I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 164

Chapter 82.2

Dimitri calmly declared her victory. On the other hand, the knight stared at him in disbelief, as if he couldn’t understand what was happening behind him because he hadn’t even seen it.

“Any more, and Sasha would have broken your neck.”

“Yes?”

Leaving behind him with his mouth agape, Dimitri lectured the knights as if this was a good opportunity.

“You’ve all seen it, right? It’s the way the cat shapeshifters attack, aiming for the throat like that. They don’t have as much jaw strength when they’re in a human form as they do when they’re in a cat form, so instead of just sinking their teeth in like they do when they’re cats, they would go for the neck and try to break the collarbone with their hind legs. Be aware.”

The knights nodded their heads in bewilderment.

“They all have an uncomfortable expression on their faces now.”

Dimitri asked Sasha, furrowing his brow.

“Do you want to fight one more time?”

“Mm! Yes, I want more! This is so much fun!”

“Alright. Then, one more person, come out.”

The second round started as planned.

The opponent who came out this time was the one who was moved by Sasha’s movements. Judging from the enthusiastic reactions of the knights, it seemed that they had won quite a few victories in hand-to-hand combat of his own.

I, too, was a bit relieved since I was thinking that the previous fight had ended so futilely.

‘…I certainly hope Sasha loses this time.’

Clasping my hands together, I watched the fight with a prayerful heart. Sasha moved so effortlessly, like water flowing, even in what looked like a very flimsy position.

“She looks really slow, but why can’t he catch her? Surely the knight wasn’t going easy on her?”

As I whispered to Dimitri while looking at the floundering knight worriedly, Dimitri gave a low laugh.

“It’s because she’s not actually slow. She just looks slow because her posture is stable and flexible. Imagine, Rowaine, if you could move like that yourself.”

Even if I imagined it in my head, it didn’t seem that hard to move like Sasha, so I tried to sneak up behind Dimitri and do what Sasha had done, which was to jump up and change positions in midair.

‘Wow, is that possible?’

My thoughts changed in an instant. It was more difficult than I thought to take a certain posture without panicking in the air.

‘I can’t even jump that high…’

Sasha jumped lightly to my shoulder level, but I couldn’t get that high no matter what I did.

‘I’ve been training my lower body a lot with horseback riding these days, but it’s not even helping.’

It was like watching an Olympic Games video and realizing that the athletes were making it look so effortless, though every single movement was incredibly challenging.

‘That’s amazing.’

I focused on Sasha’s fighting again. Unlike the previous fight, where I assumed Sasha was going to lose, this time, I watched the fight in earnest.

Seeing the look in Sasha’s eyes, my jaw dropped.

It was behind those terrifyingly fierce blue eyes that sharpened execution and judgment. She was taking the fight more seriously than I thought.

‘It’s not the eyes of a child.’

I unknowingly swallowed dry saliva. Certainly, anyone who saw it would have thought the same thing I did. Even I, who wanted Sasha to be defeated, marveled at how a child could have such a look in her eyes like that.

Needless to say, Sasha again won the victory without difficulty.

As Dimitri swung his flag a little too late, the knight was unable to avoid Sasha’s neck-breaking attack and was kicked once. He immediately fell to the ground, tumbling with nausea.

“Ouch. Like I told you, you need to watch your neck.”

The voice that came out of Dimitri’s mouth was devoid of emotion. It seemed the delay in waving the flag was intentional. In the previous fight, it appeared that everyone thought it wasn’t worth it unless someone got knocked out, so that was exactly what happened.

Dimitri took Sasha’s hand as he left the knight, who hadn’t been able to get up in a while and was coughing with a red face.

“You win.”

“Haha! Now, how do you guys like the taste of my fist?! Don’t mess around with me, tssk, you’ll all die!”

As Sasha jumped up and down with excitement, Dimitri came up to me and whispered softly.

“Humans have coming-of-age ceremonies based on the number of years they’ve lived, but that’s not the standard for shapeshifters. Sasha isn’t a child.”

At that moment, Coco, in the form of a cat, appeared from nowhere with his head poking around. And after spotting me, he jumped brightly into my arms.

“Hehe, Angel! Here you are! Let’s play hunting!”

Dimitri, who was looking down disapprovingly at Coco, who was rubbing his dusty body against me, grabbed him by the back and threw Coco down as if tossing him on the floor. Then, he stomped his foot and threatened Coco to drive her away, annoyed.

“You brat! When are you going to class?”

The words came from Dimitri, who was adamant that Sasha wasn’t a child.

‘Alas, Coco…’

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