I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 144

Chapter 72.2

The day I went to see Avila for the first time was also the day I was summoned to Count Larscel’s mansion, so I felt a bit overwhelmed. Dimitri, who had promised to accompany me, couldn’t make it, so I had to rush over on my own.

‘It’ll be difficult to win Avila over if she’s heard of my bad reputation.’

In the original story, Avila was portrayed as a righteous person.

The reason she left the imperial palace—a dream job for any wizard—was because she had been horrified by the Emperor’s hounds being subjected to abusive training.

Since then, she had ostensibly been researching the powers of dog shapeshifters, but in truth, she was secretly working on ways to neutralize them and break their shackles. The shackles, cursed into Cadis’s heart, couldn’t be broken until death, forever binding him to his master.

The research into enslaving dog shapeshifters was incredibly advanced.

Avila, however, was doing the opposite. She was working to uncover their weaknesses. She knew that if dog shapeshifters had a fatal vulnerability, they would become even less desirable on the slave market.”

That was the big picture Avila was painting.

…So, wouldn’t my notoriety be too fatal for her?

‘How do I convince Avila…’

It was when I was pondering about it…

“Looks like Coco has already arrived.”

Dimitri whispered, looking out the window. Even though I followed his gaze to the front door, I couldn’t see anything. Still, his head snapped up as if he’d seen something, and he glared down the hall before stopping behind me.

At the same time, I could hear Coco’s voice from somewhere.

“Rowaaaaaiinnee!”

“Coco!”

Coco, who suddenly appeared in the hallway without anyone knowing which hole he had entered from, came running as swiftly as the wind. He looked like a long, fluffy wheat-colored duster running around.

I opened my arms wide, happy to see him after not seeing him for a few days.

Coco darted toward the gap between me and Dimitri, almost making it into my arms—until Dimitri caught him mid-air, causing him to tumble to the ground.

“Where.”

Dimitri looked down at him and smirked.

Coco, who had poised himself in the air with catlike agility and landed safely, wagged his tail disapprovingly.

“That’s rude!”

“Did you find him?”

With a sigh, Coco dropped the bag he had been carrying on his back.

The bag, which Dimitri had given him, was designed to fit a cat’s body, making it quite small. Coco then proudly pulled out a ledger from the bag, though it had been twisted into the shape of a square book as if it had been forced to fit.

As soon as he handed the ledger to Dimitri, Coco straightened up and stretched both front paws toward me.

“Hug me, Angel!”

I glanced at Dimitri and quickly scooped him into my arms as Coco purred cutely in my arms.

“Coco’s here! I did a good job, right? Aren’t you proud?”

“Are you hurt anywhere? Nothing happened right?”

“I had such a hard time finding him, hiding like a rat! Coco’s legs are sore, I’m hungry, and I was scared.”

“Oh, were you scared?”

“Mm, mmm!”

Meanwhile, Dimitri looked at the two of us with an expression of disdain.

“That’s some serious infantile regression. Don’t imitate him, Rowaine. There might be something wrong with his brain.”

“No! It’s not a problem!”

“Wouldn’t it be possible to find out by opening the head?”

As Coco screamed and jumped up and down, dodging him, who reached for his head, Dimitri chased after him menacingly.

I smiled awkwardly at Avila, who stood there with her mouth agape, and blurted out whatever came to mind.

“Um… that’s Coco and Sasha earlier. He’s a cat shapeshifter I’m protecting. He’s…very friendly with my husband.”

And then I hastily added, just in case.

“That’s not bullying. They’re just playing… catch.”
[ T/N: LOL imagine Rowaine saying all that and this was what was happening in the background σ(*´∀｀*) ]

“Here, playing catch. Haha.”

However, it was as if Avila’s gaping mouth didn’t know how to close. Now, people were going to misunderstand that we were a couple who were abusing people in pairs…

‘It’s ruined… I’m screwed.’

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Nonetheless, contrary to Rowaine’s speculation, Avila couldn’t keep his mouth shut in surprise.

‘…Is the Duke friendly because he’s a shapeshifter? Is this a shapeshifters’ utopia?’

The image of the Duchess hugging the cat shapeshifters with eyes dripping with honey. And the Duke, who laughed benevolently and played catch with the cat shapeshifter…

‘Good people… they’re good people…’

Avila’s theory was that there was no such thing as bad people who were good to the weak.

‘I’m not going to let anyone who cursed at the Duchess go.’

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