Grand Duke, Please Stop Obsessing Over Your Wife! - Chapter 70

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70.

No matter how scary the Duke might be, Iskassian would be honest before his aesthetic sense.

Still, the earth turns… He faced off with the resolute attitude of a mad scholar who had been dragged away screaming in front of the Temple of the Sun God.

The surrounding air grew even heavier.

The Duke didn’t hide his anger as he countered Iskassian’s words.

“Annelize is the most, the best, more than anything else, cute.”

“Anna Rose is the greatest, the finest, once-in-a-lifetime—”

Superlative expressions that could be attached ran wild in chaos.

As the sentences going back and forth between them became tattered rags that could no longer be called sentences.

The Duke came to his senses and shook his head.

“Wait. Why should I be arguing with a wet-behind-the-ears brat? My patience is over. Actually, your opinion doesn’t matter at all.”

The fight wasn’t even over yet. It was as if he was speaking like he was the victor.

He pulled his upper body forward, creating a shadow toward Iskassian.

Iskassian’s eyes widened at the Duke’s following words.

“Iskassian Hildegard. What can you do? I can give orders right now. If I command that only Annelize Solariccen can be called ‘cute’ in this North, everyone will follow. Because I have that power. But what about you?”

“…That’s! Cowardly! Duke!”

Considering his current situation, he had no words to refute.

It was like suddenly having his opponent pull out a joker card in the middle of an intense card game.

“Didn’t your mother teach you? The world is originally cruel and unreasonable.”

The Duke overturned the game with a cold voice and called Isaiah.

“Isaiah.”

“Yes.”

Isaiah opened the door and approached. The Duke gestured.

“I’ll give an order, so announce it to everyone.”

“Please speak.”

“From now on, the only human who can be cute in this Duke’s Castle is Annelize Solariccen. Announce it right now.”

“…”

‘Are you serious?’

‘Yes.’

Glances were exchanged between Isaiah and the Duke.

“Why are you just standing there? Hurry up and follow the order.”

Isaiah stepped back with an expression of whatever happens, happens.

The Duke looked down at Iskassian with a twisted smile.

This is my territory. What are you going to do about it? What can you do with no power at all?

The silent signal the Duke was sending him struck painfully.

‘Damn…!’

Iskassian clenched his fist under the table at the powerlessness he was experiencing for the first time in his life.

If I had as much power as the Duke.

I could have asserted Miss Anna Rose’s cuteness without shame to myself!

“Grr…”

It was the moment when a new flame of ambition sprouted in the heart of the nineteen-year-old young man who had made living leisurely his lifelong dream.

Annelize, who had returned with documents, stepped back at the chaotic atmosphere in the room.

“Sir Isaiah. Why is His Highness the Crown Prince acting like that?”

At her whisper, Isaiah made an indifferent face.

“I don’t know. They’re both at the same level, playing childishly well together.”

Iskassian looked noticeably sullen even when Annelize explained the list of nobles to win over before the Founding Conference.

“Then I’ll keep that in mind.”

Iskassian walked away weakly and disappeared.

Annelize poked the side of the Duke, who was playing with her hair by twirling it.

“What? I asked you to respect him since he’ll be my sister’s husband. You know His Highness the Crown Prince is included in the protection targets in the contract, right?”

“I didn’t do much. I just helped him realize each other’s positions.”

The Duke shrugged with a confident face.

“What did you say?”

“Iskassian Hildegard said your sister was cuter than you, so I corrected his wrong common sense.”

It was a ridiculous reason.

‘Even His Highness the Crown Prince seems to have fought seriously with the Duke.’

“I see. Think that way, Your Grace the Duke.”

While Annelize gathered and organized the documents she had brought, thinking whatever.

The Duke winked at Isaiah.

‘That order I told you to announce earlier, postpone it for now.’

Isaiah understood what he meant to say and made a circle with his finger.

It was completely different from Isaiah’s usual behavior of pretending not to understand and ignoring orders even when he quickly grasped his lord’s commands.

He probably didn’t want to carry out the Duke’s order.

‘It was meant as a warning to Iskassian Hildegard. I still need to think about what words to allow him to use.’

The Duke was still thinking about words to express Annelize’s cuteness.

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The answer to new words was unexpectedly obtained from Crown Prince Iskassian.

Even after the Crown Prince’s crushing defeat to the Duke, he didn’t give up and continued to appeal his position.

“Fine. I’ll concede to the Duke regarding the expression ‘cute.’ I’m just a guest who owes the Duke a debt. But how about this? Anna Rose is definitely the most lovely and round in the world.”

“No. Annelize is the most round.”

The problem was that there were endless words similar to ‘cute.’ He couldn’t monopolize every word.

Even the Duke thought that would be too much. It was the voice of conscience that might have remained in him.

“Don’t you just take every good word and apply it to the Duchess!”

Of course. Because whatever he applied would suit Annelize.

What mattered was the fact that Annelize was Annelize itself.

Right. Cute? Lovely? Beautiful?

The words that exist now could never express the human being called Annelize Solariccen.

‘Isaiah’s words about creating new words were right.’

The Duke immediately opened the dictionary used by the Empire’s people.

Seeing the meanings and usage written next to words, he began writing in a similar format.

“Annelize is, Annelize-like.”

【Annelize-like】

[Adjective] A word referring to an object that is the cutest and most beautiful in the world, so lovely that it dazzles the eyes just by looking at it.

[Noun form] Annelize

A new word has been registered by imperial decree, so please spread it widely.

※Warning※

If used with derogatory or mocking intent contrary to the dictionary meaning, immediate punishment may be administered by the Duke’s knight order, so village elders should be careful in managing residents.

He looked over the proclamation he had written by hand once more.

‘I should have done this long ago.’

Now he felt like everything was finally going right. He felt relieved.

‘Calling all the village chiefs like before would take too long to wait. It’s better for me to go around directly.’

He was excited to tell everyone about the new word.

‘This is fun.’

He hummed unconsciously at the thought of pressuring village chiefs to read aloud and make example sentences.

‘Annelize will like it too. She asked me to only call her cute.’

Wasn’t he, as the Duke, personally stepping forward to properly call her the most special being in this North?

When he had the maids work, soon enough paper piled up to put one on each village’s bulletin board.

He left the Duke’s Castle with a great sword in one hand and a bundle of papers in the other.

“D-Duke? What brings you here so suddenly? Ack—”

“Right. I forgot to wear a mask.”

For the crime of carelessly lifting his head to look at his face, the poor old man collapsed to the ground.

The sound of nearby residents gasping could be heard.

They were filled with instinctive fear.

The Duke fumbled in his pocket, pulled out a mask, put it on, and straightened his posture again.

He unfolded a paper with one hand. He jerked his chin at the man closest to him, commanding.

“Read.”

“Ah… Annelize? Something that refers to the most adorable thing in the world, so lovely that just looking at it makes your eyes dazzle…”

The man stammered as he read through the text.

“If it’s Annelize, isn’t that Her Grace the Duchess’s name?”

When he finished reading all the precautions at the end.

The Duke pointed his sword at the old man collapsed on the ground.

He deliberately turned his head slowly, scanning each resident gathered in the village square one by one.

“If you don’t follow them, this is what will happen.”

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