The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 77
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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 77
“Lord Marquis.”
“….”
“Lord Marquis!”
Radis clasped her hands together and looked up at Eve Russel with a desperate expression.
“….”
However, Eve Russel remained unmoved.
He sat at his office desk, staring at documents with an unwavering gaze.
Radis lowered her head and brought her face close to the side of the documents as she spoke.
“You’ll burn a hole in the paper at this rate.”
Under his fluffy bangs, she could see his amber eyes move slightly.
It seemed like their eyes might have met for a moment.
Radis persistently followed those eyes and called out to him.
“Lord Marquis…!”
In the end, it was Eve Russel’s defeat.
“Ah, what!”
“I’d like to go out for a bit.”
“No!”
“Why not?”
Eve finally slammed the documents down on the desk hard enough to break it and said.
“You’re going to meet that bastard, aren’t you? Of course it’s not allowed!”
Radis frowned at the word “bastard.”
“Don’t call him that.”
“I don’t want to talk about that guy either. So don’t bring him up in front of me.”
“Robert is my friend.”
Crack.
Eve Russel felt a vein bulge on his forehead.
He almost flipped the desk and shouted.
‘Friend, my ass!’
Those eyes that dark giant had when looking at Radis!
How desperate that gaze was, as if he were looking at a lover who had come back from the dead.
‘With eyes like that and he calls it friendship? Friendship?’
But he wasn’t kind enough to tell Radis about that.
Having no idea what he was thinking, Radis continued seriously.
“Lord Marquis, please give me just a few days.”
Then Eve Russel startled and looked around.
“Huh, what’s that sound?”
“…?”
“I hear a strange sound from somewhere.”
“What sound?”
“It sounds like someone asking ‘What sound?’… Ah, I don’t know. I’m busy, so busy. Oh my, I have so much work to do today!”
Radis crossed her arms in annoyance.
“Lord Marquis!”
“It sounds like someone’s calling me… Ah, I don’t know. I’m busy!”
Eve spread out the documents wide to block Radis from view.
Radis was simply dumbfounded.
Watching Eve pretend to be busy with his documents, Radis shook her head and said.
“If you’re busy, I’ll handle it myself.”
Then Eve lowered the documents slightly and said.
“No.”
“Ah, seriously!”
“Friend, my ass! Radis, if you want to hang out with friends, there are plenty of places! Tea parties with ladies, embroidery circles, book discussion groups! Do you think I’d stop you if you said you were going to those kinds of gatherings!”
“My friend is Ro…”
Eve Russel suddenly stood up and stomped over to Radis.
He grabbed Radis by the shoulders and kindly escorted her to the door, then whispered sweetly.
“Don’t even mention the letter ‘Ro’ from the Rodrick Family in front of me.”
“It’s not Rodrick, it’s Robert…”
Crack.
It sounded like something snapped somewhere, so Radis looked up at Eve.
Eve’s jaw was trembling as he forced a smile.
Eve opened the door and pushed Radis out, saying one last thing.
“Absolutely not.”
The door closed right in front of Radis’s nose.
Radis shouted through the crack in the door.
“Petty!”
Eve Russel’s indifferent voice came through the crack.
“Ah, that’s nice. I should use that as a middle name. From now on, call me Eve Petty Russel!”
Radis stomped her foot once in frustration before leaving the spot.
After gaining his honorable middle name, Eve seemed determined to act as petty as possible.
“Good night, Radis!”
Eve Petty Russel, who had set up camp in the drawing room in front of Radis’s bedroom, waved cheerfully.
Radis looked at him with pitying eyes and said.
“Lord Marquis, are you really going to do this?”
Eve jumped up.
“What am I doing? This is my house! And you! You’re my vassal, of me, by me, for me! If I want to work in my vassal’s room, what’s the problem?”
“Fine, do whatever you want.”
Radis closed the door and entered her bedroom.
She had been sleepy just moments before, but seeing Eve act like this made her feel wide awake.
She settled into the chair by the window.
On the windowsill lay the mermaid’s pearl that merchant Lagot had given her as a gift.
Radis picked up the pearl and held it next to the moon for comparison.
The full moon wasn’t far off.
Rolling the smooth pearl in her palm, Radis fell into thought.
‘If there’s a reason why the Captain and I traveled back in time, what could it be?’
Robert seemed to have some idea about it, but no matter how much Radis thought about it, she couldn’t figure it out.
Radis decided to go back to the very beginning and think it through.
‘Why the Captain and me?’
Looking for common factors related to their deaths, something came to mind.
‘The Demon Stone…’
Thinking of that, Radis became dazed.
She rubbed her face with both hands and muttered.
“Why didn’t I think of that until now?”
Before dying, she had made contact with the Demon Stone at the center of the Makai Tree.
The same was true for Robert.
Hadn’t he also met his death after making contact with the core inside the dragon’s body?
“Good heavens.”
Pacing busily around the darkened bedroom, Radis was absorbed in organizing the thoughts that came to her mind in disorder.
“Could it be that touching certain specific Demon Stones allows you to come back to life after death?”
However, Radis soon dismissed that thought.
She remembered Margaret, who had left with the Demon Stone with a face that looked ready to drool.
If it were simple contact, Margaret had done the same thing.
“Blood?”
Radis touched the mana crystal with her bloodied hand.
But what about Robert?
He said he had thrust his sword tip into the mana crystal inside the dragon’s body.
“Destruction…?”
However, Radis had merely handed the mana crystal over to Margaret.
“Ugh, I don’t know…”
Radis roughly tousled her hair.
Everything was just speculation anyway. There was no way to know the correct answer.
However, Radis could intuitively feel that the mana crystal was somehow connected to how she and Robert had returned from death to life.
Just then, Eve’s voice came from outside the door.
“Radis!”
Radis, who had been clutching her head, looked up toward the door.
“Stop rustling around and go to sleep already!”
“…”
Watching Eve Petty Russel’s tyrannical behavior, Radis thought to herself:
‘He’ll stop this after a day or two.’
But even after one day, two days, and then three and four days passed, Eve Petty Russel didn’t tire.
As the moon waxed, the shadows under Eve’s eyes deepened, but he still continued to monitor Radis.
It seemed Robert’s first impression had been quite terrible.
Considering the long-standing bad blood between House of Russel and the Rodrick Family, it was perhaps natural.
But that didn’t mean Radis’s resolve would be broken.
On the night of the full moon, Radis opened her bedroom door and went outside.
Eve was buried in an armchair in the drawing room, peering into a thick book.
Sensing her presence, he turned his head to look at her.
“Radis?”
Seeing that Radis was wearing a shirt and pants instead of pajamas, he snapped the book shut with one hand.
“No.”
Radis walked up to him and stood tall.
“I have something I need to do.”
“…Still no.”
“Why not?”
At her question, Eve pressed his lips tightly together.
In fact, even after suffering through this for several days, Eve didn’t know why he was acting this way.
Because it seemed dangerous?
Radis wasn’t a two or three-year-old child.
Moreover, she was a talent who had learned Imperial swordsmanship from a Knight of Baekryeong.
She would be more than capable of taking care of herself.
Because Robert was from the Rodrick Family?
He had already received a report containing Robert’s personal information.
The Rodrick Family didn’t acknowledge Robert’s existence.
It would be a stretch to call such a person a member of the Rodrick Family.
Perhaps what he really wanted to say was this:
‘Don’t go to meet that bastard.’
But Eve Russel was too arrogant to say those words, and at the same time, he was a pathetic coward.
Eve, who had been staring at Radis intently, turned his head and spoke in a self-deprecating tone.
“…Because gambling chips are precious.”
Radis stared at Eve like that, then walked toward him step by step.
She stopped at a distance close enough to feel each other’s breath.
Thinking the distance was too close, Eve opened his mouth.
“Radis…”
Radis looked at him without saying anything.
Her dark gaze pierced deeply and hotly into his consciousness, separating the arrogant him from the cowardly him.
The arrogant him didn’t want to admit his mistake.
He was in a position where he had to use her, and his plan was steadily progressing toward success.
What had changed were his emotions.
His arrogance tried to deny that fact.
On the other hand, the cowardly him was afraid.
He had taken advantage of her situation.
So it was obvious without asking how she must think of him.
Eve’s lips trembled faintly.
Radis placed both hands on his shoulders.
“Eve.”
“…!”
Her lips speaking his name looked endlessly fresh and sweet like a ripe apple.
So much so that he wanted to bite into it and gulp down the white flesh and sweet juice inside.
“Don’t worry.”
Eve almost said this:
‘Does that mean I can kiss you?’
Radis said:
“I’m sorry… It won’t hurt.”
Radis’s lips drew closer as her arms wrapped around his neck.
Feeling ecstasy pour down like a torrential rain, Eve closed his eyes.
Later, no matter how much he thought about it, Eve couldn’t determine whether he had fainted from happiness or from suffocation.
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