The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 149

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 149

“Radis, marry me.”

He rolled those words “marry me” around in his mouth several times.

Somehow it didn’t feel quite right.

“Let’s get married! …This doesn’t sound great either.”

He slightly changed his posture, raising both hands earnestly as he spoke.

“Let’s grow old together.”

Eve looked in the mirror in that position and shouted.

“Until our black hair turns gray!”

That really seemed terrible.

“I’ll make sure you never get a drop of water on your hands!”

But thinking about it carefully, that was physically impossible.

How exactly was she supposed to wash her hands?

“I love you!”

This was something he said several times a day.

“Let’s live together!”

They were already living together.

Eve Russel looked at the mirror with an incredulous expression and muttered.

“How on earth do other people propose marriage?”

Just then, something crouched on the floor stirred.

“Oh, Galatea!”

The thing with the grandiose name was a cat-shaped golem he had created.

As Galatea busily moved its five legs and walked toward the study door, Eve asked gently.

“Where are you going?”

The moment Galatea stopped in front of the door, someone knocked on the study door.

Eve Russel, who still needed more practice, asked gruffly.

“Who is it at this hour?”

Radis’s low voice came from beyond the door.

“It’s me.”

A commotion erupted inside the study.

Eve, who had been kneeling, jumped up from his spot and swept away the jewelry order forms, ring design drawings, and honeymoon destination recommendations that were scattered on the desk.

Then he hurriedly ran over and opened the door.

Radis stood beyond the opened door.

Eve greeted her while catching his breath.

“Radis…! We were supposed to have dinner together, right? Is it dinner time already? Not yet, right?”

Though he was a bit surprised, the moment he faced his lover’s face—someone he could be happy looking at twenty-four hours a day—a bright smile appeared on Eve’s lips.

He asked sweetly.

“Don’t tell me you came because you missed me in the meantime?”

However, Radis’s reaction was stiff.

“Lord Marquis.”

She looked up at him piercingly with those dizzying black eyes and said.

“Tell me.”

Eve touched her hair and whispered secretly.

“How much I love you?”

Even at his sweet whisper, Radis didn’t smile or blush.

She slowly took his hand and said again.

“You said Berard Russel left some kind of mission for his descendants. Does that have to do with the ‘Shield of Eternity’?”

Eve said nothing for a moment.

He looked at all of Radis with eyes that had instantly grown serious.

She was dressed simply, as if she could leave for somewhere at any moment.

After a long while, when he opened his mouth again, the smile had vanished from his lips as if erased.

“Radis, are you asking about the greatest secret of the Russel family that’s been passed down for hundreds of years?”

Radis saw his golden eyes gleaming with an eerie light through his black hair.

He said gently.

“No.”

Radis, who hadn’t expected him to refuse, was momentarily at a loss for words.

After staring blankly at Eve’s lips for a moment, Radis came to her senses.

“Eve, I need to know that. I have something to ask Kairos.”

Eve spoke affectionately as if coaxing a child.

“No, Radis. Everything happened five hundred years ago and has nothing to do with us. Berard Russel and Alexis Tillord may have once been divine beings, but in the end they all died and are just people who have nothing to do with us. All that remains is their curse. Something we can’t do anything about with our power.”

Eve whispered while arranging her disheveled hair strand by strand.

“I read the journal that Berard Russel left behind. In his love for Alexis Tillord, he placed a terrible curse on his descendants to save her soul, which was cursed.”

He shook his head.

“That was truly a curse. But it ends with my generation. So Radis, you don’t need to concern yourself with such things.”

“Eve, what do you mean it ends?”

Eve shook his head.

“I don’t want to say.”

“Eve…!”

She called to him, but Eve kept his mouth firmly shut.

Then Radis lifted up what she had been carrying under her arm.

Realizing it was a chess board, Eve asked with distaste.

“What? Why did you bring that?”

Radis said.

“Because I have something I must hear from you, Lord Marquis, one way or another.”

“You’ll beat me at chess and then hear my answer?”

“Yes.”

“What? I won’t play! If I don’t play, that’s the end of it!”

At his words, Radis gripped the chess board tighter.

In a somewhat threatening manner.

“Do you want to get in trouble?”

At her words, Eve’s mouth fell open.

Eve Russel realized.

‘Having a girlfriend who’s… incredibly strong isn’t always a good thing.’

After being lost in thought with his arms crossed for a moment, Eve spoke again.

“Fine. Then let’s do this. You tell me first.”

“Tell you what?”

Eve said in the most composed voice possible.

“When you knocked me unconscious and went to the Forbidden Zone for the first time with Sir Robert.”

“…!”

“You couldn’t tell me why you went there, right? You had a reason you didn’t want to say, which is why you cried and begged me to trust you without telling me.”

“…That’s right.”

“You tell me what you couldn’t say then. Then I’ll tell you too.”

Eve thought Radis obviously wouldn’t be able to say anything.

What she couldn’t say then would still be something she wouldn’t want to say now.

But after a moment of silence, what came from Radis’s lips was truly an unbelievable story.

“I died once when I was 26. This life is my second one.”

“Huh?”

“In my previous life, I lived as a patrol member of the Imperial Monster Hunting Corps for the family, in place of my younger brother David. For six years. During that time, I was poisoned by magic and dying because I never once received a purification ritual.”

At the shocking words pouring out rapidly in a calm tone, Eve felt his breath catch.

“What…?”

“In Imperial Year 502, Radis Tillord died like that. And then she returned to 10 years ago.”

Radis looked straight at Eve as she spoke.

“It wasn’t just me. Robert, who was the captain of the Extermination Corps, was with me too. Before we died, we came into contact with certain demon stones. I contacted Chronos’s demon stone that was in the Forbidden Zone, and Robert contacted the dragon’s demon stone that had awakened in the Forbidden Zone before we died. The reason I went to the Forbidden Zone with Robert at that time was to check on those demon stones.”

A complex expression appeared on Eve’s face.

He seemed to be struggling to understand what he had just heard.

There was a tapping sound at their feet.

Radis looked down.

A five-legged cat-like golem resembling a hunchback was anxiously circling around them.

After briefly looking at Galatea, Radis raised her head again to look at Eve.

“Surprised?”

Eve shook his head, then nodded again.

“…I can’t believe it.”

“You would be. That’s why I couldn’t tell you.”

Radis slowly continued speaking.

“Alexis Tillord and Berard Russel were thrones who received a mission from Providence to close the passage to the Demon Realm. And now it’s my turn.”

She reached out and brushed back Eve’s hair.

Wavering golden eyes were looking at her.

Looking into those eyes, she said.

“If things continue like this, Berard Russel’s seal will be broken, and Alexis will be swallowed by the flames of the Demon Realm and become a monster. If that happens, everything will be destroyed. I have to stop that. To do that, I need Chronos, and to find it, I have to meet Kairos.”

Radis cupped Eve’s soft cheeks with both hands.

“I’ve spoken. Now it’s your turn to speak.”

Eve Russel realized he could no longer choose silence.

He slowly opened his mouth.

“The balance of each realm is by Providence. What Providence desires is balance, and the current balance was created by the thrones according to Providence’s will. My descendants must remember this and keep the secret…”

Berard Russel’s last words, passed down through generations to the successors of House Russel.

Those truly tiresome words that he somehow couldn’t forget.

Those words clawed their way up from deep in his chest through his throat, being pulled out painfully like long thorny bushes.

Eve Russel looked at Radis with eyes that seemed ready to burst into tears at any moment and said.

“Why…? Why does it have to be you? Why am I the one who has to tell you this deadly and dangerous secret?”

“…”

Eve slowly closed his eyes.

She could see his black eyelashes becoming moist with moisture.

He slowly pulled her into his arms.

His scent, his warmth enveloped her.

Radis tried to maintain her composure, but she couldn’t do so in his embrace.

She leaned her head against his firm chest and let out a thin sigh.

Eve whispered.

“Why does it have to be you? You’re so small like this. There must be someone stronger. Me, or that 3rd Prince over there, or even Robert…”

Instead of answering, Radis hugged his waist tightly and gently patted his firm back.

With his nose and lips buried in her hair, Eve mumbled.

“Do you really, really need to know?”

Radis nodded with her head still leaning against his chest.

“Yes.”

Eve let out a deep sigh before opening his mouth.

“Fine. The ‘Shield of Eternity’ is here. But Radis, seeing Kairos won’t change anything.”

“Why not?”

“Because Chronos’s demon stone has disappeared.”

Radis raised her head to look up at him.

“…Disappeared?”

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