The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 43

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 43

After some time had passed, Radis rubbed her face with both hands and let out a deep sigh.

No answer would come from worrying about it here.

Whatever the case, she had to return for now.

“Right, let’s go back…”

Radis picked up the fallen sword and stood up from her spot.

That’s when it happened.

From around the hilt where her bloodied hand had touched, flames slowly began to rise.

“Ah…?”

That fire was not something she had created.

The crimson petal-colored flames were neither hot nor fierce.

Like flowers blooming from inside the rusty mass, the flames were slowly blossoming.

Cracks began to form in the rust mass covering the sword’s surface.

Large chunks fell straight to the ground while smaller pieces burned away.

The sword thus revealed its true form in Radis’s hands.

“…!”

The sword that emerged from the rust mass was… completely black.

This is what it might look like if a sword were made from obsidian.

It didn’t seem like a sword made from ordinary steel or mana-reinforced iron.

Moreover, despite being trapped inside that rust mass for quite a long time, its surface gleamed as if it had just been freshly forged.

“Why is this happening again?”

Radis squeezed her eyes shut and opened them again.

Everything seemed to have reached the limit of what she could accept.

Everything felt like a lie.

It seemed as if someone had shown her illusion magic and switched the sword in her hands.

“This doesn’t seem like my sword…”

Before her eyes, something fluttered down.

[Not Trash.]

Half-burned so that only parts were visible, it was the note she had attached to the sword.

Radis rubbed her eyes roughly with her forearm to clear her mind and opened them wide.

That’s when it happened.

[…tia.]

“…?”

[Hestia…!]

Radis threw the sword away.

She looked coldly at the sword that had suddenly changed appearance, the dead Arachne, and the glowing egg.

Not one of them wasn’t suspicious.

So let’s leave them all behind.

[You, you threw me?]

Radis took a deep breath and turned around.

[Hestia.]

“…”

[Hestia!]

“No!”

Radis turned around indignantly and was horrified.

The sword that had definitely been lying on the ground… was standing upright.

“Crazy…!”

[Hestia, one connected to me by spirit…!]

“Don’t tell me the sword… is moving?”

Radis gulped.

[One prepared as a throne by providence, you who awakened me with the power dwelling in that blood…]

Radis turned around and started running.

“It’s a possessed sword!”

Just as she was about to grab the roots of the Mabesu Tree and climb up.

Thunk.

The sword flew over… and lodged between her fingers.

“Wa, wa, waah!”

[Listen to me!]

Radis unconsciously drew up her mana and struck the sword with all her might.

Clang!

“Agh!”

[Ugh!]

It hurt.

It really hurt.

Even though she had definitely wrapped herself in mana, her bones ached as if she had struck a lump of metal with her bare hands.

Radis slid down from the wall and groaned while holding her fist.

[Huu-ung, huu-ung! Why, why are you doing this!]

The sword seemed to be in pain too.

Judging by how it was rolling around on the ground by itself.

Radis swallowed the tears that had welled up and said.

“As expected of the Monster Forest. There are all kinds of monsters here. I need to get out.”

[Hestia!]

“Who’s Hestia?”

The sword seemed to have calmed down a bit now… she could see it standing up again.

Though it looked a bit crooked.

[You are.]

“No.”

[Oh, Chronos is conveniently there too.]

The sword… was pointing at the glowing egg with its pommel.

Radis rubbed her throbbing fist and said.

“Fine. Sword and egg, you two get along well. Got it?”

[No, I have no business with Chronos! My master is you, Hestia!]

“What?”

[Give me a name. With that, the contract between you and me will be complete!]

“I don’t want to.”

[Huh?]

Radis shook her head earnestly.

“A contract with some unknown possessed sword… Why would I? I won’t do it. An ordinary sword is enough for me!”

[Uh, uhh?]

“You’d better stay here. Get along nicely with that Chron-whatever egg.”

Just as Radis was about to turn around.

Thunk.

This time the sword flew over and lodged at her feet.

[Why, why, why are you doing this, Hestia?]

“You’ve got the wrong person. I’m not Hestia.”

[There’s no way you’re not Hestia! You awakened me with your blood!]

“No.”

Radis pointed at the dead Arachne.

“That one. That one bled quite a lot.”

[That’s a monster!]

“You look like that too, don’t you?”

[Eee…!]

She could see the sword trembling.

In a way, it was a funny sight, but right now Radis wasn’t in the mood to laugh at it.

She stood leaning against the root of the Makai Tree and sighed.

“Haa, I shouldn’t have come here again…!”

[….]

The sword was silent as if lost in thought.

No, it was natural for it to be silent.

Originally, a sword was an object that couldn’t speak.

“I’m leaving.”

Radis grabbed the drooping root of the Makai Tree to climb up the wall of the cavity.

[Aha, so that’s why neither of you could awaken.]

“….”

[You turned back time, didn’t you?]

Radis almost lost her grip on the root and slipped down.

She opened her eyes wide and turned her head to glare at the sword standing upright.

“What did you say?”

[Ho, what a complicated place this is. Not one thing remains complete or has awakened. Well, that’s how thrones originally are.]

“What is this thing saying right now?”

[Uhehehehe!]

The sword laughed wickedly.

[You don’t know what you’ve done, do you? You want to know, right? But before that, we must finish our contract! To maintain my ego…. Hestia, grant me a name!]

Radis could only let out a heavy sigh.

Then, like some kind of revelation, a note lying on the ground caught her eye.

[Not Trash.]

“…Regia?”

The moment she spoke that word, crimson flames shot up from the sword again.

This time they were bigger than before.

The sword blazed like a giant torch, brightly illuminating the inside of the cave.

[Regia…! A good name. It means king. Truly a name befitting me…!]

“No, that’s not what it means.”

[Hestia! One connected to me in spirit, one prepared as a throne to guard the balance! You have awakened me from my long slumber with the power dwelling in your blood and granted me a name befitting my new ego, thus our contract is complete!]

The sword spoke so rapidly that if it had a tongue, it surely would have bitten it.

[Regia, I like it. Hahahaha!]

“….”

Radis watched with a dumbfounded expression as the excited sword scattered flames in all directions… the flames gradually died down, and eventually it fell to the ground with a thud.

“…Are you done? Were you that happy? Anyway, let’s continue the conversation from earlier.”

[….]

“You said I turned back time? How did you know that?”

[….]

“No, what do you mean I did something? Won’t you at least tell me that?”

[….]

“Are you pretending to be an ordinary sword now?”

[….]

“Wow….”

Radis rubbed her throbbing head.

She desperately wanted to leave the sword behind, but she couldn’t because of what it had said about turning back time and such.

Radis really didn’t want to, but she roughly tucked the sword at her waist and escaped from the cave.

She could have just left the Monster Forest like that, but Radis returned to the Stone Gate first.

“This was bothering me.”

The scratch that had been in the spot where the moss was peeled off earlier.

Radis used the pointed tip of the possessed sword that was pretending to be an ordinary sword to peel off the thick moss covering the surface of the Stone Gate.

As expected, there was something there.

On the fairly smoothly finished surface of the Stone Gate, there was a long line carved as if someone had deliberately engraved it.

Radis vigorously peeled off the moss following the line.

The end of the line was an arrow.

“Is there something here?”

Radis also peeled off the moss from the part the arrow was pointing to.

“This is….”

There was indeed something there.

It was a spell formula carved in ancient characters.

It was similar in form to what she had seen at the Gate, but much smaller.

In the center of the vertically drawn spell formula was a circular empty space.

“If this is a gate… I would place a Mana Crystal here.”

But Radis wasn’t carrying a Mana Crystal right now.

“Should I go get the Arachne’s?”

Normally she would have extracted the Mana Crystal without a second thought, but having seen it die so futilely, she felt strangely uncomfortable and had left the Arachne’s corpse behind.

But if it was necessary, she felt she would have to go get even that.

“Hmm….”

Radis placed her hand on the center of the spell formula, just in case.

‘Huh…!’

The spell formula glowed brightly.

‘How…?’

As if being sucked into darkness, her vision went pitch black.

A feeling as if her entire body was being decomposed.

[…tia.]

‘Hm?’

[You’ve… come back….]

It seemed like a candle was lit somewhere far away, or perhaps right in front of her.

A bright, warm light.

Her consciousness turned toward it.

[You must… do it….]

‘What?’

The warm light enveloped her.

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