I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain [EN]: Chapter 134

Became a Squirrel Saving the Villain – Episode 134

Dusk was beginning to settle.

I headed alone to the prison where Libena was confined.

The prison was located in the basement of the Imperial Palace, and I had to descend the stairs for quite some time.

In a desolate corner of the prison, guarded by wardens, Libena was helplessly burying her face in her knees.

I watched her from afar for a while. It felt strange.

In a way, she was the opponent I had been diligently pursuing and fearing all along.

It couldn’t be helped. For so long, I had existed as her test subject.

It was a fear I couldn’t help but feel, having been completely dominated once.

But stepping back, she was just an ordinary, powerless human.

“Yurika?”

Sensing my presence, Libena raised her head from where it was buried in her knees and looked straight at me.

“Yes, it’s me.”

I answered calmly. Our eyes met for a moment.

I was about to slowly open my mouth when she spoke.

“Save me, Yurika. Please save me. Keep me under you. Then I’ll do research for Medest. Huh? Even harder than at the temple.”

She crawled on her knees to me, grabbed the bars, and screamed, looking at me with mad eyes.

“I don’t even have children yet! I can’t pass on this great bloodline of Artea! Yurika, do you know how terrible this is? Huh? You’re losing a huge opportunity for humanity to leap forward!”

“Ha……”

I sighed, looking at her glistening eyes.

It was truly the worst ending I could have imagined.

“Save me, Yurika. Huh? I’ll really do anything……”

If she had at least shown dignity as a scientist until the end, I wouldn’t have felt this way.

“If you want, I’ll do research that allows you to freely switch between squirrel and human forms. A perfect method that doesn’t need Yohan or anything!”

“Really?”

I looked at her with sunken eyes.

“Then you need to change your tone. Don’t you think?”

Libena looked at me with a realization, sighed once, and said obediently.

“……Yes, Princess.”

She lowered herself further, pleading.

“Please give me one more chance. Artea has always researched for Medest. You and I can continue that history and make Medest more prosperous than Hilard or even the Imperial Family.”

“I see. But I can’t trust your loyalty.”

I crossed my arms and glared at her coldly.

“How about banging your head on the stone floor? Show me your sincerity.”

“……”

“I originally like smart people. Don’t you know that from supporting Renat until the end? Why don’t you try your best?”

“……Yes.”

Libena took a deep breath and immediately started hitting her head on the floor herself. Before long, blood was flowing from her forehead.

“But you know, I was your experimental squirrel, right? Can you really obey me?”

“I can.”

“Then, as a sign of obedience, can you lick my shoes?”

“……”

“You were the one who put me on the experimental table until the end. Can’t you even do this much?”

Libena hesitated for a moment, then kissed my shoe as it was.

Even that was so creepy that I immediately pulled my foot back.

“I don’t think I can do it.”

And I said coldly.

“Am I crazy? To take you in of all people?”

At my firm words, Libena raised her head sharply and looked at me with eyes filled with anger.

“You!”

She jumped up, grabbed the bars, and shouted.

“Dare you play with me?”

“Yeah. I played with you as I pleased.”

I answered calmly.

“So what? You played with my life.”

As if she had no answer to that, Libena spat on the prison floor and said.

“I shouldn’t have sent you to the Hilard ducal family. That’s the only thing I regret. Instead of giving you away, thinking you were nothing special, if I had researched you a little more, you could have truly become my masterpiece……”

I looked at her with a disgusted face. Now that I see it, it wasn’t Yohan or Theodore, but Libena who really thought of me as her possession.

“It seems like you still see me as a squirrel who couldn’t escape from your grasp.”

I said calmly.

“But I’m not the same person as you. You never even saw me as human, but even though things have come to this, I still see you as human.”

“What does that……”

“Receive a legal punishment. That was all my request. You did things to me that humans can’t do, but I’m treating you to the end with the norms created by human society.”

“Are you lecturing me now?”

“Yeah.”

I smiled brightly, looking straight into Libena’s eyes.

“And don’t cling to the bloodline of Artea. There was nothing good about this world because of you. Even if your child is born with that kind of mind, they will be very unhappy.”

Since the punishment had been decided, it could be said that this conversation was useless.

However, I wanted to have a conversation with Libena like this, as human to human.

Because we had been hiding our true feelings from each other for too long.

“I will now live happily as an ordinary human with the person I love. Just like the Medest family always wanted. Artea was wrong after all. So it ends with your generation.”

I confidently delivered my last words to her, who made me an experimental subject and brought me here.

So that she and I could be sure that this was our end.

Having said all I wanted to say, I turned around as it was. There was no reason to be here anymore.

Libena shouted something loudly from behind, but it was echoing and I couldn’t hear it well.

All this time, I was always afraid of Libena.

Because she was the one who turned me into a squirrel and experimented on me all along.

Even after I became human, I was vaguely afraid that I would become subordinate to her someday.

But seeing her trapped like this, kneeling helplessly in front of me, I felt like I was finally completely liberated.

I felt like I could now live without thinking about her anymore.

“Goodbye.”

As I climbed the stairs of the prison, I greeted not Libena, but my past self.

“All of myself who was in Libena’s grasp.”

* * *

When I came out of the prison, it was completely dark.

“Yurika!”

Nevertheless, many people I knew were gathered outside the prison.

I looked at each person with a bewildered face.

“Yurika, are you okay? Did anything happen?”

My mother with a worried face.

“Didn’t that woman say anything strange again? Are you feeling uneasy at all?”

Jayden, who suddenly came up and checked my complexion first.

“If she treated you unfairly, we can also hold her accountable for that and bring forward the execution a little more.”

My father, who seemed to have already written down all sorts of scenarios.

“Yurika, weren’t you scared being alone? I should have gone with you……”

Meriel, who seemed to have been pacing back and forth the whole time.

“Could that woman have hidden any drugs? Please tell me anytime if your body feels strange.”

Renat, who even brought a large medical bag.

“Everyone came because they were worried you’d be upset, Yurika. Everyone was worried about the same thing.”

Even Yohan, who was looking at me with warm eyes.

I could clearly see the 모습 [Korean word meaning ‘appearance’ or ‘figure’] of them gathering together and worrying about my feelings, unable to disturb me when I said I would go alone.

“No, you all didn’t have to come like this……”

“Still, I was anxious. That woman seems like the epitome of your trauma.”

Jayden clicked his tongue and said.

“We’re already terrified; how much more would you be? Especially since you were in that woman’s grasp for so long.”

I didn’t deny Jayden’s words. To be honest, it was true that I had been excessively conscious of it all along.

I came to see Libena with my own eyes today because I wanted to break free from that obsession.

“It’s okay.”

I smiled brightly, looking at my people who were worried about me and waited for me.

“Because now I’m not in Libena’s grasp, but by the side of the people I love. With all of you caring for me like this, what do I have to fear now?”

I was grateful that they had all come to the Imperial Palace prison, so I hugged each one of them tightly.

Then, I smiled and said next to Yohan.

“Now only good things will happen. Like my sister’s wedding, or my wedding……”