I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 81

Chapter 41.1

“Dimitri…!”

I banged on the barrier with all my might. I had no idea what was going on outside.

“Open this!”

No matter how much I tried, nothing happened to the barrier. I quickly gave up because I had read in the novel that it was almost impossible for an ordinary person to break the barrier of dog shapeshifters. Dimitri, who broke that barrier like glass, was called a monster by the shapeshifters.

“I can only wait and not waste my strength…”

I did not know how long it was.

The pure white crystal seemed to absorb even the sound I made, completely cutting off the passage of time and my connection to the outside world. I became more and more dazed within the barrier as if I were submerged in water.

What made the dog shapeshifter’s barrier so terrifying wasn’t just that it was impenetrable. The longer you stayed inside, the more it absorbed your senses until, eventually, you’d lose touch with reality and become overwhelmed by instinctive anxiety.

In psychology, anxiety is considered the most disliked emotion. It tends to amplify negative feelings.

Inside the barrier, fear from the malfunctioning of my five senses met the anxiety of not knowing what was happening outside, swelling like a balloon. My sense of time became distorted, a dizzying mix of confusion and horror as I was consumed by the feeling that far too much time had passed.

‘…What will happen to me if no one breaks this barrier?’

It felt as though I was sinking deeper into the sea floor.

Everywhere I looked, everything was pure white, and I lost all sense of perspective in this space without contrast. At least I was relieved to be able to touch the wall. The vastness of the space made me fear losing any sense of perspective altogether.

“… It’s okay. It’s okay.”

I went around inside the barrier to soothe the anxious whining.

The fact that there were living and breathing creatures together in a pure white space where nothing could be seen gave me some relief. So, I hugged the horse’s neck and closed my eyes, standing there for a while. However, I hurriedly opened my eyes because I suddenly heard a noise outside, as if it had been unmuted.

When I glanced towards the sound, there was a small hole in the ceiling of the barrier.

“Rowaine, step away from the wall!”

It was Dimitri’s voice.

With the sound, the lost sensation that had disappeared returned at once. For a moment, I felt like I was going to burst into tears as a sense of relief came.

I calmly pulled the horse and settled in the center of the barrier.

Then, soon after, there was a sound ‘Sweeaeaak,’ and something was stuck in the barrier. The wind pierced a hole in the wall. It seemed that Dimitri struck hard against the wall leaving many holes, causing inconsistency connecting the holes.

Unable to withstand the shocks applied one after another, the barrier shattered with a cracking sound.

Crash—!

I reflexively covered my head and face and bent down. Fortunately, the shattered fragments scattered in the air and disappeared.

“Come back, Samael.”

Dimitri looked into the air and spoke.

Raising my head following his gaze, I made eye contact with a mass of black mist that was spinning rapidly in the air.

“….?

It was strange.

‘Eyes…?’

It was written that in this world, humans could not see the true nature of demons. That mist must have been a demon of Dimitri, but I could not see the devil’s eyes.

Still, I definitely felt that our eyes met.

‘…I must have been wrong.’

Without thinking too much, I hurriedly turned to Dimitri.

“Are you okay, Dimitri?”

Dimitri shrugged his shoulders with a pretentious face before busily cleaning up his messy hair and outfit. It looked like he was doing ‘grooming,’ which a cat does when the hunt is over. After confirming that he was fine, I stood with my mouth wide open and looked around at the several dogs lying around him.

“Did you kill them?”

As he closed his mouth and pondered over my question, he soon smiled softly and asked a question back instead.

“Do you want that? If so, I’ll kill them.”

Even though I didn’t know what he was trying to do, I stopped him from raising his hand threateningly.

“Oh, no!”

He shrugged his shoulders and lowered the hand he had raised as if he would stop if I didn’t like it. Concerned about his attitude, I looked closely at the dog shapeshifters, but what I saw startled me.

‘Huh? This dog shapeshifter…’

It was a dog shapeshifter with three white patterns that looked like cute pearls on the neck. It certainly looked like a string of pearls.

‘No way, the male protagonist…?’

It must have been Cadis, the male protagonist of this novel… The Emperor’s hunting dog with three white round patterns in the middle of its neck as if wearing a pearl necklace. Dimitri grumbled as I looked down at him, worrying that he might be dead.

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