The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 121

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 121

She gripped Regia’s scabbard.

As if it had been waiting, Regia sprang out from the scabbard.

She could feel the blade trembling with deep excitement.

Radis continued speaking.

“Perhaps your words might be partially correct. That I’m an unqualified knight. I have no intention of being loyal to the Empire or the Imperial Court, and I have no honor or family to protect with my life.”

Rollard let out a hollow laugh.

“Can you even call that a knight? Then what do you fight for?”

Radis drew Regia as she spoke.

“Myself.”

Rollard burst into laughter as if he couldn’t believe it.

“How selfish…!”

Radis raised her sword vertically as she spoke.

“And everything behind me.”

At her words, Rollard wiped away his smile and shouted in a stern voice.

“What could a small woman like you protect!”

Radis spoke in a quiet voice.

“You always draw lines like that. Saying it’s not allowed because you’re a woman, because you’re a daughter, because you’re weak, because of your lowly birth, because you’re illegitimate. You try to steal opportunities and tame people that way.”

She continued slowly.

“Drawing lines like that, how much meaningless effort have you put in all this time to make it seem like everyone on one side is so insignificant they can be easily replaced?”

“What?”

Rollard shouted in an irritated voice.

“What are you saying? I don’t acknowledge you as a knight for such grand reasons!”

At Rollard’s words, Radis let out a snicker.

“I know. You act that way because you have reason to.”

“…?”

“Because I looked weak. Because I seemed like such a frail and servile being who wouldn’t even dare to covet what you’ve monopolized, just desperately hoping for something to fall from those greedy hands of yours.”

She realized that Rollard had other intentions from the beginning.

From the start, Rollard had picked a fight intending to provoke her.

While her failure to handle it well was her mistake, Rollard would have found some excuse anyway to create this confrontational situation.

She could read this from the attitude of the Knights of the Rveloa Family who had gathered around them at some point.

They were surrounding the two people engaged in the duel at an appropriate distance, as if to prevent Radis from escaping.

Radis took a combat stance as she spoke.

“But in the face of true despair, you who are full of such arrogance can’t protect anything.”

Rollard’s face contorted.

“Shut up! The one full of arrogance is you. Knights exist to protect this Empire and weak people like you! You should show reverence to such knights, but I don’t see that attitude in you at all!”

Rollard frantically drew his sword.

Radis, who was about to prepare a defensive stance, suddenly realized something.

The fact that she could no longer use Imperial swordsmanship.

“Oh, damn.”

Just as she was feeling troubled, Rollard’s sword thrust forward.

“Whoa!”

Panicked groans erupted from among the Knights of the Rveloa Family who were watching the situation.

The sight of an armored knight swinging his sword at a woman who wore no armor and hadn’t even prepared a defensive stance was a frightening spectacle for anyone to see.

Meanwhile, Radis was about to step back to avoid the attack, but then changed her mind.

‘If there’s something to protect, I must fight.’

Regia, responding to her will, moved with incomparable speed.

Regia’s blade struck the flat of Rollard’s thrusting sword.

It was a simple offensive and defensive move that couldn’t be called any particular swordsmanship.

However, Rollard nearly dropped his sword from the powerful force applied from that unexpected direction.

“Ugh…!”

While he gripped his ringing sword and endured the shock, Radis looked at Regia with amazed eyes.

Today was the first time she had properly gripped Regia and engaged in combat.

No matter how good a sword is, it usually takes time to become familiar with it.

However, with Regia, she felt the greatest sense of unity she had ever experienced.

It felt as if everything from her shoulder to Regia’s sharp blade tip was connected.

Then low jeers erupted from among the Knights of the Rveloa Family surrounding them.

“Rollard, what kind of disgrace is that!”

“He must have gone easy because she’s a woman! We believe in you!”

Radis cast a sharp glance toward them.

Those who had been laughing leisurely with their arms crossed shrugged their shoulders like people who were greatly frightened when their eyes met Radis’s, and cackled with laughter.

Radis silently turned her gaze to look at Rollard.

He was standing a little distance from Radis, repeatedly clenching and unclenching one hand.

His grip seemed to be numb.

Fortunately, it didn’t seem to be a serious injury.

The only problem was that what was hurt seemed to be his pride rather than his grip.

Rollard glared at Radis while grinding his teeth.

“Grr…!”

Radis could read the new anger burning in his eyes.

The kind of anger that could only be appeased by using violence to immediately remove the irritating thing before his eyes.

Rollard gripped his sword tightly and charged forward with a shout.

“You little thing, how dare you!”

He seemed to have completely forgotten the purpose of the duel.

‘Why?’

Faced with that anger, Radis became calmer instead.

Why do those who already have so much try to take away even the very small things that the weak have hidden deep inside?

Why does Rollard, the Master’s knight, try to deny and steal even the small pride that the clumsy female knight from the South standing in the corner of the arena had cherished?

The same was true for the other knights of Rveloa surrounding them.

They were the ones who had given this fight the name of a duel, so why were they giggling as if watching some entertaining spectacle rather than a duel?

‘I want to overturn that.’

Regia began to move.

There was no regularity in its movements.

They were just simple motions of slashing sideways and thrusting forward.

But in fact, those primitive movements were the prototype of all attacks.

The most simple yet most efficient.

From the sharp blade tip that scattered a mysterious black light, everything she had learned from overcoming all hardships and adversities relying solely on her sword for over ten years was expressed.

Sword clashed against sword, and sharp metallic sounds spread countless times.

“Wh-what is this!”

The more their swords clashed, the more the smiles disappeared from the faces of the Knights of the Rveloa Family surrounding them, and Rollard’s complexion also changed.

This swordsmanship was neither Southern style, Northern style, nor Imperial swordsmanship.

It was crude swordsmanship that only mercenaries who rolled around battlefields would use.

Rollard shouted.

“But, but! Why?”

He, who had received high-level sword training, couldn’t break through that crude swordsmanship at all.

Rollard was greatly shocked by the fact that his proud irregular and flexible attacks didn’t work at all.

Radis’s sword moved as if alive, accomplishing both attack and defense simultaneously.

The transition between offense and defense was so fast that even after clashing swords countless times, it would penetrate in a single moment to pierce his armor and disappear instantly.

Rollard gradually became unable to keep his composure.

He could see the woman standing with her red hair flowing, but he couldn’t see her thrusting motions.

Even when he tried to block, he couldn’t see them, so there was no way to defend.

As the standoff dragged on, Rollard’s mind began to turn into a complete mess.

‘This doesn’t make sense…!’

His opponent was a woman who wasn’t even wearing armor.

The duel would end with just one wound anywhere on her body.

But he simply couldn’t manage to do it.

Moreover, Radis had already stabbed his armor countless times.

If he hadn’t been wearing armor, the duel would have ended long ago with his defeat.

‘No! That sword is powerless because it can’t pierce through my armor.’

Rollard gritted his teeth so hard they made a grinding sound.

It seemed he had been going too easy on her without realizing it.

He decided to approach the battle with a new mindset.

Rollard commanded in a stern voice.

“Wait!”

At his words, Radis hesitated.

While she paused, Rollard gripped his sword with both hands and closed his eyes.

“What is it?”

Closing his eyes defenseless in the middle of intense combat – Radis could only be bewildered.

Rollard made groaning sounds as he spoke.

“Just wait… I told you to wait! I’m going to show you something amazing that you’ll never reach in your lifetime…!”

It was so absurd that her spirit was completely deflated.

Radis sighed and stepped back a few paces.

Regia asked.

[What’s with him? Does he need to pee? Why’s he acting like that in the middle of a fight?]

‘I don’t know either.’

Radis’s eyes widened as she watched, wondering what on earth Rollard was trying to do.

“Ugh… ughhh…!”

Blue energy was rising like smoke from the groaning Rollard’s sword.

Radis asked in surprise.

“Mana?”

Rollard burst into sharp laughter.

This was exactly why he had been able to beat out numerous candidates to become the Master’s knight.

He possessed natural talent in handling mana.

Rollard cackled as he shouted.

“That’s right! This is the realm permitted only to those who pursue the path of knighthood with their whole heart and soul! It’s useless to try to bewitch me with that strange swordsmanship!”

Radis’s eyes widened.

“What? S-strange swordsmanship?”

Noticing that she had been somewhat hurt, Regia quickly said.

[No, it wasn’t strange at all! It was totally cool! Super cool!]

‘Ugh, Regia… I appreciate the sentiment, but those words… hurt even more…’

[Huh? Why?]

‘…’

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