The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 1

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 1

A mounted knight was passing through the main gate of the Tilrod Estate.

The knight’s appearance was devastating.

The armor, completely drenched in the black blood of monsters, reeked with a terrible stench, and the knight’s own injuries seemed severe as red blood dripped steadily from the joints of the armor.

He looked as though even staying upright in the saddle was a struggle.

“Ugh…”

The knight, groaning in pain, slipped and fell from his horse as soon as he passed through the mansion’s gate.

A gardener who had been tending to the fence saw this and rushed over to the knight in shock.

“Oh no, Radi…”

The gardener hastily covered his mouth and corrected himself.

“Young Master David!”

He started to remove the knight’s helmet but stopped to first chase away the children who had followed the knight from the village.

“You filthy brats! Is this some kind of spectacle? Get lost!”

“Waaah! Sir David is dead!”

“Those, those bastards!”

The fallen knight was David Tilrod, the eldest son of the Tilrod Family and a renowned vice-captain of the Imperial Monster Hunting Corps that hunted monsters.

As far as the world knew.

The gardener, who had threateningly stomped his feet to chase away the children, hurriedly laid the knight down properly and removed the helmet first.

Not-so-long red hair cascaded down onto the knight’s shoulders.

“Oh my, Miss. Please regain consciousness…!”

The gardener adjusted the knight’s head so she could breathe comfortably.

The unconscious face was stained with the black blood of monsters and her own red blood, yet somehow still looked beautiful.

The knight’s brow furrowed and then relaxed as she opened her eyes again.

“Urgh…”

“Miss, are you conscious? I’ll help support you.”

The knight said nothing and composed herself to stand up.

She refused the gardener’s helping hand and slowly began to walk.

The gardener watched her retreating figure with eyes mixed with pity and admiration, then bowed his head.

At that time, dinner was in full swing at the Tilrod Estate.

Margaret, the lady of the house, was sitting at the dining table, busily attending to the eldest son of the Tilrod Family and her beloved son, David Tilrod.

“David, my dear! Eat some of those vegetables too.”

“…”

However, David was absorbed in reading a palm-sized poetry book.

The second daughter, Yurhee, who was sitting across from David, said sulkily.

“Leave him alone, Mom! Brother is busy looking for poems to write in love letters.”

“Oh my, love letters?”

David, who had his nose buried in the poetry book, glared at Yurhee and shouted angrily.

“You! Be quiet!”

“…”

“Ho ho ho ho!”

Margaret pushed the meat platter that was in the center of the table toward David and said.

“David, don’t be too harsh with Yurhee. Is love something to hide? But who could this lucky woman be? Oh ho ho ho ho!”

Instead of answering Margaret’s words, David shouted at Yurhee, who was glaring at him.

“Why does she keep coming here when she’s already married? Hey, if you want to run your mouth, do it with your husband!”

“What? Running my mouth?”

“Stop, stop!”

Margaret stopped the siblings’ argument just as it was about to turn sharp.

Then a maid approached and spoke to Margaret.

“Madam, Young Master David…”

The maid suddenly realized that David was sitting right at this table and corrected herself.

“No, Miss Radis has returned.”

Margaret replied indifferently.

“So what?”

“Her injuries are very serious.”

“…”

Margaret seemed annoyed as she pressed her forehead with the back of her hand and let out a deep sigh.

She put down her cutlery as if throwing it and said.

“I should go see. David, eat your vegetables too. Understand? And Yurhee, don’t make your brother angry.”

After Margaret left, Yurhee seemed to lose her appetite as she poked at the chicken with her knife before putting it down.

She stared intently at the fish platter placed in front of David.

It wasn’t just the fish.

The steamed vegetables, the basket of bread, the grilled meat platter too.

No matter how you looked at it, they were clearly clustered in front of David.

Yurhee glared at David with wide eyes.

However, David was absorbed in looking at his poetry book.

He didn’t serve himself portions but ate as he pleased, messing around with his dirty fork as if all the large platters were his own.

Finally, unable to bear it, Yurhee opened her mouth with a twisted smile.

“Ah, poor Radis.”

“…”

“She spent her whole life sacrificing only for the family, for her brother, and this is how it ended up.”

At Yurhee’s sarcastic tone, David looked up.

“What? Sacrifice?”

“It’s true, isn’t it? She joined the monster hunting corps in place of her coward younger brother and fought monsters. For a whole 6 years. Receiving titles under brother’s name, extracting magic stones from monsters and bringing them all home. If that’s not sacrifice, what is?”

“You, watch your words. Coward?”

David slammed the table with his hand holding the knife.

“Why am I a coward?”

“Then should I say despicable? Come to think of it, brother’s lifelong pride of entering the Imperial Academy was also because Radis took the exam in your place, wasn’t it? It was when you were thirteen, but I remember it all.”

“Shut up.”

David’s eyes twisted viciously.

“Did I ever beg anyone to do it for me? Why are you calling me a coward and despicable for what she did?”

“Oh, right! Brother never asked for it. It was all urged by Mother who adores her eldest son terribly. Brother just stood under the apple tree Mother was shaking with his mouth open.”

As if all the emotions that had been building up exploded, Yurhee even mimicked opening her mouth with her face bright red.

And with her mouth open like that, she spoke clumsily.

“I don’t like duties but I like benefits. I was too scared to hunt monsters but I like showing off as a knight and meeting women. Yum yum!”

David jumped up and grabbed Yurhee’s hair.

“Ah! Let go!”

“I told you to shut up! I never wanted any of that!”

“Kyaah! Always like this, right? You’re only strong against weak people like me and Mom!”

“Shut up! You should be doing well where you are, having married with money Radis earned, so why are you here nagging?”

“Kyaaah! It hurts! Let go! I said let go!”

“Ah, did your husband get another woman? That bastard Gerick is capable of that. He’s always been a guy who likes women. They say a daughter’s fate follows her mother’s, so did that bastard Gerick get a concubine or something?”

“What…? Hey!”

The exploded Yurhee clawed at David’s arm with her nails.

David screamed and fell down.

The siblings fought like beasts, tangled together as if they had returned to childhood, pulling each other’s hair and scratching each other.

Until Margaret returned a moment later and separated them with a piercing scream.

The eldest daughter of the Tilrod Family, Radis Tilrod, was finally able to remove her heavy armor and helmet only after returning home.

After removing her helmet and wiping away the dried blood, the revealed face was devastation itself.

That face, which must have once been beautiful, now looked no different from a corpse.

Her skin, poisoned by the magic energy spewed by monsters, had discolored to a mottled purple.

Her body was even worse.

With mana poisoning compounded by the fatal injuries from this expedition, her condition was no different from a candle in the wind.

The old maid who had cleaned Radis’s body hesitated before speaking to Margaret.

“Madam, the young lady’s condition is very poor. Shouldn’t we call for a doctor or priest?”

Margaret ruthlessly slapped the maid’s cheek.

“Stop talking nonsense and take those clothes to burn them! Clean the armor.”

Margaret grabbed the maid’s ear and hissed in a low voice.

“You fool! What will we do if a doctor or priest comes and asks why she’s suffering from mana poisoning? If they become suspicious about why she has mana poisoning instead of David, will you take responsibility?”

The maid quietly gathered the dirty clothes and armor with a face that had much to say but couldn’t.

She picked up the helmet that had been rolling on the floor and looked at Radis with pitying eyes.

‘Poor young lady…’

However, as a mere maid, she couldn’t possibly defy the mistress of the Tilrod Household.

After the maid left with the armor, Margaret glanced sideways to check on Radis’s condition.

Even to Margaret’s eyes, who knew nothing about medicine, it seemed the word “critical” was fitting.

But what could be done.

In this situation where they couldn’t call a doctor to treat her wounds or a priest to purify the mana.

Then Radis’s eyes slowly opened.

Her eyes were like a night filled with fog.

Margaret was flustered by those particularly distant-looking black pupils.

She avoided Radis’s gaze and forced a bright voice.

“Aren’t you hungry? Can you eat something?”

“…”

“I’ll bring you some soup.”

Margaret hurriedly escaped from Radis’s cramped room.

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