I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

"Well……"

Because the scene of being caught was too similar to the time when I met my "mother", did I have a nightmare because of the scene?

It was still dark, and because she was just a child, she didn't suffer too much trouble. However, she was still imprisoned at the bottom of the mansion because she emitted a "miasma" that attracted monsters.

She didn't show much resistance. Elsa was already dead, and she hadn't completed her mission yet. She might have to endure abuse from her "mother" when she returned. However, she was just a tool. No matter how much she was interrogated, she wouldn't be able to provide these people with any useful information.

But what will she suffer here?

In the darkness in the corner of her room, a pair of eyes opened. They naturally belonged to Yimi who didn't want to sleep in the middle of the night.

I will kill them all, kill them all!

In kitten form, she moved towards Mary with graceful cat steps, not allowing another Diego to appear in front of her.

As if she had noticed Yimi, Meili suddenly turned her head towards Yimi.

"Come here, suck it."

She reached out to Yimi.

"..."

Yimi remained in the posture of taking a step forward, motionless.

"Isn't it a monster?"

It seems like just an ordinary cat.

Meili grabbed the cat from the ground and pouted in dissatisfaction: "It's obviously a cat, but you're so strong. Are you really not a monster? From now on, you will be called 'Fat Pig'."

She was no longer as timid as she was during the day. Like the Gut Hunter Elsa, she deliberately maintained a frivolous tone with a long ending. This was her original appearance.

She looked at the door of the room, but did not see it opened. It seemed that the kitten had come in from the gap where food was delivered. With its size, it could only be a domestic pet.

After hugging her, he lay back down on the relatively comfortable bed and rested his chin on Yi's head to ease the feeling of being caught in an unfamiliar environment again.

"Thank you for coming to stay with me."

She said this in a weak voice, gently stroked the fur on Yimi's back twice, curled up and tried to fall asleep again, "Let me hold you for a while, please..."

She was not killed on the spot for doing bad things, but she didn't know how she would be treated after dawn. The dream just now undoubtedly made her panic about her current situation, and the panic she felt now was her true appearance.

"Meow?"

She had said before that she wanted to kill the kittens, but now she suddenly acts like a cat lover, which the cats really don’t understand. Could it be that Betty was just talking nonsense about killing the cats?

-

"it hurts!"

Natsuki Subaru, who had elevated himself to the position of butler from the beginning, was now having trouble peeling potatoes. The other world did not have the safety fruit knife he had here, and he cut his hands several times just by peeling potatoes.

"Barus, you're useless."

Ram helped him stop the bleeding with an expressionless face. "It would be better to leave this kind of injury to Lady Emilia to treat it, right?"

"Ram, I don't understand. I really enjoy this symbol of hard work."

Natsuki Subaru said this while looking at his hands, but when he looked up, he found that Ram was looking at him with narrowed eyes and a look of contempt.

"I seem to have been misunderstood about something serious?"

"No misunderstanding."

Ram put the potatoes peeled by Natsuki Subaru into the bowl and handed another potato to Natsuki Subaru.

"I've completely mastered the skill of peeling potatoes. Is it time to learn more advanced techniques next?"

Natsuki Subaru has not forgotten that his purpose as a butler is to uncover Roswaal's secrets.

"Wanting to learn to run before even being able to walk is surprisingly in line with the way insects think."

Ram put down the potato in her hand and handed another potato to Natsuki Subaru. "Then let's start learning the advanced technique of peeling the first and third potatoes directly, bypassing the second one."

"What's the difference? After all, as a maid, Ram-chan only knows how to peel potatoes!"

After hearing what Natsuki Subaru said, Ram lowered her head and fell into deep thought.

"At least refute me a few words——"

"Ok?"

Rem next to her made a subtle nasal sound.

"What's wrong, Rem? Did Barus pollute the fresh air?"

Ram walked over to his sister with concern.

“It’s just that the expected ingredients are not enough.”

Rem shook her head slightly.

Ram nodded. "Well, although Lord Roswaal is away, the family has two and a half new people. It's true that Ram didn't consider this issue in time."

Natsuki Subaru raised his eyebrows: "'Two and a half people' is too much. Although Xiao Yimi is still a demi-human in age, such a discriminatory adjective as 'half a person' should not be uttered by a beautiful girl!"

Rem and Ram looked at him silently for a long time.

Nodding: "I made a mistake."

"It was Onee-sama who made the mistake."

Rem nodded.

"Wait, does that 'half a person' actually refer to me?"

Natsuki Subaru reacted.

"Your illusion."

Rem picked up the basket and prepared to go buy some food.

"Let me help too. Even though I'm doing physical labor, I'm still pretty good at it!"

Natsuki Subaru quickly followed, wanting to build a good relationship with them first.

If it weren't for Diego, who had killed him once, hanging over his head, it would actually be nice if this kind of life could continue.

Unfortunately, Yimi didn't know where he ran off to last night, so he didn't dare to go into Diego's room.

Not noticing Rem's disgusted look at his scent, Natsuki Subaru tried to strike up a conversation with her, but all he got was a perfunctory response.

"The mud monster from before!"

Before entering the village, I saw Petra running towards me because she was worried about Meli.

She nervously ran over and grabbed Subaru's clothes, "A blonde girl took Meili away yesterday. She said she lives in the same place as you. Did you see them?"

"Don't worry, she's safe, but the little girl at home isn't very welcoming to her."

Subaru reached out and rubbed Petra's head.

Immediately afterwards, a flock of birds was startled from the distant woods on the left side of the road.

"what happened?"

Natsuki Subaru looked at that place in confusion.

Although he didn't know what had happened, based on the movies and TV shows he had seen that often used flocks of birds to represent the oppression of wild beasts, he knew there must be something extraordinary going on there.

"Petra, Rem, run to the village!"

"Ah~ Hey, young man, you should have tricked them into coming here, so you can't cooperate with boring outsiders like you."

Speaking in a strange tone, a young man wearing tattered clothes, with very rough skin and dirty hair hanging down to his knees walked out of the grass and looked at Natsuki Subaru with amusement.

"Eat, chew, gnaw, gnaw, chew, gnaw, glutton."

"you are?"

Rem protected Petra behind her, looked at the person who came with disgust, and then looked at Natsuki Subaru.

The boy bared his fangs and introduced himself: "The Archbishop of the Witch Cult, [Gluttony] Leybadenkaitos."

18

Chapter 18 is about greed!

"Witch Church!"

Rem glared at the newcomer with gritted teeth and turned her gaze in the direction of Natsuki Subaru.

The legend of "the flattened grass and the little girl covered in blood" has spread among all the merchants and even the entire Lugnica. It is only a matter of time for the Bishop of Gluttony to find her whereabouts.

It's just that the Archbishop of Sin of the Witch Cult was somewhat mentally abnormal, so he had a conflict with his companion Qiangyu halfway through the journey, and then parted ways. Qiangyu even suspected that the wound on his hand was caused by his bite.

It was obvious that when he noticed Natsuki Subaru, he regarded him as one of his own kind because of the strong witch aura on him. However, this person did not cooperate with him at all.

"Looking closely, aren't you the one who traveled with the little ghost who killed our little pet? That's good, very good, very good, well, very good!"

Lei spoke a long string of words like a psychopath, his unattractive eyes staring at Natsuki Subaru: "Ripe and delicious."

Icicles gathered around Rem, carrying a biting chill as they stabbed at him, only to tear apart the trees behind him.

Lei, who had dodged the attack, looked at Rem and asked, "Who are you?"

In Rem's hand appeared the meteor hammer that had killed Natsuki Subaru once: "The one who is about to kill you is Rem, the first servant of Border Borozval L Mezas!"

Lei rushed forward with a grin after hearing such a straightforward self-introduction.

"very good!"

At an almost invisible speed, the dagger tied to Lei's arm accurately shook off the chain of the meteor hammer that was swinging towards him, and he reached out to grab Rem.

"big sister!"

"Rem!"

Not caring about whether he would be accidentally injured by the chain, Natsuki Subaru, whose hands were faster than his brain, pushed Rem away. However, in his current position, it was no longer a question of whether he would be grabbed or not. The dagger tied to the other party's dirty hand was pointing at his throat.

"you?"

Ah, he's going to die now, isn't he? And everything will be meaningless after the restart, but he still doesn't want to see someone he's had a pleasant conversation with (he thinks) die in front of him.

Natsuki Subaru closed his eyes.

But Rye lost his smile.

"You, no, you bastard, awful, liar, what the hell is going on?"

His dagger was pressed against Natsuki Subaru's throat, and even with his greatest strength he could not move forward an inch.

Natsuki Subaru also opened his eyes in confusion, touched his neck, and even stretched out a finger to try to push Lei's dagger.

This strange protection was not enough to change Lei's expression at all. The problem was that when he smelled the other person's scent, it was hard for Lei not to think of someone he had just parted ways with.

Puzzled, Lei looked at Natsuki Subaru and said, "So, what's your name?"

Natsuki Subaru covered his throat, his legs still shaking slightly: "He's just an idiot who is so weak that he wants to show off."

-

"Cat Xiaomi!"

Beatrice called out to Yimi from inside the house.

"Really? Where did you go so early in the morning? It seems like you can't do this without a contract."

"Betty also understands the hardships of her father. As her brother, I am really relieved."

Parker floated beside Emilia, clasping his front paws together as he spoke these words in a deliberately deep tone.

"Brother, please stop making sarcastic remarks. Betty doesn't have the mood or time for that. I don't really want to confirm it, but if she didn't run away without saying goodbye, there's only one place left to look."

Beatrice headed towards the basement.

This little guy, won't really...

"Fight to the death, evil dragon! After this battle, I will marry the princess you captured!"

"Gah, gah, I ate your sword."

"Hmph, it's useless. Even if I lose the blade, as long as my will remains..."

"Oh, I ate your will."