It’s funny how you want to see me naked.

When I didn’t tell her, Katrin pushed herself even harder.

touch the skin

Her breasts are right under her eyes.

Aristocratic women’s dresses are usually in the form of deep cuts in the chest.

If you look at it from above, even a small valley is visible anyway.

I couldn’t find a place to turn my eyes and looked up, but Katrin didn’t seem to notice that her breasts were showing.

He asked, pushing his chest against me.

“Why are you laughing? Something funny. I want to know.”

After they slept together in the tent, her behavior became unrestrained.

There is a lot of foolishness toward me.

Every little action is cute, lovable, and childlike. Sometimes, without realizing it, I wanted to allow everything just like my mother or Benno.

Maybe this is what it feels like to love your younger sister.

As an orphan in my previous life and an only child in my current life, I don’t know if it’s my feelings for my younger sister.

Perhaps she herself is unaware of her actions.

Maybe this is the behavior peculiar to the youngest with many older brothers.

After all, she was really good at fooling around.

thanks i’m really in trouble

“Big! Big!”

From behind, Anne coughed strangely loudly.

When I glanced at her slightly, Anne was busy pointing her chest at Catherine.

Only then did she realize, and Katrin hurriedly backed away.

Anne sighed in relief, and Catherine sighed again, looking down at her chest.

They say they sing every day saying it would be nice if their breasts were a little bigger, but if they had a voluptuous body, they would have pushed it further without taking it off.

A smile came out again, and I tightened my lips.

Ever since Catherine and Anne came, the smile never leaves me or everyone else’s face.

I don’t know what that would be like as a duchess, but anyway, she permeates well here.

‘I should prepare to return to the marquis family soon.’

Katrin, of course you don’t want to go back, but what will your mother think?

If I just think about this place, my mother is there, and I don’t know if it’ll be okay.

However, mother cannot accompany her to the royal capital.

‘As expected, Catherine alone is impossible.’

It is different from the Duchy.

A lot of jealousy and conspiracies are rampant in the royal capital.

‘I can’t leave Catherine alone in that whirlpool.’

When I was young, there was Benno.

Since he was next to me as viscount and skillfully supported me, nothing happened while I was properly established as duke.

If it hadn’t been for Benno, he would have fallen down once or twice amidst numerous conspiracies, and perhaps that incident would have made the duke’s situation difficult.

More than anything, as the tension continued, the mind must have been broken somewhere.

Catherine needs someone like that.

Someone Katrin could completely trust and rely on.

But Katrin doesn’t have that kind of person yet.

In the future, the mother will gradually recognize the person and go through the process of matching the person by her side.

However, it will not be easy to find someone who will grow Catherine and Anne and lead them like a shepherd who guards the lamb, so it takes time too.

‘Until I find someone like that, it’s difficult to make Catherine the official Duchess.’

I took a small breath.

She may cry but I have to send her back.

Not yet.

Next year, and probably the year after that.

I imagined Catherine crying, and another sigh flowed.

Imagining her crying sincerely hurts my heart.

*

After a while, I found my mother’s room.

In order to inform about the Witchbeast’s work, I am planning to leave for the capital tomorrow.

Before that, I wanted to agree on a schedule for when to send Katrin to the Marquess.

Upon seeing me, my mother greeted me with a wide smile.

“Oscar, I was about to go to you anyway.”

“What’s going on?”

“Yes, yes. The letter I’ve been waiting for has arrived.”

Mother happily shook the pretty envelope.

What is it that makes you so happy?

I smiled as well, thinking about it strangely.

After her mother completely separated from her father, she brightened up like a young girl.

Perhaps her status as a duchess suppressed her motherly nature.

“Whose letter is this from?”

“Countess Becker.”

Unknowingly, I tilted my head.

The Becker family’s wife is Catherine’s aunt.

We met at a New Year’s banquet.

‘I was surprised that he looked so much like Catherine.’

However, he would not have had much contact with his mother.

I heard that Count Becker and his wife lived mainly abroad, not in Korea until recently, and that they came in and stayed in this country from time to time.

Rumors are good, but I rarely appear in social circles to the extent that it was the first time I met him a while ago.

“Until I entered the world of society, it was rumored that Countess Becker was the most beautiful woman. She belonged to my generation just above me.”

“…”

Suddenly, my mother saw my face and made a fuss.

“Oh, Oscar, I’m not bragging, this is real. I was once reputed to be a beautiful goddess. When I was young, I was as famous as Catherine now.”

“Your mother is still beautiful.”

“You are really Oscar…”

Mother smiled and rolled her eyes.

At one time I had heard that Countess Becker was a popular beauty in society.

In fact, she is still quite old, but quite beautiful.

But why is that story now?

I thought so, but I laughed like my mother was telling a secret story.

“Immediately after the New Year’s banquet, she sent me a letter. Since then, we continued to correspond regularly and talked a little bit about Catherine. But not long ago, news came that Countess Becker had decided to settle down completely in Korea. When I received the letter, I thought, what if she acted as protection for Catherine when she was in the capital?”

“…but you don’t know much about Countess Becker? What kind of person she is.”

“Of course, I never talked to her face-to-face. But even if I didn’t meet her, I’d heard a lot of rumors. Quite deep. I think I know enough about what kind of person she is.”

Mother lowered her voice a little.

“It seems that Countess Becker cares for Catherine very much. Even if you talk to Catherine, it is. Besides, I felt it through correspondence, but I don’t see any malice or any sign of taking advantage of the duchy from her.”

Mother smiled.

“It’ll be all right with her, Oscar. I’m in pretty deep contact with the society ladies, and I’ve been informed by Hoven Street and the Petrie family. My mother knows when Countess Becker was active in society, and she Known only for beautiful ladies, but they are not what they seem.”

She is said to be perfect and respectful, but quite frightening. It is said that the skill of breaking down the silence is very skillful.

“I heard that she mobilizes quite insidious ways to bury opponents. But at the same time, she is said to be someone who protects her own side at all costs.”

“…”

“Countess Becker will protect Catherine well.”

how to say

My mother looks a little different.

Of course, my mother is an experienced and skilled person who has made it through the social world.

But I recognized her as something to be protected.

Because he has a tender and kind heart, he gets hurt easily, and if I don’t protect him, he’ll be crying alone somewhere.

But the mother’s face, as she told the story of Countess Becker, somehow seemed a little villainous and a little sly.

I remembered the face of Countess Becker whom I met at the New Year’s banquet.

She looked a lot like Catherine.

I thought she was an elegant and beautiful wife, but what was she? Burying the other person by nefarious means?

“Somehow, I think I heard something I shouldn’t have heard. Women are more scary than they look.”

My mother shrugged her shoulders in amusement.

“War is not only waged by men. Women are also engaged in an invisible bloody war.”

Will Katrin be able to say this with a smile someday?

“…”

No, she had forgotten about it because of Katrin, but she was originally destined to meet a miserable end because of her plans to kill or harm others.

will do enough

‘Doesn’t even a cute cat know when it’s going to turn into a tiger that can eat people?’

Anyway, with this, it seems that Catherine will no longer return to the marquis family.

After chatting with my mother for a while, I left the room.

*

That night, I put the paper in front of me and tried to write several times before trying to write something again.

“Master, what are you doing?”

Benno, who couldn’t see it, asked.

I sighed and raised my gaze.

“I wondered if it would be good to give a warning about the Witchbeast to other families.”

“Before informing the royal capital?”

“Yes. I think, but I think His Majesty will issue an order to keep quiet about this.”

“…”

“But if I inform other families in advance, that will also cause His Majesty’s displeasure, so I’m worried. Your Majesty won’t want other families to thank me either.”

The king does not want the ducal family to grow too large, nor to lose control of the people by losing too much power.

It may be because the clan of the duchy was originally the ruler who governed the dukedom and its surroundings.

It was hoped that the dukedom would be placed under the kingdom while ruling the native people.

The current duchy has become too wealthy in the eyes of the king.

‘But I can’t help but prepare for the steppe tribes’ invasion.’

After thinking for a while, I decided to only send letters to families with whom I was somewhat close.

Instead of a warning about the beast, I wrote a wish for a splendid hunting season this year.

And put some words in the middle.

[… It seems that the number of demons in the dukedom has increased somewhat this year…]

Even if you just mention the Witchbeast in that way, you’ll see it a little more carefully.

Yes, that’s it.

Not because I told you, but to the extent that you noticed it yourself.

Even if the king finds out, it won’t be a big problem.

Since there are no computers in this era, it has to be written by hand.

Letters to other families had to be careful with the font, so it took quite a while to write one.

There are cases of ghostwriting, but for important people it is impossible and they have no choice but to write by hand.

By the time I finished writing the letter, several hours had already passed.

*

With Benno waiting on me, I changed my clothes and got into bed.

Suddenly, Benno looked at the middle door leading to his wife’s room and smiled.

Then, after saying goodbye quietly, he leaves.

It wasn’t until about ten minutes later that I realized what that smile meant.

There was a rustling sound, and something crept inside from the middle door.

But it’s dark, so it seems to have bumped into something.

Something fell over with a crackling sound.

“miss!”

Anne’s small scream echoed, and a candle flickered in the middle doorway.

I woke up too.

I lit a candle next to the bed and approached the middle, where Katrin was lying on her stomach.

It looks like he hit his forehead.

He was covering his head with his hands.

Seeing me, Anne hurriedly went back to her room.

“Catherine, are you okay?”

When I touched my forehead, there was a lump.

I was in so much pain that I had tears in my eyes.

He was apparently asleep earlier, so he must have asked Anne to wake him up.

“…”

Usually, the man goes to the woman’s room.

The husband’s room was visited by butlers and attendants until late at night, and it was not a place for husband and wife work.

For a wife to break into her husband’s room, there’s probably no precedent in the history of the duchy.

“…Catherine.”

“I’m sorry, but I’m lonely. We slept together every day, but suddenly sleeping alone in a big bed makes me so lonely…”

“…”

Maybe I’m weak against Katrin’s face.

Seeing Katrin’s face completely dead, I can’t say anything again.

‘Was I originally this weak to women?’

Well, if you think about what happened with your wife in your previous life, it might be like that.

Reluctantly, I grabbed her hand and got up, heading for the middle door, not my bed.

“… can I… sleep with you? I’m really lonely. It’s cold…”

Katrin asked, straining her feet to avoid being dragged.

“Men come and go in this room in the morning. Officials come in when there is an urgent matter, so it’s not suitable for you to stay.”

“but.”

“I’d rather sleep in the other room, Catherine. Would you like me to sleep in your bed?”

“No! No!”

After Catherine cried out, she covered my forehead with one hand and grabbed my arm with the other.

He seems to be worried that I might run away somewhere.

When I went with her to the wife’s room with a small smile, Anne was already gone.

She must have been listening to our conversation until just before, when she saw the door closing.

‘Are we officially bed-ridden now?’

Of course, it’s just the contact like brother and sister.

When I climbed into bed with a mixed heart for some reason, Katrin clung to my body in a familiar gesture.

“Tomorrow I’m going to the royal road.”

“… When are you coming back?”

“Well, I scheduled it for ten days.”

“…”

I opened my mouth to say that I wanted to go with you, but then I closed it, and Katrin dug into my armpit even more.

“I miss you. Be careful… come back soon.”

“…”

haven’t even left yet

However, since I had already fully conveyed her feelings of loneliness, I silently stroked her hair.

At first, I thought they were brother and sister, but this feeling might be closer to that of a daughter.

I haven’t given birth yet.

I felt a bit strange.

***[The Marquis of Petrie]***

I received a letter from my sister.

Still in beautiful handwriting, the older sister was writing down some news.

And at the end, it was written that he was entrusted with Catherine’s protection.

‘What?’

Unknowingly, power went into his hands.

I thought I would get closer in the social world, but I never thought that I would take on the protection role…

‘As expected, my sister has no intention of breaking up with Katrin.’

Since Katrin didn’t make the decision herself, it must have been the godfather’s decision.

‘But when the heck did you contact me?’

There would have been no connection between the duchy and her sister.

But why is her sister so obsessed with Catherine?

It’s not that I don’t have a bad relationship with my husband or that I’m far from my children.

So why does she care so much about Katrin?

‘Come to think of it, whenever I was pregnant, I always cared about it.’

When the son was born, the older sister congratulated her with a bright smile, but that was all.

However, when Katrin told her that she had given birth to a girl, her sister suddenly returned home after being abroad.

And I stayed for a while, watched Catherine, and went around temples and raised donations to my congratulatory prayers.

Originally, she was an older sister who could not understand.

So until now, I thought I was just going to do that, but seeing Catherine beside him even after she got married and became a duchess made me feel something strange.

‘My sister was a person with a very strong desire to protect her children.’

The same goes for his own sons.

He was always eager to protect.

If Catherine had been her daughter, she would have done this.

‘But that child must be my daughter.’

Could it be that she is confusing her dead daughter with Katrin?

Because their faces are so similar, they misunderstood something in their hearts.

“…”

It’s pitiful to think of it that way.

The Marquis Petrie sighed lightly and put the letter in the box.

Please don’t let your sister teach Katrin anything strange.

Katrin please live in peace.

While praying like that, the Marquis thought that she should go see her daughter as much as her sister.

Otherwise, I feel like I will somehow lose my daughter.

‘It’s a nuisance, but it’s my cute child.’

I have absolutely no intention of depriving someone of the daughter I gave birth to with a stomachache, no matter how much it is an older sister.

Although, of course, she is a troublesome daughter who rots inside.

The Marquis once again sighed lightly.