I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain [EN]: Chapter 75

I couldn’t see outside from inside Theodore’s pocket, but it was clear that chaos had erupted.

“That crazy bastard!”

Theodore spat out a curse.

“Even if he’s blinded by the Divine Beast, how could he do this!”

Hey, who is saying what to whom right now?

Aren’t you the one who orchestrated a kidnapping?

‘But… wait a minute. In the original story, I think Johann also staged a kidnapping.’

But now was not the time to think about the original story.

Anyway, the original story is no longer relevant, and we are living in reality.

“Kyoo-oo-oong!”

I rolled around in Theodore’s inner pocket, desperately thinking.

‘He can’t directly attack the royals, so he’s attacking everything around them. But is it okay for him to randomly fire magic like that?’

Of course, it’s not okay…

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of explosions started to be heard in rapid succession nearby.

It seemed that Theodore was also using magic now.

I could feel a huge flow of magical power from Theodore, who was holding me.

Bang! Bang!

Is he just smashing everything?

At this point, I was starting to think it might be better not to see this situation.

“You, you, no matter how good you are at magic… if you use magic against the royals, it will also affect you…”

And Theodore couldn’t continue speaking.

“Ugh!”

A crisp thud was heard, and a faint smell of blood wafted.

“Well, even if I can use magic, I think I’d still do this.”

Along with Johann’s eerie voice, Theodore’s body bent over.

‘Ah.’

I immediately understood the situation.

‘He’s punching him.’

Well, there’s no rule that a mage can only attack people with magic.

‘Goodness.’

But even if he is a duke, punching a member of the royal family…

It’s like a street brawl.

‘I don’t know anymore…’

After that, amidst the continuous roars, Theodore eventually fell from his horse.

It was the moment when the victory or defeat of this absurd duel was completely decided.

‘I was frustrated because I couldn’t see anything, so hurry up and roll on the ground! Escape and go to Johann!’

The moment Theodore flew off the horse from Johann’s continuous punches, I quickly escaped from his inner pocket.

‘Since it’s already a disaster, let’s watch his bloodied face.’

And I quickly got out of Theodore’s pocket and landed on the ground.

At the same time, I gasped in surprise.

‘This is… a battlefield?’

I expected it, but the surroundings were literally devastated.

Since he couldn’t touch Theodore, it seemed he had touched everything else besides Theodore.

‘No.’

I quickly looked around and found Johann, then realized a new fact.

‘It’s not that he didn’t use magic on Theodore because he was afraid of the ban.’

Johann’s eyes were already flipped. His face was openly insane.

Anyone could see that he was out of his mind.

‘It’s because of me. Because Theodore has me with him…’

Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to swing his fists without thinking about the consequences.

He was punching him repeatedly like a thug in a back alley.

There was no way to stop it, and it had already happened, so I decided to stay still for now.

Since he’s already beating up a royal, he should beat him up until the end.

Theodore was being unilaterally beaten without even being able to use magic.

Literally, until he completely fainted.

He knocked Theodore down so quickly and immediately came to me.

“Yurika.”

Johann’s voice was completely hoarse.

Look at this… his once handsome face is a mess.

His face, which had never shown any signs even when his magic power was fluctuating, was slightly distorted.

At that moment, I couldn’t think of anything complicated.

Neither Theodore’s words that he and I would be the same in essence, nor the subtle sense of incongruity I had felt from him.

I just hoped that the pain would disappear quickly.

I jumped into his hand.

‘He needs calming down.’

The scale of the magic he used just now was enormous.

He can’t even take a calming potion, so he must be suffering from tremendous pain.

Besides, didn’t Theodore say it before?

Johann would be desperate for my calming effect.

‘You can see that the crazy bastard kidnapped me because he couldn’t forget the calming effect for years.’

As expected, calling my name must mean he wants me to calm him down quickly, right?

It was when I hurriedly reached out my front paw.

“Are you okay?”

Johann looked at me worriedly and asked.

It was as if he didn’t care about his own condition.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

He even carefully examined my body.

“That guy was driving too fast… is your stomach okay?”

Calling the prince ‘that guy’…

And no matter how bad my stomach is, it can’t be as bad as yours.

“Kyoo-oong!”

I nodded vigorously once and then immediately put my front paw on Johann’s forehead.

‘The magic power… the magic power is too twisted.’

I’ve only felt this messed up magic state when Johann was young.

‘Emotional turmoil is also severe…’

But Johann didn’t look very comfortable.

He should be in a very ecstatic state?

According to Theodore, who is also a magician.

Rather, Johann asked again with a somewhat uneasy face.

“Were you very surprised? He didn’t do anything else terrible to you, did he?”

Now Theodore, who is lying far away, had gone from ‘that guy’ to ‘that bastard’.

“When that bastard took you and ran away immediately…”

Johann frowned as if he was annoyed just thinking about it.

As if that fact was making him much more painful than the magic power twisted inside.

“…It really felt like the world was collapsing.”

“Kyoo-oong.”

“Especially since the direction was the Imperial Palace.”

It seemed that Johann had also noticed Theodore’s thoughts.

“I was afraid of losing you…”

His voice was very hoarse.

Enough to feel how painful that short chase was.

‘Ah.’

I had a great realization while my front paw was on Johann’s forehead.

‘Johann is really worried about me right now.’

It was obvious if I thought about Johann’s actions so far, but it was still new.

‘He didn’t just look for me because he wanted to be calmed, he was really worried about me.’

For some reason, my eyes felt stinging.

“Do you think Johann Hyrard is acting like your loyal dog for any other reason? Divine Beasts are absolute to magicians. We are always in pain even if we stay still.”

It was true that my heart wavered slightly when Theodore said that.

The relationship between magicians and Divine Beasts was so strange.

It’s good that they need me and cherish me, but it feels like all the cause and effect of their actions is explained by that.

That feeling was… that feeling wasn’t very good at all.

I was even upset that the subtle temptation I felt at the Hyrard mansion might be the same kind of feeling.

But now, that heart that had wavered for a moment felt like it had firmly settled down.

I stared at Johann’s earnest eyes as he examined my body.

His magic power is fluctuating so much inside, but the first thing he said to me was not ‘Calm me down,’ but ‘Are you okay?’

“That guy wants to keep you by his side out of intimacy… and since I failed at that, I just want to keep you by my side in a different way.”

If all of this is Johann’s own calculation to keep me by his side somehow…

Even so, I’ll just stay by Johann’s side with that intimacy.

If it’s such a calculation, I’ll just close my eyes and give and take anything.

“Kyoo-gyoong.”

How could I have even thought for a moment that Theodore and Johann had the same feelings for me?

Johann didn’t engrave the Hyrard crest on me.

The Hyrard mansion, a tower in the middle of the night with no one but us, a meeting that no outsiders knew about.

I was even in a powerless and small squirrel state.

If he had stamped the Hyrard crest and locked me up like Theodore, no one would have been able to stop him.

“Kyoo-oong.”

But he didn’t use such an easy method.

That alone made Theodore and Johann completely different.

I was almost sorry that I couldn’t convey that realization directly right now.

I pointed to Theodore, who was writhing on the ground, with my eyes and said with sincerity.

“Kyoo-gyoo-woo-oong.”

It meant that Theodore and you are different. Johann smiled and replied.

“Ah, don’t worry about that bastard.”

“Kyoo-gyoong?”

“I beat him up a lot, and that bastard is also struggling in pain because he used magic.”

Hmm.

You still can’t understand my words when I’m a squirrel, just like in the old days.

And before we could talk any more, the Imperial Knights began to rush in from afar.

‘Wow, it’s a tough day for the Knights today.’

The High Priest tried to assassinate the Crown Prince and was arrested on the spot, and the war hero beat up the Prince.

‘How are you going to solve this?’

I tilted my head and looked at Johann.

Beating up a royal like this… he’s going to be on trial with Patr side by side?

But Johann’s face was calm.

“Are you worried about me? It’s okay, Yurika.”

Does he have a solution?

“I might as well revolt at this point.”

What?