I’m The Brave Puppy That Will Save The Villainess - Chapter 10

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Episode 10

…With a loud bursting sound, the box in front of me flew away helplessly.

“Found you, little mouse.”

“…Gasp!”

A rough hand lifted me up.

With my scruff grabbed, my body floated up!

“Ah!”

With one sharp gesture from the large servant girl, my body spun 180 degrees.

Spinning around.

“Get out, little mouse.”

I was instantly kicked out of the basement.

The door slammed shut with a bang.

By their hands, my back hit the door hard with a thud.

“Coco is not a mouse!”

In front of me, a group of tall and strong maids were glaring at me.

“Sigh, how did she sneak into this basement?”

“We were definitely guarding the basement door.”

“Go quickly and bring Mary. We need to discuss with Mary what to do with this little one.”

I pouted my lips, thinking of my pressed shoulders.

My vision was spinning, and I felt like my feet were slowly sinking into a swamp.

With my fur standing on end, I swallowed nervously and stared at them boldly.

“I came to get my squishy toy, so what’s it to you!”

“…Ha. What? Squishy toy?”

As soon as I finished speaking.

With a small rolling sound, the mouse from far away threw the squishy toy toward me.

I tightly gripped the squishy toy in my hand.

“This bone-shaped toy!”

“Why are you looking for this here…”

And then, as if ‘bone-shaped toy’ was some kind of switch.

Bang!

The entire corridor shook vigorously, and the clicking sound of someone stepping down the stairs could be heard.

And holding a dim lantern, Sister appeared with a terrifying expression.

“What is everyone doing here?”

The reason I don’t have to cower before those maids!

My sister told me to freely roam around the mansion. And when I find my toy, she told me to shout ‘bone-shaped toy!’

‘Then she said she’d come get me no matter where I am!’

The startled maids’ hands slipped, and I landed safely on the floor with a soft thud.

‘Sister never enters the basement where the ledgers are usually hidden.’

Then I just need to find the ledger and give it to Sister.

I stuck my tongue out at the flustered maids with a “bleh.”

Then I ran toward the door where Sister was standing, going “do-do-do.”

“You know, the mouse moved through a really amazing passage!”

“…Is that so.”

“So I also rolled myself up into a ball and came down to the basement!”

There was one reason I lured Sister, who must have wanted to get my toy that was hidden in the mansion.

“And while picking up my toy, I also found a very suspicious book!”

“A suspicious book?”

“Yes! It says something like embez… embezzle… anyway, something like that!”

That’s right, it was the embezzlement ledger.

Objective evidence that could drive away the bad maids who were friends of Sister’s stepmother, Duchess Lucretia!

I smiled proudly with my shoulders straightened.

Sister carefully took the squishy toy and casually took the ledger.

“…We’ll talk about this later.”

“Yes!”

“And you maids.”

Sister’s voice became as chilling as pronouncing a death sentence.

“All of you follow me outside.”

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“Is it fun? Gathering underground every night to conspire together.”

“That’s….”

“You didn’t think I wouldn’t know, did you?”

“….”

Head Maid Mary bit her lips tightly.

Chloe never entered the basement with moss-covered stones.

So they boldly used the inside of the basement like their own hideout.

It was also true that they conspired there to embezzle the budget.

‘But why is she suddenly acting like this? She never cared before.’

Head Maid Mary was even more bewildered because she couldn’t understand Chloe’s intentions.

“You shouldn’t have crossed the line.”

Chloe waved the embezzlement ledger that Coco had given her.

“The embezzlement matter.”

“….”

“You kept quite thorough records.”

The head maid, who had been silent all along, muttered while biting her trembling lips.

“Is there a reason you’re suddenly doing this? I thought you already knew about the embezzlement.”

“How insolent of you to dare ask your master for reasons.”

In truth, Chloe had no interest in the maids’ activities. She was simply waiting for the child to find Coco’s toy.

But….

She recalled Coco’s bruised shoulder.

And his roughly colliding body.

“I went easy on them, and now they’ve gotten bold.”

If she left things as they were, more troublesome incidents would surely arise. So no matter how bothersome it was, it would be better to drive them out beforehand.

The Head Maid bowed her head.

“…I understand. I shall now withdraw and return to my original master.”

Like someone who had something to rely on, the Head Maid remained calm.

“As if resignation would be the end after being caught doing something improper.”

“As you know, the full authority to punish each annex’s Head Maid belongs to Duchess Lucretia Ardos. Currently, since Madam is away at the temple, that authority belongs to Lady Theresia as her representative. Therefore, I shall receive punishment directly from Madam or Lady Theresia.”

“I wonder about that.”

Chloe grabbed the wrist of the Head Maid who was about to leave.

“You didn’t memorize the family law properly.”

“That can’t be.”

“There’s such content in the supplementary clause of Article 1, Section 10 of the family law. ‘According to the family’s special nature, servants may be individually punished using special abilities.'”

Chloe tightened her grip on the Head Maid’s wrist and whispered.

“As payment for acting insolently before me, I shall take away your sight.”

With her words, the vision of the Head Maid and other maids was buried in dark darkness.

“Inside this dark basement.”

“Wh, what is this….”

“In the cold darkness where you cannot see ahead, struggle until tomorrow morning.”

Just like someone who was once trapped underground.

Chloe maintained her arrogant gaze while hiding her trembling fingertips.

“Ah, ahhh!”

“L, Lady Chloe. Th, this is…!”

The Head Maid collapsed with a thud and could be seen crawling on the floor, groping around.

She was trapped in a nightmare within the darkness.

“I, I can’t see…. S, save me!”

“M, monster…!”

“Hic, hic, p, please save me, s, save…!”

Those experiencing auditory hallucinations in the terror of blindness. Even those suffering from terrifying visual hallucinations.

The sight of them wildly twisting their bodies to avoid invisible attacks was amusing.

She had properly dealt with Duchess Lucretia and Theresia’s lackeys.

Now that she had evidence, she could at least put a crack in the reputation of that mother-daughter pair.

She casually flipped through the embezzlement ledger the Head Maid had created.

‘It’s bothersome, but I’ll need to bring in new maids.’

Ones who are skilled and unrelated to Theresia, so they won’t be troublesome.

For the first time in a while, she felt just slightly refreshed.

But as Chloe tried to leave, she staggered.

The side effect of Dark Magic called ‘delusion’ came to her mind.

“How can our Coco’s paws be so pretty?”

“Woof! Woof!”

“Oh my, did you bring me a flower? For Sister to see?”

“Woof!”

“Good boy, our baby. You’re the prettiest in the world. Right?”

For the first time in a very long while, Chloe smiled softly.

She could almost feel Coco’s warmth at her fingertips.

But the warmth lasted only briefly. The comfort quickly vanished, and bone-chilling pain invaded her very core.

It was the side effect experienced when using Dark Magic beyond one’s ability level.

It continuously made her fantasize about happy memories,

and when those memories faded, great pain would follow.

But…

‘What’s this?’

Chloe opened her closed eyes.

It no longer hurt.

Strangely, this side effect had ended extremely briefly.

‘What could be the reason?’

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