The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 115

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 115

At her words, the maid immediately stepped back.

Not only did she step back, but she slowly collapsed to her knees as if crumbling… and fell forward.

Looking at her face turned to the side, she seemed to have lost consciousness.

Foam was bubbling out from between her lips that gaped open like a fish.

Radis raised one eyebrow and stepped back to avoid the collapsed maid.

It seemed her words and mana had mixed together as they came out.

‘My mana is just flowing out.’

Thanks to Emperor Claude pouring mana crystals on her to cast Gias on her simultaneously with her awakening as heir, mana was overflowing to an uncontrollable degree.

‘I need to be careful.’

Radis, who was about to go up the stairs, quickly turned her head to look at the Emperor and spoke.

“Oh right.”

“Huk!”

The Emperor unconsciously let out a groan and covered his face with both arms.

Fortunately, nothing happened.

What came after the relief was disbelief.

This couldn’t be.

All those who came out of Umbra suffered from being unable to withstand the injected mana.

What helped manage that mana was the restraint the Emperor called Gias.

Without Gias, the mana would go berserk and kill them.

Even Carno, the leader of Baekryeong and called the Empire’s strongest knight, couldn’t endure the pain and crawled on his knees to request Gias.

The Emperor lowered both arms and muttered in a trembling voice.

“H-how are you…?”

Radis looked at the Emperor with cold eyes and said.

“I did what I was supposed to do. It’s Your Majesty the Emperor who failed. You should keep your promise, shouldn’t you? Please release my teacher’s Gias.”

“…!”

Emperor Claude’s sagging cheeks trembled.

He looked more flustered than ever before.

His pupils under his thick eyelids were shaking violently.

Radis, who had been studying the Emperor’s face, slowly opened her mouth.

“You don’t actually know how to remove Gias, do you?”

“…!”

While going up the stairs, Radis couldn’t help but curse the Emperor.

“Being an Emperor and all, yet pulling such a scam.”

[A scam? That fat old man scammed you? Should I teach him a lesson?]

“Want to be branded a traitor? If you can handle him alone, go ahead and try.”

[Uh…]

“Ha, I’m completely out of it. And…”

Radis looked at Regia with narrowed eyes and said.

“Regia, don’t try to brush this off. Don’t you have something to say to me?”

Regia, who had been hesitating, eventually had to put everything down and apologize to her.

[Radis, I’m sorry…! I’ll absolutely never suddenly reject mana or stop talking again…!]

Radis, who had been looking down at Regia with narrowed eyes for a moment, soon smiled gently.

She patted Regia’s hilt and said.

“Good girl. When you’ve done something wrong, that’s how you apologize.”

[Huu… This feels strange… It’s my first time apologizing since I was born…]

“Really? Then have you ever heard someone say thank you?”

[No…? I don’t think so?]

Radis smiled faintly.

If it weren’t for Regia, she might still be trapped inside Umbra.

She said gently.

“I survived thanks to you. Thank you.”

[Huaang…!]

Regia whimpered.

[This feels so strange…! It’s like my chest is pounding…!]

Instead of asking where Regia had a chest, Radis gently patted the upper part of the blade.

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

[Huaang, somehow I want to call you Older Sister…!]

“Go ahead.”

[Older Sister…!]

“Yes, yes.”

Radis roughly tucked Regia into her belt and opened the door connected to the surface.

The first thing that caught her eye were the White Knights.

Knights in pure white uniforms were standing guard at the door connected to the Archives.

Radis carefully made her way through them.

“Excuse me for a moment. Pardon me.”

The White Knights had mysterious expressions that were surprised, flustered, and unsure of what to do all at once.

They had thought the Emperor would bring up an exhausted Radis and declare that she had received Gias and become a member of Baekryeong.

Of course, they considered Gias a blessing.

However, they knew that Radis had received Gias not because she wanted it but for Daniel’s sake, and they felt sorry for her.

But when Radis came up alone with a perfectly fine expression asking them to make way, the knights couldn’t help but be confused.

However, since there was no particular reason not to let her through, they glanced at each other and gradually made way.

‘Where is my teacher?’

As Radis looked around, Eve rushed toward her.

“Radis…!”

Eve seemed to be completely out of his mind.

When a tall man with a body of pure muscle and no fat rushed at her with his whole body, it felt like being charged by a buffalo.

If she had been off guard, they might have become one mass and rolled backward several times.

‘Are you crazy?’

Just as she was about to shout that.

Eve’s arms embraced her with such strong force as if to crush her.

“Radis, Radis. I’m sorry. It’s all because of me…!”

His voice whispering like that was hoarse as could be.

Trapped in Eve’s hard arms, Radis could only roll her eyes.

She couldn’t understand why Eve was acting like this.

‘What’s because of Eve? The bad guy who put Gias on my teacher is the Emperor, and the one who scammed me is also the Emperor.’

However, she couldn’t bring herself to say those words in the Imperial Capital, right in front of the watching White Knights.

Radis let out a short sigh and spread her arms to hug Eve back.

She also patted his broad back that was curved as he embraced her with all his strength.

“It’s okay.”

At Radis’s words, Eve rubbed his face against her hair.

And with his lips against her ear, he whispered in an almost sobbing voice.

“It’s okay. I’ll… I’ll do something about it somehow. Don’t be afraid of Gias. You don’t need to be. Even if it takes a lifetime, I’ll definitely remove it for you. I don’t care if I become like my father. Whether it’s the Mage Tower or the Black Mages, I’ll turn everything upside down to find a way…!”

Though Eve seemed to be completely on the wrong track, Radis couldn’t help but be moved by his heart-wrenching words.

Radis moved her hand that had been patting his back up to embrace his neck tightly.

She could feel his soft hair hanging over his firm neck wrapping around her fingers.

Then Eve let out an anguished moan.

Her short bangs swayed in the hot breath he exhaled.

The next moment, his slightly rough lips touched her forehead.

Those lips were so hot it felt like being branded with a hot iron.

“Radis.”

His lips, which had always been soft and moist, were now dry and rough on the surface.

When she realized they had become that way from worrying about her, that texture felt unbearably endearing.

Without knowing it, Radis closed her eyes and rubbed the bridge of her nose against his chin.

Like animals do, silently conveying tender affection through that gesture, Eve Russel groaned in pain like someone stabbed by a knife.

“Radis, you…”

The embers in his chest that had been barely, desperately covered with all his strength began crackling and blazing, soon spreading like wildfire.

Once liberated, the flames that had been suppressed until now could not be stopped.

He had to watch helplessly, with enchanted eyes, the brilliant swarm of flames racing across the desolate open field.

The flames began burning away one by one the negative emotions that had been stickily covering his mind.

The anxiety of wondering if this was okay.

The guilt that he was the one who had driven her down this path, and the terrible self-loathing that came from it.

As those burned away and left empty spaces, his feelings for her came flooding in like a torrent.

He realized he could no longer stop the overflowing emotions.

And he didn’t want to either.

With his lips pressed against Radis’s forehead, Eve poured out words frantically like someone who would die if he didn’t speak.

“Radis, I’ll do something about it somehow. I don’t care if the whole world says no. If only you, if only you would look at me and smile…”

His lips came down while murmuring like that.

His lips, now moist and swollen again, settled on her eyelids and the delicate skin of her face.

At the kisses that felt like gentle nibbling, Radis felt a thrill flow down her spine.

Eve’s lips were so sweet that she thought it would be okay to be devoured a little.

The moment his lower lip touched the edge of her lips, electricity shot from the top of her head to her toes.

Coming to her senses from that tingling sensation, Radis quickly said.

“I wasn’t affected by Gias.”

Eve’s movement stopped.

His lips were right next to hers.

“…What?”

“The Emperor failed. And I think I can break your Gias too, teacher. We need to go to the teacher.”

Among his black hair, she could see Eve’s golden eyes that had been bubbling with heat slowly regaining their reason.

With those calmed eyes, Eve asked.

“Can I kiss you?”

Like a sunset, Radis’s face turned red.

“A-a-a-are you crazy?”

“No, I’m perfectly sane.”

“No way!”

Radis pushed against Eve’s chest with both arms.

But ridiculously, there was no strength in her arms at all.

Fortunately, even at that limp resistance, Eve obediently stepped back.

Though it seemed like there was a smacking sound as their lips finally separated.

Eve said as if nothing had happened.

“Earl Sheldon suddenly became unwell and went to the infirmary. I’ll guide you there.”

He turned around so nonchalantly that Radis stood there dazed for a moment, wondering if that was a face or an iron mask.

“Oh, and.”

Eve turned around again and looked at her as he said.

“I like you.”

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