I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 59

Chapter 30.1

“Really, you have married the Duke of Blois? Did you know how surprised I was when I heard the news? Rowaine Larscel, who hates Shapeshifters, was to fiddle with His Majesty again this time. She’s such an incredible woman.”

At that moment, the child’s pupils rapidly enlarged and contracted. In the blink of an eye, Herman’s palm was deeply scratched by the child’s nails.

“Ugh!”

He frowned and pulled away his hand.

“Are you ferocious? Tsk.”

Saying so, he stood up and looked at the wound.

‘She is brave and ferocious, isn’t she? I didn’t even know…’

I called the child and hid her behind me. I then imagined Rowaine’s tone as I opened my mouth coldly to him.

“Don’t touch me. Next time, it might not end with just that wound.”

Perhaps the wound was painful, but Herman, who lifted his hand a few times in the air, smiled mischievously again.

“His Majesty is impatient, Rowaine.”

The next moment, he pulled out a letter from his arms and handed it to me.

“He let me go, asking me to deliver this to you. He tried to split my legs when he saw you kiss me, though His Majesty let me go again just to please you.”

Shaking his head, he continued to groan.

“I was quite fretful. It’s a great love.”

I opened the letter, listening to his sarcastic remarks through the back of my ear. The letter contained a few lines, perhaps in what appeared to be the Emperor’s handwriting.

「 I apologize for disappointing you with my affairs with the Empress. So, don’t do anything wrong and return to me, Rowaine. If you say you’ll come back, I’ll make sure that your marriage to the Duke of Blois will never happen right away. 」

Only then did I figure out what was going on.

“Did you bring the royal hounds and set them free to convey this?”

“I trembled when I heard that the Duke of Blois was a great cat, but His Majesty gave it to me. Isn’t it cool?”

He stretched out his hand and pointed around—it was a pure white space. Possibly, this place was inside the barrier spread by the dog shapeshifter. I remembered the barrier magic of the dog shapeshifter because it was also the specialty of the male protagonist in the novel.

‘I was surprised.’

I glared at Herman fiercely. For some reason, I had a reasonable doubt that it was a show he prepared to surprise me on purpose.

I returned the letter to him with a cold gesture.

“Tell His Majesty clearly that I have no intention of breaking up this marriage.”

Herman shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

“But you’ll come to our club again, won’t you?”

Herman and Rowaine belonged to a social gathering of young nobles who wanted to spread all kinds of gloomy desires freely.

Feeling bored with his life, Herman chased after stimulation every minute and every second. On the other hand, Rowaine, who felt thrilled by abusing shapeshifters she detested, committed all kinds of evil deeds. It was inevitable that the two met at a social gathering called ‘Libido.’

I shook my head with a look that said no way.

“I’m going to live a new life here, Herman.”

He chuckled.

“I don’t know what it is, but are you really angry with His Majesty?”

Slipping the Emperor’s letter back into his arms, he laughed and spat out a murmur that sounded like a grunt.

“Since I can’t bring you back with me, I’ll need to be very careful again. I’m afraid I might have to seek asylum in another country for the time being.

I did not respond at all. I just waited for him to disappear quickly.

Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed my chin.

“The kiss I got from you in front of His Majesty was the best kiss of my life.”

Then, he leaned over and whispered into my ear and continued his words, “You’d better take care of yourself, Rowaine. His Majesty won’t sit still.”

Gesturing by pointing with his chin, he added his last words.

“He was ready to take you away with him, even if he had to kill Duke Blois.”

As I followed his chin and looked back, I was startled.

All the sounds that had suddenly disappeared returned, and the sharp screams of the dogs pierced my ears. It seemed that there was a big crack in the barrier, and soon, the dome surrounding us was shattered into pieces like glass.

And there stood Dimitri, almost half-naked, with an angry look on his face.

Herman stuck out his tongue.

“To break the barriers of white magic-type dogs with the devil’s black magic. I’ve heard rumors about it, but it’s really surprising.”

However, it was not the time for him to speak so leisurely. It was because the black smoke from Dimitri immediately choked Herman’s throat.

“What have you done to my wife, Count Heres?”

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