The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 87

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 87

“Yes… That’s right, Lord Marquis…”

“Good. Just as I trust and help you without thinking twice about it, you don’t need to think about being indebted to me either. You understand, right?”

When she heard the rich, low voice by her ear, it felt like all the fine hairs on her earlobes, which she hadn’t even known existed, were awakening with cheers of joy.

Her ears were tickling like crazy while her mind felt like it was melting into mush.

Eve only let Radis go after not just her mind but her entire body had melted into mush.

He watched the back of Radis as she staggered away weakly and grinned wickedly.

Though she had been heading to the training ground, Radis couldn’t bring herself to enter and instead leaned against the thick trunk of a garden tree, looking up at the sky to collect her emotions.

It had been drizzling in the morning, but now the sky was clear.

Fluffy clouds that had shaken off the spring rain were floating across the bright blue sky.

Then she heard Robert’s voice.

“Radis.”

Not far away stood Robert, whose eyes looked like a sky darkened with storm clouds ready to pour down torrential rain at any moment.

Robert approached her with a dark expression that didn’t match the clear weather and opened his mouth.

“May I ask you something?”

Radis straightened up and nodded.

“Of course.”

Even though she answered that way, Robert couldn’t easily open his mouth.

He looked at Radis with wavering eyes and only asked his question after sighing deeply two or three times.

“Do you… have… feelings… for him?”

Radis looked at Robert with her mouth slightly open.

She couldn’t immediately understand what Robert was saying.

First of all, the subject was unclear.

“Him…?”

Robert spoke with difficulty, as if he were coughing up thorns stuck in his throat.

“Lord Russel.”

Radis looked at Robert with wide eyes.

It was to understand Robert’s intentions.

Judging by Robert’s demeanor, the ‘feelings’ he was talking about didn’t seem to mean humanitarian love or friendship.

Radis asked.

“Do the feelings you mentioned perhaps mean romantic affection between a man and woman?”

At her question, she could feel waves of emotional turmoil spreading across Robert’s face.

With his ear tips turning red, Robert nodded.

Radis, who felt more embarrassed by Robert’s reaction than by his question, asked.

“Did you perhaps… see earlier?”

“I… didn’t intend to see, but as a result… that’s what happened…”

If she dragged this conversation out any longer, it would only get more embarrassing.

Radis spoke quickly.

“No.”

“No?”

“That act… might appear to be an affectionate exchange between a man and woman, but it’s a misunderstanding. I don’t harbor romantic feelings for Lord Marquis, and neither does he.”

Robert couldn’t accept her words.

No, looking at Radis’s expression, the first part of her statement might be true.

The part about Radis not harboring romantic feelings for Lord Russel.

But what about Lord Russel?

Robert recalled Lord Russel’s face when he had said he ‘came to see Radis’ during their reunion.

That had been an expression like a dragon whose reverse scale had been touched.

It was the same when they were caught going to the Forbidden Zone together.

The Lord Russel he knew wasn’t the type to personally step forward to rescue a vassal who had secretly gone to a dangerous place.

According to his memory, Lord Russel was someone who shuddered at the mention of Monster Forest.

There was even plausible evidence for this.

According to Brantz Rodrick, who had an intense interest in Lord Russel in an unfavorable direction, the Russel family had a secretive tradition.

It was regularly visiting Monster Forest once every few years.

However, according to Brantz Rodrick’s sources, the current marquis, Eve Russel, had never once visited Monster Forest since ascending to the marquis position.

Though he couldn’t know exactly what that ‘visit’ entailed, it was clear that Eve Russel was avoiding Monster Forest.

That wasn’t all.

Though he had only seen from a distance, Robert had clearly sensed personal motives from Eve Russel as he embraced Radis.

But Robert wasn’t foolish enough to tell Radis about that.

Robert said weakly.

“If you say so, then I suppose that’s how it is.”

Radis stared intently at Robert and said.

“Robert, it really isn’t like that!”

She had her wits about her too.

Even though Robert spoke as if he accepted Radis’s words, she could feel that he didn’t think that way at all.

But it really was absurd.

This was a misunderstanding Robert could have only because he didn’t know about the contract between her and Eve Russel.

Eve had brought Radis to the manor because he believed that the 3rd Prince of the Empire, Olivier Arpend, had feelings for her.

Even after that, Eve had made every effort to bring Olivier and Radis together.

To Eve Russel, Radis was a stepping stone to obtain a ducal seat, a bridge to place between him and Olivier, and a goose that laid golden eggs.

Remembering how Eve would casually call her a stepping stone or a goose whenever he summoned her, Radis couldn’t help but chuckle.

Radis declared with a firm tone.

“Unless the sun rises in the west, that will absolutely never happen.”

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