I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 97

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 97

The personal physician from the servants’ carriage quickly laid Yulia down inside.

“Yulia is okay, right?”

Marine looked at the personal physician’s serious face with desperate eyes.

“I’ll treat her first, but it would be best to move to a place where she can receive proper treatment quickly.”

“Let’s do that.”

The Duke, who had approached at some point, answered.

When Marine heard the Duke’s voice, her legs gave out.

The Duke quickly caught her waist.

“She tried to save me.”

“Yulia!!”

Yubis, who had been clearing the corpses with the knights and heard the news, came running while limping.

Marine couldn’t bear to look at Yubis and whispered.

“Yubis, I’m sorry. Yulia tried to save me…”

Yubis shook his head with a distorted face.

“Don’t say such things. Yulia did what she had to do. She’ll be fine, Lady.”

Yubis’s voice sounded muffled. It was like a swarm of bees flying around her ears. She was suffocated by guilt. When she lowered her head, she saw red blood on her hands.

Tinnitus rang in her ears, and the horses neighed long.

Her vision went dark, then filled with red blood. Beyond the hazy dust, she saw her loving father’s hand.

Marine’s empty eyes wandered aimlessly through the air.

“Sorry… Father, Brother.”

Marine murmured softly and fainted.

The Duke, who had been firmly supporting her, carefully lifted her up.

“We go at maximum speed.”

“Yes.”

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“Father, Brother…”

Marine woke up crying. She blinked her eyelids to regain consciousness and sat up.

She was on a bed, not in the carriage.

“Yulia!”

“Are you awake?”

When she turned to the side, the Duke was sitting there with an expressionless face.

“What about Yulia?”

Marine’s throat was tight with tension, and she barely managed to ask in a thread-like voice.

“She’s fine.”

“Really? You’re not lying, are you?”

“She’s in the adjacent room, so you can check.”

“Let’s go. Right now.”

Marine kicked off the blanket and jumped up, then sat back down on the bed with a thud due to dizziness.

“Marine.”

“Yes?”

“Weren’t carriages okay now?”

Marine blinked. As she pondered his words, she remembered the situation when she had fainted.

Trauma doesn’t disappear easily, it seems. She thought she was fine, but when Yulia got hurt because of her, the carriage accident came back to her.

“I’m fine now.”

“What should I do?”

His low voice was rough, as if blaming himself.

It wasn’t something the Duke could solve. It was something she had to overcome.

“I won’t worry you anymore.”

The Duke stood up from his seat.

“Eat a lot. You’re still lacking.”

The conversation suddenly jumped to that topic?

“Yes, yes. Can’t I go to the adjacent room first?”

“Don’t cry.”

“Yes, yes. I’m going.”

Marine, who had already half-opened the door, answered absentmindedly because she wanted to see Yulia quickly.

“Alright.”

As soon as his permission was given, Marine rushed out into the corridor.

Marine carefully knocked on the adjacent room.

“Yes.”

Yubis’s voice was heard.

Marine hesitated with fear when she actually stood in front of the door. She’s really okay, right?

The Duke, who had been standing behind her at some point, opened the door for her instead.

Yubis, who had been sitting on a wooden chair, jumped up.

“Duke, Lady Marine.”

“…Is Yulia okay?”

Marine swallowed her saliva and opened her mouth with difficulty.

“Yes.”

Yubis smiled broadly as if to reassure her.

Only then did it feel like her tightly blocked chest was finally cleared.

“Thank goodness. Really thank goodness.”

Perhaps hearing her voice, there was a rustling sound from the bed.

Marine quickly approached Yulia.

“Lady…”

Yulia, wrapped in bandages, was lying face down when she spotted Marine and moved her head sideways as much as possible. Marine was surprised and moved a little closer to her.

“Yulia, stay still.”

“Lady, you weren’t hurt anywhere, were you?”

“I’ve been telling her the Lady is fine, but she keeps asking only that question.”

Yubis grumbled from behind.

“Yulia got hurt instead of me. I’m perfectly fine.”

“Phew, really thank goodness.”

Yulia smiled brightly with genuine relief.

“What’s so good about it? The bandage is so thick.”

Marine looked at Yulia’s bandage with eyes that hurt more than her own.

“Since the Lady wasn’t hurt, I’m completely fine. Even if one arm got cut off, I’d be okay.”

“Yulia!”

Marine shouted her name as if she had heard something terrible.

Startled, Yulia opened her eyes wide.

“How can you say such things! Quickly spit it out. Cancel what you just said.”

“Right. Why are you saying such things? Quickly spit it out.”

Yubis also fumed angrily from behind.

“Ptooey ptooey.”

Yulia, who surrendered to both people’s stern gazes, only made the sound with her mouth.

Marine finally let out a sigh of relief.

“Yulia, I’m sorry for letting you get hurt. And thank you for saving me.”

“No, Lady. It was because of me that you got out of the carriage… If you had been hurt, I would have…”

“Stop. It sounds like you’re about to say something I’ll have to spit at again.”

Marine gently cut off Yulia’s words.

“Then I’ll just say thank you. But from now on, you must never do this again. Understood?”

Red eyes stared up at her intently.

“I’m sorry, Lady. I can’t promise that.”

Yulia firmly refused.

As Marine was about to persuade her again, Yubis, who had been standing behind them, chimed in.

“Lady. I think the same as Yulia about that. I would have saved you first too.”

“Really, why are you both like this?”

Marine muttered in frustration.

The two of them were only sixteen years old after the new year had passed. The thought of these two people, who weren’t even adults yet, throwing themselves into danger for her sake made her heart ache just imagining it.

“Marine.”

The Duke, who had been listening to the conversation from behind, called her.

“Gerald.”

“Think of it as how much these two care for you and accept it. And just be careful so that such dangerous situations don’t happen again.”

The Duke settled it all at once.

Marine swallowed a sigh and nodded.

“So don’t go more than five steps away from my side.”

“Last time it was ten steps.”

“Because you keep getting into dangerous situations.”

“Yes, yes.”

When Marine answered half-heartedly again, this time Yulia added her words.

“I think that would be good, Lady.”

“His Grace’s side is the safest!”

Even Yubis joined in.

“Alright, I get it!”

Marine sat down in front of Yulia with a resigned expression.

“Do you need anything?”

“No, Lady.”

Yulia smiled with her eyes becoming crescents.

“Have you eaten something? Did you get some sleep? Should I read you a book?”

Marine kept asking while arranging the blanket covering Yulia.

“You would, Lady?”

“You know I read well. You probably couldn’t sleep well because you were sick, so I’ll read to you. Just a moment.”

“Lady, it’s fine…”

Marine jumped up and opened the door before Yulia could stop her.

Just as Marine was about to step outside, the Duke followed behind her.

“Why?”

“Five steps.”

Marine looked around quickly and confirmed no one was there before speaking.

“I have El with me.”

“El said he reflected and would provide closer protection.”

“How?”

“Hello. Your Grace, Lady Marine.”

A maid with dark blue hair approached and greeted them. The approaching maid was quite tall. Her eyelids were thin and long, giving her a cool appearance.

“Oh, hello.”

Despite the greeting, the maid didn’t leave and remained standing there. Marine looked up at the Duke with a ‘no way’ expression.

The Duke stood silently with his arms crossed and an expressionless face.

“Could it be El?”

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