The Villain Changed the Ending

093 Rookie Rhino

***[Catherine, Duchess]***

Getting close to the rhinoceros witch, Katrin heard the characteristics of this witch from her escort.

Thick skin and strong power, a huge horn that can pierce even the gates of a city.

Of course, this cub is still too young and has very small horns.

Should I call it a horn or a little subtle?

It only came out to the extent that I wondered if the tip of my nose had risen a little.

However, it is very hard to the touch, and sometimes the baby will stomp its face into a tree while crying vigorously.

Still, seeing that there is no wound, the horns of this rhino monster are really hard and strong.

“ha.”

Catherine let out a long sigh.

When he put his face on the soft and smooth body of the rhinoceros, the warm body heat passed through the thick skin.

Somehow, I feel calm and at ease.

Ha ha, Katrin took another long breath.

This world is full of dangerous things.

In particular, men in the position of head of the family are often driven into dangerous situations.

My father and older brothers were the first to jump out and fight when there was a war or a monster.

It is the duty of the head family to protect the family and the people.

I’ve been taught that since childhood.

And it’s no different for dukes.

Rather, I heard from the mother of the godfather that this family has a stronger tendency.

“That’s why I’m always worried.”

Katrin sighed again as she spoke to the rhinoceros witch.

When she has time to study and work as a duchess, she comes to Rhino and Rose to complain.

No, it’s not a complaint, it’s just training.

Anyway, meeting these two during a short break was the only freedom Catherine could enjoy now.

The rest of the time, she wears the duchess’s appearance as if she were wearing armor.

no time to rest at all

At night, I want to seduce Oscar somehow, but when I wake up, he’s just asleep.

It’s all about being next to Oscar, but I hardly have time to see him.

Sometimes, when Oscar is too tired and needs a snack, I wonder if I can see him for a while.

“At least I wouldn’t see it a day without it.”

Besides, Oscar hadn’t been at the mansion for several days now.

I heard that when the hunting season deepens, the duke’s family unites and goes deeper into the forest.

It was to reduce the number of monsters living in the depths.

Oscar-sama is out somewhere in a deep forest, leading soldiers in search of a witch in the deep forest.

“lonely.”

Suddenly muttering, Catherine shut her mouth.

No, it’s a little bit twisted, but in reality it’s driving me crazy with worry.

It’s not that I’m lonely, it’s that I’m worried.

“How dangerous the forest is.”

Not a forest near the city.

It is said that Oscar went deeper into the forest, where no human foot can reach.

Power came into my hands spontaneously.

The rhino blinked and tilted his head back to look at her.

Boom, and cry in a small voice.

Katrin seems to be worried.

“I’m worried about Oscar, too.”

I didn’t think like this when I was younger.

It was filled with just thinking about Oscar-sama’s face and liking it.

However, as soon as they were close to each other, they became anxious when Oscar was not by their side.

My heart tightens up to see if I’m in danger from a place I can’t see.

“Puuu.”

The rhino licked Catherine’s face with its huge tongue.

Rose comes closer and puts her head a little against her body.

Katrin gave a small smile as she hugged Rose and the rhinoceros together.

“Are you comforting me? Thank you.”

After Katrin said that, the two of them hugged for a while.

The mind calms down little by little.

“I’m stupid.”

Soldiers are swarming near Oscar.

There are escorts, and Oscar-sama himself is very strong.

There is nothing dangerous.

“Puuu.”

Seeing the face of the rhino crying as if not to worry, Katrin smiled brightly.

“I’ve decided on your name.”

I received permission from Oscar-sama that I could choose the name of this monster myself.

Until now, I’ve been thinking about what name to give it, but no matter how much I think about this child’s name, there is only one.

“Puuu. Your name is Ppuuu. Because you cry with ppuuu.”

“Puuu?”

The rhino tilted her head, and Rose gave her a hard push with her head.

Hey, doesn’t Rose like the name Poo?

“But, no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t find a better name than this.”

At Catherine’s words, Pooh and Rose shook their heads together.

Katrin sat down on her back.

what is it, why don’t you like it that much?

Seeing Pooh shoving her head against her stomach and snorting warmly, Katrin laughed and murmured in a low voice.

“Poo, grow up quickly and protect Oscar. I can’t always be by his side, so you’re next to me instead.”

“Poo!”

As if understanding something, the rhino raised his head into the air with a noise.

“Puuu!”

***[Heroine Oscar]***

As the hunting season deepened, military training gradually began in earnest.

At the beginning of the hunting season, each family hunts near the city, but when it is over, several families move in groups.

This year, because of the monster subjugation, the scale of training has increased.

In order to subdue the demons, they decided to go deeper into the forest and hunt a wider range.

To do so, of course, a lot of soldiers were needed, and several families joined together in large numbers just as they seemed to be doing well.

Divided into several parts in the east, west, south, and north, the vassal families gather one after another, and messengers come and go.

I was also on the way to join the lords of the surrounding cities.

“from now on!”

Following the command, the soldiers moved.

Behind the long line of soldiers, the quartermasters followed at some distance.

I saw a young soldier who had just joined the unit, walking beside the cart with twinkling eyes.

If you look around, there are other young soldiers here and there.

Even if you try to stay dignified, your head keeps turning back and forth.

“Are they newbies?”

At my words, the aide came close to my side.

“Yes, Duke. We had a lot of newcomers participate in this training. It’s a large scale, and it’s better to participate once than explain a hundred times in words.”

The aide looked at the new soldiers and continued.

“Other units look down on it, but logistics is also important. There are many things you can learn by actually pulling a cart and participating in it.”

“Yeah, good job.”

This assistant is the person who is mainly in charge of the logistics unit side.

The aide muttered as if to himself.

“If at least you know how to avoid stones while pulling a cart, that’s a big help. Other troops will laugh at you when you hear this, but when you pull a cart full of luggage yourself, you’ll know it’s not a joke. It’s a really important thing.”

At first, he knew nothing about logistical work, but now he seems to have been in charge of logistics for about a hundred years.

I sat side by side with him on a horse and smiled quietly at the sight of the supply unit.

Originally, war in this world is slow.

Since there were no tanks or supply units, many soldiers carried their weapons and food for several days when war broke out.

There is no other way until there is something to fight and loot.

Weapons were all different, and some of the militias came with only an axe.

However, if you do that, you can’t fight against the steppes.

Steppe warriors are also masters of arrows, but all ride horses when they go to war.

I have very little luggage, so I only carry a little bit of hard jerky and water.

When they rode their horses in such light clothes and arrived in a city somewhere in an instant, they got food and women and moved right away.

The items plundered were sometimes only food, sometimes including women.

All the plunder was put on a cart, and some warriors took it to the tribe of the steppe.

The plundering warriors continue to plunder other places.

And again, some people put it on a cart and took it to the meadow, and in the meantime, the warriors who went first came back and joined them.

Because it is so fast, it cannot be matched by a kingdom that mobilizes the militia and moves on foot.

In the novel, it was only natural that the kingdom was trampled on until he received help from the steppes.

Even if you want to fight, when you arrive there, the opponent has already disappeared.

Even if you face it, it’s hard to win in a fight.

The opponents are warriors who have grown up fighting since childhood.

It even fires magic arrows that are not found in this country.

He would not have been an opponent he could have won.

I increased the number of cavalry soldiers besides magic troops to deal with the steppes.

However, no matter how many cavalrymen are increased, they do not become the same as steppe warriors.

The soldiers of the kingdom cannot survive for a long time with only jerky and water, and it is not easy to plunder and fill their stomachs when a war breaks out with the grassland tribes within the kingdom.

They were fundamentally different from steppe warriors who rode horses and shot arrows from birth.

In addition, the number of cavalry soldiers alone could not stop the grassland tribes.

The invaded side needs soldiers to defend, and infantry anyway.

So what was created was the logistics unit.

Logistics is responsible for all supplies to increase speed and efficiency by offloading infantry and cavalry.

At first, there were many voices of concern about the new attempt, but having experienced the Earth’s army, I was able to settle the logistics into the duke’s army without major failure based on that.

Well, I only made proposals, and the actual work was all done by people below me.

Because of that, I earn money even more tenaciously.

Being in the military is really expensive.

He doesn’t budge from the bad reputation of selling things like a merchant in a historic duke’s family.

If you have time to be swayed by that, you should make more money.

Even though it’s hard, that’s just the thought.

‘Well, the people below me must have a harder time than me.’

In order to somehow efficiently squeeze operating expenses and reduce costs, the struggles of those in charge of finance are considerable.

The duke’s financial officials are very competent, and they cut expenses here and there to an admirable level and put them where needed.

Every time I receive a report, I admire it as a god’s workmanship.

‘No matter how much money I make, it wouldn’t have gone this far without them.’

Seriously, bowing a few times to the officials here is not enough.

As I watched the supply unit pass by, I suddenly cried out, “Oh!”

I guess I saw something that shouldn’t be here.

“That’s…”

As I muttered, the aide in charge of logistics followed my gaze and smiled.

“We arrived about a couple of hours ago. We didn’t know it either, but at some point, we saw that they were following behind us.”

It was the rhino calf that had been left next to Katrin who was following the supply cart.

no no, isn’t it weird?

Apparently, the rhino witch who broke up at the duke’s mansion a few days ago is here, why?

Even without being strange to anyone, they blend in with the logistics unit.

After examining my expression, the aide opened his mouth again.

“It’s something I can’t kick out to go back from this far away, so I thought I could just leave it alone.”

“Feeding? Anything to feed him?”

“Oh, don’t worry about that, Duke. It doesn’t affect supplies at all. He hunts himself.”

The aide laughs.

“It looks like it did the same while visiting our troops. It suddenly strayed from the road, and when I watched it, it ate a small monster.”

“…”

Suddenly, I met eyes with a rhinoceros.

Maybe it’s happy, but the guy’s tail moves around.

But unlike other times, it didn’t come running to me.

As it is, it walks between the logistics units.

It was natural, as if he had been trained that way from the beginning.

“Maybe he thinks he’s a member of the Quarterly Corps too. He doesn’t go to other units, only following the Quarterly Corps.”

The aide said with a proud face.

I looked at the rhinoceros again.

Seeing them chasing after a cart loaded with a large load, in a way, they looked like cubs following their mother.

If you think about it that way, the thick cloth that wraps that luggage is dark in color, and at first glance it is similar to the skin color of a rhinoceros.

‘I can’t believe I’m mistaken for my mother or her group…’

It’s pitiful to think that way.

I let out a small sigh.

‘What if it catches and eats its own food and doesn’t get in the way too much?’

It’s not good for me to get kicked out now anyway.

I worry about what will happen if I get lost and cannot return home.

Of course, it doesn’t seem like they’ll get lost, seeing as they’ve been chasing them all the way from the mansion, but that’s not the case with human hearts.

‘But why did the guy who always stays at home calmly follow me today?’

Seeing the rhino walk wagging its tail, I let out a small sigh once again.

The point where they joined the soldiers of other families was approaching before they knew it.

From now on, it’s practical.

If you’re not careful, humans will become prey in the deep forest.

I tightened my loose heart.