I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 53

Chapter 27.1

“Wh, what is that…?”

“It’s like a stone that comes out when you hit the devil, and it’s really delicious.”

…It sounds like an explanation of a game description.

“You say you hit the devil…?”

“Yes, though humans can’t catch it. Cats as strong as tigers seem to catch them.”

Saying so, Coco then bumped his fluffy front paws like cotton together before adding.

“Ah, the dream demon’s magic trick also makes their hearts hurl out. I’ve eaten it once.”

Rat shapeshifters and dream demons…

I have seen the contents of their existence mentioned in the original novel.

The status of the shapeshifter wasn’t high in human society here. However, among them, the rat shapeshifter received less treatment than all the other shapeshifters. This was because rat shapeshifters were enemies of humans, using dream demons, which were lower demons, and shared the energy of sleeping humans. Even if a little bit of energy were taken away from people with a healthy body, they would only have a little energy for a couple of days. But, in the case of children and the elderly, it could lead to death.

People here often suffer from headaches because of rat shapeshifters and dream demons.

However, for the cat shapeshifters, the low-level dream demons were nutritious food. Cats and shapeshifters have mystical eyes that can recognize demons, and it’s said that cats and shapeshifters could use that point to catch dream demons. So, even though it was the first time I had ever heard a story like a devil’s heart, I knew to some extent about rat shapeshifters and dream demons.

Coco opened his mouth confidently, waving his paw.

“Devils are strong, but I can catch a dream demon with just one shot.”

I was a little disappointed.

‘That is something I cannot make or do for him.’

Like a cat who was quick to recognize people’s emotions, Coco quickly noticed that I was disappointed and comforted me.

“They sell it at stores, too. Hunters use cat and shapeshifter slaves to hunt down devils and sell them.”

“Really?”

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Dimitri, in the form of a cat, was sitting right in front of Rowaine’s door, listening to them.

He did not really listen to anything in particular, though he just happened to hear it by accident while walking to the annex far away from the main building. After all, cats have good hearing, so it was by chance. Then, the conversation he heard from inside made him click his tongue.

‘That cat is wielding Rowaine very well.’

Because of Coco, who wanted to eat the devil’s heart, Rowaine immediately began to get ready to go out.

‘Such a bother.’

Coco, who was close to Rowaine only and liked her very much, annoyed him.

‘…Let’s follow first.’

It was to keep an eye on Coco. He doesn’t really want to follow Rowaine.

‘It would be better to follow in the cat’s form.’

If he turned into a human, they would notice him right away. Thinking that, Dimitri quickly ran to his room. He then found a small bag the size of his palm in his closet.

‘I might need clothes.’

Dimitri, in human form, shoved his shirt and pants into a bag before turning into a cat and carrying the little bag on his back.

He waited for Rowaine to get into the carriage and then slipped into the carriage’s luggage compartment.

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As the carriage headed near the trader’s store, Coco sniffed the air, and his eyes lit up.

“There’s a lot to eat there! I smell the hearts of many kinds of demons!”

Then, he put his chin on my lap, gazed up at me and begged me. Coco had now been in a human form.

“Will you buy me, angel?”

“Honorific.”

Coco, who had been shouting no, no earlier, swiftly changed his tone this time.

“Will you buy me, Madam?”

I then stroked Coco’s hair.

His long wheat-colored eyelashes were constantly drooping and purring. Although at my answer that followed, he pointed his lips out.

“No.”

“Why…!”

The carriage glared past the shapeshifter’s trader store.

Seeing Coco feeling sad, I took a deep breath.

‘I have a lot to teach him.’

Even though Coco was a clever cat shapeshifter, he often lacked basic common sense.

Perhaps it was because he was still young and hadn’t received the basic education that people received because he was held as a slave. Besides, in this world, shapeshifter slavery was so legalized. Naturally, the rights of shapeshifters were not protected at all.

As a result, exploitation of shapeshifters’ labor or abuse of shapeshifters was a daily occurrence. So, even though Rowaine took the shapeshifters and abused them, no one stopped her…

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