[ Heeey dear Eoooooon~! Happpppppy birthhhhhh dayyyyy~!
Your dear aunt Haze is so so so~ happy that you are here with us for your birthday like this for the first time...
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So! Have a great day~! As for your gift... hehehe. I got your favorite flower~! ]
'His favorite flower...?'
What's his favorite flower, though?
I don't even know such a simple thing despite being together with him for the last few days.
Haze loved flowers, so it was natural for her to know his favorite flower.
But still, what was this flower that she, someone holding the title of (Miraculous florist), had to find?
And a flower, not flowers? Was it something that special?
It must be... his excitement just after reading that last line confirmed it.
"S-she did? But... the hell?"
His hands were trembling, his eyes were wide open, and a wide shaky smile on his face showed his boundless excitement.
This was, again, a reaction that was too rare from his side.
He was someone who could stay calm even in the face of death, but a flower made him this much excitemeted?
'And this excitement of his is comparable to a normal person who had found a flower from a legendary ancient tree. Hehehe.'
It was cute to see this exciting reaction of his but... he hurriedly stored the letter in his storage space and grabbed our held hand.
"Rein! Quickly! My room!"
He shouted like a restless child, desperate to see something exciting.
His charming red eyes were wide open, the smile on his face was fascinating, and his uneven breathing was raising my heartbeats.
He said his room so... he asked to take him to his room, right?
"Well..."
'Shadow's travel.'
I used my teleportation skill and our bodies melted in shadows, or darkness would be better to explain this one.
Then we were standing inside the front office of his room. The familiar place we had seen many times throughout these past few days.
I was suddenly shocked by how he just grabbed my hands out of nowhere, but as soon as we reached his room, he just ran in and directly over the outside terrace without any care for me.
He was a cute bastard, but right now, this flower was more important to him.
So I also followed behind him and reached the very back of the floor, the outside training ground, and the small garden.
He was sitting on the left side, by his flowers, and looking radiantly at a peculiar flower.
I surprisingly knew about this flower, so it was hard to believe I would see this one here, but it actually was shocking.
There were many plants, a small garden for flowers, and some grass, and we were staring at this particular flower inside a transparent glass case.
This flower was the only one in a newly created part of this small garden and it was natural to be for this one to be alone.
It was a carnivorous plant, as well as something that must not be cut from anywhere for it to grow naturally.
It was called [White Ash flower], something that only grew in the areas filled with demonic energy or dead Mana.
It was a very rare flower that the lucky ones can only see in the graveyards of some powerful people or demonic territories.
It was a flower that produced a peculiar pure white ash constantly.
It also grew independently, so it was something that one can only find as a single flower.
It sucked out the very life force of the weaker organisms around its roots after all.
This flower, which looked just like any normal lily, was three times as big as those normal flowers and there was no green part to this flower.
The flower was pure white, white star-like ash slowly but constantly fell down from the flower petals, the stem of the flower was red, and the soil this star-like ash fell on, inside the glass, was black.
The black soil inside the glass also had some red crystals, most probably pieces of dead Mana stones, placed there to sustain the flower.
The other part of the soil of this garden was normal futile soil, which was slowly turning black.
The glass that covered this flower was enchanted with a high-level protection spell. The dead Mana stone wasn't good for everyone after all.
Though we won't have any problem with the dead Mana because of our natural physique, skills, and affinities.
But still, this was a flower that the royal family desired, so they had a strong monopoly over them. Not that getting it was something one can do with money, power, or influence anyway.
It required extreme luck, an information network comparable to my or his mom, and the area that this flower grew required someone with at least his dad's strength to clear, enter and return at least alive.
Demonic and undead territories are something I have experienced firsthand, so I know just how dangerous they are.
Those places were dangerous, so no normal one dared to go there if possible.
The royal family had a special person that had the power of necromancer and this flower increased one's dead Mana pool, so it was invaluable to them.
Getting it must definitely not be something easy, it was a precious flower for sure.
It was even more surprising that this was his favorite flower and he could see it in person.
His eyes were looking nostalgic even at this moment as he saw the star-like ash particles falling from the flower.
'It's almost like he's living a special moment of the past when looking at this one...'
He looked adorable right now~ and I would just love to see that look every day on his face, but from what I know, these rare flowers can't be sustained for longer than a week outside their natural habitat.
Even at this moment, the flower looked a bit dull than what I had seen in the wild, in its natural habitat, and it meant it was nearly a few days old.
After its roots absorb all the vitality and life in the soil of this specially created mini garden, it will wither down and just die because of lack of essential dead Mana, natural atmosphere, and lack of 'red moonlight'.
Half of the garden had already turned black so maybe the flower could only stay like this for two or so days now.
I now knew from the look in his eyes that he wanted to see the actual live flower and didn't want to dead flower that only had two uses. Either as a very high-grade fertilizer or enchantment material.
'But it sure was amazing to see this entire setup.'
Haze put it inside the protective case for them, she used the top-grade soil to sustain the flower as long as possible, just the fact that she got it was amazing but she also used the super rare dead Mana stone's pieces to preserve it in the best condition.
"It would be amazing if I could preserve it forever but even with all the knowledge I have, the most important condition to preserve this one is a place with the natural aura of death.
Haaa...
I can definitely do something and preserve it for at least a few months but it's disappointing I won't be able to see it after that."
'It's already amazing you can preserve this beautiful flower for months greedy bastard...'
There was a rare sad expression on his face right now. Some of his rare genuine expressions.
Well, the aura of death he talked about can't be reproduced artificially.
It was a natural phenomenon that occurred in certain special places like dungeons, labyrinths, graveyards, or tombs.
Maybe it also appeared on the battlefields during a large-scale war. But that is mostly a rare occasion.
Anyway... that wasn't important right now.
Thinking about battlefields and war isn't something I wanna do right now. Those times are past now.
Eon was happy and he took his sweet time reminiscing about his special past events while I just enjoyed his rare expression.
There was a sad expression in his eyes too, so maybe this one was related to his master.
It was still early so I will wait for as long as it takes to hear everything about him and his master and their precious time together.
I know it will be fun but for now, he had finished his thinking of the past time.
There were almost some tears at the end of his eyes but he didn't let them out. Maybe there was no need to as they had vanished by themselves.
He stood up from his place, took off the glass case covering the flower, cast some kind of spell on it, and placed the glass back.
It was a complicated spell and from the looks of it. It was a darkness attribute spell too, my primary attribute.
"It will be alright for now. Let's go make some lunch, Rein~."
Now there was a smile on his face, a genuine smile…
In the serenity of the moment, I had almost forgotten we had to make lunch for some hundred people.
It was definitely fun to see his rare and different expressions but now we had to do the hard work... not that it will be any less fun~!
Seeing him cook is also an amazing experience that thrills my very being~.
"Yes~! Let's gooo~!"
The letter with the next clue was just beside this garden so we didn't have to worry about this one now.
There weren't many people left anyway.
Just little Alf, his dad, and his mom. Then we can go to the other side, to Haze's house, and tell them thanks for the amazing gifts and enjoy the rest of his birthday party~.
It will be fun, that much is for sure. But anyway, for now...
"What's the menu for lunch today, dear chef darling?"
I grabbed his hand, locked out hands, and looked at him with an excited and loving gaze.
His cooking is some of the best things about him after all...
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