I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 165

Chapter 83.1

Throwing away my conscience and using my brain, I promised Sasha that if she won the fight, I’d let her make a contract with the devil. I stood face to face with Sasha.

It was time for a conversation.

“Sasha, do you really want to make a contract with the devil?”

“Mm! Of course!”

“Can you tell me why?”

I was a little nervous. Even though I had heard something from Dimitri, I wanted to hear it from Sasha’s mouth.

‘Although it’s quite regrettable since I’ve already made the promise.’

I hoped Sasha didn’t want to make a contract with the devil on a whim. If I could persuade her, I hoped I could.

As I thought that, I couldn’t let go of that glimmer of hope. However, something came out of Sasha’s mouth that I hadn’t fully expected. She gazed at me straight with her blue eyes, as if she were tenacious, and made a clear argument.

“I’m going to be strong. I’ll be strong and keep the bad guys out of here, and I’m going to protect Rowaine and Coco and the others. The leader is strong, so it’s okay, but the rest of the family are weak, so I have to protect them.”

By leader, she probably meant Dimitri.

I was speechless for a moment as I listened to Sasha’s words.

‘Family…’

That was what she was thinking. She was accepting us as family.

My heart ached.

Sasha continued excitedly.

“I’ll lead the family well, so no one is going to be abandoned.”

“What…?”

“It’s a terrible feeling to be abandoned. If you’re suddenly abandoned in a strange place one day, you’ll have no idea what to eat or what to avoid. Walking around barefoot in a world you’ve never seen before until dawn… you feel very dirty.”

“Ah…”

It was so sad that she still remembered what happened when she was abandoned. I thought she had forgotten all about everything and was happy because she always seemed so cheerful and active.

My heart ached as I listened to Sasha’s courageous voice.

“I can never forget the helplessness of that day, Rowaine. I’ll be strong. I’m going to be strong and never feel that helpless again. And I won’t let my family feel that way either.”

“Sasha…”

I stroked her cream-colored hair as I called her name with a sigh.

Who abandoned her like this…

Who made her grow up like this…

I could have been resentful of them, but instead, I was heartbroken by Sasha’s innocence, which burned with a sense of responsibility to protect her family. I never thought she was thinking this seriously. At the same time, I regretted not listening to Sasha’s story.

I wondered what I could say to convince her?

I finally understood what Esca’s words meant.

“Sasha’s desire is much stronger and more persuasive than Madam Rowaine’s opposition, so there’s no way you’re going to win her over.”

As it turned out, he was right. Sasha’s desire was much stronger and more convincing than my vague sense of anxiety that ‘she can’t do it because it’s dangerous.’

Hiding my churning heart, I smiled at her.

“Okay. You can do it, right?”

Sasha nodded without hesitation.

“Of course. I’m not going to die, Rowaine!”

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At the same time, Cayetana’s maid, Betty, who had been ordered to keep an eye on Rowaine’s every move, was eavesdropping on the conversation between Rowaine and Sasha. She clearly understood what the two were talking about through Sasha’s clear voice and headed to her master’s room.

There, Cayetana was drinking a strong, rose-scented black tea.

“Madam.”

“Did you hear something?”

“I don’t know if this is a story that will help you, Madam, but the Duchess was talking about the devil with the cat shapeshifter.”

“Really?”

Cayetana let out a sullen sigh, wondering if it was a trivial story again.

‘Always surrounded by cats all the time. It seems that there is nothing but shapeshifters in my head.’

So it would have been better to tie Rowaine up with the shapeshifters and send them away, but there wasn’t much to hold a clue*.
[ T/N: An idiom which means, ‘to use something as a pretext to provoke a quarrel. ]

Rowaine, who was said to enjoy abusing shapeshifters, was, on the contrary, very kind and gentle with them. It would be nice if she could use her cruel temper to demean her and use that as an excuse to apply pressure on them.

“She said she’d let the cat shapeshifter make a contract with the devil.”

“What? Are they trying to nurture a monster like Dimitri? Ha.”

When she found out that Dimitri was dealing with demons, Cayetana did a little research about demons in order to figure out his weaknesses.

‘It’s very rare to succeed in signing a contract with a devil, and it’s even rarer to make a pact with a strong demon…’

Her brow narrowed as her thoughts deepened.

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