I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 142

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 142

“How’s that? Enough?”

“That’s enough.”

“Beer here.”

Just then, the shop clerk brought out two glasses of beer.

Gerald silently stood up from his seat.

“What about the money?”

“I’ll transfer it directly to the bank.”

“Got it. Take care, rich valued customer!”

As Gerald left the tavern, two emotions swirled chaotically in his chest.

Relief that she was alive and anxiety that Tan had her coexisted simultaneously.

But that was only momentary, as Gerald shook his head.

Marine was alive.

Let’s focus on that first.

Gerald set his destination for the Sanders Imperial Palace.

* * *

Marine groggily got up from bed, drawn by the savory smell of bread.

“You’re awake?”

Tan cheerfully waved the bread in his hand.

Marine opened her lips in a drowsy state, still not fully awake.

“You’re still here?”

“Yeah.”

“Why are you eating here?”

“Oh, didn’t I mention?”

Tan grinned mischievously and tore the bread with his hands.

Marine narrowed her eyes and stared at him, wondering what nonsense he was about to spout while drawing it out like that.

“I’m not leaving this place. For about a day or two?”

“What?”

Marine asked back with a horrified expression.

“Hmm, because of the rumors.”

“What rumors? Don’t tell me that aff-, that thing?”

“Right. For the sake of those rumors, I can’t leave this room quickly. So I’ll eat here, wash here…”

“Good heavens…”

Marine hung her head with a face drained of all color.

What to do with this crazy 3rd Prince? He was an even more tremendously insane person than the Duke when his eyes occasionally went wild.

“So give up.”

Tan smiled gently with the corners of his eyes curving.

“Give up what?”

“The thought of leaving here.”

Marine looked at him with startled eyes.

His black pupils that met hers were so dark she couldn’t read what he was thinking.

“Want some bread? Oh, since you haven’t eaten for days, soup would be better for your first meal?”

“No. Please eat plenty by yourself.”

Since there was no way to stop this crazy person, she had no choice but to avoid him.

At her deflated voice, he burst into loud laughter.

“Sweetie. It’s easier when you give up.”

“Yes, yes.”

Marine answered halfheartedly and lay back down on the bed.

She had actually planned to escape today, but it looked like she was trapped without any way out.

* * *

After arriving in the capital of the Sanders Empire, Gerald stayed at a luxury inn with a view of the Imperial Palace.

No matter how confident he was in his martial prowess, he couldn’t just recklessly storm into a foreign country’s Imperial Palace.

That would immediately mean war. War could break out from even the smallest trigger.

Above all, the Oman Empire and Sanders Empire had constantly invaded each other until they signed a peace treaty.

Even if he said he came to retrieve his fiancée, the Sanders Empire would likely hide Marine away.

So the urgent priority was to find out whether the woman the 3rd Prince had was really Marine.

Just then, he heard familiar breathing approaching stealthily from afar. It was Kay.

He had left markers along the way so Kay could find him.

The curtain swayed slowly and Kay was suddenly prostrating before him.

“Kay. Did you bury M properly?”

“Yes…”

In Kay’s short answer, he could feel numerous emotions – devastation, regret, anger.

Gerald silently shared those emotions and spoke heavily.

“Marine avenged M.”

Gerald played the video stone to show Kay the footage. Kay’s pupils trembled as he watched.

“Thank you for showing me…”

Kay bowed his head after watching the entire video.

Gerald slowly nodded and changed the subject.

“What about the Baroness?”

“She arrived safely at the Duke’s Castle. She lost much of her strength, so she’s recovering her health.”

“I see.”

Kay silently bowed his head and melted into the shadows.

Just then, knock knock, the sound of knocking was heard.

When he opened the door, a one-eyed man with brown curly permed hair and an eyepatch stood there.

“You were looking for me?”

Gerald stared intently at the man’s face.

“News.”

“Haha. You recognize me right away? Usually people can’t tell me and Paper apart.”

Paper and News were identical twins.

Paper wore an eyepatch because his eye was injured, but News wore an eyepatch following Paper’s example.

It was to occasionally deceive people by pretending to be each other when handling business.

Gerald silently sat in a chair.

News, who followed him into the room, looked around the luxurious room and whistled.

“I heard you had a lot of money, and it was true? You have to make reservations a year in advance to get this room.”

“Let’s get to the point.”

“Ah, you’re the type who hates wasting time. Alright. What do you want?”

“First, information about the woman the 3rd Prince brought to the palace. Second, a way to infiltrate the 3rd Prince’s palace.”

“For someone who hates wasting time, your information is slow.”

News leaned back diagonally in his chair.

“What do you mean?”

“There are rumors going around lately that the 3rd Prince is so infatuated with that woman that he won’t come out of his room.”

Gerald’s face hardened like stone.

“Even though the 3rd Prince is a womanizer, he doesn’t usually fall for women to that extent. But this time…”

News, who had been speaking playfully, straightened his posture at the murderous aura emanating from his client and awkwardly continued.

“Ahem, ahem. Valued Customer. Exactly when do you need me to find this out?”

“By tomorrow.”

“The fee?”

“First commission fee: 100 gold. Second commission fee: double that.”

Gerald tossed a money pouch onto the table. Glittering gold peeked out from the leather pouch.

News widened his eyes and quickly tucked the leather pouch into his chest.

“Commission accepted, Valued Customer. I’ll find out quickly. I’ll see you at this time tomorrow.”

Unlike when he entered, News quietly slipped out of the room.

Gerald glared at the Imperial Palace beyond the window with fierce eyes.

* * *

“Huff, huff, huff.”

Rough breathing burst from Tan’s red lips.

Sweat beaded on his forehead, gliding smoothly down his deeply carved collarbone before dripping off.

Each time he moved up and down, the bulging blue veins on his bronze forearms were fully revealed.

Marine still watched Tan with cold eyes while wrapped tightly in her blanket.

That, that. It seems like he’s deliberately making louder sounds.

Tan was diligently doing push-ups with his shirt off.

“Whew.”

After taking a deep breath, Tan got up from the floor and picked up a towel.

A drop of sweat passed along his smooth jawline and fell onto his chest muscles, raised from exercise.

Marine was covering her face with her hands while peeking at him through her fingers.

“Sweetie. You know secretly stealing glances like that is more lewd, right?”

Tan raised one corner of his mouth in a smirk and looked at her with suggestive eyes.

“I wasn’t looking.”

Marine quickly covered her entire face with her palms and pretended not to know.

“But I saw you looking?”

“You deliberately made those sounds, didn’t you? Because of those ru. mors.”

When Marine changed the subject, Tan chuckled and poured himself water to drink.

“Sweetie, you’re smart?”

“Why do you care so much about rumors anyway?”

Marine removed her hands from her face and glared at Tan.

During the three days trapped in this room with him, her strength had returned.

If she could just avoid his gaze, she felt like she could escape from this room, but Tan didn’t give her any time alone.

She ate in the room, and bathed in the bathtub connected to the room.

“Rumors are very important, Sweetie.”

“Haah…”

Really, let’s not even talk about it. What could she expect from that strange rumor-obsessed man.

“But Sweetie, isn’t it hot staying hidden in that blanket like that?”

When Tan spoke teasingly, Marine gripped the blanket even tighter defiantly.

It was hot. Very much so.

The Imperial Palace of the Sanders Empire was built on a desert, so it was hot and humid. But she couldn’t show him the dress that revealed her bare skin.

That was the moment.

[“You said not to let anyone in-“]

Marine suddenly stuck her head out at the commotion coming from outside the room.

[“Am I just anyone?”]

[“I’m sorry. But-“]

[“Move aside.”]

It was in the Sanders Empire language, but she had learned it in childhood so she could roughly understand.

As she looked at the door with curious eyes, Tan suddenly approached the bed quickly.

Even though they had been in the same room for three days, he hadn’t come near the bed at all…

“…Why?”

Marine looked up at him with a flustered face.

Tan’s eyes gleamed coldly as he pulled down the opaque curtain that had been attached to the bedroom wall.

The curtain instantly enveloped the bed.

Frightened by the sudden situation, Marine followed Tan’s actions with trembling eyes.

“Why, why are you doing this…?”

Watching him kneel on the bed and lean toward her at an angle, Marine froze and couldn’t continue speaking.

“Sweetie, stay still.”

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