I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 119

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 119

“You should understand how much of a concession it is that I only want ‘one’ adoptive son’s neck.”

The more he spoke, the more chills ran down her spine.

Edena smiled bitterly.

This young Duke Vines was arrogant. And he had the power to match that arrogance.

However, she too had a family to protect.

“Stein will not back down.”

While the tense confrontation between the two unfolded, the study remained quiet.

Gerald leisurely crossed his legs and tapped his fingers on his knee.

He too acknowledged the good deeds that Stein had bestowed upon the people until now.

There was no need to spill much blood due to a war between the two families.

That’s why Gerald pulled out the card he had been preparing for a long time.

“If I bring you the real Stein instead of that ‘adoptive son,’ would you hand over his neck?”

“…”

There was no response from the Duchess.

When he nodded to Oliver, Oliver placed the documents he was holding in front of her.

Edena’s hands trembled as she read through the documents with an indifferent expression.

“Duke Vines! Are you saying you’ve been hiding my grandson all this time!”

Her voice, which had been calm throughout, now boiled with anger.

Duke Vines chuckled softly.

“Duchess. You’ve misspoken.”

“What do you mean? I… How much I suffered trying to find my dead daughter’s child, and you’ve been hiding him perfectly all this time, and now you say what!”

Edena, having lost her composure, shot up and screamed like a banshee.

After her daughter ran away with a commoner knight, she had lived believing her daughter was dead and tried to forget. She missed her daughter every night, but she lived believing that.

But eventually, unable to bear the longing, she searched for her daughter.

However, it was already too late. Her daughter and her husband were already dead, and their child was missing.

At this shocking news, her husband collapsed on the spot.

In such a situation, she couldn’t afford to crumble as well. She endured and searched for her grandson.

But her grandson couldn’t be found anywhere, as if he had never existed in this world from the beginning.

Yet after several years, news of her grandson appeared from the hands of this shameless Western Duke.

No matter how much he was the Western Barrier, if she kept breaking it down endlessly, even the strongest would eventually crumble.

Edena was mentally prepared to declare war between the families right now.

Her heart felt like it was burning up.

Could Duke Vines also be connected to her daughter’s death?

Then, Duke Vines spoke to her with a calm expression.

“Duchess. I am Vines.”

“Duke, have you really gone mad?”

Not answering my question but introducing yourself instead. Has the Duke really gone crazy as rumored?

Edena glared at the Duke with eyes turned blue with rage.

Duke Vines remained quietly silent.

“Who doesn’t know you’re Vines? Vines… protects.”

At the lightning-like realization, Edena collapsed back into her chair with a thud.

Her trembling fingers touched her grandson’s portrait. He looked very much like her daughter’s gentle eyes.

“Could it be that you’ve been… protecting my grandson all this time?”

Tears poured from Edena’s pale blue eyes.

The Western Duke had been protecting her grandson who had disappeared from the world? From whom exactly?

Edena, clutching her grandson’s portrait tightly with trembling hands, slowly turned her head to the side.

Receiving her gaze, Meron trembled like a fish pulled from water.

“Meron…”

“Mmmmph.”

The gagged man shed tears and shook his head.

“Duke Vines. Was it this bastard who killed my daughter and her husband too?”

“That’s correct.”

“Mmmmph.”

Meron, paralyzed with fear, tried to back away but bumped into the knight’s leg.

He was expressing his guilt with his entire body. Could there be any clearer evidence than that?

Edena burst into hollow laughter while tears streamed down her face.

“Do you have evidence?”

“Oliver.”

Oliver placed other documents on the desk.

It was a report written based on the child’s testimony.

Meron’s subordinates had invaded her daughter and son-in-law’s house pretending to be bandits.

The son-in-law had cleverly hidden the child, and the subordinates who couldn’t find the child simply set the house on fire.

So that the already dead daughter and son-in-law, and the child hiding somewhere, would all die together.

The child who hid in a jar buried deep in the ground remembered only one word that the bandits had uttered.

‘Young Duke.’

The young child didn’t even know what the term Young Duke meant. And after time passed and he met his nanny, he asked. What is a Young Duke?

Currently, the only people in the position of Young Duke were the Northern Young Duke and the Eastern Archduke.

Would the young Northern Young Duke suddenly try to kill the Eastern Duke’s daughter and son-in-law whom he had never even met, and even try to kill the child? It was absurd.

“Ha, that bastard has been covering Stein’s eyes and ears all this time.”

A voice like a lament flowed from Edena’s mouth as she finished reading the report.

She gripped the desk and forced herself to stand. Her old body, shocked and powerless, trembled, but she moved forward.

“Please remove the gag.”

The knight looked at Duke Vines.

Feeling the gaze, Duke Vines nodded his permission.

When the knight roughly removed the gag, Meron hastily spat out words.

“No. None of it is true, Mother.”

“How dare you call me Mother.”

Edena’s voice was as cold as ice.

“It’s all a story that Duke Vines made up.”

“Why?”

“Pardon?”

“Why would Duke Vines covet something from the East and kill my daughter and son-in-law and even hide my grandson? Why?”

“Th-that’s because he coveted the East’s popularity…”

Slap. His words couldn’t continue to the end. Edena had struck Meron’s cheek hard.

“Mother…”

“I want to cut off your neck right now, but I should repay my debt to Duke Vines who protected my grandson. Duke Vines!”

“Yes.”

“Take him right away.”

“Mother, you can’t. You can’t abandon me!”

Meron trembled like an aspen tree and clung to Edena’s feet.

“Why? Why can’t I abandon you?”

Edena’s voice, filled with resentment, was even dreamy.

“I’ve been working for the East all this time…”

“It was for yourself, not for the East. Duke Vines. He has nothing more to do with Stein.”

When Duke Vines nodded, the knight gagged Meron’s mouth again.

Meron struggled to survive, but he couldn’t overcome the knight’s grip strength.

“Mmph.”

The knight covered Meron’s face with the sack again and dragged him outside.

Oliver also followed them out.

Only Edena and Duke Vines remained in the study.

“I will send your grandson to you tomorrow.”

“Thank you.”

Edena approached Duke Vines and bowed deeply at the waist.

It was a greeting she had never done except before the Emperor and Empress.

All transactions were complete.

In the study after Duke Vines left, Edena hugged her grandson’s portrait and shed endless tears.

* * *

A new wind blew through the capital.

Instead of Meron, who had long been the Eastern heir, a new Eastern Young Duke was announced.

The protagonist was none other than the grandson born to the Eastern Duke’s daughter.

Upon finding his lost grandson, the Eastern Duke, who had been bedridden with illness for a long time, arose.

It was joyful news, but then where had the former Eastern Young Duke disappeared to?

All the nobles were curious, but no one could find his whereabouts, as if he had suddenly vanished from the world.

The Emperor received back the imperial heirloom he had given to the Western Duke.

He looked down at the jewelry in his hand for a long time with eyes mixed with fear and jealousy.

And new news followed that would overturn that story.

It was news that the Crown Prince’s marriage proposal sent by the Emperor had been delivered to the Western Duke.

* * *

Dia, who came to the office, observed the Duke’s face that seemed somehow gaunt.

She had also heard the rumors.

The Duke brought a demon beast to threaten the Emperor. The Eastern Young Duke suddenly disappeared. A new Eastern Young Duke appeared.

To what extent was the Duke involved in all these events?

“You called for me?”

The Duke held out a marriage proposal that gleamed golden to her.

Dia looked down at the marriage proposal stamped with the Emperor’s seal and returned it to him.

“Do you really want this?”

“Yes.”

“The Imperial Palace is not an easy place.”

“I know.”

“No, you don’t know.”

The Duke’s expression was dark.

“After my parents passed away, I felt lost. Having lived under my parents’ protection, there was nothing I could do. Not even protecting my siblings. That fact tormented me. So I want to try.”

“Sigh… Why do both you and Garnet only want to walk thorny paths? You both resemble your sister too much.”

At the Duke’s half-permitting words, Dia smiled refreshingly.

“That’s the highest compliment.”

“Alright.”

“Yes.”

There was no more business, but she waited quietly as the Duke seemed to have something more to say.

“…I got my revenge.”

Heavy words fell from the Duke’s mouth.

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