I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 176
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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 176
“Miss?”
When Yulia called out restlessly again, Marine peeked only her eyes out from under the blanket.
“Yulia. I, I mean…”
“Yes.”
“I’m so embarrassed.”
“Pardon?”
“No matter how much I think about it, I’m so embarrassed that I just want to die, you know?”
“Miss, you can’t pass away.”
When Yulia made a tearful face and stopped her, Marine shook her head.
“No, I don’t really mean I’ll die. *Sigh*”
Marine bit her lower lip as if she couldn’t continue speaking, and cast her gaze outside the window with distant eyes.
Until last night, she had empathized with Gerald’s childhood pain and felt sorry for him.
After such a day of comforting him ended, she opened her eyes to the morning sunlight.
This kind of brilliance would look different to him with his exceptional five senses, wouldn’t it? Would it look more radiant?
From far away, the sound of birds chirping came as if announcing the morning.
That bird song would sound close to him too, wouldn’t it? How fascinating—
Wait. Close?
Her head, which had been drowsy with the lingering effects of sleep, suddenly snapped to attention as if hit by cold water.
Marine’s light green eyes shook restlessly. And her dark history began replaying endlessly in her mind.
The curses about the Duke she’d made in the office corridor. The thunderous sounds that had rumbled from her stomach. Her muttering to herself at the capital mansion. The whispers she’d given to Dia. The sound of her heart pounding whenever she grew close to him.
And his words and attitude as if he knew everything.
All. Of. It.
The more she mulled it over, the more heat rose from her face and her ears burned as if they would explode.
“Aaahhhhh!”
Yulia and Elmis looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
Marine felt bad that the innocent maids seemed to be reading the situation, so she forced herself to lift her head and act fine.
“Would you two go out and rest until I call for you?”
The embarrassment was something she had to endure alone.
“Yes, Miss.”
After the two left and the room became quiet, Marine executed blanket kicks while pummeling her pillow.
“Why are you so careless! No, wait? This isn’t something I could have been careful about, is it? It’s force majeure, that kind of thing. But I still should have been careful! It’s not my fault, I tell you? I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s embarrassing!”
The angel and devil in her heart fought fiercely.
* * *
“Marine?”
Outside, deep navy blue and orange hues had already blended together as dusk fell.
Gerald had belatedly heard the news that Marine was holed up in her room and wouldn’t come out, so he had come to find her.
Marine was rolled up like a silkworm cocoon in her blanket with only her eyes peeking out.
“You came?”
Even that appearance was lovely, but not eating all day? She was already thin enough.
When Gerald tried to approach the bed, Marine suddenly shouted.
“W-wait a moment!”
He silently looked at her with a puzzled expression.
“Are you coming closer right now?”
“So?”
“I think it would be better if you didn’t.”
“Why?”
Gerald stood in place, crossed his arms, and observed her carefully.
Marine buried her face deeper in the blanket and mumbled.
“I haven’t washed yet…”
“That doesn’t matter.”
“I knew it would be like this!”
Marine suddenly raised her voice.
“What?”
“You can hear all my voices, can’t you?”
There was a hint of resentment in her voice.
“Because you’re speaking.”
“I just spoke in a completely tiny ant-poop voice. Originally, you shouldn’t be able to hear it.”
Marine pouted and grumbled.
Finally understanding her behavior, Gerald tensed his lips to hold back laughter.
“Ah, somehow it seemed like I couldn’t hear it well.”
“Liar.”
Marine narrowed her eyes and looked at him suspiciously.
“Right. It’s a lie. I heard it very clearly.”
“I knew it.”
When he confessed honestly, Marine replied primly.
“Marine, let me ask politely—may I come to your side?”
He could see Marine’s eyes waver slightly.
“Marine, I want to come to your side…”
Gerald deliberately acted pitiful and trailed off his words.
“*Sigh*, fine. But no sticking close.”
“I won’t.”
Gerald approached near the bed.
As he came closer, she made grunting sounds while scooting back a little.
Before she could move further away, Gerald quickly lay down next to her and hugged her tightly.
“Gerald!”
Startled Marine looked at him with sharp eyes.
“I said I would come to your side.”
“I said no sticking close!”
“With the blanket wrapping around you like this, how can I stick close?”
When he acted coy, Marine narrowed her eyes and opened and closed her lips before firmly shutting them.
“So how long are you going to stay here?”
“I was going to come out soon.”
“Am I perhaps strange?”
Gerald asked while busily chasing her eyes that were avoiding his gaze.
“What? No!”
Marine opened her eyes wide and looked at him as if asking what kind of nonsense he was talking about.
Finally making eye contact, Gerald tilted his head slightly to the side and whispered with a forlorn expression.
“Then why do you dislike me coming to your side? I think I might get hurt.”
Marine hurriedly pulled her hands out from under the blanket and turned his face to look at her. Her light green eyes had deepened with guilt.
“I’m sorry if I hurt you. That wasn’t my intention.”
“Then?”
“I’m just embarrassed. Everything must have been audible until now, and there must have been smells too.”
Just thinking about it made her face gradually turn a pretty shade of red from embarrassment.
Gerald gazed at her as if finding her adorable.
For the first time, he had confided his secret to someone. He had fully expected this kind of reaction from her.
People were bound to avoid those with abilities.
Who would want their privacy exposed? Sometimes ignorance was medicine. That’s why the secret was passed down only to the Family Head, his wife, and the eldest son.
It was also a form of consideration for others.
“I wasn’t hurt. I said that because it seemed like my lovely fiancée would show her face this way.”
When he spoke with an amused voice, Marine’s eyes carefully examined his face as if trying to discern his true intentions.
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Only then did relief spread across Marine’s face.
“But can you control that ability?”
Gerald nodded, lifting the corners of his mouth.
“Then please control it as much as possible when you’re with me.”
Marine pleaded with earnest eyes.
“I will.”
“Promise?”
“Yes. But shouldn’t you eat something now?”
“Why?”
“The hungry sounds you’ve been making—”
“Gerald!”
Marine covered his ears with a face that looked ready to cry.
Gerald embraced her soothingly and burst into laughter.
Who would have thought he’d feel this way.
Sharing secrets with someone you love definitely felt like growing closer.
* * *
The open field at Mountain Village.
The villagers all watched a family with sad and grim expressions.
A small figure covered by a shroud. Small, delicate hands protruding from between the shroud. The child’s mother sobbing over it. And the father.
“Sam, Sam. *sob* What were those wild berries worth…”
The child’s mother couldn’t bear to lift the shroud and kept calling the child’s name while crying prostrate.
The child who had gone alone to the mountain to pick wild berries, wanting to give something delicious to his mother on her birthday, had returned cold.
The child’s father gritted his teeth and glared at the sky as if resenting it.
“Did you see the gray wolf?”
Village administrator Rumers looked at the hunter who had brought back the child’s corpse.
“I didn’t see it directly, but the wound marks are definitely from a gray wolf. It must have definitely made its lair in the mountain.”
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