182 - I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke
Blind Peacock and Engagement Episode 182
A few days later, Ronnie and her friends were led by Mini to the cabin.
As they crept closer to the cabin, a man in black clothes suddenly appeared.
"Why are you here again?"
Ronnie, intimidated by the man's cold voice, hesitated before answering.
"I didn't want to come, but my sister kept saying she wanted to see Rabbit."
Joseph and Brie, standing next to her, quickly nodded.
"Like Rabbit!"
Mini, standing at the front, smiled innocently.
The child spotted Rabbit, who was basking in the sunlight, and waved her hand.
"Rabbit, hello!"
The man moved to block Mini's view.
"No. Go back."
"Mister. I want to say hello to Rabbit."
Mini looked straight at the man and spoke clearly.
"No."
When the man coldly refused again, tears welled up in Mini's big eyes.
"I... want to say hello to Rabbit..."
"No."
Ronnie, who was listening to their conversation, looked at Mini's face with concern. Her brave sister was stubborn.
"Ra, Rabbit. Sniffle. He, hello. Waaaaah."
Mini finally burst into tears.
Aldo's eyes were filled with panic. He had overcome countless dangers, but he had never comforted a crying child.
Then BaniBani moved. It thumped over and glared at Aldo as if asking why he was making the child cry.
He could feel the other children looking at him with resentful eyes.
Aldo swallowed hard at the strange pressure closing in from all directions.
BaniBani approached Mini and offered its back as if telling her not to cry.
"Rabbit!"
Mini stopped crying and smiled brightly. Then she began to climb onto BaniBani's back.
The children's eyes flickered with envy towards Mini and fear towards Rabbit.
"Mini, aren't you scared?"
"Not scared. Like Rabbit!"
"I, I want to touch it too."
Joseph plucked up his courage and reached out to Rabbit.
BaniBani remained still, even while wrinkling its nose.
As Rabbit stayed still, the other children reached out to touch Rabbit's soft fur.
BaniBani lay down on the ground with a bothered expression, receiving the children's touch.
Aldo looked down at BaniBani with complicated eyes.
Could BaniBani still be called a Monster?
Watching BaniBani with the children's bright smiles, Aldo quietly disappeared.
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The woodcutter, Joe, headed to the hunter's shelter.
He hadn't been able to go into the mountains for a while because of the gray wolf, making it difficult to make a living. Eventually, he was forced to dip into the emergency funds he had buried near the shelter without his wife's knowledge.
The gray wolf shouldn't come down to the hunter's shelter near the village, so he didn't know why this place was also off-limits.
Just then, the cabin came into view in the distance.
But Joe couldn't take another step and froze on the spot.
The Rabbit was too big.
'Wha, what is that? A Monster?'
A Monster bigger than a person was right next to the children.
This is a disaster!
Joe ran back to the village without even noticing that his shoes were coming off.
Running as fast as he could, he arrived in front of Rumus, the village administrator's house.
And he pounded on the door with his large fist.
Bang bang!
"Lord Rumus!"
Rumus, whose chin was pointed and looked even thinner, opened the door with a bothered expression.
"Joe. What's all the commotion about?"
Other people were visible behind Rumus. They were holding meetings every day to discuss the gray wolf problem.
"Ch, children, danger, gerous."
Joe said haltingly with a pale face. Sweat dripped from his forehead.
Rumus looked at Joe like he was a strange person.
Coming here out of the blue and saying nonsense.
"I, I saw it."
"Saw what?"
"It was huge."
Joe's brown pupils, filled with fear, widened.
Rumus didn't want to talk any further and coldly rebuked him.
"You're out of your mind. Go away."
"I saw it, I'm telling you!"
"So, what did you see?"
Rumus yelled back, sounding frustrated.
"A Monster!"
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The villagers each grabbed pickaxes, shovels, and axes and headed to the cabin.
The children's parents followed behind, bursting into tears.
Aldo, from the tree, spotted the approaching villagers and frowned. He was holding one of the man's shoes that he had found belatedly.
He had been so focused on BaniBani and the children that he had missed the man's visit.
The villagers, carrying all sorts of farming tools that could be used as weapons, exuded a menacing atmosphere.
It was a situation he couldn't handle alone.
Aldo glanced at BaniBani and the children once, then hurried towards the Duke's Castle.
Meanwhile, the villagers who arrived near the cabin screamed at the sight before them.
"Oh my god!"
"It's really there!"
"Ronnie! Mini! Sniffle."
A woman mixed in with the villagers found her children and stomped her feet, crying.
"Mom?"
Mini, who was playing on Rabbit's belly, was startled by her mother's cry and raised her head.
Joseph, who was picking out wood to use as a wooden Sword behind the cabin, hid without realizing it when the villagers appeared.
His mom was among the villagers. He'd be in big trouble if he got caught.
Ronnie and Brie looked at each other with dumbfounded faces at the sight of the approaching villagers.
What do we do?
We weren't supposed to go into the mountains.
But why are they all carrying farming tools like that?
Mini, who had slipped off Rabbit's belly, stared at Ronnie with a nervous face.
Oppa. Mom caught us.
What should we do? Should we run away? Where did Joseph go?
I don't know.
The children continued their conversation with glances, when Burly, the biggest man in the village, took a step forward.
"You Monster! Release the children!"
He shouted, brandishing his axe threateningly.
Monster?
Ronnie didn't understand what Burly was saying and had a confused look on her face.
Where's the Monster here? Monsters are supposed to be very scary. Aren't Monsters scarier than wolves?
Then, one of the villagers picked up a stone from the ground and threw it. The person next to him, and the person next to them, did the same.
"Ouch."
Mini, who was near Rabbit, was hit by a flying pebble. Blood flowed from her forehead and dripped onto the ground.
"Mini, are you okay?"
Ronnie was startled and looked at her sister.
"Mini..."
Brie, seeing the blood, looked like she was about to cry and didn't know what to do.
"Krrr."
Rabbit, who had been lying down with a bothered expression, flashed its eyes.
BaniBani glared at the villager who threw the stone and slowly raised its body.
"Mini!"
The woman, shocked that her daughter was bleeding, tried to run out, but her husband stopped her.
"It's dangerous!"
"Mini is bleeding!"
"Krrr."
Rabbit's teeth grew longer and longer as if protecting Mini.
"Oh my god! That Monster is baring its teeth!"
"Kyaa!"
"Monster, it's a Monster!"
The villagers trembled with fear and quickly backed away.
"Quickly, tell the Duke's Castle. A Monster has appeared!"
The two fastest men in the village ran towards the Duke's Castle.
"Mini! Ronnie!"
The woman looked at her children, tears streaming down her face.
Ronnie pressed the hem of her clothes against Mini's bleeding forehead.
"Oppa, why is Mom crying?"
Her brave sister didn't cry even though it hurt, and instead worried about her mom.
"I don't know."
Ronnie rolled her eyes around and looked around. She didn't know what was going on at all.
Why are the villagers throwing stones at us?
Why isn't Mom coming closer even though Mini got hit by a stone?
