The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 160

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 160

The place the children brought Radis to was a small village.

People with black hair and brown skin discovered her and made a great fuss.

They brought large flower necklaces and wreaths from somewhere and layered them around her neck and head.

When her neck and head were full, they made her spread her arms and put them on her arms as well.

Struggling not to drop the flower necklaces and wreaths on her arms, she asked.

“Why, why are you all doing this?”

At her words, the people shouted.

“Goddess!”

“Goddess of peace!”

They brought her to the village center and seated her on a leaf mat.

And they made her set up Regia as well, then hung flower necklaces on it.

Regia spoke in an excited voice.

[I like the flower necklaces…!]

Seeing Regia happy for once, Radis also felt a little pleased.

She said to the women beside her.

“Sword says it likes the flower necklaces.”

Then the women clapped and brought more wreaths to layer on Regia.

Regia was beside itself with joy.

[Whoa, it’s my first time receiving flower gifts…!]

As she watched Regia with a smile, men carried a large table in front of her.

This time Radis let out a cheer.

“Wow!”

She looked at the whole roasted goat and the mountain of grilled fish with longing eyes and asked the women.

“Th-this is for me to eat, right? I don’t have much money…”

At her words, the women smiled brightly and nodded.

“Goddess, please eat plenty!”

Radis’s mouth fell open.

For a moment, it seemed like a storm swept over the table.

She, who had been a hungry and poor traveler, was finally able to fill her stomach with warm food after a long time.

“Ahh, this is good.”

Holding her full belly and sprawled out, she realized that at some point the villagers had gotten up and were dancing merrily.

Around the bonfire scattering golden sparks, elderly people were playing flutes and beating small drums.

Young people and children were stamping their feet and dancing joyfully to that rhythm.

Watching that peaceful and beautiful scene, she couldn’t help but recall the happiest time of her life.

The people of Lord Russel’s estate who were always kind to her, her dear teacher, Robert who was more like family than family, the beautiful and gentle Olivier and lovely Elizabeth.

And Eve.

Everything that came to mind was beautiful and missed, and felt so far away.

She couldn’t stop tears from welling up.

As she wiped away the tears gathered at the corners of her eyes, the children who had brought her to the village earlier approached.

A little boy with round eyes like marbles shouted with his face flushed red.

“Goddess came here looking for love!”

Radis felt her tears dry up instantly.

“What?”

The girl holding the little boy’s hand took Radis’s hand and helped her up.

“Goddess, please come this way.”

Radis was surrounded by children as she climbed the mountain path behind the village.

Before long, a small cottage appeared.

It didn’t look like a place where people lived, but rather like some kind of altar.

Here too, flower necklaces and wreaths were hanging, and inside the cottage, old paintings were displayed.

The children brought Radis to the front of the cottage and sprinkled water from a basin on her hands and feet, saying.

“E Kipa Mai!”

“Huh?”

“Hehe, you have to do this!”

It was the first time she heard those words, but somehow they seemed familiar.

The girl who had brought her to the cottage pointed at a painting and spoke in a calm voice.

“Our village has a legend.”

In the painting the child pointed to, two women were standing.

One had red hair, and one was completely black.

The moment she saw that painting, Radis felt a thrill run down her spine.

‘How…?’

The painting continued.

In the next painting, the two women were holding hands.

Then the woman who was completely black turned golden and flew up to the sky.

The child continued speaking.

“It’s a legend that a goddess with red hair will give eternal peace to the world. But they say the goddess lost her love as the price for peace.”

The next painting showed a woman with red hair holding a heart broken in two pieces in her hands.

Seeing that image, Radis couldn’t continue speaking.

The last painting showed that woman standing alone by the seaside.

The child said.

“They said the goddess would come to this place looking for her love!”

Radis came to her senses and looked around at the children.

The children were looking up at her with eyes shining like stars.

As if she would find love somewhere right now.

Radis asked.

“Is there… nothing more?”

“Huh?”

“She comes here looking for love… and that’s the end?”

The children smiled brightly and nodded.

“Yes!”

But Radis needed something more.

“If she came here looking for love, there should be an ending where she either finds it or doesn’t.”

When she suddenly entered the cottage, the children screamed.

It seemed that to approach the cottage, one had to sprinkle water from the basin on hands and feet.

The children sprinkled water on each other’s hands and feet while cheerfully shouting.

“E Kipa Mai!”

“E Kipa Mai!”

Radis, who had been looking through the paintings in the cottage, turned around at that sound.

She knew those words.

No, she had seen them before.

Radis grabbed a child who had entered the cottage and asked.

“Th-that E Kipa… those words, what do they mean?”

The child answered readily.

“Come to me!”

“…!”

The moment she heard those words, Radis was stunned.

She muttered.

“I have to… go back.”

As she frantically rushed out of the cottage, she suddenly looked back.

The children were looking at her and smiling brightly.

Radis hugged those children tightly.

“Thank you so much.”

“Goddess, did you find it? Love?”

Radis spoke with a trembling voice.

“Soon, I think I’ll be able to find it soon.”

‘E Kipa Mai.’

Radis had seen that phrase before.

In the Russel Marquis’s townhouse in Duras, in the basement where Berard Russel’s remains lay sleeping.

On a piece of parchment placed on the chest of his mummified body.

That phrase had been written there.

‘No, that wasn’t the only place.’

The spell formula carved into the stone gate of the Forbidden Zone.

The day when Gors and Luke had betrayed her, and she had approached the Makai Tree to return Chronos, who was in egg form, to his original place, only to witness Arachne’s final moments.

She had placed her hand on the mysterious spell formula carved into the stone gate and returned directly to Russel Manor.

To be precise, she had ended up on Eve’s lap while Eve was completely naked.

That wasn’t the only time.

When she had gone to the Forbidden Zone with Robert, she had also seen the spell formula on the stone gate.

The second time she saw it, she was in a state where she could understand spell formulas to some degree, so she could remember it more clearly.

‘Come to me.’

Those words were the most important incantation that composed that spell formula.

“The spell formula…!”

The Forbidden Zone greeted her with an appearance no different from before.

She broke through the Forbidden Zone with such tremendous momentum that even the monsters fled in terror, reaching her destination.

“Huff, huff!”

Arriving in front of the stone gate, she swung Regia without even having time to catch her breath.

Bright red flames rose like waves and struck the stone gate.

The blackish moss burned away in an instant, and the stone gate revealed its original appearance.

“Haa, haa…”

Radis stared blankly up at the spell formula carved into the stone gate.

It was a spell formula that looked simple but was extremely complex.

One that would guide the caster to the place their heart most strongly yearned for…

“Why, why is something like this here?”

As she examined the spell formula, she realized something.

The arrow.

The arrow that had been pointing to the spell formula was missing.

When she had been trapped in the Forbidden Zone because Gors and Luke had closed the stone gate, she had caused a commotion and discovered some kind of scratch on the stone gate.

That scratch had been a long arrow pointing to the spell formula.

Radis’s mouth fell open.

‘This too… was something that had to happen.’

She injected mana into Regia and began scratching the stone gate.

Regia let out a sharp scream.

[Ow ow ow! What, what is this?]

“Just bear with it for a moment.”

She felt resistance stronger than steel.

If it weren’t for Regia, it would have been difficult to even scratch the stone gate, even using sword energy.

“Was it about this much?”

Radis roughly drew a long arrow on the stone gate in a shape similar to what she had seen.

She stroked the arrow she had crudely drawn with her hand and spoke to her future self, or rather, her past self.

‘This is it. This will take you to the person you love.’

She looked up at the spell formula one last time.

Now she could understand it.

The spell formula drawn vertically was connecting two people.

As long as the two people loved each other, neither time nor space would be a problem.

They had always been connected.

Radis placed her hand on the circular empty space.

From where her hand touched, the spell formula began to emit brilliant light of five colors.

Some blurry image appeared in the darkness.

A man with long black hair hanging down was carving a spell formula into the stone gate.

‘Hestia.’

He turned around and smiled.

‘You’ve returned.’

Berard Russel.

He was carving the spell formula into the stone gate for her from the distant future, who hadn’t even been born yet and whose name hadn’t even been given.

‘That village was a place I discovered while searching for ruins. It’s a beautiful place, isn’t it? I thought I’d like to show it to Alexis someday, since she was afraid of the sea. What’s needed when creating spell formulas is that kind of intense yearning.’

He said, looking at her.

‘Thank you. You saved everyone.’

Before she could even respond, a powerful force pulled Radis in.

Her consciousness brushed past him.

His voice grew more and more distant.

‘You must be happy.’

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