I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 139

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 139

After walking under the scorching sun for two days without eating or drinking, her vision kept blurring.

Marine gasped for breath as she pressed her hands against her weakening legs.

The white body of Bunny Bunny running away in the distance multiplied into two, then three.

Am I going to die like this? What should I call this? Dying in a foreign land, so death away from home? Dying from hunger, so starvation?

At least I dealt with the kidnapper before dying, so that’s fortunate…

Marine shook her head to clear away the pessimistic thoughts that kept creeping into her mind.

Why would I die?

I still need to see Mom again, and I need to confess my love after making the Duke’s eyes see. I absolutely won’t die even if I die.

Then, she saw sparkling blue waves in the distance.

“…Water?”

Now I’m starting to see mirages.

Seeing the blue water made her throat even more parched.

Marine reached toward the distant waves with her hand and chuckled weakly.

At least I can see water before I die…

“No! I said I won’t die!”

Marine hit her thigh hard to try to regain her senses.

“Ah- it hurts. That’s good. Because it hurts.”

It really was good. Still feeling pain meant it wasn’t time to die yet.

Marine tried to focus as she looked ahead again.

The blue waves she thought were a mirage were still there.

The blue shimmering waves were calm. Like a vast lake.

A lake? Could this be the War Oasis in the middle of the Sairan Desert?

Marine looked around in surprise.

She could see Bunny Bunny bouncing away in a different direction, leaving her behind.

Marine looked at Bunny Bunny’s retreating figure with confused eyes.

Did it just bring me to the lake and leave?

But I’m your emergency food supply? I’m your lunch box? Why?

She could see Bunny Bunny looking back.

At that moment, a strong sandstorm blew.

As yellow sand scattered, a pink heart-shaped spot among the white fur on Bunny Bunny’s forehead was revealed.

But Marine couldn’t see it because sand got in her eyes.

Bunny Bunny stared at Marine for a moment, then bounced away again into the distance.

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Marine threw the unanswerable question to herself and walked toward the War Oasis.

Whether Bunny Bunny had brought her here or not, now she could drink water. She could live.

However, the War Oasis that had seemed close was actually very far away.

Her exhausted knees suddenly buckled.

She hadn’t eaten or drunk anything, and hadn’t slept a wink while confronting Bunny Bunny.

With the lake right in front of her, her strength had hit rock bottom.

Let me just rest a little before going.

Marine thought this and crawled to a waist-high rock to lean her back against it.

Ah, I want to rest. I don’t want to do anything.

Her eyes kept closing. She tried shaking her head to stay alert, but it was useless.

I can’t fall asleep like this. It’s dangerous.

Even knowing this, her body gradually tilted to the side until her head touched the sandy ground.

I can’t sleep. I need to get up.

Her vision blurred and became hazy.

Another sandstorm blew, and yellow sand accumulated over her body.

It’s warm.

Marine thought as she closed her eyes.

“…Who is this? Sweetie?”

Buzz buzz buzz. She could hear bees humming in the distance. If there are many bees, the Duke will appear and save me.

“Sweetie! Snap out of it.”

The bees kept buzzing in her ears.

So noisy. I want to sleep.

Marine lost consciousness just like that.

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Gerald discovered traces of someone fighting with the luggage carriage at the Sairan Desert entrance. And even the cold corpse of Shadow M.

Rescuing Marine was most important, but he couldn’t leave his person here like this.

If left here, it would become food for demon beasts.

Because he had taken the medicine Zero gave him and rushed here in the shortest time possible, Kay couldn’t catch up to him either.

Gerald began digging the ground with the scabbard at his waist.

Soon after, a deep pit was created.

“Emros. You did well.”

He buried M and brought a large rock to place on top. He also marked an X with his sword.

Kay, who would be following diligently, would see this mark and recover M.

The fact that Shadow M had been defeated meant the kidnapper’s skills were considerable.

Gerald clenched his teeth so hard that his jaw muscles bulged as he shot forward into the desert like a beam of light.

His eyes flashed fiercely.

Whatever bastard it was, he would make them pay dearly for their crimes.

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Gerald ran frantically through the desert for a day.

Along the way, he encountered countless demon beasts, killing them again and again as he pressed forward.

Every time he faced demon beasts, his heart boiled with rage and his methods became increasingly brutal.

Could Marine have survived until now in such a perilous place?

Blue blood dripping from his sword was buried in the sand and disappeared without a trace.

No matter how wide he opened all his senses, he couldn’t find any trace of Marine. The Sairan Desert was too vast, and she was too small.

With each rough breath he exhaled, his chest swelled as if it would burst, then deflated repeatedly.

He was on the verge of madness.

No, maybe he had already gone mad.

He had wondered why the kidnappers chose the Sairan Desert as their crime scene, but if their purpose was to drive him insane like this, they had succeeded.

Images of demon beasts attacking her kept forming in his mind, making it hard to breathe.

Small and delicate Marine wouldn’t even be a single bite for desert demon beasts.

“Marine…”

The pain of his past days without sight was nothing.

The moment she disappeared, his world collapsed.

Gerald lay down on the rough sandy ground. The blue sky spread out vastly before his eyes.

He couldn’t honestly confess to her that he could see this well.

Marine had so desperately wanted him to be able to see, but because of his greed for her, he couldn’t bring himself to say he could see.

Belated regret accumulated layer by layer in his chest.

He couldn’t say he loved her. He had never done it before, so he didn’t even know how to utter such words.

He couldn’t even think of it. How pathetic.

This time when they met, he planned to tell her he loved her right away.

“I love you.”

All he had to do was say these simple words.

He couldn’t give up like this.

Gerald stood up again.

He hadn’t even confessed to Marine once, and now he was supposed to give up on her?

Even if she had been attacked by Demon Beasts, he would find her. Even if he had to search this entire desert.

What had he missed?

Calculating her walking speed, they should have already encountered each other by now.

In the end, there was only one answer.

Their paths had crossed from the very beginning.

Right. From the beginning.

Gerald turned around again and ran toward the Sairan Desert Entrance.

Stupid fool. He had lost his mind, consumed by the thought that she might be in danger.

It wasn’t about wandering the desert aimlessly.

If it was Marine, if it was her who had urgently told him to come rescue her, she would have definitely left some kind of trace.

After running for another day, he arrived at the place where the Cargo Carriage was stationed and looked out at the Sairan Desert.

In the distance, he could see rocks and Red Flowers. That was a place where Santi frequently appeared.

Even when reducing the monster population each season for desert trade, they had consciously avoided that place.

To kill one large Santi required ten Knights. Their hide was so hard that Knights who couldn’t handle Aura couldn’t even attempt it.

That’s why when he had been searching for Marine, he hadn’t gone in that direction either.

It wasn’t that he was afraid of Santi.

It was because he desperately hoped she wouldn’t go that way.

She wouldn’t have gone that way, would she?

Gerald looked in other directions before turning his head back toward where the Santi were.

M was dead. That meant there had been pursuers chasing her.

Could Marine have escaped the pursuers’ hands? How did Marine try to shake off the pursuers? Did Marine perhaps already know about the Santi’s existence?

Countless questions arose and disappeared in his mind.

His footsteps unconsciously headed toward the Santi’s habitat. For some reason, he felt like he could find answers if he went there.

Once he decided on a direction, his feet picked up speed again. Gerald ran as if flying and arrived at the Santi’s habitat.

And he discovered traces drawn with fire on a large rock.

“Ha, Marine.”

For the first time since entering the desert, a smile appeared on his lips.

It was definitely Marine’s trace. She was waiting for him!

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