I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 147
Chapter 74.1
It was because the cats gathered around me one by one before they surrounded me.
“What’s this? It smells good!”
“Smells good…”
“My nose is refreshed!”
“Sister. Sister stranger, you smell good!”
“Sniff, that feels good…”
Kittens, large and small, sneaked up on me, rubbing themselves against my legs and even climbing on me. I sank down to my seat and held as many cat shapeshifters as I could in my arms.
‘Wow, my God…’
…Was this a dream?
It was like entering a kitten paradise.
I carefully placed the cats in the bag I was carrying, one by one. Then, when I glanced at the knights and waved at them for the extra bags, the knights who had been staring blankly approached and reached out to the cat shapeshifters. It was to help me.
However…
“Haaak!”
“Kyaaaaaakk!”
The cat shapeshifters clung closer to me, alert as if on paroxysm against the knights reaching for our bodies. It was a difficult situation.
It was obviously a difficult situation, but…
‘…Ah, why does this feel so good?!’
The corner of my mouth kept twitching.
‘The cats like me…’
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god…
‘The kittens I’ve never seen before like me! I’m the only one whom they like!’
Despite the situation, I was so happy.
The cats that came to me and tangled with me were so cute and adorable that they even brought a tear to my eye.
“I’ll do it, so just stay still, everyone.”
After receiving the bag from the knights, I grabbed the baby cat with a full stomach very easily and placed them inside. As soon as the surrounding area was sorted out, cats as big as Coco, who looked a little more wary this time, eventually crept up. These were adolescent cats, even though they were bigger.
“Come here. I’m not going to hurt you, I want to save you. Come with me.”
Enchanted by the smell of me, their eyes widened after they sniffed at me as if they had found something in me.
“Oh, you smell like number 13!”
“What? Number 13?”
They chatted with each other, exchanging cryptic words before one of them asked me.
“Do you know the number 13?”
“Thirteen? What’s that?”
“He looks just like us. He’s got wheat-colored fur and long hair, and he’s been beaten so badly that he was seriously injured…”
It was only then that I realized that number 13 was referring to Coco.
“He lives with me now. Do you want to go meet him?”
I wondered if they would agree.
Could those who would have been trapped while being abused by humans trust humans? It was said that very young kittens didn’t know what was going on in the world, but the ones who were left now were older cats of the same age as Coco.
Quietly, I waited for their answer.
One by one, they sat there staring at me before they soon nodded in a way that made my worries moot.
“I want to go!”
“I want to see number 13!”
“The person 13 followed must be a good person.”
“This person smells good, and number 13 is smart.”
They followed me on their feet and got into the carriage.
Picking them all up, I went back to the warehouse. It was to find the remaining cat shapeshifters. In the meantime, the situation inside the warehouse seemed to be pretty much settled. The slavers were kneeling to one side, bound by ropes, and Avila was busy counting the number of the dog shapeshifters.
Meanwhile, as I circled the warehouse, the cats trotted behind me as if I had become ‘the Pied Piper.’
[ T/N: It pretty much means ‘one that offers strong but delusive enticement.’ ]
When I was done gathering the cats and putting them into the carriage, I turned around and locked eyes with Dimitri, who had been watching me for some time.
A meaningful smile hung at the corners of his lips.
“It seems everyone is intoxicated by the scent.”
He said as if he knew what was going on.
“That scent… what does it really smell like?”
Before, I used to think that Dimitri was holding a clue* by mentioning the scent, but at this point, I really thought that there was really a cause.
[ T/N: It’s an idiom which means, ‘To use something as a pretext to provoke a quarrel.’ ]
‘Come to think of it, Coco and Sasha kept coming up to me from the beginning because they thought I smelled good?’
I thought they were just affectionate cats, but they were both only affectionate in my presence, and they weren’t wary of me in the first place…
Dimitri sighed as if I had only just realized that.
“I’ve said it over and over again. Rowaine has a scent that attracts cats.”
“A scent that attracts cats?”
Muttering the words to myself, I pressed my nose against my body to see if I could smell anything, but I couldn’t smell anything.
“I really didn’t know…”
Our conversation ended just there, as Avila had just come out of the warehouse with the cages containing the dog shapeshifters on a carriage.
Avila stuck out her tongue.
“There are a lot of dog shapeshifters, did you find all the cat shapeshifters?”
“Thank you, Avila. Things have been sorted out here as well.”
As we returned to Blois, I took charge of the carriage with cat shapeshifters as Avila went with a carriage loaded with dog shapeshifters, while Dimitri took care of the slave traders, who were chained together like sausages.
It was time to face the elders.
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