The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 176

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 176

Even in the midst of all this, Eve’s first thought was wondering where Radis might have gone.

The first place that came to mind was the mercenary group’s base located at the outskirts of the Monster Forest, now called the ‘Garden’.

The Gloria Mercenary Corps, which started in a shabby building renovated from a tavern, had now become the most famous mercenary group in the South.

The main mission of the Gloria Mercenary Corps was to guard the ‘Grace Road’ that connected the South and North by crossing through the Garden.

Thanks to them, even the Empire’s citizens who couldn’t use the Gate in the past could now travel between the South and North by land.

“I should send someone to the mercenary group… Ah, no.”

Eve, who was about to call a maid, shook his head.

Thinking about it again, it didn’t seem likely that Radis had gone to the mercenary group.

Radis practically lived at the Russel Marquis Mansion, but there had been a few times when she fought with Eve and went to the mercenary group.

Now everyone knew that when she appeared in the middle of the night, it was one hundred percent because of a marital fight.

The fearless young members thought this was the perfect opportunity to tease Radis, singing songs like “Did you fight again, Commander?” to mock her.

Perhaps because she disliked this, Radis had been restraining herself from barging into the mercenary group in the middle of the night lately.

‘Then she must have gone through the Gate to the Gloria Marquis Mansion again.’

The Gloria Marquis Mansion.

That estate located in the center of the Monster Forest was now called the most mysterious and strange place on this continent.

Eve Russel let out a groan.

For Radis, it was just returning to her own home to avoid the bothersome members who clung to her, but the sight of her leaving the marquis mansion alone and trudging toward the marquis mansion must have looked pitiful to someone.

If that were the case, it would also explain why he had that terrible nightmare.

Coming to his senses, Eve Russel roughly threw on some clothes without even washing his face and rushed to the ‘Chamber of Ritual’.

He pushed open the massive door as if he would break it and immediately ran to the brazier containing the sacred flame.

And he shouted at it.

“Please stop showing me that dream every time we fight!”

As if startled by the sudden loud voice, the sacred flame flickered and danced.

Was it just his imagination that the movement looked somewhat mischievous?

Eve glared at the sacred flame with narrowed eyes and scolded it.

“This is invasion of privacy!”

He could see the sacred flame shrinking dejectedly.

At that sight, Eve Russel couldn’t say anything more.

In fact, getting angry at the sacred flame like this was itself blasphemy and something he shouldn’t do.

He sat down below the altar with his back to the brazier.

He muttered.

“…Well, this time it’s partly my fault too.”

He lifted his head to look up.

From the edge of the brazier, the sacred flame was quietly looking down at him.

“You’re saying I can let her go without worry now, is that it?”

As if comforting him as he gathered his thoughts, a warm breeze brushed past him.

The World of the Gods, Olam.

It was a place where souls who had completed their assigned tasks in their respective worlds and received the call of the Supreme God resided.

“Ehehehehe.”

Alexis, who had suffered for so long completing that task, was also immersed in what she had to do in Olam.

“Hahhh… This is welfare…”

What she had to do in Olam was one thing.

Idleness.

In other words, playing and eating.

Alexis, who had been worked to death for a full 500 years, was playing and eating more passionately than anyone else in Olam.

She was lying stretched out on a marble bed in the middle of a garden where all kinds of flowers bloomed gloriously.

A red sleeve dangled a bunch of grapes over her face.

Alexis was happily extending only her lips to pluck and eat the grapes one by one.

That’s when it happened.

From a small brazier floating near her head, flames suddenly shot up and a shout burst out.

[…Please stop showing me that dream every time we fight!]

Startled by the sound, Alexis ended up dropping the grapes onto her face.

The bunch of grapes poured down onto her face as she had her lips pursed out like a fish.

“Aaah!”

Alexis brushed off her face with her hands and bolted upright.

“What, what is it!”

After checking the flame, Alexis realized that the one who had just shouted was Eve Russel.

She rolled up her sleeves and stamped her feet.

“Damn it, that bastard! How dare he shout at the sacred flame? How should I deal with this guy?”

Just as she was about to rush at the brazier, someone snatched it away.

“…Alexis, you again…!”

He was a man with long black hair and wearing clothes so thin that his skin showed through.

Alexis, who was about to explode in anger, just swallowed her saliva at the sight of his pale skin visible through those fluttering clothes.

“Be, Berard…”

He was none other than Berard Russel.

In life, when he traveled with Alexis to seal the Makai Tree, he said he was in training and hardly ever took off his armor.

So when they met again in Olam, Alexis didn’t recognize Berard right away.

Alexis looked at Berard’s beautiful face, firm chest, and sculpted abs with enchanted eyes and thought.

‘I really had no idea he was such a handsome man…’

He spoke in a stern voice that was completely different from his alluring attire.

“You didn’t come to morning assembly again.”

Alexis hid her hands that had been reaching out behind her back and played dumb.

“Ah, morning assembly? Did I go or not go…”

“Sigh. Alexis, isn’t it too shameless to hope that the Supreme God wouldn’t notice your absence with that conspicuous red hair?”

Alexis grabbed a handful of her lush red hair with a displeased expression and glared at it.

“Anyway, having red hair has never been good for anything. Should I try changing the color now…?”

But at those words, Berard Russel’s white forehead wrinkled slightly.

“No… Why does your thinking always go in that direction?”

“What did I do?”

“What you need to change isn’t your hair color but your behavior…! You just need to attend assembly properly. What else is there to do here besides that?”

Alexis’s eyes narrowed.

“Ohohooo.”

She approached Berard with a giggle, swaying gracefully.

“Why? Do you like my hair that much?”

“A, ahem! Hmm! Ahem!”

Alexis grabbed a handful of her red hair and tickled Berard’s shoulder with it.

“Beraaard. If you like it, just say you like it.”

“A, ahem! Hmm! D, don’t do this, Alexis…!”

Just as Alexis was about to push Berard down.

[This is invasion of privacy!]

It was that damn Eve Russel again.

At Eve’s nitpicking voice, Alexis’s forehead wrinkled painfully.

Berard took this opportunity to quickly push away her hands and step back.

After clearing his throat, he began nagging again.

“Alexis, did you play tricks in Eve Russel’s dreams again?”

Alexis sat sprawled on the bed with an aggrieved expression.

“Ah, tricks! I’m serious!”

She complained.

“That petty Eve is being stubborn over nothing and tormenting our cute Radis! What’s wrong with time travel? It’s not like I’m going to turn back time again.”

Berard spoke in a stern voice.

“So you showed him that terrible future in a dream again? Alexis, that’s too much.”

“…”

“You want those children to be happy too.”

Alexis flinched.

Berard placed his hand on her shoulder and made her look at the sacred flame.

Through the flickering flame, Eve’s back could be seen as he crouched below the altar.

Seeing that dejected back of his head, Alexis immediately looked apologetic.

Alexis mumbled out excuses.

“No, why is he sitting there looking so pitiful again. With that kind of dream. Hey, Eve Russel, get up. I was wrong…”

Eve’s muttering to himself could be heard.

[…Well, this time it’s partly my fault too.]

Alexis looked like she was dying of guilt.

She looked back and forth between Eve’s back of the head and Berard’s stern face with an expression like she wanted to dig a tunnel with her forehead.

[You’re saying I can send him back without worry now, right?]

Alexis spoke with an apologetic face.

“Come on, cheer up. Why are you so dejected over something like this? Back in my day, demons would launch mental attacks for days on end with their traumas. You there, how can the head of a ducal house be so weak…”

“Alexis.”

“Ah, fine.”

Alexis reached out her hand.

She patted the shoulder of the crouching Eve and said.

“Eve Russel, I was wrong. I won’t play such pranks anymore.”

Berard looked relieved.

Though it was a casual apology, it was a promise made before the sacred flame.

No matter how immature Alexis was, she wouldn’t easily break a promise made before the sacred flame.

He wrapped his arm around the dejected Alexis’s shoulder and said.

“Well done, Alexis.”

“Yeah…”

“And tomorrow you must attend the morning assembly too.”

“…I can’t promise that. Getting up in the morning is too hard…”

“That’s because you go to bed late every day!”

Berard squeezed his eyes shut and opened them, speaking patiently.

“Sleep properly at night and wake up in the morning. Even if this is Olam, I can’t let you live so recklessly…!”

Alexis wrapped her arms around his waist.

“If you want to take me to the morning assembly so badly, you can put me to sleep at night and wake me up in the morning to take me there.”

Berard saw Alexis’s eyes gradually become drowsy and take on a mischievous glint.

“Why, why are you being like this…!”

Alexis pressed her finger against Berard’s handsome lips and whispered.

“Shh, stop. Don’t say anything. My baby alarm clock…”

“…”

This is Olam.

The world of the gods filled with love.

Side Story 1 【End】

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