The Villain Changed the Ending

012 What do you want, Oscar?

***[Heroine Oscar]***

“Uh! I-I’m like that…”

Bianca shook her head in embarrassment.

But she doesn’t seem to have realized just how important this is.

He seemed surprised and taken aback, but he didn’t react much to my words.

It’s just that I’m afraid of magical power, and I’m confused because I don’t know what this situation means.

But my father seemed to understand my meaning right away.

“No! It’s not like that. Bianca was just whining foolishly at me, my husband!”

My father got on his knees and tried to get up.

But it must be because the influence of magic still lingers.

It didn’t go well, so my butt came out of the back.

“Uh… I…”

Bianca looks back and forth between me and my father.

“Bernt.”

Feeling uneasy, Bianca clung to her father.

But my father only looked at me.

Bianca seems completely oblivious, but her father is desperate to save her.

After roughly pulling Bianca away, I forced myself to stand up.

“Bianca is just a fool… just a woman. What she just said is just a joke, yes, a joke.”

“Father, don’t say stupid things. If that’s true, it’s a bigger problem. Even if it’s my lover, I can’t stand it if someone related to the duchy throws such nonsense as a joke.”

“Shut up! Shut up!”

The father, who has nothing to say, exclaims loudly.

I took one step closer to my father.

Trembling, the father stepped back.

It seems like I’m quite afraid.

“Father, is it something that can be solved if I just shut up? My mother is the blood of the marquis. Did that person only falsely accuse my father’s lover of poisoning? It’s as if the marquis was insulted. Do you think there will be? The insults that mother received until now, wouldn’t the marquess have been waiting for the day to pay them back?”

Father’s face went white.

“My mother’s parents’ family is originally from the aristocratic family. I know that they are not on good terms with us. That’s why my grandfather took a long time to create a marriage story. My daughter married into a family with bad feelings, but she was only insulted for a long time. ? It’s a false accusation. That’s from the son-in-law’s lover. If I’m a marquis, it’s a war right now.”

“… that, that’s it.”

My father’s face, which had been pale, is now an earthy color.

Although the Weber kingdom was not in a state of civil war, small family wars were often taking place.

It is not uncommon to take up a knife for one’s own gain.

In addition, my mother’s parents’ family was a well-known family.

According to the book I read, it seems that there were many battle fanatics among the heads of families in the past.

As a father who had no combat experience, let alone war, he would want to avoid such a quarrel with his family.

I turned to Bianca.

“Bianca, you falsely accused a high-ranking noble of poisoning. According to the laws of the duchy, that is the death penalty.”

“Oh, my God… I, I… Oh, no! No! I! I! That’s what I mean!”

Bianca’s face immediately drained of blood.

Even listening to my conversation with my father, she didn’t seem to know what I meant.

Bianca barely understood the situation and started screaming.

Bianca cried and clung to her father’s feet.

“Bernt!

My father looked at me blankly and asked.

“You… what do you want, Oscar?”

I just got the question I wanted.

I smiled and opened my mouth.

“Back off, father.”

“what?”

“I’m the heir to the duchy, but at the same time I’m from the marquess. If I were the head of the family, my mother’s family wouldn’t say much. If there’s a war between the families, I’ll take responsibility. My father just sits and watches.”

“… I can’t believe… You were aiming for the head of the family…”

My father muttered blankly and suddenly opened his eyes.

“You think that’s acceptable! You, only five years old, wouldn’t have thought of such a thing.”

My father turned around as if he had realized.

I stare at the butler.

“Ben! No! Yes you bastard! How dare you! You instigated Oscar! Traitor! Knife! Somebody bring the knife! I will punish these traitors right away!”

The attendants lined up on the wall looked at each other’s faces.

It looked like he didn’t know what to do.

It is natural to follow the orders of the head of the family, but their direct superior is the butler.

In addition, the current father is so excited that he seems to be insane, and what he is trying to kill is none other than the heir.

If I die because I brought the knife recklessly, the responsibility might go to the person who brought the knife.

The attendants looked at each other and didn’t know what to do.

The butler was the only one with a calm face.

But he also seems to be nervous.

I was standing at a distance where I could come running at any time, looking this way, as if my father was wary of harming me.

It seemed that he was even more angry with that atmosphere.

My father yelled loudly and became more agitated.

“…”

I let out a small sigh.

It also seems that it is not easy with words.

‘Is that too? A concubine may be lovable, but of course it would be worse than the position of the head of the household.’

It may not even be comparable.

I put it in my feet a little without releasing magic power.

Drives mana as close to the skin as possible.

I’ve never done it before, so I don’t know if it will work.

After hardening my mana into the skin of my feet, I stomped my feet lightly.

At that moment, a bang echoed through the restaurant.

Everyone’s movements stopped at once.

Doesn’t even seem to blink.

The father also stopped yelling, as if taken by surprise.

He seems to have forgotten to keep his mouth shut.

Mouth was wide open.

It’s what I said, but I was also surprised.

I didn’t expect it to sound this loud.

furthermore….

‘this.’

It worked as he wanted, but the power of magic was too much.

When I checked the floor, there was a crack in the marble that was only in the dining room.

It spreads out in all directions like a spider’s web centered on me.

Naturally, the place where I stomped my foot was a pothole.

Most of the people in the restaurant looked at it, then at the crack that stretched there, and rolled their eyes in turn.

Bianca shook her whole body like an aspen tree.

But the first thing that came to my mind was worry.

‘It must be expensive, but what can I do?’

If this were a company, we might have to pay a huge amount of compensation.

‘At least it’s on the dining table.’

Replacing the table will be cheaper than renovating the entire floor.

“…”

Recruiting and feeding soldiers and maintaining them is really expensive.

The reason I decided to push my father out of Dangju was because I made the judgment that I could not develop military power at this rate.

But only because I wasted my money.

Let’s be careful from next time.

I raised my head and looked straight at my father.

“Even if we don’t get along well, he’s a blood father. I don’t want to do anything dangerous.”

At the same time, when he threatened with a little magic power, his father stuttered, shaking his legs.

“Th-Do you think that such a thing would be forgiven? I’m there… Pushing a five-year-old to act as the head of the family, no one will follow me… The lords will definitely protest. If it’s a head of a family who has been formally appointed… It will never fail.”

Didn’t he think that saying such a thing might kill his father?

I sighed and opened my mouth, but the butler took a step forward and said,

“I’m sorry, but could I be allowed to speak?”

The butler’s gaze was on me.

As I nodded, the butler took something out of his pocket.

It is a thin piece of leather folded into a rectangle like an envelope.

The butler came up to me and politely held it out.

“What’s this?”

“I understand that it is a seal on the designation of the successor. I have had it since about a year before the head of the family passed away.

“What! What!”

It was my father who cried out in surprise.

The duchy’s heirs are only me and my father.

So, the only problem with designating a successor is a change in rank or disqualification.

However, it seems that the father did not even guess.

I can’t believe it, it’s clearly a forgery, the father was clamoring.

Ignoring that and unfolding the leather, two letters came out.

Everything was sealed with wax, and the seal of the head of the family was stamped on it.

“The seal on the other side is about the successor. The other letter is a private letter from grandfather to the boy. Both of them were ordered to be handed over when the boy becomes the head of the family.”

When I broke the wax of the letter the butler said and opened the envelope, it was written that my grandson, Oscar, was the first successor.

The date and signature, as well as the seal of the owner, are clearly stamped.

“Why did you keep this a secret until now? Couldn’t you tell me right after the carriage accident?”

When I asked, the butler bowed his head deeply.

“I’m sorry. I’m still too young, so I decided it would be better to have Bernt-sama as my substitute until I grow up to a certain extent. Anyway, until the boy is old enough to take care of government affairs, someone has to take over this family.”

It seems that Benno intended to make my father a scarecrow until I grow up.

‘So that’s why it’s been attached to me.’

Because in the butler’s head, I was the head of the family, not my father.

Benno’s behavior, which he did not understand a little, was very natural when you think about it that way.

‘The reason why I stood side by side with my father at the funeral was because my grandfather already planned to make me the next head of the family…’

The old grandfather must have been aware of the fact that he might die suddenly.

That’s why I thought carefully in advance so that I could act as the next family head.

The fact that I secretly set up the butler as my sponsor, and the reason why I prepared a territory that I could use freely until I became an adult, was probably because I was thinking of emergencies.

Thinking that far, I looked up at the butler’s face.

“Does Benno have the signet ring?”

Maybe he hid it in order not to hand over the right of the head of the family to his father.

However, the butler immediately denied it.

“no.”

Then he pointed to the letter with his eyes.

“I’m guessing where it is, but please read Grandpa’s letter first.”

Opening another letter, the sentence at the top caught my eye.

[If you are reading this letter, it must mean that I died suddenly.

maybe you’re still young

The position of head of a duchy is a very difficult position.

Your future will never be easy.

Forgive your grandfather who pushes hardships on you who are still young.

My dear grandson, Oscar. God bless you.]

My heart warmed at the words of concern about the rough road the young grandson will face in the future.

The look of my grandfather that remained in my memory was always solemn, but after all, this person loved me.

The rest of the letter was written about things that only the head of the family knew about.

It is said that even the father does not know.

Maybe Grandpa had been giving up a bit ever since Dad met Bianca and had a good time.

At the end of the letter was written about the signet ring.

It is said that the signet ring of the head of state has several functions.

But there was nothing special about talking about ancient magic.

Things like registering the owner with a single drop of blood, the only person who can become the owner of a ring is a blood relative of the duchy, or the ring cannot be registered no matter how much blood is spilled until the death of the previous head is confirmed.

My eyes, which had been reading all the way down, stopped at the end.

[In case of emergency, the ring has the ability to be swallowed and hidden by a person.]

Could it be that the ring was in the grandfather’s body?

I suddenly thought so, but soon I denied the possibility.

He was the one who thought about the possibility that you would have passed away and arranged the work in detail.

He wouldn’t have done such a thing, knowing that if he swallowed the ring and died, no one would know where it was.

Even if someone noticed the whereabouts of the ring, there would be no way to dig into the body of the former head of the family without being sure.

If you’re going to take that risk, you’d rather just wear the ring.

‘But no matter how much I searched, I couldn’t find the ring. It’s just me and my grandfather in that carriage…’

Oh, and the ring.

I suddenly looked at my stomach.

no, no, that’s not it. It’s been several months already, and if it was in my stomach, it came out as sh*t a long time ago.

‘no way….’

His face grew pale.