I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 52
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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 52
Roanna, who had been listening to their conversation from the side, looked at Marine with surprised eyes. She felt like she was glimpsing a different side of her daughter who always acted like a mischievous child.
“Well then everyone, I’m busy so I’ll be going.”
Marine waved goodbye to the three people and quickly escaped from the room.
She had pretended to have important business, but it was nothing more than running away.
Walking without thinking, she found herself in front of the Duke’s office before she knew it.
Ah, why did I come here?
Marine was about to turn around and leave when the Duke’s indifferent voice came from beyond the office.
“Come in.”
Marine swallowed a sigh and walked into the office as slowly as possible.
The Duke listened to her footsteps and suddenly asked.
“Why?”
“What do you mean?”
“It sounds like you don’t want to come in but you’re forcing yourself to walk.”
Ghost. It wasn’t even surprising anymore.
It must be the male protagonist buff.
“That’s not true.”
Marine licked her lips and spoke confidently. If she said it wasn’t, then it wasn’t.
“It is true.”
“Can’t you just pretend it’s not?”
Faced with the Duke’s firmness, Marine quickly backed down.
“What brings you here?”
“Because Your Grace told me to come in.”
“Name.”
“Gerald told me to come in.”
“Not the office. Why did you come to the door?”
“Just, while running away I ended up here…”
“Running away? From whom?”
The Duke’s expression became slightly cold.
“The party preparation team.”
Marine hurriedly cleared up the Duke’s misunderstanding.
“Why come to me when you’re running away?”
A slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
“Um, probably because you’re the strongest person around me. I thought they wouldn’t look for me if I was near Your Gra- Gerald.”
“How nice that your fiancé is strong.”
He raised the corner of his mouth and spoke slowly.
Marine’s earlobes instantly turned bright red.
He must be talking about his position as Duke, wealth, abilities and such, right?
“Since you’re here anyway, how about returning to temporary work?”
“Good!”
Marine quickly scurried over to the desk.
“Now you want to come closer?”
“People naturally feel at ease in their proper place. The fiancée position isn’t my place, so it’s too uncomfortable.”
Marine picked up a document from the desk and unconsciously revealed her inner thoughts.
“But when Oliver isn’t here, who brings these documents?”
“The butler takes over Oliver’s work.”
“I see. The butler must be really busy too.”
“He even has to teach someone.”
“That’s right. Teaching me- Huh? You knew?”
“Do you think there’s anything I don’t know about in the Duke’s castle?”
He leaned back loosely in his chair and extended his hand.
Marine naturally placed her wrist on his palm.
He gripped her wrist and clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction.
“How exactly can this get fuller?”
“I told you it can’t.”
“You can grow, Temporary. Try harder.”
“Even if I try, what can’t be done can’t be done.”
“Someone’s coming.”
“Huh? Who…”
Bang!
Marine’s eyes widened at the sound of someone kicking the door open, and she hurriedly looked at the Duke’s face.
He had said it was okay to speak normally now, but was making such a loud noise also acceptable?
The one who kicked the door was none other than Zeromian.
He was wearing a flowing silver silk gown as if he had just come out of his bedroom. The nightshirt he wore underneath had buttons undone down to his chest, making him look sexy.
Marine observed him with interested eyes at this sight that was hard to see in this world.
Indeed, a handsome man looked good in anything.
“What are you doing? Engagement? Party?”
Zeromian was fiercely spewing words when he saw the Duke’s hand holding Marine’s wrist and stopped abruptly.
“Why are you holding her hand?”
“We’re engaged.”
Marine blushed and tried to pull her hand away, but the Duke deliberately held on tighter and wouldn’t let go. Marine had no choice but to greet Zeromian with her wrist still caught.
“Hello, Zeromian.”
At her greeting, Zeromian looked flustered as he took off his glasses, wiped them, and put them back on.
“Zeromian?”
The Duke who heard her greeting from the side frowned in displeasure.
“Yes. Hello, you.”
“You?”
The Duke’s frown deepened as he repeated the address in an incredulous voice.
“Let me introduce my fi, an, cée. This is Lady Marine Schwentz.”
There was tremendous emphasis on the word fiancée.
Marine looked down at the Duke as if he was being strange, then felt Zeromian’s piercing gaze.
“Let me greet you again. I’m Marine Schwentz.”
“So you were a noble after all.”
Zeromian nodded with an expression that said he knew it.
“I’m sorry for deceiving you.”
“It’s okay. I was deceiving you too.”
Could he be about to say that he’s Zero?
Marine hid her anxious feelings and put on an unknowing expression.
“I’m not sure what you mean.”
“Actually, I’m Zero. I can change my body with alchemy. I’m Alchemist Zero and also Northern Archduke Zeromian Rodel Saint.”
Marine’s eyes widened in surprise that he had revealed his identity.
“You’re very surprised, aren’t you? I’m sorry.”
“No, it’s okay…”
Marine shook her head with a bewildered expression.
Fortunately, since she was genuinely surprised, it seemed the fact that she already knew wasn’t discovered.
In the novel, Zeromian does confess to the Female Protagonist that he goes back and forth between being an adult and a child. However, his actual identity was never revealed until the end of the novel.
But why did he reveal to her that he was even the Northern Archduke?
“What are you up to?”
When Zero gave a lengthy self-introduction that he would never normally do, the Duke interjected with a cold voice.
“What am I up to?”
Zeromian blinked his eyes innocently.
“There’s no way you’d tell the truth without some ulterior motive.”
Zeromian spread both arms with an aggrieved expression and shrugged his shoulders.
“It was a pure self-introduction.”
“Pure? That’s not a word made to be attached to such things.”
“Tsk tsk. To be so ignorant of the word pure. That’s why I told you to read some books. You can’t become a person just by swinging a sword with your muscles.”
Marine watched the two men’s childish argument with a bewildered expression.
Are these two men actually adults right now?
“If you’re done talking, I’d appreciate it if you’d get lost quickly.”
The Duke gestured toward the door with a cold expression.
“I haven’t even started yet. Engagement? You’re getting engaged to Miss Marine?”
“Your news is late.”
“You there. If you’re being threatened by this guy, please wave a carrot. I’ll help you right away.”
Zeromian pulled out a small carrot from his silver silk robe pocket and held it out.
“What kind of nonsense is this?”
The Duke’s low voice was rough.
Marine was so surprised she couldn’t say anything and opened her mouth slightly.
This person, how did he know about waving carrots?
Reading Marine’s surprised expression, Zeromian put the carrot back in his pocket and scratched the back of his head.
“Sorry. I was just researching with carrots until now. If you can’t say anything because the Duke is scary, give me some kind of signal and I’ll help…”
“Stop! I’m done entertaining this pointless talk.”
The Duke cut off Zeromian’s words decisively.
“Are you really getting engaged to Miss Marine?”
Zeromian looked at the Duke with a serious expression.
“Yes.”
“You, who were calling Miss Marine ‘Temporary’ and speaking down to her just a few days ago, suddenly came to like Miss Marine? You want me to believe that?”
The Duke leaned back leisurely against his chair and let out a scoff.
“You’re right.”
“I always speak only the truth.”
Zeromian looked at the Duke with displeasure as he stated the obvious.
“That statement of yours about being pure. It was true. To think that noble engagements are only possible when they like each other.”
Zeromian’s pale face flushed red then quickly turned cold.
“Then what’s the reason for proceeding with this engagement?”
“Let’s say it’s due to mutual necessity. Now go.”
Feeling like he couldn’t communicate with the Duke, Zeromian this time stared at Marine.
“I don’t know what you need, but getting engaged to just any man like this isn’t a good choice. You could meet a better person…”
“Archduke. I appreciate your concern for me, but I know my situation best. My family is ruined.”
Marine interrupted his words with a calm expression.
In that one word “ruined” was contained the meaning that ‘she had no chance of meeting the good person he spoke of.’
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