The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 151

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 151

Young Eve Russel thought.

If he could choose the right to be born or not to be born, he would have chosen not to be born.

His misfortune began from the moment his eyes opened when he was just a lump of flesh.

When the crack-like eyes on the flesh opened and the golden pupils within gazed hazily at the darkness of the world, the darkness of the world also noticed his existence.

Gideon Russel looked down at the faint golden light that appeared in the lump of flesh’s pupils and muttered.

“Golden eyes.”

Fate was not on Gideon’s side.

He had to lose his position as head of the family to his younger brother Noah Russel, who was ten years younger and utterly inadequate, simply because he wasn’t born with golden pupils.

Even after their father died at an early age and Noah became the head of the family, he couldn’t abandon his desire for the position of family head.

What he needed was just one thing.

A new child with golden pupils.

If he just had one little kid he could use at will for door rituals or opening the stone gate’s spells, he could immediately drag that pathetic brother down from the family head position.

It would be best if that child were his own.

However, his wife Hailey became unable to bear more children after giving birth to their eldest son Ashton.

Gideon took numerous concubines, but all he got were more than a handful of useless bastard children.

On the other hand, Noah succeeded in one try.

It was lamentable.

To prevent such a thing, he had made sure no woman could even come near Noah, but there was a woman among the mages Noah had summoned.

Of course, that woman was disposed of as soon as she gave birth to the child.

“Huh…”

His inadequate brother, Noah Russel, was crouched beside the cradle, making groaning sounds as he looked down at the baby.

Noah didn’t even glance at the baby’s golden pupils that had the family members making such a fuss.

He was only pressing the small feet that kept sticking out from under the blanket back in with his fingertips.

Watching this scene, fiery hatred blazed in Gideon’s eyes.

‘That inadequate, pathetic fool…!’

Just the previous year, due to Noah’s absence from the tournament, House Russel suffered the unforgivable humiliation of title demotion.

‘If I had been the family head, such a thing wouldn’t have happened!’

Finally unable to contain his anger, Gideon struck Noah’s hand with his staff with all his might.

“Stop it! What are you doing right now!”

“B-Brother…”

Noah looked up at Gideon with his golden pupils wide open.

He clutched his injured hand and shouted.

“Th-this child is my son!”

Gideon looked at his brother with disgusted eyes and nodded.

“Unfortunately, that seems to be correct.”

“Ah!”

Suddenly Noah jumped up from his spot and began pulling out all sorts of dirty trinkets from his clothes, arranging them around the baby.

Gideon shouted.

“Are you starting again! Stop that immediately!”

Noah began desperately making excuses.

“B-Brother! A bl-black unicorn’s horn! Th-this blocks bad things. And th-this! A ba-basilisk’s shed skin! It’s a gy-gypsy remedy, if you have this, even that Arachne will run away without looking back!”

Gideon stepped back to avoid the dirty snake skin Noah was showing off and shouted.

“Is no one there! Noah is having another fit!”

Strong servants rushed in.

Noah dodged their rough hands here and there, then finally ran up to Gideon and broke something right in front of his nose.

With a pop, rainbow-colored mist rose up.

From within that mist, Noah burst into laughter and said.

“B-Brother! You need this! Pixie wings! I’ll gi-give you laughter!”

Gideon covered his face with his sleeve and struck Noah’s head with his staff with all his might.

“Argh!”

Even while screaming in pain, Noah couldn’t stop laughing.

The enraged Gideon shouted.

“Take him away and lock him in the basement!”

Noah’s laughter gradually faded into the distance.

While the maids brushed the rainbow-colored powder off his clothes, Gideon trembled with rage and drew up cruel plans in his mind.

‘Now that a child with golden eyes has been born, Noah is no longer needed. Once this little one grows up somewhat, I won’t have to see that fool strutting around anymore.’

Noah Russel was an incompetent family head.

He pushed all the duties he should perform as family head onto his brother Gideon and lived shut away in his own world.

He had no choice.

Because his gaze reached into another world.

Noah knew that the day when everything would be destroyed was not far off.

The estate passed down through generations would all be trampled and burned.

It wasn’t just Luare.

All worlds would become like that.

That was the predetermined future.

However, no one believed his words.

Far from believing him, everyone hated him.

He became accustomed to being such a detestable existence.

That’s why he was afraid of Eve.

“Aba, Aba!”

The tiny child, small as a chestnut, called him by the strange name “Aba” instead of Noah and ran toward him waving his saliva-covered hands.

“Huuuugh!”

That small, fragile being was obviously destined for a miserable end as well.

Noah, who didn’t want to read his son’s fate, ran away to avoid Eve.

Eve, who would normally fall down after taking two or three steps, followed him for quite a long distance that day.

Eve, who had been tottering after Noah, finally tumbled to the ground.

“Ow!”

Leaving the child who began crying sadly behind him, Noah could only groan, not knowing what to do.

“Huuuugh! So-someone please…”

However, no one came to help Noah.

Noah, who had been restless, finally had to extend both hands and pick up Eve.

“Aba!”

Eve, who had finally reached his father, smiled brightly across his chubby face.

“Ah…!”

The moment he faced that lovely smile, Noah realized.

‘The future… might change…!’

He frantically hugged Eve tightly.

Hot tears flowed down his cheeks.

The moment he discovered hope, he realized he had been in deep despair for a long time.

He kissed his son’s black hair and said.

“If, if you can continue to live. I, I would be satisfied with just that…”

In the year Eve turned three, Noah Russel met his death.

He had gone out to the hunting ground alone and returned as a terrible corpse.

Everyone solemnly accepted his death.

The only one who couldn’t accept his death and suffered was their mother, Meriel.

“This doesn’t make sense! That timid child went hunting alone? That child doesn’t even know how to shoot a bow…”

Meriel, who had been crying, collapsing, and waking up repeatedly, realized.

“Why is no one crying?”

She looked at her son Gideon with a face filled with terror.

“Gideon…!”

“Mother, please calm down.”

“It was you. You hated that child so much, and in the end, you did this!”

Meriel, who had screamed as if coughing up blood before fainting, left Lord Russel’s estate with a ghostly pale face and never returned.

“Dad….”

Hailey’s hand, now the Marquis’s wife, struck harshly at Eve’s small back as she sat crouched alone in front of Noah’s coffin.

“Get up!”

Eve flinched and rose from her spot.

Hailey looked at her niece with sharp eyes and said.

“Your foolish father is gone now.”

“Why is he gone…?”

At that innocent question, a cruel smile appeared on Hailey’s face.

“My goodness, even for a child, you didn’t know that?”

Hailey pressed Eve’s eye area firmly with both hands, as if she wanted to gouge out her eyeballs, and said.

“These eyes are the root of all evil. Noah died because you were born with these eyes.”

Fall of the 480th Year of the Empire.

One day before the ‘Visitation Ritual’ that would take place after five years, Gideon said this.

“…As expected, I should pass the position of Head of the Family to Eve.”

It was natural that Hailey immediately objected.

“What do you mean? Then what about Ashton?”

Gideon spoke in a gloomy tone.

“Eve is different from Noah. Noah, that foolish boy, obediently followed my words, but Eve is very clever.”

Hailey’s mouth fell open in shock.

As Eve grew up, Hailey, who couldn’t openly abuse him anymore, tormented him by forcing him to study beyond the Academy curriculum.

Whenever he failed, she would use corporal punishment as an excuse to beat him harshly, clearly imprinting the fear of failure in young Eve.

What she hadn’t expected was that Eve was unbelievably clever, hard to believe he was Noah’s son.

Eve, who had faithfully followed that ridiculous curriculum, seemed to have left a deep impression on Gideon.

Hailey shouted with a trembling voice.

“Are you saying you’ll give the position of Head of the Family to that child just because Eve is a little smarter than Ashton? Ashton is your son!”

“It’s not just because he’s clever.”

Gideon stared directly at Hailey and said.

“You’ve never been to the Forbidden Zone, so you don’t know the danger of the Visitation Ritual. That monster, the guardian of the Forbidden Zone, only obeyed Noah’s words. What do you think would happen if Eve could handle that monster like Noah did?”

Gideon looked Hailey up and down with somewhat contemptuous eyes and muttered.

“If there had been just one more child with golden eyes, a different outcome might have been possible….”

At her husband’s cold gaze, Hailey was so angry she felt sick to her stomach.

However, she suppressed her anger and grabbed her husband’s arm.

“Can’t you stop that Visitation Ritual thing?”

“That’s nonsense!”

“It’s just a strange custom. Why on earth do you go to the Monster Forest on your own feet?”

Gideon, tired of this exchange that must have been repeated hundreds of times, said this.

“Come along to this Visitation Ritual.”

“What?”

“You’ll understand if you see it with your own eyes. I’ll have Ashton come along too.”

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