I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 36

Chapter 18.2

“How can a cat be so friendly?”

“I know, right? Even after I wash it, it’s still so calm!”

“Our Coco is an angel cat, right? Oh, how are you holding up?”

It looked like she was washing the cat.

‘Are you holding up? Angel? Our Coco…?’

Deepening his frowns, Dimitri snorted as though he was dumbfounded.

‘That cat is having a lot of fun.’

Feeling the limits of his patience, he knocked on the door of Rowaine’s room.

“Who is it?”

“It’s me, Madam.”

Dimitri’s voice quieted the inside for a moment.

Subsequently, a flustered voice murmured, followed by a bustling presence.

“Please hold on a second!”

The door opened, revealing Rowaine with her sleeves rolled up.

“Is there something going on?”

“The wife must be pretty busy tonight.”

“Well, what do you mean by busy…”

Sensing something unusual, Rowaine blocked the door and did not show Dimitri the inside. However, he made full use of his stature to glance around the room over her head.

Then, Dimitri narrowed his eyes and looked down at Rowaine.

“Madam.”

Rowaine, who was always confident, could not make eye contact with him today and rolled her eyes back and forth.

“Yes…”

“I have a very developed sense of smell.”

“….”

Saying so, he took a deep breath at Rowaine’s neck. At that, she flinched at the breath tickling her neck and took a step back.

“The wife’s body smells terrible.”

Dimitri’s stomach churned.

‘Who dares to put a lot of pheromone on her body?’

His grip on the door frame was strengthened.

Because of that, she closed her eyes tightly and confessed, “That… I’ll explain everything, Duke.”

“Yes, you’d better do that.”

Dimitri reached out and pushed the door Rowaine had been blocking with his hand above her head and slammed into the line.

With his ferocious momentum, she had no choice but to step back.

On one side of Rowaine’s room was a wooden barrel full of water. There was a lot of wheat-colored cat hair left there.

Seeing that, he turned his head and looked in the opposite direction.

Agwen was trembling while holding a cat wrapped in a towel.

“I went out today and found Coco being attacked by other cats. Oh, Coco is that cat’s name.”

Rowaine quickly explained.

“But, Coco’s condition didn’t seem so good since he had been abused by someone, so I looked at it for a while, and since then, he has been following me…”

She then gazed up at Dimitri pitifully.

Perhaps because his mood didn’t seem to get better, her words got longer and longer.

“There is a gray cat living here in the garden, so I thought it would be all right to bring another one. It’s spacious here, and I’ll be able to provide enough food for him. Of course, I was planning on getting permission from the Duke before that.”

Rowaine rolled her eyes and struggled to vomit excuses.

“Do you… do you hate cats? They’re just ordinary, cute cats.”

“For me, a cat…”

He was going to say that he hates cats very much.

‘A normal and cute cat? A cat is just a cat.’

Cats hate unfamiliar cats.

That’s their nature.

Especially a cat that hides a secret like the wheat-colored cat with that innocent face.

Dimitri’s patience, as he was staring at the cat, thinned out. However, he was speechless at the sight of Rowaine, who looked at me eagerly with her hands clasped. It was because he was reminded of the story she had told as she was crying last night.

“I wanted to take all of my cats and give them a good treat when I have my own home.”

“I wanted to heal all the sick and give them delicious food every day so that they can live comfortably in a warm place.”

“….”

Dimitri bit his lip.

‘Still, it’s not okay.’

The cat’s pheromone was poking at the tip of his nose.

‘…No way.’

Making up his mind, he parted his lips slowly. However, the words that came out of his mouth were completely different from his thoughts.

“I don’t hate cats that much.”

‘…D*mn it.’

The confident woman looked at him so pitifully that he couldn’t bring up the words that no other cat was allowed.

He wouldn’t have been swayed by her if he hadn’t heard the story she said whilst crying.

“Ha…”

Dimitri irritably wiped his face dry. Meanwhile, Rowaine confirmed it again as if she was surprised.

“Really? Is it really okay?”

“Yes…”

“That’s a relief!”

‘I can’t believe she’s so happy without knowing how I really feel.’

Dimitri struggled to suppress his boiling heart. At that moment, the cat that didn’t have any clue about what was going on could no longer stand the water dripping from its fur and shaking its body.

…And a few drops of water even splashed on him.

Dimitri, who was already annoyed to the top of his head, unwittingly revealed his teeth.

“Oh my!”

…He wanted to take back what he had just said.

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