I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 189

Chapter 95.1

These days, various external matters were intricately unfolding around Blois. However, no matter how many things there were to worry about and how busy things got, I couldn’t neglect my promise to Sasha. The day had come when we decided to perform a summoning ritual for the contract with a demon.

“I can’t believe this day is coming.”

Sighing, I tightly held Sasha’s hand.

Sasha, with her white hair neatly cut and arranged on her dark skin, was dressed very cutely today.

In a crisply ironed white short-sleeved shirt, a cute blue vest, well-fitted black trousers, and overly polished adult-like leather shoes, she looked so well put together that it was oddly endearing. The maids had apparently gotten excited about the idea of taking Sasha out.

Sasha consoled me with a different, more composed demeanor than usual.

“Rowaine, I’ll do well! I can do it. This is something I really want.”

How could the gaze of a young child, who only reached my chest, be so resolute? To have such conviction in a life-changing decision that hinged on staking one’s own life was truly remarkable.

‘…I would have been really confused if it were me.’

I responded by pumping both of my fists in the air at Sasha. The child, filled with excitement, hurriedly dashed ahead without a care.

“Watch your step, Sasha! Do you know the way? Go slowly!”

Seeing her easily bounding up the steep hillside as if it were flat ground, I shouted out, but my voice seemed to not reach her due to her excitement.

At that moment, as a gust of wind brushed against my shoulder, I jumped in surprise and let out a startled scream.

“My, mother!”

“It’s me, Rowaine.”

It was Dimitri. I swept away the surprised feeling in my chest.

“Are you scared?”

“Look at this path. I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t be scared.”

Saying so, I pointed to the mountain path stretched out before us.

The maids seemed to have thought that Dimitri and I were taking Sasha out to some fancy place, but the place we secretly came to was deep in the mountains. It was a secluded spot within the mountains at an ambitious hour, with no visible path.

Feeling surrounded by darkness and the eerie trees around me, I anxiously gazed at Dimitri and asked him with a tinge of resentment.

“Does it have to be such an eerie place like this?”

“A location like this is appropriate for summoning a demon. It’s secluded, with no human presence and no interference from any light except the moonlight. They enjoy corrupted souls and things of that sort, so if summoned just anywhere, they wouldn’t focus on the conversation, and their attention would quickly be diverted elsewhere.”

We were making our way to the deep cave in the mountains that he had arranged for someone to find. Due to the requirement for minimal human presence, we left the steward and the knights below the mountain, and only Dimitri, Sasha, and I ascended the mountain.

For someone like me who feared darkness and unseen beings, it was driving me crazy.

‘No matter how much I raised the light of the magic lamp, I can only see right in front of me.”

Even though it was summer, the air in the mountains was cold. Moreover, the spiky shadows of trees and the cries of wild animals made me shrink back.

“Sasha went ahead, but will it be okay for her in this darkness?”

“For cats, this is no different from broad daylight. There’s moonlight, after all.”

“What if she goes ahead recklessly and hurts herself badly?”

“I’ve never heard a story about a cat getting seriously injured from stumbling on a mountain.”

“But Sasha is in her human form right now…”

Just as I was saying that, something white fell from the top of my head.

“Aack!”

In a panic, I dropped the magic lantern I was holding and instinctively burrowed into Dimitri’s embrace. I was too consumed by fear to even consider who I had nestled into, and my only thoughts were finding a ‘safe person’ and ‘hiding myself.’

“Cowardly Rowaine! Hehe!”

The white thing that had fallen from above was none other than Sasha.

It seemed that she had turned into a cat, despite my worries about her movements becoming slower due to her human form and the possibility of an accident. She seemed to have thrown away her clothes and shoes, which she had been wearing.

Clutching my racing heart, I nervously scolded Sasha as tears welled up.

“Don’t do that, Sasha! I really hate this kind of thing!”

“What on earth are you scared of!”

Sasha teased me and once again disappeared into the darkness.

“I really hate it. Oh, I really can’t stand it… this kind of place.”

At the same time, my head was spinning with dizziness. It wasn’t just being dramatic, after all, it was natural for everyone to have something they couldn’t bear due to fear.

To the extent of how much fear I was feeling…

“Calm down, Rowaine.”

“Aah, don’t push me. Don’t push me away!”

I was gripped with such a panic that I clung to Dimitri’s shirt as if he was trying to tear me away when it felt like he was trying to pry me off. At this point, I was aware that I was in his embrace, but that was all. It didn’t matter to me who I was embracing right now.

“The magic lamp rolled down below. If you wait for a moment, I can quickly…”

“You want me to stay here alone? Dimitri, I’m going to die…!”

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