I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain [EN]: Chapter 17

Became a Squirrel to Save the Villain 17

The servant swallowed hard, looking into Johan’s violet eyes. Honestly, it was a very tempting offer.

In fact, Ella had even offered a reward to anyone who found the divine creature.

That’s why he came all the way to Johan’s tower, where he was practically imprisoned, even though he felt a bit uneasy…

“You can just say it was killed by hunting dogs,” Johan continued smoothly.

“Even if someone looks for the divine creature again later, you can just say you don’t know what happened.”

“B-But why would you do such a thing, young master…”

“Instead, you.”

Johan pointed at the servant with his long fingers and smiled sadly. “Secretly bring me some food. Steal some stale bread or something. Please.”

“The meals… are so terrible. I’d be happy with rough rye bread.”

The servant stared at Johan, speechless for a moment.

Unless someone is truly evil, their heart would soften when a sixteen-year-old boy asks for food.

Johan put on an even more pitiful expression and shrugged as if embarrassed.

“I’m… very hungry.”

That was the final blow.

Johan’s sorrowful eyes trembled with a hint of misery. He was a beautiful boy in a pitiful situation, no matter who looked at him.

“… …Alright.”

The servant sighed and nodded.

“Then I’ll be back in a moment, please.”

Not long after, the servant brought back a squirrel, and Johan branded it with the Black Rose seal on its chest.

‘This way… I can deceive the temple’s eyes. To some extent.’

It would be fortunate if the temple thought Momo was dead, and even if they suspected something, he could at least divert their attention for a while.

That was the ‘way to divert their attention for a while’ that he had told the squirrel.

Although the squirrel didn’t seem to trust him very much…

Thus, the squirrel branded by Johan was delivered to the high priest via Ella, along with the servant’s testimony that it had been bitten by the hunting dogs raised behind the Duke’s residence.

Johan lay down on the bed only after confirming that the temple’s carriage had returned.

‘It was a long day. And it will be an even longer night.’

From tonight, the squirrel won’t come.

The prickly and cute divine creature that came to visit every day and entered through the window.

It didn’t do anything particularly cute, but the gestures themselves to communicate were adorable, his squirrel.

At some point, he waited for Momo because he wanted to see it more than the power of calming.

He wrapped himself in the blanket.

Just this afternoon, there was a girl wrapped in this blanket.

Cute but capable, adorable but cynical, she erased the seal, but he desired her even more…

Johan realized in the blanket.

This is what everyone calls first love.

4. * * *

‘Okay, I escaped anyway.’

I left the noisy Duke’s residence behind and quickly ran away to the city.

It was very good timing, seeing the servants all scattered and searching here and there.

As expected, it was an excellent choice to go to Johan right after eavesdropping on Ella and the high priest’s conversation.

‘Just let me become human. I’m confident I can live better than anyone else.’

There are trees everywhere, so it was too easy to avoid people’s eyes and get away from the Duke’s residence.

‘That’s the Imperial Palace… and…’

I don’t know the geography here very well, but it was easy to find my target.

The Imperial Palace was tall and splendid enough to be seen from anywhere in the capital.

And according to the information in the original story, the large mansion right next to the Imperial Palace was my destination.

‘…Maybe that’s it?’

My destination was the Medest Ducal Residence.

Mariel was agonizing over all sorts of letters in her room.

Since Duke Medest went to the battlefield, the Duchess Siena was supposed to handle the affairs of the Duchy.

But Siena was too weak, so Mariel was in charge of most of the work.

“Support request… It’s a difficult time for everyone…” But there was a problem.

Mariel was too kind to lead the Dukedom. “But the amount is too much…”

Mariel, who was not yet an adult, had not received the title of Duchess, so she had to solve various problems in the position of the Medest Duchess.

Power that has not yet been clearly established, coupled with benevolent indecision.

People who wanted to take advantage of her position and personality rushed in like hyenas.

While Duke Medest was leading the family so meticulously and thoroughly, forces that had been lying flat began to assert various demands, thinking this was their chance.

As a result, the Medest Dukedom was gradually becoming more difficult.

It was then.

Knock knock.

Mariel was startled by the knocking sound from the window and raised her head.

And she trembled and muttered.

“T-This is… the second floor…”

She was very nervous and gasped for breath as she looked at the window.

A squirrel was staring straight at her and knocking on the window again.

“A, a squirrel?”

Mariel jumped up and opened the window.

A squirrel scurried in and sat on her desk.

“No, why is a squirrel here…”

Camangie came to mind for a moment, but the squirrel did not have the Hyrard seal on its white belly.

“Who are you?”

Mariel slowly approached the desk and sat down.

The squirrel stared at her intently and stretched out its paw. And there was a gold thread tied to it that she had tied to Camangie.

“T-This is…”

The squirrel looked around, then began to scan the letters scattered on the desk.

“Kyung.”

Mariel swallowed hard and watched what the squirrel was doing.

It was cute that the little squirrel was looking at the letters with a serious expression, but it was a very strange sight.

“Um, Camangie. I’m sorry, but there are a lot of top secret documents, so it’s difficult to look at them like this…”

“Kyung.”

The squirrel wagged its tail and tilted its head, then sighed softly.

‘You say it’s difficult, but you just leave it alone, sigh. Who will listen if you hesitate like that and tell them not to do it? You have to be firm and tell them to get out right away, not to look at it carelessly!’

Of course, Mariel had no way of knowing what the squirrel was thinking.

“Okay, good boy… let’s stop looking now…”

Whether Mariel was embarrassed or not, the squirrel put its front paw on a letter.

“Abuse?”

The squirrel nodded once and then moved its front paw to another letter.

“Yes?”

Mariel’s expression became serious, and the squirrel soon moved to another letter and pointed at it with its front paw.

And it repeated that several times.

“So…”

Mariel said, combining the letters the squirrel had pointed to.

“Abuse, escape, raise me?”

The squirrel looked up at Mariel with sparkling eyes and nodded enthusiastically.

Mariel immediately surrendered to the adorable figure.

“…You were abused in Hyrard. Well, Tezen doesn’t seem to have a good personality. He treats his brother terribly too.”

“Kyuoong.”

“And you came straight to me? Poor thing. But how did you erase the seal? Or did you get kicked out?”

The squirrel rubbed its head against Mariel’s wrist with a sullen expression.

Mariel was immediately KO’d [knocked out] by the squirrel’s gently felt body temperature.

“Anyway, I’ll protect you now, so don’t worry, Camangie. I’ll give you a room first.”

As if it liked her words, the squirrel immediately put its front paw on her forehead.

Mariel closed her eyes quietly because she liked the warmth.

There was no particular feeling, but it felt like her head, which had been tired from all the letters, was strangely clearing up.

“So…”

Libena pushed up her glasses and said. There was anxiety in her voice.

“Was the divine creature recovered safely?”

High Priest Patre stroked his beard and nodded.

“.”

“You don’t have to worry. It’s been taken care of.”

“Are you saying it was recovered safely?”

“On the day I went to recover it, it was already dead, bitten by the hunting dogs that were being raised there.”

High Priest Patre said, recalling the squirrel carcass that the servant had brought that day.

The second son of the Hyrard Duke’s family, Tezen, was just an ordinary boy who didn’t need a divine creature, so the divine creature seemed to roam freely around the Duke’s residence.

So it must have been bitten by a hunting dog while wandering around.

Ella also explained that Tezen usually didn’t manage the divine creature well.

The Hyrard seal was engraved on the chest of the squirrel that the servant brought in, which had already stopped breathing.

“But anyway, I wanted to shut the Duchess’s mouth, so I gave her the Bever potion.”

“The Bever potion?”

The Bever potion was a drug that eliminated a person’s ego and turned them into a doll.

It was by far the most vicious of the drugs developed by the temple, and even the temple did not use it unless it was a very important matter.

“Yes. It looked like she wanted to feed it to the eldest son from her previous marriage. If so, it probably won’t be discovered by outsiders.”

High Priest Patre clicked his tongue and said.

“I heard he’s been weak since he was a child, so I don’t know if she really needs to go that far. Well, anyway, don’t worry because the divine creature has been taken care of.”