The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 231

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Chapter 231

Translator: Yonnee

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Radis’s mouth dropped open in shock.

“W-What did you say?”

“I like you.”

“……!”

Nonsense.

Radis wanted to say just that.

But she couldn’t.

Because Yves, saying those words, looked the happiest she had ever seen him.

Yves now began to shout with an even louder voice.

“I like you, I like you, I like you! Truly and sincerely, I really like you!”

He shouted loudly, his face filled with an ecstatic smile.

“I, Yves Russell, have feelings for Radis!”

“……!”

“Really, sincerely! I like you the most in the whole wide world!”

Radis had to stand there, rooted to the spot, shaking.

Without needing a mirror, she could tell how red her face had become.

Yves Russell, looking at her with an innocent smile, now seemed insufficient just shouting, so he started walking towards her with a loud voice.

“Radis, for you, I could do anything! You are all I need!”

“……!”

Radis stood there, trembling all over, in a daze.

Standing still, she felt countless gazes piercing the back of her head.

Only then did Radis realize she was standing in front of a line of knights.

A greater sense of crisis than when she was swept away by the massive flow inside the magical artifact approached her.

She started running after Yves with all her might, trying not to look back.

“Stop, just stop…! I got it, so please stop!”

* * *

The infirmary within the knight order was almost empty.

They passed through the vacant consultation room and headed towards the inner wards.

Klaudio, standing beside the bed, spotted Radis and Yves tangled together entering the ward.

Radis was covering Yves’s mouth tightly with both hands, and Yves was stuck to her like glue.

Klaudio blocked their way.

“Leave.”

Klaudio opened his mouth heavily, looking at Radis.

“I know what you have done for Daniel. But Daniel is not in a good condition right now. If he sees you again, his life might be in danger before His Majesty the Emperor can release the Geas.”

Radis pinched Yves’s lips once more, implying she wouldn’t let him speak if he didn’t stay quiet, and then let go.

And she said to Klaudio.

“The Emperor doesn’t know how to release the Geas.”

At her words, Klaudio froze like a statue.

Radis could understand his shock.

But as he said, time was of the essence.

“I need to see Master.”

Klaudio didn’t move from his spot but didn’t restrain Radis either.

He looked like someone who didn’t know what to do.

Radis approached the bed to check on Daniel’s condition.

Daniel was lying unconscious, completely limp.

She could feel the Geas running rampant inside his unconscious body.

Every so often, his thin arms and legs would spasm.

‘It might be a mercy that he’s unconscious.’

By imposing a dual Geas on him, the emperor must have known that this result would eventually come.

Yet, Daniel endured a long time with two Geas embedded in his heart.

The reason the Geas had been quiet for so long was that his feelings towards the emperor hadn’t changed.

‘The Emperor deceived Master to the very end.’

She bit her lip tightly and summoned her mana.

She felt the mana surging inside her like a tidal wave.

A strange sensation that started from the mana core spread throughout her body, making the world shake for a moment.

It was a tremor only she could feel.

“Ah…!”

When all beings in the world opened up towards her, at that moment—

The endlessly sprawling sky looked down upon her.

The clouds whispered as if they had been waiting for her, and the blowing wind laughed merrily, happy that she had noticed their existence.

They all seemed to be saying,

‘Hestia, we’ve been waiting for you.’

The plants sprouting from the ground gently moved their roots, signaling to the mother of all things that she had awakened.

Then, the mother of all things gently turned and smiled towards her.

“…….!”

Tears streamed down Radis’s face.

They were not tears of sorrow, but of wonder.

Radis left the tears unchecked because the wind coveted them.

Several gusts carried her tears away, giggling as they raced off.

Radis calmed her heart and looked down at Daniel again.

Concentrating, she began to see the flow of mana coursing through Daniel’s body.

There were two fibrils of mana inside Daniel.

His own mana and the mana from the Geas.

They should be moving as one, but now, the two strands of mana were showing different movements as Daniel’s condition worsened.

Daniel’s mana was circulating quickly throughout his body, trying to save his dying body, while the mana from the Geas was gathering towards the spell, preparing to detach from the body.

‘This should make it easier.’

[ Radis, are you trying to break that spell? ]

‘Yes.’

Radis said, placing Regia over her teacher’s chest.

‘We need to cut only the Geas, not Master’s body. Can you do it?’

[ Like when I cut the core of the Crystal Dragon. ]

‘You fought that too? Anyway, we can’t make any mistakes.’

As she infused mana, runes began to surface on Regia’s blade, emitting a humming noise.

Klaudio, who had been crouching with his head in his hands, stood up in surprise at the noise.

He saw Radis pointing the sword at Daniel’s chest and exclaimed in shock.

“What are you doing?!”

Radis replied,