I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 72

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 72

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Even as the morning sunlight poured through the window, Peridot did not wake up from his sleep.

Instead, Garnet stretched like a cat and was startled when she almost rolled off the sofa.

“Why am I here?”

“Did you sleep well?”

“Don’t tell me I fell asleep on the sofa?”

“Yes. You slept soundly without waking up even once.”

“I usually can’t sleep anywhere but on a bed…”

Garnet looked at the sofa with curiosity.

That wouldn’t be the issue though.

Dia suppressed a chuckle inwardly.

“Ah, I’m hungry after sleeping so well for the first time in a while.”

Hearing Garnet’s words, Dia also felt hungry for the first time in a while. It seemed to be the effect of sleeping soundly.

Just then, Rubiana quietly opened the door and peeked her head in.

“Sisters, are you awake?”

“Ruby. Come in.”

“What about Peridot?”

Rubiana, who had entered the room, asked about Peridot’s well-being first.

“Peridot is still sleeping.”

Dia delivered the news in a quiet voice.

“What? Oh right. Peridot is still sleeping?”

Garnet, who had raised her voice in surprise, whispered quietly. She tiptoed to the bed and looked down at Peridot admiringly.

“Yes. He’s been sleeping continuously as if catching up on all the sleep he missed.”

Dia looked at the still-sleeping Peridot with pity.

“Sisters, it’s magic!”

Rubiana glanced at the sleeping Peridot and spoke to Dia and Garnet with sparkling eyes.

“What nonsense are you talking about, Ruby?”

Garnet asked with a bewildered expression while fixing her disheveled blonde hair from sleeping.

“I saw everything.”

Rubiana puffed out her chest and spoke confidently.

“What?”

“You sisters and Peridot falling asleep.”

“You know the sisters were tired from putting Peridot to sleep.”

Garnet replied nonchalantly.

“No! Teacher Marine put everyone to sleep. Like magic!”

Garnet laughed quietly as if telling her not to say such ridiculous things.

“Ruby. Reading books is good, but could you please distinguish between the world in books and the world you’re living in? Sister, shouldn’t we tell Ruby to stop reading books now? The kid can’t even distinguish…”

Garnet turned her head and stopped speaking when she saw Dia’s expression as she listened carefully to Rubiana’s words.

Why does she have such a serious face?

“Ruby, what did you see?”

Dia’s eyes trembled slightly.

“When I came into this room yesterday, you sisters and Peridot were all sleeping. Teacher Marine was covering you sisters with blankets.”

At Rubiana’s words, Garnet looked down at the blanket lying at her feet with a dazed expression.

“Sister didn’t cover me with this?”

Dia slowly shook her head.

“Then what she said is true? That woman put us all to sleep? How on earth?”

“Garnet, be quiet.”

Garnet, whose voice had risen in surprise, hurriedly covered her mouth.

Rubiana, who had been listening from the side, spoke with a proud expression.

“I told you it was magic.”

At that moment, a knock-knock sound was heard. Rubiana, who was near the door, opened it.

“Oh, Teacher Marine.”

“Hello, Ruby.”

Marine greeted Rubiana.

“Did everyone sleep well?”

When she then greeted everyone brightly, Dia and Garnet stared at her blankly with bewildered eyes.

Dia, who quickly came to her senses, returned the greeting.

“Yes. Did you sleep well?”

“Hmph.”

Garnet snorted and stepped aside. She was like a wary cat.

Marine smiled secretly at such Garnet, then glanced around the room.

“Peridot is still sleeping, I see?”

“Yes.”

“Aren’t you all hungry?”

“Yes! I’m hungry.”

Rubiana raised her hand high and said.

At that cute sight, Marine gently patted Rubiana’s head.

“We should eat quickly then. Right?”

Marine looked up at Dia.

“You get hungry after sleeping soundly. So I prepared the meal a bit early. Yulia.”

“Yes.”

Yulia, who had been standing behind, entered the room pulling a trolley loaded with food.

Marine also followed behind her.

Looking toward the bed, Peridot was lying quietly and sleeping very well.

Yulia went to the empty table and laid out various foods that were quite elaborate for breakfast.

Freshly baked bread, sweet onion soup, sandwiches thickly filled with savory eggs and chicken, tomato and basil cheese salad, thin pancakes topped with honey-soaked bananas, fresh fruit and yogurt, orange juice and milk.

Rubiana, who quickly took a seat, called to her sisters.

“Sisters, let’s eat quickly.”

“Hmph, I won’t eat…”

Growl.

Before Garnet could finish speaking, a loud sound came from her stomach. Garnet’s face turned red.

Marine pretended not to hear and smiled as she greeted the sisters.

“Enjoy your meal.”

Just as Marine was about to turn around, Dia’s voice came from behind.

“Um, yesterday… thank you. And for preparing the meal quickly today too.”

“Don’t mention it.”

“And…”

Marine silently waited for Dia’s next words.

“Please take good care of Ruby and Peridot from now on, Teacher Marine.”

Dia bowed politely in greeting.

“Yes!”

Marine responded with a bright smile and left the room with Yulia.

“Ah, I’m hungry.”

As soon as Marine left, Garnet stood up without even sitting down and hastily grabbed a sandwich.

“Sister Garnet!”

Rubiana called out to her as if she couldn’t stop her.

“This is delicious. Western food isn’t bad either. Sister Dia, hurry up and eat too. There are bananas again? The head chef here is perceptive. Right?”

The food hadn’t suited her taste, but the head chef had put bananas on top, so she had been eating only those for a while.

Seeing Garnet eat with such enjoyment for the first time in a while, Dia burst into laughter as well.

“Ah, why are you laughing?”

Garnet mumbled with her mouth full of food.

“You have something on your lips.”

“Oh my, where is it proper to point out such things to a lady?”

Garnet picked up a napkin and dabbed at her lips.

“Where’s the lady here? I only see a hungry little child.”

“What?”

Rubiana grinned as she watched her sisters playfully banter for the first time in a long while.

It really was magic.

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As Dia followed behind Oliver, she felt her good mood from the morning gradually sinking.

The Duke was looking for her?

The words “at this point” rose to her throat, but she swallowed them bitterly.

If she said such things, wouldn’t it seem like she had been hoping for him to look for them?

Oliver stopped in front of a large door.

Was this the Duke’s office?

“Come in.”

The Duke’s low voice came from beyond the office door.

Dia glanced at Oliver standing beside her. Oliver smiled with his eyes and gestured toward the door.

“Please go in.”

“Just me?”

“His Grace the Duke said for only you to come in.”

Dia looked at him with bewildered eyes.

That short phrase “come in” contained such meaning?

Oliver smiled brightly and placed a lit candlestick in Dia’s hand.

“Why this?”

“It will be very dark inside.”

Oliver personally opened the office door and stepped back.

Dia slowly stepped inside.

Just as Oliver had said, the inside of the office was dark without a single light.

As she walked slowly holding the candlestick, she could see the massive desk and the Duke’s figure beyond it.

The Duke looked dangerous, like a predator lazily resting in the darkness.

Dia silently set the candlestick down on the floor.

Even after she spent a long time looking down at the flickering candle, there was no word from the Duke.

Dia slowly raised her head and gave her attention to the Duke sitting silently.

“I heard you called for me.”

After presenting himself as our guardian and holding a grand party on the first day to ignore us, he finally called.

“…For the debutante, ask Oliver for anything you need.”

“Ha.”

A scoff escaped from her lips without her realizing it.

The Duke paid no attention to her rude attitude at all.

Well, caring about someone also required affection as a foundation. So even if she acted selfishly like Garnet, he wouldn’t say anything.

“I refuse. Or is that an order? However, I am not Your Grace’s person, so I have no reason to accept that command.”

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