I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 196
Chapter 98.2
But eventually, I couldn’t hold back anymore and buried my face in my hands.
“What did I even do? I haven’t done much for them at all, so why are they doing this for me…”
Tears poured down my face without stopping.
Dimitri silently comforted me by patting my back. I didn’t even think about how my tear-streaked face might look, and I clung tightly to his sleeve, burying myself in him.
“Can you tell me more? How was it? In the dream, did those cats seem to be in pain? Did they look sick? Did they say they can’t come back to me?”
He let out a soft sigh and wiped the corner of my eye.
“I feel so foolish for misunderstanding you in the past as a shapeshifter hater. Those cats looked healthy. They seemed peaceful, and they just seemed to wish for Rowaine’s happiness.”
I burst into tears again as I listened to him. As I cried out loudly like a child, Dimitri comforted me for a long time.
After calming down a bit, I asked him calmly.
“But why did they appear in Dimitri’s dream?”
He shrugged.
“Maybe to ask for me to take good care of Rowaine?”
I burst into laughter.
“You’re saying they found a trustworthy cat captain and entrusted me with him?”
If that were true, it was such an adorable, cat-like idea. In the meanwhile, Dimitri swept his hair back proudly in response to my words.
“I’m trustworthy.”
“I can’t believe you said that with your own mouth like that…”
“Really…?”
He raised an eyebrow. Seeing his cheeky expression, I just smiled warmly in response.
“…I really do find you trustworthy. Yes, you’re reliable.”
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At Dimitri’s suggestion, I washed my face lightly in the bathroom and returned to the sofa. In the meantime, it seemed that he had brought an old-looking book and was reading it.
“What are you doing, Dimitri?”
“It’s a book about demons left by my teacher. I remember there was some information about Agaliaept around here…”
He must have read quite a lot of the book since it was well-worn page by page. Without even checking the table of contents, he quickly found the page with the information he was looking for.
“Here it is.”
I leaned towards him and looked at the book.
The book had a rough sketch of Agaliaept, the one we had seen, and a brief description underneath.
I read it out loud.
“A high-ranking demon. Possesses the power to uncover mysterious things…? What does mysterious mean, Dimitri?”
“He’s a strategist, to be precise, a guide for demons. He can provide directions to help Rowaine find the path you desire.”
“The path I desire…?”
“If you’ve been connected to Agaliaept through the cats all this time, Rowaine might have unknowingly been using his power without you knowing. Haven’t you noticed anything strange during this time, like seeing demons?”
I raised an eyebrow. I had no idea at all.
“Let’s try talking to Agaliaept directly. Can we summon him?”
“What am I supposed to do?”
“Impose your command on him while thinking of the demon.”
“A command? Into the empty air?”
“Freely.”
It was too vague. Despite that, I did as I was told and shouted into empty air while summoning Agaliaept as instructed.
“Appear, yah!”
…Yah?
I couldn’t figure out what it meant even as I shouted it out.
‘I tried to shout into the air without realizing it…’
Out of embarrassment, I glanced at Dimitri to see him bending over the table, laughing.
“Why, why are you laughing?!”
“Haha… I’ve never seen someone give commands to a demon like that before.”
I pursed my lips and grumbled.
“You told me to do it freely. So, um, then what should I do? Show me an example since what I did didn’t work.”
Then, Dimitri adjusted his posture and gave me a look as if to say, ‘Watch closely.’ He put on a very solemn expression and then shouted into the empty air.
“Appear, yah!”
“…You have to get hit. You need to get hit like this! Ugh, how annoying!”
Dimitri, who was teasing me, was so irritating that I got up from my seat and started hitting him. However, before I realized it, Samael appeared behind him. After receiving a few hits from me, he grabbed both of my wrists and pulled me towards him.
As a result, I lost my balance and ended up sitting on his lap.
“Ack.”
Unlike me, who was flustered, Dimitri casually gestured behind me with a calm expression.
“Rowaine, take a look at that.”
I turned my head to see what he was pointing at as both my wrists were still held by him. Agaliaept appeared, slightly smaller than at dawn.
“Let, let go of me.”
I quickly removed Dimitri’s hand and stood up from his lap. As soon as I sat back down on the sofa properly, I blurted out in embarrassment.
“What was I supposed to ask him?”
While my face was flushed with heat, he was very relaxed and smiling mischievously.
“Ask him what he can do for you, Rowaine.”
I asked the demon as he told me. Though strangely, Agaliaept, who had been so talkative just yesterday, didn’t seem to open his mouth today.
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