The Villain Changed the Ending

038 Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

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

Guuu… A strange breathing sound flows from his mouth.

Oh, you’re grinding your teeth

I thought so and tried to stop, but I was still clenching my molars and making strange noises with anger.

It was because a man and a woman were entangled in front of him.

I couldn’t quit.

One is my wife, the woman I once loved so much.

Covering the woman was a man whose skin appeared to be cracked with veins.

From head to toe, with no hair, the man’s skin was cracked like a cracked porcelain doll, bleeding finely.

His eyes are bloodshot, and his eyes and nose are crushed.

Her face was swollen, more like a doll made of white rubber than a human.

But I know who this man is.

This is my friend who lived with me in the orphanage.

‘He’s obviously dead.’

I felt his body sag in my hand.

The moment the breath escaped from his body, it felt like sand was flowing through his fingers.

that he died

His hair was white with anger, but he knew he was dead.

‘Then is this a dream?’

I haven’t dreamed of having a wife and friends for a long time since I came to this world.

‘I thought I’d completely forgotten now, but why?’

I gritted my teeth as I watched the two of them entangled.

I want to look away, but my body doesn’t move.

It only burns the heart with anger.

Then someone called me.

Mr. Oscar, Mr. Oscar.

‘This voice.’

Please give it away.

good.

i love it.

It’s mine.

The words continued to flow through me.

At some point, my eyes brightened brightly, and I saw clear pupils.

These are the eyes of a child who always runs straight after me.

cute catherine.

my little fiancée.

In an instant, I was pulled up from the dark space.

*

Whoa.

I took a deep breath.

Beads of sweat were beading on his forehead.

Sweat runs all over the body, and the body is sticky.

I feel bad.

“…”

Suddenly, I remembered my childhood.

When I was still unfamiliar with this world, I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night.

Each time, Benno was watching me from the side.

After growing up to a certain extent, that kind of thing has disappeared, but I miss it for some reason.

But why did I suddenly have a dream of my previous life? I thought I’d completely forgotten about it over ten years ago.

I stared into the darkness for a moment and remembered the image of my wife in my dream.

“…”

The face could not be seen very well.

When I see my wife again, I’ll definitely recognize her, but I remember her face, but I can’t recall the details of her eyes, nose, and mouth.

I think I became a person of the past.

Now that she’s freed from her specter.

‘But why all of a sudden?’

ha.

I sighed and closed my eyes, but I couldn’t sleep until dawn.

*

“Goruka!”

I stretched out my arm toward Goruka of the Red Hawk Tribe, whom I hadn’t seen in a while.

Goruka also extended her arms, and we bumped into each other a little to say hello and smiled brightly.

“My friend Oscar. How have you been?”

“Yes. I heard there was a slope last year.”

“hahahaha. That’s right. Louise…”

Goruka smiles brightly at his wife.

Goruka, who was a clumsy boy when he first came to the palace of this country, has now become a strong twenties.

I heard that after Princess Louise gave birth to a son last year, her father stepped back from the field and Goruka took over as chieftain.

It is said that Goruka will become chief by the end of this year at the earliest, or next year at the latest.

After greeting Goruka, I turned to Princess Louise who was standing next to him.

Princess Louise, a 10-year-old tomboy, had become an adult before she knew it.

Well, it’s natural given that time has passed, but it seemed strange to me as I remember my childhood.

“Princess Louise, long time no see.”

When I said hello, Princess Louise lowered her head a little.

“Duke of Weiss, nice to meet you.”

You must not touch another man’s wife in the grasslands. Kissing the back of the hand to greet the kingdom was also forbidden.

I spoke to Princess Louise while being careful not to get too close.

“I heard that an heir has been born. Congratulations.”

Princess Louise’s face was in full bloom.

been married for years.

Goruka had several wives after Princess Louise.

In the meadow, a man takes as many wives as he can support.

That was the law of the meadow.

Because you can’t live without it.

Unlike the kingdom, the grassland is a self-sufficient society, and everything from food to making clothes, setting up tents to live in, and processing the skins of hunted animals is done by the efforts of wives and immature children.

Even if she was a princess of the kingdom, the law would not change, and Louise, who was still young and unable to bear children, had several adult wives one after another.

I heard that they had several children before Louise.

An immature and young first wife who is not the same grassland tribe, and who cannot sleep with her.

Although she had been receiving reports from Martin that she was doing well, she must have suffered quite a bit.

Louise, who was smiling with a dignified face, somehow seemed radiant and happy, so I smiled too.

As if guessing my thoughts, Goruka shook her head.

“Oscar, I understand your concerns, but Louise has never been intimidated. She has been the captain of the women ever since she was a child.”

Goruka chuckled.

“Louise is a very strong and courageous person.”

Goruka’s eyes showed a lot of affection for his wife.

The relationship between the couple is very amicable.

thank god.

Louise looked at me quietly and then suddenly said,

“You’ve grown up. You were a 10-year-old kid the last time I saw you in the meadow.”

It seems that her personality of telling her true feelings has not changed even after going to the grassland.

“…”

By the way, it seems that she had the same feelings I had after seeing her.

And maybe Gorucado.

We burst into laughter all at once, no matter who came first.

“We’re not doing this here. Let’s go inside.”

I called them into the mansion.

This year’s banquet is attended by Princess Louise and Gorukawa.

The two planned to stay at the duke’s house while staying in the royal capital.

The two had dinner with me in the afternoon after unpacking their itinerary.

Meals with the Goruka couple were enjoyable.

Since we don’t have to worry about aristocratic etiquette in front of Gorukawa and Louise, we let go of everything complicated and ate, drank, and talked to our heart’s content.

It felt like I had gone back to my previous life as a normal person, so I felt nostalgic for some reason.

After finishing the meal, Princess Louise headed to her room.

Together with Goruka, I headed to a room called a space for men only.

I heard that the slightly smaller room was the private room of the head of the family.

It seems to be used when having a private conversation with a guest, when you want to be quiet alone, or when drinking alcohol.

In the room, heavy decorations were hung on the walls, and tables and sofas that had been hundreds of years were placed with minor damage.

When I was young, Benno and the butler of the royal residence often took me inside.

To get me used to the room as head of household, the two of them would prepare fruit water and some snacks, and then tell me old stories about successive head of households or dukes.

Looking back now, I feel a little ashamed.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but every time I entered this room I felt like a special person.

Even though he realized that he was an adult, his heart was excited, and he was looking forward to that few times.

Benno and the butler must have laughed a little inwardly.

This was the first time that a person other than the Duke’s family had entered such a room.

As I opened the door to my room, I smiled like a bad boy.

“This is a place for forbidden women. In this place, no one will know even if Princess Louise disgrace. This is the only chance.”

“Ha ha. She’s really good enough, Oscar. There’s nothing wrong with her.”

They seem to get along really well.

Upon entering this room, neither the butler nor the servants enter until the story is over.

I offered a slightly stronger drink to Goruka, and I poured the wine into a glass.

Now it’s time to have a serious talk.

I opened my mouth after watching Goruka take a few sips.

“How about the meadow side?”

At my words, Goruka’s face became calm.

“It’s not good.”

“I heard that it has been dry for several years. Is the situation very bad?”

Goruka poured the drink at once and nodded.

“It’s getting rougher. We’re on the river, and thanks to Oscar, we’re on the prosperous side, but there are people from other tribes who haven’t been able to survive the winter for years.”

“…”

“We are accepting those who wish to be absorbed into our tribe. But we cannot accept too many.”

When the scale grows, it becomes strength soon.

The tribe of Goruka accepted people from other tribes to some extent because they could afford it.

The duke’s family was supporting them in hopes of that.

However, when there are too many outsiders, the right to speak is weakened and discipline is shaken.

There was a limit to accepting people from other tribes because if a rebellion broke out by mistake, it could get out of hand.

In addition, the number of people must match the size of the prey obtained by livestock and hunting.

Goruka said, encouraging more alcohol.

“If you go far north from the grasslands, you will find the desert. There are reports that several tribes living nearby have perished due to drought.”

When there is no rain, the ground becomes dry and there is little grass.

The livestock that were supposed to feed on them also starved and died, and the number decreased.

To the steppe tribes, livestock are property and lifeline at the same time.

A decrease in livestock was the same as the death of a person.

“The entire meadow is getting difficult.”

Goruka sighed.

When food becomes scarce, the steppe tribes go out to plunder.

However, the target of the plunder is not necessarily a kingdom or another country.

The same steppe people also became the target of plunder.

It is said that the tribes near the desert perished.

When there was no food, it meant that wars between tribes broke out and eventually several places were destroyed, and many of the defeated tribes died or fell into slavery.

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Just as there are slaves in the kingdom, there are also slaves in the meadow.

And the steppe tribes were kind to their families, but very merciless to their enemies.

Slaves fall into a very miserable situation, to the extent that even if they live, they are not alive.

“How about the Silver Moon?”

When I asked, Goruka smiled bitterly.

“It’s the same. It’s only gotten worse. It’s expanding without thinking. It’s devouring every tribe nearby. It’s only gotten worse when the drought makes other tribes difficult.”

“…”

The Silver Moon has long been hostile to Goruka’s tribe.

The red hawk is slowly expanding its influence, focusing on the problem of stably feeding its family.

Even so, it must have been a fairly noticeable speed because I had my support.

It seems that the Silver Moon has become impatient with that, and is devouring other tribes by waging war at random.

“It is said that where they passed, corpses piled up mountains. It is said that they have never seen such a cruel person among the grassland tribes.”

Goruka smiled bitterly and looked at me.

“If it hadn’t been for Oscar, we might have been eaten by them by now.”

“…”

For many years I have been thinking and agonizing about why steppe tribes are invading the kingdom.

The more I got to know the steppe tribes, the more strange their behavior in the novel looked.

The steppes are made up of thousands of small tribes.

There may be more than 10,000 if you add all the small tribes of a few people.

A kingdom has a king who can rule over everyone, but the grassland tribes do not.

Although there is a difference in power between the larger and smaller tribes, they do not have the degree of subordination to blindly follow the words of other tribes.

As in the novel, countries cannot wage wars of aggression for a long time, just like countries war against countries.

In a group that is not united as one, a clash of opinions will eventually occur.

Then comes the conclusion.

That the invading steppe tribes are one tribe.

It may not be understandable to people in this world, but I know that such a thing has already happened on Earth.

Genghis Khan of Mongolia.

If someone unifies the grassland tribes and invades the kingdom, considering the history of the earth, it was possible.

The problem was who it was, but it seemed to be the Silvermoon tribe.

‘Maybe because of me…’

If I hadn’t supported the Red Hawk, the Silver Moon might not have expanded so rapidly.

If that were the case, maybe the steppes would never have become a single tribe…

It could be a question of which came first, the egg or the chicken.

If I had stayed still, there was a good chance that the tribe would have been unified by other things.

But even thinking about it, my heart still darkened.

I swallowed bitter saliva as I talked about the situation of Gorukawa and the steppe tribes.