The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 123

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 123

In the waiting room behind the arena, Robert, who had listened to Radis’s story, fell into deep thought without even removing his armor.

“The Emperor tried to cast some kind of gias on you?”

“Yes. Though he failed. I wouldn’t call it fortunate, but my mana increased tremendously, and more importantly, I was able to meet Ruu…? Should I call him Lord Ruu? Anyway, I met him.”

“He tried to cast two suspicious prohibitions on you.”

“Yes. Though he failed. Robert, I’m apparently a Throne. Have you ever heard the term Throne? According to Lord Ruu, I seem to be an existence necessary for maintaining balance in a world divided into three parts. And a world where balance is disrupted gets destroyed. Just like what you saw before we regressed, Robert.”

“And in fact, those prohibitions couldn’t be undone.”

“Yes. Though he couldn’t cast them. Let’s stop talking about gias and listen to me. We need to find Alexis. She can’t still be alive after all this time, so it might mean something else… Anyway, I’m apparently the only one who can save her.”

Robert, who had been lost in thought, raised his head and spoke in a resolute tone.

“I’ll kill him.”

“What? Kill who?”

“The Emperor.”

At that moment, the waiting room door opened and Eve Russel entered.

Eve clapped his hands as he spoke.

“I support your opinion, Earl. I’ll send my enthusiastic support from behind the scenes.”

Startled, Radis shouted.

“Close the door!”

Eve Russel continued clapping while casually pushing the door shut with the pointed tip of his sparkling brown shoes.

Radis rushed over and firmly closed the door, worried that Robert’s reckless words might leak out.

“Why are you so late?”

“Ah, I had an urgent letter to send, so I’m a bit late.”

Eve Russel entered the waiting room, his ornate purple ceremonial robe embroidered with gold thread fluttering.

He plopped down in the seat of honor and opened his mouth.

“Earl Robert, I took care of something for you.”

“…”

Eve pointed to a basket of cherries on the table and asked.

“What’s this? Can I eat it?”

Radis shrugged with an ambiguous expression, unsure whether to smile or be angry.

“I don’t know who brought it. It wasn’t here when we left, but it was here when we came back.”

“They must have left it for us to eat.”

Grabbing a handful of cherries, Eve said.

“I knew Joseph Relbelloa was vicious, petty, and a thoroughly vulgar small-minded person, but I never imagined he had the courage to be so despicably base.”

“…”

“Moreover, he’s usually slow as a bloated snail, but his hands are quick only for such matters. Tsk!”

Eve stuffed a handful of cherries into his mouth and crunched them, then exclaimed.

“Wow, delicious!”

He grabbed another handful of cherries and placed them on Radis’s outstretched hands.

Holding cherries in both hands, Radis asked cautiously.

“Is it okay? The… ducal house, I mean.”

“Of course it’s fine. Relbelloa was the one who tried to ruin important matters with personal feelings, so what problem could there be?”

Eve gave Robert exactly one cherry, then patted his shoulder.

“You did great! You magnificently smeared shit on Relbelloa’s face.”

Robert, who had been staring intently at Eve, opened his mouth.

“…Your Grace the Marquis.”

“Hm?”

“Then, a few days ago, you were so busy smuggling Radis’s swordsmanship teacher out of the capital.”

Eve Russel was momentarily flustered by Robert’s unexpected question and blinked, but soon poured out a smooth response.

“Ah, you’re asking about Earl Sheldon? Earl Claudio was a great help. Thanks to him burning corpses in the graveyard and disguising them as Earl Sheldon to draw attention, we could safely get Earl Sheldon out of the capital.”

Eve said while continuously chewing cherries.

“Of course, it was a shallow lie like covering one’s eyes and playing hide-and-seek. But we could briefly hold the Emperor’s feet. Most of the White Knights were enraged about Earl Sheldon’s death. Meanwhile, we could safely hide Earl Sheldon in Rocksburg’s safe house.”

While listening to his words, Robert’s eyes gradually softened.

“…Then, nothing happened to Radis.”

At his words, Eve frowned and spat out cherry pits before speaking in a more serious voice.

“Fortunately she’s safe in the end, but it’s not like nothing happened. Regardless of the gias not being cast on Radis, I have no intention of forgiving what the Emperor did.”

At Eve Russel’s words, Robert’s face became one of trust.

A rarely seen joyful smile even hung on his lips.

Robert spoke in a low voice.

“It seems I’ve been somewhat misunderstanding Your Grace until now.”

“Misunderstanding?”

“…It’s nothing.”

Though he said it was nothing, Eve Russel could feel that Robert’s gaze toward him was quite different from before.

A feeling of disliking yet not disliking, not trusting yet wanting to trust, not liking yet wanting to like…?

Under his drooping bangs, Eve Russel’s eyes narrowed.

‘Well, well? The enemy of my enemy is my ally, they say.’

Eve spoke in a grave tone.

“I will never forgive the Emperor.”

“…”

“The Emperor will pay the price for what he did.”

“…”

“The Emperor will learn what it means to regret to the point of death.”

“…”

“How dare he! I’ll make him realize with bone-chilling clarity whom he touched.”

Radis stood still, unable to understand why Eve was acting like this.

Meanwhile, she realized that Robert was making a very strange expression.

‘Gasp.’

Robert’s face appeared almost expressionless on the surface, but Radis, who had shared joys and sorrows with him for six whole years, could tell.

He was making a face as if he had almost fallen in love.

She had seen Robert make that expression exactly once before.

In their previous life, when he had barely managed to obtain a mana-enhanced sword.

‘No way!’

Radis hurriedly looked at Eve’s face.

Eve was… making the most wicked expression she had ever seen.

Radis immediately squeezed between them.

“What are you doing right now?”

However, their strange exchange of glances continued above Radis’s head, in mid-air.

“…It seems Your Grace and my aspirations align.”

“Hmm, of course it would be difficult. Making the most arrogant and despicable man in this Empire realize his mistakes.”

“I will help.”

“If you help, it would be like gaining a thousand troops and ten thousand horses.”

“A thousand troops and ten thousand horses? I’m not such a person. However, having already received great kindness from Your Grace the Marquis, even if this body breaks apart, I will repay that kindness.”

Radis pushed the two apart with her elbows, creating as much distance as possible.

“Stop it, both of you! Why are you acting like this in the Imperial Capital, really?”

Eve looked down at her and pushed a cherry into her mouth.

“Radis, try eating this.”

“…!”

It wasn’t a situation to leisurely eat cherries, but she couldn’t spit out what was already in her mouth.

Radis chewed the cherry with a furrowed brow.

Her eyes gradually widened.

“…It’s delicious? Sweet and sour and fragrant…! Were cherries always this tasty?”

“Right? I think this is the first time I’ve had cherries this delicious too.”

“But isn’t it not the season for cherries yet?”

“Do cherries have seasons?”

“….”

Radis looked at the cherry basket placed on the table.

The cherry basket was a crude one woven from wooden vines, and the cherries still had their light green stems and leaves attached, as if they had been picked not long ago.

That object placed in the luxuriously decorated waiting room felt strangely unfamiliar.

While she was lost in thought looking at the cherry basket, Eve Russel raised his hand and placed it on Robert’s shoulder.

“I’m overjoyed to meet a comrade who pursues the same goal. Soon there will be a banquet to welcome the new Master, so shall we go together and confirm the face of that man who has reached the pinnacle of arrogance?”

A strange expression appeared on Robert’s face.

He had to admit that he had been prejudiced against Eve Russel all this time.

That prejudice mostly stemmed from the malicious rumors circulating in society, most of which were baseless malicious rumors spread by the Rodric Family who were obsessed with undermining Lord Russel’s reputation.

Moreover, it seemed that Lord Russel had left it alone, saying he wouldn’t bother with such despicable schemes of the Rodric Family.

The moment he realized this, Robert, who was an unrecognized illegitimate son but still from the Rodric Family, couldn’t help but feel guilt toward Eve Russel.

Once he abandoned such prejudices, other things began to become visible.

For example, the fact that Eve Russel was quite a capable leader.

Just the fact that competent talents were placed in the right positions was quite shocking to Robert.

This was because he had experienced the system of the Rodric Family, which was only glossy on the surface but almost completely rotten inside.

Moreover, Eve Russel had the skill to attract people’s hearts.

The ability to leave an itch unbearably itchy until the very limit, then scratch it refreshingly at the decisive moment…!

Robert, who had fallen for it, bowed his head respectfully like a retainer who had served the Russel Manor with devoted loyalty for dozens of generations and said.

“I will do so.”

Eve Russel, who had once called Robert “that bastard” and extremely disliked him, also spoke affectionate words of concern for him as if asking when he had ever done such a thing.

“Then we should change clothes first, shouldn’t we? This place is too shabby, so we should move locations. Let’s go. Radis, give me that basket…!”

“Ah… here you go.”

They left the waiting room in a strange atmosphere.

The gazes of the two men looking at each other were profound, and Radis following behind them had a face that didn’t want to believe this situation.

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