The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 258
Chapter 258
Translator: Yonnee
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As she spoke, she trembled so much that her knees were shaking.
“Eugh…!”
Finally, Radis did something she had never done in her life.
She shook off Yves’s hand and ran to hide behind Robert’s back.
“Radis?”
Robert, who had been focused on observing the emperor, looked at her in surprise.
Her face was now as red as a ripe cherry.
“Are you alright? What happened?”
“Euuugh…”
Radis, almost in tears, looked up at Robert and spoke haltingly.
“C-Captain! That h-hermit crab…!”
“What?”
“No, I mean, the Marquis! Euuuugh…!”
Hiding behind Robert, Radis glared at Yves.
Yves was laughing so hard he was holding his stomach at being called a hermit crab.
Unable to endure it any longer, Radis bolted from the spot.
“I-I don’t care anymore!”
“What? Radis?”
“I-I’m leaving first!”
Robert tried to stop her, but he couldn’t hold back Radis, who was determined to escape.
Covering her face with both hands, she dashed out of the banquet hall.
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30. Black flames
Empress Adrianne closed her eyes, savoring the moment she had long awaited.
The empress gestured for Rollise Lebeloia to approach.
Rollise, with her doll-like curly hair and endlessly large blue eyes, approached the empress with sparkling eyes.
When the empress gave her a secretive look, Rollise bowed her head and brought her ear close to the empress’s lips.
The empress spoke in a very low voice.
“Can you swear to be faithful to me day and night and never forget that everything you enjoy comes from me?”
Rollise Lebeloia replied in a voice resembling a small bird’s chirping.
“My eyes, ears, mouth, and mind all belong to Your Majesty the Empress. How could I think otherwise?”
The empress smiled with satisfaction.
Rollise’s words were true.
Rollise was a creation molded perfectly to the empress’s desires.
The empress had given Rollise just enough education to serve her needs.
With her innocent beauty, Rollise would serve Charles, and with her appropriate naivety, she would keep Adrianne on the throne for a long time.
What Rollise desired wasn’t power but the eternal splendor that Charles and Adrianne would give her like a present.
With a benevolent smile, Empress Adrianne handed Rollise a box.
“Take this to His Majesty.”
Thus, Rollise respectfully held the box and approached the emperor.
The emperor, sitting on the throne with a complex expression after making a significant decision, looked up at Rollise.
“Rollise, what is it?”
Rollise carefully opened the box and presented it to the emperor.
Inside the box was a tiny black orb, no bigger than a fingernail.
Just as the emperor was about to pick it up, the empress, who now approached his side, spoke.
“Your Majesty, please be cautious. It looks like a small bead, but it is a powerful weapon capable of destroying all your enemies.”
The emperor hesitated and pulled his hand back.
“This orb is a weapon?”
“We have prepared a small demonstration for you to witness its power.”
Empress Adriana guided the emperor to the balcony. Below the balcony, in a wide open space, there was a pit, and inside it, Rollard and an unconscious Xenon were tied to posts.
The emperor laughed heartily upon seeing them.
“These are the ones who made a mockery of today’s Trial of Incandescence!”
Rollard shouted upon seeing the emperor standing on the balcony.
“Your Majesty the Emperor! Your Majesty the Empress! Please, forgive us!”
Rollise, laughing as if she found it amusing, handed the box with the black orb to the emperor.
With cautious movements, the emperor picked up the black orb and examined it.
The semi-transparent orb was filled with a black substance, the material of which was difficult to discern.
The emperor aimed it at Xenon and Rollard and threw it. For a moment, it seemed as if nothing happened.
Rollard cried out.
“Your Majesty, have mercy!”
The next moment, darkness ignited and slowly engulfed Xenon. Rollard stared at Xenon with wide eyes.
“W-What is this…?”
The unconscious Xenon burned alive like a wooden puppet.
Watching this scene, Rollard screamed in anguish.
“No, no! We have worked so hard for the Empire, and this is how it ends? Sir Xenon!”
The black flames that had consumed Xenon now flickered towards him. As he was engulfed in the flames, Rollard cursed the emperor and empress as he burned alive.
“You’re both crazy! You, Emperor and Empress! You will die in agony far worse than mine!”
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