The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 37

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 37

Realizing that making excuses would be useless, Eve slightly lifted her hood and replied coldly.

“What’s that supposed to mean, Rodrick?”

“Where did you obtain the information that I was keeping an eye on that sword?”

Eve lightly clapped her palms together and said.

“That’s exactly what you call excessive self-consciousness. I stake my title on it – I never even attempted to obtain such information.”

“Bla, blatant lies! And yet you still made such an outrageous bid?”

Brantz Rodrick said while grinding his teeth.

“Remember this! The people of the South will never acknowledge you as a lord. That day, what did you do that caused everyone in the Russel Estate except you to meet their death all at once? Until that truth is revealed!”

Eve said without batting an eye.

“Rodrick, take your 1.1 billion rupen sword and go home. Since you bought it anyway, why don’t you gather all those worthless people who never produced founding contributors and have no titles to show it off?”

“Grr!”

Brantz Rodrick felt like he was about to burst with frustration.

Even though he had won the auction, he didn’t feel like he had won at all.

Though he desperately wanted to pour out more words, Brantz Rodrick could only make hissing sounds through his teeth and say nothing.

He already knew that continuing this war of words would be pointless.

First of all, there was nothing good about showing others the sight of him, a middle-aged man, arguing with the young Lord Russel.

It would only damage his dignity.

Moreover, he had never beaten Eve Russel in a verbal argument.

In the end, he had no choice but to turn around with a clichéd line, fuming.

“I will never forget what happened today!”

Radis frowned as she watched his retreating figure.

Having known how Brantz treated Robert, Radis couldn’t have a good impression of him.

Brantz had expelled Robert from the family because Robert, born as an illegitimate child, was too talented.

His current behavior was the same – he was exactly the type of person who deserved to be called petty.

Moreover, there was something that bothered her.

That trap that had led her to death.

‘Brantz Rodrick.’

Radis decided to remember his face.

She was about to move but stopped and looked at Eve.

Eve was staring in the direction where Brantz had disappeared.

It seemed like she was gritting her teeth.

Radis sighed briefly and grabbed Eve’s arm.

“My lord.”

“…Yeah.”

“We need to go get our 110,000 rupen sword.”

At the mention of 110,000 rupen, Eve chuckled.

Seeing her laugh, Radis smiled along and said.

“I could buy it with my allowance, but you said you’d buy it for me, didn’t you?”

“Of course. Don’t tell me you brought your wallet?”

“Yes, just in case. Here…”

“Oh my! Put that away, miss.”

While joking around, Eve seemed to feel a bit better.

Radis thought it was fortunate and smiled.

Since the item collection area was quite crowded, while Eve went to get the 110,000 rupen sword, Radis stood in a quiet spot waiting for Eve.

It wasn’t a space for customers, as shabby-looking people were walking around.

Radis could tell at a glance what kind of people they were.

‘That emblem is the May Mercenary Group, that one’s the Mormor Mercenary Group. Almost all of them seem to be from that side. Did they come to sell items?’

While the North had large-scale mercenary groups that went to war for pay, most mercenary groups in the South were small in scale.

Their main duties were escorting merchant groups, handling security for shops, or hunting monsters.

Radis didn’t particularly like mercenaries.

This was because mercenaries tended to charge excessively high fees compared to their work.

Moreover…

“Huh?”

Discovering something, Radis frowned and approached a group of people.

A man who looked like an auctioneer shook his head and said.

“Gors, the Night Market is already over! If you want to consign goods, come back after the next auction schedule is set!”

“When is the next auction scheduled?”

“How many times do I have to tell you before you remember? The Night Market’s auction schedule can only be set after we’ve gathered enough items that customers would be interested in!”

The auctioneer stroked his beard and gestured toward the man called Gors as if telling him to leave.

“And Gors, the items you bring are always the same. Those eggs again, aren’t they? Stop bringing such ominous things. They sold once or twice because people were curious, but recently they keep failing to sell, don’t they? After that, they just become trash that could rot at any time!”

“This time is different!”

The bald mercenary in shabby clothes, Gors, stepped closer to the auctioneer and whispered low.

“It’s really different. You’ll know when you see it. This is really, truly a special item!”

The auctioneer sighed and said.

“Then bring it first. Let me see the item.”

“What? Well… I don’t have it now.”

The auctioneer glared at Gors with an annoyed expression.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“It’s not here. We hid it at our dwelling.”

“Gors, are you trying to play games with me? You said I’d know when I see it, but now you won’t show it? Do I look like someone with time to waste?”

“Hehe, it’s too dangerous an item to bring here. If you give us an advance payment first…”

“Damn…!”

The auctioneer roughly pushed Gors away and shouted.

“Get lost! An advance payment when you don’t even have the item? What terrible luck! Don’t ever come looking for me again! Ugh!”

Gors, who had been staggering from being pushed by the auctioneer, shot back in an angry voice.

“You’re making a mistake you’ll regret!”

A small-framed man with an eye patch over one eye tried to calm him down.

“See, I told you so. An advance payment is out of the question.”

“Damn it, Luke! I should have brought that thing after all!”

“Gors, that’s an ominous item beyond measure. If we’re not careful, we’ll be in danger too!”

That’s when it happened.

Someone grabbed Gors by the scruff of his neck and whispered ominously.

“Caught you.”

Gors and Luke turned around.

There stood Radis, wearing a cute dress and a fancy hat.

Radis glared at Gors and said.

“You bad man.”

Then someone placed a hand on her shoulder and said.

“Caught you.”

Radis could tell who it was without turning around.

Eve said to the sighing Radis.

“This troublemaker miss.”

Eve took Radis’s hand and removed it from Gors’s neck.

Then, she said to Gors.

“Excuse us. Our miss here is quite the troublemaker.”

“What?”

Luke quickly covered Gors’s mouth.

“Hehe, my lord! We’re the ones who caused trouble!”

“Mmph!”

“Shh, shh!”

Luke whispered into Gors’s ear.

“I’ve seen that ring’s crest before! They’re from the Russel Marquis!”

“…!”

Taking advantage of Gors and Luke falling silent, Eve quickly grabbed Radis and escaped from that spot.

“Radis!”

“….”

“I understand you were startled by suddenly seeing those ugly faces, but isn’t it too much to say ugly means bad?”

“It’s not too much at all. That bastard is…!”

Radis couldn’t bring herself to continue.

She remembered that mercenary named Gors.

That bastard was a criminal who played a decisive role in instilling negative perceptions about mercenaries in Radis.

Gors of the Royal Serpent Mercenary Unit!

Gors was a villain who would lure small monsters to attack small settlements and then receive requests to subjugate those monsters, and he became a wanted criminal after his methods were exposed.

However, Gors becoming a wanted criminal was something that would happen several years later.

Whether Gors was doing bad things now was unknown.

Eve Russel, who had been patting her shoulder consolingly as she couldn’t bring herself to continue, handed Radis what she was holding.

“Here, take this.”

It was the 110,000 lupen rusty sword wrapped in cloth.

Radis, who finally got to hold a sword, let out an exclamation.

“Ah…!”

“Heavy, right? It was damn heavy.”

“It’s fine.”

Radis stroked the rusty piece of metal.

Seeing this, Eve made a face of disbelief.

“If you’re going to keep it at the estate, write that it’s not trash. Someone might throw it away.”

Radis glared at Eve and said.

“Trash?!”

As she carefully secured the rusty sword, the retreating figures of Gors and Luke walking away came into her view.

Gors becoming a wanted criminal was something that would happen several years later.

Perhaps Gors was just an ordinary mercenary right now.

But….

‘An ominously cursed object?’

Those words remained as a strangely unsettling memory.

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