I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 19

Chapter 10.1

‘A cat?’

Finding cats wherever I went became my specialty, so I instinctively turned my head and looked into the darkness.

Hearing the rustling sound could be from an animal about the size of a cat, I soon found something in the dark and smiled broadly. Two green eyes glowed in the grass.

“Cats are everywhere, after all.”

Forgetting the situation I was in, I quickly became happy.

As I crouched at a distance, holding my breath for fear of the cat being wary, it jumped up onto the wall that separated the garden and the detached building. For a moment, the silhouette of a cat with its back to the moonlight appeared. Seeing that, I exclaimed.

“Ah…!”

At that sound, the cat stopped and gazed at me.

“You’re so pretty. You’re such a perfect cat. So cute…”

It was a gray-haired cat. His shiny hair shone with a mysterious blue light. He had chest hair longer than in any other body part, as if it was a dignified scarf, and he sat flaunting his beauty with his four feet wrapped around him with a fluffy tail that was like a fox’s tail. With a fairly large physique, graceful curves, muscular body, long legs, and a well-balanced and healthy body.

He was one of the coolest cats I’ve ever seen.

The gray cat glanced at me with a still gaze, and, as if he wasn’t interested, then crossed the fence and disappeared from view.

Seeing this, I had some lingering feelings of regret and kept glancing at the place where he was standing, and suddenly I felt sad. >My heart, which I had been struggling to comfort a while ago, collapsed in longing.

“My cats were alive and well like that…”

Thinking of the warmth of the little lovely kitties I loved, perhaps my whole life, made me feel helpless and lonely. >When I closed my eyes and pondered about it, the sensation of the soft fur in my hands, the delicate gestures that rubbed my body against me, and the slender voice that made me laugh came to life in my senses.

“I want to see you…”

At some point, even though I had dry eyes, I seemed to have the talent to shed tears to wet my entire face in an instant. I remembered the days when I took care of my cats, even as they vomited blood. I hoped they wouldn’t get sick, hoped that they’d live long, happy lives.

“I miss you guys.”

Even though people might say they’re just cats, to me, they weren’t only cats. After my mother, who was my only pillar of support, passed away, my cats were the only friends and family I had left who gave me comfort. I thought I had no regrets in life.

“Why did they have to die like that?”

It was so helpless to feel that the things I loved had been horribly crushed into the hands of others.

I stood frozen in the dark. The soil beneath my feet was stained with moisture as if it had rained. It seemed like I’d been standing like that for a while, but when I came to my senses, the gray cat I thought had gone away was sitting on the wall gazing at me. He was staring at me with his mysterious green eyes wide open, like a statue.

“…Hi?”

Cats have mystical powers.

The power to make me laugh even after crying so tiredly.

“You are so cute.”

Did I look weird smiling with a teary face?

This time, the guy has vanished arrogantly.

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‘How did she know I was there?’

Dimitri, who had turned into a cat and was wandering around with no direction in mind, was a little surprised. He only made a very small sound, so he didn’t think Rowaine would find him right away.

It didn’t look like that, but it seemed like she had acute senses, as if she had learned martial arts.

‘She didn’t seem to recognize me.’

She didn’t know who she was calling cute and pretty.

Aaccording to the rumors, she was a woman who was notorious for brutally abusing and killing shapeshifters. However, he was curious to see her crying desperately in a place where no one was there, saying she wanted to see him. Even if he didn’t really care about rumors, isn’t this interesting?

‘They said she was someone evil, but it didn’t seem like the case.’

As far as he knew, malicious people never wept like that.

When walking around as a small animal, he would often see such trivial and interesting things. Feeling indifferently, Dimitri finished his walk and returned to his office without realizing that a hint of curiosity lingered within him as he took every small step.

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At that time, the name of Rowaine was being discussed in the mansion of Elbas, which was very close to the Blois estate.

“You mean that Dimitri brought back Rowaine Larscel?”

Sophia, a maid from the Blois estate, bowed her head.

“Yes, Madam.”

The old lady, whose hair was white, set the teacup down on her table with a clack.

She was the former Duchess of Blois.

“Ha. She’s just a woman from the Larscel family. Despite it’s an old family, Count Larscel is not a very educated person. Rather than a noble, he’s closer to a merchant.”

She clicked her tongue.

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