I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 23
Chapter 12.1
The next day, Dimitri, who had turned into a cat to take a break from work, went by the wall where he had met Rowaine the day again as if he had been possessed.
The butler told him that Rowaine locked herself up inside the annex and that she was being unusually quiet. Even though rumors said that she likes crowded, noisy places and attends all kinds of parties, even going to three or four parties a night, enjoying being noticed by doing this and that to stand out.
It was a fact that Hyle found out about after diligently finding information about her before reporting it to him in detail.
‘If I only based on the rumors, she seems like a completely different person from the person I heard.’
The gap between the facts and rumors was so great that he got curious.
He wondered if she would cry again today…
Dimitri lightly leaped down to the ground and headed to yesterday’s place, but this time, Rowaine was nowhere to be seen.
‘Well, this isn’t even a place where you can stay all day long, so it’s weird that we run into each other at any time like that…’
He tried to turn her away, thinking it was nothing, though something caught his eye.
‘What is it?’
A box just the right size for a cat was hidden in the grass. And, inside it was a bundle of wool with a rod, like a bait in a trap.
‘She left the trash behind…?’
Was it her?
It was confusing.
‘…Why?’
He tapped the tufts of wool on the rod.
Ring.
‘Why?’
Cling, clang.
‘Why…?’
Cling, clang.
‘…This is annoying.’
He angrily beat the bundle of wool, which was reminiscent of a small creature, and was instinctively stimulated by the sound of bells that rang in his ear. Dimitri hugged it tightly and rolled around in the grass as though he were hunting.
The bundle of wool smelled of Rowaine… That made him even more excited.
He grabbed the stick and climbed up the wall.
A tuft of wool, tied in a long string, hung down the wall. Dimitri then swung his round paw, mercilessly smashing the tuft of wool.
‘Ya! Ha! Strangely, I feel good?’
Cling clang. Clang, cling clang
He was hitting it like crazy.
Clink, cling clang, cling clang.
Dimitri, who had been beating, biting, and tearing the wad of wool as if possessed, came to his senses.
‘…Why am I doing this?’
Quivering with shame, he sat down for a moment to calm his confused mind and picked up the fur.
‘It must have been that the woman had put a strange spell on that tuft of wool.’
He was staring at it with that thought when he heard a rustling sound from somewhere.
At that, Dimitri raised his head and stared to the side where the sound was coming from, and he froze like a stone statue. Rowaine, whom he didn’t know how long she’d been there, gazed at him with her cheeks flushed.
‘Is she laughing at me?’
Seeing Rowaine smiling like that, his fur stood up in indignation. However, he couldn’t reveal his identity, so all he could do was leave.
As he was grinding his teeth and turning around.
“So cute!”
“….?”
Hearing that, Dimitri looked back at Rowaine in embarrassment. Upon closer inspection, he saw a different smile on her face, which seemed like a laugh. Under her long eyelashes, the corners of her eyes curled unpretentiously, and a smile seemed to be in full bloom.
To him, an innocent smile that didn’t feel so selfish or pretentious came to him with a shocking intensity. As far as he could remember, he had never seen anything like this.
‘What… What is she so happy about?’
It was a smile too dazzling to be interpreted maliciously. The warm sunlight was breaking over her head.
‘…What?’
Dimitri left the place in a strange haste, suddenly feeling like he couldn’t breathe properly.
Even when he returned to his office, he could still remember Rowaine’s smile for a very long time. He didn’t know what was her intention of leaving the despicable tuft there like that, and he didn’t understand why she smiled like that when she saw her foolish self.
‘What a strange woman.’
The hideous rumors about her that he had heard from Hyle and her innocent smile she had just seen a moment ago were chaotically jumbled up in his mind.
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That night, as Dimitri slept, he had a dream.
Due to the vigilant nature of the race, he usually had a lot of dreams due to his habit of sleeping lightly. In his dream today, there was a hand with a pleasant scent tickling the nape of the neck pleasantly.
‘My cute kitty.’
It was Rowaine’s hand.
He instinctively tried to avoid her touch, but he hesitated at the fragrant scent coming from her hand.
It was a scent that made him want to stick to it over and over again. If only he smelled that scent, all the tension in his head would disappear. He pondered whether to go a little closer or to stay still for a bit.
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