The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 165

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 165

When Radis returned, the Russel Marquis estate, which had long been in a funeral atmosphere, became festive.

Moreover, this rumor was circulating among the employees of the lord’s estate.

That Lord Russel and Radis had been dating for some time, and furthermore, they seemed likely to marry soon…!

The employees of the lord’s estate were delighted by this rumor, but they were also divided into two factions.

Melody was in the 【I hope Lady Radis becomes Empress】 faction.

“Thinking of Lady Radis’s happiness, she should be Empress rather than a marquis’s wife! And objectively comparing the marquis and His Majesty the Emperor in terms of looks and ability, isn’t it obviously Lord Olivier?”

Melody clasped her hands together and plunged into her delusions.

“When Lady Radis returns to her quarters exhausted after finishing her heavy duties, His Majesty the Emperor would be waiting leisurely.”

Melody wrapped lace curtains around herself, narrowed her eyes, and spoke in a seductive tone.

“Lady Radis. Would you like to eat first, or would you like me…?”

It was quite an impure imagination with things reversed, but no one pointed that out.

The maids squealed and applauded Melody’s imagination.

Meanwhile, Berry was in the 【I still hope Lady Radis marries the marquis】 faction.

Berry, who had been clapping with a red face, came to her senses and said.

“What, what! You’ve never even properly seen the marquis’s face, isn’t this too much?”

Berry clenched both fists and shouted with wide, tearful eyes.

“This time when Lady Radis disappeared, the marquis realized he can’t live without Lady Radis! I thought he was a schemer, but it turns out he was a pure-hearted man. Shouldn’t pure-hearted men be rewarded?”

The maids could only nod with agonized faces at Berry’s valid argument.

“And, and… I want Lady Radis to stay here…! I want to see Lady Radis’s wedding, and see her working magnificently! If she has a baby, I want to see her holding the baby! And definitely! I want to take care of Lady Radis’s baby myself!”

Even Melody had to nod at those words.

Radis in a tailcoat… no, in a white dress.

Radis in uniform commanding knights.

Radis holding a baby…!

“Haah, Lady Radis…”

The maids had no choice but to sink into their respective fantasies.

Then Nicky noticed Alice standing alone in the back.

Alice wasn’t joining the conversation and was looking at some letter with an anxious face.

Nicky quietly approached Alice and poked her side.

“Haat! N-Nicky?”

“Why are you so startled?”

“It’s, it’s nothing…”

Berry approached them.

Berry looked back and forth between Alice and the letter she was clutching tightly with a worried face and asked.

“Alice. That letter, it’s from that man, right? The one you said you met on the street before…”

Surprised Nicky asked.

“A man? Alice had a man?”

Berry covered Nicky’s mouth.

“Shh!”

Alice, who had been hanging her head with a dark face, quietly nodded.

“Yes. That’s right…”

The person who sent Alice the letter was David.

In the past, she had helped David when he was being assaulted by thugs while wandering back alleys after deserting from the House of Rosild’s extermination corps.

Actually, Alice had helped David because he was Radis’s family member and resembled Radis too much.

However, David, who didn’t know this fact, firmly believed that Alice, whom he met by chance, had fallen for him.

After that, Alice and David met several more times and continued exchanging letters.

Berry asked carefully.

“Do you like that man?”

At Berry’s question, Alice became dazed.

“…I think so.”

David was quite romantic.

He always sent poetic love letters along with small gifts, and it would be a lie to say Alice wasn’t happy receiving such letters.

Moreover, when Alice met David, she was so enchanted by that face that looked exactly like Radis that she couldn’t think of anything else.

“He looks too much like someone I like. There could never be another person like that in the world.”

At Alice’s words, Berry and Nicky looked at each other’s faces with puzzled expressions.

Nicky said.

“Alice, you’re not meeting that man just because he resembles someone you like, are you? That’s… really foolish!”

Berry covered Nicky’s mouth.

“Alice, Nicky’s words were a bit harsh, but I think similarly. Even if they look alike, those two are completely different people, aren’t they?”

Alice looked hurt by their words.

She looked at her friends with teary eyes and moved her lips as if to say something.

However, she too vaguely felt that her friends’ words were right.

In the end, Alice couldn’t say anything and fled from the spot as if escaping.

Radis, who had returned to Willingham, looked at the cleaned-up dirt road.

The branches that had stretched disgustingly long over the road, obstructing traffic, had been cut off and were gone.

She asked a resident of Willingham who was passing nearby.

“What happened to the branches that were here?”

The resident, who hesitated for a moment, bowed his head so deeply it looked servile rather than polite and answered.

“The marquis of the south ordered them cut because they obstructed traffic.”

Radis spoke in a slightly sarcastic tone.

“Weren’t those branches that couldn’t be cut because they had sacred power dwelling in them?”

At her words, the resident waved his hands and replied.

“Oh my, sacred power? The tree owner was just being stubborn. Now that it’s cut, it looks refreshing and good.”

Robert said to the chuckling Radis.

“I saw those branches too. In my previous life, I hit my head on them while going to find you. I really don’t understand why they weren’t cut.”

Radis looked up at the clear blue sky no longer blocked by branches and said.

“That’s right. It’s only scary before cutting, but once you cut it down, it’s just a branch.”

Riding her horse toward the Tilrod estate, Radis realized that the way Willingham’s residents looked at her had changed.

The people who used to glare at her like they had a mission to scold her with their eyes and click their tongues conspicuously were now bowing deeply as if they were extremely honored.

Some young people were even looking at her with admiring eyes.

While there was no reason to be happy about it, there was no reason to dislike it either.

Radis rode her horse toward the Tilrod estate with a faint smile, as if showing off.

The Tilrod estate, with no employees left, was rapidly becoming ruin-like.

The untended dirt paths were already overgrown with weeds, and the improperly cleaned garden had become a playground for rats.

Radis, who had tied her horse in the garden, asked Robert.

“Would you like to come in with me?”

Robert looked at her with gray eyes mixed with various emotions and opened his mouth.

“You’ll want to talk quietly, so go ahead. I’ll wait here.”

“It won’t take long.”

Robert watched the back of Radis as she confidently entered the Tilrod estate.

On the uniform she wore was embroidered the gladiolus pattern, the insignia of the Gloria family that Emperor Olivier had personally bestowed.

The Emperor had tried to give her the new family name of Gloria along with vast territory encompassing the entire Monster Forest, and naturally a ducal title, but Radis jumped up and declined.

‘Then I’d be busier than the marquis, wouldn’t I? I have a lot to do.’

The Emperor had to be satisfied with giving Radis a count title for now, but everyone expected that when the Russel Marquis house was restored to a ducal title, the Gloria family would receive a marquis title.

Thus, as Radis became Radis Gloria, her connection with the Tilrod house could be considered completely severed.

And now the fate of the Tilrod house was in her hands.

Radis pushed open the door with a broken lock and entered the estate.

Inside the estate was a complete mess.

Gray dust had settled thickly over the traces of employees who had fled noisily, breaking this and that.

In the middle of it all were Margaret and Jade.

Jade sat slumped in his chair with a vacant expression as if he had given up on everything, while Margaret wore the most splendid dress she owned and kept her back rigidly straight.

As Radis entered the estate, Margaret’s lips twitched before forming a terrible smile.

Margaret spoke.

“You’ve come? It’s been a long time. You must be quite shocked to see the state of this household?”

“….”

“Why are you just standing there? As if you’re looking at complete strangers. Come in quickly. We both have much to discuss, don’t we?”

Standing in the foyer with her arms crossed, Radis looked at the Tilrod couple with cold eyes before slowly opening her mouth.

“Have the heads of House Tilrod forgotten even the basic courtesy of receiving guests?”

Radis fixed an infinitely cold gaze on the Tilrod couple as she turned back toward the foyer and said.

“As expected, your fate will be left to Lord Russel’s decision.”

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————