I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 259

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke

Side Story 2 Episode 17

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“Well then, excuse us.”

Sonny and Jayden, who had left the Professor’s Office, bowed their heads to Camellia once more.

“Yes, take care.”

Nezart, who had been secretly watching from behind in the corridor, lowered his gaze to his toes.

He had followed the children all the way to the Professor’s Office, but couldn’t muster the courage to go in with them and could only stand behind in the corridor.

Sonny and Jayden, who had closed the door and turned around, were walking down the corridor when they ran right into Nezart.

“Oh my!”

Jayden was startled, then looked at Nezart’s dark expression and read the mood.

“Didn’t you have business with the professor?”

“…”

Even at Sonny’s question, Nezart kept his lips tightly shut and said nothing.

So Sonny continued speaking.

“I don’t know what it’s about, but if not today, there won’t be another chance. Professor Men is supposed to return starting tomorrow.”

“What? Is that really true? Then where is the temporary professor going?”

Nezart’s head shot up in surprise.

“I don’t know about that.”

Sonny shrugged his shoulders.

Jayden, who had been watching their conversation, hesitated before joining in.

“Young Duke, I think you could just ask directly. She was a nice person.”

Nezart raised one eyebrow and looked at Jayden.

“Why are you speaking formally? Don’t you know students don’t worry about status among each other?”

“Ah… okay.”

Jayden nodded with a cowed expression.

Seeing this, Sonny pushed up his glasses and looked straight at Nezart.

“I don’t know why you came to the Academy, but with that attitude, you’ll never make friends. Let’s go, Jayden.”

As the two were passing by Nezart, Nezart whispered in a low voice.

“I didn’t do the Mike thing.”

“What?”

Sonny asked back to confirm if he had heard correctly.

Suddenly bringing up Mike. Had he overheard the conversation with Jayden before they came to apologize to the professor?

“The Mike incident, I didn’t tell anyone about it.”

Nezart said again, his neck turning red.

At this, Jayden’s eyes widened.

“Really? I mean, really?”

“Yes. I didn’t say anything to Grandmother.”

He hadn’t wanted to disturb Grandmother’s mood with such trivial matters in the first place.

“Well, whether you believe it or not—”

“I believe you.”

Sonny grinned while pushing up his glasses again.

“Me, me too! I’ll believe you too!”

At the two children saying they believed him, Nezart felt his lips tingling as if they wanted to turn up, so he bit his lips tightly.

“Nezart, let’s go eat together. I’ll wait in the classroom.”

At Sonny’s suggestion, Nezart’s eyes widened.

Since coming to the Academy, he had no friends and always ate alone. He had thought he didn’t need friends…

“…You know I’m half commoner, right?”

He had spoken boldly to Mike, but in truth, his status always felt like shackles. That’s how the gazes of countless people he had met so far had been. Half admiring looks, half looks of disdain.

Then, Jayden raised his hand high.

“My mom is also a commoner, I mean, my mom is a commoner. So it’s a bit hard for me to speak casually to you… Anyway, my father is a noble and my mom is a commoner, so it was hard to make friends at the Academy. But only Sonny didn’t care about that stuff and became my friend.”

Nezart looked at Sonny with surprised eyes.

Sonny Hyeons.

The Marquis House of Hyeons was the wealthiest and most traditional family in the Eastern Region. He naturally thought they would value bloodlines, but to think they didn’t was unbelievable.

“I feel like I should say one of my parents is also a commoner at this timing, but I’m not. Both my parents are perfect nobles.”

Sonny talked about his parents.

“Puhahaha.”

Jayden, who was listening beside him, burst into laughter.

Nezart looked at them with an even more puzzled gaze.

“But my parents told me not to have prejudices, and to value a person’s abilities and character more. That’s why our family became the wealthiest family in the Eastern Region except for the Ducal House. Father does business by selecting people based on ability and character. I’m going to inherit Father’s philosophy and do the same.”

“Sonny’s father is amazing, right? I’m going to study hard and work for the Hyeons family too.”

“Then you should ask to study together, not to hang out.”

When Sonny gave cold advice, Jayden became dejected.

“Okay.”

Nezart watched the two of them, then took a step forward first and extended his hand.

“I’m Nezart Stein. Please take care of me from now on.”

As if he hadn’t expected him to greet first, Jayden was flustered before quickly grasping his hand.

“I’m Jayden Fisher. Please take care of me.”

After Jayden shook his hand vigorously and let go, Sonny grasped his hand next.

“Sonny Hyeons. Please take care of me.”

“Yeah. I’ll just see the professor and come right away.”

When Nezart, who always had an expressionless face, smiled slightly, the two children were so surprised they widened their eyes and nodded in bewilderment.

As Nezart parted from them and was just turning the corridor, he saw the Professor’s Office door quickly close.

Had someone else gone in?

Nezart knocked on the Professor’s Office door with a tense face.

Knock knock.

“Come in.”

“Excuse me.”

He opened the door with a face stiff as stone.

He saw the nanny sitting at the desk reading a book.

“Nezart, what brings you here?”

Nezart’s blue eyes looked at her figure and deepened as if holding back laughter.

“You’re holding the book upside down.”

“Oh my. Perfect me made such a basic mistake?”

Anna, who had put down the book, looked at Nezart. Their gazes met in mid-air.

Anna smiled warmly and spread her arms wide.

“It’s been so long since I’ve seen you, won’t you give me a hug?”

Nezart made a dimple in his chin to hold back tears.

“…Nanny.”

“Yes, Nezart.”

Nezart quickly ran over and hugged her warm embrace.

He couldn’t express how much he had missed this warm embrace.

The person who had saved him when he was bullied by children and ignored by people at the orphanage. And the grateful person who had found his family.

Though her name had changed, the warm warmth in her embrace and the nanny’s scent remained the same.

Nezart burrowed into her embrace like a child acting spoiled.

“Nanny. I’m sorry for coming so late.”

“No, Nezart. I’m grateful that you came to see me like this.”

“I promised to meet you when I became someone with power, but I still don’t have any power, so I was scared to meet you. I was afraid you’d be disappointed and leave again.”

Nezart poured out his words like rapid fire.

“I see.”

“…You won’t leave me, right?”

When Nezart asked hesitantly, she gently pulled the child away from her embrace and met his eyes.

“Nezart. Now you know what kind of work I do, don’t you?”

Nezart looked at his nanny with trembling eyes.

He realized again the fact he had forgotten in his joy at meeting his nanny.

She was the Western Duke’s person. He was the Eastern Archduke.

The fact that she had come back here meant she was plotting something in the East? The responsibility of the Eastern Archduke raised its head in his mind.

“Are you going to do something in the East?”

Anna, who quickly grasped the child’s emotions, patted Nezart’s shoulder as if proud.

“Our Nezart has already grown up so much?”

Nezart looked at her with anxious eyes. Was she disappointed that he was treating her as the Archduke?

“It’s not like that. I’ve retired. I came to the Academy because the Duchess of the East considerately sent me to meet you.”

“Grandmother did?”

Nezart’s eyes widened in surprise. Then he didn’t have to worry about his nanny leaving anymore?

“Then will you stay by my side?”

The nanny shook her head with an apologetic expression.

“Just as you looked at me as the Eastern Archduke moments ago, if I continue to stay here, the Eastern Ducal House will constantly suspect me.”

“Ah…”

Nezart wanted to boldly say he would protect her, but he didn’t have that kind of power yet.

When the child’s shoulders drooped, the nanny patted his shoulder encouragingly.

“Instead, I’ll come visit like this sometimes.”

“Really?”

When Nezart’s eyes lit up, the nanny nodded vigorously.

“Of course. I already watched you making friends.”

She saw that earlier. That’s why the door closed so hastily.

“And I heard Nezart told the children to apologize to me?”

“Yes.”

“Nezart will definitely become a good Eastern Duke. Nanny believes in Nezart.”

The words that his nanny, who had always given him unconditional love as an orphan, believed in him carried great meaning for the child.

“Thank you, Nanny.”

“Oh, and I took care of Mike. How dare he touch my child.”

The nanny winked with one eye and laughed heartily.

Seeing that, Nezart laughed along with her.

“Are you leaving today then?”

Since his nanny was someone who always kept her promises, he just had to wait for the day they would meet again. That’s why he could bravely ask when she was leaving.

“Yes. There’s another child I need to meet. I’ll come back before this year ends.”

“Okay!”

Nezart hugged her tightly once more to remember his nanny’s warmth.

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