I Became A Squirrel Seeking For The Villain Chapter 90

“You!”

 

Ella, looking utterly wretched, shouted through clenched teeth the moment she saw Yohan.

 

“Even if we’re not related by blood, we were once family. And yet, you treat me like this, even though I’m your mother on paper?”

 

Ella spat out curses and even spit.

 

Of course, she hadn’t always raged like this every time Yohan visited.

 

At first, she knelt down at Yohan’s feet and begged for forgiveness, admitting that she had done wrong.

 

But when all his pleas failed, she began to curse to her heart’s content.

 

“Well,”

 

Yohan spoke calmly, with an expression of disinterest.

 

“Didn’t you treat me exactly like this too? I was only your son on paper, after all.”

 

“What—what did I ever do wrong? My only sin was marrying your father!”

 

“And young Yohan Hyrad had no sin either. Other than being born as that man’s son.”

 

Yohan looked around the prison with indifferent eyes, checked their condition, and immediately turned around.

 

He didn’t come there to see Ella and Tezen’s faces.

 

The visits were a warning—to keep the servants guarding them on edge, to make sure they never forgot that someone was watching.

 

“You damn fools! Don’t trust Yohan Hyrad! A crazy wizard can’t get along with anyone!”

 

Ella looked around and shouted to the guards.

 

“He’s just pretending to be human. He knows nothing of loyalty or trust!”

 

“Oh, that’s right.”

 

Yohan answered in a tired tone, rubbing his eyes.

 

“I don’t really understand those things. I pretend I do, but really, I don’t.”

 

His cold tone made the comment even more chilling.

 

“But didn’t you desperately try to turn your son into one of those wizards who lack loyalty and trust?”

 

Ella, speechless, took a deep breath and changed the subject.

 

“You resemble your father more horribly.”

 

She continued speaking.

 

“Your father was just as ruthless and indifferent as you. Oh, right. That’s just how wizards are.”

 

Yohan showed no reaction and turned to leave.

 

It was then that Ella spoke again.

 

“Do you know your mother died at your father’s hands? Driven mad by jealousy.”

 

Yohan knew nothing about his mother.

 

Ella’s eyes, who noticed that Yohan’s footsteps had stopped for a moment, lit up with malicious glee.

 

“Your father never loved me. It was your mother he truly loved.”

 

She continued speaking in a hoarse voice, panting for breath.

 

“In other words, your mother died because she was loved by your father. That’s only natural. How could a wizard have a normal love? You would know better than that.”

 

“…….”

 

“Just like your father was the worst to you, just like your mother and I suffered because of him…”

 

She glared at Yohan with eyes burning with hatred.

 

“You will never be able to have a proper family. None of the Hyrad dukes ever have.”

 

The guards guarding Ella rushed over and covered her mouth, but she screamed, straining the veins in her neck.

 

“Go ahead and pretend to be human all you want! You’ll never be normal! The Hyrad line ends with you—or you’ll have a miserable child just like yourself! Any woman who gets involved with you is doomed to suffer! You’ll dry her up and destroy her!”

 

Ella smiled victoriously, locking eyes with Yohan.

 

She was certain he’d lose control, demanding more details about his mother.

 

Ella continued speaking with her dry lips and evil eyes.

 

“Your father was overly obsessed with your mother. Aren’t you curious about the details of his downfall?”

 

But Ella’s expectations were not met.

 

Yohan shrugged his shoulders as if it didn’t matter at all.

 

“What do my parents have to do with me? They didn’t even raise me. I don’t even know what they look like.”

 

His tone made it clear he couldn’t understand why she was making such a fuss.

 

And that, more than anything, made Ella angry.

 

“See! The wizards are monsters! The Hyrad bloodline is cursed—!”

 

Ella couldn’t speak anymore.

 

This was because the guards noticed Yohan’s expression and took immediate action.

 

“Argh!”

 

While Ella’s screams echoed, Yohan walked slowly without any change in expression.

 

In a separate cell along the exit path, Tezen glared at him from a corner.

 

Tezen, a boy who had grown plump and worn only nice clothes, had suddenly become a miserable adult.

 

“You will definitely be unhappy.”

 

Tezen looked at Yohan and muttered quietly.

 

There was madness in his eyes too.

 

“Do you like having all of mine?”

 

And Tezen still thought everything in this house was his, just like it had when they were children.

 

“I knew you envied me ever since you started eyeing my squirrel.”

 

Yohan ignored the rambling—but his steps paused at one word.

 

Squirrel.

 

As Yohan slowly stopped, Tezen continued speaking, laughing strangely.

 

“Do you think I didn’t know? You were always staring at my squirrel with such greedy eyes.”

 

Just then, a large stone from the prison ceiling fell on Tezen.

 

It was obvious magic.

 

“Ahhhhh!”

 

“Think whatever you want. The thoughts of a worm don’t matter to me. But…”

 

As Tezen rolled on the floor screaming, Yohan said coldly.

 

“It was never yours.”

 

His purple eyes glowed eerily.

 

“If you say something like that again, I’ll make sure you never speak again.”

 

The pressure Yohan exuded was unmistakable—an aura that surrounded a wizard who had just cast a spell.

 

“Remember it well, little brother.” He said, his eyes filled with disgust.

 

“I remember everything that happened between us.”

 

As Tezen sobbed silently, Yohan calmly made his way out of the underground prison.

 

Bright sunlight streamed into the garden, and his eyes, unfamiliar with the light, squinted for a moment.

 

The Hyrad estate without Yurika felt unfamiliar.

 

She had only stayed for a few days, and yet her absence already left an emptiness.

 

Perhaps this was the life he had dreamed of all along while on the battlefield.

 

Living an ordinary life with Yurika at the Hyrad estate.

 

And those few days were very happy and painful for him.

 

Ella’s words weren’t all wrong.

 

Being a wizard was closer to a curse than a blessing.

 

The constant pain, the obsessive possessiveness, the cold indifference toward everything but a chosen few.

 

He wanted to be human for Yurika—who more than anyone longed to live like a normal person.

 

And it was so difficult for him.

 

Would it have been a little easier if he hadn’t been a wizard?

 

If he could believe his feelings were normal, could he have expressed them more freely?

 

Even now, he wanted to run to the Medes’s residence to see Yurika, but he held back because he thought it would be too burdensome for Yurika.

 

Besides, Theodor was imprisoned, the temple was nearly destroyed, and Yurika had achieved her goal.

 

Yohan was afraid that Yurika would say that they shouldn’t have fake relationships anymore and that there was no need for that.

Could he handle that?

 

He had grown used to expressing himself freely in their days together.

 

Though he pretended not to care, he couldn’t help thinking about what Ella said about his parents.

 

That no woman entangled with a Hyrad wizard had ever found happiness.

 

“He’s just pretending to be human. He knows nothing of loyalty or trust!”

 

Ella’s words might have been true.

 

After all, he had never really understood such things.

 

He wanted to tear Theodore apart for kidnapping Yurika. But it wasn’t that he couldn’t understand why.

 

Maybe that was why he’d gone so mad.

 

Yohan was walking around the garden, lost in thought for a moment.

 

“Your Highness!”

 

The butler came running and handed him the letter.

 

“A letter has arrived from the Duke of Medes. It was sent by Lady Yurika Medes.”

 

Yohan’s face immediately lit up as he opened the letter and began to read.

 

Failed love from the past was one thing—but this was something good. And good things were simply good.

 

The content of the letter was simple.

 

[I have something to find out, and since that person worships Yohan, I think we should go together. I know it’s shameless, but would you mind going with me and helping me?]

 

A soft curve lifted the corner of Yohan’s lips

 

It seemed like Yurika still needed him as her fake lover.

 

‘She probably thinks this’ll be the last time.’

 

And Yohan also knew very well that Yurika was not the type of person who would continue to ask him for favors like this.

 

‘So… This time, I need to make sure there’s no turning back.’

 

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