I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 164
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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 164
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“Peridot. You have to hide really well.”
Marine shouted loudly while covering her eyes with her hands in front of the tree.
“Yes!”
Peridot’s innocent laughter echoed long as he ran away giggling.
Just following the sound of laughter, it seemed like she could find where the child was hiding in an instant.
“Now I’m counting.”
Marine counted slowly so Peridot could hide.
“…5, 4, 3, 2, 1!”
The moment she opened her eyes wide, turned around and took a step, she bumped her nose into a solid body.
“Ouch.”
“Are you okay?”
When she grabbed her nose and looked up, she saw a large man looking at her with concern.
“Gerald, why are you right behind me?”
She scolded him with a nasal voice, and he stared intently at her nose hidden by her hand.
“Your nose? Why are you always so careless?”
“It’s because Gerald was standing too close behind me that we bumped into each other.”
Marine lowered her hand with an incredulous expression and poked his chest that was pressed close.
“That’s what I mean. Why didn’t you notice I was standing behind you? I even made footstep sounds on purpose.”
“I guess I was counting too enthusiastically.”
After Gerald carefully examined her slightly reddened nose tip, he crossed his arms in front of his chest.
“You’ve been too busy lately.”
“Are you sulking because I’m only playing with Peridot right now?”
When she looked at him with a ‘no way’ expression, he raised one eyebrow sharply.
“Me?”
“Yes.”
Marine pressed her lips together and held back her laughter.
“Do I look like such an idle person?”
“No. But you just complained that I was busy. Even though Gerald is much busier than me.”
“Sulking and now complaining?”
He stared at her with an expression as if he didn’t even know such words existed in the world.
“Isn’t it?”
When she asked with a voice tinged with laughter, he uncrossed his arms and gently avoided her gaze. His reddened earlobes were clearly visible.
“…It seems so.”
Marine burst into clear laughter seeing him honestly admit it.
At the sound of her laughter, he turned his gaze back and slightly raised the corners of his mouth following her lead.
“Alright. Now, your hand.”
This time she was the first to say what Gerald always said.
Soon a large hand came to clasp hers perfectly without any gaps.
“First, let’s find our Peridot. He’s probably hiding and waiting for us to find him.”
“Let’s do that.”
Marine led Gerald, who was much larger than her, and searched through the bushes.
Gerald listened to the sound of the child’s pounding heart. As they got closer, he could also hear giggling mixed in.
“Where is our Peridot?”
When Marine deliberately raised her voice and set the mood, the child’s heartbeat became even more frantic.
Gerald followed leisurely, and when she searched in the wrong places, he gently pulled her to change direction.
He could see Peridot’s black hair sticking out between the bushes.
“Found you!”
“Kyaa!”
Peridot burst into giggles and buried his face in Marine’s skirt.
“Teacher! Was I hard to find?”
“Yes. It was so hard.”
“Is that why you searched with Uncle?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
When Marine nodded with an expression that it was really difficult, Peridot puffed out his chest with a proud face.
“I hide really well.”
“Our Peridot really hides well.”
Marine praised him more to boost the child’s confidence.
“Then this time Teacher and Uncle hide. I’ll find you.”
“Me too?”
There was awkwardness in Gerald’s voice.
“Yes! Quickly, quickly hide.”
Peridot immediately ran to a large tree and closed his eyes tightly.
“Let’s hide quickly.”
Marine pulled his hand and headed toward the dense forest.
“Should we hide here?”
The base of a tree that was hundreds of years old was hollowed out in a round cave-like shape.
“Marine, why are you so good at finding places like this? Like that small opening last time too.”
Gerald looked at her as if amazed.
“Hehehe. When I was young, no one could follow me at hide and seek.”
Marine put both hands on her hips and acted playfully boastful.
That appearance was exactly like Peridot from a moment ago, making Gerald’s eyes naturally curve.
“It seems that skill still remains.”
“That’s what I’m saying. Hurry and get in.”
“If I go in too, it seems like it’ll be packed?”
“Let’s try going in first.”
At Marine’s urging, Gerald bent his body as much as possible and went inside. The height was low so he had to sit on the floor.
Outside, Marine quickly moved around here and there like a squirrel gathering acorns, collecting brush.
Gerald watched that scene with interest.
She approached with a satisfied face as if she had gathered as much as she thought, but when she looked inside the cave, her eyes became troubled.
“It’s narrower than I thought?”
Gerald opened his mouth with an expression asking didn’t he say so.
“But this place is fine.”
He casually patted his thigh.
“Would, would that be okay?”
Marine slightly avoided his gaze and blushed.
Gerald, who immediately understood the meaning of what she said, cleared his throat.
“Be careful.”
Marine’s eyes, looking down at him, trembled finely.
Does being careful make it work?
Marine pressed down the words that almost burst from her mouth deep in her chest and hesitated.
“Teacher! Uncle!”
Just then, Peridot’s voice could be heard from far away.
Marine sat gently on his legs with a determined expression and hid the front with bushes.
“Perfect.”
She sparkled her eyes with a confident smile.
“Right?”
Gerald pulled her waist close and raised the corners of his mouth.
“Couldn’t be better.”
Her fresh sprout-like light green eyes trembled once again.
“You’re talking about Hide and Seek, right?”
“Well. What do you think?”
As he lowered his eyelashes and gradually closed the distance with seductive eyes, Marine’s face gradually turned red.
“Teacher. Where are you? Hng.”
“Peridot, what are you doing?”
Rubiana, who was passing by holding a book, discovered Peridot alone and approached him.
“We’re playing Hide and Seek but I can’t find Teacher.”
“How long have you been looking?”
“A long time!”
Peridot spread both hands wide.
Rubiana looked around the garden once and then gazed toward the dense forest. Seeing that Peridot couldn’t find her, she seemed to be over there.
“Ruby Sister. Sister, please help me find Teacher together.”
Rubiana looked down at her younger brother with a troubled expression.
To help Peridot find Teacher together, she was too curious about the rest of the book she was reading.
“Peridot, aren’t you hungry? Dia Sister said she’d give us delicious snacks. Let’s go eat those.”
“Snacks? But I need to find Teacher…”
Though Peridot said that, he hesitated as if he was hungry from playing so much.
“If you don’t come looking, Teacher will come on her own.”
“Okay!”
Peridot nodded his head greatly, took Rubiana’s hand, and left to eat snacks.
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Even though wind was gently flowing in through the large window of the Emperor’s Office, the Finance Minister was sweating like rain.
While wiping sweat with his sleeve, he met the Emperor’s blade-like flashing eyes.
“Minister, are you hot?”
Unlike his piercing gaze, the Emperor’s voice was affectionate as if worried.
“N-no, Your Majesty.”
The Minister sweated profusely with an even more nervous expression.
“Then why are you sweating like flowing water?”
“I apologize, Your Majesty.”
“Is your body weak?”
“No.”
“Then your body isn’t weak, yet the progress on my Diamond Palace is this slow!”
At the Emperor’s frost-like interrogation, the Finance Minister’s back bent.
After seeing the Western Duke’s diamond carriage, the Emperor ordered a Diamond Palace to be built for his beloved 7th Imperial Consort.
However, with the diamond mine the Emperor owned, they could only lay the foundation.
As construction became sluggish due to inadequate diamond supply, the Emperor became increasingly hysterical.
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