The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 153

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 153

Radis watched all of it from atop the branches of the Makai Tree.

Every time that bastard who was Eve’s uncle laid hands on young Eve, she nearly drew her sword, but each time Regia stopped her.

[Waah, Older Sister! Stop! The principle is not to interfere with the past!]

She knew it too.

That the future exists because the past exists.

However, when that woman called aunt pushed young Eve into the pit, she really couldn’t bear it.

“To just leave that…!”

It was the moment when she, unable to endure any longer, was about to jump down from the branch.

A faint vibration was felt from the pure white spider web entangled with the branches.

And almost simultaneously, the web shot downward like an arrow.

“Aaah!”

“Wh-what!”

“Kyaaah!”

Sporadic screams erupted from here and there.

She could see the knights of the Russel Estate caught in the web being whisked up into the sky.

Radis, who had been about to jump from the branch, crouched down and watched the situation.

‘That’s… Arachne…!’

It was Arachne, the guardian of the Forbidden Zone.

Arachne was sliding across the web at a speed unbelievable for something of that massive size.

The monster moved its eight legs as if possessed.

Then the captured knights were instantly wrapped in web and became cocoons.

Radis frowned at their agonized groans.

Once in that state, they would suffocate within minutes unless the cocoons were quickly set on fire.

However, she only watched with cold eyes as the knights of the Russel Estate died.

She could hear Gideon Russel screaming shrilly.

“Form defensive formation!”

She could see the knights raising their shields overhead to cover their bodies.

Radis unconsciously shook her head.

It was the wrong method.

Covering themselves with shields like that against spider webs only served to offer up their strongest defensive equipment.

Sure enough, Arachne took away the knights’ shields with the simple method of lowering and retrieving the web.

Gideon screamed.

“Eve, bring that thing here right now!”

Radis gritted her teeth.

‘To just leave that…!’

Then someone raised their hand from within the thick mist.

Radis looked straight ahead.

Not far away, Arachne had stopped.

What had raised the hand was a human-shaped upper body that protruded from behind the spider’s large head.

In that hand was a branch of the Makai Tree.

Arachne was looking at Radis.

No particular expression appeared on that face.

The face of complete indifference even seemed merciful somehow.

Arachne indifferently swung the branch of the Makai Tree.

Then the sound of something massive moving below began, along with terrible screams.

While the golems controlled by Arachne mercilessly crushed Gideon and the people of the Russel Estate, Radis stared intently at Arachne.

Among the screams, Arachne’s voice could be faintly heard.

[…Brother.]

Radis felt a slight dizziness at that murmur.

[…What Providence… wants… is… balance.]

After a while, the screams subsided.

Having completed its task, Arachne clicked its eight legs and disappeared into the mist.

Radis slowly climbed down from the branch and descended onto the roots of the Makai Tree.

Nothing remained where the golems had swept through.

She jumped down into the cavern without making a sound.

She could see young Eve lying on the floor as if dead, and Chronos emitting brilliant light in front of her.

Radis first examined the unconscious Eve.

There were scratches and scrapes here and there, but nothing seemed broken or seriously injured.

However, her face was too pale.

She laid Eve flat and placed her finger under the small nose.

The breath was so weak she could barely feel it.

Radis carefully bent down and put her ear to his nose.

Then she heard a very faint breathing sound.

She stroked her chest in relief.

“Really… being so small, where was there to torment…”

She looked at young Eve with complicated eyes.

If not for this situation, she never would have imagined this child was Eve.

The future Eve was much taller than her and had a body hard as stone, but young Eve was small enough to fit snugly in one embrace and was thin everywhere.

Seeing his emaciated nape and thin wrists so gaunt that his bones showed, Radis felt her heart breaking.

She bit her lips tightly and took down the pack she had tied behind her waist, taking out a water bottle and first aid medicine.

She soaked a dry cloth with water from the bottle and wiped the wounds on Eve’s pale skin, then carefully applied medicine.

She moistened his lips with the soaked cloth and made him drink a little water.

Then Eve’s expression seemed to become a little more comfortable.

“Hah…”

Radis roughly tousled her hair for no reason.

‘Looking comfortable from just this little thing, what an illusion. There’s no way that’s possible.’

In the process of coming to the past through Eve’s memories, she had seen part of his childhood memories.

She couldn’t even dare to guess how hurt young Eve must be right now.

Radis stroked Eve’s fluffy hair with a complicated expression.

“…”

Perhaps because he was young, his hair was much softer.

It felt exactly like touching a cotton ball.

Radis arranged Eve’s hair and slightly, very slightly lifted his disheveled bangs.

“…!”

She quickly turned her head and covered her mouth.

‘What did I just see? An angel?’

Radis looked once more at young Eve with his bangs swept back.

‘No, a fairy…?’

Little Eve was truly cute and adorable.

His cheeks were plump as if he had candy in his mouth, and how chubby were those tiny lips.

If not for this situation, she would want to hold him in her arms and coddle him to her heart’s content.

“Hah… How could anyone possibly hate such a child…?”

Radis, who had harbored that simple question, soon shook her head.

“No. That doesn’t matter at all.”

She didn’t want to find even the smallest cause in the child for such problems.

She calmed her momentarily excited heart and adjusted Eve’s position so he could lie more comfortably.

Then she turned her gaze to look at the mana crystal lying on the floor.

The size of a fist with brilliant radiance that was blinding to the eyes.

It was indeed the mana crystal she had seen.

Looking down at that demon stone, Radis hesitated for a moment.

‘Would it be okay to take this?’

Regia asked her.

[Radis, why are you worrying?]

‘Didn’t you say the principle was not to interfere with the past? If I take this, wouldn’t some kind of change naturally occur?’

[But Kairos said it would be fine, didn’t he?]

‘You don’t particularly like Kairos, but you do trust him.’

[…That guy can see more things than I can. He’s still an annoying bastard, but that doesn’t change. Anyway, since Kairos said it would be fine, it’ll be fine.]

Radis took a deep breath and reached out her hand.

‘…Alright.’

Her hand touched the demon stone that radiated five-colored light.

The next moment.

Everything changed.

A faint giggling sound could be heard.

Radis bent forward, supporting herself on her knees as she gasped for breath.

Surely only enough time had passed for a single blink of an eye.

Yet it felt as if she had been thrown into a time as long as eternity, a space like infinity, and had barely managed to land here.

It wasn’t just her senses.

Her entire body was trembling as if she had endured tremendous hardship.

As Radis examined her body, she suddenly noticed something like bright red silk thread wrapped around her arm.

“What is this…?”

As Radis pulled at the red thread, she realized it was her own hair.

Looking at her hair that had grown instantly with disbelieving eyes, Radis noticed she was at the entrance of some wide room.

She gasped for breath while looking around with wary eyes.

Shelves and bookcases filled the walls.

The shelves were packed with objects of unknown identity, and the bookcases were full of thick, old books and rolled-up papers and parchments.

Radis’s eyes widened as she looked around in all directions.

“…Kairos?”

Kairos was hanging on the front wall.

Only upon seeing that golden shield did Radis realize where she was.

This was the secret room where she had met Kairos.

“It seems a little, no, quite different though….”

If that room had felt like a storehouse sunk in silence, this room seemed to have an owner.

A warm fire was burning in the fireplace, and white steam was rising from tea in a wooden cup placed on a large desk.

Moreover, there were beings in the room that weren’t human.

Beings that looked like faint clusters of light—spirits.

They were both surprised and delighted by the sudden appearance of a guest.

Radis saw the spirits sprinkling very small golden light powder over her head as a welcome.

“Th, thank you….”

The giggling sound grew louder.

The spirits flew to one of the various shaped doors attached to the room to call the room’s owner.

Then that door opened and someone revealed themselves.

“It’s fine.”

Radis straightened her back and stood properly in place, looking at him.

He was a middle-aged man dressed in light robes.

The man with ebony-black hair hanging long was gazing at her with cool golden eyes.

Radis somehow felt like she knew who he was.

It was a truly absurd thought, but.

“Could it be… Be, Berard Russel…?”

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