I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 33

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 33

* * *

Marine grabbed her picnic basket and quickly ran down the stairs toward the castle main gate.

She could see knights mounted on horses and a black four-horse carriage with the House Vines crest prominently displayed.

It was larger and more ornate than the four-horse carriage she had seen before.

“Huff, huff. Duke!”

Marine caught her breath from running and called out to the Duke in a small voice.

The Duke, who was already in the carriage, turned his head toward her.

“What is it?”

“This.”

She handed over the picnic basket she had been clutching tightly to her chest. Oliver, who was standing outside the carriage, quickly took it and held it.

“We’ve already prepared enough food.”

“It’s not food. It’s a gift for the Duke, sort of like a gift but not really a gift, something like that.”

Oliver looked at her with an expression that said ‘what are you talking about,’ but she deliberately ignored it.

“Bring it here.”

“Yes.”

Oliver placed the picnic basket inside the carriage.

“Is your business finished?”

“Yes.”

“Let’s go.”

The moment the Duke leaned back against the carriage seat, Marine whispered faintly as if talking to herself.

“Please be careful and come back safely.”

All she could see in her field of vision was the carriage.

Just looking at the carriage made her afraid. She desperately hoped no one would get hurt.

No one heard her whisper.

Except for the Duke.

The Duke, who had paused, turned his head toward her again.

Though the Duke’s eyes were covered, it seemed as if their gazes met in the empty air.

The Duke’s red lips slowly parted and his expression softened slightly.

“I’ll be careful and come back.”

At the Duke’s unexpected response, Marine’s light green eyes widened in surprise.

She didn’t know how he had heard her words, but they had properly reached the Duke.

“Yes!”

Marine smiled brightly and nodded vigorously.

The Duke leaned back against the seat again and commanded Oliver.

“Depart.”

“Yes.”

Oliver mounted his horse and the four-horse carriage quickly left the castle.

* * *

“Hey, little one.”

“I’m not little.”

The young boy who had been playing with toys puffed out his cheeks and glared at his sister Monica.

Black hair that swayed at her waist. Beautiful eyes like black pearls. A sister with an angelic appearance.

She was his pride, but he sometimes hated her when she teased him.

“You don’t even reach my waist, so you’re little.”

Her black eyes sparkled with mischief.

“No! I’m not little!!”

“Oh my. Is our little one angry? Should I give our little one some candy?”

“Hmph. I’m not going to play house with Sister anymore.”

The child crossed his arms in front of his chest and turned his head away sharply.

He wouldn’t forgive her with just candy this time.

His sister, who was much older than him, was practically an adult compared to him and always teased him.

He absolutely wouldn’t forgive her.

He would never play house with his sister again.

“You’ll regret it, you know?”

Monica giggled and drew out her words.

“Hmph. I don’t know what that means.”

Monica looked at her younger sibling with his puffed-out cheeks as if she found him adorably irresistible.

“It’s a really big candy though?”

Monica plopped down in front of the child and pulled out cloud candy as white as fluffy clouds that she had been hiding behind her back.

The child’s eyes widened at the cloud candy he was seeing for the first time.

“Is this candy? Isn’t it a cloud?”

“I plucked it from the sky to give to our little one.”

“Wow! Really?”

“Of course. For our little one, what’s a cloud to this sister? I could even pluck stars for you. So you’ll keep playing house with me, right?”

Monica held back her laughter and extended her pinky finger as if asking for a promise.

“Yes! Sister! I’ll do it for you.”

The child quickly hooked his pinky finger with hers.

The child who received the cloud candy looked up at his sister with admiring eyes.

Monica smiled refreshingly and ruffled the child’s black hair affectionately.

His pretty sister. His brave sister who could pluck clouds and stars. Hehe.

“Ah, it hurts! Mom! Father! Sister! My head hurts. My ears hurt. My nose hurts. My body stings. Waaaah.”

The child rolled around on the ground, continuously screaming in pain.

The Bloodline Secret had manifested too early in the five-year-old child.

The Duke gritted his teeth and watched his son with bitter eyes. Beside him, the Duchess swallowed her tears and shared her son’s pain in her heart.

Then, the child’s room door burst open.

The sound of the door opening sounded like thunder to the child, who covered his ears and fainted.

Monica was startled and tried to approach her younger sibling, but the Duchess blocked her way.

“Mother.”

“Don’t go near him.”

“The child is in pain! He’s screaming like that, so why isn’t anyone comforting him? He’s only five years old!”

When Monica raised her voice, the Duchess put her index finger to her lips and shushed her.

Monica looked at her father, the Duke, with a frustrated expression.

“Father. Why is the child in so much pain?”

Instead of answering his daughter, the Duke carefully lifted his son who had fainted from the overwhelming pain.

Seeing his daughter’s bewildered gaze, the Duke shook his head slightly.

“…I’m sorry.”

Loud commotion could be heard in the distance.

The young man slowly opened his closed eyes.

Today was the day his sister was leaving for the Southern Region for her wedding.

For several years, he had been isolated in the tower with minimal noise, cutting off all contact with the outside world.

After hearing the bloodline secret from Father, he only practiced controlling the five senses.

Though it was a long time, his senses still ran wild on their own accord.

When he first opened his eyes in this tower after fainting in his room, he threw tantrums demanding to return to his room.

But after realizing that crying only increased his own suffering, he closed his mouth.

Being at the highest point meant less noise. However, when it rained, he suffered from the loud sounds and fainted.

His developed taste made it impossible to swallow food.

He could see even the dust floating in the air too clearly, so he became accustomed to living with his eyes closed.

The child who had been cheerful and lively gradually lost his words.

The more time passed without interacting with anyone, the more emotionless he became.

“Hey, little one.”

Then, from very far away, he heard his sister’s voice faintly.

The boy jumped up and approached the window of the tower.

A high barrier wall had been built around the tower to prevent anyone from approaching. Beyond that barrier wall, under a large tree, stood his sister whom he hadn’t seen in a long time.

Sister was still beautiful like an angel.

The boy gazed at his sister’s face, which he hadn’t seen in so long, as if engraving it in his mind so he wouldn’t forget.

Sister seemed unable to spot him and continued speaking while looking toward the top of the tower.

“Can you hear me? I know you can hear everything. Family house secret my ass. Who do you think I am? I found out everything. You can hear my voice from far away, right? Father is too much. How could he not let me see you even when I’m leaving to get married?”

Tears filled Monica’s black eyes.

Sister quickly wiped away her tears with her dress sleeve and spoke cheerfully.

“Hey, little one. I’m getting married. He’s a kind and good man. When I first saw him, I thought an angel had descended from the sky. He’s so handsome that I’m going to keep him.”

Pfft. The boy, who laughed for the first time in a long while, was surprised at himself and touched his lips.

“I’ll live well, so when you get out of there, come visit the Southern Region sometime. I’ll send you letters often. Even if you can’t send replies, make sure to read them. Got it?”

Sister held out her pinky finger in the air as if asking him to promise, just like in the old days.

The boy extended his pinky finger into the air for the first time in a long while, as if hooking it with hers.

She dropped her hand and choked up.

“I wanted to see how big our little one has grown… I’m sorry. I can’t even hug you. I’m sorry, Gerald.”

Sister called his name for the first time instead of calling him little one.

Soon Monica knelt on the ground and cried sorrowfully like a child.

Gerald ran to his desk.

He scribbled words on a handkerchief and wrapped it around a fist-sized stone, tying it tight.

Crash.

The stone that broke through the window flew far and landed precisely in front of Monica.

Monica, who was startled while crying, picked up the stone.

Monica unwrapped the handkerchief from the stone, hugged the handkerchief, and burst into tears again.

[Congratulations on your marriage, Sister.]

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————