The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 76

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 76

 

Radis could barely manage to confess only after swallowing her dry saliva.

 

“I’m sorry… for lying…”

 

“What lie?”

 

Robert’s voice was unusually sharp.

 

In her previous life, he had never shown his emotions this openly, no matter how difficult the situation.

 

Radis thought she might have to kneel if necessary and barely managed to speak.

 

“That I’m… a woman…”

 

At her words, Robert’s face contorted with anger.

 

“You…!”

 

He roughly rubbed his face with his hands as if trying to suppress his emotions, then spoke.

 

“That doesn’t matter.”

 

“What…?”

 

Robert let out a light sigh before speaking again.

 

“We’ve shared hardships together for six years. Did you really think I wouldn’t know anything?”

 

“…!”

 

“What makes me angry is…”

 

His chest heaved as his emotions intensified.

 

She could see his gray eyes clouding white with rage.

 

“That you… hid how thoroughly broken you were, so completely.”

 

“…!”

 

Robert gulped down the hot tea like cold water to suppress his surging emotions.

 

He too knew he was showing anger like never before.

 

‘This wasn’t what I intended.’

 

He hadn’t planned to show such a sharp side.

 

‘Why? Could it be because I saw you with that man?’

 

Robert felt his boiling emotions turn cold.

 

‘How dare I?’

 

A sneer escaped him.

 

He had no right to feel that way.

 

Hadn’t he sworn?

 

That if given another chance, he would protect her.

 

Robert suppressed his emotions.

 

He pressed them down so hard he couldn’t even lift his head, then stepped on them and composed himself.

 

After a moment, Robert spoke again.

 

“There’s something you need to know. Right after your death, strange things happened. It started with monsters appearing in the Imperial Capital.”

 

At his words, Radis raised her head.

 

“What? In the Imperial Capital?”

 

“Yes, one with tremendous power. It wasn’t like a monster. That power was like… the manifestation of a god.”

 

Robert’s hands trembled slightly.

 

“Half the capital was blown away. Almost all the knights of Baekryeong and the capital’s soldiers were sacrificed. The Imperial Capital became ruins, and Emperor Claude also met his death.”

 

At his words, Radis’s eyes widened endlessly.

 

Robert’s story continued.

 

“The strange events didn’t stop. As soon as the monster that appeared in the capital met its end, changes occurred in the south too. The Monster Forest began expanding like mad.”

 

“…!”

 

Radis’s lips trembled.

 

“The forest… expanded?”

 

“Because a new master of the forest was born.”

 

“…!”

 

Robert spoke quickly in a low, monotone voice.

 

“It was a dragon. The strongest monster that we believed had disappeared. Its size was as massive as a fortress, and its entire body was covered in scales that deflected everything. Monsters continuously sprouted from the ground it stepped on. The south was completely trampled under the monsters’ feet.”

 

Radis couldn’t breathe properly.

 

She felt like she knew the reason for his death.

 

Robert nodded.

 

“Yes, I died fighting it. There was one reverse scale on its neck. After a fierce battle, I managed to thrust my sword there. I felt the sword tip pierce something hard, and I instinctively realized it was the creature’s core. And just as I was about to apply more force… I died.”

 

Robert looked at Radis and said.

 

“And just when I thought everything was over, I opened my eyes again.”

 

Overwhelmed by indescribable emotions, Radis lowered her head.

 

She didn’t know what to say.

 

An apology?

 

That would rather be an insult.

 

She had deceived him for all the time she had known him, and she couldn’t even keep his last order to take care of the Extermination Troops.

 

It was also she who fell for the trap and led the members to their deaths.

 

Though she died so irresponsibly, he who lost everything had to fight terrible monsters alone without even time to grieve.

 

And he met his end after that arduous battle.

 

Radis knelt on the floor.

 

“Captain…!”

 

Then Robert suddenly stood up and approached her.

 

He grabbed the shoulders of the kneeling woman and roughly pulled her to her feet.

 

“What are you doing now?”

 

Radis spoke without even being able to lift her head.

 

“It’s all my fault. I deceived you, Captain… and lost the members due to my mistake. An irreversible wrong…”

 

She could feel Robert’s grip on her shoulders tighten.

 

With a heavy sigh, Robert said.

 

“It wasn’t your fault.”

 

“…”

 

“I didn’t come here to receive an apology from you. I just…”

 

Robert’s voice seemed to crack a little.

 

Unable to continue, he sat Radis back down on the sofa.

 

His gray gaze lingered long on Radis, who was hanging her head like a criminal.

 

He looked at her well-groomed, lustrous red hair and her white, clean hands fidgeting on her knees, and let out a low sigh.

 

Suddenly his gaze stopped at her wrinkled collar.

 

It was near the shoulder he had grabbed.

 

He wanted to smooth out the fabric he had wrinkled, but this time he couldn’t easily touch her.

 

Robert gave up on that and sat back down on the sofa.

 

“…What’s past is just enough as it is. The past cannot be undone. Though I’m not sure if calling it the past is correct.”

 

“…”

 

“Can’t you just consider it fortunate for now?”

 

Radis lifted her head slightly to look at him.

 

Robert covered his face with both hands and spoke again in a somewhat hoarse voice.

 

“When I opened my eyes again… I only thought about whether I had gone mad. But when I realized this was reality… I thought this might be a chance to make up for my mistakes from the previous life.”

 

Mistakes?

 

Questions arose in Radis’s eyes.

 

Did he also have regrets?

 

Robert removed his hands from his face and looked at her.

 

“Di.”

 

“…Yes, Captain.”

 

“Fix that first. I’m no longer the captain of the Extermination Troops.”

 

At a loss for words, Radis opened and closed her mouth like a fish.

 

A faint smile appeared on Robert’s lips as he watched her.

 

“…Robert.”

 

“That’s right.”

 

He hesitated before adding one more word.

 

“…Radis.”

 

Hearing her own name in his voice felt incredibly awkward.

 

The awkwardness made Radis shrink back uncomfortably.

 

Her defensive attitude erased the smile that had lingered at the corners of Robert’s mouth.

 

He let out a short sigh.

 

An uncomfortable silence settled between them for a moment.

 

After a while, Robert opened his mouth again.

 

“I think there must be some reason why we’ve traveled back through time like this.”

 

“…”

 

Radis couldn’t hastily agree with those words, nor could she deny them.

 

Until meeting Robert, Radis had never thought deeply about returning to the past.

 

She had simply assumed it was some mysterious occurrence that happened only to her, or perhaps the machinations of some transcendent being.

 

However, she wasn’t the only one who had traveled back through time.

 

What could this mean?

 

“Actually, it’s not like I don’t have any leads.”

 

“…What?”

 

Radis looked at Robert with wide eyes.

 

“What is it? Cap… I mean, Robert.”

 

“I’m not certain yet. It’s just speculation.”

 

“Sp, speculation is fine…”

 

Robert glanced at Radis briefly, then shook his head.

 

“No. I don’t want to put you in danger anymore.”

 

“What?”

 

“I’ll tell you when I’m certain. Until then, it would be better if you forgot about what I said.”

 

Suddenly, Robert stood up from his seat.

 

Radis, who had been sitting there dazed in bewilderment, saw Robert walking toward the door and quickly ran over to grab his arm.

 

“Captain…!”

 

Robert looked at her with cold eyes.

 

At first glance, it might seem emotionless, but Radis knew that look.

 

When they had to enter deadly territory, he wouldn’t send an advance team but would stand at the very front himself.

 

Each time, he would push away the team members who tried to stop him with those cold eyes.

 

She almost lost her nerve, but Radis didn’t let go of his arm.

 

“You must be very confused. That I was a woman…”

 

She could feel Robert stiffen at her words.

 

“But Captain. Nothing has changed. I’m still me.”

 

“…You…!”

 

Robert started to say something but stopped.

 

He couldn’t bring himself to pull away the arm that Radis was holding and rubbed his eyes with his other hand.

 

Radis continued speaking.

 

“Forget about it? You know what I do when you have that look in your eyes, don’t you, Captain?”

 

Still covering his eyes with one hand, Robert finally managed to speak.

 

“…Leech.”

 

Hearing his words, a smile finally appeared on Radis’s lips.

 

Now she felt like she had met the Robert she knew.

 

“Captain.”

 

“…”

 

“We live together, and we die together.”

 

Perhaps fed up with her shamelessness, Robert turned his head away completely.

 

After a long while, Robert finally opened his mouth.

 

“…When the largest moon rises.”

 

Radis nodded and spoke in a strong tone.

 

“I’ll see you again then.”

 

“…”

 

“Captain.”

 

Robert still wasn’t looking in her direction.

 

However, Radis was happy.

 

Many things had changed, but Robert was still Robert.

 

Moved by that fact, she smiled brightly and said.

 

“I don’t know how you feel about it, Captain… but I’m truly glad to meet you again.”

 

“…!”

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