I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 236

Chapter 118.2

Most people were forced to submit to his overwhelming power, but any chance to challenge it was eagerly taken.

Dimitri chuckled as he watched me fuming, then generously let go of one of my hands. Since I wasn’t particularly interested in Count Tara’s reaction, I quickly returned to the script and continued speaking.

“Of course, Blois couldn’t avoid the damage, so I found a way to solve this problem.”

“Hmm?”

“Is that true, Duchess?”

“Heheh.”

The nobles showed interest. Some were intrigued, while others were skeptical.

And most of them laughed at me.

Among them, there were quite a few who were seeing me for the first time, and they knew of Rowaine’s reputation and looked down on me—the concubine dedicated to the Emperor by her father—a shallow woman with cruel hobbies. Rowaine’s reputation would still remain as such outside of Blois.

I continued regardless.

“See for yourselves.”

As I gave the signal, the knights appeared, dragging a giant special cage. The nobles who saw this were shocked and stood up from their seats.

“What in the world…”

“Oh, no…!”

What they were looking at was a cage made by the collaboration of Avila and Esca—a demon prison. And inside, hundreds of bat-like monsters, whose appearance was sprinkled with lamb’s blood, were screaming.

I explained with a leisurely smile.

“We recruited dream demon hunters.”

“Dream demon hunting?”

“Is that possible?”

In response to their questions, I silently signaled again.

Then, the cat shapeshifters who had been waiting on the other side appeared, lined up confidently. The shapeshifters emerged gracefully, their sharp fangs glinting as they elegantly raised their heads and walked out…

…It was truly the cutest cat train ever, with the cats purring.

With a prideful voice, I addressed the nobles.

“These are the dream demon hunting experts I recruited!”

“Cats?”

“Wait, are they cat shapeshifters?”

“Cat shapeshifters hunting dream demons?”

Even after showing them the captured monsters, there was still an air of disbelief. It was the reaction I anticipated.

‘This is why I placed an order to capture the dream demons alive.’

As Avila opened the cage door wide as if she had been waiting, the nobles who saw her screamed in terror.

“What are you doing, Duchess?!”

“T-The dream demons are escaping!”

“Aaahhh!”

The trapped dream demons hastily spread their wings and poured out of the enclosure.

However, contrary to the expectations of the terrified nobles attempting to flee, not a single monster managed to fly away freely.

“Ha!”

“Where are you running!”

“Yah! Yaah!”

This was because their forms had been destroyed by the waiting cat shapeshifters, and they disappeared one after another.

Tuk!<

Tudtukk!

The red stone, known as the heart of the demon, fell to the ground like hail. The green grass of the garden turned red. If there were any red cherry blossom trees around, their petals would have fallen like rain, covering the area around the trees in a sea of red.

It was magnificent.

One of the nobles murmured in a dumbfounded voice.

“The cat shapeshifters hunting dream demons…”

Such a reaction clearly revealed how indifferent people in this world were towards cat shapeshifters.

Because it was from a story about a demon hunter I heard from Coco one day that gave me the idea to assemble a professional mercenary group to deal with dream demons.

Hunters used cat shapeshifter slaves to steal the hearts of dream demons and sell them to shapeshifter enthusiasts for profit. The fact that they existed, and there were those who traded with them, meant that there were quite a few people who knew about the relationship between cat shapeshifters, rat shapeshifters, and dream demons.

Yet, despite this, rumors spread in some circles that cat shapeshifters and dream demons were in a cooperative relationship, leading to the absurd attempt to resolve the dream demons crisis by oppressing cat shapeshifters.

‘If only they had bothered to learn a bit about cat shapeshifters, they wouldn’t have blindly believed those foolish rumors and chased them away.’

I introduced my cat mercenaries, who gave a great performance and sang with joy.

“Well, I hope you enjoyed the watching. That was 〈 The Cool Cat Mercenaries. 〉”

“Kuh!”

Dimitri, upon hearing the mercenary group’s name, chuckled beside me as if he had heard something funny. I ignored him and glanced around at the nobles, who were wearing confused expressions.

“If anyone happens to be interested, feel free to entrust your request to my mercenary group at any time. We’ll gladly root out the dream demons from your territories.”

“Mercenaries…?”

As Baron Placen had feared, the nobles’s reactions were incredulous disbelief at my founding a mercenary group and promoting it like this. However, those astute individuals quickly finished calculating that I could solve the problems they were struggling with and adopted a polite demeanor.

I added firmly to them.

“If you ever need to call upon my mercenary group, be sure to call them by their full name. If I catch you calling them by a shortened name, I won’t be pleased.”

I finished my words meaningfully.

“By the way, whether or not I accept your requests will depend on my mood.”

Count Tara looked distressed.