183 - I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke
Blinded Duke and I are Engaged - Episode 183
Just then, they saw stones flying towards them again.
Ronnie quickly covered Mini's head. Brie, who was next to her, was also surprised and hugged Mini.
At that moment, Rabbit shielded the children and took the stones as they were.
"Rabbit doesn't like stones. Rabbit hurts..."
Mini whispered softly, but it was faintly buried in the screams and shouts of the villagers.
Stones flew from all directions.
Rabbit's white fur began to be stained with Blue Blood.
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"Hurry, faster."
Marin urged the horse with a desperate voice.
She was on her way to the cabin on a white horse as soon as she received the report from the Shadow Egg.
The fingertips holding the reins were frozen cold, but her chest was burning instead.
Elmis and Aldo followed her on horseback. Gerald was away to check on the state of the Demon Flower.
In the distance, she could see people gathered in a semicircle around the cabin.
With an atmosphere that seemed about to explode, Marin spurred the horse on even faster with impatience.
Neigh.
At the sudden sound of the horse's cry, people turned around.
As Marin jumped off the horse, people's attention focused on her.
"Who is it?"
"Judging by the fact that she came on a horse, isn't she a noble?"
"Marin, it's Marin, isn't it?"
"Why would Marin be wearing such an expensive dress? It must just be someone who looks like her."
When some of the villagers recognized her from when she pretended to be a commoner, Elmis, who followed her down, quickly shielded Marin from the people's gaze.
"I'm from the Duke's Castle. Please move aside."
"Duke's Castle?"
"Duke's Castle! We're saved!"
Elmis's words, dressed in a maid's uniform, were futilely buried in the villagers' murmurs.
People flocked to Marin. It was obvious to anyone that she was the highest-ranking person among the three who came on horseback.
"People went to the Duke's Castle a little while ago, so have you already been contacted?"
"When are the knights coming?"
"My children are in there!"
"That's a Monster, right?"
Marin stood quietly without avoiding the people's stinging gazes.
At her calm attitude, the villagers, who had been heated, closed their mouths and hesitated, stepping back.
As Marin passed them and was about to take a step, a woman jumped out and reached out to Marin.
Elmis quickly grabbed the woman's hand.
The woman collapsed to the ground with her hand held by Elmis.
With a blank face as if she had lost her mind, she pleaded desperately.
"Please, please save our Ronnie and Mini! That Monster hid them behind it, trying to eat them. Sob, sob."
The tears she shed fell and drew countless black dots on the dirt floor.
At Marin's gesture, Elmis released the woman's hand.
Marin looked at the woman lying on the ground and crying with pitiful eyes. She had never talked to her, but she had seen her in the village.
She should have sent Rabbit back a long time ago, but her lingering attachment had caused this.
Her heart ached, but she did not avoid it and watched the tears the woman shed.
The regret was her responsibility, and this woman's tears were her fault.
Soon, Marin raised her head and took a step forward.
People naturally made way for her.
As the crowd parted, BaniBani could be seen standing in front of the cabin. BaniBani had its teeth elongated and was emitting a fierce aura.
Behind BaniBani, the Shadows of children wriggling could be glimpsed.
Marin straightened her back and walked towards BaniBani, one step at a time.
The people behind her were surprised and screamed and shouted.
"It's dangerous!"
"Kyaa!"
"Why is that person going there?"
Marin, who had walked up to BaniBani, met Rabbit's silver eyes.
BaniBani's fiercely flashing eyes drooped down.
"Rabbit, let the children go."
Rabbit's long ears perked up as if listening to her words.
"Rabbit."
When she urged again, Rabbit lowered its shoulders and took a step to the side.
Only then did the figures of the children behind BaniBani become visible.
Two boys were hugging a girl as if protecting her.
The children looked up at her with surprised faces and wide eyes.
"Are you okay?"
When Marin asked worriedly, the red-haired boy nodded his head greatly.
"We're okay. Rabbit took the stones for us when they flew. Rabbit protected us."
As if trying to prove his words, the red-haired boy showed the face of the girl he was protecting. The girl's forehead was slightly torn.
"Oh my, that must have hurt."
Marin hurriedly took out a handkerchief and put it on the girl's forehead.
"I'm okay. Rabbit hurts."
The girl pointed to BaniBani with a clear face.
Following the child's gesture, when she turned her gaze, she could see Blue Blood stained here and there on BaniBani's white fur.
BaniBani had been protecting the children.
Marin bit her lower lip and forcibly held back the tears that were about to come out.
She wanted to turn around right away and say that Rabbit was not trying to eat the children, but was protecting them.
But BaniBani was a Monster. Who would believe her?
If BaniBani hadn't settled here, none of this would have happened.
The villagers who misunderstood threw stones and hurt the child. BaniBani got hurt trying to protect those children.
It was all her fault.
Marin's heart collapsed with late regret, but she put strength in her legs and endured to avoid collapsing.
Since it was something that happened because of her choice, she had to solve it herself.
"Rabbit."
Marin called the Rabbit standing next to her softly.
Rabbit perked up its ears and listened to her words. The long teeth had already returned to their original form.
"Rabbit, I'm sorry..."
Perhaps sensing the tears in her voice, Rabbit's silver eyes stared at her.
While making eye contact with those clear eyes, Marin deliberately pulled up the corners of her mouth and smiled.
She didn't want to show a crying face when saying her last goodbye to Rabbit.
"Rabbit, I'm sorry. I wanted to be with you until the end..."
Marin couldn't finish her words and bit her pink lips. The words that you have to leave were stuck in her throat and wouldn't come out.
No, she didn't want to say it. She wanted to continue being with Rabbit.
Eventually, tears flowed down her cheeks.
She wanted to show Rabbit a smiling face. She didn't want to cry.
Rabbit drooped its round eyes powerlessly as if knowing it had to leave. Rabbit, with its shoulders slumped, turned its head to the side and turned away from her.
Marin watched the scene with an aching heart.
"Just now, did that Monster understand the noble's words?"
"The Monster's teeth shrank at her words."
"Oh my god. There's someone who can talk to Monsters?"
The villagers who were watching the situation murmured.
"Ronnie, Mini!"
The woman who couldn't get close shouted desperately from behind.
Marin swallowed her tears and turned her gaze to the children.
"I think your mom is waiting, shall we go now?"
"But Joseph is not here."
"Joseph?"
BaniBani, who had been drooping its head powerlessly, sniffed and suddenly pulled out its teeth again.
"Krrr."
"Rabbit?"
Marin was looking at Rabbit with a puzzled expression at BaniBani's sudden change when.
"Aaaagh!"
A child's sharp scream was heard from behind the cabin.
BaniBani ran quickly behind the cabin. Aldo and Elmis followed behind it.
Marin took off the bracelet she was wearing on her wrist and quickly made a Triple Staff Sword, then hid the children behind her back.
"Quickly to your parents..."
But her words could not be continued to the end.
She saw a gray mass approaching quickly in her vision.
Dozens of gray wolves came down from the mountain and surrounded the villagers.
