The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 229
Chapter 229
Translator: Yonnee
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At her words, the chief attendant stepped back at once.
Not just stepping back, but slowly kneeling down as if collapsing… and eventually, he fell forward.
Looking at the face turned to the side, it seemed he had lost consciousness.
Bubbles were foaming from his mouth agape like a fish.
Radis raised an eyebrow and stepped back to avoid the fallen chief attendant.
It seemed her words and mana had mixed and gone out through her airways.
‘The mana is leaking out.’
To support his actions, Emperor Claude had recklessly poured magical stones into the artifact with the intent to impose a Geas, which resulted in mana now overflowing from within Radis, going beyond her control.
‘I need to be careful.’
Just as Radis was about to descend the stairs, she turned her head swiftly to look at the emperor and spoke.
“Ah, right.”
“Huuk!”
The emperor, unwittingly, let out a groan and covered his face with both arms.
Fortunately, nothing happened.
What followed relief was distrust.
This should not have been possible.
Everyone who came out of the Womb suffered from all the mana infused into them, unable to bear it.
That mana was supposed to be tempered through only the seal of a Geas that the emperor would impose.
Without the Geas, the mana would run rampant and lead to death.
Even Carnot, the knight commander of the White Dragon Order—widely renowned as the empire’s strongest knight—could not endure the pain and came on his knees to ask for the Geas.
The emperor lowered his arms and murmured with a trembling voice.
“H-How did you…?”
Radis looked coldly at the emperor and said.
“I’ve held up my end of the bargain. It’s up to you to hold your end now, right, Your Majesty? You promised, didn’t you? Please release the Geas on my teacher.”
“……!”
Emperor Claude’s sagging cheeks trembled.
He seemed more flustered than ever before.
His eyes under the thick eyelids were shaking violently.
Looking into the Emperor’s face, Radis slowly enunciated each word:
“You don’t actually know how to release the Geas, do you?”
“……!”
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While ascending the stairs, Radis couldn’t help but curse the emperor.
“To think that His Majesty the Emperor would stoop to deception.”
[ Deception? That chubby guy deceived you? Should I beat him up for you? ]
“Wouldn’t that lead to being branded an insurgent? If you can beat him up on your own, go ahead.”
[ Uhh… ]
“Ha, this is so frustrating. And anyway…”
Radis said, looking at Regia with her eyes slightly narrowed.
“Regia, don’t try to gloss over this. You have something to tell me, don’t you?”
After hesitating, Regia finally had to lay everything out and apologize to her.
[ Radis, I’m sorry…! I won’t ever suddenly refuse mana or stay silent again…! ]
Radis, after looking at Regia with narrow eyes for a moment, soon smiled softly.
“Good boy. That’s how you apologize when you’ve done something wrong.”
[ Huuh… This feels weird… It’s my first time apologizing… ]
“Is that so? Then, have you ever been thanked before?”
[ No…? I don’t think so? ]
Radis smiled faintly.
If it weren’t for Regia, she might still be trapped inside the Womb.
She said with a gentle tone,
“It was because of you that I survived. Thank you.”
[ Uwaaahh…! ]
Regia whimpered.
[ This feels so strange…! It’s like my heart is pounding…! ]
Instead of asking the obvious question of, ‘Where could your heart possibly be anyway’, Radis gently patted the sword’s hilt.
“It’s okay, it’s okay.”
[ Uh, I somehow, kinda wanna call you Big Sister…! ]
“Then do so.”
[ Big Sister…! ]
“Sure, sure.”
Radis casually latched the sheathed Regia onto her belt and opened the door connected to the level ground.
The first thing she saw were the knights of the White Dragon Order.
The knights, dressed in impeccably white uniforms, were guarding the door connected to the archive.
Radis carefully made her way through them.
“Excuse me for a moment. Pardon me.”
The knights of the White Dragon Order looked surprised and bewildered, and at the same time, they had a peculiar expression of not knowing what to do.
They thought the emperor would come up with a barely conscious—if not unconscious—Radis and declare her a member of the White Dragon Order who had received the Geas.
Of course, they considered the Geas a blessing.
However, they knew that Radis received the Geas not of her own volition but for Daniel, and they felt sorry for her.
So, when Radis, looking perfectly fine, came up alone asking them to make way, the knights couldn’t help but be puzzled.
But since there was no particular reason not to make way, they glanced at each other and slowly cleared a path.
‘Where’s Master?’
But as she was looking around, Yves ran straight towards Radis.
“Radis…!”
Yves seemed to be out of his senses.
Being tall and entirely muscular without barely any body fat, it felt like a bull had body slammed her as he charged at her just now.
If she had been caught off guard, they might have rolled back a few rounds together as one mass.
‘Are you crazy?!’
She was about to shout just that, but then.
With a force that just might crush her, Yves tightly wrapped his arms around her, embracing her completely.
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