I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain

The servant swallowed dry saliva as he looked into Yohan’s purple eyes. To be honest, it was a completely tempting suggestion.

 

In fact, Ella even offered a reward to the person who could find the divine beast.

 

So, even though he felt a little uneasy, he came all the way to the Tower of Yohan, where he was imprisoned.

 

“You can just say it died from being bitten by a hunting dog.”

 

Yohan continued speaking smoothly.

 

“If anyone finds that Divine beast again later, you can just say you don’t know what happened.”

 

“Well, why did Young Master do such a thing…?”

 

“Instead, you.”

 

Yohan pointed at the servant with his long finger and smiled sadly.

 

“Bring me some food secretly. Steal something like bread. Please.”

 

“The meal…It’s so bad. I like it even if it’s just coarse rye bread.”

 

The servant looked at Yohan with a momentary speechless face.

 

Unless you were a very evil person, it was easy to become weak when a sixteen-year-old boy asked for food.

 

Yohan shrugged his shoulders, his expression becoming even more pitiful.

 

“I’m really hungry…”

 

It was a decisive blow.

 

Yohan’s sad eyes trembled with a hint of misery. Anyone who saw him would think he was a pitiful young boy.

 

“Okay, I will…”

 

The servant sighed and nodded.

 

“Then I’ll be back for a while.”

 

Soon the servant brought in a squirrel, and Yohan engraved a black rose seal on its chest.

 

‘If I do this, I can fool the temple. To some extent.’ 

 

It was a good thing the Temple thought Momo was dead and even if they thought something was strange, it could at least turn a blind eye for a while.

 

That was his way to help the squirrel.

 

Although the squirrel didn’t seem to trust him at first.

 

And so the squirrel with Yohan’s seal was delivered to Ella and then to the High Priest.

 

This is along with the servant’s testimony that he was bitten by a hunting dog raised behind the duke’s house.

 

From the top of the tower, Yohan went to bed after checking that the carriage of the temple had departed.

 

‘It’s been a long day. And it’s going to be an even longer night.’

 

From tonight onwards, the squirrels will not come.

 

His squirrel, who came to his window every day, was a cheeky, cute little creature that didn’t do anything particularly cute, but its body language to communicate was adorable.

 

‘From some point on, I waited for Momo more because I wanted to see its appearance than because of her power.’

 

He wrapped himself in a blanket.

 

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

 

It’s cute and lovable, and it’s cynical and unsealed, but it makes him want it even more.

 

Yohan realized under the blanket.

 

That is what everyone calls first love.

 

* * * 

 

‘Okay, let’s escape now.’

 

I quickly ran out into the capital, leaving the noisy duke’s house behind.

 

The timing was very good, as the servants were all scattered and searching everywhere.

 

After overhearing the conversation between Ella and the high priest, it was a good choice to go straight to Yohan.

 

‘Just try being human. I’m sure I can eat and live better than anyone else.’ 

 

Since trees are everywhere, it was very easy to get away from the Duke’s house without being noticed.

 

‘That’s the imperial palace and…’

 

I don’t know the geography of this place very well, but the place I was aiming for was easy to find.

 

The imperial palace was so tall and splendid that it could be seen from anywhere in the capital.

 

According to the original information, the destination was a large mansion located just to the right of the imperial palace.

 

‘Probably over there?’

 

My destination was the Duke Medes’ house.

 

* * *

 

Mariel was racking her brain as she looked through all the letters in her room.

 

After the Duke of Medes went to war, the Duchess, Sienna, took care of the Duchy’s affairs.

 

But Sienna was too weak, so most of the work was left to Mariel.

 

“Request for support…It’s a tough time for everyone….”

 

But there was a problem. Mariel was too kind to lead the duke. 

 

“But the amount is too much…”

 

Mariel, who was not yet an adult, had not yet been given the title of duke, so she had to take care of various matters in her position as young lady Medes.

 

A power not yet clearly established, and an innocent indecisiveness.

 

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

 

While Duke Medes was leading the family so sternly and thoroughly, the forces that had been lying low began to assert various demands at that time.

 

So the situation at Duke’s Medes house was slowly becoming more and more difficult.

 

That was when.

 —Tok tok 

Mariel was startled by the knock on the window and raised her head.

 

And she muttered while shivering.

 

“Here…it’s….on the second floor.”

 

It was when she was looking out the window, holding her breath with great tension.

 

A squirrel was knocking on the window again, looking straight at her.

 

“A squirrel?”

 

Mariel jumped up and opened the window.

 

A squirrel scurried in and sat on her desk.

 

“No, why on earth is a squirrel here?”

 

For a moment, she thought of Blackie, but there was no seal on the squirrel’s white belly.

 

“Who are you?”

 

Mariel slowly approached the desk and sat down.

 

The squirrel stared at her and stretched out its paw. And there it was tied with the golden thread she had tied to Blackie.

 

“This, this is…”

 

The squirrel looked around and began to look through the letters scattered on the desk.

 

“Kyuung.”

 

Mariel swallowed dryly and watched what the squirrel did.

 

It was a cute but strange sight to see a little squirrel looking at the letters with a serious expression.

 

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

 

“Kyuung.”

 

The squirrel shook its tail, tilted its head, and let out a faint sigh.

 

‘If it’s difficult, you’re just going to leave it alone? Oh my god. If you hesitate like that and tell me not to do it, who will listen? You have to tell me firmly to get out right away and not to look at it carelessly!’

 

Of course, there was no way Mariel knew what the squirrel was thinking.

 

“Come on, good squirrel…let’s not look at it anymore…”

 

Whether Meriel was perplexed or not, the squirrel pawed at a letter.

 

“Huh?”

 

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

 

“Yes?”

 

Mariel’s expression became serious, and the squirrel quickly moved to another letter and touched it with her forepaw.

 

And it repeated that several times.

 

“So….”

 

Mariel said, combining the letters that the squirrel had pointed out.

 

“Abuse, running away, raising me?”

 

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

 

Mariel immediately surrendered to that adorable appearance.

 

“You were abused by Hyrad. Well, Tezen didn’t seem to have a very good personality. He has been rude to his brother.”

 

“Kyuuung.”

 

“And you came straight to me, poor thing. By the way, how did you get rid of the seal, or did you get kicked out?”

 

The squirrel rested its head on Mariel’s wrist with a sullen expression.

 

The squirrel’s soft body heat instantly knocked Meriel out.

 

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

 

The squirrel must have liked what she said because it immediately put its paw on her forehead.

 

The body temperature was so good that Mariel quietly closed her eyes.

 

‘I didn’t feel anything special, but my head, which had been tired from all the letters, strangely seemed to clear up.’

 * * * 

“so.….”

 

Rivena said, pushing up her glasses. There was a hint of impatience in her voice.

 

“Did you retrieve the divine beast safely?”

 

The high priest nodded, brushing his beard away.

 

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

 

“Are you saying that it was retrieved successfully?”

 

“The day I went to retrieve it, it was already there, bitten to death by a hunting dog that had been raised there.”

 

The high priest recalled the squirrel carcass his servant had brought him that day.

 

The second son of the Duke of Hyrad, Tezen, was an ordinary boy who did not need a divine beast, and so it seemed that the divine beast was able to roam freely around the duke’s mansion.

 

So, maybe the squirrel was bitten by a hunting dog while wandering around.

 

Ella explained that Tezen had not been able to take good care of his divine beast.

 

The squirrel that the servant brought in had already died and had a seal embedded in its chest.

 

“Still, I gave the Duchess the Bevel potion because I wanted to keep the Duchess’s mouth shut.”

 

“Bevel potion?”

 

Bevel potion was a medicine that removed a person’s ego and turned them into a puppet.

 

Among the potions developed in the temple, it was a very evil medicine, and even in the temple, it was not used unless it was a very important matter.

 

“Yes. It looks like she wants to feed it to the Duke’s eldest son. If that’s the case, it probably won’t be discovered by the outside world.”

 

The high priest clicked his tongue and said.

 

“I heard that he’s been weak since he was a child, so I don’t see why she needs to go that far. Well, anyway, I already took care of the divine beast matter, so don’t worry.”

 * * *