I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 227

Chapter 114.1

A few weeks ago I received a letter containing shocking information from Elaine.

Dimitri and I were busy handling the rebellion caused by Count Schdental and Cayetana, trying to calm the ferocious atmosphere in Blois. In addition, it was even more hectic for me because I was tasked with keeping the shapeshifter shelter stable.

…No, in truth, it was just an excuse, and honestly, I was so distracted because of Dimitri.

“Don’t you have something to say to me, wife?”

Dimitri, who had been lingering by my side and brushing his shoulders against mine since earlier, whispered seductively in my ear.

“I want to hear sweet words.”

“Dimitri, don’t keep doing this.”

I grabbed the papers I was reading and sat down on the sofa, trying to get away from him. But instead of staying away, he laid on my lap casually as if it were his right to do so.

He spoke languidly, tapping his foot that extended beyond the edge of the sofa.

“Just one word is enough.”

“Why are you lying down here? Who told you that you could do this?”

“My heart.”

“Ha, shameless!”

“I was answering you obediently.”

“Get up.”

“I don’t want to.”

Dimitri, who was lying down with his arms crossed with a determined face, even closed his eyes in defiance. His confidence left me speechless.

‘No, how can the one who is courting and hanging on be this confident and reckless?’

That’s right. Last night, I rejected Dimitri’s confession of love for me.

—

“Tell me you love me, Rowaine.”

“Dimitri, I… I don’t love you.”

“Lies. You’re in love with me. You just can’t take that step because all you need to do is admit it.”

“Don’t be pushy.”

“You’re the one who is being pushy, not me. Is it because I’m a shapeshifter? Is that why you don’t want to admit it?”

“It’s not like that. There’s no reason. I just don’t love you, that’s all.”

—

Up until that point, I had complicated feelings.

I had countless thoughts about what our relationship would be like from now on, whether I would lose Dimitri like this. I didn’t want to destroy the intimacy we had built with him over time. Through various experiences, we had developed a bond beyond friendship… something like camaraderie.

Even though it might be a selfish thought, I didn’t want to lose that. It would be so sad.

As I became depressed and looked at Dimitri, his face looked more like he didn’t understand than he was hurt.

—

“I don’t understand it even more if there’s no reason. If it’s not because I’m a shapeshifter, there’s no reason for you not to love me.”

“….”

“See, you’re still looking at me with the eyes of someone in love even now.”

“When am I?”

“You told me I’m perfect. You said you like beautiful people, and you even said I’m pretty. Besides, I’m not old.”

“What on earth does that all mean? When did I say such things?!”

“If you mess things up and then claim you don’t remember, what’s the value?”

“You were the one who said it, yet you couldn’t remember?”

—

It was a face filled with intense unfairness.

Dimitri kept insisting that I loved him, showing no doubt in his claims. Instead of feeling defeated, he wore a very confident expression.

‘It’s better than being awkward, but…’

I looked down at Dimitri, who was lying on my lap as if he owned it.

‘Even though he knows, he acts like he doesn’t.’

As if sensing my gaze, he opened his eyes slightly and spoke.

“If you want to touch it, you can.”

“Yes?”

Then, he pulled my hand and placed it on top of his head.

“You’ve been staring at me greedily.”

“When, when did I…!”

I stood up, flustered. For some reason, my face felt flushed and I couldn’t stand it, so I said fatally to Dimitri.

“Don’t follow me.”

I grabbed the documents and left the office. I was planning to go to the office I had set up for the shapeshifter shelter to avoid him.

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Dimitri shook his head as he watched Rowaine leave the office with a flushed face.

“It would be easier if she just admitted it.”

He muttered and turned to Coco, who was curling up in the shape of a loaf of bread on the window sill across from him, basking in the sun.

“Was I wrong?”

Coco yawned lazily and stretched before he rolled over to lie on his back, gazing at the sky.

“Rowaine must be embarrassed.”

“Honorifics.”

“…Uh, leader.”

Although he didn’t know where the title ‘leader’ that Sasha and Coco used to call him came from, he thought it wasn’t a bad thing, so he let it slide.

“She obviously likes me. I don’t understand why she’s denying it.”

Even though Rowaine claimed he was being pushy, he had never forced anything.

‘She looks at me as if I’m so endearing when she gazes at me.’

He could sense whether someone liked him or not. Animals were sensitive to such things, and Dimitri, as a shapeshifter, was no exception. No, but even if he weren’t a shapeshifter, anyone who saw Rowaine’s gaze would have been able to tell in the first place.

It was that blatant… Rowaine’s feelings.

‘…But why?’

What could be the reason for denying it?