I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 241

Chapter 121.1

In the early morning, before dawn broke, Dimitri, with his keen ears, woke up to the sound of a noise in the next room.

Rowaine was moving silently. Without even calling for a servant, she quietly moved around alone in her room before stepping out.

Hearing that, Dimitri, who had the habit of sleeping like a cat, moved silently without making a sound and swiftly jumped onto the table in front of the window. As he waited, peering out from behind the curtain with only one eye peeking out, sure enough, Rowaine got on the horse at this time again today.

He watched her back for a long time until the heavy sound of hooves from outside the window ceased.

“Ha…”

He touched his forehead with his round front paw.

“How long is she going to avoid this?”

Since the night they had shared champagne together, she had been avoiding him and had been going to the shelter to work early in the morning, then returning secretly in the afternoon to fall asleep early. Still, she was able to efficiently handle her duties as a duchess, meeting with several nobles seeking mercenaries after the luncheon party and even taking on requests.

“How can she only avoid me like this?”

Dimitri let out a small sigh and went to the dressing room to grab his bag, slinging it over his shoulder. Then, in a very familiar manner, he swiftly jumped up at the door, grabbed the handle, and dashed down the hallway.

‘I’m sure she’s traveling to another region by magic circle, but I can’t send her that far alone.’

The best time for cats to hunt was at dawn, when people had yet to wake up, and only rats roamed the streets.

Rowaine was going out this time under the excuse of wanting to check the cool cat mercenaries completing a request personally. Even though she said she would take Avila, a wizard, and a few soldiers from the shelter to accompany her, Dimitri couldn’t trust any of them.

‘D*mn wolf. He’s no help at times like this.’

While it would have been nice if Esca came along, that monk-like wolf stubbornly refused to use the teleportation magic circle made by humans.

‘Hmph, I don’t like any of this at all.’

Grumbling to himself, Dimitri moved his feet again.

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“Hihi! I caught one…!”

Lourdes, a member of the cool cat mercenary group that was chasing the runaway rat shapeshifter, jumped in surprise upon seeing a gray cat that appeared out of nowhere.

“Hiik, you scared me!”

The gray cat glanced at Lourdes as if mocking him before effortlessly intercepting the dream demon carrying the rat shapeshifter.

“You, you can’t…!”

“Well, do you have a problem with me?”

As Dimitri furrowed his brow, Lourdes took a step back as he was taken aback. Even though he considered himself a strong and cool alpha cat, his tail involuntarily curled in the face of Dimitri’s presence.

‘This is the gray cat they’ve been talking about who always shows up and gets in the way!’

He had heard stories from fellow mercenaries about the mysterious gray cat—a mysterious cat shapeshifter who appeared out of nowhere and disturbed people. In addition, the owner of the pheromone scent emanated from the leader, Rowaine.

‘I guess he’s the leader’s cat? Still, why is he following us around and disturbing us like this?’

As Lourdes frowned and stepped back, Dimitri stared at him with disdain while chewing on the demon’s heart he had taken from the dream demon.

“Get lost.”

When he raised his front paw and pretended to hit after his words, Lourdes was startled and quickly took a step back before he scurried away.

Looking at Lourdes like that, Dimitri let out a snort.

‘What bad luck.’

He had seen Lourdes acting cute with Rowaine earlier, so this was revenge for him.

The next moment, Dimitri sat gracefully on the roof of a building with his tail swishing slowly, looking down at Rowaine. She was watching the cats hunting with Avila, while sometimes, she intervened to stop them from arguing among themselves. The mercenary members, at some point, had become quite friendly towards Rowaine, and they would be busy being cute in front of her.

‘Maybe it’s because of the scent of grass that comes from her.’

As she quickly became popular among the cats at the shelter, more and more wanted to join her mercenary group. Now, they could split into two teams and handle two requests a day.

Dimitri scoffed softly as he watched Rowaine surrounded by the cats.

“Hnh. Tsk.”

Grumpy, he disrupted another cat humanoid like a bully and chewed on the stolen demon’s heart.

Since the demon’s heart determined the allocation of the reward, the cat shapeshifters who had it stolen from him ran away in frustration.

“Hmph. Weaklings.”

Dimitri raised his head haughtily.