The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 157

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 157

Radis raised Regia.

A black arm grabbed White Mask’s limp body and threw it aside, then swung toward Radis.

Flames from the Demon Realm poured down like a torrential rain.

She did not dodge the falling black flames.

She swung Regia toward the black flames that fiercely rushed at her.

Regia emitted a brilliant golden light.

The black flames and the sunlight-like golden radiance collided, transforming into bright red flames that scattered.

Radis swung her sword once more.

Intense flames rode the wind and wrapped around Regia’s blade that shone pure white.

She rushed toward Alexis with the hot wind and swung her sword.

The thorny bushes split in half and black substance poured out like a waterfall.

Something could be seen writhing inside the split thorny mass.

“…!”

It looked like the contents of an immature egg.

The being covered in sticky black substance had limbs like a human, but otherwise looked nothing like a person.

Feather-like things sprouted densely across its body, and long horns that looked like tangled thorny bushes grew from its head.

The crouched being slowly raised its head.

In the next moment, Radis felt her breath catch.

One of Alexis’s eyes was red like blood, but the other was not.

A dim black pupil was looking at Radis.

Radis felt the strength drain from her hand holding the sword due to the vast sadness contained in those eyes.

Radis found herself asking without realizing it.

“How long… have you been like this?”

She couldn’t help but ask. Because she knew too.

She had experienced it inside Umbra as well.

That sensation of her entire body melting away and her mind scattering strand by strand.

And the intense temptation that came at the end.

If not for Eve, if not for Ruu, Radis knew she wouldn’t have lasted even a few minutes.

But how long had Alexis endured that pain?

“How… could that be possible? For what purpose? Everything you loved has already disappeared….”

Even at her words, Alexis’s black pupils didn’t waver in the slightest.

She opened her mouth.

-Yes. You’ve come this far.

Radis realized that something was glowing from the monster’s chest area.

A jewel surrounded by a colorful barrier, emitting red light.

That was Hestia’s Mana Stone.

The black substance was blocked by the colorful barrier and couldn’t invade the mana stone.

For now.

However, amid the demon realm flames pressing in from all sides, the colorful barrier now looked far too precarious.

Radis could easily recognize that it was Berard Russel’s seal.

Alexis spoke.

-Berard gave me time, but in the end I couldn’t change anything, couldn’t forgive anything. I pretended to care for people, but ultimately what mattered most to me was myself. I hated them and trusted no one. Everything I did was ultimately nothing but shallow deception.

Her black lips struggled to form something resembling a smile.

-Berard should have killed me then. Now, do what he couldn’t. You said you have people you want to protect? The monster that will destroy your world is me.

Regia slipped from Radis’s hand.

Having dropped her sword, she walked unhesitatingly toward Alexis.

Panicked, Regia called out their names.

[Ra, Radis! Alexis…!]

Radis caressed Alexis’s face with both hands.

Flames erupted from where her hands touched.

It was hot. But it didn’t matter.

She embraced Alexis as she was.

“Thank you.”

Bright red flames blazed up.

“…Thank you for trying for our sake.”

Her throat choked up.

Knowing Alexis’s past, Radis could understand her.

The world was never kind to them.

Before such a world, they couldn’t even properly express their anger.

Because that world, unkind as it was to them, was too precious.

Even after gaining precious things, Radis had never thought about wanting to become a hero.

What she wanted to protect were those precious to her and the world they would live in.

But Alexis had no such thing.

She had to keep walking alone through thorny bushes, covered in blood.

Alexis called it shallow deception. But it wasn’t deception.

“You kept, kept not giving up.”

Alexis had continuously reached out her hand to reconcile with the world.

Though terrible pain continued like eternity, she kept enduring it.

With just the vague belief that someday, someone would recognize her.

Radis hugged Alexis tightly.

At that moment, she felt Chronos’s power, which had been briefly residing within her, begin to move.

Then the colorful barrier surrounding the mana stone began to melt away.

Now Berard’s seal was gone.

The red mana stone surrounded by black flames looked far too precarious.

But Radis wasn’t afraid at all.

She looked into Alexis’s black pupils and said.

“I can exist thanks to you.”

At her words, Alexis slowly closed her eyes.

Transparent tears flowed down her blackened cheeks like thick raindrops.

Radis said.

“Thank you, Alexis. I will never forget you.”

At that moment, warm flames surged out from the red jewel like waves, beginning to drive away the black flames.

In Radis’s arms, it seemed like a small explosion occurred silently and very gently.

The flames drove away the demon realm fire and burned the thorny bushes without leaving a trace.

And in the next moment, Radis realized she was tightly embracing a small-framed woman with red hair.

She said with a tearful expression.

-Enough. That’s not why I wanted to hear such words.

Radis realized that Alexis’s cheeks were flushed red.

Alexis turned her head as if dying of embarrassment and said.

-…Anyway, I’m going. I can’t make Berard wait any longer.

Alexis awkwardly took a step forward.

Then beautiful flames of gold and red poured out from her chest area.

With each stumbling step she took, Alexis’s appearance changed divinely.

The flames became long robes that fluttered beautifully behind her, then spread out like wings.

Strength gradually filled Alexis’s body as she walked stumbling like a newborn lamb.

Finally standing firmly on both feet, Alexis looked back at Radis.

Radis realized she had eyes brimming with tears as if she would burst into tears at any moment.

After hesitation, Alexis opened her mouth.

-…Thank you. You’re the first to say that to me.

After saying those words, Alexis grabbed Radis’s cheeks with both hands.

Then she made her bow her head and kissed Radis’s forehead.

Radis was the one who was surprised, but it was Alexis who was embarrassed.

Alexis’s white face turned bright red.

She turned her head away as if embarrassed and immediately started running.

“…!”

Olivier and Carno’s eyes widened as they were just entering through the open door of the basement.

What they saw was Alexis’s bright smile as she ran toward them, her red hair and equally crimson flames rippling on her fluttering clothes.

Alexis flew up like a bird and ran up the basement stairs.

What remained in the place where her red flames had swept through was only holiness.

The magi that had filled the tower disappeared.

The knights who had been sitting slumped in the passage, wounded from fighting the clones, witnessed the miraculous scene of their wounds healing instantly.

Alexis kept running. And she flew up into the light.

An old friend was waiting for her at the end of a truly long wait.

In the place where Alexis had left, the bright red flames she had left behind devoured the flames of the Demon Realm.

The black flames, sensing their end, began moving toward the entrance of the basement, violently resisting as if they were alive.

However, the red flames also blazed fiercely and attacked the Demon Realm’s flames as if they would never let them escape.

From where the two flames intertwined, golden sparks scattered beautifully like flower petals.

Radis, who had been staring blankly at that scene, came to her senses at the voice calling her.

“Radis…!”

It was Olivier.

He was looking at Radis with an expression of disbelief.

“How did this… happen….”

His gaze reached in turn the Demon Realm’s flames being swallowed by the bright red flames, the empty Matogu, and White Mask who lay dead in a miserable state.

And finally, it reached Radis.

On her forehead, where Alexis had kissed, a sacred flame was burning.

That flame seeped into her very slowly.

Olivier approached Radis with eyes filled with wonder and knelt on one knee before her.

He spoke to Radis, whose eyes had widened in surprise.

“Radis, you did it.”

Olivier took her hands with both of his.

“You saved everything.”

He kissed the back of her hand.

Flustered, Radis pulled his hands to make him stand up.

“P-please stop now. Actually, I didn’t really do much….”

“I suppose so. You saved the world while saving Alexis. But the fact that you’re the hero who saved the world doesn’t change.”

Olivier, who had been looking at Radis as if gazing at a manifested goddess, continued speaking.

“Now it’s time for the culprits who caused you suffering to be judged. Not only the remnants of the ‘Black Mages’ but also the greatest sinners of this Imperial Palace will be punished. That will be my responsibility.”

Olivier escorted Radis to the basement exit as if guiding a goddess.

Radis’s steps gradually slowed as she was about to follow him with a faint smile.

“No.”

Radis realized.

“I… left Eve….”

The smile disappeared from her lips.

“I left… Eve in the forest.”

At her words, Olivier turned around.

“What?”

Radis’s eyes grew wider and wider.

“I have to go…!”

“Radis, where are you saying you’re going?”

“Eve, young Eve is injured and in the Forbidden Zone. Everyone except Eve is dead. I have to go…!”

Radis urgently extended her hand.

The last power Chronos had left was released from her mana core, and golden diagrams poured from her fingertips.

Those diagrams overlapped sequentially, creating a door leading to the past.

Olivier, who had been looking back and forth between Radis and the spell she had created with a panicked face, urgently grabbed her arm.

“Radis!”

Radis looked at Olivier.

He said.

“You can come back, right?”

Radis realized.

There was no longer any of Berard Russel’s power left within her.

He had left this world forever with Alexis.

This spell probably could not be used anymore.

‘Can I come back?’

Seeing her eyes waver, Olivier tightened his grip on her arm.

He shook his head.

“Radis, don’t go.”

Regia spoke to Radis, who was looking at Olivier in confusion.

[Radis! If you go now, you won’t be able to come back. There’s no way to return…!]

Radis looked at Olivier.

Now the thing she had feared most, Alexis going berserk and becoming a demon and the world being trampled by demons, would not happen.

Olivier, Elizabeth, and the people of the capital would be able to welcome a peaceful tomorrow.

But what about Eve?

She looked at the black cloak covering her shoulders.

In a chess bet once, she had asked Eve why she liked black so much.

To her question, Eve had answered like this.

‘She is an angel who came down from the sky. She came down to me when I was lost in the forest, flapping her black wings.’

Radis realized.

‘I was really about to die back then. I was just a child then. I barely remember what happened then, but the black angel protected me on that day.’

It was her.

She had to go.

Radis looked into his eyes and said.

“I have to go.”

Radis saw Olivier’s beautiful violet eyes turn black with despair.

Olivier spoke with trembling lips.

“No. Radis, please. Don’t do this.”

Radis looked at Olivier one last time and smiled faintly.

“Lord Olivier.”

She took Olivier’s hand and made him release her arm.

“You must be happy. And… to Eve….”

Olivier saw her trembling lips and the tears forming in her eyes.

“…tell him I’m sorry I couldn’t keep my promise, and… tell him not to wait.”

The open door swallowed her.

Radis disappeared like that.

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