I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 152

Chapter 76.2

It was impossible to end such a significant incident by apologizing with only words.

“Of course, if anyone wants to discuss this with the Emperor directly without using Blois as a shield, I won’t discourage them either. They will walk the same path as the Count of Bilbao as I intend to hand them over so that the Emperor can handle the matter.”

So, if anyone betrayed him and spoke to the Emperor first, they would be sent away with Count Bilbao.

Finally, Dimitri gave all the credit to me.

This should have taught the elders that I was no pushover and what happened when they pointed a sword at me.

In addition, Dimitri’s friendly gesture towards me was an announcement that we were a tight-knit couple, completely hand-in-hand. Therefore, he had established my dignity by making it clear to the elders that if they dared to talk about me as they were doing now, they wouldn’t be seen in a good light.

‘To defend justice, I made enemies and gained dignity. Haha…’

I did the right thing, but for some reason, tears were covering my eyes.

‘Will I be able to live as the comfortable humble bourgeois I dream of…’

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While the naive Rowaine was crying inside, unable to let go of the future hope of being a ‘humble bourgeois,’ Dimitri was thinking a little differently.

“Madam Rowaine keeps mumbling something about humble bourgeois. What does that mean?”

Dimitri, returning to his office after the meeting, chuckled at Hyle’s question.

It just happened that he was thinking about it, too.

‘I can’t believe she’s been thinking about getting out of Blois all this time. Her wildest dreams are amazing, too.’

In the first place, Dimitri had no intention of letting Rowaine go. While there was a time when he didn’t fully trust her, now that he’d gotten to know her, the thought that he wouldn’t let her go was even stronger.

Just imagining her saying goodbye made his stomach turn.

“What a dream.”

“Yes?”

“You don’t have to pay attention to what she’s muttering to herself.”

He wasn’t going to let it happen anyway.

Nevertheless, even though he was the one who told Hyle not to pay attention, he continued to dwell on Rowaine’s words to himself.

‘Wasn’t she happy here? I let her raise the cats she wanted to raise, and I even shared all my territories. Not only that, but I also do everything she asks me of… but why does she still dream of leaving Blois?’

He couldn’t understand.

Wasn’t the natural tendency of all living things to settle into a comfortable life of contentment?

‘Is there anything more she wants? Was she not satisfied with her current life?’

Dimitri, narrowing his eyebrows and thinking about it, spoke to Hyle.

“I don’t think I’ve ever given Rowaine a present, and since we’ve stymied the elders with this, I might as well repay her.”

“What shall we prepare?”

“What does Rowaine like?”

Something that usually made her smile…

He’d seen Rowaine’s joy when Coco had done well in a hunting game, when Sasha had been generous to Coco, and when he had turned blue in her arms…

‘She likes cats… Should I get her another cat?’
[ T/N: ˭̡̞ ( ◞⁎˃ᆺ ˂) ◞*✰ OMG DIMITRI IS SO CUTE AAA ]

While thinking about that, Dimitri shook his head. It reminded him of the scene earlier when Rowaine was running around the slave trader’s warehouse with a string of kittens behind her. It was like watching the ducklings follow the mother duck as she led the way.

‘This is enough with the cats.’

After thinking about it, he sighed and made a decision.

“Ask her directly and do whatever she asks you to do.”

“Everything?”

“Yes. Whatever.”

“…Yes, I understand.”

At the time, Dimitri didn’t know. He didn’t know that in return for letting Rowaine do what she wanted to do, he would have huge ramifications.

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Meanwhile, the carriages exiting Blois seemed to scatter, only to reconvene secretly at their respective junctions. Some gathered vassals of the family, as Dimitri had done, others gathered people with business connections, and others elders gathered quietly together.

In any case, at dawn, not a single one of the elders went home alone to sleep.

“I should have abandoned Blois long ago when that shapeshifter said he would become our leader…”

“How easy would it be to break the oath of allegiance to our ancestors?”

“You clearly saw what happened to the vassals of the Marquis of Valencia who broke the alliance without a perfect justification a decade ago.”

There was a case when the vassals broke their oath of loyalty by rebelling against the Marquis’s young lady, who had inherited the title by defeating her stupid brother, that was, the current Marquis of Valencia.

It was becoming more common for women to hold titles, but the conservative Southern aristocrats still refused to acknowledge it.

Those who broke their oaths under duress to align themselves with other noble families for a forced cause were swiftly expelled from aristocratic society for betraying the master-servant relationship. Disorganized and scattered, they were quickly overrun by the forces of the Marquis of Valencia.

As a result, the Marquis of Valencia, who confiscated their lands and property, grew even more powerful. Breaking an oath of allegiance in such a manner was a complicated affair, requiring many circumstances to align perfectly.”

“What’s the matter? For now, we’ll have to take what we can get.”

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