I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 19
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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 19
“…Temporary. What did you do to me?”
“Pardon?”
Gerald suddenly stood up and strode toward her.
“I asked how the hell you did it!”
As he approached, she stepped back. Her breathing became rapid under his sharp interrogation. Her heartbeat was loud and noisy.
“I don’t understand what you mean.”
She answered with a trembling voice.
“Poison?”
“Pardon?”
He pressed down firmly on her shoulders so she couldn’t move any further. He could feel her surprised body stiffen.
Gerald bent down and brought his nose to her neck, inhaling deeply.
“Mmph.”
He could feel her covering her own lips to keep from crying out.
It was a familiar scent, but one he hadn’t smelled in a long time.
A fragrance he hadn’t been able to smell well since cutting himself off from the Outside World. It was the clean scent of grass touched by dew and dry sunlight. And the sweet smell of a woman’s skin that he was experiencing for the first time.
It wasn’t the poison he had expected. Even smelling this close, there was no scent of poison.
“Why, why are you doing this?”
He could feel her body trembling with fear under his hands. Gerald felt somewhat disappointed as he lifted his face from her neck.
“What exactly are you? How can you do that?”
“What did I do…?”
She asked in a voice that sounded like she might faint at any moment, completely terrified.
He slowly stepped back from her and after a long moment, spoke heavily.
“…I dozed off.”
“Pardon?”
“You made me sleep. You can make me sleep with just your Book Reading Skill, not poison?”
“Wow! Did you really sleep? Really?”
As if her trembling from moments before was a lie, her voice was filled with joy.
She’s happy about someone else’s affairs as if they were her own.
An incomprehensible woman.
“Yes.”
“But why didn’t you keep sleeping and wake up instead?”
“It bothered me.”
“Pardon?”
“It’s been too long, so it bothered me. As if once I fell asleep, I might never wake up.”
Gerald was surprised by his own inner thoughts that he had unconsciously revealed.
That was right. It had been so long since he had slept properly that the act of falling asleep felt awkward.
“Ah, I see. No, wait. Just how long have you not been sleeping?”
She had been nodding, but then asked in a surprised voice.
“I don’t remember.”
He couldn’t remember when he had last slept properly and completely without fainting.
“Good heavens.”
Hearing her surprised voice, fatigue suddenly rushed over him all at once. He returned to his place and slumped into his Chair.
She approached like a puppy following its master and hesitated near him.
“What?”
“…Shall I read to you again?”
She suggested carefully.
“No need.”
“But you should sleep.”
She spoke again with a voice full of regret, but the sleep that had already fled didn’t seem like it would return.
“Tomorrow.”
“…Yes. I understand. Then please rest.”
The rustling sound of her skirt gradually grew distant.
Soon the Office door opened and darkness descended again. Just one person had disappeared, but today the Office felt darker than usual.
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Marine’s face was flushed red as she came out into the Corridor, clutching the Book tightly. When the Dark Corridor ended and the Bright Corridor without Curtains appeared, she quickened her pace.
Marine knocked quickly at the Administrative Office door.
“Come in.”
Oliver, who had been looking at Documents, greeted her with a pleased expression.
“Miss Marine.”
“Oliver!”
Marine held a Book in each hand and raised her arms triumphantly like she was cheering.
“Pardon?”
“I did it!”
Marine smiled brightly, her light green eyes sparkling.
“You did it?”
Oliver smiled along with her reflexively, his face showing he didn’t understand.
“Duke slept!”
“What did you say?”
Oliver jumped up from his Chair in shock. The Wooden Chair couldn’t withstand the recoil and toppled to the floor with a thud.
“Well, to be precise, he dozed off? Something like that.”
“Tell me the details.”
Oliver led her to the Tea Table in the center of the Administrative Office.
Marine sat down and excitedly explained what had happened with the Duke.
“So how long did he sleep?”
“Well, Duke just said he dozed off, so.”
“Duke himself said that directly?”
“Yes.”
Marine nodded vigorously.
“Miss Marine, congratulations!”
“Is this something I should be congratulated for?”
Marine widened her eyes and asked back with a bewildered expression.
“Of course. You accomplished something no one else could.”
Oliver hurriedly got up from his seat and brought out 1 Gold.
“Here, take this.”
“No! I can’t accept this since he didn’t sleep completely, just dozed off briefly.”
Marine waved her hands frantically with a flustered expression.
“They say starting is half the battle. Miss Marine is fully qualified to receive this.”
Marine stared at the 1 Gold Oliver held out, then carefully accepted it.
“Thank you.”
“Please continue to help us in the future.”
“Yes!”
Marine answered spiritedly as if asking him to leave it to her.
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Oliver came into the Administrative Office with his shoulders drooping listlessly.
Marine looked at him with anxious eyes. Meeting her gaze, he shook his head back and forth.
“Just how many days has it been now?”
Marine jumped up and shouted as if demanding an answer.
“It’s been a week.”
“No, there’s a possibility he could sleep, so why is he avoiding me!”
“That’s exactly what I’m saying.”
Marine suddenly rolled up her sleeve and thrust it out toward Oliver as if showing off.
“Don’t you think my wrist has gotten bigger?”
“Hmm, I’m not sure.”
Oliver carefully examined her thin wrist before quickly looking away.
Though she was pretending to be a commoner, she was a Noble Lady. He shouldn’t stare at a Noble Lady’s wrist for too long.
He wasn’t sure if her wrist size had changed, but her appearance had definitely changed.
Her platinum blonde hair, which had been dull and lifeless, was beginning to shine, and her face, which had been so thin that her cheekbones protruded, now had soft lines.
Her face, which had given a weak and hazy impression, looked much better with adequate nutrition and sleep.
“If I go asking for a wrist examination, will he immediately kick me out?”
She asked while turning her wrist this way and that.
“His orders were that no one should come in…”
“That’s right.”
Marine sat back down and glared at the fairy tale books placed on the desk.
These were carefully selected fairy tale books that ended happily. With these books, she felt she could put him to sleep perfectly.
“Miss Marine. You may leave work early today.”
Marine picked up one of the Hardcover Fairy Tale Books from the desk with a dejected face and stood up.
“Yes. Then I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Yes. Take care.”
For a week now, she hadn’t even caught a glimpse of the Duke.
Since there was nothing to report to the Duke, there was nothing to do. She had finished all the document work she’d been buried in for several days, and spent most of her remaining time reading books.
Choosing books to read to the Duke was very important work, but it didn’t necessarily have to be done in the Administrative Office.
Marine walked slowly down the Corridor, then turned around again to look toward the Dark Corridor.
No matter how she thought about it, this wasn’t right.
Avoiding her because he was afraid of sleeping.
Marine walked boldly and stood in front of the line of the Dark Corridor.
As if the Duke were right in front of her, she crossed her arms and stood with one leg cocked.
It was an obviously insolent posture.
“Duke. The desire for sleep is the most basic of basics. How can someone who already has physical difficulties live without even being able to sleep? I really didn’t want to say something like this, but…”
Marine quickly glanced around to make sure no one was nearby, then whispered in the smallest voice possible.
“Coward. Hmph.”
Then she quickly escaped the Corridor as if running away.
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