I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 209
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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 209
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The Crown Prince, who had been contacted, arrived quickly.
“Your Highness, thank you for coming.”
“It’s only natural to help Imperial Citizens. Is Lady Malcolm safe for now?”
“So far, yes. The kidnapper left this note.”
It was a note that Shadow had secretly retrieved from the bookstore, left by the kidnapper after they had departed and returned.
[If you don’t appear before me by tomorrow, your lover dies.]
“So she’s safe until tomorrow.”
The Crown Prince nodded after reading the note.
“The confidence that they would know without specifying a location. This expression ‘you’ as well – the kidnapper and Lady Malcolm’s lover know each other.”
“Yes.”
The Crown Prince looked at the dim night scenery visible outside the window.
“But why did you ask me instead of the Western Duke?”
Just then, the door opened and Gerald entered.
“Vines, I greet Your Highness. I will provide the explanation.”
“Lady Malcolm is also an Imperial Citizen, so I can help her by all means. But I want to know the reason.”
Alexpert spoke seriously.
“Though it says tomorrow, since we don’t know when they might change their mind, I’ll explain on the way.”
“Good.”
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After hearing the whole story in the carriage, the Crown Prince fell into thought before speaking.
“Such a thing happened in the Southern Region. Does Your Majesty know?”
“He probably suspects it, like I do.”
Gerald answered indifferently.
“But why is Your Majesty leaving this situation alone?”
“No matter who becomes the master of the Southern Region, what’s the problem as long as tax revenue doesn’t decrease? From Your Majesty’s perspective, the current situation where he can hold the Southern Region’s weakness would be even better.”
“I see. Calling me was a wise choice. No matter how powerless I may be, I’m the only Crown Prince, so even the Fake Duke won’t dare act recklessly.”
They were currently riding in the Crown Prince’s carriage bearing the imperial crest.
Rather than secretly rescuing Priana, they planned to make it known that the Crown Prince had saved her.
Marine slowly repeated deep breaths inside the carriage. It wasn’t as difficult as she had thought. She could now ride not only the Diamond Carriage but also regular carriages.
Gerald, sitting beside her, squeezed her hand tightly in encouragement.
The warm warmth. His large and reliable hand that could completely envelop hers. Just having him beside her was surprisingly helpful.
Then, the Crown Prince’s carriage stopped in front of a building on the Capital Outskirts.
Knock knock. When the door opened at the sound of knocking, Elmis was standing there.
Elmis had returned here after finishing her report and was watching the situation unfold.
“Elmis, how many are inside?”
Marine asked hurriedly.
“It seems there are about ten people.”
“Is the Southern Duke there too?”
Elmis immediately answered Gerald’s question.
“No.”
“Then I’ll step forward now.”
The Crown Prince stepped out of the carriage.
“Marine, you stay inside the carriage.”
Gerald put on a mask to escort the Crown Prince, preparing for any potential danger.
“Understood.”
Marine watched the situation outside through the carriage window.
Soon, the Crown Prince who had walked to the front of the building shouted like thunder.
“I have come to find Lady Malcolm! I am the Crown Prince of this Empire. This is an order. Release her at once!”
While the Crown Prince was making a loud commotion, Kay secretly infiltrated into the building.
Marine’s plan was for the Crown Prince to take the front, preventing the Southern Duke from doing anything reckless.
However, to prepare for the worst-case scenario, Kay was to watch over the captured Priana.
At the booming voice echoing from outside, the Southern Duke’s aide felt like he was going insane.
Who on earth would risk endangering a hostage and give orders to kidnappers?
Of course, the kidnapped lady would be safe until the ‘real one’ appeared, but the other party didn’t know that, did they?
“Is the person outside really His Highness the Crown Prince?”
“It seems so.”
“Why on earth! Why did His Highness the Crown Prince come?”
What kind of relationship does that lady have with the Crown Prince?
“I don’t know.”
At the mercenary’s answer, the aide turned his head to look down at the gagged woman.
The woman’s head, which had been hanging down weakly all along, was now lifted up sharply.
Hope filled the woman’s dark green eyes.
“Are you close to His Highness the Crown Prince?”
The woman hesitated for a moment, then nodded her head earnestly.
“This is maddening.”
Really close? That viscount’s daughter from a humble family and the Crown Prince who treats women like stones?
He didn’t know how much he could trust that woman’s words, but killing her here wouldn’t solve the problem.
Above all, they needed to keep her alive to get what his lord wanted.
For now, he needed to leave this place alone to hide the fact that this was orchestrated by the Southern Region.
“I’ll leave quietly, so you all buy as much time as possible.”
The aide commanded the mercenaries.
They did not know his exact identity.
Since the Lord lacked the Family Ring and could not mobilize the Southern Knights, they had hired mercenaries instead, but in such crisis situations, they could be easily discarded, making the cleanup rather neat.
“What about that woman?”
“Don’t touch her and just leave her as is. You all escape quickly too.”
“Understood.”
The Aide glanced at the woman once more before quietly slipping out through the Back Door.
“Quickly release Lady Malcolm!”
When the Crown Prince shouted once again, one mercenary grabbed Priana’s arm, pulled her up, and showed her face at the Window.
“Lady Malcolm!”
Upon seeing the Crown Prince directly, tears of relief fell from Priana’s eyes.
“The client has escaped too, so wrap things up roughly.”
At the Mercenary Captain’s words, the other Mercenaries positioned Priana by the Window Side and gradually pulled back their bodies.
“Mmph mmph mmph mmph!”
Priana shook her head and gestured toward the back.
Sensing something strange in her behavior, the Crown Prince spoke to the masked Duke.
“Let’s go in.”
The Duke silently nodded his head.
Though only the Crown Prince and Duke burst in together, the Mercenaries were no match for them.
“Argh.”
“Huk.”
Blood spurted here and there, and the Mercenaries fell to the Floor one by one.
In that fierce struggle, the Mercenary Captain quickly returned to Priana.
“You’ll have to be a hostage until I escape.”
“Mmph mmph!”
Priana tried to resist roughly, but she could not match the Mercenary Captain’s strength.
“Lady Malcolm!”
“Mmph mmph mmph!”
Priana, with tears filling her eyes, looked at the Crown Prince with a terrified expression.
“Release the Lady.”
The Crown Prince spoke sternly as if scolding and took a step forward.
The Mercenary Captain’s eyes wavered at this.
The client for this job had also seemed to be a high-ranking Noble, but the opponent before his eyes was none other than the Crown Prince.
It was the appearance of too big a figure.
What would happen if he was caught like this? Kidnapping a Noble alone was a serious crime, but pointing a Sword at the Crown Prince?
That would be immediate execution.
Glancing back, it seemed he could jump down from the Third Floor Building.
“Damn it.”
The Mercenary Captain threw Priana toward the Crown Prince and jumped out the Window.
Kay chased after him like the wind.
The Mercenary Captain rejoiced in his escape, not yet realizing the death that would soon come.
Meanwhile, the Crown Prince safely received Priana.
“Are you alright?”
The masked Duke untied her hands and removed the gag.
“Thank you. Thank you so much….”
After expressing her gratitude once more, Priana lost consciousness.
As her body collapsed, the Crown Prince carefully caught her.
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Priana, who woke up much later, sat on the bed with a pale complexion.
Marine explained everything that had happened in detail.
As the story continued, Priana’s face grew even paler.
After Marine finished her explanation, Priana, who had been in a daze for a while, slowly parted her lips.
“What I said was wrong.”
“What do you mean?”
“That my fiancé is an ordinary person with no secrets.”
Priana spoke with forced playfulness.
Marine looked at her with sympathetic eyes.
“Thank you. For coming to save me.”
Priana’s deep green eyes were filled with sincerity.
“It wasn’t me, it was His Highness the Crown Prince who saved you.”
Marine quickly waved her hands.
At that, Priana smiled faintly and slowly shook her head.
“His Highness the Crown Prince had no reason to help me. If it weren’t for you, Lady Marine, I don’t know what would have happened to me….”
As Priana’s face darkened, Marine carefully took her hand and met her eyes as if to reassure her.
“His Grace the Southern Duke would have come to rescue you.”
“…The Southern Duke.”
Priana spoke in a trembling voice as if she still couldn’t believe it.
“I just did what I had to do.”
“Nothing in this world is a given.”
Priana said bitterly.
At that sight, Marine squeezed their joined hands.
“We’re friends.”
“Pardon?”
“I think we have a lot in common. We’re both Viscount’s Daughters, we both love books, and our fiancés are both Dukes.”
“Ah….”
Priana looked at Marine with trembling eyes.
Really, could I become friends with this person?
“So let’s be friends, the two of us who have so much in common.”
“…I’d like that. That’s the most pleasant thing I’ve heard all day.”
For the first time, a genuine smile appeared on Priana’s face.
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