glad you enjoyed it! i really liked how the bad end turned out as well. the original plan for pyrrhus was actually much longer and i had to cut out most of the bad end story details in the interest of time
anyway, as you might expect, making it another alternate route would be too much of a drastic branch split — much like many other alternative options the mc could have taken (e.g. not following the barist family at all). but this is what writers usually leave for fanfic authors :P