This Is Exactly Like What My Butler Wore!
After Chuchu finished cleaning up the poop on the floor, the soiled panties were still nagging at me.
If I kept wearing them as they were, Chuchu would feel uneasy, and it would be bad for her health too.
Something like mine would probably work, but the problem was the shower.
“Chuchu, you don’t like getting wet, do you?”
“Of course not. Getting wet is the worst.”
“Still, right now Chuchu is covered in poop, so you need to wash. If you don’t, you’ll stay damp and keep feeling uneasy, and you might even get sick.”
I figured she’d understand once I explained it clearly and slowly, just like last time.
“I don’t want to! I’ll never get wet!”
But the disgust with water was even bigger than I thought.
“If you get sick, you’ll have to go to the hospital and get shots?”
“Hospital? Shots?”
Did that previous owner never take her to the hospital?
Then why had she even brought a cat home to keep?
“Chuchu, you don’t like feeling pain, do you?”
“Yeah, I don’t.”
“If you keep it like this, you’ll get sick and it’ll hurt a lot.”
“Really…?”
“Yeah, that’s why you need to wash. What did I say earlier?”
“Even cats are people… you have to learn how to live like people.”
“That’s right. So you need to bathe regularly, or you’ll get sick and hurt a lot.”
The moment I said “hurt,” she started reacting—tail swishing back and forth as she sank into deep thought.
Of course she hated pain and wanted to avoid it, but it made perfect sense that she’d ponder this deeply, since avoiding it meant she had to bathe.
“Uuuu… I really hate anything touching water…”
“Why does Chuchu hate water?”
“If water touches it, the fur gets heavy and cold. That’s why I hate it.”
Luckily, now that I was human, the problem was solvable.
“Chuchu is a human now, so you don’t have much fur. You won’t get heavy, will you?”
“That’s… true.”
“And you won’t feel cold here—it’s inside the house.”
“But still…”
“Then how about just dipping your toes in a little?”
Since I was human now, I figured she wouldn’t feel the sensation of water at all, so letting her adapt gradually by feeling it slowly would be fine.
“Uuuuu…”
“If you hate it, I won’t say you have to wash.”
“In that case… okay, butler.”
“Yeah, Chuchu is so brave. Amazing.”
“Of course! This body is a special cat!”
Just from the light praise, her tail started wagging like she was flying through the sky.
She was such an easy cat. Or maybe that was because she was a cat.
I held her hand and headed back to the bathroom. While adjusting the water temperature in the tub, I started filling it.
“Do humans shower every day?”
“Yeah, I shower every day. If I don’t, I’ll smell and, like I said, get sick.”
“Cats don’t do that.”
“That’s because they’re cats. All done. Chuchu, sit here.”
I helped her perch on the edge of the tub and held her ankle, gently pulling her toward the water-filled basin.
Her five toes were already splayed and trembling the moment we started.
“It’s okay, Chuchu.”
“Uuuuu…”
“Brave Chuchu can do this easily, right?”
“U-uh… y-yes!”
Now I think I finally understand how to handle Chuchu.
She was a cat with quite a bit of pride, so praise plus a little jabbing at her pride made her want to do anything.
“Then I’ll dip the tips of your toes first.”
“U-ung…”
The instant the tips touched the water.
“Hiyaaaaak!”
With a startled scream, she yanked her foot back in a flash.
Her tail and cat ears stood stiff from feline instinct.
“It’s okay, Chuchu?”
“N-no… I hate the water!”
After checking Chuchu’s condition calmly, I created a situation where she could follow my instructions.
“Chuchu, do you feel the discomfort I mentioned earlier?”
“Discomfort?”
“Getting wet fur heavy and cold.”
“N-no, not at all.”
She herself had realized it was different from when she was a cat and tilted her head in confusion.
“Chuchu is human now, so the feeling is different. It really is. So how about trying again?”
“Then… just a little…”
“You’re amazing, our Chuchu. Come on, let’s try once more.”
I gently wrapped her ankle again and guided it toward the tub.
When the toes touched the water, her eyes squeezed shut and she started trembling, but she held back the instinctive rejection and forced herself to let me handle her completely.
“You’re so good, our Chuchu. Just a little more.”
“U-ung…!”
Finally, Chuchu’s entire foot was inside the tub.
Even now, with both hands clenched into fists while suppressing her rejection, it was almost cute.
“Chuchu, open your eyes?”
“Uuu…”
With great effort, Chuchu opened her eyes, tail stiff, teeth clenched.
Even in a situation of intense trembling, the fact that she was trying not to pull her feet out of the tub showed how impressive she was.
“Heavy? Cold?”
“A-ah…”
“It’s fine, right?”
“It’s fine… but I don’t like it.”
“That’s because Chuchu is a cat. If it’s too hard, we can stop.”
I’d been hoping to finish the bath, but if Chuchu was stressed during the process, there was no point forcing it.
I’d done my best, so I left the rest to Chuchu.
“Pain… I don’t like it. I like it even less.”
“Still, if it gets too hard, let’s stop here today.”
“What if I feel pain…? I’ve felt pain a lot. Every time I felt too much pain. There was no one… I couldn’t do anything.”
The words “pain a lot” made my chest tighten.
As a long cat, there was no way to handle pain on her own unless someone found her.
I hadn’t once considered the feelings of those long cats, so it was quite a shock.
“Chuchu.”
I stood up for a moment and hugged her, slowly stroking her head.
To feel my body heat and feel a little calmer, and to know she wasn’t alone anymore.
“If I’m with you, you won’t feel pain. Because I’ll keep you healthy.”
“Really…?”
“Yeah, really. So you don’t have to be scared. Here, you can do what you want and live healthily.”
When the trembling finally eased, I faced her, rubbed her cheek gently.
Chuchu, who had been still, moved her face with a calm expression, as if showering my palm with affection.
“Butler, I… I want to wash.”
“Will you be okay?”
“Even so, it might hurt. I don’t want to hurt at all.”
“Yeah, then I’ll wash you clean.”
To thank Chuchu for her courage, I brought plenty of Churu and snacks and set them on the shelf, then grabbed the infant bath toy set I’d received when friends gave me useless gifts and floated it in the bathwater.
“This is Chuchu’s toy. You can play with it while bathing, and anytime you want snacks or Churu, just say so.”
“Waaa! Duck!”
“Yeah, it’s a duck. Cute, right?”
She had especially taken a shine to the duck toy, squeezed it hard, and made “quack quack” sounds.
With her big round eyes sparkling, she kept pressing it and happily making quack noises.
“Chuchu, yay!”
“Yay?”
“Raise both arms.”
“Ah ha! Yay!”
After removing her clothes and panties, I was about to untie the choker around her neck. Since it was a meaningful accessory, I thought I should ask Chuchu first.
“Chuchu, can I untie the choker?”
“It… I’ll keep wearing it.”
Even though I said that now that I was her butler, the previous owner didn’t matter, I could tell she hadn’t forgotten about her old owner.
“Yeah, okay. Now we’re going to get in the bath.”
“U, yeah!”
“Take courage! Good luck, Chuchu!”
This time I waited for Chuchu to enter on her own, without help.
Because that was the only way to be sure she knew she had to do everything herself.
“Hooh… hoooo…”
I finished preparing mentally with deep breaths.
“Yaap!”
—Splash!
She jumped into the tub like she was diving.
I didn’t expect that?
“Chuchu, are you okay? It looked hard.”
“Puhaha! I-it’s fine! I thought I wouldn’t be able to get in if I kept watching!”
“You’re so brave, our Chuchu? Want some Churu?”
“U-ung!”
I put a cut piece of Churu in her mouth and squeezed it slowly. While doing so, Chuchu pressed the duck toy with both hands and gradually relaxed her expression.
“It’s really different!”
“Right? Because Chuchu is human now.”
Fortunately, she no longer showed rejection, and I started washing her properly.
“What’s this, butler?”
“This is called shampoo. It cleans Chuchu’s hair nicely.”
“Foam!”
“Wow, so much foam!”
I saw her staring in wonder at the foam, so I made a circle with my thumb and index finger in front of her face and blew. Bubbles floated up, popped against her nose.
“Eek!”
“Pff! How was that?”
“It was fun! Do it more, butler!”
“I’ll make two this time. Hoo.”
“Waaaa! Foam! Me too! Me too!”
“Yeah, I’ll show you how.”
I taught Chuchu how to blow foam with my mouth, and she got all excited and made countless bubbles.
“Nyaaam!”
“Chuchu, you can’t eat that.”
She touched the bubbles and popped them, then suddenly jumped up and ate two or three.
“Ueek! Butler… tastes so good…”
“Foam is bad for your body if you eat it. So don’t eat. Got it?”
“U-ung, okay.”
“Okay, let’s eat cookies. These are freeze-dried cookies, they’ll be delicious.”
“Mm-mmm. Mmm! Tasty!”
Every time her tail wagged, I felt my heart pounding as if it might burst.
She was too cute. Too harmless a creature.
That such a cat was my cat. That I had finally become the butler of such a cute and pretty cat.
I felt like I was finally receiving the reward for all the time I’d cherished cats and cared for them.
Ah, it felt like I was about to achieve enlightenment.
“It’s all washed.”
“Waa!”
“Now you won’t feel pain because you’re clean. Let’s dry your body and hair.”
“U-ung!”
I thought things would flow smoothly, but another obstacle was waiting.
The hair dryer.
Chuchu reacted with enormous rejection to the whoosh of the hair dryer and hid in the room in the blink of an eye.
“Chuchu, do you hate the hair dryer sound?”
“It’s too noisy… my ears hurt.”
“So your ears really are more sensitive than humans.”
Still, Chuchu was human now, so she’d need to dry her hair or her scalp would get bad.
“Then let’s not dry your hair. I’ll give you a snack, come here.”
“Really? Okay!”
Adapting to the hair dryer could wait.
Chuchu had worked hard just to succeed at bathing once, so it was only fair.
Still, while combing her hair and catching the flow so it dried beautifully, I tried to dry it.
“Um, what should I put on Chuchu? Chuchu, do you have any clothes you want to wear?”
In front of the open closet, I let her choose the outfit she wanted, but she picked my black pajamas and a white one in a different color without hesitation.
“This! This is exactly like what the butler wore!”
“Pff! You’re wearing the same thing as me?”
“Yeah! I like the butler!”
“Kurrk!”
At that, my chest tightened hard.
My heart couldn’t hold on.
My heart pounded like it would burst at the dosage of cuteness.
The words “I like you” passed through my mind for the briefest moment, giving me a happiness that felt like I owned the entire world.
“Haa… it’s good. I get it now—why people keep cats.”
“U-ung?”
“Then let’s try this on.”
After calming down, I put the clothes on her, and as expected, mine was quite big on Chuchu.
Even the top of the pajamas covered almost all her thighs, and the sleeves were long enough to cover her hands completely.
“Butler!”
“Yeah, Chuchu.”
“You have wings! Now you can fly!”
With that, she started waving both arms and her tail at lightning speed.
“Kurrrgh!”
I had no choice but to clutch my chest again with that strange sound.
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