I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain [EN]: Chapter 87

Became a Squirrel Saving the Villain 87

“That’s…”

The adjutant sighed and replied.

“It’s High Priest Patr.”

The coachman, who had been eavesdropping, was also startled.

He knew that a daring assassin who had tried to assassinate Yurika, who had been staying as Johan’s guest a few days ago, had been caught.

But the mastermind behind it was High Priest Patr, who was now in prison?

*No, what was so lacking in that high priest that he would use an assassin from prison to kill one of his adopted daughters!*

*Then, isn’t this a much bigger deal than what’s known to the world…?*

Before being intrigued, he wondered if it was okay to listen to such an important conversation.

“Foolish,” Johan said with a chilling expression.

“He’s going to be on trial soon. Why would he want to add another charge like that? First of all, we need to inform the Imperial Family immediately. I don’t know if it’s possible, but we can ask them to hand over the right to punish him to us.”

It was when the coachman was thinking, ‘How much are you going to torment him if we take him over to our side?’

“Ah, but that’s the thing.”

The adjutant sighed and scratched his chin.

“…High Priest Patr has committed suicide. They were strictly monitoring him to prevent suicide, but they haven’t figured out how he succeeded in killing himself…”

Johan frowned and clicked his tongue.

He wanted to kill him, but his suicide wasn’t good news anyway.

Especially from the standpoint of having to dig into his background.

“He’s a mess until the end.”

Johan swept his hair back once, looking annoyed.

Then, he added a few more words to the letter he was sending to Meriel.

“There’s nothing more we can do right now. It’s like he made one last desperate attempt before he died.”

Johan, who muttered for a while in an annoyed voice, thinking that he had gotten off too easily no matter how he thought about it, handed the letter to the coachman and ordered again.

“Okay, let’s go. I’m telling you again, they are very noble people. You have to treat them with care, much more than when you carry me.”

“Yes, I will take extreme care of them.”

So, the coachman followed Johan to the back of the temple and almost fainted when he saw a tiger coming out of a passage he didn’t even know existed.

And after confirming the squirrel standing proudly on top of the tiger, he had no choice but to wash his face several times, wondering if he was going crazy.

Johan calmly ordered without any change in expression.

“Never let anyone find out, and take them safely to Lady Meriel Medest.”

“……”

“Answer.”

At the cold words, the coachman immediately came back to reality and bowed.

“Yes. Leave it to me.”

The Hyrard Duchy’s carriage, carrying two precious guests—no, two animals—began to run through the capital.

With the coachman constantly doubting whether he was crazy.

And it was only when he succeeded in having a private meeting with Meriel and carefully opened the carriage door in the backyard that he was able to confirm that he was not crazy.

Because Meriel also looked like she was about to faint when she saw a tiger and a squirrel riding on its head.

“Oh, oh. Oh?”

It was understandable that Meriel was so surprised that she almost had a seizure when she saw the contents of the carriage Johan had sent.

Suddenly, the Hyrard Duchy’s carriage rushed in, the coachman asked for a private meeting, and when he opened the carriage door in the backyard where no one was around, a tiger popped out. But there was also a squirrel sitting on the tiger’s head…

It was a situation where anyone would just think they were dreaming.

“Wh-what, what……”

Meriel was almost pale and panting.

“Such a surprising situation……”

It was a situation where she could have sworn a lot, but Meriel’s biggest expression of surprise was that much.

It was when the coachman, also with a pale face, was about to explain the situation.

Yurika jumped off the tiger’s head and stood in front of Meriel.

“…Yu, ah, no… Blackie?”

Meriel, who was about to call Yurika’s name, glanced at the coachman’s face and quickly corrected herself.

Yurika quickly started gesturing with her hands and feet in the body of a squirrel.

Meriel quietly asked, watching her point to the tiger with her front paws, make the shape of a temple roof, and even pretend to walk.

“You brought him from the temple, and he’s an animal that listens to you very well?”

Meriel still understood Yurika’s gestures very well. Of course, it wasn’t an ‘animal’.

When Yurika continued to make various gestures, Meriel blinked and nodded.

“Really? If I tell him to stay here quietly, will he stay quietly?”

The person who was now even more horrified was the coachman.

The coachman took a step back with an expression that made him wonder if Meriel was crazy or if he was crazy.

Yurika looked at the coachman and gestured as if to tell him to leave, and Meriel also said politely.

“You can go now. Tell Duke Hyrard thank you.”

The tiger also made a sound, growling, at the coachman.

It seemed to mean that he had worked hard. Of course, the coachman didn’t like it.

So, the coachman ran out almost crying.

“Kyung.”

Immediately, Yurika explained to the tiger to wait here and followed Meriel into the Duke’s residence.

* * *

After a long time, I came back home, absorbed Meriel’s magic to transform into a human, and changed into comfortable clothes to wear at home.

I had come out of a dust pit, so I took a quick shower.

After that, Meriel and I had tea alone in the garden for the first time in a while.

It was just in time that Jayden was out on business with the merchant, and my mother was taking a nap after receiving treatment from Renat.

According to Renat, my mother was no longer in a life-threatening stage. It was a relief.

The sun was warm, and the flowers were blooming beautifully, so it was very nice to have tea and talk intimately.

Come to think of it, before the war ended, we used to have tea together often and spend the afternoon like this.

After Johan’s victory, I was so busy that this time was very rare.

“So……”

Of course, there was a slightly different scenery now than then.

“That tiger, no, that tiger *person*, might be our father?”

It was the fact that a tiger was sitting comfortably next to us, playing with butterflies.

The servants of the Duke’s residence, who had been horrified, quickly adapted to the tiger.

It was hard to believe that he had shown endless aggression to Johan Hyrard, but the tiger behaved very docilely.

He listened well to me and Meriel, and even shot kind eyes at the servants and moved carefully.

Moreover, he was even rolling around in the Medest Duke’s garden with a very comfortable expression.

The butler, who had almost fainted at first, carefully approached and asked me this.

“Um, Lady Yurika… Did Duke Johan Hyrard prepare a pet as a gift for you?”

“Huh?”

“Everyone in the Empire knows that the Duke is so in love with the Lady that he would give her the moon and stars… A tiger is something that I can understand……”

“Krrr!”

Of course, the tiger growled and briefly expressed his antipathy when the name Johan Hyrard came up.

Anyway, the tiger quickly adapted to the Medest Duke’s residence.

Suddenly, the chef was very busy trying to find out what the tiger ate.

It wasn’t just the chef who was busy; Renat also locked himself in the study to study, saying that he didn’t know much about animal injuries.

This was because the tiger still had a wound on his hind leg, even though I had applied ointment earlier.

“Yes. Johan is almost certain [that High Priest Patr was behind the assassination attempt].”

I told her everything that had happened.

Meriel also knew about my assassination attempt a few days ago, and her expression darkened instantly when I said that the mastermind was the High Priest.

“So that’s why he committed suicide.”

Meriel sighed and said.

“I thought it was strange that he took his own life without even having a full trial. I didn’t think he would get the death penalty. But to commit suicide after doing such a reckless thing… He really took a gamble until the end.”

“I know. On the one hand, I wonder why he wanted to kill me so badly.”

In a way, we’ve never even met, but he showed malice until the moment before his death.

I sighed and muttered.

“…Anyway, something is strange. They don’t even know how he committed suicide.”

Patr’s suicide was not good news.

Externally, Patr was a high priest anyway, and it was difficult to find a bigger backer [than a high priest].

Even if Roimund worked hard to reveal the truth about the divine beast, the person who would be held most responsible had disappeared.

‘Even Rivena isn’t involved. She’s freely wandering around, perfectly fine.’

Even though the Imperial Family was investigating everything, Rivena was living well in the Sevs County.

Even though Roimund had stepped in, she didn’t even pretend to leave the capital.

Then that meant there was really no evidence that they were involved.

“Anyway.”

Meriel glanced at the tiger, who looked happy, and changed the subject.

“If that tiger *person* is really our father… how can he be humanized? It seems like his condition is a bit different from yours.”