61 - I Got Engaged to the Blind Duke
I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Chapter 61
He lowered his voice and got angry as if he was conscious of the people around him, but Marin became even calmer.
“What do you mean?”
“Because of the hideous thing you did, our family line will be cut off…”
Geobium gnashed his teeth as if he couldn’t bring himself to finish the sentence.
Marin was genuinely surprised this time.
Could it be?
Just as her gaze was about to drift downwards, a small noble young lady approached her.
“Geobium, please introduce me too.”
“Ch, Christine.”
Geobium looked at Christine, who was standing next to him, with a flustered expression.
“Shall I do it myself? Hello, I’m Christine from the Wares Viscount family. I’m Norman Viscount Geobium Norman’s fiancée.”
“Hello. I’m Marin Schwentz.”
“Why are you with my fiancé, Schwentz Young Lady?”
Christine glared at Marin with a disgusted look.
“Excuse me?”
“What are you trying to get this time by seducing my fiancé again?”
As Christine raised her voice, the gazes of the nobles nearby began to gather.
Marin looked at Christine with a bewildered expression.
Geobium also looked embarrassed as people’s attention gathered.
“Christine, what are you talking about?”
“Geobium, you came here because you wanted to confront this woman too. You said you lost something you should never have lost in your life because you were seduced by her. What is it? What did you give her that you’re keeping it a secret from me?”
Christine raised her voice even louder as if for everyone to hear.
The eyes of the gossip-hungry nobles were focused on them.
“That’s just, I just made a slip of the tongue when I was drunk.”
“Geobium. You wouldn’t falsely fabricate something that didn’t happen, would you? You said you were seduced by this woman and lost something precious. What is it? What is it that you can’t even tell me, your fiancée! Ask her to give it back!”
Marin, who was watching their farce, struggled to hold back her laughter.
When Geobium came to her without conscience and got angry, she thought he was crazy.
It seemed he really did lose something very important because of her.
It felt like a decade-old indigestion was going away.
“Do you find this situation funny?”
Geobium anxiously rolled his eyes and looked around, but Christine’s attack was not over yet.
“A little.”
“You really are an unbelievably brazen woman.”
Marin admired inwardly.
Did this woman forget who she was dealing with right now?
Like Geobium, who lost something important and confronted the Duke’s fiancée, was his fiancée not afraid?
Was she blinded by jealousy?
Or did she believe in the support of those young ladies who were watching them from afar?
Either way, she had no intention of playing along with a young lady younger than herself.
Even considering the Duke’s honor, she had to leave this place before more nobles gathered.
“Wares Young Lady. You seem to be very drunk.”
Marin looked at the wine glass Christine was holding, signaling her to back off.
Only then did Christine look down at the glass, as if she had just remembered the wine glass she was holding.
“I guess so. I must be very drunk. Please, forgive my mistakes that I made while drunk.”
There was a burning resolve mixed in Christine’s eyes as she spoke clearly and forcefully.
Could it be?
The sight of the wine glass that Christine dropped from her hand tilting towards her seemed like a slow motion.
She couldn’t avoid it even though it was right in front of her.
Marin tightly closed her eyes.
Thud.
Instead of the sound of a wine glass breaking, there was a dull sound.
She slightly opened her eyes and looked towards the sound, and she saw a wine glass and the Duke’s cane stuck in the marble pillar.
Why is that there?
Looking straight ahead with a dazed face, a transparent barrier was blocking her. Thanks to the barrier, not a single drop of wine fell.
Although, looking at the wine glass stuck in the pillar like that, it didn’t seem like it would have fallen.
“Tsk. I prepared it just in case, but I didn’t think I would actually use it.”
Jeromian, who slowly approached, grumbled and waved the hand wearing the bracelet. Then, the transparent barrier that had protected her disappeared like the wind.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes. Thank you.”
“This is why I hate these kinds of events.”
Jeromian glared at Geobium and Christine, who were standing with blank faces, with fierce eyes.
Step, step.
The nobles, who had been holding their breath due to the sudden situation, parted to both sides at the heavy presence walking from behind.
The Duke, with a stiff mouth, was walking over with an ice-cold face.
The Duke ignored Geobium and Christine and went straight to Marin. He whispered softly in her ear.
“What do you want me to do?”
“Yes, yes, I know. I’m a troublemaker. I’ll admit it.”
“No. You should tell me to just kill them.”
Marin’s startled green eyes widened.
“Suddenly?”
“They tried to touch my fiancée, how is that sudden?”
Unlike his relaxed tone, a chilling shiver ran down her spine at his cold voice.
This person, he’s lost it?
No. Since he has his eyes closed, is he just crazy?
Of course, she didn’t like them either, but she couldn’t kill them at a party celebrating their engagement.
No, there was no reason to kill them.
If he killed people for trying to spill some wine, many nobles would already have to be in heaven.
Marin gently grabbed his arm to calm him down.
“I’m okay. So…”
The Duke lightly tapped her hand and raised his head. And he raised his voice as if for everyone to hear.
“Watch what happens to anyone who lays a hand on you in the future.”
The Duke, with his eyes closed, looked around at the nobles in the hall and gave a crooked smile.
It was a declaration of war.
Although his voice was low, the message he conveyed was accurately delivered to the nobles.
‘Don’t touch my fiancée.’
A suffocating silence fell over the party hall. The orchestra performance had stopped a long time ago.
The noble ladies who had subtly made remarks ignoring the Duke’s fiancée leaned their heads on their husbands, hiding their fearful faces.
All eyes were on Geobium and Christine, who had heard the Duke’s warning right in front of them.
The Duke’s sudden appearance.
The sight of the dropped wine glass stuck in the pillar.
Christine was pale and terrified, not knowing what to do. She wrapped her trembling body with both hands and bowed her head deeply.
Geobium, who was equally frightened, bowed to the Duke.
“D, The Duke. I am Norman Viscount Geobium Norman.”
Even while greeting, his head was spinning rapidly.
He didn’t expect the Duke to step in this far.
He didn’t know how Marin had won over the Duke, but it was clear that the Duke cherished her quite a bit. It was an unexpected variable.
Because of her, the Norman Viscount family line was cut off. Of course, there was a way to adopt an heir, but he would never be able to have his own child.
He thought every day, grinding his teeth, about how to get revenge on Marin. A few weeks later, when he was able to move, he went to her cabin to get revenge.
And he turned around with a refreshing smile.
Marin, begging in front of a shabby cabin that looked like only beggars would live in, to a commoner man who was the owner of the house, was no longer someone who could be called a noble. She was more miserable than a commoner.
What hell could be separate? The place where she was standing was hell.
