I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain [EN]: Chapter 111

Became a Squirrel Saving the Villain 111

I Became a Squirrel Saving the Villain Chapter 111

“Uh… um.”

Lnate hurriedly rummaged through the medical records.

Seeing this, Trevor scolded him.

“What is this quack doing in front of a sick person!”

Lnate, who had never been called a ‘quack’ anywhere, couldn’t help but be taken aback for a moment.

Trevor clicked his tongue and said.

“Give me some medicine quickly, I said I have a headache. If you don’t know what it is, look in that bag. My son gives me something.”

“Medicine… you mean?”

“Yes. I feel better after taking it. I’m having trouble moving around, so please do it for me.”

Lnate started rummaging through Paul’s bag as if possessed.

After emptying several pockets, he was able to find the white pill that Trevor was shouting, ‘That’s it!’

“Um, this is…”

“Just give it to me.”

Trevor ignored Lnate and swallowed the pill on the spot.

Lnate blankly stared at Trevor and hurriedly said.

“How long have you been taking this medicine?”

“Since my son came? Before that, my son was out at war, so I couldn’t take it. I was just groaning helplessly.”

Trevor answered with a grin.

He seemed to be in a good mood just from taking the medicine.

“Viscount, would it be alright if I took some of this medicine with me?”

“Huh? Do you have a headache too?”

“No, it’s not that… I need to examine it.”

“Ah.”

Trevor clicked his tongue and waved his hand.

“Yes. You have to study things like this to get rid of the quack title. It’s a good attitude for a young man to try to learn this and that.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Thus, Lnate, who had earned the title of viscount purely through his medical skills, became a ‘quack’ and humbly left Trevor’s room.

Then, he asked a servant to tell him to stop by when Paul returned.

It seemed like he needed to find out the source of this medicine.

* * *

In the Imperial Palace, the heads of noble families were regularly gathered in one place to hold meetings.

This was to handle various affairs of state and the various tasks necessary to govern the empire.

Historically, there were three dukes in the empire, but one family line had died out and the direct line had disappeared, so now there were only two dukes who could attend the meeting.

Johan, the head of Hielard, and Meriel, the head of Medest.

Both were still young and did not have much political experience, so even as dukes, they did not have much influence.

The fact that both of them did not take a big part in discussing state affairs also played a role.

This was the third full-fledged meeting held since the end of the war.

The first and second were to sort out the post-war situation, and now it was time to take care of internal affairs.

It was when people were starting to gather one by one at the meeting place.

“Huh?”

When the door opened, the people who had arrived early and were sitting in their seats stirred.

The combination of people who appeared without a care in the world was unexpected.

“Um…”

Then someone said very carefully.

“Ahem, this isn’t a place to bring your lover, is it?”

The people who appeared were Meriel, Johan, and Yurika.

Meriel and Johan were fine, but Yurika had no justification for being here. The head of Medest was clearly Meriel.

So everyone couldn’t help but think that Yurika came to this place as Johan’s lover.

The emperor, who appeared immediately after that, also looked at Yurika with an unexpected face.

Meriel smiled and opened her mouth.

“Ah, there’s a reason why Yurika came to this place. Of course, it’s not because she’s the Duke of Hielard’s lover.”

“Hmm, is that so.”

Roymond said with an enthusiastic face.

“Let’s sit down quickly. Whatever the reason.”

In the end, Yurika sat nonchalantly in the seat prepared next to Meriel.

She had a calm face even while receiving unexpected gazes from everyone.

“Before other agenda items begin, shall we hear what circumstances brought Princess Yurika Medest to the conference hall?”

Marquis Tedaire, who was in charge of the agenda, pushed up his glasses and started the proceedings.

This meant that it was burdensome for Yurika to be present until other sensitive agenda items were dealt with.

Yurika smiled brightly and nodded.

“Yes, I don’t want to attend the meeting until the end either. Thank you for your consideration.”

And she firmly continued.

“I came to this place to discuss my reward.”

The conference hall froze slightly at those words.

It was because the words Yurika and ‘reward’ were a bit out of place.

However, there was someone who quickly connected those words. It was the emperor.

Yurika, seeing the emperor’s expression change, smiled and continued.

“Yes. To be exact, it’s the reward that my tiger should receive.”

At those words, everyone had an expression that they knew what the situation was.

No one didn’t know what achievements the tiger that appeared with Yurika at the hunting competition had made.

In particular, the emperor even said with his own mouth, ‘I was saved thanks to the tiger.’

“It was stated in the document that both the responsibility and the reward for what my tiger did at the hunting competition are all mine.”

The scribe swallowed slightly.

He clearly wrote that passage with his own hands because he thought the tiger might cause an accident.

“So I came to ask His Majesty for a favor.”

“Ah.”

And the rational and competent crown prince, Roymond, nodded with a serious expression.

“Special Clause 8, Paragraph 10 for the hunting competition. It’s a legitimate request.”

Now no one could object to those words.

Of course, neither could the emperor.

Even to keep Johan, who was exuding his presence without saying anything in this place, in check, he had to establish Roymond’s authority.

Even if that Roymond was oblivious and overly fair.

“Ahem, yes.”

The emperor looked at the faces of the nobles once and then quickly managed his expression.

“So what favor does Princess Yurika Medest want to ask?”

“It’s nothing much.”

Yurika answered in a soft voice with a smile.

“Actually, that tiger listens to me so well, and is so familiar with the Medest mansion… we all think that it might be a tiger related to our family.”

At that moment, everyone recalled the tiger that seemed completely tamed at the hunting competition.

Soon, the nobles nodded as if it made sense.

“So I looked through the old books of the Medest family, but there wasn’t much data. So I would like to ask His Majesty for a favor.”

Yurika said politely.

“I found information in the Duke’s library that there are books on the history of noble families in His Majesty’s personal library. Would you give me a chance to enter the personal library for a while?”

The emperor was smiling kindly, but he flinched inwardly.

It seemed like there was a hidden meaning in what seemed like a harmless statement.

First of all, Roymond had recently asked if he could borrow a book from the personal library.

So the source of that information was clearly from Roymond, not the Duke’s library. He could be sure of that by looking at Roymond’s foolish expression looking at Meriel.

The book that Roymond asked for at that time was clearly a book about ‘the curse on noble families’. It wasn’t about history.

By clearly hiding those two facts that they both knew in an official setting, Yurika was giving a warning, not a warning.

If he gave permission in this place, she would quietly pass it over, but if he didn’t give permission, she would expose that there was a book about ‘the curse of noble families’.

And this was a place where nobles were together.

Of course, he couldn’t just let it go.

‘She calculated all of this. She’s cunning…’

Then it was all explained why she attended the noble meeting to demand a reward, not at the hunting competition.

“If you allow access through a servant, I will watch while waiting for my sister while the meeting is in progress.”

Yurika even designated this moment so that she couldn’t hide the book.

The emperor knew very well that the longer he dragged out this topic, the more he would lose. It was because it would be difficult if other nobles started thinking, ‘Why does the imperial family have our data?’

That’s not to say that he had anything to be guilty about. He just wanted to hold their weaknesses, so there was no fact that he was afraid of being revealed.

“Your Majesty, I beg you.”

At that time, Meriel spoke softly.

“Actually, because that tiger follows Yurika well… we think that Yurika might really be the younger sister we’ve been looking for. There might be a hidden truth, so please bestow grace on Yurika and the tiger.”

At those words, the emperor knew that he had no more justification to resist.

It was said that it would help both the beast that saved his life and its owner, and that he would only look at the book for a while while the meeting was in progress, so how could he refuse?

If he refused, it was clear that he would face a backlash asking what the content was that he was hiding.

‘Well… there’s nothing that greatly harms the imperial family.’

In the end, the emperor quietly rang the bell and called a servant. And he said in a low voice.

“Guide Princess Yurika Medest to my personal library now.”