I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 135

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 135

The sound of Zeromian and Oliver’s hurried footsteps could be heard.

Before he could even tell them to come in, Zeromian flung the door wide open.

“Oliver said it was something serious. He didn’t tell me the reason.”

Oliver glanced around and quickly closed the door.

Gerald looked straight at Zeromian. Their gazes collided in the empty air.

“Your eyes!”

“I can see.”

“Since when?”

“Since the Capital.”

Oliver, who had been listening to their conversation, sucked in a sharp breath.

“Then why did you pretend you couldn’t see until now?”

Zeromian asked irritably, roughly running his hand through his silver hair.

“For my sister’s revenge. And to keep Marine by my side. Is that answer enough?”

“Hah, you crazy bastard. Fine, I’ll let it slide since you answered. What’s this serious matter?”

Zeromian took off his glasses as if trying to organize his thoughts and wiped them roughly.

“Help me. I’m asking you.”

Zeromian instantly froze like ice.

Oliver, who was listening beside him, also stopped breathing and stiffened.

“The crazy bastard has really gone insane? What? Help me? Not an order, but help me? Just how serious is this?”

“Marine’s mother has been kidnapped, and Marine is currently going to face the kidnappers.”

“What?!”

Zeromian shouted with a face that had turned pale.

“I need the drugs you made. First, a drug to change appearance. No one must know that I’ve left my post. So I plan to change my appearance and slip out. Second, a drug to run fast. You once said you made a drug that doubles the body’s strength because you wanted to beat me. Give me that.”

Zeromian roughly ran his hand through his hair and put his glasses back on.

“I can’t change eye color even with appearance-changing drugs, but your eye color has already changed, so it doesn’t matter. I’ll bring everything you want.”

Zeromian quickly left the office, and Oliver stood with a serious expression.

“Oliver.”

“Yes.”

“Come here every day and act normally so no one knows I’m gone. Tell Dia about this. So Dia can keep the siblings quiet.”

“Yes.”

“And exterminate every single vermin in the Duke’s Castle without missing one.”

The Duke spat out coldly, as if chewing the words.

“Yes. I’ll keep that in mind.”

Oliver answered with a tense expression.

The Duke’s eyes could see. Now everything was falling into place.

If only Marine and her mother returned safely, everything would be perfect.

That night.

A man with gray hair and a slender build quickly left the Duke’s Castle, but no one noticed his presence.

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“Gerald will know by now too.”

Elmis looked at her with a questioning expression.

“I asked Yulia to deliver a letter. Gerald probably just departed.”

At those words, Elmis visibly relaxed.

“I’m moving under the assumption that enemies are watching from everywhere. And the coachman is one of them too.”

“I’ll go take care of him.”

Elmis whispered with a cold look in her eyes.

“No. Elmis needs to keep pretending she doesn’t know anything, just like now. Fortunately, people don’t notice Elmis when she’s a shadow, so they seem unaware of her existence. They specifically said to bring a maid. Since Elmis has been by my side since the Capital, they’ll think she’s an ordinary maid. I plan to let them lower their guard.”

“Understood.”

“No matter what happens, rescue Mom first and head straight to the Duke’s Castle. Got it?”

“…Yes. But what about you, Miss?”

“I learned swordsmanship too. I can at least stab and run away. Master acknowledged that I’m good at running. And I have something else planned.”

Marine glanced at what she had hidden in her luggage.

“I’ll do my best to teach you swordsmanship until we reach our destination.”

“I’ll learn. Thank you.”

From then on, Marine learned swordsmanship from Elmis inside the carriage. Since no one could see inside the carriage from outside, it became a perfect training space.

She pictured an imaginary opponent in her mind and thrust forward.

“If you stab like that, it won’t penetrate well. You need to twist slightly as you stab.”

“Okay. I’ll try.”

The imaginary enemy sometimes became a kidnapper, sometimes a demon beast.

The Sairan Desert had many demon beasts. Even though it was just the entrance, demon beast attacks could happen at any time.

The carriage stopped in front of a shabby inn.

The coachman approached and bowed obsequiously.

“Miss. This is the last inn before the Sairan Desert Entrance.”

“I see. You’ve worked hard.”

Marine tried hard to hide her angry expression.

“Miss, the night air is still cold. Please go inside quickly.”

Elmis, who had heard that the coachman was part of the kidnappers, hid her chilling gaze and spoke to Marine.

“Alright.”

Now they just had to cross the mountain to reach the Sairan Desert entrance.

The Sairan Desert had terrain that was narrow like a bottle mouth and then widened as you went deeper. The entrance to the desert was called the Sairan Desert Entrance.

Back in the inn room, Marine took out a book titled ‘Where Do Demon Beasts Come From?’

She had been reading this grateful book that got her a job at the Duke’s Castle every day since the kidnapping incident occurred.

This book by an unknown author covered various scholars’ discourse on the birth of demon beasts, and the latter part contained detailed explanations of desert demon beasts, which was very helpful.

The demon beast called ‘Sandy’ was as large as 15 meters. It lived in the deep sand of the desert and would emerge to swallow prey whole when food came.

It feared fire and, having no eyes, found prey by smell. It particularly liked birds, so it deliberately inhabited areas near the red flowers of the desert that birds frequently visited.

The book even included illustrations, showing a disgusting centipede-like appearance.

Sandy was large and extremely dangerous, so the book even included a simple map showing where in the desert entrance you should go to encounter one.

Below that, numerous other desert demon beasts were listed.

Marine read through all of this thoroughly.

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When he took the pill Zeromian gave him, his hair changed to dark gray. It seemed he had deliberately chosen a color similar to his own eye color.

His eyes became more slanted, and his jawline became smoother. His height decreased slightly and his muscles shrank simultaneously, changing his overall build to a slender frame.

No one would think he was the Western Duke.

Gerald leaped through the air, stepping on trees as he flew.

He was already stronger and faster than others, but the drug Zeromian gave him explosively increased his speed.

At this speed, he would be able to catch up to the carriage soon.

Please. Marine.

His heart felt like it was burning black.

If enemies were targeting his people, he thought it would be Marine. Besides his nephews, she was the most vulnerable person around him.

He had sent knights along, thinking that the Baroness might also be targeted, but he should have sent more than that.

Late regret pressed heavily on his chest.

From the moment Marine first came to the Duke’s Castle, she had even committed the dangerous act of deceiving him, the Western Duke, with only the thought of protecting and keeping her mother safe.

That’s how precious her mother was to Marine.

So he couldn’t blame her for not telling him right away.

He was only grateful that she had informed him through a letter, even if it was this late.

Marine. Please. Hold on until I get there.

* * *

After crossing the mountain, the Sairan Desert entrance could be seen in the distance.

Beyond the narrow path like a bottle neck, the vast yellow sand desert gradually drew closer.

“Elmis. Please take care of Mom. As soon as we rescue Mom, take the carriage and leave.”

“Yes. I understand. The Shadow that followed is M. I told M to move when you say ‘shoes.'”

“Okay. Thank you.”

“Miss… You must be careful, very careful.”

Elmis’s dark blue eyes shook greatly with worry.

“Yes. I will.”

She could see Elmis’s hands trembling slightly.

She knew how big a request it was to ask Elmis to rescue someone else first, rather than her protected target.

However, she would surely keep her promise.

Marine gripped Elmis’s hand tightly to reassure her.

Soon the Diamond Carriage stopped at the desert entrance. A black cargo carriage stood directly in front, as if blocking the path.

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