I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 69

Chapter 35.1

Hyle kept his mouth shut. It was because if he insisted more, he would not be able to get the answer he wanted anyway. For him, there was something more important than the reason why Dimitri was smiling all alone like that.

“Anyway, I’ll prepare as I just said. Are you okay with that?”

Dimitri nodded roughly as he overheard Rowaine walking quietly out of the room. He did not know what it was about, though he thought it would be boring.

“Okay. Is there more?”

“That’s all.”

“Then, get out.”

Abruptly kicking Hyle out, he then ran straight to the mirror and smoothed his hair because he had just heard Rowaine say to the maids loudly, “I’ll go to the Duke’s room because I have something to do.”

While Hyle tilted his head at his seemingly urgent action and opened the door, Dimitri gave the order while fixing his gaze on the mirror.

“Leave the door open.”

“…Yes? All right.”

It was a gesture of being busy all of a sudden even though he was lazily tying his tie for thirty minutes earlier. In the end, Hyle did not even know what to say and rushed out as though he was being kicked out.

After kicking him out, Dimitri could hear her exchange greetings with Hyle in the hallway.

Then, Rowaine passed him and walked straight into his room.

Dimitri, who quickly adjusted his clothes and fell from the mirror, picked up the papers Hyle had left behind with an unconcerned face. Though his eyes turned to the paper, his attention remained focused on the sound of footsteps in the hallway.

At the end of his vision, a box on the bed suddenly came into view.

‘Oh.’

He quickly ran before shoving the cardboard box and the cat cushion she had given him under the bed. He hugged and rolled around so much that the cushion had a lot of gray hair stuck to it.

“Dimitri.”

At that moment, Rowaine was at the door and called for him.

“Can, can I come in for a moment…?”

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I cautiously glanced in front of Dimitri’s door, fearing that he, who valued personal space, might not like it that I came to his room like this. For some reason, the door was wide open, and I could see him lying face down under the bed deep inside the room.

“Can, can I come in for a moment…?”

Was he surprised by the sudden conversation? Dimitri jumped up from under the bed and banged his head.

“Oh, are you okay?”

Surprised, I approached without realizing it. However, he grabbed the back of his head and stood up quickly before shoving something under the bed with his feet while holding me back from approaching with his hand.

“It’s okay. Don’t come in too much.”

At his words, I hurriedly returned to the open space.

“I’m sorry.”

…I should have waited until dinner instead of coming to his room.

‘I thought he was pretty open-minded when I saw the room next door, though I guess it was not to that extent yet…’

Wanting to be considerate of him, I didn’t approach him more than a certain distance and stood far away and opened my mouth.

“You must’ve been resting. The Viscount Hyle Bilph just left, so I came in knowing it would be okay, but if it gets in the way, I’ll come back next time.”

I never had a cat in the house, although I knew that house cats like dark, enclosed places like under beds. So, I spoke with the nuance of understanding. However, Dimitri frowned slightly, glanced at where he was just lying down, and then looked at me again.

“It’s not what you think.”

“….?”

He insisted a little.

“I sleep in the bed.”

‘…Is he shy?’

I smiled broadly, hoping he would feel relieved.

“It’s okay. I used to sleep under the bed, too. If I still have nightmares on thundering days, I will crawl under the bed. It’s pretty comfortable.”

“….”

Nonetheless, Dimitri, who still bit his lip once with a displeased face, raised his chin a little and changed the topic.

“Anyway, what’s going on?”

“I’ve something to ask.”

“You can say it.”

“I think I should go to my parents’ house, but I was wondering if you could go with me…”

A letter arrived to me this morning. It was written that I had to settle the problem of ownership of the diamond mine, which Rowaine had agreed to receive in exchange for becoming the Emperor’s mistress. Because of that, I had to go to the Count’s house.

‘Besides, Count Larscel was sick, and he did not reply to my request to come, so I was just going to go there like this…’

Did it not seem too condescending to say that the Emperor and the Count talked about mines and other matters before themselves? However, when they had to fix it, Rowaine, the party concerned, had to come and solve it herself.

‘It means that I have to go there no matter what.’

To put it another way, it meant that Count Larscel wouldn’t dare to come to Blois where Dimitri was. In addition, the Emperor could not even shamelessly send people here to tell me to come or go.

‘Even if I think about it, it’s not fair.’

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