I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 31
Chapter 16.1
Rowaine, who was overjoyed, called Dimitri’ Blue’ several times for joy before her eyes suddenly began to blush again.
“I miss my cats since I’m looking at you like this. One day, when I have my own house, I want to take all my cats and give them a treat.”
“….”
“I wanted to heal all the sick and give them delicious food every day so that they can live comfortably in a warm place.”
As she took a deep breath, a drop from her tears fell onto the floor.
“However, because I am incompetent… I can’t afford to bring them home and take care of them…”
A drop or two of a watery sigh fell.
“They were more like family than my family.”
Dimitri watched her cry silently.
‘Cats were like family…?’
It was a way of thinking that he couldn’t understand. Sometimes, he had seen people treat dogs like family. Nevertheless, it was rare, and in this world, shapeshifters were only shapeshifters and were not treated equally with humans.
Moreover, for Shapeshifters, weren’t they regarded much less than shapeshifters and treated like slaves?
Still, it was strange to see her thinking of her cats and to see her say that they were like her family.
‘…As expected, she’s a strange woman.’
At that moment, Rowaine suddenly burst into laughter.
“Thank you for comforting me, Blue. You’re so smart.”
“….!”
It was then that Dimitri noticed that his tail was rustling as if it were brushing her back, and he stood up in shock.
‘I didn’t mean to comfort her. She’s misunderstanding me again.’
He walked away shyly.
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The next morning, after returning from Madame Elbas’ mansion, I decided to visit the Duke after much deliberation.
‘Can I propose that we fire some of the employees?’
Even if I became the Duchess, I still was in a pretentious position, so I didn’t want to go out of my way with Blois’s internal affairs. Nonetheless, seeing Madame Elbas’ behavior yesterday made it necessary to reduce her influence in this mansion.
I heard that Sophia, the maid, educated and led the maids here and there between this mansion and Madam Elbas’ mansion.
Because of that, even a maid like Tilda was still standing in the shadow of Madam Elbas and ignoring me.
If it goes according to the plan, I will be spending about three years here. It was impossible to live with the eyes of such employees for a long period of time like that. It would not just be a fight with employees.
It will be a long battle with Madam. Elbas.
‘I don’t want to waste my energy on unnecessary things.’
Clearly, just by firing a few high-ranking people, the discipline could be re-established.
‘Let me ask him first, anyway.’
I wrapped my head with a note that I was holding in front of me before going to the Duke. My offer would be accepted if I had prepared well enough for him to be plausible.
‘First… if we’re going to get rid of someone, we should fire Sophia first.’
Among the maids working at Blois, we can hire new maids with a lot of experience.
‘Still, the fact that she has a lot of experience here doesn’t mean she could be a close associate of Madam Elbas, like Sophia.’
No matter how Madame Elbas took all of the maids to the place where she lived now… I would never know if there were eyes and ears left behind here.
“It’s difficult…”
Wouldn’t I have made a personal decision before I knew what to do?
I covered the note with Sophia’s name on it.
“Let’s hang out a little longer and observe people.”
If there had been no alternative, I would have been unable to carry out any opinions if I had only hastily visited the Duke and begged him. There was nothing I could do anyway, so I decided to collect information by observing the employees.
Until then, I decided to leave only Agwen by my side.
Fortunately, Agwen did not feel burdened to serve me alone but willingly accepted it.
“The Madam is so considerate of her servants, so it’s not difficult even though I’m alone at all.”
As I was used to doing anything on my own without being picky, it seemed that it felt like consideration for her.
I talked a little more with Agwen.
She was a woman with cute dimples that appeared when she smiled, which fit her age.
After talking to her for a while, I really like her.
Contrary to her docile-looking appearance, she was cautious and respectful in her determined attitude, which sometimes appeared. Still, she also seemed to have a pretty daring corner, seeing that she sent Tilda to the most arduous workshop in the mansion.
Just as I searched for him, he must have searched for me as well.
It was when I got to know each other with Agwen that the butler sent by the Duke came and held out a pocket with bills and cash.
“Your Excellency has asked me to pay forty million pennies every month to the Madam.”
At that, I counted the value of money in my head and tried to calculate how much it was.
‘If you multiply Korean currency by two, it seems to be similar to the value of the currency here.’
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