I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain [EN]: Chapter 59

Became a Squirrel Saving the Villain (59)

Became a Squirrel Saving the Villain 59

Even Meriel was surprised by how cold her tone was.

“You mean the thief who stole Yurika’s things. Did you come to steal something else?”

While Lizzie trembled at the unexpected reaction, Sienna indifferently turned her gaze to Meriel.

“Why are you receiving guests the day after the banquet? It seems Yurika woke up because of the noise.”

Sienna blinked as if nothing was wrong and shrugged.

“Then I’ll have lunch with Yurika, so finish your business and come. Yurika wanted to see you and Jayden.”

With that, Sienna turned her back without hesitation and walked away from them.

A moment of silence followed. Tears began to fall from Lizzie’s eyes as she stared at Sienna’s back.

“I, I just… wanted to see my mother… That’s all.”

Lizzie looked at Meriel and said pitifully.

“I always missed my mother. And of course, my other family members too.”

“Ah…”

“I always imagined having a sister… I was always envious of sisters.”

Wiping away her tears, Lizzie blinked her pink eyes and carefully asked Meriel.

“Since you are the current owner of Medest, you won’t kick me out, will you?”

“Well.”

Meriel replied calmly.

“It’s true that I’m in the position of the head of the family right now, but I haven’t received the title of Duchess.”

To be precise, the inauguration ceremony had not been held because Meriel’s disposition was uncertain after the war ended.

In any case, Meriel had not reported the death of the Duke of Medest and continued to maintain her status as a Princess.

“So, it means I can’t make all the decisions on my own.”

It was not common for Meriel to draw such a firm line.

The atmosphere in the mansion sank into embarrassment.

Even the servants were whispering that Meriel seemed like a different person and were at a loss.

And Jayden, who couldn’t bear the heavy air, quickly spoke.

“L, let’s go inside, everyone.”

If it were the usual Meriel, she would have comforted anyone who cried more sincerely than anyone else, but now she was indifferent.

Even if a child she didn’t know on the street cried, she would be kinder than this. Jayden felt that Meriel was a bit strange, but he quickly tried to resolve the situation.

“Let’s go inside and talk.”

He didn’t want to show Yurika this situation, so he sighed and opened the door to the drawing room.

* * *

After watching Meriel, Jayden, and Lizzie enter the drawing room, I slowly moved towards my room.

The maids stealthily glanced at me and quickly parted.

It wasn’t that the maids disliked me, but it was a very difficult situation to say anything to me anyway.

‘It’s really a relief.’

I opened my door and took a deep breath again.

‘Because I know I’m the real one.’

If I didn’t know anything, I would have quietly left this mansion first because I hated this atmosphere so much.

I would have decided that there was no need to stay here.

Thinking that, I opened the door and froze.

“Uh…”

My room was filled with flowers, balloons, and gift boxes. There was even a letter on top of each gift box.

“What is this…”

As I stood frozen with the door open, one of the maids carefully spoke.

“Princess Meriel and Count Jayden decorated it themselves late last night.”

“…What?”

Usually, nobles had a custom of sending simple gifts and letters when they wanted to build friendships.

Especially when a banquet was held like yesterday, they would immediately send invitations along with small gifts to people they thought they would get along with.

Of course, I didn’t expect to receive such gifts.

My reputation was a mess because of the temple’s preliminary work, and I showed that firmly yesterday.

Even if there were people who sent me gifts, it would be because they wanted to get on the line with me as John Highlard’s partner.

I walked over as if possessed and tore open a letter to read it.

[Yurika! You were so pretty at the banquet.]

[We’re close now, but let’s get even closer.]

[You are the proud family of Medest.]

[Your value is known by those closest to you.]

They were letters written by Meriel and Jayden themselves.

Inside the boxes were various gifts, from dolls that only children would like to expensive jewelry.

Meriel and Jayden had no way of knowing what had happened to me.

They just thought I looked down and prepared this event, thinking, ‘People are gossiping about her.’

To let me know that even if no one wanted to be friends with me, they would embrace me with greater love.

“Ha…”

I shrugged my shoulders and chuckled.

“Really…”

No, if this happens, I won’t want to leave even if I’m fake.

And even more, the desire for revenge against the temple that made me like this began to burn.

It wasn’t a sad story, but rather a heartwarming one, yet my eyes were filled with tears.

I was opening gift boxes and reading letters for a while when.

“Yurika?”

A cautious knock was heard.

“Can I come in?”

It was Meriel’s voice, calmer than ever.

“I have something to say…”

I wiped away the tears that had welled up and slowly stood up.

“Yes.”

It was time to take action in earnest. I couldn’t let go of the bait that had walked in on its own two feet at a time like this.

“Come in, Sister.”

I smiled brightly and opened the door myself.

“I have something to say too.”

It seemed like it would be a long conversation.

And after that conversation ended, we shed tears without saying a word and hugged each other for a long time.

* * *

A rumor spread throughout the capital that a woman presumed to be the ‘real Yurika’ had entered the Medest mansion.

Her name was Lizzie Estoni, and she was a maid working at the Berini barony.

The Baroness Berini had been living in seclusion on the outskirts of the capital throughout the war and did not know what was going on in the world.

However, after attending the victory banquet, she was surprised to see Yurika’s appearance and how much she resembled Lizzie.

And after hearing that the daughter lost by the Medest ducal family looked exactly like that, she sent Lizzie to the Medest mansion for the time being.

“There’s a rumor going around that the maid is the real Princess Yurika Medest.”

The rumors that spread from the servants to the nobles throughout the capital.

“She has the baby clothes she had when she was lost.”

“Count Jayden Aberth recognized her.”

“But the poor Duchess couldn’t recognize her… It seems she still thinks of her adopted daughter as the real Yurika.”

The rumor that the maid named Lizzie was likely to be the real Yurika spread into a more factual story a day later.

Because there was a rumor that Lizzie was given a very nice room in the Medest mansion, rather than being kicked out.

“Isn’t it because something matched, so they gave her a room?”

“I heard that the adopted daughter even acted up a bit? She keeps saying she’s not, but she fell to the floor after talking to that adopted daughter alone.”

In fact, it was a bit of an unfair rumor for Yurika.

Lizzie was the one who asked Yurika for a private meeting first, and Lizzie just fell on her own in that place.

But then, she put on the kindest face in the world to the maids and said, ‘I, I just fell on my own. Really! I just, I tripped over a stone and fell…’ something like that.

Of course, there wasn’t a single stone to trip over in that room.

It was obvious how that scene would have looked to the maids.

And that night, there was even a big commotion because the baby clothes Lizzie brought disappeared.

The next morning, a dog dug up the baby clothes, torn to shreds, buried in the path Yurika often took for a walk.

It was a situation where Yurika was being framed as the culprit no matter who looked at it.

“Well… that adopted daughter originally acted up a bit. She must have felt like she was going crazy because the real one came back.”

“I think I’d be a little scared too. She became a princess at once from an orphan, so would she easily want to give up that position?”

Anyway, it was exactly two days after Lizzie entered the Medest mansion.

A carriage with the seal of the Medest ducal family crossed the main street towards the Highlard ducal family as if to show off.

And in front of everyone, Yurika, who was all dressed up, got off in front of the main gate of the Highlard ducal residence.

Before long, the main gate opened and John ran out himself. In fact, John, who had not been able to contact her at all, had an almost dreamlike expression.

“Y, Yurika? How did you get here…”

As he hurriedly escorted her, he asked in a daze, and Yurika smiled brightly and said.

“I ran away from home.”

“What?”

Hanging on to John, who was bewildered, Yurika asked confidently.

“So, can I stay here for a few days?”

The people watching didn’t expect it at all, but for Yurika, it was a homecoming after a long time.