I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 78

Chapter 39.2

In the morning, the woman in the dress Rowaine was wearing was doing something there. She disappeared behind the building, and after a while, she reappeared with the knights of Blois.

‘They locked up the knight and sent them in a carriage in a sack believed to be her? Then, the real Rowaine appeared and released the knights…?’

The knights’ bodies showed no signs of a battle at all. No matter how difficult the fight with the hounds would be, the knights of Blois were not an easy opponent. Besides, the vice-captain also had his demon.

‘Hmm…’

Dimitri watched the situation with his arms crossed. Something interesting was going on.

The carriage carrying someone with a sack, unknown who was inside, was far away from sight. However, Count Larscel seemed to be looking for someone else even after sending the carriage off. A group of hounds remained undeparted and continued the search.

Woof! Woof, woof!

Then, as he heard a barking dog, the remaining hounds found a woman in Rowaine’s dress. At that moment, she and the Blois knights began running in the opposite direction of the carriage, riding the horse that had been prepared for her.

Dimitri chuckled.

‘I don’t think that’s Rowaine either.’

Although the distance was considerable, he had excellent body vision and recognized the woman’s identity without difficulty.

‘It must be a trick.’

Among the five knights he sent with her, one of the female knights was wearing Rowaine’s dress.

The next moment, Dimitri pursued the carriage and the Blois knights before turning his gaze back to the mansion where all the hounds had disappeared.

Finally, he saw the real Rowaine.

She was wearing a ponytail with her hair tied together. Dropping a pile of duvets from a window on the second floor onto the roof of a neighboring building, she jumped onto it. Then, she climbed into the stable wall and reappeared with a horse.

Rowaine joined the vice-captain, who had been left alone. Seeing each of them pulling the horses out, it seemed like she was going to ride the horse on her own.

‘She can ride a horse…?’

Dimitri tightened his grip on the reins, worried that she might stumble, but he soon smiled in disappointment. It was because Rowaine, who lowered her posture to the utmost with her hips raised on the saddle like a rider on a racetrack, rode the horse as swiftly as an arrow.

The speed was unbelievable, even with his own eyes.

‘How can she be so fast…?’

Dimitri clicked his tongue and hurriedly moved his horse. At this rate, it seemed that not only the hounds would lose her, but he would, too.

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‘I am lucky to have a horse that runs so well.’

I smiled, riding as if tearing through the curtain of air that came over me at every moment. The reason I sent the knights as bait first was because I believed in my riding skills.

‘No matter how well-trained knights are, they could not run as fast as horse riders.’

I was used to riding a horse, except for not being able to breathe perfectly because I was unfamiliar with the horse. I have ridden horses for almost ten years in my previous life and have often won prizes in amateur horse races.

‘I did not think I would use that experience like this.’

Nevertheless, there was some time to spare, and it seemed that some of the quick-witted hounds felt something strange and returned to the Count’s mansion. When I glanced behind me, I could see three hounds riding on horseback, catching up and chasing me after grasping the situation from afar.

‘…I could not completely get away with it.’

It was terrifying to see people flocking to each other with such a frightening force to pursue me.

‘It is okay. They are all tall, so they cannot ride faster than me.’

In order for a horse to exhibit its skills, the rider must be small and light. There were a lot of big men who looked two meters tall. Seeing that, I thought I could get rid of their horses quickly before I got tired.

‘Ugh… Even though they are large dogs, they are so small when they turn into humans?’

As the horses with the two giant shapeshifters quickly got tired and fell back, I could see a small man, who was invisible before, sprinting out behind them.

It was unexpected.

Watching them slowly speed up and narrow the distance, I swallowed dry saliva.

‘I cannot keep riding at full speed.’

I was getting tired quickly. To make matters worse, it had rained the day before, so there was a muddy road ahead. The muddier the ground, the more effort the horse took and the slower it ran. Moreover, the physical strength of this untrained body was quickly approaching its limit.

It was extremely difficult to be on a running horse while maintaining the equestrian posture. Even professional horse riders could hold on to a sprinting horse for only a few minutes. You would not know how much training they put in to endure it.

…Much less with an untrained body.

‘I have to get rid of them as soon as possible.’

Adjusting the pace, I drew in my head the terrain I had been familiar with by looking at the map in advance during the marriage when planning for Plan B.

‘Soon, there will be a fork in the road… Let’s end it there somehow.’

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