I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 56

Chapter 28.2

But, while Coco was hesitating, the rat shapeshifter put something invisible to its head and ran away. Perhaps the thing on his head seemed to be a dream demon that was invisible to the human eye.

“Oh, I could’ve caught it! That’s too bad.”

Coco glanced back at me with an awkward face.

‘Since he did not even get to catch it, it is kind of sad to say that he missed it…’

Nonetheless, contrary to my heart, I encouraged Coco.

“I know. I’m sorry about that, Coco! It was a close call, though. Next time, you’ll be able to catch—”

It was then.

“Squeaak!”

From the direction in which the rat shapeshifter escaped, a loud cry was heard. The next moment, a rustling chuckle could be heard behind the rubbish piled high on the side of the road.

“Who is it?”

Coco asked, staring into the darkness.

As I got a little closer and looked as well, I could see someone standing tall with a piece of rag over their body. The silhouette was clearly a child, even though the surroundings were dark since the sun was setting. I wondered if they would be around twelve years old…?

The child was standing on one of the rat shapeshifters’ feet. Meanwhile, I could see the rat shapeshifter struggling under their feet.

The child glanced at me alertly, and I stood silently from afar.

Seeing that, the child then extended their hand to the rat shapeshifter. As if begging the child to live, the rat shapeshifter rubbed his hand and handed them something invisible to my eyes. Then, the child released the rat shapeshifter and bit the thing in their hand.

Of course, it was a movement that looked like a mime to my eyes.

Suddenly, a dark red stone that shone slightly fell from the air. The child who picked up the stone, perhaps the devil’s heart, turned back to me again.

‘Are they being wary of me stealing it?’

Thinking that, I stepped back a little for the child. Despite that, the child kept staring at me while sometimes holding their nose up and sniffing the air.

Then—

‘…Huh?’

Thud, thud, thud.

The child abruptly ran towards me, leaving about three steps between us, and snooped around me.

“Who are you!”

Coco growled threateningly at the child.

‘He must be scared.’

If a cat growls when it sees a stranger, it means that although it was growling inside, it was actually scared. It was a pretentious bluff so that a strong-looking opponent could not tell that it was actually afraid.

Cats are all about bluffing.

‘Coco… He acts much younger than when he is a human—’

What should I do with this incompetent cat?

I glanced at the child who was hovering around me with a brave face as if Coco was not a threat at all. The child looked dirty and thin. However, when I saw the blue cat eyes that glowed in the dark, I knew that the child was a cat Shapeshifter.

‘Is he maybe… a stray cat?’

Coco shouted as he hid behind me.

“Go away!”

The child held up their nose in the air without paying any attention and kept sniffing. Little by little, they came closer to me. Then, I saw the child’s face clearly in my eyes. A strikingly dark face, cream-colored hair like a magpie nest…

The next moment, the child unexpectedly pointed at me.

“Good smell! Is it you? Is it your smell?”

“Do you mean… me?”

What does it smell like? In the first place, I did not even wear perfume, so why is everyone saying I smell like that…? At this point, it occurred to me that Dimitri might not have been talking about smells just to quarrel with me.

‘I will have to ask him in detail later.’

The child came up to me and sniffed their nose frantically, almost like falling into a trance.

“Tssk, it smells good. The smell of grass.”
[ T/N: The ‘tsk’ that she’s saying isn’t actually a word but more like a sound or lisps! It will be mentioned a lot throughout the novel ]

After saying that, the child bravely approached me before placing my hand on their hand and sniffing it.

“Ah, tsk. It smells good.”

Even though Coco threatened him in a low voice, ‘mrruhhh!’ the child just glanced at him and stamped their foot once.

“What? Get lost.”

Startled, Coco closed his eyes tightly and fell down. The posture with the cat exposed on its belly and raising its four paws wasn’t a surrender posture, but a pose that if you attacked it, it would use all four feet to attack you back.

‘You can’t close your eyes while fighting, Coco…’

Although he looked pathetic, he was also cute.

At that time, the child abruptly held out the devil’s heart to me.

“Do you need this? I’ll give you this, so be my servant!”

“…What?”

“Not him, but my servant, tssk. I’ll take good care of you.”

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