The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 116

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 116

Radis’s mouth fell open in shock.

“Wh-what, what did you say?”

“I said I like you.”

“…!”

It was an absurd thing to say.

Radis was about to say that.

But she couldn’t.

Because Eve saying those words looked happier than she had ever seen him before.

Eve began shouting in an even louder voice.

“I like you, I like you, I like you! Really, I like you!”

He shouted loudly with an ecstatic smile covering his entire face.

“I, Eve Russel, like Radis!”

“…!”

“Really, truly like you! I like you the most in the world!”

Radis had to stand there frozen in place, trembling all over.

Even without looking in a mirror, she could tell how red her face had become.

Eve Russel, who had been looking at her with an innocent smile, now seemed unsatisfied with just shouting at her and began walking toward her while crying out in a loud voice.

“Radis, for you I can do anything! I just need you!”

“…!”

Radis stood there in a daze, trembling all over.

Standing still like that, she felt countless gazes piercing the back of her head.

Only then did Radis realize she was standing in front of the assembled knights.

A greater sense of crisis came over her than when she had been swept up in the massive current inside the magical device.

She began running after Eve with all her might, trying not to look back.

“St-stop it already…! I understand, so please stop!”

The infirmary of the Knight Order was almost empty.

They passed through the deserted examination room and headed to the ward inside.

Claudio, who had been standing beside the bed, spotted Radis and Eve entering the ward tangled together.

Radis was firmly covering Eve’s mouth with both hands, while Eve was clinging to her.

Claudio blocked their path.

“Get out.”

Claudio spoke heavily while looking at Radis.

“I know what you did for Daniel. But Daniel’s condition is not good right now. If he sees you again, his life might be in danger before His Majesty the Emperor releases the gias.”

Radis pinched Eve’s lips once firmly, meaning she wouldn’t let it slide if he didn’t stay quiet, then released him.

Then she spoke to Claudio.

“The Emperor doesn’t know how to release the gias.”

At her words, Claudio froze like a statue.

Radis could understand his shock.

But as he said, time was of the essence now.

“I need to see the teacher.”

Claudio didn’t move from his spot, but he didn’t particularly restrain Radis either.

He looked like someone who didn’t know what to do.

Radis approached the bed and examined Daniel’s condition.

Daniel was unconscious and limp.

She could feel the gias rampaging inside his unconscious body.

Each time it did, his thin hands and feet would convulse.

‘It might be fortunate that he’s unconscious.’

When placing the double gias on him, the Emperor must have known that such a result would come someday.

However, Daniel had endured for a long time with two gias embedded in his chest.

The reason the gias had remained calm during that time was because his feelings toward the Emperor hadn’t changed.

‘The Emperor deceived such a teacher until the very end.’

She bit her lips tightly and drew up her mana.

She felt mana rushing like a tsunami inside her body.

A strange sensation starting from her mana core spread throughout her entire body, and the world shook once.

It was a trembling that only she could feel.

“Ah…!”

It was the moment when all existence in the world opened toward her.

The endlessly spread sky was looking down at her.

The clouds whispered that they had been waiting for her, and the blowing wind burst into laughter with joy that she had noticed their existence.

Everyone was saying this.

‘Hestia, we’ve been waiting for you.’

The vegetation sprouting from the ground gently moved their roots to tell the mother of all things that she had awakened.

Then the mother of all things gently stirred and smiled toward her.

“…!”

Tears flowed from Radis’s eyes.

They weren’t tears of sadness.

They were tears of wonder.

Radis left the flowing tears without wiping them away.

Because the wind coveted those tears.

Several streams of wind carried her tears and ran off giggling.

Radis calmed her heart and looked down at Daniel again.

When she concentrated and looked closely, she began to see the flow of mana coursing through Daniel’s body.

The mana inside Daniel’s body was of two kinds.

His own mana and the mana originating from the gias.

Originally two streams but moving as one, the mana was showing different movements as Daniel’s condition became critical.

Daniel’s mana was rapidly circulating throughout every corner of his body to save his dying flesh, but the mana originating from the gias was gathering toward the restraints as if preparing to separate from his body.

‘Thanks to that, it’ll be easier.’

[Radis, are you going to break that spell?]

‘That’s right.’

Radis said as she placed Regia’s blade over the teacher’s chest.

‘I need to cut only the gias, not the teacher’s body. Can you do it?’

[It would be like when we cut the crystal dragon’s core.]

‘You fought something like that too? Anyway, you can’t make a mistake.’

When she injected mana, spell characters appeared on Regia’s blade surface and made a humming sound.

Claudio, who had been crouching with his head in his hands, was startled by the sound and stood up.

He saw Radis pointing her sword toward Daniel’s chest and shouted in surprise.

“What are you trying to do?”

Radis said.

“I need to release the gias.”

The tip of Regia’s sword pierced Daniel’s chest.

She felt one spell being destroyed.

Just as the mana freed from the restraints was about to rampage, Radis said.

[Regia, devour it.]

Hot energy rose up through the blade.

The mana that had been bound by the spell was converted to pure mana within Regia.

It was a power that Providence had permitted only to his bloodline and the thrones who would carry out missions in service of his commands.

‘I see.’

The mana that had returned to a stable state climbed up through her grasp as if it had been hers from the beginning and wound into her mana core.

Radis moved Regia with careful motions and broke Daniel’s second gias as well.

Then Daniel’s body shot up high like a fish leaping out of water.

She absorbed all the mana that had been freed from the prohibition so it wouldn’t harm him, then retrieved Regia.

Claudio slowly approached them.

His face was stained with shock and disbelief.

Radis spoke.

“I’ve released the gias. He’ll regain consciousness soon.”

Claudio asked, stammering.

“How on earth did you… No, you… who are you?”

Radis looked at him silently.

Claudio wasn’t asking who she was.

He was asking where this enormous power she was using came from, and what mission she had realized upon awakening to that power.

Radis spoke in a slightly subdued voice.

“Throne…”

She was a Throne.

‘Since when?’

Now she could guess.

Perhaps she had been a Throne chosen by Providence since her previous life.

Though not completely.

That’s why she didn’t die even when poisoned by demonic energy, and could instead gain mana by drawing power from that demonic energy.

Radis recalled what Regia had said when she first met her.

‘Neither one remained complete nor awakened. Well, that’s what Thrones are like originally.’

‘The one who didn’t remain complete was Alexis, and the one who couldn’t awaken was me.’

Regia quickly answered.

[That’s right! Radis, did you meet Alexis?]

‘Yes.’

[We have to help her…!]

‘I know. But how…?’

Radis’s eyes sank deeply.

Then Claudio spoke up.

“Throne? Did you just say Throne?”

But he couldn’t continue speaking.

“Radis, what’s going on here?”

Daniel, who had regained consciousness, reached out his hand to Radis as he spoke.

“I thought I’d never see you again…”

Radis knelt down and took his hand with both of hers.

She told him that everything was over.

“Teacher, you’re free now.”

Like sunlight streaming down onto the lake rippling in various colors on the waves, various emotions appeared on Daniel’s face.

He looked sad but somehow relieved, anguished yet at the same time calm.

He smiled faintly with a complex expression and said.

“So you did this for me.”

Radis realized that Daniel had known everything.

He had known that the Emperor had deceived him, and that there was no way to break the two gias placed on him.

Daniel continued in a subdued voice.

“Radis. I was a knight attendant who served right beside His Majesty during the time when the Emperor was called a hero. His Majesty in those days was like a blazing flame. I was captivated by him like a moth drawn to fire.”

He smiled so faintly it seemed it might break at any moment.

“Radis, His Majesty never lost a single battle in war. But he couldn’t defeat himself. I didn’t want to see the color of that flame fade. So…”

She could see his eyes reddening.

“…though now it’s all just meaningless sentiment.”

Radis could understand his pain.

She too knew the emptiness of having the pillar that supported one’s life completely disappear.

Even if that pillar had rotted and grown moldy, contaminating one’s entire life, it had surely once been something more precious than anything else.

But she knew that despite this, even when it felt like life’s meaning had disappeared, one had to keep living.

Even if one axis of life collapsed, even if it felt like everything was over, she knew that someday one could find another support.

Radis held Daniel’s hand tightly as she spoke.

“Teacher… you’re the best teacher to me. And you always will be.”

Daniel smiled faintly at her awkward comfort.

The gias that had tormented him was gone.

But Radis could feel that the wounds in his heart were still embedded like thorns.

However, she knew that someday the time would come when he could pull out and set down those thorns.

There would be times when helpless pain would wash over him, but surely the time would come when there would be more decent days than painful ones.

Because she had experienced that too.

Then Claudio spoke to Daniel in a heavy voice.

“You’d better leave here before the Emperor finds out your gias has been broken.”

Daniel gave Claudio a faint smile.

“Kicking me out as soon as the gias is broken?”

“…Get lost quickly. My head already hurts thinking about cleaning up after you.”

Daniel chuckled softly as he sat up in bed.

As Radis approached to support him, he said.

“Do you want to help that woman?”

Radis didn’t immediately understand what he was talking about.

Daniel added.

“I mean poor Alexis Tillord, who’s still suffering.”

To Radis, who stared wide-eyed and couldn’t say anything, Daniel smiled mischievously and said.

“Didn’t I tell you? If you need me, I’ll help you anytime.”

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