I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 54
Chapter 27.2
‘Still, some people with the right idea seem to know that it wasn’t desirable.’
As proof of that, there were many people who cruelly cursed and slandered Rowaine, who publicly abused shapeshifters, so her notoriety spread far and wide.
I explained to Coco in a way that was as easy to understand as possible.
“That’s where the hunters exploit your friends and sell them, Coco.”
“I don’t have friends.”
“Your kind. Maybe it could be you and not the other cat shapeshifters.”
“Hmm.”
“If I pay money to buy things at a place like that, people who have experienced it will be making money. Then, they’ll take more cats, hunt them and exploit them. How would you feel if you lost all your prey? And you don’t want to hunt, but what if you force the hunt to continue?”
“I don’t like it…”
Coco, a clever cat shapeshifter, quickly understood what I was trying to say.
He did not tell me that the hunters exploit the feline shapeshifters. However, I could easily guess that they would forcibly exploit the cat shapeshifters.
‘Cats are not suitable for work.’
If you were a dog shapeshifter, you would be able to cooperate with humans to hunt and actively help with things that are beneficial to humans. So, in fact, it was written in the novel that among the shapeshifter slaves, the dog shapeshifters were the most popular. You could teach martial arts and raise them as guards, or you could carry them around as guards.
Of course, there were people who just took them as pretty pets.
I have also heard that poor aristocratic families who didn’t have enough money to manage their employees buy one or two dogs and use them instead of their employees. On the other hand, in terms of the ‘labor force,’ the cat shapeshifter was highly evaluated as beings with no investment return.
After a while, two of my newly selected exclusive maids saw Coco and even said without malice, “If the Madam wants to get work done, you’d be better off with a dog, but your taste is different.”
It was because most cats were mostly regarded as ornamental—to enjoy the cute looks.
Because of my personality…
“Angel, where are we then?”
“Respect, Coco.”
“Hmph.”
He didn’t listen to me very much. Far from being loyal like a dog shapeshifter, he was showing a bit of rebellion and pride.
“You ignorant cat!”
“I’m listening!”
“That’s even worse, Coco.”
“Even if it’s bad, I’m cute.”
I sighed.
‘I can’t refute…’
How would they train these guys to make enough money to make a living?
‘I asked the butler, and he said that the devil’s heart was traded for that much without turning the price of snacks for cat shapeshifters like a factory. It is impossible to make a living with cat shapeshifters.’
Of course, there were cats like Dimitri who suppressed their instincts and worked hard. However, in Dimitri’s case, the story was different because he voluntarily pursued his own goals. Besides, he was a well-educated man in the first place.
‘It was written in the novel that Madam Elbas hated Dimitri’s cat behavior so much that Dimitri’s mother trained him to behave like a normal person as much as possible.’
So that was why he seemed like a normal person when he was with other people.
‘…Still, he still looks like a cat in my eyes…’
I am a big fan of cats. Huhu—The more you know, the more you see.
Anyway, given the nature of the cat shapeshifters, it was expected that the hunters would use a coercive method against the cat shapeshifter slaves. Still, after hearing the story of the devil’s heart, I came out to train Coco to hunt.
“Today, we’re going to catch a lot of demons, Coco.”
I wanted to bring some snacks back.
Coco, noticing my intentions, opened his eyes wide and then tilted his head 45 degrees.
“Are you going to exploit the small and weak like the hunters, Madam?”
“….”
Coco’s head tilted further.
“Are you going to exploit Coco and give the brother the devil’s heart?”
…What should I do with him, really?
Reluctantly, I had no choice but to beg Coco.
“You can hunt only three… No, can’t we just give two of them to this angel?”
If I gave it to Dimitri as if it was a gift from Coco, I wondered if he would like Coco a bit…?
Meanwhile, without knowing how I felt, Coco smiled with a triumphant expression on his face.
“Do you think hunting is that easy, Duchess?”
…In the end, I promised to make a cat scratch his chin for fifteen minutes for three days in exchange for receiving two devil’s hearts.
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