I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 89

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 89

I opened the office door and entered with the same expression as usual.

“Hello. Du- Gerald.”

“Why are you trying to go back to formal titles again?”

I changed it quickly but got caught. I wanted to say ‘Because I’m nervous,’ but to avoid showing it, I naturally changed the subject.

“Did you have a peaceful day today?”

Marine approached the Duke and picked up the bowl containing the dandelion extract.

“Do you remember what happened yesterday?”

“I don’t remember what happened yesterday.”

Marine squeezed her eyes shut and instantly spat out the line she had prepared.

I can do this. Play dumb.

“…Really?”

When I opened my eyes slightly and stole a glance at the Duke, he was leaning back leisurely in his chair.

“Yes.”

Marine put on a calm face while placing the cloth over the Duke’s eyes and applying the dandelion extract.

“I asked how your day was, didn’t I? I was busy.”

“Ah, you were busy. Did you have a lot of reports to receive today?”

Good. That was natural.

Marine smiled contentedly to herself while mechanically responding to the Duke’s words.

“No. I was doing chest exercises.”

“Ah, chest….”

The Duke’s lips, seen up close, were slightly curved upward.

Is he already starting to tease me when I’m not even mentally prepared yet?

Marine did her best to maintain her composure while answering nonchalantly.

“Ah, che, ahem. st exercises, I see.”

“Because someone kept touching it.”

“Ah, someone kept, ahem, touch, ahem, ing, ahem, I, ahem, see.”

Marine wanted to collapse and cry right then and there.

Was speaking such a difficult task? She struggled to overcome herself and managed to complete the sentence.

Well done, me.

“I told them to stop touching my chest, but they wouldn’t listen.”

However, the Duke’s attack continued.

“When did I ever do that! Ah, I see.”

Marine widened her eyes in indignation and raised her voice, then forcibly changed her words midway.

The person in that story is not me.

“They even tried to unbutton my shirt….”

The Duke trailed off in a languid voice.

Marine momentarily lost strength in her legs and swayed, barely managing to steady herself by grabbing the desk.

No, this man. Just how much of a pervert is he making me out to be?

“So I unbuttoned one….”

“I was wrong.”

I give up.

Marine couldn’t listen anymore and stopped the Duke’s words.

“What?”

“I remember everything. When did I ever try to unbutton anything? You can’t just make up stories like that!”

Marine frantically fanned her burning face with her hand.

How shameless, really.

The Duke burst into laughter.

“Stop laughing. The paste is falling off.”

“Didn’t you say my smile was pretty before?”

“When there’s no paste on your eyes.”

The Duke smiled silently.

If I could just hit those annoying red lips once, I’d have no other wishes.

Marine pouted and pulled out the fairy tale book.

The only way to survive was to quickly put the Duke to sleep and leave.

“I’ll read the book. Once upon a time, there lived a rabbit and a tortoise. They had a goal. To win the annual long-distance running competition. They always practiced together. Today too, the rabbit ran hard. So its chest was pounding.

‘Rabbit. Your chest has gotten big, ahem. ger.’

‘When you run for a long time and take deep breaths, your chest gets big, ahem. ger.’

‘Really?’

The tortoise took a deep breath.

‘Has my chest gotten big, ahem. ger too?'”

Her pupils trembled as if an earthquake had struck.

“Haa. …Gerald.”

Marine let out a deep sigh and snapped the fairy tale book shut.

When I looked down at the Duke, his chest had expanded. From holding back laughter.

Everything here and there is so big.

Marine turned her gaze away with a wistful look.

The curtain keeps swaying even though there’s no wind.

Marine gripped the fairy tale book tightly. She felt like tearing it to shreds right now.

It was a fairy tale book she had chosen a week ago, not knowing this would happen.

I didn’t know it was a book with so many chest stories back then.

“…Why?”

The Duke asked in a voice barely containing laughter.

“I think I chose the wrong book. I’ll go change it for another one.”

Marine whispered with a face of complete resignation.

“Good idea. If I keep listening to that book, I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep.”

The Duke gave permission while still holding back laughter.

“I think so too.”

Marine slumped her shoulders and trudged toward the office door.

Ah, life is truly bitter.

The moment I closed the office door, I heard the Duke’s laughter.

Right. The male protagonist should laugh too. People should live with laughter.

Marine tried to think positive thoughts like a mantra, but her eyes kept getting misty.

* * *

Marine, who had arrived at the training ground and was warming up with running, was startled to see Garnet.

Garnet’s lush blonde hair had been cut short.

“Junior Garnet? Your hair….”

“How is it? Does it suit me?”

Garnet awkwardly touched the back of her hair, which was cut short like a boy’s.

Marine quickly nodded. It suited her so well.

But why so suddenly?

“I’m going to become a knight. This hair is like my resolve.”

Garnet smiled refreshingly.

“What?”

Marine’s eyes widened in surprise.

In the novel, it was only briefly mentioned that she ‘learned swordsmanship from the Butler,’ so Marine had no idea that Garnet wanted to become a knight.

“So there’s something I want to ask you, Marine senior.”

“Ask away.”

“Why do you train wearing a skirt?”

Marine trained daily wearing the most worn-out dress among those she owned.

“I’m learning for self-defense. I thought I should train in the familiar clothes I usually wear so I can move naturally in emergencies.”

“Ah, then I should wear pants from now on.”

“Right. Good thinking. But do you really want to become a knight?”

“Yes. Is it strange for a woman to become a knight?”

Garnet was asking for her opinion sincerely, not in her usual prickly, haughty cat mode.

Marine shook her head with an expression that said ‘what are you talking about?’ and smiled.

“No. I’m honored to be the person who gets to give a knight her first sword.”

Garnet blinked, not understanding what she meant.

Marine brought over a long piece of leather that had been propped against a tree behind the training ground.

When Marine held it out as if telling her to unwrap it, Garnet hastily took it and untied the leather strap.

“Ah…”

When she pulled away the leather, a scabbard decorated with gold powder in soft wave patterns on a sandalwood background was revealed. The mixed-colored jewel embedded in the white handle was something she’d never seen before in her life, but it looked incredibly mystical.

When she carefully gripped the handle and drew the sword, a blade so clean that her face reflected in it was revealed.

“…Why this?”

Garnet’s green eyes trembled as if bewildered.

“I wanted to give you a gift as your senior. Actually, I arbitrarily called you my junior here, but I also wanted to become friends with Lady Adriana. It’s a kind of bribe, a bribe.”

Garnet carefully placed the gifted sword on the leather and hugged Marine tightly.

Garnet, who was a span taller than Marine, buried her face in Marine’s shoulder.

“Thank you. I’ll treasure it for life.”

Marine gently patted the back of Garnet’s shortly cut hair. To cut such beautiful hair like this – her determination was truly remarkable.

“Yes.”

“Since when do you speak formally again to your junior?”

Garnet had returned to being a prickly cat again.

“Right, junior Garnet.”

“Now, you two have a heartwarming senior-junior relationship, but it’s time to return the training ground.”

Yubis appeared from somewhere, carrying a scabbard on his shoulder.

“Got it.”

Marine ran out of the training ground first.

Yubis looked at Garnet’s shortened hair with regretful eyes.

“Why? Does it look strange?”

“It was pretty. Ah, of course it’s still pretty now.”

Garnet’s eyes widened in surprise at Yubis’s honest words.

“Why? Is it strange that I’m speaking casually?”

Garnet nodded with a bewildered expression.

Actually, she was more surprised by his words.

“You want to become a knight, right? You’re my junior now, so I’ll speak casually from now on. Call me senior. I also received His Grace’s orders, so I’ll work you hard from now on.”

Yubis’s eyes gleamed mischievously.

“Good.”

“Hey, to your senior. ‘Yes, sir.'”

“Yes. Yes, sir, senior.”

Garnet quickly corrected herself. She had to climb up from the very bottom from now on.

“Good, junior. Starting today, twenty laps around the training ground.”

“Yes!”

Garnet answered with a voice full of spirit and began running around the training ground.

Marine’s figure could be seen in the distance.

I have to catch up. And I have to move forward!

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