The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 146

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 146

Eve Russel dismounted from her saddle with her cloak fluttering behind her.

And she spoke in a voice filled with unfiltered anger.

“You have conspired with the ‘Black Mages’ who are fugitives from the Mage Tower.”

Margaret’s mouth, who had been prostrating, gaped open disgustingly.

On the other hand, Jade couldn’t understand a word of what Lord Russel was saying.

He crawled forward on his knees and pleaded.

“Lord Marquis, what on earth are you talking about? Conspiring with Black Mages? I know nothing about this!”

Lord Russel looked down at Jade with a disgusted expression, as if looking at a frog crushed to death under a carriage wheel.

“What do you know about anything?”

“…!”

“This is your wise wife’s handiwork.”

At his words, Jade’s eyes widened as he looked at Margaret.

Then Margaret glared back at Jade with equally fierce eyes.

To Jade, who immediately cowered, Lord Russel said.

“If you’ve known nothing until now, there’s no need to know, is there? Just receive the punishment together.”

Realizing that Jade would be of no help, Margaret struck the dirt ground with her hand and shouted.

“Your Lordship, I truly knew nothing!”

Lord Russel now looked at Margaret with a terrible gaze, as if looking at a dead rat that had eaten poison and died with all its entrails exposed.

“You knew nothing? Are you saying you cooperated with those suspicious fellows wearing black cloaks and even masks, thinking they were apostles of justice?”

“He, he said he was working for Her Majesty the Empress!”

Beneath his disheveled black hair, Eve Russel’s eyes gleamed.

He had noticed that there was truth buried in Margaret’s desperate self-defense.

However, he skillfully concealed this and continued speaking.

“Those people are traitors who betrayed the Mage Tower and Laphal. They’re masters of false oaths, so I wonder why they didn’t say they were working for the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor.”

Eve Russel bent his upper body to look down at the Tilrod couple and spoke in a gloomy tone.

“The ‘Black Mages’ are not simple criminals. They have evil purposes that align with overthrowing the Empire. In other words, it’s treason, and you should already know what happens to the parties involved and their families when they’re implicated in treason in any way, without me having to tell you.”

Margaret’s complexion grew increasingly pale as she realized the seriousness of the situation.

“Treason? Absolutely not. I never had such thoughts, not even a little….”

Her mouth rambled meaningless excuses as they came to mind, and her trembling fingertips helplessly groped the ground.

‘Why, why did it come to this?’

Lord Russel’s words were correct.

When the hooded figures came to the Tilrod Estate, it would be a blatant lie to say she hadn’t sensed any ominousness from them.

However, at that time Margaret wasn’t in her right mind due to the humiliation she suffered at Russel Manor and the back injury she sustained from being pushed by Robert.

She blamed Radis for all of it and cursed her eldest daughter day and night.

At first, the maids who had echoed her complaints to please Margaret began ignoring her words as time passed, and just when her unresolved resentment was deepening, White Mask came to find her.

Margaret, who suspected that White Mask would harm Radis, accepted his proposal without thinking deeply about what consequences it might bring.

This was the result.

Terrible curses began pouring from Margaret’s mouth.

“This is all because of Radis, that thing that wouldn’t be satisfying to tear apart and kill…!”

Enraged by those words, Eve Russel drew his sword.

“Shut up.”

“I, I gave birth to a demon! Aah…!”

Margaret collapsed onto the dirt ground.

Jade, looking at her, still had a face that understood nothing.

Jade clasped his hands together and spoke desperately.

“Your Lordship, I truly did nothing and know nothing!”

Eve Russel closed his eyes.

He felt like he might vomit.

For Radis’s sake, it would be right to execute these people here and now.

Right now, he could do that.

The moment treason was mentioned, the Tilrod couple lost their right to defend themselves.

Moreover, Margaret had actually conspired with the Black Mages.

The Marquis’s intelligence organization was already tracking the Black Mages.

A purge would soon begin, and no one would find it strange if the Tilrod Family was included in it.

The problem was that no matter what punishment these people before him received unto death, they would never understand their wrongdoing until the end.

Eve Russel raised his head to look up at the sky.

And he thought of the people who would remain as permanent stains on his life.

‘The Marquis belongs to Gideon, and the heir to succeed Gideon is my son Ashton! Eve Russel, you must disappear!’

His aunt Hailey, who pushed her young nephew to his death, probably truly believed it was out of maternal love.

‘Everything is for the family.’

His uncle Gideon, who killed his brother and became head of the family, probably also thought until his death that everything he did was truly for the family.

They died that way, but the survivor must live with those stains.

He didn’t want to leave such stains on Radis.

He sheathed the sword he had drawn.

Though his boiling emotions had already disappeared without a trace, he hid his deep sadness and feigned anger for his beloved.

“The Tilrod couple conspired with the ‘Black Mages’ who are fugitives from the Mage Tower and are plotting to divide the Empire. They are connected to treason and cannot escape execution. However, until all conspiracies are uncovered, related parties are identified, and charges are clearly established, the criminals will be placed under house arrest and will not be allowed contact with anyone.”

Things that were once the present become the past when viewed from a distance, scattering ephemeally like pictures drawn by clouds.

As Daniel lay on a rock looking up at the sky, reminiscing about past events, Radis asked him.

“Teacher, what are you looking at so intently?”

Daniel sat up and said.

“I was looking at the sky that I could finally see only after becoming a simple villager.”

Radis chuckled.

She had grown enough to laugh off her teacher’s words instead of pulling her hair trying to understand them.

Realizing this, Daniel sent an infinitely light smile toward his much-grown disciple and asked.

“How is Yurhee doing?”

“She was crying and wailing about wanting to go home, but as soon as she lay down on the bed, she started snoring.”

At her words, Daniel burst into laughter.

“In terms of boldness, that child might actually be better than David.”

Radis shook her head as if fed up.

“Just because she helped us once doesn’t mean I plan to take her in. I’m thinking of sending her somewhere else as soon as she wakes up.”

“Even if a child did it unknowingly, helping the Black Mages was wrong. It would be better for her to be far from the Tilrod Estate for a while.”

Radis, who had been sighing with her arms crossed, looked straight at Daniel and asked.

“Teacher, what will you do from now on?”

This time Daniel shrugged.

“I’m a knight who abandoned his oath to his lord. My remaining life is nothing more than a bonus, so I should bury myself in the countryside and let time pass.”

Radis quietly sat beside Daniel, looked up at him, and asked.

“Since you’ll be letting time pass anyway, how about occasionally teaching children who need learning?”

A clear smile appeared on Daniel’s face like a sky from which all clouds had cleared.

“That sounds like the most perfect plan.”

Radis smiled brightly and hugged Daniel’s arm.

“Teacher, please don’t say old man things like ‘villager’ or ‘countryside.’ It really doesn’t suit you.”

At her words, Daniel burst into laughter.

“Does it really not suit me that much?”

“If you bury yourself in the countryside, the countryside will be turned upside down. And Teacher, it seems the rumor that you’re the author of 【Knight Angela】 has already spread everywhere. What happened?”

“Miss April was reading my book, so I couldn’t pretend not to know.”

“Ah….”

Radis nodded with a lukewarm smile.

Though it wasn’t intentional, Daniel seemed to be someone who could never be buried anywhere.

Among the dozens of the Emperor’s knights, he became the knight most favored by catching the Emperor’s eye, became one of the 12 commanders of the White Lion Knights, came south on a secret mission, and became the Empire’s most famous author through his writing.

‘Teacher, I can’t let you slip away.’

Radis smiled brightly and gripped Daniel’s arm even tighter.

Daniel, thinking his cute disciple was acting affectionate to cheer him up from his gloom, also looked at her and smiled radiantly.

It was the moment when the legendary instructor who would later produce countless warriors and knights for the Gloria Mercenary Corps was recruited.

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