The Villain Changed the Ending

096 The first snow fell

***[Heroine Oscar]***

Across the ranks, moving slowly like a flowing river, I could see a rhinoceros calf walking bumbling.

‘ah…!’

Nothing happened.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

The guy jumps up and runs through the trees, not even knowing what I was worried about.

It seemed to be happy to see me, and its tail fluttered wildly through the air.

But he ran, turned, and ran through the trees again.

And after a while it runs again.

While doing that a couple of times, I saw the soldiers who followed the rhino dragging a man.

‘What kind of man are you? Are you the one who came to pick up the tree?’

Most of the country’s forests belong to nobles and royalty.

It was forbidden to enter the forest or collect anything except those with permission.

Fallen tree branches can be picked up by commoners, but the price is fixed for each load of cart.

Usually, instead of gathering firewood, they have to do labor.

‘Looking at the soldiers dragging it, they must not have been allowed to enter.’

Besides, it’s too deep here.

It was not a place for commoners to enter.

Maybe it was someone trying to hunt secretly by setting a trap.

then it is illegal

must be punished

‘Wouldn’t it be whipped if I stole something from the forest?’

A small sigh came out.

If I had my way, I wouldn’t punish Yeongmin for taking something from the forest.

However, someone pays the price and takes it, but if someone steals at will and does not punish, there will be a problem with equity.

If it is not fair, no one will obey the law.

I let out a small breath again.

But that was the moment.

Suddenly, the rhinoceros snapped at the man’s foot.

The man who had been relying on the soldiers fell to his knees, and the rhino turned around while biting the man’s foot.

It’s a long way away, but I knew he was looking at me.

The rhinoceros’s body moved as its tail fluttered in the air as if it were happy.

I guess I was trying to run.

But when the man screamed, the rhino took a few steps before stopping.

With the man’s leg in her mouth, she looks at me in trouble.

The soldiers panicked and tried to pull the man’s leg out of the rhino’s mouth, but they wouldn’t budge.

The guy has a lot of strength.

‘no way.’

I furrowed my eyebrows.

During the demon subjugation, the rhino ran around and did various things.

One of them was to find a magic bomb that had accidentally dropped.

At first, I guess I started copying after watching soldiers pick up unexploded ordnance or pick up fallen bomb fragments.

When I sniffed it, found a small magic bomb, and reported it, everyone praised me for doing a good job.

When asked about unexploded bullets, I praised them exaggeratedly.

That’s why he has been looking for magic bombs like a bomb detection dog throughout the demon subjugation.

“…”

And now, the eyes looking at me while biting the man’s ankle seem to be similar to when he discovered the magic bomb.

It was shining brightly to ask for praise.

But it’s far from it.

The rhino stood there as if at a loss, then moved again.

The jaw moved and seemed to bite the man’s leg with some force.

It seemed like he was about to run towards me this time, so I pulled the reins lightly.

If you do something wrong, that guy will die before you figure it out.

As I ran, the rhinoceros happily waggled its tail and tried to run towards me.

“wait!”

But when I said a word, he hesitated and stopped moving even from a distance.

Katrin said she was training, but it seemed like she was actually teaching something rather than playing.

The rhino stood quietly, biting the man’s leg.

As they get closer, they shake their heads as if asking for praise.

“Quaaa!”

When the man screamed, he paused, seemingly embarrassed, but quickly moved his head again.

I can’t seem to stay still because I’m so excited.

Her ears protruding into the air fluttered like radar, and her face, skin, and body seemed to dance little by little.

Still, the man’s legs do not let go.

The man hanging upside down in the air doesn’t seem to have the strength to scream anymore.

The man must have been crying all the time, with tears and runny nose dripping down his cheek and down his forehead and ears.

I might have fainted halfway through.

The man’s arms fell helplessly to the ground, and one leg moved unsteadily in the air.

However, it seems that the rhino will not let go of the man until he is praised by me.

I quickly got off my horse and put my hand on the rhino’s head.

“Okay, good job. You can let go now.”

“Poo!”

The moment he let out a characteristic cry, the man fell to the ground, and the soldiers waiting nearby quickly grabbed him and dragged him away.

He would have thought it would be difficult if the rhinoceros bit him again.

“This guy is really smart. It has teeth marks, but no blood. It seems that he has adjusted his strength in his own way.”

It wouldn’t have been that easy to do.

I put my hand on the rhino’s head again and stroked it gently.

“It’s really great. Well done.”

I glanced at the man’s figure.

“There must be a magic bomb somewhere. Find it.”

“yes!”

The soldiers began searching the man’s body.

But the man had nothing.

They didn’t have pockets on their clothes, and they weren’t hiding anything by wrapping bandages around their bodies.

There was nothing special except for the bad smell coming from the body, probably from stepping on poop.

To be honest, his behavior is no different from that of ordinary people.

“…”

The spies of this era don’t have fancy equipment or technology like the 007s seen in modern movies.

Most of the lower level spies moved the rumors of the territory to another place, and even those with abilities were at the level of spying on them as servants in the castle.

Those who transfer more important information are those who belong to the realm of betrayal rather than spies.

Most of them were high-ranking spies who were originally allies, but betrayed them for money or other reasons and joined the other side.

However, despite this, trained spies see differences from ordinary people.

There was usually something intuitively felt.

‘But this person…’

I’m terribly frightened, but, well, that’s only natural.

It is natural to be frightened when a soldier appears while entering the forest and committing illegal acts.

Do witches bite your legs?

Then of course it’s scary.

‘Maybe I thought wrong.’

Although the rhino witch is smart, it is a mere beast.

Maybe he saw an ordinary person hiding in the forest and just caught him thinking that he might be praised.

“Poo!”

Perhaps the soldiers’ actions were thought to be play.

The rhinoceros waddled toward the man and began sniffing the hem of his trousers.

While crying, she kept stabbing the man’s pants with her blunt mouth and horns.

It was the leg the rhino was biting on.

“I, I, I, I… I…”

The man began to tremble like an aspen tree.

Get down and repeat the word ‘I’ over and over again.

The man’s frightened face was different from before.

‘ah….’

I sighed inwardly.

I wink at him, and the soldiers press the man to the floor and start examining his pants.

There were no pockets in the pants either, but I noticed something odd about the hem, which was folded so that it wouldn’t unravel.

“There is a little break in the middle of the hem stitching.”

cried the soldier as he violently pushed the man to the ground.

While sewing the hem of his pants, it seemed that he had left a space about one fingernail on purpose.

It must have been so that if you found something, you could put it in.

When he tore off the hem of his pants, a grain as small as sand came out.

The soldier looked closely and put it on his palm and showed it to me.

“I got it from falling off the torch.”

A magic stone was used for this torch.

It seems that a small piece fell from there.

Even if I had taken that with me, I wouldn’t have been able to figure it out anywhere else.

By now, everyone in the know knew that monster bones were being used in bombs.

It is also known that mana must be poured.

The important thing is the composition, but the torch used is close to garbage, as Sven said.

You can’t know anything about that.

“Poo… Poo…!”

As the soldiers discover the magic stone pellets, the rhino cries proudly.

Also am I right?

It was such a look.

“You did really well. You’re smart.”

As I praised it, the rhino wiggled its huge hips around me a few times before running towards the quartermaster unit.

He seemed to think that his work was done.

“Yo, yo, forgive me, forgive me. Please…”

Hearing the man cry, I mounted my horse.

A small piece of mana stone grain, close to garbage.

With that, the man’s future was cast in pitch darkness.

Perhaps, after squeezing out everything we know and don’t know, the disposition will be decided.

Puupuuu, as if boasting that he had done a great job, the rhinoceros is running around and crying loudly.

The soldiers laughed and praised me, and the spy disappeared from my sight as I returned to the ranks.

It seems that the soldier in charge of intelligence dragged it away.

I looked up at the blue sky.

The innocent look of the spy still lingers in his eyes.

There really isn’t much of a spy in this world.

There are people who work for little money, and there are people who are tricked into doing spy work without knowing anything.

Some even work without even knowing they are spies.

There are many cases where you are tricked by a spy and handed over information, and then you fall into a situation where you can’t move.

The information they sell sometimes has a lot of meaning, but in most cases the low-level spy himself is just a naive person.

they are poor people

My heart sank heavily to the floor.

*

Upon returning to the duchy, Rhino was warmly welcomed by the people of the mansion.

Blame for worrying about his sudden disappearance and compliments pouring in on him saying that it was great to visit the owner and make a contribution.

I also found out that Katrin had given him the name Pooh.

“That’s a fitting name.”

When I say that, Katrin smiles happily.

Hearing the laughter of the servants of the mansion, his mother, Katrin, Pooh, and everyone else, his heart felt stuffy as if a stone had been placed on his chest.

I’m laughing so happily, but that guy is by now.

When you think so, you tie your heart to a concrete stone and sink as if you threw it into the sea.

A few days later, I heard that the first snow had fallen in a village at the foot of a mountain somewhat far from the central city.

The days are getting colder now.

At the mansion, preparations were starting to go up to the royal road.

It’s because of the New Year’s banquet.

This year, Catherine turns 15, the year she comes of age.

It was also the time when the official duties of the duchess officially started, and the faces of those preparing to go to the royal road were full of spirit.

For some reason, Katrin’s eyes tightened.

When I look at myself, the smiling face seems to be full of spirit.

She hung out with her mother and was eagerly learning the duties of the duchess.

Being motivated is a good thing.

I was always buried in paperwork.

It must have been about a month since the spy was discovered.

When no one was around, Benno quietly opened his mouth.

“Master, there is a report of a spy caught during the hunting season.”

“…”

“He appears to be a spy from a nearby family. That spy knew that.”

“But was it really different?”

“Yes. Behind him was the royal family.”

“…”

The spy seems to have been a simple peasant.

It seems that a spy from the royal family approached and forced her to work, taking the safety of her family hostage.

There is no Internet like the modern Earth, or a way to get information.

There was no way an ordinary peasant would go and check with the local lord’s subordinates, and the spy said he believed what the royal family said.

They told him to go to the dukedom in order not to kill his family, and the spy followed suit, firmly believing that he was the spy of the family.

Well, knowing the truth wouldn’t have made the spy’s actions any different.

Rather, if he had known that it was an order from the royal family, he would have followed it even more frightened.

“I managed to figure it out.”

At my words, Benno lowered his head slightly.

“Among those caught at the time the spy came, there were a few more spies controlled by the royal family. So it was easy to connect.”

“Did the number of spies from the royal family increase?”

“Yes. Before, I sent spies with some training, but now they seem to be looking for various things to see if they thought that was not possible. There are many kinds of people coming. There are probably quite a few who didn’t find out.”

“…”

You can’t catch all spies.

However, it would be a handshake that prevents human interaction.

development slows down

I let out a small sigh.

“How about that spy?”

“It’s easy to control. First of all, I put a watch on this side and ordered it to behave as usual.”

Are you trying to use it as a double agent?

“Benno.”

“yes.”

“I’m not asking you to be lenient with spies.”

“…”

“But if you decide to use it on our side, do it right.”

Don’t use it like garbage and throw it away miserably.

When I said it with such meaning, Benno lowered his head a little.

“I know, master.”

That being said, for the duke’s sake, Benno and the people in the intelligence department would use that spy as a term to throw away without moving an eyebrow.

‘I know that.’

I nodded and spoke again.

“Please, Benno. I don’t want to do the same crap as the other person.”

“Yes, master.”

A few days later, the first snow fell like petals in the central city of the dukedom.

For Pooh, this would have been the first eye he saw.

The rhinoceros Pooh was very happy when he saw snow falling in the air, although it was not piled up.