86 - I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke
I got engaged to a blind peacock, Episode 86
"Marin."”
“Y-yes. The Duke.”
Marin answered with a stiff voice.
Why The Duke again?
Her mood sank to the bottom, and her voice became rough.
“What are you doing here?”
“What do you mean? I was drinking with her.”
Surenne intervened to help, seeing Marin was more nervous than she thought.
“I can tell just by the smell.”
“Heeing. Surenne, does it smell that much?”
Marin whined to Surenne in a pitiful voice.
“Yes, Miss. It smells a lot.”
Surenne was too honest.
“Hiyu. It smells a lot. Nothing can be done.”
“Marin, let’s go back now.”
“Eing. Just! Just one more glass.”
Marin, as if she had never been frozen, spoke the typical lines of a drunkard in a nasal voice.
“Okay, okay. Just one more glass. Oh, Marin. You’ve drunk all the alcohol?”
“What? This can’t be real! Tell me it’s not true! Quickly!”
Marin grieved in a heartbreaking voice, as if the world had collapsed.
“Sorry. I’ll prepare more next time.”
Surenne’s voice also died down, as if she was sorry that she couldn’t enjoy the mood any longer.
Gerald stood with his arms crossed, watching the two’s comedy with a dumbfounded face.
“Alright. Let’s drink more next time.”
Marin nodded as if she couldn’t help it and got up from her seat.
“How many bottles did Surenne drink?”
“Two bottles.”
“What kind of alcohol?”
“Kyahahaha. We drank Botkan, which was specially brought from our empire.”
Surenne said proudly, as if she had been waiting to be asked.
Gerald’s eyebrow rose unhappily. Botkan was a liquor with over 40% alcohol.
Marin’s steps, which were usually light, became heavy and sluggish. The sound of her footsteps was very unsteady.
She’s going to fall like that.
Gerald quickly approached Marin, and he smelled a lot of alcohol from her, who was always fragrant.
“Let’s go.”
“Yeees.”
“Your Grace, Marin. Good night.”
“Woong. Bye, Surenne.”
Marin waved her hands and ended up staggering.
Fortunately, she fell into his chest.
“Aigo. This hard wall!”
“It’s a chest.”
“Aigo. This hard chest!”
“Tsk, how sickening. Go quickly.”
Surenne patted Marin’s back and pushed her, and Marin jumped on the spot.
“Ah, it stings.”
The door slammed shut behind them.
Marin staggered, tilted her head, and looked at The Duke.
Strangely, The Duke kept moving quickly, so there were two of him, then three. Shadow clone jutsu?
“Gerald. Please stand still. You keep becoming multiple people.”
“I’ve been standing still since a while ago.”
“Kyahahahaha. What a joke.”
Gerald sighed deeply and grabbed Marin’s shoulder, who kept swaying her upper body back and forth, and led her.
“Let’s go.”
Marin kept stumbling, so he grabbed her waist and half-lifted her.
“Eoeoeo? Gerald. My feet must be moving too fast. I can’t even see how I’m walking. How amazing.”
Marin chattered cheerfully, looking down at her feet floating in the air.
“Hiyu. Walking too fast. Hiyu. It’s hard. Hiyu.”
She’s being carried by him, yet she says it’s hard.
“Let’s rest for a while. My feet are too tired.”
The Duke stopped walking.
“Feet, walk slowly. If you walk that fast, I can’t see you.”
Marin lowered her head and spoke politely to her feet.
“Are you done?”
“Gerald!”
“What?”
“Can you open your eyes just once?”
“Why?”
“I just want to see something pretty. If I drink alcohol like this, the moon is bright, and I see pretty eyes. Hehehe.”
Gerald slowly lifted his eyelids as she asked.
It was dark as if a black curtain had been spread out before his eyes. There was something slightly darker in that pitch-black space. He still couldn’t see anything, but he could feel her standing in front of him.
“Eoeo?”
“What?”
“It’s strange?”
“What is?”
“The eye color has changed.”
“That can’t be……”
Gerald paused as he answered, realizing something new.
Why isn’t the front of his eyes blindingly white, but black? Is it another symptom? Or……
“No. It was sparkling silver, but it’s slightly darker?”
“……It must be because it’s night.”
“Ah! Gerald, you’re smart! Praise!”
She came close to him by a hand span, stood on tiptoe, and tapped his hair as if praising Peridot.
Gerald froze for a moment at her cheeky behavior, then burst into laughter.
He was already looking forward to how she would act when she sobered up.
“Yes. Smile like that. You’re so pretty when you smile.”
“Am I pretty?”
“Oh my, didn’t you know? The male lead is always handsome and pretty.”
“Am I the male lead? Then who is the female lead?”
“Oh my, don’t you even know that? Of course- Aco.”
She approached him as if to argue, and bumped her face into his chest again, as if she had stepped on something wrong.
“No, how do you make a road? Why is there a hard wall here again?”
“It’s a chest.”
“Ah, it was Chest-nim? Chest-nim is very hard. How do you work out?”
Marin pressed his chest with her finger.
Gerald’s chest involuntarily tensed up at the strange sensation he felt for the first time.
“Oh my? Chest-nim is getting harder. What kind of magic is this?”
His brow furrowed at the dangerous stimulation of her poking his chest with her finger.
“Marin.”
“Yeee? Just a moment. I’m busy.”
This time, she gently rubbed it with her finger.
“How are you going to face me tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow is another day.”
Gerald chuckled at the sudden but accurate fact.
In order not to be subjected to Marin’s finger pointing any longer, he picked her up.
“Wow, is this a princess carry?”
“Does a princess get carried like this?”
“Yes. Many novels do.”
“Then you’re the female lead today.”
“Huh? I’m the female lead?”
She tilted her head and put her face on his chest.
“Hard chest pillow is the best!”
She suddenly became quiet after saying the last absurd words. She had finally fallen asleep.
As she, who had been chattering like a bird, became quiet, the surroundings became silent in an instant.
She was still too light in his arms.
“When will she grow more?”
“Won’t grow. Won’t grow.”
She answered well even in her sleep.
Gerald chuckled and walked slowly. He didn’t feel the cold well, but he felt warm holding her.
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“Water, water……”
“Yes. Here you go.”
“Thank you.”
Marin, who only slightly lifted her head and drank the water that Yuria handed her, buried her head back in the pillow.
Her head was splitting, and her stomach felt like it would throw up with just that brief movement.
“Yuria……”
“Yes. Miss.”
“If I die, can you take care of my mom?”
“There’s nothing you can’t say in front of your mother.”
Loanna’s scolding voice was heard from beside her head.
“Mom?”
“Yes. I heard that our daughter drank a lot last night, so I came to see.”
“Ugh.”
As soon as she heard the word alcohol, something seemed to come up from inside.
“Mom, please ban that word.”
“What? Alcohol?”
“Hing, Mom.”
She didn’t have the strength to raise her voice.
Loanna burst into laughter and handed her a glass.
“It’s water with honey. Your father used to soothe his stomach with this.”
“Haa. Honey water. Good.”
Marin forced herself to drink all the honey water.
She could drink anything as long as it could soothe her stomach. Except for alcohol.
“Dia said not to worry about Peridot. Dia read him a fairy tale yesterday and he slept well. She asked me to tell you that she will be with Peridot all day today.”
“Ruby will be with me today, so don’t worry and rest.”
Loanna gently stroked her daughter’s pale face.
Marin squinted and forced a smile.
“Yes. Tell everyone I’m grateful for their consideration…… The Duke!!! Ahhh!!”
Marin jumped up from the bed, then covered herself with the blanket again and screamed.
