The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path

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Radis lowered her chin as the flame-like mana wrapped the entire teaspoon, looking as if the two substances were fusing.

She wasn’t satisfied with it, but even with just this teaspoon alone, she’d be able to reach the middle of Monsterwood.

“First, I think the amount of mana I have is sizeable enough.
It wasn’t that my mana was lacking that night, just that my body couldn’t keep up.”

Radis gathered her mana.

Then the teaspoon, which could not endure the mana’s pressure, crack! split in half vertically.

“Aack!”

Raising the teaspoon that was split into two vertically, Radis was taken aback as she felt sweat trickling down.

She just wielded what she had conjured, but she didn’t think this would actually happen.

“This could be expensive… No, it shouldn’t be, right?”

Radis had no choice but to shove it under the carpet.

“I’ll throw it away later when I leave.”

Radis lifted the teacup and drank her remaining tea, glancing at the clock.

Her meeting time with Marquis Russell was approaching.

Her expression grew a little darker.

* * *

“Radis…!”

Yves Russell’s neck was flushed red and his breath was rough.

“Why are you being stubborn? Don’t you know how important this is?”

At Yves’ words, Radis blushed and avoided his gaze.

“Yes, I don’t know.
I have no idea why Your Excellency is so fixated on this.
Is it really that important?”

No one saw it, but Yves Russell’s forehead crumpled, but smoothed out again.

“Just endure it this once.”

“…You said that last time, but this is already the second time.”

Yves Russell’s body shuddered at the sound of Radis’ whining.

Eventually, because he’d become so impatient, he took it upon himself to undo the first button of her shirt.

In a domineering tone which was disguised with politeness, he whispered softly.

“Radis, don’t you have to pay for your meals?”

¹ Yang is generally translated as positive, light or masculine energy compared to yin, which is negative, dark or feminine energy.
These are only loose translations, and I don’t feel like any of these words truly encapsulate what yang means in the context that Armano has brought it up, so I left it as is in my translation.

I know this novel has a western setting, but the source material is still, after all, Asian, and ‘yang’ is such a concept that I don’t think one single English word can encapsulate.
I hope you don’t mind.