The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 126

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 126

Elizabeth clasped her hands together and placed them against her pink lips as she examined Radis’s face from various angles.

Earlier, she had simply looked like a dazzlingly magnificent knight, but seeing that same knight with her face flushed red and at a complete loss made her appear incredibly cute and lovable.

Radis continued speaking haltingly.

“I, I don’t really know… It’s just… tw-tw-two people…”

“Kyaah!”

Once she opened her mouth, she couldn’t stop what followed.

Radis continued speaking while groaning in embarrassment.

“…I know this sounds really ungrateful. Both of them are far too good for someone like me…”

“That can’t be true! There wouldn’t be a single person in this world who wouldn’t fall for you, Knight!”

“No, absolutely not.”

Radis shook her head so vigorously that her hair whipped around.

Then she continued in a slightly dejected voice.

“And… if either of them were to be with me, they would truly lose so much.”

“What about you, Knight?”

“Pardon?”

Elizabeth looked at Radis with serious eyes as she asked.

“Which of those two people do you like, Knight?”

Radis opened her mouth slightly, then closed it again.

That was the problem.

She couldn’t understand her own heart.

“…I don’t know.”

“Ah…”

Elizabeth let out a wistful sigh.

She gently placed her hand on Radis’s shoulder and whispered in a sweet voice.

“No, Knight, you do know. If you love someone, you might be able to hide it from the outside world, but you can’t deceive yourself.”

“…”

“There must be someone. Someone who makes you feel like you wouldn’t need anything else if you could just be with them.”

At Elizabeth’s words, Radis frowned and shook her head.

“No, Miss Elizabeth. I don’t want that kind of thing. If I made such a choice, there would surely come a day when I’d regret it.”

“Ah…”

Elizabeth looked at Radis with dreamy eyes.

“You’re truly such a kind and thoughtful person, Knight. Those two people must be very precious to you. You don’t want to hurt either of them even a little, is that it?”

Elizabeth gazed into Radis’s dark eyes and whispered softly.

“But Knight, what’s precious to you and what you desire are surely different things. When you realize that, you’ll come to understand how much courage a person can summon for love…”

‘What’s precious and what I desire…?’

After parting with Elizabeth, Radis pondered Elizabeth’s words as she headed toward the banquet hall.

‘Are those two… different? Are they different…?’

However, she couldn’t continue her contemplation for long.

She had soon arrived at the Grand Banquet Hall.

Since she had been to this place once during the New Year’s celebration, Radis familiarly moved to an inconspicuous edge.

Then she observed the situation in the banquet hall.

‘Still, since this is the second time, it’s not as surprising as the first.’

When she first came here, she had been mesmerized by the overwhelming luxury of this place and the dazzling light pouring from the chandeliers on the ceiling.

Now she could look around the banquet hall with more composed eyes.

At the highest point of the banquet hall sat the usual wicked and fat Emperor.

The Emperor, wearing glittering ceremonial robes encrusted with jewels, had his face scrunched up in displeasure about something.

Radis realized that most of the nobles surrounding the Emperor were from House Rveloa, bearing unicorn-shaped crests.

‘So… those bastards are the ones who interfered with the Captain receiving the Master seal and prevented me from seeing the Captain’s achievements.’

Radis narrowed her eyes and deeply etched the faces of the House Rveloa people bearing unicorn crests into her memory.

Especially the middle-aged man who was clinging close to the Emperor and groveling as if he might lick his feet – he seemed like someone she absolutely needed to remember.

As Radis was staring intently at the House Rveloa people, she suddenly realized that someone was watching her.

It was a very lavishly dressed woman sitting a little distance away from the Emperor.

‘Wow.’

Radis thought she was probably the Empire’s Empress.

She was dressed in a way that only someone of such status could manage.

The Empress wore a cake-like enormous wig on her head and a massive crown studded with jewels.

It was amazing how her slender neck could support the weight of the wig and crown.

And then there was the dress.

The skirt was so voluminous that the Empress looked exactly like someone sitting at a table.

The dress was covered in jewels just like the Emperor’s ceremonial robes, and Radis couldn’t even imagine its weight.

She saw the Empress, who had been looking this way for a moment, turn her head to look at the Emperor.

Radis also looked at the Empress briefly before turning her gaze back to the banquet hall.

Except for the Emperor who was particularly displaying his bad mood, the atmosphere in the banquet hall was harmonious.

Especially in one area where an unusually large crowd had gathered.

“…?”

Radis’s eyes widened when she saw the person standing in the center of the swarming crowd.

“E-Eve…?”

Radis rubbed her eyes with both hands.

Then she opened them again.

It was indeed Eve Russel.

Surprisingly, he was wearing ceremonial robes as white as a white flower.

Radis wasn’t the only one surprised by Eve in white clothes.

The great nobles of the Bellius Party, led by Lady Bayard, surrounded him while laughing loudly.

“My word, to think we’d see Lord Russel wearing something other than black!”

“The sun will surely rise from the west tomorrow.”

“Would it just be the sun rising from the west? I’m starting to think heaven and earth might be turned upside down. I should have lived doing more good deeds.”

“Heh heh heh, indeed. Lord Russel is once again throwing stones into our stagnant waters.”

At the great nobles’ teasing disguised as praise, Eve had a sour expression as if he’d bitten his tongue.

“Please, enough already…”

At his earnest whisper, Lady Bayard threw her head back and laughed heartily before calling over other nobles.

“Come, can you recognize who this person is?”

Radis intended to go to Eve, but she couldn’t bring herself to push through that crowd to approach him and had to pace around nearby instead.

‘Eve, is he okay? He’s not going to tear his clothes and escape again, is he?’

She looked at him with a worried expression, remembering something Nicky had said once.

However, Eve looked surprisingly fine.

Not only was he fine, but the white ceremonial robes suited him dazzlingly well.

When he was wrapped in pitch-black clothes, he always looked terribly pale and gloomy.

But Eve in white ceremonial robes was like a white rose in full bloom.

When the Lady made a mischievous joke, she could see him slightly blush and shake his head.

His disheveled hair swayed gently over his dizzyingly high nose bridge.

Below that, she could see him slightly biting his red lips with his pearl-white teeth as if troubled.

At that sensual sight, Radis felt her heart drop.

‘This is impossible…!’

Radis pounded her chest with her fist.

‘That’s Eve the petty Russel. A hermit crab, a lazy bum…!’

Radis tried hard to calm her emotional turmoil by taking deep breaths.

Just then, the voices of noble young ladies whispering nearby pierced her ears.

“…My goodness, that person is Lord Russel?”

“Was he always so beautiful? Why didn’t we notice until now?”

“It’s understandable. You never cared about formalities and only wore black clothes like mourning attire.”

She could hear some noble lady whispering in a very secretive voice.

“…You know, I’ve become curious about that person’s face.”

“Me too…!”

Radis almost shouted out loud.

‘No!’

However, she suppressed it with superhuman patience and then pressed it down with the lid of cold reason.

‘No, normally everyone shows their face openly, right? What’s wrong with someone looking?’

But the moment she saw some proactive noble lady approach Eve and deliberately bump into him with her body, the lid of cold reason began to rattle.

“Oh my, are you alright?”

“Oh, I’m perfectly fine. Marquis, do you remember me?”

“Ah, of course. Aren’t you the young lady of the Coril County? Let me see, how many gold mines were there in your estate? Was it two…?”

“Oh my! You’ve taken such interest in our family! That’s right, two! Though it’ll be three soon…!”

She could see the Coril Noblewoman’s three raised fingers sliding up toward Eve’s bangs.

At the same time, Radis’s lid of cold reason flew off completely.

She walked steadily through the crowd and stood next to Eve and the Coril Noblewoman.

And she opened her mouth.

“Your Grace, please look at me for a moment.”

That voice was so cold it surprised even herself.

Eve, who spotted Radis, turned his head.

Then she could see the Coril Noblewoman’s finger barely grazing past Eve’s bangs.

“Huh? Radis? Where were you? Wait a moment.”

Eve threw a sinister smile toward the Coril Noblewoman as he spoke.

“Coril Noblewoman, it was a pleasure having this conversation. Especially the story about that unknown third gold mine was very interesting. It would be in Sabha, wouldn’t it?”

The Coril Noblewoman nodded blankly at his smile, which was undeniably sinister yet strangely charming.

“Yes, that’s right. Sabha…”

Radis glared at Eve once with chillingly cold eyes, then headed toward a corner of the banquet hall first.

Eve hurriedly followed her.

“Radis, wait for me!”

He looked completely bewildered.

“Is something wrong? Why do you look like that?”

Radis cornered Eve by a window where curtains were drawn, adequately blocking the surrounding gazes.

“Ugh! Radis, why are you doing this?”

Though she had cornered Eve, Radis didn’t know what to say.

It would probably be better not to say anything at all, but her insides were boiling so much she couldn’t stand it.

In the end, Radis raised one finger and ended up saying this.

“…Do it in moderation.”

“Huh?”

“Be pretty in moderation.”

“…What?”

At first, Eve seemed to not understand her words at all.

However, soon an ecstatic smile began to spread across his lips.

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