I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 215

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 215

“Why on earth are you making up stories that don’t exist?”

“Ha-”

The Emperor let out a hollow laugh as if he found it absurd.

“Lady Marine Schwentz is not a witch. That Demon Beast simply followed her because it had memories of being her pet.”

Alexpert suppressed his emotions as much as possible and explained to the Emperor what he had heard from Dia.

“Chief Attendant.”

The Emperor called for the Chief Attendant while keeping his cold gaze fixed on the Crown Prince.

“Yes.”

“How long must I continue this pointless waste of time?”

“Your Majesty, please listen to what I have to say as well!”

Alexpert looked at the Emperor who, as always, closed his ears to his words, and pleaded desperately.

“Why should I do that?”

“If the Western Duke abandons Western trade, Demon Beasts will overflow, and if that happens, the Empire will be in danger. Who do you think would want this the most? It’s the Sanders Empire across the desert. What they want most is the weakening of the Western Region.”

“You dare try to teach me.”

Fire blazed in the Emperor’s eyes.

“How dare you discuss the Empire in front of me? Who is the Emperor of this Empire!”

“It is Your Majesty.”

“That’s right, I am the Emperor and my word is law. Are the nobles siding with you and encouraging you to covet the imperial throne?”

The Emperor’s rage exceeded its threshold. The Emperor trembled and glared at the Crown Prince as if he would kill him.

“….”

Alexpert silently bowed his head.

As the Emperor said, due to the series of misfortunes over the past few weeks, secret invitations from nobles had been increasing. Though he was rejecting them all.

“Why are you silent? Has your mouth gotten stuck or something!”

The Emperor slammed the desk, then closed his eyes as if dizzy.

At this, the Chief Attendant’s face turned pale.

Today, His Highness the Crown Prince’s momentum was also formidable, so he couldn’t just send him away like this.

The Chief Attendant observed the Emperor’s face and prayed inwardly.

Please. Please.

Eventually, the Emperor slowly lifted his eyelids, looked at the Crown Prince, and frowned.

“Crown Prince, I didn’t even call for you, so what brings you here?”

It was the Emperor’s voice tinged with irritation, not anger.

Alexpert’s eyes widened with a shocked expression.

“Your Majesty….”

“I forbade you from entering the office until I call for you, so I’m asking what brings you here?”

“Ah, I, I….”

The flustered Alexpert trailed off and made eye contact with the pale Chief Attendant.

His heart sank at the Chief Attendant’s restless attitude.

The Chief Attendant already knows. Whatever it may be.

“…Your Majesty, is there anywhere you feel unwell?”

Alexpert asked cautiously while examining the Emperor’s face.

“You barge in without permission, and what kind of words are those?”

The Emperor narrowed his eyes and looked at him suspiciously.

“When did you last meet with the Imperial Physician?”

Bang!

The Emperor slammed his desk. His deep golden eyes gleamed with rage.

“Chief Attendant, drag that bastard out! How dare he pretend to worry about my health! He’s been completely played by the nobles’ games.”

The Chief Attendant hurriedly approached the Crown Prince.

“Your Highness the Crown Prince, just a moment-”

“When did His Majesty last see the Imperial Physician?”

Alexpert cut off the Chief Attendant’s words and rarely raised his voice.

If the Chief Attendant had hidden the Emperor’s illness, then he too could not be trusted. Whatever the Emperor’s illness was, he had to find out for himself.

“Your Highness, please lower your voice. I will explain everything.”

The Chief Attendant whispered quietly so only Alexpert could hear.

Alexpert ignored the Chief Attendant and stared piercingly at the Emperor.

“Bring the Imperial Physician here immediately!”

“Your Highness the Crown Prince…!”

The Chief Attendant called out to him pitifully, his eyebrows drooping.

When Alexpert stood there without moving, the Emperor shouted loudly.

“Imperial Guard, enter!”

Two Imperial Guard knights quickly entered the office.

“Confine the Crown Prince to his quarters!”

“Your Majesty!”

When Alexpert looked at the Emperor in shock, his golden eyes flashed fiercely.

“Crown Prince, you have crossed the line.”

The knights grabbed the Crown Prince’s arms on each side and dragged him.

“Chief Attendant! Bring the Imperial Physician! To His Majesty immediately-”

“Gag that bastard!”

At the Emperor’s cold command, a knight gagged the Crown Prince.

In the Crown Prince’s stunned eyes as he was dragged away by the knights, the angry Emperor’s face was reflected.

The Chief Attendant felt his vision going dark.

The matter he had postponed and postponed for the Emperor’s sake had finally completely torn apart the relationship between the Emperor and the Crown Prince.

“Chief Attendant.”

“Yes.”

The Chief Attendant answered, hiding his cold sweat.

“Prepare for the Crown Prince’s abdication!”

The Emperor shouted like thunder.

“Your Majesty!”

The startled Chief Attendant raised his head.

The Emperor’s angry face was rigidly hardened.

“Currently, there is only one Prince in the Empire. Please, just one more time—”

The Emperor coldly cut off the Chief Attendant’s desperate words.

“Yes. I’ve been tolerating that fool because of that, but hasn’t he finally bared his teeth at me? I should cast him out before he bites me.”

The Emperor’s golden eyes darkened with jealousy and fear directed at the Crown Prince.

“And summon the Southern Duke.”

“…Yes, Your Majesty.”

The Chief Attendant barely managed to collect his dizzy thoughts and bowed his head in response.

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Smithe was reading letters from his retainers when he irritably threw them onto his desk.

The retainers involved in the Western trade business were pleading for him to persuade the Emperor.

It wasn’t just the Southern retainers.

All the nobles in the Capital were resenting the Emperor and clamoring for the Western trade to be restored.

The rumors about the Western Duke’s fiancée being a witch had died down, and some were even calling her a saint.

Saying that if she could communicate with demon beasts, she could reduce the danger from them.

“They’re out of their minds.”

With a twisted smile, his gaze fell on the Duchess of the East’s letter pushed to one corner of his desk.

It contained coded text stating that the majority of nobles supported the Emperor’s abdication.

The Emperor, who continued to be stubborn, would soon break his will and listen to the nobles.

Or else his throne would be in danger.

“Tsk, how incompetent.”

There was no hope for an Emperor who started things but couldn’t properly finish them.

He had tried to use the Emperor to crush the West, but it seemed he would have to side with the East after all.

That’s when it happened.

Bang!

The office door burst open loudly as his aide came tumbling in.

“He, he appeared!”

“Who?”

Smithe’s eyes were full of irritation as he looked at his aide. This better be urgent news.

“The real— no, the fake has appeared!”

“Where did you find him?”

Smithe’s eyes lit up with joy.

Even though they had watched his lover’s surroundings so closely, he hadn’t appeared. Finally, he could kill that bastard and become the perfect Duke himself.

“Th-that’s not it. You need to run away right now…!”

The aide glanced behind him and barely managed to speak in a trembling voice.

“What?”

Smithe frowned.

“The Southern Knights have surrounded the Duke’s Estate!”

“What did you say?”

Startled, Smithe pushed back his chair and shot to his feet.

They suddenly came up to the Capital? And they’re surrounding us? But why?

“The real- the fake one was at the front. You must hurry and escape. The mercenaries are barely holding them off right now.”

“What do you mean!”

Smithe shouted irritably.

“It seems Lord Smith has taken control of the Southern Knights.”

What did he just say?

Overwhelmed by shock, Smithe gaped with a dazed expression.

Words wouldn’t come out as sounds.

“Your Grace, Your Grace!”

As if his ears were filled with water, the Aide’s voice sounded distant. The Aide grabbed his arm and shook him.

A ringing sound echoed in his ears, and the Aide’s voice pierced through again.

“Your Grace! Pull yourself together!”

“What did you… say?”

“Lord Smith has come up to the Capital with the Southern Knights…!”

“How could that powerless fool…”

Though the Head of House Ring could command the Southern Knights, only his own people remained at the Main Castle.

He would have had to get past them first to reach the Southern Knights.

“You must escape now! I’ll buy you some time!”

Soon he could see the back of the Aide running away urgently.

Smithe looked down at his trembling hands, then hurriedly rushed out of the room.

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