I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 78

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 78

An office flooded with sunlight. It was a place she had visited often, but it felt so unfamiliar.

Marine’s light green eyes swept around the surroundings.

The spacious office desk. Bookshelves reaching to the ceiling and various types of swords neatly displayed on one wall. Dark red wallpaper with a blackish tint.

The window with the black curtains drawn back was slightly open. Whether it had just been opened, the stale air could still be felt inside the office.

Had he opened the window knowing Peridot was coming? How? Well, it must be the male protagonist buff.

“So this is what it looks like inside.”

Oliver, who heard Marine’s murmur from beside her and suppressed a smile, blew out the candle with a puff.

“Please go in first.”

“Yes. Peridot, let’s go.”

Peridot also rolled his eyes as he looked around the office here and there.

“Hello, Gerald. It’s quite bright today.”

Marine greeted him with a cheerful voice.

“…Hello.”

Peridot hid behind the hem of her dress and peeked out only his head.

“Yes.”

The Duke nodded slightly with an indifferent face.

Oliver greeted the Duke with a refreshing expression.

“Good morning, Your Grace.”

The Duke answered with a nod and turned his head back toward where Peridot was.

“What’s wrong?”

Peridot seemed startled and hesitated before letting go of Marine’s skirt. Then he soon approached the Duke with a brave face.

“I’m sorry, Duke. I’ll blow on it for you.”

“…What?”

The Duke’s indifferent expression broke for a moment. He asked slowly with a face that showed he didn’t know how to react.

“I hit you last night, Duke. I’m sorry for hurting you. So I’ll blow on it for you.”

Peridot, who had approached the front of the desk, peered around to see the Duke’s legs beyond it.

Marine held her breath at Peridot’s adorable appearance.

How could there be such a lovable child in the world.

Oliver also looked at the Duke and Peridot with a moved expression.

“…It didn’t hurt.”

The Duke opened his mouth after a long while, seeming flustered.

“But Ruby sister says it hurts even when I hit her just once?”

“You shouldn’t hit your sister carelessly.”

When the Duke gave a stern warning, Peridot nodded.

“It was a mistake while playing ball. I won’t do it anymore.”

“Good. That’s a good attitude.”

The Duke raised his hand and then hesitated.

Peridot saw that large hand and placed his head under it.

“You can pat me. I’ll allow it.”

Oh, was that something you needed permission for?

Marine looked down at her own hands with a guilty expression, having touched Peridot’s head carelessly.

The Duke stroked Peridot’s soft hair.

“Duke. Can I play here before I go?”

The Duke, who had been stroking Peridot for a while, turned his head toward Oliver.

“Oliver, prepare a chair. A soft one.”

“Yes.”

Oliver answered with his usual gentle smile.

“I’m going to sit with Teacher.”

Peridot said earnestly. Good Peridot even considered his teacher’s leg health.

“A long chair.”

“Yes.”

“Anything else needed?”

“Teacher?”

Peridot looked at Marine with his black eyes as if asking for help.

“Um, paper and pastels and snacks maybe?”

When Marine thought for a moment and spoke, Peridot also nodded vigorously as if agreeing.

“Yes. I’ll prepare everything right away.”

Oliver smiled brightly and quickly left the office.

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Garnet knocked on Dia’s door. However, there was no answer from inside.

“Sister?”

When she opened the door slightly, Dia was sleeping on the bed.

How could the usually sensitive Dia not even hear the knocking sound.

It was strange. It seemed like something had happened last night, but Dia kept her mouth tightly shut.

Garnet carefully closed the door so as not to wake Dia and headed to Rubiana’s room. Just as she was about to knock on the door, Rubiana opened it and came out.

“Ruby, where are you going?”

“To the Baroness’s room.”

“Why are you going there?”

Garnet looked at her with dissatisfied eyes.

“Because we’re friends.”

“Friends?”

“Yes. I decided to be friends with the Baroness. I read books to the Baroness every day.”

“You really have nothing to do.”

Rubiana, who was holding a book against her chest, stared up at Garnet.

“Sister seems to have nothing to do? Want to play together?”

“No thanks!”

Garnet put her hands on her waist and acted tough.

“Okay. I’m busy anyway.”

“Ruby!”

Garnet glared at Rubiana with an annoyed face.

“Sister, I’ll play with you later. Bye.”

Garnet watched Rubiana go up to the third floor and then turned her head sharply.

“Hmph. As if I have nothing to do.”

She went down the stairs without hesitation. When she opened the annex door wide and went outside, the winter wind blew with a whoosh.

Garnet’s long blonde hair and dress hem fluttered in the wind.

“I have things to do too. I will have them.”

As soon as she spoke to the empty air where no one was around, loneliness rushed in.

When she was at the Count’s estate, it was always bustling, busy, and fun.

But at the Duke’s castle, she didn’t even know what to do, and it wasn’t fun.

Walking aimlessly, she ended up in front of the main house where the Duke stayed.

Peridot would be inside, right?

Should she ask them to call Peridot?

Garnet was rolling a stone on the floor, lost in thought, when someone called out to her.

“Miss Garnet?”

When she looked up, she saw an elderly butler with a sturdy build and white beard standing there.

“Yes.”

“I apologize for the late introduction. I’m Butler Sebastian Chen. Please feel free to call me comfortably.”

“Oh, okay.”

Garnet nodded her head roughly and lowered her eyes.

She shouldn’t have come here. She didn’t want to talk much with the people from the Duke’s Castle.

“What are you doing here?”

“Just. Taking a walk.”

“Is that so?”

“It’s boring, so I was about to go back.”

As Garnet half-turned her body, the butler asked in a subtle voice.

“Have you perhaps visited the stable as well?”

“The stable?”

Garnet felt like she had shown too much interest and regretted it immediately after speaking.

“Yes. There’s a very pretty horse there. Shall I guide you?”

“Well, I guess I could take a look.”

Garnet nodded with an expression that said she would reluctantly follow along.

Butler Sebastian drew a gentle smile on his lips and guided Garnet to the stable.

The stable they eventually reached had few horses.

“The horses here are under special care, so there aren’t many.”

“I see.”

Butler Sebastian approached a horse at the end of the stable that had a black face but a white body.

The horse seemed to recognize the butler, lifting its head and neighing happily. The butler petted the horse and then looked back at Garnet.

“How is it?”

“It looks unique.”

“It’s lived a long time. It’s already lived for over twenty years.”

“Wow, but it’s still this healthy?”

“It was Miss—that is, Miss Garnet’s mother’s horse.”

Garnet froze with her hand extended toward the horse.

Mother’s horse? She never expected to hear about her beloved mother’s past in this place.

“When she was leaving for the Southern Region, she tried to take it with her, but said that while she would be separated from family, the horse had all its family here, so she left it behind with much regret.”

Garnet put strength into her extended fingers and moved them. When she slowly petted the horse, it neighed long and happily.

“That’s so like Mother.”

“Isn’t it?”

Garnet took the apple the butler offered and fed it to the horse.

“What’s the horse’s name?”

“Blackie.”

Garnet laughed refreshingly.

“That’s such a Mom-like name. When Mom saw a pink bird, she’d call it Pinkie, and when she saw a yellow puppy, she’d call it Yellowy.”

“She was like that since she was young.”

Butler Sebastian smiled as he reminisced about the past.

“Hey, you know.”

“Yes.”

“Is the name Sebastian common?”

“Within the Duke’s Castle, I’m the only one.”

“Then were you perhaps the Vice-Captain of Knights before?”

Butler Sebastian’s surprised, wrinkled eyes widened.

“How did you know?”

“I heard it from Mom once. She said she learned swordsmanship from the Vice-Captain of Knights. I also learned swordsmanship from Mom sometimes.”

“Did you?”

The butler petted the horse with lonely eyes.

“About swordsmanship, could you teach me too?”

Garnet stared directly at the butler with an earnest face.

Butler Sebastian hid his surprise inwardly and faced Garnet.

Had Marine predicted all of this?

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