The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 45

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 45

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After giving up his bed to Radis and closing the door, Eve Russel threw a silent tantrum in front of it.

‘Radis, are you out of your mind? Curious? You fearlessly followed those filthy mercenaries just because you were curious? A passage? There’s only one passage connected to the Forbidden Zone, and you used that secret passage? Then you appearing on my lap was because you used that dead spell technique to return? But that technique is dead, isn’t it? No, no, no! That’s not what’s important. The monsters in the Forbidden Zone are what, wolves at a level that someone who knows how to use a sword can handle appropriately? Radis, what on earth are you…!’

Eve, who had been pouring out nagging like a waterfall in his mind, even threw punches at the air.

If he had said this in front of Radis, it would have been very satisfying, but Radis was currently a patient.

He didn’t want to nag a patient whose face was red as an apple from fever due to her wounds.

Moreover, whatever trouble she had caused, Radis had already returned and was lying on his bed.

If there was anything he needed to know, he could ask later.

‘That little thing…!’

Radis, buried in the pillow made large to fit his frame, looked truly small as a bean.

How could he be angry at such a Radis?

Her unusually hesitant appearance also seemed cute.

It was cute how Radis, who always acted coldly, would round her eyes and bow her head deeply whenever their gazes met, and her round little head with the white part showing through her red hair was so cute he wanted to bite it.

‘Like an adorable goose. No wonder the 3rd Prince fell for her.’

His goose that lays golden eggs seemed to have gone on an unnecessary adventure, but anyway, she had finished her arduous journey and returned to his embrace.

Thinking this way, Eve Russel felt his anger subside.

‘But I can’t let those mercenary bastards go.’

When he went out to the drawing room, he saw Allen waiting with a worried face.

“How is Lady Radis?”

“She’s awake. She seemed fine.”

“That’s a relief.”

Eve stared intently at Allen.

Even though his eyes weren’t visible, the murderous intent was fully conveyed, so Allen hurriedly bowed his head.

Eve spoke slowly.

“A night stroll, you said it would be fine?”

“It’s all my negligence.”

Eve kicked a chair to push it out and plopped down on it.

“Right. I entrusted you with matters concerning Radis’s safety. It’s your responsibility.”

Allen knelt down.

“Please kill me.”

Eve shook his head.

“Forget it. Since I’m also responsible for being negligent, if you’re going to die, we’d have to die together, but that’s not possible. Instead, do one more job.”

“I’ll stake my life on it!”

“No, it’s not that difficult a job. It seems there were mercenaries at the Night Market talking about monster eggs. The two I saw there, naturally I can’t just punish those two alone. Those mercenary bastards, string them all up together for extreme punishment… no, just killing them would be too comfortable a death.”

Lost in thought, Eve tapped the chair’s armrest with his finger before speaking again.

“Send them to the 9th Mine and make them work until they die.”

The 9th Mine was called the worst mine among the mines owned by the marquis house.

The bedrock was weak and accidents were frequent, so even the most experienced miners didn’t want to enter, and the only workers in that mine were death row prisoners doing forced labor.

Since they were death row prisoners who would die anyway, the treatment was also the worst, with far more people dying from starvation due to harsh labor or being beaten to death by guards than those who died in accidents.

“Especially those two bastards who put Radis in danger, cut their leg tendons cleanly. Let them suffer until snot comes out of their eyes.”

Allen nodded vigorously.

“It’s a fitting punishment. I’ll do so immediately.”

Eve probably gave up his bed with good intentions, but somehow Radis couldn’t fall asleep in Eve’s bed.

Unable to sleep until nearly midnight, Radis eventually headed to her own room.

“…”

In her bed, Eve was sleeping with a black eye mask, making soft snoring sounds.

“Well, it’s right downstairs and the bed was empty… I understand, but…”

Radis looked at Eve with a complicated expression and sat in the armchair by the window.

Her body was a mess and her mind was in chaos.

Looking around the room, Radis realized that the ghost-possessed sword was on the display shelf.

Someone must have brought it here when she lost consciousness.

“Phew.”

Radis first got into a comfortable position and closed her eyes.

And in that state, she began to move her mana.

This was a mana training method that Radis had named meditation, which involved spreading mana throughout the body internally rather than externally.

Like the word meditation suggests, it was good for organizing thoughts, but it also had healing effects.

Minor fevers or light muscle pain could be cured with just that, and it helped with the recovery of major wounds too.

Moreover, physical senses were maximized, allowing objective judgment of one’s condition, and it seemed to have some effect on purifying demonic energy.

‘It clears the mind too.’

When she opened her eyes again, Radis was in a considerably recovered state.

She brought the sword with eyes that had regained their composure and placed it on the table in front of her.

“Hey.”

[…]

“Hey.”

[…]

“Backstabber.”

[…]

Radis considered hitting the sword, but held back seeing Eve sleeping soundly.

‘Let me organize this. What did the Arachne say? That I had to bring the egg to its place. That place was where the Demon Stone I had taken in the past was located.’

But there was no Demon Stone there.

‘Does that egg transform into the Demon Stone I saw? Well, that’s possible… This is something I can’t figure out no matter how much I think about it. What else did the Arachne say?’

Radis unconsciously spoke aloud.

“What providence desires is balance…?”

Radis flinched at her own voice and looked toward Eve.

Fortunately, Eve was still fast asleep.

Radis looked at Eve and thought to herself.

‘Sorry, Lord Marquis. I absolutely can’t tell you that I can hear monsters talking, or that I died once and this is my second life. You’d definitely look at me strangely.’

Radis pulled the blanket over herself and glared at the sword on the table.

‘What did that thing say? Hestia? Chronos? Aide? All just strange words. Well, it’s a ghost-possessed sword after all. It acted like it would tell me everything if I gave it a name through some contract or whatever, but now it’s keeping its mouth shut like this…’

Drowsiness came over her.

‘I turned back time and… caused trouble? I didn’t mean to cause trouble. I just… I just…’

“The balance of each realm is by providence.”

Eve muttered while lifting his eye mask.

“What providence desires is balance, and the current balance was created by the aide according to providence’s will. My descendants must keep this in mind and guard the secret.”

Berard Russel’s last words passed down through generations to the successors of House Russel.

Eve Russel slowly got down from the bed and approached the sleeping Radis.

Though he picked up Radis, she couldn’t wake up as she was deeply asleep with all tension released.

Eve laid the sleeping Radis on the bed and covered her with a blanket.

She looked pale, probably from losing a lot of blood.

Eve sat beside her and arranged Radis’s hair.

“Radis, I don’t know what you saw in the Forbidden Zone, but it would be better to forget it.”

He could see Radis wrinkling her nose in her sleep.

“It’s all just tiresome legendary old stories. The Forbidden Zone isn’t a place for a girl dreaming of novel-like adventures. That place is hell.”

Eve stood up with a gloomy expression.

He knew that place.

He too had walked the passage that Radis had used.

Though it was a memory from over ten years ago, it was still vivid.

Even the toxic air of that place that drives humans mad…

‘You stay here.’

Her aunt’s face, grotesquely contorted.

Her uncle’s back as he turned away from that sight.

And the massacre that followed.

“Huu.”

Eve roughly tousled his bangs with trembling hands.

So that no one could see the look in his eyes.

If those memories were all he had left, he would have gone mad.

But he had his ‘black angel.’

‘Look at me.’

Her black eyes.

‘I’ll protect you.’

The black angel had wrapped him in her black wings and protected him.

Her gentle words… Without them, he wouldn’t have been able to return alive from that hell called the Monster Forest.

Eve looked down at his shoulder.

A black velvet gown was draped over his shoulder.

Only after confirming this could he feel at ease.

The next morning, the Russel Marquis’ Mansion was truly a sea of tears.

The maids who had been camping out in front of Radis’s room, waiting for her to wake up, had made up their minds firmly.

Until now they had turned a blind eye to Radis’s nighttime walks, but this time they would definitely scold her so she could never go out again…!

But the moment Radis hesitantly opened her bedroom door and came out, her face pale as white paper from losing so much blood and gaunt from barely eating anything but dried rations for three days, their resolve crumbled.

“Lady Radis…!”

Berry, whose eyes were dark with exhaustion from barely sleeping for three days while waiting for Radis, had been truly furious.

But the moment she saw Radis’s arm wrapped in bandages, Berry burst into tears.

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