I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 153

Chapter 77.1

Just then, as an underling approached a nobleman and whispered something to him, the man who heard the news became furious and told the others.

“It seems that the Count of Charlerois’ hordes are already offering their wealth to the Duke and wagging their tails.”

“How superficial is that man? Ha.”

“Such an opportunist*. Tsk, tsk.”
[ T/N: ‘박쥐; here is used at a person which means someone who changes one’s opinion/character for benefit. ]

As an eerie silence descended for a moment between those who let out reproach-filled sighs, the next moment, someone coughed and stood up.

“I have an important appointment tomorrow, so I’ll… see you soon.”

With him leading the way, the rest also rose from their seats, at the same time, with unsolicited excuses piled up on the table.

“Hhm, now that I’m older, moving around at dawn is tiring after all.”

“I’m going to leave, too, since we’re in the mood to disperse. We’ll meet again soon.”

“Alright, let’s do that.”

And so the carriages scattered, each with their own excuses, but soon they met again in Blois’s garden, laden with gold and silver treasures that had been raided from the family’s treasury.

“H-Ha, this guy! Didn’t you say you were going home…!”

“Didn’t the baron say he had an important appointment, too?!”

“No, did the Count come as well?”

“Ha… I recently made an investment in an imperial business…. things would get complicated when you’re in the eyes of the Emperor.”

Lining up in front of Dimitri’s office, they kept accusing each other and making feeble excuses—to apologize for the disrespect of the past, to pledge their allegiance anew, and to beg to see him just once.

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At the same time, the head of the Council of Elders, Count Schdental, grew nervous when he heard the news that the turncoats were already flocking to Blois precipitously. He summoned some of the most prominent members of his council to devise countermeasures.

“Tsk, tsk, the loaches make the whole puddle murky*.”
[ T/N: It’s an idiom which means, ‘For the misdeed of a person to have a negative influence on the whole group or many people. ]

“Those gathered in Blois right now couldn’t even be called loaches, Count Schdental. They were the ones who would turn their backs on us if things went wrong, anyway.”

Count Schdental’s eyes narrowed, and he gritted his teeth.

“I need to see Madam Elbas. She hasn’t brought me any news since entering Blois…”

The reason Madam Elbas went to Blois was to find a good lead for Count Schdental. However, instead of delivering information that could destroy Dimitri, he hadn’t heard from her for several days already.

“Perhaps she was in some kind of bad situation?”

“I was worried since Madam Rosanne was going with her…”

Contrary to Dimitri’s assumption that Rosanne, Cayetana, and the elders were all one team, Rosanne was a difficult being, even among the elders. The elders knew that she went to Blois, even with her frail body, to monitor Cayetana’s behavior.

Count Schdental muttered.

“I don’t know what that old woman is thinking.”

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The morning after I rescued shapeshifters from the slave traders, I ran to shapeshifters, the cats I had brought to the annex, as soon as I woke up.

“It wasn’t a dream!”

Numerous kittens who followed me were purring and frolicking in the front yard of the annex. As soon as they spotted me, they would come running while chuckling like fairies, or chattering cheerfully in light, clear voices.

“Hi! Good smell!”

“I slept on a fluffy blanket!”

“I ate a lot!”

“I played outside!”

“It’s so spacious here…!”

Everyone was clearly excited.

‘Since they’re kittens, they don’t have a concept of territory yet, so they seem to be having fun.’

After living in cramped conditions, the kittens were happy to be able to go outside, eat lots of delicious food, and sleep on soft blankets.

I counted the cats again.

‘One, two, three, four… twenty-one.’

Among them, except for seven cats that seemed to be around Coco’s age, they were all kittens.

‘The situation is better here since the slave traders were mainly dealing with dogs, but Avila…’

My tongue trembled when I thought about the number of dogs that seemed to outnumber the cats by more than double.

Since Dimitri refused to let the dogs into the mansion, they had to stay outside the mansion in cages overnight. Fortunately, Avila seemed to have found a suitable vacant building near the Blois mansion by walking around all morning, and I heard later in the morning that she was planning to rent the building.

‘I have to go help Avila later.’

Even though I had attached a lot of people to her, I was curious and worried about how things were going. Would the sharp-barking dog shapeshifters follow Avila well? In addition, since there were so many young puppies there, I wondered if she’d be able to control them.

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