I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 29

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 29

“Mandelesong. Investigate everything.”

Kay nodded slightly and disappeared without a sound.

Gerald fell into thought while smelling the cool fragrance coming from his face.

Her reaction was amusing, so he had teased her by catching onto her words.

Help. What kind of help could he possibly receive from her?

Thinking of it as payment for teasing her, he let her do as she pleased.

He was slightly surprised by the unfamiliar feeling of someone else touching his hair, but didn’t show it outwardly.

Soon he felt the herb-covered cloth touching his forehead and eyes.

The cool fragrance he had smelled yesterday. And her fresh, youthful scent that came close.

Having smelled it once before, her fragrance felt familiar.

The sensation of something touching his eyes always caused him pain, but thinking of it as repaying the debt for his teasing, he ignored the pain that would soon come.

Soon after, he became absorbed in the fairy tale book she was reading to him.

This fairy tale book was quite interesting without much to nitpick about.

A crow who lied to survive but repaid the Count’s kindness.

He was absorbed in the story and listening to the end when he sensed something strange as time passed.

His eyes… didn’t sting.

The herbal paste had slowly seeped through the cloth covering his eyes and had already touched his eye area long ago, but it didn’t sting.

Gerald was shocked.

The reason he covered his eyes with black string after going blind was because his eyes had become extremely sensitive.

If his eyeballs had skin, it would feel like raw flesh being peeled away, always stinging. Whether his eyes were closed or open, they stung at even the slightest stimulus.

But today, for the first time, his eyes didn’t sting.

Mandelesong. What on earth was that flower?

He didn’t even know how much time had passed while pondering about the flower.

Before he knew it, he could smell Kay’s scent.

“You’re saying that’s a poisonous herb?”

Since his eyes didn’t sting, amazingly he could also control the other senses that constantly tormented him.

With a clear mind for the first time in a long while, Gerald listened to Kay’s explanation and fell into thought.

His body wouldn’t be affected unless it was a fairly strong poison.

Poisonous herb. Spy.

Could she really be a spy?

How ridiculous. If there was a spy as naive as Temporary, he would have weeded out all the spies in the Duke’s Castle long ago.

“Call Oliver and Zero.”

“…”

Kay, who answered with silence instead, disappeared like the wind.

After a while, Oliver’s neat footsteps and Zero’s rough strides—apparently not transformed into a child today—could be heard from the corridor.

As soon as they arrived at the door, he spoke.

“Come in.”

The door opened wide and Zero grumbled with a voice full of complaints.

“Duke. Just because you don’t sleep doesn’t mean I don’t need to. Why are you calling me at this hour and making a fuss?”

Zero, who roughly swept up his long silver hair that reached his waist, glared at the Duke with disapproving eyes.

“Lord Zero. Please lower your voice.”

Oliver, who was standing beside him, glanced nervously at the Duke.

Zero took off the glasses hanging on his nose tip, roughly wiped them with his night gown, and put them back on.

“That guy is blind, not deaf.”

“Lord Zero!”

As Zero smirked, Oliver called out to him with a pale face.

When Zero was in child form, he had an angelic appearance and gentle speech, but when he returned to adult form, he would spout harsh words with his angelic looks while bristling with thorns.

“Ah- fine. It’s always dark here anyway. Might as well go live in a cave. Here or a cave, what’s the difference.”

When Zero manipulated the bracelet on his wrist, bright light spread from it, illuminating the surroundings.

Being an alchemist, he had many mysterious skills.

“Are you done?”

“Am I done?”

Oliver, who was watching the two’s war of nerves from the side, swallowed a sigh.

The two, who had been friends since childhood, seemed to get along well yet not well at the same time.

“Then I’ll wait until you’re done.”

“Hey. I’m saying this as an extremely kind person, but isn’t calling people in the middle of the night when everyone’s sleeping crossing the line?”

Zero stood crookedly on one leg and glared at the Duke with ice-cold blue eyes.

“But calling the Duke ‘hey’ is okay?”

Gerald crossed his arms and leaned back leisurely in his chair.

“Fire me if you don’t like it.”

“I’m a Duke, you know?”

“I’ll receive a ducal title when I go home too.”

“Would they really give that position to a runaway son?”

When Gerald sneered coldly, Zero raised his eyebrows in displeasure.

“Want me to show you the letters flying in begging me to just come back?”

Oliver, who was watching the two’s childish argument, let out the sigh he had been holding back.

“Why the sigh?”

“Why?”

Both asked Oliver simultaneously.

Looking at them like this, they’re quite similar.

Oliver stepped forward slightly and reported on Zero’s situation.

“Your Grace. Lord Zero has been staying up all night for three days, so he’s quite sharp right now.”

“…”

As the Duke listened silently, Oliver continued.

“He’s been developing new medicine to cure Your Grace’s eyes…”

“Oliver!”

Zero hurriedly tried to cover Oliver’s mouth, but Oliver, who smiled with his eyes, quickly dodged Zero’s hand.

“…so he’s been staying up all night and is irritable.”

Even though Zero spoke harshly, everyone present knew how much he was working for the Duke.

“That guy who I’m going to turn into olive oil.”

Zero glared at Oliver as if annoyed and huffed.

“Your dedication to your employer is remarkable.”

Gerald praised Zero in an exaggeratedly teasing manner.

“Hurry up and ask what you want to ask. I’m going to sleep. Right now!”

Zero, embarrassed, scratched the back of his head vigorously and pretended not to hear Gerald’s words as he went to stand against the wall.

Then he leaned his back against the wall and persistently glared at the back of Oliver’s head.

“Tell me about Mandelesong.”

Zero would have been even more vicious if he had gotten straight to the point after meeting for the first time in a while.

Gerald, who had appropriately accommodated him, asked the question he most wanted to ask.

“Oh ho. There are a lot of people curious about that weed these days?”

Zero moved away from the wall and adjusted his glasses with interest gleaming in his eyes.

“Who is that person?”

Gerald likewise moved away from his chair and frowned.

“Why are you curious about Mandelesong?”

“Are you perhaps Temporary?”

The two people who had answered a question with a question paused for a moment.

Zero, who slightly frowned upon seeing the string covering the Duke’s eyes, spoke first.

“Temporary…”

“Why are you showing interest in Temporary?”

“I heard you call her that, and it’s really true?”

Curiosity flickered in Zero’s blue eyes as he removed his glasses.

“…”

Gerald clenched his jaw in displeasure. Whenever he had conversations with this guy, the topic always drifted elsewhere like this.

“Mandelesong.”

Gerald gritted his teeth and returned to the original point.

“Ah, Mandelesong is just a common weed that’s scattered everywhere outside.”

Zero answered obediently with an annoyed expression.

“I heard that weed is listed in the poisonous plants book you wrote.”

“It is and it isn’t. Do you need a laxative?”

When Gerald frowned at his sudden remark, Zero shrugged and continued his explanation.

“Even if you call it Mandelesong’s poison, no matter how much you eat, nothing worse than diarrhea will happen.”

“Isn’t it a poisonous herb?”

“Some unfortunate people do die from dehydration while having diarrhea.”

Oliver, who had been listening to their conversation from the side, focused on the discussion with a serious expression. He didn’t know diarrhea was such a dangerous illness.

“Could… those symptoms appear even without eating it?”

Gerald hesitated before adding his words.

“Hahahaha. That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in my entire life.”

Zero burst into laughter, clutching his stomach.

“…Leave.”

At Gerald’s displeased tone, Zero, who had put his glasses back on, grinned mischievously.

“By the way, I like her, so give her to me.”

“…Temporary is not an object.”

Gerald replied with a displeased voice after a long pause.

“You don’t even call her by name, yet you say such things.”

Zero sneered with a smile at the corner of his mouth, while carefully observing Gerald’s expression.

“You don’t understand what I’m saying.”

“There’s no way a genius like me wouldn’t understand…”

“Temporary is already mine.”

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