I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain [EN]: Chapter 53

Became a Squirrel to Save the Villain 53

Became a Squirrel to Save the Villain Episode 53

‘What?’

I was so surprised that I almost fell off the railing.

‘Did… did I really hear what I think I heard?’

The conversation was too shocking. I held my breath and gripped the railing tightly with my front paws.

Wow, I knew they would have an important conversation, but I never expected to overhear something so shocking.

‘Then… then I…’

Even when I was dancing with Jaden, I couldn’t have imagined this.

‘Am I really Yurika Medest?’

It seemed that I had met Theodore once before I possessed this body, before my ego was formed.

That’s why Theodore said something like, ‘Haven’t we met before?’ It was such a cliché line.

And he seemed to instinctively recognize that I was the sacred beast from that time.

I twitched my cheeks nervously and waited for the next words. Libena’s silence was driving me crazy.

Of course, maintaining silence in response to such speculation almost certainly meant affirmation…

Theodore continued.

‘But… I heard that sacred beasts don’t usually have the will to humanize. If she’s really Yurika Medest, how did she humanize?’

I was wondering about that too.

I was just guessing that maybe I possessed this body… and that’s why I didn’t forget that I was human.

My tail was stiffening with anxiety, and Theodore uttered another shocking statement.

‘Is this related to Duke Medest being in the temple right now?’

Duke Medest is in the temple?

If everything Theodore said was true, then my father was alive.

Until he met me, Jaden had always insisted, ‘Missing doesn’t mean dead.’ He always claimed that Duke Medest and Yurika Medest were alive.

And that claim was true.

‘Why don’t you open that eloquent mouth of yours?’

Theodore said with a sneer while I was in shock.

‘I need to know a little more about that sacred beast.’

‘Why…’

‘I told you. I’ve wanted it all along.’

Aside from the shocking content, it was a very infuriating statement.

I’m not an object, what is this…

The unpleasant feeling of being someone’s possession was enough when I was labeled as Tezen’s property when I first possessed this body.

‘There’s no place as inaccessible as this, Libena. I admit I was a little hasty, but that doesn’t mean this space isn’t safe right now.’

Theodore urged, sounding annoyed.

‘Of course, we’ll have to keep pretending that we’re in love to avoid suspicion, but…’

Eventually, Libena sighed and replied.

‘…Your Highness’s guess is correct.’

As the words of affirmation flowed from Libena, my whole body seemed to tighten.

‘However, the situation is much more serious and dangerous than Your Highness thinks.’

Libena’s low voice echoed quietly, almost mechanically.

‘In order to truly test her abilities, I injected her with her biological father, Duke Medest’s, magic power, and I think I awakened her unconsciousness.’

‘Unconsciousness?’

‘Yes… her unconsciousness as a human.’

Once again, my little heart pounded.

What on earth does unconsciousness as a human mean?

‘Duke Medest’s magic seems to have touched his daughter’s sense of time… so my guess is that she now perceives the future as the contents of a book.’

‘…What?’

‘So she’s a very dangerous subject. We don’t know how she’ll use the fragments of the future that we don’t know to pressure us.’

What, so my possession isn’t really a possession?

No wonder I couldn’t remember my past life very well.

It seemed that the moment I recognized that I had ‘possessed’ this body was when my unconsciousness awakened.

So, because of Libena, I mixed with my father’s magic power, and I gained the will to humanize and perceived the future as the contents of a book…

Then I’m not a possessed soul, I was Yurika Medest from beginning to end.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

Then I… I’m not a ‘fake’?

To be honest, I wasn’t affected at all by people whispering behind my back that I was a ‘fake,’ but I always had to tell myself, ‘I’m not Yurika.’

Every time Sienna treated me warmly as her daughter, I was a little sad that the day would come when she would come to her senses and stop calling me ‘Yurika.’

So, does that mean that the real Yurika has returned and I won’t have to leave the Medest estate on my own?

That also meant that I could continue to be a confident daughter to Sienna.

‘Now it all feels like it fits together.’

I thought, holding my breath.

The great magic power that Meriel felt without even knowing it, and the fact that it was perfectly calmed unlike other magicians…

So, the Medest family members had the ability to calm their magic on their own?

Judging by the fact that Meriel didn’t know anything about it, it seemed that the Medest family didn’t even know they had such an ability.

Meriel was the only direct descendant of Medest that I had met. So I didn’t know if all the Medest family members had such an ability.

‘They said that the Medest bloodline sometimes disappeared… without touching the firstborn to continue the lineage.’

If so, the temple must have known the secret of Medest, and of course, they had been researching ways to use it.

And the fact that I transformed into a sacred beast by turning into a squirrel… maybe it has something to do with the blood of the beastkin [people with animal features or the ability to transform] flowing in the Medest family.

‘But the Medest family members can’t use magic at all. Despite their overflowing magic power.’

It seemed that this fact was also related to the blood of the beastkin. What was certain was that the Medest bloodline had a secret hidden within it that even the people themselves didn’t know.

‘I need to find out more about the Medest family and the beastkin.’

There weren’t any books to refer to in the Medest estate, but I had to find out somewhere else.

And if all my guesses were true, how terrible was the temple?

They were subtly controlling everything from behind the scenes without ever coming forward.

They were making money by using the characteristics of Medest, and they were subtly controlling the magicians.

I was grinding my teeth when Libena’s voice continued.

‘Then that child will recognize the temple as the biggest enemy.’

She seemed to be smart, judging by the fact that she was making accurate inferences.

‘If she even realizes the secret of the Medest family, she’ll want to eliminate not only me but even Your Highness.’

That was very accurate.

Of course, I didn’t want to leave the temple alone, nor Theodore, who was in agreement with it.

No, in the first place, I didn’t even have any memories left, but the fact that he was saying things like he wanted to have me was very upsetting.

‘Then that squirrel… no, Yurika Medest, doesn’t remember anything from before she developed her ego?’

‘I don’t know.’

Libena shrugged and said.

‘She might recall it intermittently if the right conditions are met.’

‘I wish she could remember me.’

‘You only have the memory of being calmed by her, right?’

‘Still.’

Theodore mumbled languidly.

‘It’s unfair that I’m the only one who remembers.’

‘…’

At least at that moment, it was clear that Libena and I were thinking the same thing.

That crazy magician was incomprehensible.

No, if he liked the memory of being calmed so much, he should just hug a calming potion and live with it…

I think I had calmed him once before I thought I possessed this body, and he was acting like I was his sacred beast.

Even Johan, who had been calmed by me the most and for the longest time, wasn’t so hung up on those memories…

‘…So what are you going to do now?’

Only after some time had passed did Theodore say in a low voice.

‘She seems to be extremely cautious, so it seems difficult to inject drugs, and your plan to bury her in high society and have her disowned will be difficult.’

‘Hmm…’

‘Shouldn’t we be plotting things in a different way?’

‘That’s right. I’m thinking about it. Whether it’s a long-term method or a short-term method.’

I perked up my ears and lay flat on my stomach.

I didn’t think they would give up easily.

If what they said was true, they would think of me, who knows the future, as a huge risk factor.

‘As a long-term method… isn’t research what I’m best at?’

Libena said in a confident voice.

‘Duke Medest’s magic is definitely specialized in the distortion of space-time. If that caused side effects, we might be able to use it again.’

My front paws trembled at those words.

I was so shocked that I wasn’t even aware of it, but even though I miraculously escaped from the temple, my father was still trapped inside.