I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 97

Chapter 49.1

I couldn’t believe a grown man could smile so purely and brightly. That smile made me let go of my concerns about whether it was okay to tell him my name.

Anyone who saw that smile would have felt the same. There were no hidden motives, no calculations—he had asked purely out of curiosity. His innocence was enough to dissolve all my caution and make me want to answer.

It was also the first time I’d told anyone my real name since possessing this body. Even though I was constantly called Rowaine, hearing my name spoken aloud after so long felt oddly strange.

I smiled and asked for his name.

Of course, I already knew it, but I asked out of courtesy.

“Can you tell me your name as well?”

At that, he widened his eyes. After that, a smile was painted all over his face, and he was overcome with emotion.

“Are you asking for my name? My name is Cadis. Cadis.”

“Cadis.”

“Eunsoo is the second person to ask for my name.”

I thought I knew who the first was. It would be the Princess, who was the female protagonist. As I asked back with excitement, I stopped myself because I might be in trouble if I suddenly asked him too much.

“Is that so?”

“Yes. Eunsoo is the first person to say that I can say whatever you want to say.”

“I see.”

“It’s the first time I got to eat delicious food like these days.”

“Yeah?”

“Yes.”

He kept smiling over and over again. He was so bright and funny that we laughed out loud together.

It was when we were walking, feeling a strange intimacy with each other more than before, that I suddenly felt something black creeping between the two of us. However, before I could feel it, Cadis shuddered as if he had already seen something and tried to back away when that thing flew towards me.

As it wrapped around me as if protecting me, something black raced towards me.

“Euk…!”

At the same time, I was pulled back by a hand wrapped around my waist.

“….!”

My body was buried in someone’s arms. The next moment, Dimitri’s sharp-tempered voice was heard.

“How dare you expose your smelly teeth in front of someone?”

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Dimitri had been standing in front of the window of the third-floor office for a long time, watching the whole scene. From the moment the Emperor’s hound sneaked closer to Rowaine, who was sitting on the terrace, he was ready to break the hound’s neck at any moment.

‘What’s that b*stard up to?’

In his opinion, dog shapeshifters were a very incomprehensible race, and they were beings who acted according to their feelings without being polite or cautious.

‘He even turned into a human and just smiled at Rowaine.’

Dimitri’s eyes narrowed.

Soon, Rowaine suddenly got up and started walking with the hound.

‘…What are they talking about?’

No matter how advanced his hearing was, he could not hear a whisper so far away. At that moment, Rowaine abruptly laughed with the hound.

‘….!’

Dimitri widened his eyes.

‘She’s laughing with the enemy! What kind of trick did he use to bewitch her?’

…Treacherous hound.

He didn’t know why he was getting so upset.

Dimitri’s emotions flared, and eventually, unable to contain himself, he leaped through the window. As his body hit the ground, a demon emerged from his shadow and caught him. Using the demon, he reached Rowaine in just a few swift jumps and sent the demon to separate her from the hound.

After all, wasn’t it the hound’s fault for getting too close to Rowaine?

‘Where…!’

As his eyes flashed, he grabbed Rowaine’s waist and pulled her closer.

“How dare you expose your smelly teeth in front of someone?”

“Dimitri…?”

“Rowaine, that man is perilous and ferocious. You never know when he’s going to rush in and kill you, so stay away from him.”

“Put, put me down.”

When Rowaine grunted and tried to get out of his arms, the hound became wary of Dimitri as if he would attack him if he bothered her. It was a scene that would look like a loyal dog standing up against the enemy to protect his master.

Dimitri burst out laughing and hugged Rowaine tighter and tighter to his body.

“It seems like you don’t know your place. Have you lost your intelligence to become a puppet, living as someone else’s puppet that you can’t understand the situation?”

“Dimitri! Don’t say that.”

At her insistence, he stared at her, trembling as if he had been beaten in the chest.

“Are you on his side now?”

“I wasn’t taking sides with anyone. I was just walking quietly. We were just walking and talking. There was nothing to make Dimitri angry.”

Her reaction wasn’t what he expected.

No, he was not expecting any reaction from her, but at least Dimitri never imagined she would be on the side of the hound. Because of that, he just gazed at Rowaine with her mouth shut, not knowing if it was disappointment or something else.

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