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When he touches the back of the squirrel's neck, he figures out the condition for transforming into certain animals, then he confronts First Princess Mentil Abiran and is summoned for questioning, fearing that her mind-reading ability does not work on him.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"In Chapter 9 of The Seventh Prince Wants to Bail, the Seventh Prince struggles with being bitten and a chase while trying to catch a squirrel that entered his room to send it back to the forest. When he touches the back of the squirrel's neck, he figures out the condition for transforming into certain animals, then he confronts First Princess Mentil Abiran and is summoned for questioning, fearing that her mind-reading ability does not work on him.","key_events":["Squirrel falls from high place, Mentil enters room, Anna covers by claiming squirrel is prince's pet, prince escapes via window","A person wakes in unknown place and is interrogated about loyalty to Abiran Empire","Seventh Prince chases squirrel in his room, gets bitten, then realizes animal transformation requires touching nape","Rescued squirrel stays by prince's side all night, prince complains about returning it to forest","Next day prince is summoned to First Princess Mentil's room, ordered to sit and interrogated for honest answers"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"WHAT WILL YOU DO? ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP RUNNING?\nI DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GOT ALL THE WAY HERE...\nBUT THIS ISN'T A PLACE FOR YOU TO LIVE.\n\nAND I HAVE NO INTENTION OF KEEPING YOU.\nI'LL AT LEAST HELP YOU RETURN TO THE FOREST.\nSO WON'T YOU JUST LET YOURSELF BE CAUGHT QUIETLY?\nIF YOU DON'T, THINGS MIGHT GET ROUGH FOR YOU.\n\nEVEN IF IT'S JUST A SQUIRREL, A RODENT WANDERING AROUND A HUMAN'S ROOM...\nLET ALONE IN THE PALACE, MAKES NO SENSE.\nBESIDES, IT REMINDS ME OF WHEN I LIVED IN THAT SEMI-BASEMENT APARTMENT...\n\nLYING AWAKE AT NIGHT BECAUSE RATS WERE SCRATCHING INSIDE THE WALLS.\nTHE PLOT IS ALREADY DIVERGING SLIGHTLY FROM THE ORIGINAL WORK, WHICH IS GETTING ON MY NERVES.\nWHAT KIND OF TROUBLE ARE YOU TRYING TO CAUSE HERE?!\n\nSQUEAK, SQUEAK, SQUEAK, SQUEAK!!!\nWHEW, I FINALLY CAUGHT YOU.\nNOW, BE A GOOD SQUIRREL AND GET IN THE BAG...\nSQUEAK!!!\n\nHEY, YOU LITTLE BRAT!\nHOW DARE A TINY THING LIKE YOU BITE THE HAND OF ROYALTY?!\nSQUEAK, SQUEAK!\n\n...YOU REALLY CLIMBED UP HIGH.\nIF I TRY TO CLIMB UP AFTER IT, IT'LL JUST RUN AWAY SOMEWHERE ELSE...\n\nAT TIMES LIKE THIS...\nIT MIGHT BE EASIER IF I TRANSFORMED INTO A SQUIRREL...?\nHAA... EVEN IF I THINK ABOUT IT LIKE THIS...\n...?\n\nW-WAIT A MINUTE!\nTHIS FEELING... COULD IT BE...?!\n...IT REALLY IS?!?!\n\nI FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT.\nTHE CONDITION FOR TRANSFORMING INTO A SPECIFIC ANIMAL!\nPSHH...\n\nSNIRK.\nWAIT! WHY ARE YOU FALLING NOW?!\nEVEN FOR A SQUIRREL, FALLING FROM THAT HEIGHT...\n\nP-PRINCESS...!\nTH-THIS IS THE SEVENTH PRINCE'S BEDROOM... SO I-I SHOULD ASK FIRST...\nARE YOU TELLING ME TO WALK ON EGGSHELLS AROUND MY LITTLE BROTHER RIGHT NOW?\n\nTHE SERVANTS HERE ARE ALL SO UNLIKABLE...\nWHAT IS THIS...\n\n...A SQUIRREL?\nEVEN IF HE'S A CHILD TREATED POORLY BY THE IMPERIAL FAMILY...\n\nTO THINK WILD BEASTS ARE ROAMING AROUND A ROYAL'S RESIDENCE!\nD-DOUBLE THE CUTENESS...!!\nSERIOUSLY...\n\nIT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY.\nTHE NEXT DAY\n\nWOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS GUY?\nIT HASN'T LEFT MY SIDE SINCE LAST NIGHT.\n\nIS IT DOING THIS BECAUSE IT KNOWS I SAVED IT?\nIT'S A HASSLE TO TAKE YOU BACK TO THE FOREST.\nSO MAKE SURE YOU STAY OUT OF SIGHT ON YOUR OWN.\nANYWAY, I'VE FIGURED OUT HOW TO TRANSFORM INTO ANIMALS.\n\nTO THINK IT WAS SUCH A RIDICULOUS CONDITION...\nCOME TO THINK OF IT, THE CROW I TRANSFORMED INTO FIRST,\nAND LATER THE BLACK HORSE AND THE SQUIRREL TOO,\n\nTHEY ALL SHARED ONE THING IN COMMON BEFORE THE TRANSFORMATION.\nIT WASN'T JUST SIMPLE CONTACT; I HAD TO PRECISELY TOUCH THE NAPE...\n\nTHE ACTIVATION CONDITION IS RIDICULOUSLY SPECIFIC FOR SOMETHING THIS USELESS.\nWELL, I FIGURED OUT THE TRANSFORMATION CONDITION ANYWAY, SO MOVING ON.\nTHE REAL PROBLEM IS THE FIRST PRINCESS, MENTIL ABIRAN...\nI COULDN'T QUITE IMAGINE IT JUST FROM THE DESCRIPTIONS IN THE NOVEL...\n\nBUT I DIDN'T THINK SHE WOULD BE A CHARACTER WITH SUCH A TERRIFYING EXPRESSION.\nTHANKFULLY, ANNA COVERED FOR ME BY SAYING IT WAS MY PET,\nWHICH GAVE ME THE CHANCE TO ESCAPE OUT THE WINDOW.\nTHAT WAS A REALLY CLOSE CALL.\n\nI RETURNED TO MY HUMAN FORM AND CAME BACK TO THE ROOM...\nI THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO END WELL...\nWILD BEASTS INSIDE THE PALACE... YOU CERTAINLY HAVE UNUSUAL TASTES.\nIT'S LATE, SO I'LL LEAVE FOR NOW.\n\nYES, YOU'RE RIGHT. NEXT TIME, PLEASE COME WHEN—\nTOMORROW.\nCOME FIND ME WHERE I'M STAYING.\nWE HAVE MATTERS TO DISCUSS.\n\nDID MENTIL FIGURE IT OUT AFTER ALL?\nWHAT ON EARTH DOES SHE WANT TO TALK ABOUT...\nDID SHE DISCOVER MY TRUE IDENTITY...?\n\nNO WAY...\nWHAT CHOICE DO I HAVE? IT'S NOT LIKE I CAN REFUSE TO GO.\nRIGHT, SQUIRREL?!\nWELCOME, SEVENTH PRINCE.\n\nHER HIGHNESS, THE FIRST PRINCESS, IS WAITING IN HER CHAMBERS.\nI REMEMBERED THE DESCRIPTION SAYING IT WAS GRAND... BUT THESE ARE TRULY MASSIVE DOORS.\n\nYOU MUST HAVE HAD A LONG JOURNEY.\nYOUR LEGS MUST BE TIRED, SO PLEASE, HAVE A SEAT.\n\nIT WASN'T THAT FAR, SO I AM FINE.\nMORE IMPORTANTLY, FOR WHAT REASON DID YOU—\nDID YOU NOT HEAR ME\nWHEN I TOLD YOU TO SIT?\nI APOLOGIZE. PLEASE FORGIVE MY RUDENESS.\n\nHOHO, IT'S FINE. YOUR CURIOSITY MUST HAVE GOTTEN THE BETTER OF YOU.\nYOU ALWAYS WERE THE IMPATIENT SORT.\nSINCE WHEN DID THAT CHILD BECOME A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON?\n\nVENTURING ALONE INTO THE IMPERIAL FOREST, A PLACE HE NEVER ONCE VISITED BEFORE...\n...THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T WANT TO FACE THE FIRST PRINCESS.\nMANIS ALWAYS MANIFESTS AS ABILITIES RELATED TO NATURE.\n\nFOR EXAMPLE, THE EMPEROR WIELDS THE FIRE MANIS, AND THE FIRST PRINCE WIELDS THE WATER MANIS.\nAND THE ABILITY OF THE FIRST PRINCESS, MENTIL...\n\nIN A SENSE, IT STANDS ABOVE ALL OTHERS.\nHER MANIS IS \"HUMAN.\"\nTHE ABILITY TO READ AND MANIPULATE PEOPLE'S MINDS.\nI HOPE YOU'LL TELL ME HONESTLY.\n\nBECAUSE IT MAKES ME VERY SAD WHEN MY LOVELY FAMILY TRIES TO DECEIVE ME.\nSTAY CALM... KEEP CALM. ONE THING I KNOW FOR SURE IS...\nMENTIL'S ABILITY DOESN'T WORK ON ME!\n\nIF IT DID, SHE WOULD HAVE JUST CONTROLLED ME TO GET THE ANSWERS SHE WANTED.\nSHE MUST HAVE SUDDENLY REALIZED ONE DAY THAT HER ABILITY WASN'T WORKING ON ME.\nTHANKS TO THE NOVEL, I ALSO KNOW THE TWO CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH HER ABILITY FAILS TO ACTIVATE.\n\nFIRST, THE TARGET MUST BE RELATED TO MENTIL BY BLOOD.\nSECOND, THE TARGET MUST GENUINELY LOVE MENTIL ABIRAN AS FAMILY.\nTHE PROBLEM IS THIS SECOND CONDITION.\nFEELING FAMILIAL LOVE FOR MENTIL...\nTHERE'S NO WAY I WOULD EVER FEEL SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR THIS WOMAN!!!\n\nWON'T YOU HURRY AND ANSWER ME?\nTHEN WHY ON EARTH...\nDOESN'T MENTIL'S ABILITY WORK ON ME?!\n\nUGH, URGH...\n\nUGH, ARGH...!!\nI-IS THIS PLACE... TERIRUM?\nOR COULD IT BE HODIE?!\nYOU SURVIVED.\n\n... - ?!\nWH-WHO ARE YOU? WHERE IS THIS PLACE...?\nAM I REALLY STILL ALIVE?!\nYOU DIDN'T OPEN YOUR EYES FOR A LONG TIME, SO I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD.\nTHEN I SHALL BEGIN ASKING MY QUESTIONS.\n\nARE YOU A PERSON LOYAL TO THE ABIRAN EMPIRE\nWHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!!!\n\nYES, OR NO. YOUR ANSWER WILL DETERMINE\nHOW I PROCEED.","bubble_count":130,"pages_count":42,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"In Chapter 9 of The Seventh Prince Wants to Bail, the Seventh Prince struggles with being bitten and a chase while trying to catch a squirrel that entered his room to send it back to the forest.","spoiler_summary":"In Chapter 9 of The Seventh Prince Wants to Bail, the Seventh Prince struggles with being bitten and a chase while trying to catch a squirrel that entered his room to send it back to the forest. When he touches the back of the squirrel's neck, he figures out the condition for transforming into certain animals, then he confronts First Princess Mentil Abiran and is summoned for questioning, fearing that her mind-reading ability does not work on him."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/the-seventh-prince-wants-to-bail-wkzthuu4/chapter-9-nxcd7h","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — The Seventh Prince Wants to Bail #9","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-29T01:17:25.764Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/the-seventh-prince-wants-to-bail-wkzthuu4"}}