The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 80

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 80

 

Radis woke up to the sound of Robert calling her name.

 

“Radis.”

 

When she opened her eyes, Robert had already packed all their belongings and was ready to leave.

 

Robert glanced at her and said.

 

“For someone who said she wouldn’t sleep, you slept quite well.”

 

Radis, who had been staring up at him in a daze, hurriedly got up from her spot.

 

“How long did I sleep?”

 

“About three hours.”

 

“Good heavens. You should have woken me sooner.”

 

Radis took off Robert’s cloak that she had been wrapped in and handed it to him.

 

Robert took it, pressed his lips together tightly, and slowly put on the cloak.

 

“…You were sleeping so peacefully, I didn’t have the heart to wake you.”

 

Radis felt her face redden as she gathered her bag.

 

As Radis shouldered her luggage, she suddenly smiled and spoke.

 

“I had a dream.”

 

“A dream?”

 

“A dream where I met everyone again. Tess, Thierry, Rusty, Laszlo… they all came running toward me happily, just like you did, Captain.”

 

At her words, Robert, who had been putting out the campfire, frowned.

 

“I didn’t run.”

 

Radis glared at him with an unpleasant look and corrected herself.

 

“The Captain didn’t come running, but the team members in my dream came running when they saw me. Is that better?”

 

“…Fine.”

 

Robert completely stamped out the embers, then kicked the wall to shake off the ash from his boots.

 

Then he spoke again.

 

“Don’t get your hopes up. Miracles don’t happen that easily. Those guys probably won’t remember us.”

 

Radis shrugged her shoulders.

 

“I think so too. But I think I’d be happy just to see their living faces.”

 

Following Robert as he began walking, Radis asked.

 

“Captain. When you made contact with the dragon’s mana crystal, did your blood happen to get on the mana crystal?”

 

Robert, who had been lost in thought for a moment, shook his head.

 

“I only stabbed something that was under the reverse scale with my sword. I’m not certain it was a mana crystal.”

 

“Then it wasn’t blood after all…”

 

“What are you talking about?”

 

“Captain… It’s just a guess, but would you like to hear it?”

 

Radis told him about the mana crystal she had taken from under the Makai Tree.

 

Robert, who had been listening to her words silently, nodded.

 

“I also think the mana crystal is the key. When I went to the Tilrod Estate to meet you, there was chaos. They said a mana crystal had gone missing. At the time, I thought it was Arachne’s mana crystal… but it was something else.”

 

As unpleasant memories from her previous life surfaced, Radis felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

 

She deliberately spoke in a more serious voice to shake off the painful memories.

 

“But Captain, even if we go to the Forbidden Zone now, that mana crystal won’t be there.”

 

“Did you confirm that?”

 

“Yes, and not only that… the entire Forbidden Zone was strange. The monsters that lived near the Makai Tree were in a weakened state, as if they had aged.”

 

Radis recalled what had happened in the Forbidden Zone.

 

“If it had been like before, the Arachne that should have been powerful even ten years later died almost as if it had self-destructed.”

 

Robert suddenly stopped, and Radis nearly crashed her face into his back.

 

“Captain?”

 

“…Arachne? You’re saying you went to the Forbidden Zone and encountered an Arachne?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Who did you go to the Forbidden Zone with? Did you go with the Marquis’ Extermination Force?”

 

“Um…”

 

Radis gauged Robert’s reaction.

 

From his expression, it seemed like she would get a serious scolding if she told the truth.

 

Radis decided to mix a little lie with the truth.

 

“…With mercenaries.”

 

Even though they were pathetic, Gors and Luke were mercenaries too.

 

However, looking at Robert’s expression, it didn’t seem like the lie had worked very well.

 

Robert spoke with an almost resigned expression.

 

“It seems the miracle of resurrection from death has already happened to you twice. I guarantee there won’t be a third time, so don’t do such reckless things again.”

 

“Yes.”

 

Radis quickly spoke, worried that Robert might lecture her more.

 

“Anyway, that Arachne laid an egg in the spot where I had picked up the mana crystal, then died.”

 

“An egg?”

 

“Well…”

 

Radis, who was about to say that the Arachne had called the egg ‘Chronos,’ trailed off.

 

She couldn’t tell him, who already looked full of worry, that she seemed to understand the monster’s words.

 

“…A glowing egg.”

 

Robert said.

 

“Things have changed.”

 

“Yes, they’ve changed. The Arachne is dead, and there’s an egg where the mana crystal used to be.”

 

“Something else might have changed too. We’ll be able to confirm it soon.”

 

At Robert’s words, Radis looked ahead.

 

At the end of the long passage, the Stone Gate connected to the Forbidden Zone finally came into view.

 

Early morning.

 

Berry, who had come with water for Radis to wash her face, was startled.

 

Lord Russel was sleeping in Radis’s bed, snoring.

 

“Hup, Radis… Don’t do this…”

 

Even talking in his sleep strangely.

 

Berry set down the basin and carefully drew back the window curtains.

 

As bright light poured over his face, Eve Russel flinched and opened his eyes.

 

“Kuhup…!”

 

Eve looked around with a dazed expression, then suddenly sat up.

 

As soon as he came to his senses, he looked around the room.

 

Berry, flustered, tried to stop him.

 

“Master, if you do that…!”

 

“Radis.”

 

Eve Russel said.

 

“Where is Radis?”

 

Allen, who had bowed his head before Eve, said.

 

“It’s my negligence.”

 

“No. It’s my fault for missing it. Who would have thought she’d knock me out with such a lovely face.”

 

At the mention of being knocked out, Allen looked at Eve with a face full of disbelief.

 

Allen’s face seemed to say:

 

‘Knocked out? Don’t tell me you were actually knocked out by Miss Radis’s small hands?’

 

Eve hastily added.

 

“There’s something we didn’t know. She’s not just a pretty and cute seventeen-year-old girl. We should think of her as no different from a knight.”

 

“Excuse me? Did you say knight? What do you mean by that? I understood that Miss Radis only learned basic swordsmanship from her tutor, a sword instructor.”

 

At the mention of sword instructor, Eve let out a sigh full of irritation.

 

“I don’t know how things got so twisted, but that sword instructor called Armano was actually Daniel Sheldon of the White Crane Knight Order.”

 

“Excuse me…?”

 

Eve, busy organizing her thoughts in her head while explaining with her mouth, tapped the desk with her fingertips as she spoke.

 

“You remember Earl Sheldon’s disappearance case, don’t you?”

 

“Of course. Earl Sheldon vanished while traveling around various villages in the south investigating magical beasts.”

 

“That bastard was apparently hiding in the Tilrod estate, playing the role of a swordsmanship instructor.”

 

Allen’s nostrils flared like a buffalo’s at those shocking words.

 

Eve continued speaking.

 

“Who would have ever imagined that Daniel Sheldon, one of the knights the Emperor trusts most, would be playing the role of a swordsmanship instructor teaching brats in some backwater fallen household? Anyway, Radis learned imperial swordsmanship from him. I don’t know what Earl Sheldon was thinking, but it wasn’t just self-defense level training.”

 

“Then… was Miss Radis going out for training all this time, not just taking walks?”

 

At the word “training,” Eve’s brow furrowed painfully.

 

“Training… my ass!”

 

Eve seemed to have quite a headache as she covered her forehead with her large hand and groaned.

 

After a moment, Eve spoke again.

 

“I have an idea where Radis might have gone. I hope to God I’m wrong, but… I need to check.”

 

Eve Russel rose from her seat.

 

Allen, who had brought his sword, said with a thoughtful expression.

 

“But… why did Earl Sheldon stay at the Tilrod estate?”

 

Eve’s jaw trembled as if just hearing Daniel’s name made his teeth chatter.

 

“How the hell would I know what that bastard was thinking? All the Baekryeong knights are insane! Their sanity must have been bound along with their geas.”

 

“…”

 

Allen quietly helped with Eve’s preparations to go out, trying not to provoke his mood further.

 

Allen also agreed that the Baekryeong knights were not normal.

 

However, that didn’t mean they were insane as Eve suggested, but rather that they were extraordinary.

 

Daniel Sheldon in particular was skilled in both literary and martial arts, and among the rigid knights, his flexible thinking made him the Emperor’s most favored knight.

 

There was no way such a person would have stayed at the Tilrod estate for years without reason.

 

Allen frowned as he fell into thought.

 

‘Armano…? That’s a name I’ve heard somewhere…’

 

In front of the stone gate, Radis and Robert froze for a moment.

 

Robert opened his mouth.

 

“This place… is the Forbidden Zone?”

 

“It is… the Forbidden Zone…”

 

What shocked them was the changed appearance of the Forbidden Zone.

 

The Forbidden Zone they knew was a colorless forest dominated by thick, fishy mist.

 

However, the forest beyond the stone gate was not like that.

 

The morning mist was glowing golden as it absorbed the sunlight.

 

The moss wrapped around the tree trunks was a vivid green, full of moisture, and plump new buds that looked ready to burst hung from every branch tip.

 

A cool breeze carrying the scent of damp earth blew between the massive trees, and birdsong could be heard from somewhere.

 

In short, the forest beyond the stone gate was an ordinary forest overflowing with vitality.

 

“This is the right place though…”

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