I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 41
Chapter 21.1
“Stop nagging!”
[ T/N: The author used the word, ‘두말하면’ which is an expression meaning something said earlier is so certain that there’s no need to say it again. ]
The Duke still looked dissatisfied but nodded as if he understood. As he snapped his fingers, something like black smoke rose from beneath his feet.
‘Is that the devil that bound me last time…?’
As the day dawned, I wondered if I could see the devil better than the last time, but to my eyes, it was nothing more than just a whitish smoke.
The smoke hovered near Coco’s shackles, then sucked into the shackles. The shackles finely vibrated into small pieces—Tiing! It made a clear sound before falling into three pieces.
“Oh, this is cool! How long has it been since I’ve had freedom?”
Coco rejoiced as it smashed its hind feet, scratching it. Then, it jumped off the sofa, and Coco’s body began to grow in an instant as he landed.
In the blink of an eye, in the place where Coco was standing was a boy with a smiley face who resembled the image of Eros, the God of love in Greek and Roman mythology. He was a pretty boy with curly wheat-colored hair, light blue eyes, and a playful and cheerful expression.
I think he looked around to be about sixteen years old, young and white.
That wasn’t it… Body…body… naked body—
“Are you insane?”
At the same time as the rough words came out of the elegant Duke of Blois, his large hands covered my eyes.
I tried to soothe myself with a smile.
‘All I saw was cat peanuts. Let’s not think otherwise… Cat peanut, big cat peanut.’
It sounded like the Duke was yelling at Coco, though I couldn’t hear it well because I was too busy trying to erase the picture of the big cat peanut from my mind.
“Please close your eyes, Madam.”
“Of course.”
As I nodded obediently and sat quietly, I could feel something like the wind blowing from the Duke’s body.
‘Is it the devil from earlier?’
He ordered low.
“Shedim, grab it.”
The next moment, there was the noise of Coco running and screaming.
“Spare me! it’s been a while…! It’s been a while, so I didn’t know!”
Coco seemed to run away pretty well.
I shut my eyes and imagined the cat running around, playing catch. Of course, the Duke of Blois was by my side, so it was his demon that was running instead.
‘Cat runs fast…’
Eventually, the sound of Coco’s bare feet, who had probably run around the office three times naked, suddenly headed towards me. Then, I could feel the Duke stretching out his arms, trying to block him.
However, Coco avoided his hand and came closer to me.
“Thank you for your help, my angel.”
His fresh voice and warm breath seemed to land on the tip of my nose. His soft lips briefly touched my forehead before falling off quickly.
“See you later!”
When I opened my eyes, Coco, who had turned into a cat again, was jumping out the window.
“….!”
The Duke of Blois came up to me and rubbed my forehead with his hand as he murmured slowly. “How dare he put such an awful pheromone in my realm…”
I mustered up the courage to tell him, who was still muttering in anger.
“It hurts, Duke.”
“….!”
“And it’s my forehead, not yours.”
It was then that he seemed to have realized that it was my forehead that he was rubbing, and he stepped back in surprise.
“Excuse me, Madam.”
He coughed and sat down gracefully on the sofa.
“….”
“….”
There was an awkward atmosphere for a moment.
“The Coco problem has been resolved. It’s an ending that we can all be satisfied with, isn’t it?”
“If you want me to be part of that ‘us,’ wash away that remark right now.”
I laughed awkwardly at his blunt reply.
“All right…”
To be honest, I was a little sad that Coco left so suddenly, although I was also happy that this happened for the sake of the Duke.
‘He said he doesn’t like cats. He hates it that much…’
Of course, it wasn’t obvious that he didn’t hate it from the beginning, but he said he would allow me to keep Coco, so I thought it would be okay if we slowly improved their relationship.
‘I didn’t know Coco would be a jester like that.’
I wonder if that’s how the relationship improved. Regardless, it was already in the past. So, I decided to change the topic of conversation.
“Duke, there is one more thing I want to discuss while I’m here.”
Hearing my words, the Duke of Blois stood with his arms crossed and raised his head before answering.
“Tell me.”
“It’s about the personnel management of the employees I talked about last time.”
I brought up the topic that there were a lot of Mrs. Elbas’s people who still remained in the mansion right now.
And, looking at his reaction, it seemed that he knew it, too.
‘Did he not have enough money to deal with the personnel issues of the employees because he was in a hurry to protect his position from the elders…?’
Thankfully, he nodded eagerly when he said that I wanted to solve the problem.
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