Flowers of Despair || Haruto from TREASURE

special chapter: 04

November 04, 2025

"Can you stop anxiously walking around in front of me? It's bothering me a lot." Arthur told Haruto.

"I'm sorry okay? It's just," Haruto sighed. "Why am I even here? I should've just stayed back in Korea."

"Same thought here, I don't know why we're going to a party across the other side of the world anyways." Eunji had a sad expression on her face.

"Aish guys, stop worrying about it so much. Aren't you glad that we could experience travelling like this? Tell me when your last vacation was." Jeongwoo folded his arms across his chest while asking the group.

"Honestly the last vacation I've had was years ago before I started training." Huiying crossed her legs and nodded her head.

"See that? How about you, Airi? When did you ever go to another country for non-family related purposes?" Jeongwoo turned to Haruto's younger sister.

"Uhm... this is the first time actually. Without my parents and all, just my older brother. I only go to Korea every once in a while cause my mother is there."

"She's cute." Amelia, the wife of Arthur who is also the Duchess of Montserrat, whispered to him.

"Look, this may seem like a vacation to you all because it was a 1 week funded vacay but don't you all realize that I'm about to have a freaking hard time?" Haruto said.

"What for? What is he talking about?" Eunjung whispered to her sisters.

"Yeah I can enjoy with you all but hello? We're gonna attend a garden party? I'm pretty sure everyone knows who's hosting it?" He said in a stressed and sarcastic tone.

"I get it, you're gonna meet the love of your life again in her large and famous kingdom but dude it's just one day. Besides we aren't the only people attending. Civilians of France are going there too and it's not like you're going to have to talk to her for a long time." Huiying told him.

"And if it's hard for you, it's hard for us too. In case you might be forgetting she's our former group member? We trained with her, slept with her, lived with her, did everything with her. It's almost the same as what you're feeling." Hwayoung shrugged.

"Mhmm, you got to say goodbye right? We never got that. Not even a message when she step foot here." Huiying looked at Jihoon.

He sighed. "Well we did get a message but nothing afterwards, it's not really that special. I'm used to it."

"Oh so they're talking about Gracielle unnie." Eunjung whispered to her sisters again.

"You'll be fine, just trust us." Airi smiled at her older brother for reassurance.

"Can you calm down now? Our limousines are here." Jeongwoo placed a hand on Haruto's back.

Caihong stood up from the couch. "Two limousines, 8 each. Jihoon and his cousins and fiancé on one then the rest on the other, got it?" She tried sounding authoratative since it was her family who was organizing everyone's transportations.

"Got it." Amelia softly said and stood up excitedly.

"Pretty duchess, can I hold your hand?" Eunji looked up at Amelia.