I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 125

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 125

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

Yulia nodded helplessly and glanced sideways at Elmis standing against one wall.

Following her gaze and spotting Elmis, Marine was startled.

Elmis had been standing so quietly that she had forgotten about her presence.

“I didn’t hear anything.”

Receiving the gazes of both women, Elmis spoke in an indifferent tone.

From then on, whenever Marine spotted dandelion blossoms during their journey, she would pick them and spread them out on top of the Diamond Carriage roof.

Since they could see in all directions from inside the Diamond Carriage, Dia looked up at the roof and tilted her head curiously.

“Did you decorate the carriage with flowers?”

“Yes!”

Without needing to make excuses, Dia had provided a perfect cover story, so Marine quickly nodded.

“Teacher Marine really seems to love those flowers. There are so many other flowers around.”

“They’re beneficial flowers.”

Dia smiled gently while looking back and forth between the flowers and Marine.

“They’re not as glamorous as roses, but they’re cute and pretty, just like Teacher Marine. The way they bloom anywhere also reminds me of how you stayed strong even in difficult situations.”

“I’ve never thought of it that way. Dia, you really speak so beautifully. Thank you.”

Did Marine know that she spoke even more beautifully by returning compliments with compliments?

Dia smiled brightly while looking at Marine.

* * *

The sunlight was good, so the dandelion blossoms dried thoroughly.

Looking down at the pale yellow tea with dandelion blossoms floating in it, Marine gulped nervously from fear. In her hand, she also held stomach medicine she had prepared in advance.

“Are you really going to drink it?”

Yulia asked cautiously, as if confirming.

“Yes!”

Marine nodded with a determined expression and downed the already cooled tea in one gulp.

Perhaps because she drank it as flower tea, it tasted less grassy.

Marine quietly set down the teacup and waited with a reverent expression.

“Are you alright?”

Yulia examined Marine’s complexion.

“Yes, I’m fi…”

Grumble rumble. Thunder and lightning struck in her stomach.

Startled by the sound, worry appeared on Yulia and Elmis’s faces.

“…I’m not fine.”

Marine’s face turned pale as she hurriedly rushed to the bathroom. Drinking it dried had caused a more immediate reaction.

* * *

“Yulia, this time could you steam some dandelions for me?”

At Marine’s words, Yulia’s eyes widened.

After suffering so much from drinking the tea, now she wanted to try dandelions prepared a different way.

With so much food available, why did she want to steam and eat flowers?

“Do you really want to eat them?”

“Yes!”

Marine’s face was even resolute.

“Yes…”

Yulia went out with a dejected expression, took the dandelions, and steamed the flowers.

When she brought the moist flowers on a plate, Marine squeezed her eyes shut and ate them.

And time passed.

“Yulia! This time I’m fin…”

Grumble rumble.

Marine quietly stood up and headed to the bathroom, while Yulia prepared medicine with drooping eyes.

* * *

“Yulia, this time could you go to the kitchen and stir-fry some flowers?”

Marine spoke with a haggard face, completely drained of energy.

Yulia no longer tried to dissuade her and silently did what Marine asked.

Thinking her master must have some purpose in mind, she gave up trying to understand further.

Elmis quietly placed stomach medicine on the table and stepped back.

Soon Yulia returned carrying stir-fried flowers on a white plate.

Marine looked down at the slightly burnt flowers with determined eyes, then put them in her mouth and chewed.

The three people in the room silently hoped the thunder and lightning wouldn’t strike.

Grumble rumble. Their hopes were mercilessly shattered.

“…This doesn’t work either.”

Marine stood up from her seat with a wan face and headed straight to the bathroom.

Yulia watched with a pitying expression, praying for her master’s safety.

* * *

Gerald secretly observed Marine’s listless face as she climbed into the carriage from a distance, then asked Oliver who was standing behind him.

“Doesn’t Marine seem thinner lately?”

Oliver made a face wondering how he could tell that, then nodded, thinking his master knew everything.

“Yes. She does seem a bit like that.”

“Why?”

“She’s apparently doing some kind of research.”

“Research? What research?”

“That’s hard to say. The maids are tight-lipped.”

“Bring El here.”

“Yes.”

Gerald waited for Elmis with his eyes closed and arms crossed.

“El.”

“Yes.”

Elmis bowed deeply before the Duke.

“Marine is apparently doing something lately. Report.”

But Elmis hardened her expression and remained quietly still.

The corner of Gerald’s mouth curved up sharply.

“Have you forgotten who your master is?”

“It is Duke Your Grace.”

“And yet?”

“Right now, though temporary, Lady Marine is my master. I cannot report every detail of Lady Marine’s private life. I apologize.”

Elmis spoke in a flat voice.

If the Duke had asked a question related to Marine’s safety, she would have answered immediately.

But this matter was absolutely something she could not speak of.

Marine was a noble lady.

A noble lady frequently going in and out of the bathroom? It was peculiar because it was her, but if it were other young ladies, they would have made a fuss saying they’d die of embarrassment.

And to report such a thing to her fiancé?

It was a matter involving a lady’s honor and life.

And her mission was to protect Marine.

Even if a blade came to her throat, she could not report her recent research(?) to the Duke.

Gerald, who had slightly opened his eyes, looked down coldly at Elmis who was bowing her head.

Ha. Should he scold the shadow who forgot her original master, or praise her for protecting her new master well.

“I understand. Then let me ask just one thing.”

“Yes.”

“Marine is researching something, is it flowers?”

Elmis’s shoulders trembled slightly. That was answer enough.

“Go.”

“Yes.”

Elmis quietly withdrew.

Gerald gritted his teeth and slowly climbed into the carriage.

If the reason she was trying to do something with Mandelesong again was to make his eyes see, it would absolutely not go the way she wanted.

* * *

On the way back to the Duke’s castle, they stopped by Nairon Territory again.

The old lord welcomed them warmly.

“Welcome. Your Grace, Lady Schwentz, Lady Adriana.”

When the Duke silently nodded slightly, the lord’s wife hurriedly spoke.

“You must be tired, so we’ve prepared everything so you can rest right away.”

“Thank you. Have you been well?”

Marine was happy to see the lord and his wife again and offered her greetings.

“What could happen to old folks like us. Since the place that was about to become an abandoned mine is under development, many people come and go, so there have been some incidents and accidents. Recently too, some lady met with misfortune—”

“Wife.”

When the lord cautioned his talkative wife, Lady Nylon bowed her head with an embarrassed expression.

“I talked too much unnecessarily. Please go in and rest.”

“Thank you.”

She was worried that incidents and accidents had occurred because of the opal mine, but for now she was tired and wanted to rest.

After dining with the lord and his wife and returning to her room, Marine looked down at the trolley Yulia handed her.

On the trolley, a fairy tale book and tea set were prepared.

“Miss.”

“Yes?”

“You told me to prepare it so I did, but why do you need the tea set?”

“In case I get thirsty while reading the fairy tale book.”

“If you call me, I’ll come quickly.”

“I want to drink it myself.”

Yulia nodded as if she understood.

Marine pushed the trolley and headed to the lord’s office. The Duke was currently staying there.

“Come in.”

The Duke’s voice was heard before she even knocked.

When she opened the door and entered, the lord’s office was simply furnished with just a desk and bookshelf.

“I’ll read you a book.”

When the Duke nodded slightly, Marine took a deep breath and watched his reaction.

The Duke had his eyes closed as always.

Marine put the dried Mandelesong she had hidden in her dress pocket into the teapot containing hot water.

Steep well.

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