I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 109

Chapter 55.1

When I went back to the room, Blue had already disappeared.

‘He’s quite elusive.’

After I called Agwen to wash up and change my clothes leisurely, I went down to the first floor. However, for some reason, the mansion was in a commotion when I went down the stairs.

“Where is the Master?”

“We’ll have to tell the head maid, too.”

“I heard there were several carriages?”

“Should I clean the guest room?”

“Haven’t you seen the Master?”

‘…What’s going on?’

Lucy, the maid who saw me coming down the stairs, ran and explained the situation to me.

“Madam Elbas is waiting at the front door with several people. What should we do?”

“Madam Elbas?”

It seemed like my mother-in-law decided to come since the morning without any notice.

‘Ah, last night’s storm was like a foreshadowing of this?’

This storm was a storm that broke our daily lives. Needless to say, there was tension in the air.

‘Why is she here? To repay me for the disgrace I did to her last time? Or because I got rid of all her limbs that were left in the mansion?’

I did not even have to think about what to do.

“I’ll look for Dimitri.”

As I uttered, I ran back and forth with the employees to find him.

Dimitri, who sometimes disappears for hours in the mansion, was nowhere to be seen. I ran towards the annex just in case, but he was still nowhere to be seen. There were only Coco and Sasha, who were in a chase with Blue.

“Blue! Long time no see.”

I greeted Blue warmly. Blue proudly passed me and headed somewhere. It was the place where there was a box containing cat toys.

“I want to play with you, but I can’t today. My mother-in-law is here, and I need to find Dimitri…”

The moment I finished my words, Blue suddenly jumped and sprinted somewhere.

‘Did it see a bird…?’

Turning to Coco and Sasha, I firmly instructed them to stay still and hide in the annex for the day before heading back to the main building. In the meantime, it seemed that someone had found Dimitri and delivered the news. He was coming down the stairs, his face tense.

“I’m sorry, Rowaine. I couldn’t leave her at the door, so I told them to let the previous Duchess in. Just handle them with moderation and try to ignore them.”

A look of annoyance was evident.

“I understand.”

We went out to the front door and waited for Madam Elbas’ carriage.

Soon, four carriages arrived one after another. Among them, Madame Elbas got off the splendid carriage with the seal of the Elbas family on it. Subsequently, people in modest clothes rushed down from the three carriages that followed.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been here.”

Madame Elbas glanced around the mansion once before turning towards Dimitri and me with sharp eyes.

“I came here because the incidents at the Blois’ mansion never stop. Oh, I heard that someone came from the Imperial Palace yesterday?”

Her stinging gaze swept over my whole body. It was the look that thought that the Emperor sent someone because of me.

“I want to hear more details.”

Dimitri and I did not panic.

It was expected that rumors would spread about someone from the Royal Palace being sent to Blois, as there were many eyes watching. That’s why I had already agreed with the Emperor that one of the potential vacation destinations for this year would be the territory of Blois, allowing them to send people for a preliminary survey.

‘I didn’t think I’d have to use that excuse so soon.’

It seemed that Madam Elbas wasn’t alone. The maids helped someone out of the carriage that she had just stepped down from, assisting her carefully. It was an elderly woman with white hair.

Seeing her made Dimitri’s complexion even worse.

“It’s been a while, grandmother.”

“That’s right, Dimitri. I came to see you personally because I thought you wouldn’t show your face even once until I died.”

The old lady glanced disapprovingly at Dimitri, then slowly scanned me up and down.

Dimitri whispered to me.

“She’s Madam Elbas’ mother, my paternal grandmother.”

The previous Duke and Duchess, who passed their titles to their children, were required by law to leave Blois and move to the Elbas estate. That’s why Cayetana was referred to as Madame Elbas, indicating that she was the former Duchess who had relocated to the Elbas estate.

However, when Cayetana moved to Elbas, Dimitri’s grandmother was still there. So, she became the predecessor of Madam Elbas, the title by which she was then called.

“You can call me grandmother Rosanne.”

After reading my worried expression over her title, Grandmother clicked her tongue and told me her own name.

“Of course, someone who doesn’t care if I’m alive or dead didn’t tell his wife the name of his grandmother.”

She then glanced at me once and grumbled.

“When a new person joins the family, you have to greet the elders of the family. If the husband didn’t know that, the wife should’ve taken care of it. Why do both of you behave like this? Tsk, tsk.”

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