I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 35

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 35

“What brings you here?”

The eldest, Dia, asked bluntly with an indifferent face.

“Tomorrow is the funeral.”

“Yes. I know that…”

Dia’s expressionless face crumbled momentarily. However, she hardened her expression again and continued speaking.

“…And I also remember your promise to show us Peridot tomorrow.”

Kilon frowned and clicked his tongue in annoyance.

This was the problem.

The youngest had disappeared, but the sisters thought he was hiding Peridot.

If he hadn’t deceived them like this, the sisters would have been poking around everywhere, investigating their parents’ accident.

It would have been better if Peridot had died along with them that day.

Thinking of the unsatisfactorily concluded accident made anger surge within him.

“What kind of way is that to speak to your uncle!”

“What uncle are you! You devil! Locking us up here and hiding Peridot somewhere!”

The second daughter, Garnet, glared at him with sharp eyes.

Then Kilon’s eyes flashed menacingly as he took a step toward Garnet.

“Garnet, didn’t I tell you to fix that tone?”

Sensing his threatening atmosphere, Dia quickly stepped in front of Garnet and bowed her head.

“I’m sorry.”

“Sister!”

Garnet called out sharply, as if asking why she was apologizing.

“You’re missing ‘uncle.'”

When Kilon spoke coldly, as if telling her to repeat it, Dia squeezed her eyes shut and apologized again.

“I’m sorry… Uncle.”

“Tsk.”

Kilon glared at the bowing Dia with dissatisfied eyes.

With the Duke present, he couldn’t lay a hand on her carelessly.

“Un… cle. You’ll show us Peridot tomorrow, right?”

Dia’s delicately trembling voice was desperate.

Kilon narrowed his eyes and glared at Dia’s black hair.

Peridot also had black hair. He took after his mother.

If he couldn’t find Peridot by tomorrow, he would have no choice but to use the plan he had prepared in advance.

“Duke Vines has come.”

Kilon ignored her question and spoke through gritted teeth.

Dia’s head snapped up instantly.

Duke Vines had come?

She had never met the Duke in her entire life.

He was always busy protecting the Western Region, and recently she had heard he was in seclusion due to an eye injury.

So she thought he would ignore the news of her parents’ death.

“So let’s return to how things used to be in front of the Duke. Didn’t you all get along well once?”

Kilon put on a gentle smile. However, his cold eyes contained a warning.

If they made a mistake, he might never show them Peridot.

Dia bit the soft flesh inside her mouth and nodded obediently.

Pleased with her attitude, Kilon smiled with satisfaction.

“Good. You listen well. You two should also follow your sister’s example and watch your words and behave properly in front of the Duke. Dress up as prettily as possible and come down by dinner time tonight. Since the Duke has come, you should at least greet him.”

“Yes.”

When Dia answered meekly, Kilon smiled contentedly and left the room, leaving the door open.

The door, which had been locked except when bringing meals, was finally open after a week.

“Sister! Are you crazy? Why are you groveling so pathetically to that devil?”

Dia looked at Garnet, who was fuming with a red face, with bitter eyes.

If she hadn’t groveled to him, Kilon would have surely hit Garnet.

Just like when she first defied him.

She was fine since she was almost an adult. But she couldn’t bear to watch her still-young siblings get slapped by him.

“…We have to see our youngest sibling.”

At those words, Garnet bit her lower lip tightly and turned her head away sharply.

“Sister, can we see Peridot tomorrow?”

Rubiana, who had been hiding behind Garnet the whole time, peeked her head out timidly.

“Yes. We absolutely have to see him.”

“Yes! I want to see him soon.”

Rubiana nodded enthusiastically with an expectant expression and headed toward the sofa.

Meanwhile, Garnet, unable to contain her anger, went to the bed and thrashed about wildly.

How did things end up like this?

She still couldn’t believe what had happened over the past two weeks.

It was the day their parents went out to buy a birthday gift for their youngest sibling, Peridot.

Peridot had pestered their parents to let him come along so he could choose his gift himself.

And a few hours later, when Kilon came crying and said their parents had died in a demon beast attack, her world collapsed.

Demon beasts in the Southern Region, not the Western or Northern Region?

She thought it was impossible.

But now there was something more important than that.

Finding the missing Peridot.

She went to find the retainers who had served their father to ask for help.

But she couldn’t meet them.

Some had already died or were incapacitated from accidents, and some avoided her.

It was strange.

The surrounding environment had changed in an instant.

Dia went alone to find the only person she could trust besides her parents—her uncle Kilon.

“Uncle, no one is looking for Peridot. The retainers are all avoiding me, and some of them had accidents…”

Kilon, who had always been kind to them, threw off his mask that day.

“Tsk tsk. You should just stay quiet. Why are you being so restless? If you want to see Peridot, stay quiet until the funeral day.”

“Don’t tell me… Uncle, you orchestrated all of this?”

Dia confronted him as if screaming at that horrible assumption.

But.

Slap. Her head turned to the other side. It was the first time in her life she had been slapped.

“You speak carelessly, Dia. Go up to your room with your sisters.”

“If I obey, will you let me see Peridot?”

“Yes. I promise.”

And so she had been locked in the room for a week.

“Sister Dia.”

Dia snapped out of her reverie at the sound of Rubiana calling her.

“What is it, Ruby?”

“Do you think the Duke might help us?”

A small glimmer of hope appeared in Rubiana’s light green eyes.

“Ha, how ridiculous. He’s someone who has never once come to see us. He’s a complete stranger to us. Don’t you feel anything even after seeing that devil who pretended to be close to us all his life, putting on an act in front of us?”

Garnet lifted her head from the bed and sneered.

At that, Rubiana looked up at Dia with a face that seemed ready to cry at any moment and spoke.

“But Mom always said that. Vines is…”

“…protector.”

Dia blankly finished Rubiana’s words for her.

The Grand Ducal House Vines protects.

It was something she had heard hundreds of times from Mother.

Mother never resented the Duke who never once came to see her.

Rather, she was proud of him and felt honored.

“Mom, why does the Duke never come to see you? He’s your younger sibling.”

At that, Mother smiled gently and stroked Dia’s head.

“The Grand Ducal House Vines protects. That’s what my family house represents. The Vines Family has that many enemies. Mom understands everything. How much that little one works hard and tries to protect it. Dia, if anything ever happens, just remember one thing. Vines protects. That little one will protect you all.”

Dia stared blankly outside the window, recalling her gentle Mother.

Mother, will Duke Vines really protect us?

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