I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 140
Chapter 70.2
“All right. If what Rowaine is saying is true, we need to find that accountant quickly.”
Just then, Coco raised his hand.
“I’ll do it!”
Coco glanced at the two of us alternately and pestered.
“If it’s someone who worked in the slave trade, it must be someone I’ve seen. I’ve been there for a while, so I can find them.”
Swallowing a grunt, I shut my mouth.
‘…What if it’s dangerous? What if my baby gets in danger? What if he goes outside and gets hurt? What if he gets caught by slave traders trying to find an accountant?’
Dimitri glanced at me, perhaps reading my expression before shrewdly withdrawing his foot.
“If Rowaine allows it.”
I glared at Dimitri resentfully and pursed my lips to dissuade him, but Coco was faster.
“You said you needed my help, Rowaine. Let’s destroy the slave traders together. Let me be a part of it… I don’t want to sit on the sidelines and just watch.”
I bit my lip hard at the conflict in my heart. All I wanted to do was keep Coco safe, snuggled up in my shadow, protected, but…
After seeing Coco’s determination firsthand, who was I to dissuade him?
I nodded reluctantly.
“You have to be careful, Coco.”
Coco said he would personally pick the knights who would find the accountant in question with him.
It was his specialty to pick people who were trustworthy and good at their jobs.
I was anxiously gazing at Coco’s back, who went out to select knights with Dimitri’s permission, as I heard Dimitri chuckle softly behind me.
“I thought you would never allow it, but I’m surprised.”
I quietly turned my head and looked at him.
“….!”
Only then did his eyes widen when he saw my expression.
“…What if it’s dangerous? Hnng.”
Dimitri, who stared at me for a long time as I was making a crying sound, called his demon Shedim in a low voice. Black smoke soon wandered around me, picking up the cushions on the couch one by one and bringing them to me.
One on my lap, one on each side, and one at my feet…
As I hugged one of them and buried my face in it, I could feel more cushions being piled on top of my body.
Dimitri, who had built a mountain of cushions over my body, sat next to me without making a sound and waited until my anxiety subsided.
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With a small, elite pursuit party, Coco set out that very day to find the accountant hiding somewhere.
“It’ll be fine. Those chosen by Coco are loyal and skilled among the knights of Blois.”
Perhaps unsure of how to comfort me, Dimitri stood by my side, clearing his throat. He yawned occasionally or sometimes walked past me, gently brushing my shoulder or collar.
To an outsider, it might have seemed like he was bored or even irritated instead of offering comfort. But I knew better. His behavior was the language of cats, quietly saying, ‘It’s okay, you’re safe. There’s nothing to worry about.’
‘It’s sweet.’
Dimitri’s reputation in the novel was truly villainous—arrogant, selfish, capricious, and unpredictable, with a sharp, sensitive nature.
But that was simply the perspective of people who didn’t understand cats well.
‘To the heroine, who was more familiar with dogs, he must have seemed especially tense and harsh.’
The behavioral language of cats was far less understood than that of dogs, and much of their behavior could be difficult to interpret by human standards, leading to frequent misunderstandings.
For a cat, being laid-back and lazy—especially for one typically so cautious—was a sign of trust and affection, as if to say, ‘I’m not nervous around you because I trust you.’ Yet, people often misunderstand this as indifference or, worse, judge it as disrespectful.
‘Cats don’t ignore people, they just don’t show that they’re paying attention.’
So, the fact that Dimitri didn’t even look at me like he was doing now was just pretending.
I laughed a little inside.
‘He’s comforting me, saying it’s okay with his whole body.’
Seeing him working hard for me made me feel like I shouldn’t be more sluggish. I brushed off my anxiety about Coco and spoke cheerfully on purpose.
“Okay, I’ll leave it to Coco to find the secret ledger, and we’ll discuss other things. First of all, the punishment of the slave traders.”
At my words, Dimitri looked up from fiddling with the hem of his shirt with his fingertips.
“I see you have something in mind.”
I clenched my fists, my eyes flashing with glee.
“I’m going to beat up those slave traders, enough to cripple them in a place or two.”
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