I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain Chapter 75

It was impossible to see outside since I was in Theodore’s pocket, but there was no doubt that chaos had broken out.

 

“That crazy bastard!”

 

Theodore cursed through clenched teeth.

 

“No matter how obsessed you are with divine beasts, this is too much!”

 

Hey, who are you to say that right now?

 

You literally staged a kidnapping, remember?

 

‘Wait… hold on. In the original story, didn’t Yohan also stage a kidnapping?’

 

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

 

Anyway, the original doesn’t exist anymore, and we live in reality.

 

“Kyuuuuung!”

 

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

 

‘Since he can’t attack the royal directly, he’s going after everything around him. But…. is it okay to use magic like that?’

 

There’s no way it’ll be okay!

 

—Boom! Boom! Boom!

 

A series of explosive sounds began to be heard nearby.

 

It seemed Theodore had started using magic too.

 

I felt a great flow of magical power coming from Theodore who was attached to me.

 

—Boom! Boom!

 

Did he just destroy everything now?

 

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

 

“You, you, no matter how well you use magic,… If you use magic on the royal family, you will also be affected.…”

 

Theodore couldn’t finish his sentence.

 

“Argh!”

 

With a sharp thud, a solid impact rang out, followed by the faint scent of blood.

 

“Well, even if I could use magic, I think I would do it like this.”

 

Theodore’s body bent forward along with the ominous voice of Yohan.

 

‘Ah.’

 

I realized the situation right away.

 

‘He’s throwing punches.’

 

Of course, there was no law that said wizards could only attack people with magic.

 

‘Oh my god.’

 

Still, even if he’s a duke, punching a member of the royal family…

 

This isn’t some dogfight between city thugs.

 

‘I don’t even know anymore….’

 

After that, amidst the loud noises that followed, Theodore eventually fell off his horse.

 

That was the exact moment the outcome of this insane duel was decided.

 

‘I couldn’t see anything, which was frustrating, but hurry up and roll on the ground already! Escape and go to Yohan!’

 

The moment Theodore flew up from his horse as Yohan’s consecutive punches struck down, I quickly escaped from his pocket.

 

‘Since it’s going to end in disaster anyway, let’s just look at his bloody face.’

 

Then I swiftly jumped out of Theodore’s pocket and landed on the ground.

 

At the same time, I gasped in shock.

 

‘This is… a battlefield?’

 

I had expected it, but still — the area around us was completely devastated.

 

Since he couldn’t touch Theodore, It looked like Yohan had attacked everything except Theodore.

 

“No, that’s not it.”

 

I quickly scanned the area, spotted Yohan, and realized something new.

 

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

 

Yohan’s eyes were already rolled back. His face was openly crazed.

 

Anyone who looked at him could tell he was not in his right mind.

 

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

 

Otherwise, it would be impossible to swing his fists like that without thinking about the consequences.

 

He was punching like a thug from the backstreets going all in on someone.

 

Since I couldn’t stop it anyway and it had already happened, I decided to just stay still for now.

 

‘If you’re going to beat the royal family, shouldn’t you beat them to the end?’

 

Theodore was being beaten one-sidedly, without even having time to use his magic.

 

Literally, until he completely lost consciousness.

 

The one who had taken Theodore down in such a short time immediately approached me.

 

“Yurika.”

 

Yohan’s voice was completely hoarse.

 

Look at that… His clean face was now a total mess.

 

His face, which had always remained calm no matter how turbulent his magic became, was now slightly distorted.

 

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

 

Neither Theodore’s words about how he and Yohan were essentially the same, nor the subtle discomfort I had felt from him before.

 

All I wanted was for his pain to go away as quickly as possible.

 

I jumped into his hands.

 

‘He needs to be calmed.’

 

The scale of the magic he had just used was enormous, even at a glance.

 

He hadn’t even taken a calming potion, so he must be suffering from immense pain.

 

Besides, hadn’t Theodore just said it too? That Yohan desperately craved my calming effect.

 

Just look at how that lunatic kidnapped me because he couldn’t forget the calming effect from years ago.

 

When he calls my name, he probably means to tell me to calm him down quickly, right?

 

When I hurriedly put out my front paw.

 

“Are you okay?”

 

Yohan looked at me with concern and asked.

 

It’s as if he doesn’t even care about his own condition.

 

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

 

He even carefully examined my body.

 

“That guy was running too fast with you… Are you okay inside?”

 

‘Calling a prince “that guy”…?’

 

Even if I wasn’t okay inside, you’re worse off than me.

 

“Kyuung!”

 

I nodded vigorously once and immediately placed my front paw on Yohan’s forehead.

 

‘His magic… it’s completely tangled.’

 

I’d only seen his magic in such a mess when he was young.

 

‘His emotions are unstable too….’

 

Yohan didn’t seem relaxed at all.

 

‘He should be in a state of bliss, shouldn’t he?’

 

At least, according to Theodore, who’s also a wizard.

 

Instead, Yohan looked even more unsettled as he asked again,

 

“You must have been really scared, right? That bastard didn’t do anything awful to you, did he?”

 

Theodore, now lying far away, had been downgraded from “that guy” to “that bastard.”

 

“When he took you and ran out right away….”

 

Yohan furrowed his brow in frustration at the thought alone.

 

As if the fact itself was more painful than the magic tangled up inside him.

 

“It really felt like the world was falling apart….”

 

“Kyuung.”

 

“And the direction was toward the imperial palace, even.”

 

Yohan also seemed to have noticed Theodore’s thoughts.

 

“I’m afraid of losing you….”

 

His voice was heavy with emotion.

 

I could feel just how painful that brief pursuit had been for him.

 

‘Ah.’

 

With my paw still on his forehead, I had a realization.

 

‘Yohan is… genuinely worried about me.’

 

It was something that should’ve been obvious from his actions all along, but it still felt new.

 

‘He didn’t come to me just to calm down, he was really worried about me.’

 

For some reason, my eyes felt stinging.

 

“Do you think Yohan Hyrad is acting like your loyal dog for no reason? A divine beast is absolute to a wizard. We’re always suffering from pain, even when we’re just standing still.”

 

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

 

The relationship between a wizard and a divine beast was always complicated.

 

It felt nice to be needed and cherished, but it also felt like every action was reduced to the mere consequence of that bond.

 

That feeling… that uneasiness earlier had made me feel uncomfortable.

 

I was even saddened that the subtle temptation I had felt at Duke Hyrad’s house might be the same feeling of determination.

 

But now, that wavering in my heart had firmly settled.

 

I stared into Yohan’s earnest eyes as he examined my body.

 

Even though his magic was in turmoil, the first thing he said to me wasn’t “Please calm me down,” but “Are you okay?”

 

“That guy wants to keep you close out of affection…”

 

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

 

But still, I want to stay by Yohan’s side because of that close relationship.

 

If it’s that kind of calculation, I’d just accept it and give him everything.

 

“Kyu-kyu-yuung.”

 

How could I have thought for a moment that Theodore and Yohan might have felt the same way about me?

 

Yohan did not engrave the Hyrad seal on me.

 

A midnight tower with no one else around, at the Duke’s house—no outsiders ever knew of our meeting.

 

I was even in a small, powerless squirrel form.

 

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

 

“Kyuuung.”

 

But he didn’t take that easy approach.

 

That alone made him completely different from Theodore.

 

I regretted not being able to express this realization to him right now.

 

I glanced at the twitching, fallen Theodore and spoke sincerely.

 

“Kyukyuuung.”

 

It meant: “You’re different from Theodore.”

 

Yohan chuckled and replied,

 

“Oh, don’t worry about that bastard.”

 

“Kyuung?”

 

“He must be writhing in pain because he’s already been beaten up so badly and he’s using magic.”

 

‘Hmm.’

 

Still the same as before—he can’t understand me when I’m in squirrel form.

 

And before I could even get angry, the imperial knights began to swarm from afar.

 

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

 

The high priest was caught trying to assassinate the crown prince, and the war hero just beat up a prince.

 

‘How are you going to fix this?’

 

I tilted my head and looked at Yohan.

 

‘Beating up a royal… he might end up standing trial next to Patre.’

 

But Yohan had an incredibly calm face.

 

“Are you worried about me? Don’t worry, Yurika.”

 

Does he have some kind of plan?

 

“Why not rebel now?”

 

What?

 

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