157 - I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke
Blinded Duke and I are in a Contractual Marriage 157
Blue blood trickled down the white fur of the Monster rabbit.
As I was about to help it, sharp thorns and whip-like vines lashed out again.
Gerald gritted his teeth and fended off the thorns. The deflected thorns slammed into the ground with thuds.
As if holding a grudge against him, the attacks of the Demon Flowers were fierce and relentless.
The Demon Flowers, with stalks as thick as tree trunks and several meters high, were spread out like a maze.
After a moment of deliberation, Gerald cut down another vine that flew at him, then plunged into the flowers, moving his feet this way and that.
The vine chased after him as if it were alive, then became entangled in the flower stalk and stopped.
The Monster rabbit also followed him, wandering around and shaking off the vines.
“Marin!”
Gerald shouted Marin’s name with all his might.
“Lord Gerald! Over here!”
Her voice was faintly heard in the distance.
Gerald ran in that direction. The Monster rabbit ran alongside him.
Emerging from the Demon Flower maze, a wide, open space appeared.
Marin was there. Marin was half-suspended in the air, her legs and arms tied.
“Marin!”
Gerald quickly threw his Sword, cutting the vine attached to her feet.
The Sword remained floating in the air, moving in the direction Gerald gestured, cutting the vines one by one.
Marin stared at the Sword with anxious eyes.
“If you cut them like that, I’ll fall… Kya!”
Just before Marin hit the ground, Gerald caught her in his arms.
Her body was trembling, perhaps from shock.
Gerald gently stroked her back as if to soothe her.
“Marin, it’s okay.”
Marin hugged his neck tightly and breathed heavily.
“I’ve been breathing only through my mouth.”
“You did well.”
Gerald patted her back and turned around, but the Monster rabbit suddenly widened its eyes.
“Krrr!”
The Monster rabbit suddenly lunged at him with a ferocious expression.
Gerald immediately levitated the Sword from the ground, but the Monster rabbit bumped him with its body and stood where he had been.
Thwack.
A flower vine, transformed into a sharp spear, pierced the Monster rabbit’s shoulder and suspended it in the air.
Gerald frowned.
Damn it. Dozens of vines were constantly moving, and he missed the sound of them approaching.
“Krrr…”
“BaniBani!”
Marin jumped out of his arms and tried to run to the Monster rabbit, but Gerald grabbed her hand.
“It’s dangerous.”
“It’s going to die like that!”
Gerald tried to cut the vine with his Sword, but this one was different from the other vines. Even with Aura, it was not easily cut.
BaniBani seemed to be losing strength, its eyes flickering before it dropped its head.
As BaniBani’s head, which had been suspended in the air, fell, a pink heart-shaped spot that had been hidden by its fur was revealed.
“…No way.”
The spot was etched in her eyes.
The unique pink heart shape that she had often touched.
BaniBani was her companion rabbit.
Why hadn’t she noticed it sooner? How foolish.
She had thought of BaniBani’s actions as mere luck, but BaniBani remembered her and helped her.
Even though its owner had forgotten.
Tears welled up in Marin’s eyes in an instant.
“Rabbit!”
As Marin screamed and tried to move forward, Gerald quickly stopped her.
“Marin, it’s dangerous.”
“It’s the rabbit I raised. My companion rabbit. And I was just scared without knowing…”
Seeing Marin’s desperate face, Gerald made the Aura around the Sword thicker and sawed at the vine.
Just as the vine was half-cut, another vine pierced through BaniBani’s belly.
Blue blood dripped down the vine and onto the floor.
“No!”
Marin covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face.
The vine, as if having done its job, threw BaniBani to the ground.
Marin swallowed her tears and approached the rabbit.
“Rabbit…”
BaniBani, who had been closing its eyes, weakly lifted its eyelids.
Her crying face was reflected in its large silver eyes.
“I’m sorry, Rabbit. I couldn’t recognize you sooner…”
BaniBani blinked slowly as if to say it was okay.
Marin tore her shirt with the Triple Staff blade and placed it on BaniBani’s belly, where blood was still flowing.
“It’s okay, it’ll be okay.”
Marin bit her lip, trying to comfort BaniBani.
How on earth should a Monster be treated?
In the midst of her mind going blank, a loud noise rang out from the side.
Bang. Bang.
Marin turned her head towards the sound. Gerald was blocking the relentless attacks of the vines.
Marin watched the scene with trembling eyes, biting her lip.
What on earth should she do?
“Marin! We have to get out of here!”
“But the rabbit…”
“I’m sorry, Marin. There’s no choice.”
Gerald, who had approached Marin, stood her up.
Marin looked down at BaniBani.
“Krrr.”
BaniBani blinked as if telling her to go quickly.
It was then.
The Demon Flowers suddenly turned their heads to one side. The pouring attacks of the vines also stopped.
Marin and Gerald looked with tense faces at one spot that was gradually brightening.
A beautiful flower with petals shimmering in iridescent colors emitted a halo of light and slid closer.
Gerald gritted his teeth so hard that the muscles in his jaw bulged. His cold gaze was fixed on the iridescent Demon Flower.
“Marin.”
“Yes.”
“That flower is the boss here. I was half-doubting it until I saw it.”
“What do you mean?”
“It seems like it brought you here to take revenge on me.”
“Yes?”
She asked with her eyes as if to say that was nonsense.
Gerald glanced at the Monster rabbit beside her.
He didn’t know how Marin’s rabbit became a Monster, but the Monster rabbit clearly remembered her and helped her.
An assumption that he wouldn’t have thought of if he hadn’t seen that scene settled in his mind.
That another Demon Flower had set a trap here to avenge the Demon Flower that had blinded him.
“Marin.”
“Yes.”
“Close your eyes when I signal.”
“Why?”
Marin looked at him with a worried face.
The kind-hearted her would be very sad if she left this place leaving only that rabbit behind. Moreover, the Monster rabbit had even saved her.
It was impossible to take both Marin and the injured rabbit out of this place.
So he had to do what he could do best.
If he killed that boss flower, the nearby Demon Flowers would also die like last time.
“Marin, use the bracelet and stay next to the rabbit.”
“Are you going to be okay?”
Marin looked up at him with worried eyes.
He would do anything to protect her.
Gerald gazed at her with warm eyes and vowed.
“Don’t worry. I’m Baines.”
It was a more trustworthy statement than anything else.
“Marin, close your eyes when I tell you to close them.”
“Okay. Be careful.”
Gerald smiled to reassure Marin and turned around.
His face turned cold, and he walked towards the flamboyant Demon Flower.
The flamboyant Demon Flower stood motionless as if it had been waiting for him.
Gerald drew out the strongest energy he could and wrapped the Aura around his Sword.
The boss Demon Flower in front of him was bigger and more flamboyant than the previous boss Demon Flower.
As the colorful petals fully unfolded, transparent seed-like things were densely packed in the center, and green stamens flicked like snakes.
Gerald stood in front of the Demon Flower with his eyes closed to avoid losing his sight again.
The Demon Flower sent a petal flying towards him.
He tried to fend off the sharp energy that flew towards him, but it was too strong. Unable to withstand the power of the petal, he was pushed back.
Whoosh, whoosh. With fierce sounds, sharp thorns flew this time.
As the boss Demon Flower began to attack, the other Demon Flowers that had been silent simultaneously poured their attacks on him.
Meanwhile, Marin took out the Triple Staff, created a barrier, and stood as if guarding the fallen BaniBani.
A flower vine quickly approached as if to attack her and BaniBani.
Thud. The flower vine, blocked by the barrier, bounced off to the side.
Marin widened her eyes and looked at the transparent barrier. It even blocked a seemingly strong flower vine.
Marin felt like she wanted to bow to Jerome if he was in front of her.
Turning to look at BaniBani, it was breathing heavily with its eyes half-closed. It was still holding on, which was a relief.
Marin looked at Gerald, who was fighting in the distance, and wondered what she could do.
“Krrr…”
BaniBani behind her let out a painful groan.
It would be less painful if it fell asleep.
At that moment, the notebook came to mind.
She was doubtful, but if she had really put BaniBani to sleep before, wouldn’t the sleeping pill effect work on other Monsters as well?
