Thank You For The Confinement, Grand Duke! - Chapter 12
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 12
I’m ruined.
Why was it that everything was in Korean, yet the letters were curly? It would be too much to say that there were no special benefits other than the confinement. Even though the language wasn’t Korean anyway, at least it made sense! What was wrong with the writing?
At least make it make sense—!
…No, no matter what, I couldn’t do it because it was frustrating. Let’s be thankful that we could at least communicate, okay?
“What’s wrong?”
“Ugh, I can’t read the writing.”
Enfrise looked a little surprised and looked at the book in turn. After thinking for a moment, he took the paper and quill that were on the dresser.
Oh, I never thought the day would come when I would see this with my own eyes.
Although I occasionally saw quill pens for sale in Korea, they had a tip that looked like a fountain pen. Rather, it should be said that it felt like a feather had been attached to a fountain pen, but this one was actually made of feathers.
‘…Does this really function as a pen?’
Enfriese, who was sitting on the sofa opposite me, seemed to know that I was looking at the quill with an excited expression. As he stamped the ink with a serious expression, the tip of the pure white quill was dyed black, which was very pretty.
‘I guess I have to learn how to write if I want to use that pen.’
Enfrise scribbled something on a piece of paper for a moment and held it in front of me.
“You can’t read this?”
Umm. Ah, I understand.
The black thing was the writing, and the white thing was the paper.
…Ha.
“Yes.”
All I could see were earthworms wriggling and crawling. If you asked me, it seemed similar to Arabic letters or cursive. Still, even for someone who didn’t know the writing, I felt like his handwriting was elegant.
The male lead’s buff was amazing.
“….”
After thinking for a moment, Enfrise moved the pen again. It’s nice to see his hand moving like water. Occasionally, something like veins would rise and subside on his large hands. Is this why women are so crazy about big hands?
I thought it made a little sense.
Unlike before, where he moved the pen without hesitation, he now continued writing with some hesitation.
This time, I could roughly tell where the letters were breaking.
Enfrise put down the pen as if he had finished writing, hesitated for a while while holding the paper, and then held it out to me with a cautious look.
“Can you read this?”
I couldn’t read.
Did he think I was just pretending I couldn’t read? So, was he trying to check my reaction?
Then, what on earth was written there?
Hmm, let’s make a prediction based on my experience as a rofan reader. Judging by the long hesitation, I wondered if this was something that Chaperil would have a big emotional reaction to when she read it?
A confession, a confession, a confession…
Oh, my brain was gone. All I could think of was confession.
“I have no idea. By the way, Grand Duke.”
“Yes.”
“Your handwriting is very pretty. I think it’s appropriate to say there’s something elegant about it.”
Ah, it was turning red again. His ear.
This man seemed to be surprisingly weak to compliments. If he was a grand duke of a large empire, wasn’t he the second highest rank after the Emperor? He must have grown tired of hearing the praises for him.
Oh, or was that it?
I was the first person to sincerely praise him or something like that? Or perhaps it was something special because it was a compliment from someone he liked.
“Why did you ask for a book if you can’t even read?”
Perhaps because he was embarrassed, he spoke in a sharp tone. At the same time, he also turned his head.
Did this man do this knowingly?
It was because he turned his head, and the red ear was visible more clearly. He shouldn’t be like this, really… He was so cute I was dying. Wasn’t the male lead naturally a cool person? He was even obsessed.
Why was he so cute?
“I thought I could read it.”
“What is that…”
Enfrise was about to snap at me, saying this was nonsense, but when he made eye contact with me, he turned his head again. It seems like something is bothering me as I hold my mouth.
You know, Chaperil was pretty, and just seeing the face would make your heart flutter.
To be honest, today, after finishing breakfast with him, I went into the bathroom and stared at my face for a long time. Well, how could you not be excited when such that Chaperil smiled and behaved favorably?!
“Though turns out it wasn’t… I can’t read it at all.”
“…Ha.”
Enfrise sighed heavily with a slight frown and tapped his knee.
What was he worried about? Was he thinking about teaching me letters? Nevertheless, to be honest, I didn’t have the confidence to read that text. How could I learn that worm-like handwriting when I’ve given up on English?
Even if I learned it, it would take a very long time…
However, I definitely didn’t think it was a good idea just to sleep or zone out all day… I had no hobby when it came to drawing, and if I wrote something in Korean, people might think it was strange.
Hmm….
Huh?
“Grand Duke.”
“Yes?”
“Could you please appoint someone who can read?”
Ha, this was such a genius idea for me to come up with. To be honest, I thought I’d seen it in some novels… a maid or servant reading a book? Anyway, honestly, I didn’t really need to read the book, right?
It was okay if someone who knew how to read it read it! That was what I thought, but why was Enfrise’s face contorted into a sneer as if he knew that would happen?
“It’s not possible.”
“Ah… why?”
“Are you telling me to appoint someone knowing what you would do with them?”
‘I’m trying to get them to read books. What else would I do?’
I gazed at Enfrise with the thought that I didn’t understand anything at all, but I must have somehow misunderstood the pure look in his eyes. Enfrise stood up, reached across the table, and grabbed my chin.
Wow, this was it.
This was what the male leads did all the time, that thing where they lifted the female leas’ chin and put it close to his face to make a sexy appeal. I tried to calm my pounding heart at the thought that something I had only seen in writing was happening to me.
As I patiently waited for him to continue, he brought his face closer.
Ha, he looked like he had flawless beauty even when seen from up close. There was a reason why he and Chaperil were the leads.
“It is pointless to ask for help outside. There is no one else in this mansion except me, you, and Tambor.”
Uh, so Tambor was doing cleaning, laundry, cooking, and even making my own clothes all by herself? It should be hard.
“Huh… ask for help? Why?”
Hmm….
Oh, I would try to run away? Asking for help?
Even though I erased the words ‘run’ or ‘escape’ from my dictionary, for a moment, I couldn’t remember them. It was a mess. I didn’t even think about it.
He might take it that way.
“….”
Enfrise closed his mouth and looked intently at me with his golden eyes as if trying to read the true meaning in my eyes.
‘…When he looks at me like that, I get excited because I’m also a woman.’
Hmm.
“You’re probably bored, but since you don’t seem to believe me, I’ll have to say it again. Where would I go for help? I can’t even remember any of the names.”
Who would have I asked for help in the first place? Count Rivete would have already been ruined, and both my parents passed away.
If he knew this, why was he worried about that?
Ah, indeed. Chaperil still didn’t know that her parents were dead because she lost her mind just seeing them being attacked. Still, it seemed like the letter couldn’t reach her, and since Enfrise kidnapped Chaperil from that mansion, he must already know that the Count couple was dead.
Hmm, well, everything was worth worrying about. He was committing a crime called kidnapping and confinement. In that case, I needed to alleviate his anxiety for the sake of my stable life in confinement.
Was there some way? No matter how much I said, he wouldn’t believe me.
Should I ask Tambor for a favor? However, this was the Grand Duchy. It would be hard to do all the housework alone, so it was a bit awkward to ask for something like that.
Umm.
Hmm.
Ah! That would work.
“Then, the Grand Duke can read it for me.”
“…What… did you say?”
Enfrise gazed at me with his mouth slightly open, looking embarrassed. His grip on my chin had weakened enough to shake him off, but I deliberately stayed still. I felt like if I pulled away, he would be convinced that I was trying to get away from him.
“You’re worried that I might use someone else to contact outside. Then, if the Grand Duke reads it for me, he can also monitor me. Isn’t that killing two birds with one stone?”
Wow, it was a good idea.
I just liked it when Enfriese read it to me. If I listened to something like a poetry book with that voice, I’d get an ASMR feeling, and I’d be double happy because he was so beautiful and nice to look at. However, I might have trouble concentrating on the writing…
The problem was, wasn’t this man busy as the Grand Duke? Would he have time to stick to me?
What was it like in the original story? Since it was written from Chaperil’s point of view, there was little information about what Enfrise was doing. I just remembered that when Chaperil tried to do something to escape, this man suddenly came out of nowhere and interfered.
Then, if she succeeded in escaping, he caught Chaperil outside the mansion and rushed into the scene…
Hmmm, hmmm.
It was not a good idea with the person in front of you. Originally, I didn’t think much of it because the cover was only a design cover, but now that I knew the two people’s faces, I could imagine it more realistically.
If my face turned red like this, Enfrise would think it was strange, so let’s stop.
“You are… What on earth are you thinking…”
Enfrise looked at me with truly incredulous eyes.
I guessed he was doing it because he didn’t understand why I was suggesting something that would be against my own escape.
Ah, so this was why the male leads showed their faces whenever they did something.
While he was originally a man whose emotions were not difficult to read, seeing him up close made it seem even more evident. He had golden eyes that wavered aimlessly in confusion as if they were rippling like minor tremors.
Did I have strange tastes? I didn’t feel bad that this man’s heart was shaken because of me.
…No, to be honest, I thought I was a little happy.
That was right, he was so pretty that I couldn’t hate it. I thought he would be happy to ask me to look in for another thirty minutes or so, but…
It was slowly reaching its limit.
“But Grand Duke, I’m sorry, but can I ask you one more favor?”
The golden eyes narrowed.
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