The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 251
Chapter 251
Translator: Yonnee
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Elizabeth clasped her hands together, bringing them to her pink lips, and scrutinized Radis’s face from side to side.
Just a moment ago, Radis had seemed like a dazzlingly cool knight, but now, with her face flushed red and unsure of what to do, she looked so cute and lovely.
Radis stammered on, trying to speak.
“I-I don’t know… It’s… two, two people…”
“Kyaah!”
Once she started speaking, she couldn’t stop.
Despite her distress, Radis continued.
“…I, I know it’s really covetous of me. Both of them are too good for me…”
“That’s impossible! There’s no one in the world who wouldn’t fall for you, Dame!”
“N-No, absolutely not.”
Radis shook her head so vigorously that her hair flew about.
Then, in a slightly more somber voice, she continued.
“And… if either of them stays with me, they’ll lose so much.”
“What about you, Dame?”
“Yes?”
Elizabeth asked seriously, looking directly into Radis’s eyes.
“Who do you like between the two?”
Radis opened her mouth slightly, then closed it again.
That was the problem.
She didn’t know her own heart.
“…I don’t know.”
“Oh…”
Elizabeth let out a sigh of disappointment.
Placing her hand gently on Radis’s shoulder, she whispered in a sweet voice.
“No, Dame, you do know. If you love someone, you might hide it from others, but you can’t lie to yourself.”
“……”
“There’s surely someone. The feeling that nothing else matters as long as you can be with that person.”
Radis frowned and shook her head at Elizabeth’s words.
“No, Lady Elizabeth. I don’t want that. If I make such a choice, I’m sure I’ll regret it someday.”
“Oh…”
Elizabeth gazed at Radis with dreamy eyes.
“You’re really kind and considerate, Dame. Those two must be very important to you. You don’t want to hurt them at all, right?”
Looking into Radis’s dark eyes, Elizabeth softly whispered.
“But Dame, what’s precious and what you desire are different things. Once you realize that, you’ll understand how much courage love can give a person…”
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‘What’s precious and what’s desired…?’
After parting with Elizabeth, Radis headed towards the banquet hall, mulling over her words.
‘Are they… different? Are they really different…?’
But she couldn’t ponder for long.
She soon arrived at the grand hall.
Having been here once for the New Year’s celebration, Radis easily moved to an inconspicuous spot at the edge.
She then observed the hall’s dynamics.
‘It’s not as overwhelming as the first time.’
The first time she came here, she had been stunned by the grandeur and the dazzling light from the chandeliers.
Now, she could look at the hall with a cooler eye.
At the highest seat in the hall sat the glum and portly emperor.
Dressed in a jewel-encrusted, glittering robe, the emperor wore a scowl, seemingly displeased with everything.
Radis realized that the nobles surrounding the emperor were mostly from the Lebeloia Dukedom, identifiable by the unicorn emblem they bore.
‘So… those people are the ones who tried to sabotage the Captain from receiving the Master’s seal and prevented me from witnessing his achievements.’
Radis narrowed her eyes and etched the faces of the Lebeloia Dukedom’s members, wearing the unicorn emblem, deeply into her memory.
In particular, the middle-aged man clinging to the emperor’s side, acting sycophantically as if he might even lick the emperor’s feet, was someone she had to remember.
As Radis stared blankly at the Lebeloia Dukedom’s members, she suddenly realized that someone was watching her.
It was a very elaborately dressed woman sitting a little apart from the emperor.
‘Wow.’
Radis thought she must be the empress of the empire.
She was dressed in a way that only someone of that rank could manage.
The empress wore a large, cake-like wig on her head and a huge crown encrusted with jewels.
It was amazing how her slender neck supported the weight of the wig and crown.
And then there was the dress.
The skirt was so voluminous that the empress looked like a person sitting at a table.
The dress was covered in jewels, just like the emperor’s robes, and Radis couldn’t even imagine its weight.
The empress, who had been looking in this direction for a moment, turned her head to look at the emperor.
Radis also observed the empress briefly before turning her gaze back to the banquet hall.
Except for the emperor, who was radiating an exceptionally unpleasant aura, the atmosphere in the hall was congenial.
Particularly, there was a place where a lot of people had gathered.
“……?”
Radis’s eyes widened as she saw the person standing in the middle of the crowd.
“Y-Yves…?”
Radis rubbed her eyes with both hands.
Then she opened them again.
It was indeed Yves Russell.
Surprisingly, he was wearing a pure white robe, like a white flower.
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