The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 73

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 73

 

Eve Russel’s lips stiffened at Bronson’s attack disguised as gentle social courtesy.

 

“Isn’t it too early to be talking about spring?”

 

Allen stepped between Eve, who was beginning to emit a dark aura, and Bronson, who didn’t know what to do.

 

“Now, we have many agenda items today. Let’s begin the meeting.”

 

The administrators who understood his mood no longer mentioned the vest, but Eve grew increasingly distressed.

 

‘Why did I choose green of all colors?’

 

He had chosen this vest simply because it was most similar to black.

 

However, there was something he had momentarily forgotten.

 

That his aunt’s eyes were green.

 

“….”

 

When that fact came to mind, he could no longer concentrate on the meeting.

 

‘You really are persistent.’

 

Now he couldn’t even remember his aunt’s face clearly.

 

However, there was no way to forget that woman’s cruel words that were embedded like thorns in his heart.

 

Eve tried hard to listen carefully to the administrators’ words.

 

But the administrators’ words now sounded like nothing but murmuring to him.

 

Like those terrible echoes that had circled trapped in that misty forest….

 

‘I can’t stand it anymore!’

 

In the carriage, his aunt had shouted at his uncle like that.

 

‘That child should have died with them too!’

 

‘Stop it! That child has golden eyes. You know that too, don’t you? We need that child.’

 

‘Are you in your right mind? That’s all just superstition!’

 

Suddenly Eve Russel realized that his palms were damp.

 

He looked at his hands.

 

His clenched fists had so much force in them that veins stood out like tree roots on the backs of his hands.

 

He lowered those hands from the table.

 

Allen was looking at him with worried eyes.

 

“Your Lordship, are you alright?”

 

Eve Russel took a deep breath before speaking.

 

“I’m a bit tired today. The urgent matters seem to be finished, so organize the rest into reports and send them to my office. Marcel will handle it.”

 

He rubbed his tired eyes and stood up from his seat.

 

Returning to his room, he threw off his vest first, but his mood didn’t improve.

 

He wanted to crawl into bed, pull the covers over his head, and just sleep for days.

 

However, there was a dinner meeting with merchants who had visited Ralings in just one hour.

 

As he closed his eyes and took deep breaths, his aunt approached from behind and shouted.

 

‘Is this all you can do? You’re really useless!’

 

His uncle, whose whole body was soaked in blood, said.

 

‘Everything is for the family.’

 

Ashton, with one shoulder torn off, wailed.

 

‘Did you do this?’

 

Eve Russel couldn’t bear it anymore and clutched his chest.

 

“Hah, hah…!”

 

The familiar space seemed to shrink and swallow him up.

 

Eve frantically threw open the door and rushed out of his room.

 

“…!”

 

Radis was standing in the corridor.

 

Wearing a black cloak.

 

Radis, whose eyes had become round like a rabbit’s in surprise, spoke in a flustered voice.

 

“No, I wasn’t about to go out right now… I was just trying to borrow a cloak….”

 

Radis’s clumsy excuse-like words didn’t even reach his ears right now.

 

Eve frantically pulled the black angel before his eyes into his arms.

 

He felt warm warmth spreading from his chest.

 

At this moment, he was grateful for it to the point of tears welling up.

 

The things that had been trying to swallow him were retreating step by step.

 

That’s right.

 

Only while in the black angel’s embrace was he safe.

 

He helplessly relied on her.

 

He pressed his trembling body against her warmth and rubbed his nose in her fragrant hair.

 

Meanwhile, only one thought filled Radis’s mind.

 

‘What is this?’

 

Lately, she had been constantly looking for opportunities to go to the forest.

 

Her head felt like it would explode from various matters, and she thought swinging her sword freely would relieve some frustration.

 

Since it would be a waste to dirty good clothes, she thought she’d borrow one of the lord’s old cloaks, so she had secretly entered Eve’s dressing room to quickly take one.

 

Then she was caught by Eve.

 

The problem wasn’t stealing the cloak, but that she was clearly dressed to sneak out of Lord Russel’s estate.

 

As expected, Eve immediately pounced on her and began squeezing her entire body.

 

‘Crushing punishment?’

 

But it didn’t hurt for that kind of thing.

 

Rather, Eve’s condition seemed unusual.

 

The heart in the chest pressed against hers was beating so fast that the pounding was transmitted to her.

 

Moreover, his breathing was as rough as someone who had sprinted at full speed.

 

Radis quietly reached out and patted his shoulder.

 

“Lord.”

 

“….”

 

“Are you okay?”

 

“…Damn.”

 

After a while, Eve, who had been crushing her, slowly pulled away.

 

His face was red and his eyes, visible through his disheveled bangs, were moistly wet.

 

“…Sorry.”

 

Eve’s shirt was also completely disheveled, as if he had hastily thrown off his green vest somewhere.

 

Seeing this, Radis could understand the general situation.

 

The side effects of the green vest seemed quite serious.

 

Radis tried not to look at his ivory-carved collarbone as she straightened his disheveled shirt collar.

 

“I’m fine. But Lord, I think it would be better not to push yourself.”

 

At her words, Eve said almost tearfully.

 

“No! I can do it. No, I have to. I… hate failing.”

 

Radis looked at Eve, who was being stubborn like a child, with pitying eyes.

 

It seemed that even the lord, who seemed like he wouldn’t bleed a drop even if pricked with a needle, had weaknesses.

 

Quite serious ones at that.

 

Seeing Eve struggling, she wondered if he really needed to overcome it, but remembering Nicky’s story, it seemed practice was necessary.

 

There would surely be situations where he absolutely had to wear other colored clothes, and he couldn’t tear his clothes and slip away every time.

 

Radis asked Eve, whose eyes were glistening with tears.

 

“Do you really have to do this?”

 

“….”

 

“Lord, is there anything I can help you with?”

 

“There’s nothing like that….”

 

Eve Russel, who was about to say there was nothing like that, hesitated and trailed off.

 

“…I don’t think so….”

 

“Tell me anything.”

 

“Really?”

 

She could see Eve’s handsome Adam’s apple bobbing.

 

“Then… join me for dinner.”

 

“That’s all it takes?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

Eve Russel nodding his head like a gentle lamb somehow seemed cute, so Radis nodded without thinking deeply about it.

 

“Should I go change clothes?”

 

“No! You’re fine as you are.”

 

At Eve’s words, Radis looked down at her outfit.

 

She was currently wearing women’s riding clothes with Eve’s pitch-black cloak draped over her.

 

Radis was a bit flustered.

 

‘He wants to have dinner like this?’

 

Eve said.

 

“Wait a moment!”

 

He went into his room, put on that problematic green vest again, and returned with a bright smile like a child.

 

“Now it’s perfect.”

 

Radis looked back and forth between Eve and herself with troubled eyes.

 

When Eve wore black clothes alone, he just looked like a slightly eccentric person.

 

But with herself added wearing a pitch-black cloak, they looked exactly like a demon archduke and his attendant heading to an infernal conference.

 

Unaware of her feelings, Eve, now relaxed, spoke fluently.

 

“Ah, having Radis here makes me feel so much more at ease. You know what? Radis, when you’re like that, you really resemble my first love.”

 

But seeing Eve chattering away, she thought, what did it matter?

 

Radis smiled faintly and said.

 

“…I shouldn’t fall for you?”

 

At her words, Eve Russel burst into laughter.

 

Seeing him laugh made everything feel truly okay.

 

Watching Eve laugh, Radis laughed along with him.

 

Fortunately, Radis’s worries seemed to be unfounded.

 

The merchants had very unique appearances, so something like Radis’s black cloak didn’t even stand out.

 

A merchant named Lagot from the islands had coal-black skin and wore gleaming golden clothes, with jewelry pierced through his eyebrows, ears, nose, and even lips.

 

The merchant who introduced himself as Ramsay reeked strongly of the sea.

 

He wore a navigator’s hat shaped like squid ears over his curly hair, and a bright blue coat with kraken embroidery on the back.

 

Ramsay said.

 

“We’re so fortunate to have docked at Duran Port. The waters north of here are crawling with hostile sea monsters.”

 

Duran Port is the largest port in the southwest, under the jurisdiction of the Lordship of Russel.

 

Curious about Ramsay’s words, Radis asked.

 

“Are there many monsters in the sea too?”

 

Delighted by her question, Lagot began chattering in broken Imperial.

 

“Tremendous. Sea monsters are difficult to subjugate. We call the area where the Silver River’s magic-tainted waters flow into the Black Sea the ‘Bay of Silver.’ That’s the territory of living seaweed and the mermaids who build palaces beneath them.”

 

“I’ve seen mermaids before too.”

 

At her words, Eve’s eyes widened as he questioned her.

 

“What? When? Those dangerous things!”

 

Radis ignored Eve’s nagging and continued.

 

“But they didn’t seem that intelligent. Do they really build palaces and live in them?”

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