I’m The Brave Puppy That Will Save The Villainess - Chapter 7

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Episode 7

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After finishing dinner that was as dry and tasteless as usual.

Chloe entered her room.

The culprit who placed flowers at the bedroom door was said to be an adopted child scheduled for abandonment.

‘I told them to bring that child to my room in advance.’

That child was nowhere to be seen.

“Did they run away?”

That would make sense.

All children were afraid of her.

There was a popular saying going around: ‘If you cry, the dark witch will take you away!’

Chloe muttered while running her fingers through her pitch-black hair, dark as night.

“…Even if they ran away, it doesn’t matter.”

If that suspicious child had already tucked their tail and run away, it was actually for the better.

…After examining those Purple Flowers, there hadn’t been any particular problems anyway.

At first she was angry, but soon everything became bothersome.

As she was thinking this, she suddenly felt something out of place in the well-organized room.

“Sunlight…”

Warm sunlight came in through the open window gap along with the gentle spring breeze.

‘Why all of a sudden?’

The Servant Girls thought that Chloe, being a Dark Magic user, disliked light.

So they always kept dark Curtains drawn at the Window.

But today was different.

Chloe found herself unconsciously heading toward the Window.

At the Window, Lily of the Valley was arranged in a small Flower Vase.

[There is a superstition that Lily of the Valley brings good luck.]

“What is this…”

At that moment, Chloe heard a sound like purring and sleepy lip-smacking reaching her ears.

‘Ah, Coco used to do exactly that.’

And…

“Zzaap.”

“…”

“Goo…gumaa…”

Every night, in front of the Bedroom doorway where Coco used to wait for her lonely.

Like Coco, there was a child lying down in a bread-baking position.

‘Is she sleeping?’

She shook the shoulder of the child who was sleeping in a pitiful position to wake her up.

Perhaps because she was rarely flustered, seeing Coco overlapping with the child, she had forgotten about getting angry.

“Wake up.”

When the small child barely lifted her eyelids.

Finally, their eyes met with those violet pupils.

‘My heart…’

A feeling as if it made a clattering sound and rolled down to the floor.

‘What is this? Why am I feeling like this?’

While Chloe hesitated, the child suddenly sat up.

“Wow!”

“…What are you.”

There was one reason why she found herself stuttering without realizing it.

She had thought every day about what kind of voice Coco would have if she became human.

Because the small child in front of her had cheerfully called out in exactly that voice she had been imagining all along.

“Woof!”

“…What did you say?”

Chloe’s flustered eyes wavered.

Then the little one smiled brightly and waved her hand.

“I’m Coco!”

“…What did you just say?”

The child’s eyes quickly became gloomy.

“Hup. I, I was acting just like usual though… You don’t recognize me…”

“What do you mean.”

Incomprehensible words plus a dejected expression.

‘I haven’t even said anything yet.’

It was a child who acted in ways she couldn’t understand.

Soon the little one who had been pouting pulled in her duck-like lips and hung her head low.

“Hup. No, that’s not it. H-hello! I am Coco!”

“…Coco?”

Chloe’s flustered eyes wavered.

The little one smiled brightly and waved her hand.

“Yes! My name is Coco!”

“…Ah, so your name is Coco.”

She recalled the profile of the adopted child.

She had been too busy looking into the background to check the name though.

Chloe spoke dryly.

“I’ve finished investigating you.”

“Huk, you recognized me?”

…What.

Why is she happy that I investigated her background?

Why on earth.

Wiggling her bottom as if wagging a tail she doesn’t have.

And why are her eyes sparkling like that?

‘No one has ever acted like this when looking at me before?’

I feel like I’m being drawn into her pace.

“Then let me ask you. Why exactly did you trespass into someone else’s bedroom?”

At that moment, the child squared her shoulders firmly and looked up at Chloe.

Not even trembling despite making eye contact with her.

With eyes remarkably filled with warmth.

“Haven’t you learned the basic etiquette that you shouldn’t intrude into other people’s annexes?”

“Hup… I haven’t learned that kind of etiquette…”

The child made an expression as if she knew nothing.

‘This is giving me a headache.’

Well, since she was said to be an adopted child from commoner origins, it made sense that she wouldn’t know about etiquette.

“Why did you bring the flowers?”

“Ah! The flowers, there were so many in the grass field next door, they were so so pretty that I picked them and brought them!”

“…”

“Hup, wasn’t I supposed to bring flowers either…?”

The child rolled her eyes around as if flustered.

Chloe pressed her temple.

Come to think of it, the purple flowers that Coco liked were blooming all around the annex. Seeing that she had also picked and placed lily of the valley, she seemed to be a child who really loved flowers.

“…I hate flowers. And bringing flowers to a stranger’s room is not proper etiquette.”

“A stranger…”

A faint sadness could be felt from the child’s face.

But that was only for a moment.

The child stared into Chloe’s eyes and smiled as brightly as sunshine.

“I just wanted to become friends with you, Chloe!”

“Why? It’s useless to act friendly with me anyway. It’s Father and the Council of Elders who will decide your fate.”

“It’s not like that.”

“Then what.”

“It’s because you’re so cool, Chloe.”

These were words from a child who would soon be kicked out of the Family House.

But Chloe was flustered.

Because this was the first time she had heard the admiring word “cool” from a child.

“…What?”

The child gripped her clothes tightly and her eyes sparkled.

“Um, actually! I saw it in the newspaper! Chloe seems like a really really amazing Dark Magic user!”

“That can’t be. There’s no way the newspaper would speak well of me.”

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Actually, I know it well too.

The newspaper would never say anything good about Sister Chloe.

“You know, Coco. Actually, my fiancé doesn’t like me.”

“Munch munch.”

“…Not just my fiancé, everyone hates me.”

“Woof?”

“They hate me because I’m a dark mage. They say Mother died early because of me too…”

When I was the puppy Coco, I couldn’t say a single word.

I could only bark “woof woof” as if to comfort her.

But now I can speak.

‘Sister is the only person who reached out her hand to me.’

That’s why I’m not scared of Sister at all!

I sparkled my eyes with infinite affection.

“I saw the picture drawn in the newspaper! Lady Chloe using Dark Magic, it looked so cool!”

“What exactly is cool about…”

“The newspaper keeps saying that light is cooler than darkness. Um, I think. The warm sunshine is loved entirely thanks to darkness!”

“What?”

“You can only meet warm sunshine because darkness exists. So Lady Chloe is cool! As much as sunshine, no, even more than sunshine!”

Sister stepped back with a flustered expression.

“…Darkness is just dark.”

Sister’s fingertips twitched for a moment, then I could see pitch-black darkness blooming.

Was this an action to scare me? But I’m not scared at all.

“Gasp! So really cool! It’s like your fingertips are filled with a beautiful night sky!”

Sister laughed low with an incredulous expression and asked back.

“…Are you serious?”

I looked at her with warm eyes.

And finally met Sister’s blade-like gaze.

“Yes, I’m serious. Only Lady Chloe can create a night sky with her fingers, right?”

Sister’s expression wavered for a moment.

I looked at Sister’s hair receiving the sunlight, at Sister’s lips that always spoke only warm words to me.

‘Does Sister now want to become close with me too?’

My heart was beating wildly.

But that was only for a moment.

“Still, don’t come to my mansion.”

Sister turned her gaze away.

“I hate meeting people because it’s tiring. I’m going to close the doors of Chrysanthemum Mansion completely soon.”

It was a perfect rejection.

‘I wanted to become close with Sister again, so I really, really prepared hard.’

I worked hard to open the window with my barely moving hands.

I prepared flowers too. I waited in Sister’s favorite position.

I even poured out cool words like rushing water…

But it still won’t work?

Unlike a brave puppy, I felt like I was going to cry.

I barely gathered my courage and muttered quietly.

“Then, I’ll just stay beside you a little bit so Miss Chloe won’t get tired.”

“…”

“I can move around well on my own! My hands and feet are super strong too…”

I recalled the summer before I died.

‘Originally, I was a weak, burdensome puppy.’

Sister would massage my body that grew cold day by day.

‘Sister must have been tired and annoyed taking care of me.’

But now, I don’t need those troublesome massages anymore.

I pointed to my soft calves.

“I don’t have bulging muscles, but I’m super healthy now, and strong, and I can walk much more than before!”

Sister’s expression was still not good.

“And, no patellar dislocation either…”

Though I didn’t really know what it meant, I timidly added the words veterinarians always muttered when they saw me.

Still, no answer came back.

Even more flustered, I tried hard to observe Sister’s expression.

‘Does she not believe my words?’

I hurriedly raised my tiny hand.

Then I drew the biggest circle I could among the things I could draw.

“I’m this strong!”

I now have wonderful hands that can pat Sister.

I also have healthy feet that are small but can walk hard.

I have a mouth that can scold people who say bad things to Sister.

I’m confident I can make Sister smile.

So, please…

“So, um. Sometimes, just sometimes. Very occasionally, can I come visit…?”

Can’t you be close with me again?

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