I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 124

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 124

“Teacher?”

“Huh?”

“Are you alright?”

“Huh.”

Marine moved forward with a soulless expression, creaking as she walked.

“Right now your hands and feet are moving together?”

“Huh.”

Marine gave the same answer again while walking like a doll, moving her hands and feet together.

My goodness. My ideal type is the Duke.

After realizing this, her mind became completely chaotic. Her chest felt suffocatingly tight and stiff.

“Teacher?”

“I, I, will, walk alone for a bit.”

Marine spoke incoherently and strode forward.

Life hadn’t been easy enough to live while thinking about ideal types.

The words she had unconsciously spoken were, as Dia said, pointing to one man.

She had said her ideal type was a gentle man because she wanted to meet someone like Father, but she actually knew.

How gentle the Duke was to her.

“Marine, love me.”

Those words she had tried to forget.

Those words she had tried to laugh off and move past.

The Duke’s command had been faithfully carried out.

She had come to love the Duke. Foolishly.

His command had been firmly engraved from her mind to the depths of her heart.

When exactly? When did she start loving the Duke?

Was it from when she readily chose aquamarine for the engagement ring after hearing her parents’ story?

From when he exposed the fraud Father had suffered and offered his hand instead of a handkerchief?

From when he protected her from the demon beast?

From when he smiled while playfully teasing her?

From when he called her name tenderly?

She didn’t know. When it started.

Marine shook her head back and forth.

Was there really a need to determine when it started?

Very gradually, slowly, she had been absorbed by him.

That’s how she came to love the Duke.

She had actually known her own heart, but pretended not to know, planning to bury it and leave.

Because she shouldn’t become aware of it like this.

She wanted to run straight somewhere and disappear from the world.

Marine was running quickly when she tripped over a stone.

She was falling.

The moment she squeezed her eyes shut and braced for the dull impact, a solid body caught and held her.

“Be careful.”

Her heart was pounding.

Was this from running? Or from being held by him?

“Marine?”

“Yes?”

A squeaky voice came out on its own, as if her throat was constricted.

“Are you alright?”

She could feel concern for her in his low voice.

Why are you even gentle.

Why are you handsome.

Why do you make me fall for you.

Why did you tell me to love you.

It wasn’t the Duke’s fault that he was wonderful, but she resented him. She really didn’t want to cry, but tears welled up.

“Why, why…”

Sensing the moisture in Marine’s voice, he gently patted her back.

“Were you very startled?”

His smooth jawline and red lips, his sculptural beautiful high nose bridge, and his closed eyes.

It would have been better if only those eyes were visible. Then she wouldn’t have worried about his inability to see like this.

The transparent dewdrops that had formed in her light green eyes flowed down her cheeks.

“Marine?”

“Yes?”

At her dazed voice, he lowered his head slightly with concern.

As his handsome face came closer, Marine unconsciously bit her lower lip.

“Are you crying again?”

“No.”

Marine roughly wiped away her tears.

“But you cried?”

The Duke carefully pulled her shoulders and embraced her.

“Why?”

“Because I don’t have a handkerchief.”

“I don’t need a handkerchief. I’m really not crying.”

Marine spoke firmly and tried to pull away from him, but he slowly opened his mouth.

“…Bee.”

“Bee?”

“Yes. A bee. It’s behind you right now.”

Since she was embraced by him, she couldn’t turn her head to see if there was a bee.

“Is it gone?”

“Not yet. It’s still hovering nearby.”

Let’s not wonder how he saw the bee when he can’t even see.

Marine relaxed the tension in her stiff back and gently leaned her cheek against his solid chest.

The Duke’s heartbeat pleasantly reached her ears.

She had just realized she loved this man, but was it okay to be embraced like this?

“Is it still there?”

“Yes.”

When Marine leaned deeper into him after hearing his answer, Gerald’s chest swelled and breathing became difficult.

He held her small, soft body tightly and looked down at the top of her platinum hair.

Wasn’t there a way to hide her tightly in his arms so she couldn’t escape anywhere?

If he brought thousands of bees flying from far away, would she hide safely in his arms?

Watching her made the dangerous desires within him keep raising their heads.

Soon when they arrived at the Duke’s castle, Marine would bring up that the employment engagement was over.

She needed time to love him.

A gentle man…

He was the man most different from her. So was that why Zeromian and the 3rd Prince had also been kind to her?

Cunning bastards.

From now on, he too had to be kind to her.

So that she could love him.

“Gerald?”

“What?”

Gerald tried to produce the kindest voice he could manage, but his low rumbling voice only came out rough.

It was a failure.

“Are there still bees?”

“Yes. Many.”

There were very many in the distance.

“By any chance, could you see even a little bit?”

She asked in a cautious tone.

Damn. He knew this would happen. If he said he could see, she would try to leave immediately.

“No. I can’t see anything at all. So you have to stay by my side and keep reading to me. That’s the only way I can fall asleep.”

“…Yes, I understand.”

Her voice completely deflated. Was she disappointed at missing the chance to leave?

I’ll never let you go.

His arms holding her tightened even more.

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Inside the luxury inn room.

Marine stared blankly at the Mandelesong she had picked from the field.

Certainly in the book, the Female Protagonist had made medicine from Mandelesong and fed it to the Duke.

It wasn’t about applying herbal paste, but directly feeding it that would be effective.

Marine lowered her gaze and looked at her own chest that fluttered just from thinking of the Duke.

If by any chance the Duke could see before meeting the Female Protagonist, wouldn’t it be okay to at least confess?

She wanted to honestly open her heart to the Duke.

It was her first time. Loving someone of the opposite sex.

And she didn’t want to pretend not to know and trample on her first love.

If there was even the tiniest possibility, couldn’t she at least try?

That seemed like the proper respect for her first love.

Of course, the Duke might listen to her story and laugh it off coldly.

Actually, that possibility was higher.

Since it would be an extra confessing to the Male Protagonist.

A bitter smile formed and disappeared from Marine’s lips.

For now, rather than her own feelings, she had to focus on healing the Duke’s eyes. Only then could she try confessing or anything else.

Marine steeled herself and picked up one Mandelesong.

Yulia, who had entered the room, discovered the Mandelesong and naturally prepared to make herbal paste.

“Yulia.”

“Yes.”

“Have you ever eaten Mandelesong?”

Yulia’s head shot up and she quickly shook her head.

“That would be terrible, Miss.”

“Huh? Why?”

“I once saw a child who got a stomachache from eating Mandelesong because they were hungry. You can only apply this externally.”

It seemed even the civilian houses knew exactly about Mandelesong.

“Even adults who sometimes make flower tea didn’t drink Mandelesong tea.”

“Flower tea?”

“Yes. Poor commoners can’t drink expensive tea. So they sometimes dry flowers from the field and brew them as tea.”

Marine’s eyes suddenly lit up.

She had tried chewing and eating Mandelesong, and making it into herbal paste to apply.

What if she dried it and drank it as flower tea? Would the effect be different?

Originally, medicinal herbs had different efficacies depending on how they were handled, didn’t they?

“Yulia, shall we try drying this?”

“If you want flower tea, we could use other flowers instead of this…”

“No. I want to try drinking this one.”

“If you get a stomachache…”

Yulia trailed off with a worried expression.

“It’s fine. If I get a stomachache, I can get medicine from the personal physician. For now, the flower tea is a secret between you and me.”

Looking at the Mandelesong, Marine decided once again to challenge herself with biological experimentation (?) on her own body.

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