I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 126

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 126

She had conducted many experiments, but failed to eliminate the toxicity of Mandelesong.

Instead, by alternating different stomach medicines, she discovered which medicine calmed the effects most quickly.

Mandelesong had that vivid herbal taste whether eaten raw or cooked. The best way to consume it was to brew dried flowers into tea. That way, its distinctive mint flavor was enhanced.

Marine placed the stomach medicine she had secretly brought in her hand next to the teacup.

Unlike the Female Protagonist, she didn’t know of other medicinal herbs that could neutralize Mandelesong’s toxicity. But she had stomach medicine, so wouldn’t it be fine if she took both together?

If only the Duke’s eyes could see, she wanted to honestly tell him her feelings.

That she had come to love him.

“Gerald.”

“What?”

“I didn’t bring any herbal paste today.”

“Why not?”

“Instead, I brought tea.”

She could see his eyebrows shoot up.

“Tea?”

“Yes. Mandlesong Tea.”

Marine stared at the Duke with trembling eyes.

Perhaps from being so tense, her dry hands kept sweating, so she wiped them on her skirt hem.

“Are you finally trying to poison me?”

“Pardon?”

“Bringing Mandelesong despite knowing its toxicity. You’re getting bolder.”

One corner of his mouth curved up.

“N-no. I’m not a spy.”

I knew this would happen. This is why I couldn’t bring it all this time.

“Right. You’re not a spy, so why are you trying to poison me?”

“P-poison me!”

“Mandelesong is listed in Zero’s book ‘Nature’s Poison’ too. Did you think I wouldn’t know that?”

Marine’s light green eyes trembled.

Right, there’s no way he wouldn’t know. But there must be a reason he silently let me apply the paste.

“Then why did you let me apply the paste all this time? Knowing it was poison?”

“Because I wasn’t eating it. It actually felt cooling.”

“Right.”

It actually was effective for headaches too. The Duke had stopped being sensitive to sounds after she started applying the Mandelesong paste.

It definitely had an effect on healing the Duke’s eyes.

So if he just drank it—

“So why are you trying to poison me now?”

“No, really. It’s not poison. Who dies from a stomachache?”

Marine opened her mouth with an aggrieved expression.

“Zero says you can die from dehydration too.”

Marine’s eyes widened as she stared at the flower tea steeping well in the teapot.

Was this that dangerous?

“I’m sorry. You don’t have to drink it.”

“I haven’t heard why you tried to poison me yet?”

Marine shuddered just hearing the words and strongly denied it.

“I wasn’t trying to poison you! I just heard somewhere that it was good for the body, and since your eyes are uncomfortable, I thought it might help even a little.”

“Marine.”

“Yes.”

“Why do you want my eyes to see so badly?”

At his serious question, Marine couldn’t bring herself to tell the truth. His eyesight should take priority over her feelings.

“Well, obviously…”

“Obviously?”

“For my employer’s stability and prosperity. That way I can receive proper compensation and plan for my retirement…”

Marine just blurted out random words. Even as she spoke, she didn’t know what she was saying.

“Retirement?”

“Yes. I need to plan for my retirement now too.”

Now that she said it, what would happen to her retirement?

After breaking off the engagement with the Duke, she’d never have a rabbit-like husband or fox-like children, would she?

Since the Duke wasn’t rabbit-like, it was impossible from the start anyway.

Her mouth felt bitter thinking about the family plans that wouldn’t be in her future.

“So you’re planning to leave me and plan for retirement?”

“Well, yes.”

“Poisoning me to completely eliminate me?”

“What?”

Marine’s eyes went round.

Why is the conversation going back to poisoning again?

“Marine. My eyes will never see, and you will never be able to leave my side. Never.”

At his firm, decisive words, Marine felt choked up.

Why does he give up on his eyes so quickly? Is it painful just to have hope? You can see if you just meet the Female Protagonist!

“You can’t give up so easily.”

Then the Duke raised his head as if looking at her.

“It’s easy.”

Gerald chuckled. Compared to losing her, everything else was easy.

“So you give up too. Leaving me.”

“I can’t give up on your eyes, Gerald.”

Deep wrinkles formed between Gerald’s brows.

He couldn’t understand why she was so stubborn about trying to leave him.

Was it because he wasn’t gentle enough? This time he had tried to be gentle with her.

But his mind went blank after secretly watching her put Mandelesong in hot water.

Her efforts to somehow cure his eyes and then leave stirred his anger.

So his tone naturally became sharp.

“Why are you so desperate to leave me?”

“When did I ever act desperate… I’m just worried about you, Gerald.”

She muttered in a dejected voice.

“You just talked about retirement plans and you weren’t desperate?”

In his head, he thought he should speak gently, but the tone that came out was cold.

Gently. How do you do that? Damn it.

“That’s…”

“Do those retirement plans include a husband and children?”

“How could you… No! There aren’t any! I’m not going to raise a rabbit-like husband or anything.”

A rabbit-like husband?

Following a gentle man, now a rabbit-like husband?

It was already hard to become a gentle man, but how exactly does one become a rabbit-like husband?

More than that, what was with that precise expression, as if such a person existed around her?

Gerald searched his mind for rabbit-like gentle men around her.

When it came to gentle men, Oliver immediately came to mind.

Oliver, that bastard, was he from the rabbit family?

As the Duke’s face gradually hardened coldly, Marine swallowed her saliva and slowly backed away.

A fierce aura like heat waves was rising around his body.

The Duke seems to have lost his mind again? He can’t even see, yet he loses it so well. I have no idea which part triggered his outburst button.

At that moment, the Duke rose from his seat and slowly approached her.

Marine backed away little by little until her back hit the wall.

The Duke stopped right in front of her, lowered his head to her face level, and whispered in a low voice.

“Marine. What kind of man is a rabbit-like man?”

“Huh? That was just something I said.”

Marine smiled awkwardly and turned her gaze to the side. It was just something she blurted out randomly, so she wasn’t specifically referring to anyone.

“I don’t think I’m from the rabbit family.”

His voice suddenly became kind.

Even though he spoke as gently as possible while emanating a fierce aura from his body, it was only frightening.

“Th, that’s right. Gerald-nim is definitely not from the rabbit family.”

At her words, the Duke’s face hardened stiffly.

“How honest. Then who might that rab. bit. family man be?”

The wolf asked kindly.

“I don’t know, hic.”

Marine shrugged her shoulders. She became a timid sheep in front of the wolf, and hiccups came out for the first time in a while.

“There’s no way you don’t know. You expressed it so precisely. Think carefully. Hmm?”

The Duke placed his hand on the wall above her head and lowered his head further.

I’m already scared, so could you please not do the wall slam?

“Marine?”

His seductive voice and warm breath tickled her cheek.

Marine’s light green eyes trembled with fear.

I wish he would choose one thing – whether to seduce or intimidate. Please.

“I misspoke. There are no rabbit-like men in this world. The book I happened to choose today was the Rabbit and Wolf Story, so I must have made such nonsense. I’ll go change it to a different book.”

Marine poured out her words rapidly without even breathing, then quickly opened the door and ran away.

Gerald slowly lifted his eyelids and looked down at her now empty spot.

His eyes glinted coldly.

Running away so well. Makes me want to chase her.

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