The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 6

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 6

Even after creating such chaos, Radis’s expression was completely calm.

No, that didn’t mean her composure was the same as usual.

She was no longer the Radis who always kept her head down, hesitating with a tormented expression.

Radis now held her chin high, looking at Kline before her with an unwavering gaze.

Radis opened her mouth again.

“I am not David Tilrod. My name is Radis.”

Kline’s face showed he couldn’t understand the current situation.

“Miss Radis. What on earth are you doing right now? David’s admission to the Imperial Academy is the family’s honor, and shouldn’t everyone in the Tilrod Family be celebrating? Yet you tore up that admission certificate…!”

“Mr. Kline. No, Mr. Kline Rockton.”

Kline was about to respond but closed his mouth instead.

Radis continued speaking.

“I remember you. You kindly guided me to the examination hall when I was wandering around looking for the training ground where the practical exam was held. You even patted my shoulder after the test ended.”

“…!”

“It wasn’t David then either, not just now. It was me.”

Thud.

A noise from the stairs drew everyone’s attention in that direction.

The sound was Yurhee closing the door.

However, Yurhee wasn’t the only one standing there.

David was there too.

David, still not grasping the situation, cheerfully spread both arms and shouted.

“Yes, that’s me! The pride of the Tilrod Estate, David Tilrod!”

He ignored Yurhee’s outstretched hand that seemed to ask for his arm and swaggered down the stairs.

“Are you the admissions officer? Nice to meet you! Where is my admission certificate? Huh? Why is Mom sitting on the ground?”

David, who had come closer to them, spotted Radis and frowned.

“What, why are you here? Why are you wearing my armor? Planning to cause a scene?”

Radis shook her head.

“No, I’m going back to my room.”

“Good thinking. Today is my day!”

David hummed as he looked at Kline.

“Where’s my admission certificate?”

Radis placed the torn admission certificate on David’s outstretched hand.

Thud!

This time it wasn’t a sound from Yurhee.

It was the sound of Margaret falling backward.

“Hahaha.”

Like a sigh, Radis laughed so helplessly.

“What, that was easy.”

She was thinking of this current situation as a dream she was having before dying.

Like a life flashing before one’s eyes?

So she closed her eyes tight and just went for it.

Trying it turned out to be easy.

It was simple.

She had simply stopped holding back what she used to endure by biting her lips, closing her eyes tight, and suppressing everything.

“Now I can die without regrets.”

Radis lay on her bed with both arms spread, looking at the evening sky visible through the small window with a satisfied expression.

This was the first time she felt so relieved.

But it was strange.

The dream wouldn’t end.

“You crazy… bitch!”

Until Margaret, her face bright red, kicked down the door and came running.

Radis frowned as she stared blankly at the raging Margaret.

‘Even if this is a life flashing before my eyes, I don’t want to see this again.’

“You’ve gone insane. You couldn’t do that unless you were crazy. How could you do that to your brother!”

Margaret screamed at the top of her lungs.

“How could you so thoroughly ruin every path your brother takes? Can you still call yourself David’s sister after doing that? Do you even know what you’ve done? His admission will be canceled. Moreover, we’ll be branded with the disgrace of fraudulent admission! It’s all because of you!”

Radis smiled bitterly.

“Why is that because of me?”

“What… what?”

“It’s what you demanded. Taking the exam in David’s place. Do you even know exactly what you were asking for? You’re the one who tried to push a kid with no qualifications into the academy.”

Radis sat up.

Her gaze was so cold that even Margaret flinched.

Radis spoke in a stern voice.

“Blinded by your own greed.”

Margaret gaped as she stared at Radis.

Radis didn’t avoid Margaret’s gaze.

If she could convey something through her eyes, Radis hoped her feelings would reach Margaret.

Even if it was a dream, even if it was a life flashing before her eyes, she hoped Margaret would accept and understand her words. And she hoped she would realize something.

Finally, Margaret’s lips moved.

“You… deserve… to… die…!”

Along with the scream, Radis could see Margaret’s hand rising.

She could have dodged if she wanted to, but Radis deliberately didn’t avoid it.

‘It’s just a life flashing before my eyes anyway.’

Smack, smack!

Margaret screamed at the top of her lungs.

“After causing such a scene, how dare you keep your eyes wide open and glare at your mother!”

Radis’s eyes widened.

‘It’s a dream… but it hurts?’

Too shocked to move with her face still turned from the slap, Margaret’s verbal abuse poured down on Radis’s head.

“What, what, what? Greed? I should tear that mouth of yours to make you come to your senses! Scissors, bring scissors! I’ll tear this bitch’s mouth apart!”

Radis touched her swollen cheek.

It hurt.

It really hurt.

The pain seemed to clear her mind instead.

“…Try it.”

“What?”

“If you can tear it, go ahead and try.”

She could see Margaret’s mouth fall open.

‘Is this really a life flashing before my eyes?’

Everything was too vivid to be called something like a life flashing before one’s eyes.

“Oh, yes! This bitch is charging at me ready to die! Fine, die today!”

The pain in her heart too.

But Radis no longer intended to let herself be torn to shreds and completely broken.

She grabbed the wrist of Margaret, who had seized her hair.

Margaret’s eyes widened in shock.

At this point when David was entering the academy, Radis was sixteen years old.

Although she was terribly thin from not eating well, she had a superbly trained body.

Incomparably so compared to Margaret, who was a noble lady.

Margaret’s face gradually turned pale as she struggled desperately to pull her hand free.

“You, you…!”

In the end, she lost her grip on Radis’s hair.

Radis raised her head and looked up at her mother’s face.

“As you ordered, I went to the Imperial Academy and obtained the admission certificate. With my own strength!”

“You, this…!”

“Do you know what that means? Did you think I really had no thoughts or power and just lived getting beaten and suffering?”

“Let go! Let go of me!”

“I endured it because you’re my mother. Until the end, everything!”

“Th-this…!”

Margaret gritted her teeth and struggled to pull her wrist free.

However, she couldn’t move at all.

Margaret finally ended up screaming.

“How dare you do this to your mother right now!”

At those words, Radis let go of her hand.

Margaret, who had been pulling with all her strength to free her wrist, ended up tumbling backward due to her own momentum.

“Kyaah!”

Silence followed the scream.

Margaret sat slumped on the floor and looked up at Radis.

Radis’s appearance was no different from last night.

Her hair, which had been cut messily to take David’s entrance exam, had grown out disheveled and unsightly, and her darkly tanned skin and pitifully thin body remained the same.

Only one thing had changed.

Her eyes.

It wasn’t the gaze that had always looked up at Margaret desperately, hoping for something.

Those pitch-black pupils, like a night sky without a single star, now contained no emotion whatsoever.

Radis spoke in an equally emotionless low voice.

“I won’t endure it anymore.”

Radis watched as Margaret’s complexion rapidly changed from red to blue.

And finally, she burst into tears.

The maids who heard Margaret’s crying entered the room in shock.

Even though she had simply fallen over from exhaustion, Margaret gasped as if she had been assaulted, and eventually the maids had to call servants to carry her away.

Watching that spectacle, Radis let out a deep sigh.

If this was a life flashing before her eyes, she hoped it would end around now.

However, even after one day passed and two days passed, the dream didn’t end.

On the third day, Radis had to accept that this was reality.

A maid with a bump on her right cheek set down a soup bowl as if throwing it.

Radis stared down at the gray soup with a few vegetable pieces floating in it, so mushed they were unrecognizable.

The food given to Radis had always been terrible, but now it was even more horrible.

It was obviously Margaret’s doing.

‘The food doesn’t matter though.’

Radis stared at the maid who had brought the soup.

“Please eat.”

Irene, a maid she hadn’t seen in quite a while.

She was Margaret’s most favored maid, someone who had contributed to making Radis’s childhood full of wounds.

‘If she’s sending Irene, she must really be planning to torment me in earnest now.’

Margaret’s intention was so obvious that Radis couldn’t help but sigh.

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