I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 24

Chapter 12.2

Dimitri leaned into her hand as if possessed. Though he thought he had to come to his senses, he couldn’t refuse. It was like he was drunk, and Dimitri felt so good that he suddenly wished that he could forget all the complicated things and just stay like this.

However, at that moment.

‘You’re making such an ugly appearance. What an unseemly sight, Dimitri!’

The ominous and unpleasant voice of the former duchess broke the peace. The dream, as usual, turned into a familiar nightmare and swallowed him up.

The ridicule from the former Duchess…

“Hahaha, you turned into a cat!”

“Ha, how ugly!”

“Look at that tail! How can you pretend to be a human like that! Haha!”

What followed was the voice of the brothers from the previous duchess in his childhood.

At that time, Dimitri had become a kitten and was locked in a cage. His brothers kept mocking him, who turned into a cat, as they were watching him behind a cage.

Even though they were already dead, the shame he had suffered as a child came back again, and Dimitri covered his ears and shrugged his body.

‘It’s this dream again. This is just a nightmare. You have to wake up.’

Dimitri struggled with the nightmare he had been accustomed to dreaming of several times.

Then, Rowaine’s scream was heard.

‘Save me, Duke!’

The shadow of the former duchess was strangling Rowaine’s neck. The hand wasn’t really meant to hurt Rowaine…

It was just a gesture to break Dimitri’s hopes.

She was a glimmer of hope that appeared to him, who was struggling in the agony of the curse. He might be able to finally be freed from this pain that he has endured.

The former duchess, as always, was trying to push him into despair.

Stop it. Leave her alone.

Leave me alone…!

Rowaine was the only clue to breaking the curse. He couldn’t lose her in vain at the hands of the former duchess.

She always took away his precious things… He couldn’t let her take away his hope again.

Nevertheless, his body didn’t listen as if it were being weighed down by something. Dimitri struggled desperately.

Stop…

“Don’t touch me!”

Dimitri woke up with that cry.

The sun was already high. It looked like he had overslept.

He put on a robe over his sweaty body and immediately called the butler.

“Where is the Duchess now?”

Naturally, he expected that the butler’s mouth would say that Rowaine was in the annex.

However…

“Madam Elbas called her in the morning and crossed over there.”

Madam Elbas was the name of the former duchess.

Dimitri’s face hardened.

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Early in the morning, when I received an invitation to a luncheon from Madam Elbas, the former Duchess of Blois, I was a little worried.

‘She’s the main culprit in making the Duke of Blois the villain in the novel.’

Madam Elbas hated Dimitri, who was the former Duke of Blois’ child with a concubine. She poisoned Dimitri’s biological mother when he was young and has since abused Dimitri, and in addition, even throwing him away by the age of ten. It was around that time that he was subjected to the magical poison. Even though he was suspicious of her, he was unable to investigate her because he had no physical evidence. In any case, Dimitri, who somehow survived and returned to the family, went to the battlefield at the age of sixteen to avoid the Madam.

‘But at one battlefield, he met the two twin sons of Madam Elbas, who he fought together with but were both killed. Only Dimitri survived…’

Madame Elbas poured her sorrow and her resentment at the loss of her child into Dimitri in anger. She believed that Dimitri had killed them with evil intentions.

‘Is she planning a scheme with the elders to overthrow Dimitri, who has since become Duke?’

I gathered up her memory and put together a track record of Madam Elbas.

‘I don’t think she’ll be very friendly to me.’

If you know thy enemy and know thyself, you will win a hundred battles.

And so, I made up my mind and decided to meet her once. I thought it would be better to do this early. Besides, since there would be many occasions in the future that I would run into her, it would be better to find out if she was an opponent I could handle.

Anyway, all I’d done in Blois these days was look for the gray cat, so I was trying to see if there was something else I could do.

“Are you going to wear that to go see the madam?”

One of the two maids the butler had put on me before stared at my outfit, looking at me up and down.

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