You Said I Was a Persecuted, Terminally Ill Grand Duchess? - Chapter 67
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Chapter 67
“Can’t you hear me? I lost my memory. So naturally, there would be nothing to see, right?”
“Wh-what did you say?”
Bianca looked at Rene with an expression of bewilderment.
Saying she had lost her memory, it seemed Rene had also lost her fear or her sanity along with it.
There was a subtle madness gleaming in her eyes, making it certain she wasn’t in her right mind.
‘What? What on earth happened during this time to make her so bold…’
As Bianca swallowed dryly, a plausible assumption suddenly flashed through her mind.
“Ah, I got it!”
A cruel smile spread across her doll-like face.
Deep disgust and malice swirled in Bianca’s aquamarine eyes.
“Congratulations, sister!”
With an angelic face, Bianca folded her fan and took a step closer to Rene.
Perhaps sensing something ominous, Rene’s brow furrowed slightly.
Not missing that small change in expression, Bianca stroked Rene’s shoulder with exaggerated gestures.
“Just like how your lowly servant mother seduced our father with her body alone, you seduced the Duke the same way, didn’t you?”
“…What?”
“Blood really can’t be deceived. At this point, you’re not a servant but a whore…”
“Stop.”
That was when it happened.
A large shadow fell behind Bianca.
She turned her head unconsciously.
“…!”
Unfortunately, with the blazing afternoon sun at his back, the face of the man who suddenly appeared was not visible.
But that was only for a moment.
As Bianca’s vision quickly adapted to the sunlight, fierce violet eyes filled with anger were the first thing to enter her sight.
The moment she met those eyes.
“Huk…”
Though it was just an instant, Bianca read genuine ‘killing intent.’
An intense hostility she had never felt once in her entire life.
The large man, twice Bianca’s size, could end her life with just a fingertip if he so desired.
There was no way Bianca could be unaware of that overwhelming difference in power.
She had always been able to distinguish between the strong and weak like a ghost.
“I-I greet Your Grace the Duke. I am from House of Blanc…”
“Skip the introduction. Remove it.”
“Pardon?”
“Remove your hand from my wife. Are you deaf?”
As if burned by fire, Bianca hastily removed her hand from Rene’s shoulder and bowed deeply.
“Jenos.”
From behind her came Rene’s deliberately pitiful voice.
Her voice was trembling enough for anyone to notice she was frightened.
Due to the oppressive pressure, Bianca felt a chill despite it being early summer, and her whole body trembled.
She couldn’t even straighten her bowed back.
If she were to meet those razor-sharp eyes again… it was harder to imagine what would happen after that.
Meanwhile, the Duke was crushing Bianca with his presence alone.
“If you continue making insulting remarks about the Duchess any further…”
“…”
“I’ll cut out your tongue immediately and personally send it to House of Blanc.”
Even the bustling street froze at that moment.
This was not just empty words.
“If you understand, then get lost.”
The voice spat out through gritted teeth was so low it sounded like the growling of a beast.
Without realizing it, I stumbled backward, and the servants and maids who had been watching like it was someone else’s business rushed over with quick steps to support Bianca.
“Hmph! Let’s go!”
In the end, Bianca left in her carriage without a single word of apology.
Sigh. Letting out a breath, Jenos looked at Rene who was still standing there as if nailed to the spot.
She had been strangely quiet since earlier.
“Rene.”
Somehow, thump, the feeling of his heart dropping.
Jenos hurriedly grabbed Rene’s shoulders and turned her toward him.
“Oh my, you startled me. Yes?”
“Why weren’t you answering.”
Scaring people like that.
Though he didn’t add those words since they seemed uncool.
“I was just taking some time to quell the anger inside me. That little thing really gets on my nerves. If you hadn’t come, I might have grabbed her by the hair and Celeste’s honor would have been greatly damaged, so I should say you came at just the right time.”
“Next time, do whatever you want. Celeste’s honor can be damaged as much as it wants.”
“Oh my, how sweet of you.”
Rene laughed with a somewhat deflated expression.
Just then.
“Young lady! Oh, actually Your Grace the Duchess? Really amazing.”
“…?”
The ice cream vendor who had been standing like background scenery suddenly spoke up.
It seemed Rene had been trying to buy ice cream when she encountered this trouble.
“This, gift. Your Grace the Duchess. Brave. Your Grace the Duke too. Gift, gift. Please take.”
“Oh…. Thank you!”
Meanwhile, Rene skillfully received the two ice creams the vendor handed her.
“Live happily. Both of you.”
“Oh my. We’re already happy.”
Rene smiled quite shamelessly and held out one ice cream cone to Jenos as well.
Jenos took it awkwardly but kept checking Rene’s complexion.
Fortunately, this kind of thing seemed to be nothing to her.
Whether her mood improved from eating something sweet, Rene returned to her usual self and continued chattering away.
As he gave her halfhearted responses, they found themselves in front of the fountain before they knew it.
The two sat down on the fountain as if they had made an appointment.
“You’ve lived in the Northern Region and never tried ice cream?”
“I had it a few times as dessert when I was young, but I didn’t enjoy it. Though this kind is my first time.”
“It’s delicious, right?”
“Well… it’s decent.”
Having finished speaking, Jenos put the last piece of cone in his mouth.
Seeing this, Rene burst into laughter and teased him.
“Haha! For something like that, you ate it incredibly fast.”
“…Ahem.”
“You’re really not honest. We call that ‘liking it.'”
Rene’s red eyes disappeared between her gently curved eye corners.
Her body leaned slightly, bringing the two closer together.
Following her hair that flowed down like a stream under the moonlight, a subtle floral fragrance wafted over.
In that moment.
“….”
Jenos’s heart plummeted downward, then bounced up with an immeasurable rebound.
As if time had stopped, everything around became quiet.
Only the sound of my racing heart could be heard, making my mind feel distant.
‘…How strange.’
Yes, this kind of thing is strange.
To be entranced watching a small woman laughing with ice cream smeared on her mouth…
It’s not like me at all.
But…
‘When have I ever been myself in front of that woman?’
Ah.
At this trivial truth, a smile suddenly spread across Jenos’s lips.
It felt like he was finally opening his eyes.
‘Yes. I, this person…’
“Hmm? What’s wrong?”
Rene tilted her head with a puzzled expression as she looked at Jenos.
“He’s laughing to himself again…”
The woman who completely changed my life.
The feelings I couldn’t acknowledge due to petty pride finally fell into place like a puzzle finding its proper spot.
All the beliefs that had been gripping and shaking Jenos until now felt utterly trivial.
That feeling was incredibly liberating.
“I took one bath and saw all sorts of things! I won’t use it, I won’t!”
Unlike her first impression, she surprises people with unexpected sides of herself.
“Kuheooooo… Hmnya.”
She easily solved the long-standing madness that couldn’t be helped, yet she herself sleeps soundly without a care in the world.
“Yes… I, I am someone who doesn’t suit being the Duchess of Celeste.”
She was also hurt by his clumsy words.
Even so.
“Jenos!”
The woman who called to him with a bright smile.
Jenos captured her completely in his eyes, memory, and heart.
His heart, which had become full before he knew it, kept swelling more and more.
“…Rene.”
A form of address that had become quite comfortable.
His guard had relaxed proportionally.
Before he knew it, he seemed to smile quite often in front of her.
Even the way she would fidget when seeing him smile, then shyly smile back, was so very much like her.
“Haha!”
Jenos laughed out loud again.
It was because one side of his heart was stirring and overflowing with emotion.
“What is it, really. How funny.”
An exasperated smile had spread across Rene’s face as well.
Jenos quietly gazed at that sight.
The shattering water droplets of the fountain and the shimmering small rainbow.
The streaming sunlight. The gentle breeze.
The boisterous laughter of children running around the town square…
A woman who makes all of that pale in comparison sits before me.
“Rene.”
Yes, my wife.
Rene Celeste.
“Yes?”
You, who have settled deep in my heart before I knew it, I will gladly embrace.
“Yes, I like you.”
With an awkward expression, swearing false eternity before God.
Perhaps from that very first moment.
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