I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 39

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 39

“Dia!!”

Kilon tried to take a step toward her with his eyes wide open. Then a cane with a sharp blade protruding from it flew toward his thigh.

“Aaaahhh!”

Kilon, gripped by pain, clutched his leg and writhed on the floor like a worm.

The Duke slowly rose from his seat and approached him.

“Duke, Your Grace. How could someone like me possibly be a match for Your Grace, the shield of the Empire? Please, forgive me. I don’t know what wrong I’ve done to Your Grace, but please, forgive me…”

In excruciating pain, with blood vessels burst in his eyes, Kilon crawled to the Duke’s feet.

The Duke pulled out his cane.

“Ahhhhh!”

“Right. How dare someone like you do such a thing?”

At the Duke’s cold voice, Kilon came to his senses. He hurriedly pressed his hands against his thigh to stop the bleeding and looked up at the Duke with trembling eyes.

“I was wrong. I was wrong. Your Grace, please show mercy.”

“Do you know who’s behind you?”

“What?”

Kilon stared at him blankly with a face covered in tears and snot.

“Where did that woman go?”

“Sob, sob. Who, who are you referring to?”

Kilon shed tears as he prostrated himself in submission.

“Where did the fiancée go?”

Oliver, who had been looking down at him coldly, asked instead.

“She went out, briefly.”

“Find her.”

At the Duke’s muttering, the curtain at the window fluttered once.

Then the blade of the cane in the Duke’s hand slowly approached Kilon’s neck.

“A vermin like you, to my family…”

Unlike his emotionless voice, the Duke’s hand was trembling slightly with anger.

At that moment, sensing death, Kilon shed tears and closed his eyes.

The Duke didn’t even interrogate him.

Everything had been discovered. To make it look like a demon beast attack, he had sprinkled demon beast blood on the corpses. He had also killed all the men who murdered his elder brother and sister-in-law to keep them quiet.

But how was he found out? Why was he asking about his fiancée’s whereabouts at this moment?

“Wait, wait a moment. Your Grace.”

Then, Dia, who had been standing far away, approached them.

The blade that stopped at her words made a thin cut above Kilon’s neck.

“Dia!”

Only his niece could save his life. Kilon looked at her with a servile expression.

“You saw everything too, didn’t you? The Duke is trying to kill me for no reason. Go to His Majesty the Emperor right now and tell him…”

“Where is Peridot?”

Dia asked while etching his miserable appearance into her eyes one by one.

“What?”

Kilon asked back with a blank look.

“Where is Peridot! Give him back, my younger sibling! I don’t care whether someone like you, who killed our parents and took away my younger sibling, lives or dies! Give back my younger sibling!”

“No, I didn’t kill them.”

Kilon shook his head frantically with a stupid expression.

He hadn’t killed them himself. He had merely given orders to the men his fiancée had introduced him to.

“Where is Peridot!”

Dia grabbed his collar and shook him while tears streamed down her face.

“I, I don’t know. Peridot disappeared!”

“…What?”

Dia barely managed to speak with a choked voice.

“Actually, I was looking for Peridot too!”

“You said you had Peridot, you locked us up, and now you say you don’t know?”

When the shocked Dia loosened her grip, Kilon’s eyes flashed momentarily. He grabbed Dia’s neck, who was close by.

Kilon pulled out a small knife he had hidden in his shoe and held it to Dia’s neck.

“If you lay a hand on me one more time, I’ll kill this girl.”

The Duke, who had his eyes closed, raised both hands. Then the forks and knives on the table floated up into the air.

Terrified by a sight he had never seen before, Kilon shouted pathetically.

“Really, I’ll kill…”

His words couldn’t continue to the end.

It was because silver knives and forks flew at him and pierced him as if they were alive.

The servants’ faces turned pale.

Kilon, covered in blood all over his body, rolled his eyes back and fainted.

“Is, is he dead?”

Dia looked down coldly at Kilon, who had collapsed at her feet, with a trembling voice.

“…Not yet.”

As soon as the Duke finished speaking, Dia pulled out one of the knives.

Her hand trembled as she aimed the knife at the center of Kilon’s chest.

“I will kill him.”

Dia slowly lowered the knife while tears dripped down.

Oliver gently grabbed her hand.

“A noble cannot kill another noble.”

He shook his head with a bitter tone.

“I could also duel…”

Dia still had the knife pointed at him.

“The other party must acknowledge it, my lady. And His Grace has a reason for not killing him yet.”

“…Why?”

“We must expose all of that bastard’s crimes. That bastard will be torn apart and executed in front of all the southern nobles. So that everyone can see the price of recklessly touching someone from the Duke’s family. So that no one will ever dare touch someone from the Duke’s family again.”

Clang. The knife fell to the marble floor.

Dia closed her trembling eyelids. Tears dripped down her cheeks.

‘Vines protects. Mother. You were right, Mother.’

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Caw. Caw.

Crows gathered in the wide open field in front of the Count’s estate.

The territory residents of the Count’s estate passed by with angry faces, spitting toward the executed corpse or cursing.

From early morning, many people gathered in front of the Count’s estate. There, Kilon’s crimes were revealed in detail.

The Imperial Executor had visited, and summary judgment was carried out.

The territory residents had not yet recovered from the death of the benevolent Count and Countess.

They were angry to learn that Kilon was behind it, and some even cried from grief.

Meanwhile, a black-haired boy with a disfigured face was found dead in Kilon’s secret storage. It was a child Kilon had prepared as a substitute for Peridot in case of unforeseen circumstances.

Dia fainted after confirming it wasn’t Peridot.

Since the Count and Countess had already been cremated, the nobles who had come for the funeral were sent back, and a simple family funeral was held instead.

The smell of blood in the air grew thick. It seemed like rain would pour down soon.

Kay prostrated himself behind Gerald, who was standing by the window.

“That Woman disappeared without leaving any trace, so we couldn’t find any evidence of who was behind this.”

After listening to the report for a while, Gerald’s lips finally opened heavily.

“Was I the variable? I thought they would use Kilon more.”

“….”

Kay bowed his head even deeper without saying a word.

Just then, he sensed someone’s presence outside.

“Come in.”

Oliver and Dia with a gaunt face entered together.

“The young lady said she has something to tell you, so I brought her here.”

Gerald still stood by the window side and responded with a slight nod instead of words.

Dia clasped her hands together and took a step toward Gerald, bowing deeply at the waist.

“Thank you for all the kindness you’ve shown us. Now if we just find Peridot, I think we can return to how things were before.”

She could no longer return to the past when her parents were alive, but now she was the family head. Dia forcibly composed her surging emotions and raised her head.

“….”

Gerald still stood there silently.

Dia looked at the Duke’s profile with his eyes closed and recalled her beloved mother’s face.

“Are you telling me to leave now?”

“What?”

Dia’s eyes widened at his direct words.

“You’re still young.”

“I’ll be an adult in a few months.”

Dia clenched her hands tightly and spoke firmly.

“The Empire doesn’t recognize women as family heads.”

Dia bit her lips tightly.

Could it be that he solved everything for this reason? Now that Kilon was dead, was the Western Duke trying to swallow up the Count’s House?

Due to the betrayal of someone she trusted, it had become difficult for her to trust people anymore.

Dia opened her mouth with an anxious expression.

“I’ll be honest. I don’t need a guardian. Since I’ll be an adult soon, I can become the children’s guardian.”

“Impossible.”

“Do you want the Count’s House’s wealth? Or the land? I’ll give you anything. Just please leave.”

Dia stared directly at Gerald and spoke coldly.

The corners of his lips curved up slightly.

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