The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 184

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 184

“Hmm, what did I say again? I can’t remember well. More importantly, could you move aside?”

Isabel lifted up the cake plate in her hand.

“Shouldn’t you make the cat come down?”

Melody pointed out.

“White is forbidden from cake. If he eats cake, he won’t eat his meals.”

Isabel snorted.

“What does it matter? Whether some cat eats meals or cake, if we just keep our mouths shut, no one will know.”

Berry fumed.

“Because you keep giving him sweets like that, White keeps getting fatter!”

“What does it matter? Fat cats are lazy and easier to take care of. It’s common knowledge among maids serving noble ladies.”

Despite Berry and Melody’s attempts to stop her, Isabel walked in front of the display cabinet and lifted up the cake plate. Then she spoke in a coquettish voice.

“Lord White, come here. I’ll give you your favorite cake.”

White, seeing the cake, got up and finally jumped down from the top of the display cabinet. Isabel laughed softly and placed the cake plate in front of White.

“You like me better than those country bumpkin maids, don’t you?”

Berry’s angry face turned red like a strawberry.

“What did you just say? Country bumpkins?”

Isabel said sharply.

“Did I say something wrong? You are from the countryside!”

Berry, having nothing to say, hopped up and down.

“You fox, what are you saying?”

“That’s wrong though. I’m not a fox. I’m a person.”

“Ugh…!”

Isabel, feeling pleased, boasted.

“And I’m someone who will someday leave this South and go up to the capital.”

Surprised Melody warned her.

“Isabel, you shouldn’t say such things.”

“Here we go again. What does it matter anyway?”

“What does it matter? We are employees of the southern Russel Mansion, and especially maids in charge of Lord Gloria’s dwelling. That’s our pride.”

“Pride, my foot!”

Isabel pouted her red-painted lips.

“I applied to be in charge of the Duke’s dwelling. I didn’t particularly want to become Lord Gloria’s maid.”

Having said that, Isabel suddenly lowered her voice and whispered ominously.

“Do you girls even know what the people of Luare are gossiping about regarding Lord Gloria?”

“What?”

Of course, Berry and Melody didn’t want to hear any rumors spread by the scheming Isabel.

Rationally speaking.

Berry gulped and asked.

“Wh-what are people saying?”

“Everyone’s talking about the Tilrod Family of Willingham.”

“…!”

Isabel said with a nonchalant face.

“Such an excellent Lord Gloria ignores the parents who gave birth to her. Her siblings are all scattered, and her father is barely getting by in a country village. Her mother even returned to her family home! Everyone thinks it’s too harsh.”

“You really won’t do.”

Berry, whose face had turned blue like a blueberry, said.

“Without knowing any of the inside circumstances…!”

“What do inside circumstances matter? I don’t know about that either, but neither do the people of the world. What’s important for a noble lady is reputation.”

Isabel shot back arrogantly.

“Do you know what people are saying about Lord Gloria who ignored that? Everyone’s doubting whether Lord Gloria, coming from such a family, can be a good mother!”

It was when Berry and Melody’s mouths fell wide open.

“Meow!”

White, who had been deliciously munching on cake, let out a loud cry and suddenly ran to the bedroom door. Then he flopped down in front of the door and showed his plump, fat belly.

Berry and Melody were startled.

‘For the arrogant White to act like that…!’

At White’s cry, Radis quietly opened the bedroom door.

“Hmm…”

Radis, who had been hesitating, said.

“I’ve been lying down continuously and feel stuffy, so I’ll go for a brief garden walk.”

Berry and Melody, pale-faced, carefully nodded.

“Y-yes…”

“Have a good… no, wait a moment. Lady Radis, the sun has set and the air is cold. I’ll prepare a wrap for you!”

While Melody went to get clothes, Berry carefully watched Radis’s expression.

‘Lady Radis, surely you didn’t hear the nonsense Isabel was spouting?’

Radis looked very calm. She stood waiting for Melody with a straight and elegant posture like a tall tree. Her face seemed lost in thought, with no particular expression showing, making it impossible to guess her inner thoughts.

“Lady Radis, here!”

Melody, who had just returned, draped a thick gown over Radis’s shoulders. Radis silently put her arms through the gown and turned her head to look at Isabel.

Isabel was watching Radis’s mood even more intensely than Berry. Radis, looking down at the maid’s pale face, opened her mouth.

“I told you not to give cake to White.”

Radis said while looking at the fat cat rubbing its whole body against her legs and bumping its head repeatedly.

“You don’t need to be in charge of my dwelling anymore. I’ll have Allen assign you a new position.”

At her words, Isabel looked relieved, while Berry looked upset.

‘Lady Radis must have heard after all!’

After Radis disappeared, her gown fluttering.

Isabel straightened her shoulders and patted her chest.

“Phew, I thought she heard. I was scared!”

And Berry and Melody glared daggers at her.

Melody shouted.

“You!”

Isabel also shouted.

“What!”

“How dare you run your mouth carelessly, this matter cannot be overlooked!”

Isabel didn’t back down either.

“What does it matter? Lord Gloria didn’t even hear it, so why are you getting angry? What are you to her?”

Berry was so angry that she felt flames rising in her chest.

“That…!”

Berry’s hand really unconsciously, like a piece of metal drawn to a magnet, reached out somewhere and grabbed something. Looking at what she grabbed, it was Radis’s magic sword Regia that had been placed on a fluffy cushion.

Normally, Berry wouldn’t have carelessly touched Radis’s sword. But right now she was so angry that she couldn’t see anything.

Berry unconsciously gripped Radis’s sword tightly and shouted.

“I won’t let you get away with this!”

That’s when it happened. A strange voice pierced into Berry’s mind.

[Who are you!]

Normally, Berry would have jumped in surprise. But right now she was too angry to care about such things.

Berry shouted in her mind.

‘I’m Berry who likes Lady Radis so, so much!’

[Oh, so that’s why you want to punish that arrogant maid? We’re of the same mind! Good, I’ll lend you my power!]

‘Let’s go!’

[Woooah! Let’s do this!]

An unknown power surged up vigorously. Berry unconsciously raised Regia and charged forward, shouting “Hiyah!”

Isabel’s eyes widened, never having imagined that Berry would charge at her with a sword.

“She’s gone crazy!”

Isabel quickly turned around to flee. But Berry, borrowing the power of the magical sword, was faster. Berry, who had run hard to catch up, smacked her bottom with the flat blade of the sword.

Of course, Berry’s technique was quite clumsy, but Isabel, struck on the bottom by the excited magical sword, let out a piercing scream.

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

Radis wasn’t particularly shocked or anything by the maid’s words. She couldn’t possibly be unaware of the rumors about herself. She had simply left them alone. She considered such rumors to be like foam floating on the ocean’s surface. She believed what mattered was the direction the water flowed.

She definitely used to think that way.

The reason she felt newly dejected by the maid’s words was because she too was harboring worries of a similar nature. In other words, it was like being poked in a sore spot.

‘Me, becoming a mother?’

Radis quietly lowered her gaze to look down at her belly. Her stomach was flat, and she felt nothing at all. Perhaps because Eve was taking care of the morning sickness for her, it didn’t feel real at all.

‘It’s too strange.’

Radis, who had been looking down at her belly, very slowly raised her hand and placed it there. She tried to focus her senses on her fingertips, but she couldn’t feel anything. She waited with her hand on her belly for some kind of emotion to arise. However, the emotion that bloomed abundantly wasn’t joy or maternal love. It was just overwhelming guilt.

She carefully posed a question that would never receive an answer.

“…Will I be able to become a good mother?”

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