I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 116

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 116

“How dare you…!”

The Emperor’s eyes blazed with fury.

Only the Crown Prince awaiting his coronation was allowed to ride a horse-drawn chariot and step on the red carpet.

“What is the meaning of this, Western Duke!”

A thunderous roar erupted from the Emperor’s mouth.

The Western Duke, who had dismounted from the coachman’s seat, approached with a calm expression.

“I’m a bit late. I was in such a hurry that I had no choice but to come by carriage. My apologies.”

“What? Do you think that makes any sense right now?”

The Emperor coldly rebuked the Western Duke’s ridiculous excuse.

Meanwhile, a coachman with a deeply pulled hood whipped the horses, and they turned direction. The door of the black luggage carriage turned toward where the Emperor and Duke were standing.

Shortly after, the luggage carriage door opened with a bang. Cold air leaked out through the opened door.

However, due to the confrontation between the Emperor and Western Duke, no one was paying attention to the luggage carriage.

Except for one person—the Northern Duke.

The Northern Duke was watching the luggage carriage with an interested gaze.

The bottom of the luggage carriage, whose door had opened by itself, tilted, and the object inside fell out with a thud.

At the sudden loud noise, the nobles’ gazes finally turned.

The massive object covered in frost was a spider-like demon beast called a ‘Paider.’

A glistening black body. Twenty legs sharp as saw blades. A demon beast with ten eyes had appeared in the heart of the capital.

“A, a demon beast!”

“It’s a demon beast!”

“Why is a demon beast here?”

The Emperor’s eyes widened in shock at seeing the Paider that had fallen right next to the Western Duke.

The Emperor looked at the Paider, whose eyes were closed as if sleeping, with fearful eyes and slowly stepped back.

“Duke, what in the world is this?”

Bringing a demon beast. He couldn’t understand that Duke’s intentions at all.

“Isn’t that what the annual noble assembly is? A place where the four Dukes boast of their achievements. What I, as the Western Duke, have to boast about is obvious, isn’t it.”

Madman.

The Emperor swallowed the words that burst from his chest.

A demon beast. A real demon beast.

He had seen demon beast corpses a few times, but even that was countable on one hand.

This was the first time seeing a demon beast that looked like it could move at any moment, making his heart pound wildly.

“What are you saying right now?”

“I was worried you might be concerned about the Western Barrier due to my blindness, so I brought a demon beast as a gift.”

One corner of the Duke’s lips rose coldly.

Madman. Madman.

While stepping backward, his eyes met with the Eastern Archduke.

The Eastern Archduke was also staring at the demon beast with wide, surprised eyes.

Even the pretentious Southern Duke seemed equally shocked.

Only the Northern Duke, who was blocking demon beasts alongside the Western region, was looking at the demon beast with an interested gaze.

“Is this a Paider?”

“Yes.”

“Ho, it’s a species we don’t have in the north.”

Is this really the time to leisurely discuss demon beast species?

The Emperor was dumbfounded by the conversation and turned his body sharply before climbing back to the Imperial Throne.

He had lost the initiative to the Western Duke due to being startled by that demon beast corpse.

He had planned to use the Western Duke’s blindness as an excuse to seize his interests at this noble assembly.

How on earth did he figure out his plan?

The Emperor, who had sat back down on the Imperial Throne, tried to calm his mind.

He needed to regain the initiative and somehow shake the Western Duke…

While continuing his thoughts, the Emperor unconsciously turned his gaze to the demon beast and his eyes bulged.

One of the demon beast’s eyelids was slowly rising.

Wasn’t it dead?

“D, Duke. Wasn’t that demon beast dead?”

The Emperor was so shocked that he stammered.

The Western Duke leisurely turned his head toward where the demon beast was, his eyes still closed.

Meanwhile, the Paider was opening its eyes one by one.

Five of its ten eyes had opened. Its frost-covered body began to rustle and writhe little by little.

“T, the demon beast is moving!”

“Get away!”

“Aaahhh!”

When the demon beast fell from the luggage carriage, they were surprised, but naturally thinking it was a dead demon beast, the nobles had been watching the demon beast and Western Duke with eyes mixed with curiosity and fear.

But they were wrong.

The demon beast was alive.

Hell would soon unfold here.

The nobles pushed, pressed, and trampled on those next to them as they ran toward the door to survive.

Most of them had never seen a demon beast in their lives.

A forgotten fact surfaced in their minds.

The reason they had been unable to even see the appearance of demon beasts until now was thanks to that Western Duke.

An old Chief Attendant trembling in the corner shouted.

“Knights, call the knights!”

However, the Chief Attendant’s voice was drowned out by the nobles’ screams and didn’t reach the attendants outside.

The attendants guarding outside the door were continuously pushed back by the numerous nobles suddenly pouring out.

Meanwhile, the deeply hooded coachman watching the situation from the corner adjusted his glasses and grinned wickedly.

As expected, this is interesting.

The Emperor stared at the demon beast with a terror-stricken face, then shifted his trembling gaze to the Western Duke.

He had wrongly provoked that madman.

“…Western Duke.”

“Yes.”

“What do you want?”

“What could I possibly want from Your Majesty? This makes it seem like I brought a gift because I wanted something.”

As if unrelated to the commotion in the Solar Hall, the Duke was overflowing with leisure.

“I, I want to grant it for you.”

The Emperor forced a smile on his lips while appeasing the Western Duke.

Meanwhile, the demon beast raised its sharp, saw-toothed legs high into the sky as if stretching.

“They say the Emperor’s promise is heavier than anything else.”

“That’s right!”

The demon beast shook its head as if trying to regain consciousness. The demon beast’s venomous silver eyes swept around in all directions.

Fear rose to his throat, but as the Emperor, he couldn’t run away either.

Many nobles were still watching him.

The Emperor quickly detached the sun-emblemed jewelry hanging from his ceremonial robe. It was a family treasure passed down since the first Emperor.

“Chief Attendant, give this to the Western Duke.”

“Yes? Yes.”

The Chief Attendant climbed onto the platform with trembling legs and received the sun-emblemed jewelry.

“I’ll prove my promise with that. I’ll take it back after you achieve what you want.”

“Since you insist on giving a return gift for the present, I cannot refuse to accept it.”

The Duke spoke with a bored expression.

The Chief Attendant, who had been holding the Imperial Heirloom with both hands, trembled and couldn’t approach due to the Demon Beast writhing beside the Western Duke.

“Throw it.”

At the Western Duke’s words, the Chief Attendant shook his head. He couldn’t dare throw the Imperial Heirloom.

However, when the Duke gestured, the Solar Emblem Jewel floated up on its own and moved into the Duke’s hand.

At this amazing miracle, the Emperor and the remaining Nobles all widened their eyes.

“Kueeeeek.”

At that moment, the enraged Demon Beast lunged at the Western Duke beside it.

“How noisy.”

The Duke picked up a Quill Pen from the desk and threw it at the Demon Beast. The Quill Pen flew swiftly and pierced it.

“Kueeeeeeek.”

The Demon Beast cried out in pain.

The even more enraged Demon Beast swung its saw-like legs at the Western Duke.

The Western Duke caught one of those legs with his hand and pushed the Demon Beast back.

“Kueeeeek.”

A fierce struggle between the Demon Beast and the Western Duke began.

But only for a moment, as the Demon Beast with its ten bulging eyes was gradually pushed back. The frightened Demon Beast severed its own leg that was caught by the Duke.

The Demon Beast’s blue blood dripped onto the White Marble Floor.

“Kueeeeeeek.”

The Western Duke threw the leg he was holding at the Demon Beast.

Even while facing a Demon Beast several times larger than himself, the Duke remained as leisurely as if he had come out for a stroll.

The Emperor watched this scene with a dejected face, leaning weakly against the Imperial Throne.

What had he tried to provoke?

The madman was good at fighting too.

The Western Barrier. Vines protects it.

How much had he cursed those words that were praised more than the Emperor himself. However, he had never felt those words so keenly as today.

In the Emperor’s weary eyes, the other Dukes and the Young Duke came into view.

He made eye contact with one of them, but the Emperor pretended not to see that gaze.

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