The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 100

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Chapter 100. A Sleepless Night (2)

“….”

I silently raised my body and looked toward the door.

‘Is it really okay for me to leave like this?’

If I left the room like this, The King of Adamant would have no choice but to sleep alone.

It would be impossible to find a woman with verified identity who definitely wouldn’t cause problems for the king’s safety at this late hour.

Besides, he didn’t really want actual night service in the first place.

“…If we’re talking about who committed the discourtesy first, it would be me.”

At my words, Kaiden’s shoulders trembled slightly.

“I’d like to help you, if only to receive forgiveness for the wrong I committed.”

Kaiden slowly turned his back to my words.

He brought the water bottle to his lips and moved his mouth.

“Are you being sincere?”

“If Your Majesty would give me a chance to apologize for the rudeness I, a mere caretaker, committed against Your Majesty the King.”

It would be troublesome if Kaiden made an issue of what happened today, even later on.

‘Human hearts can change as easily as flipping one’s palm, after all.’

This was someone who casually said he’d tell The Emperor that the guest treatment was lacking.

Turning threatening jokes into joke-like threats would be an easy task for His Majesty the great king.

“Honestly.”

I looked at Kaiden with my hands politely clasped together.

“It’s not a difficult task.”

Until I died, I had lived among pitch-black men.

To survive missions, I had even stripped and jumped into streams with those men, so sharing a room was nothing.

“…Not a difficult task.”

Kaiden looked at me as if I were some strange object.

It must seem odd for an unmarried woman to readily agree to sleep beside a man.

“I’ll only stay until dawn breaks.”

I quickly climbed onto the bed and sat leaning against the headboard.

“Please go to sleep quickly.”

Kaiden looked at me sitting comfortably as if it were my own bed, then chuckled.

But he didn’t seem to dislike it, as he didn’t chase me away.

“Then I won’t be modest.”

Kaiden slowly climbed onto the bed and settled in the spot next to me.

He seemed about to lie down looking at the ceiling, but soon turned his body toward me.

“But are you going to keep sitting like that?”

“Is there some problem?”

“It must be uncomfortable.”

It seemed my posture bothered him.

Kaiden looked at me with disapproving eyes as I sat with my back straight.

“Why don’t you just lie down?”

“I’m used to it, so don’t worry about it.”

“…Used to it?”

This time my answer seemed to bother him, as Kaiden’s eyes widened slightly.

“Spending the night in that position?”

“…I originally have insomnia, so I alternate between sitting in this position and sleeping.”

The truth was that I had simply developed a habit of always staying alert to prepare for attacks at any time.

But I couldn’t tell him everything as it was.

“Well.”

Kaiden seemed to roll his eyes around, then nodded as if convinced.

“If that’s what you say, then I suppose that’s how it is.”

He buried his head halfway into the pillow.

But his gaze remained fixed on me.

“If you keep staring like that, it’ll be difficult for you to fall asleep.”

I deliberately didn’t glance toward Kaiden even once.

“Close your eyes.”

“…You seem experienced at putting people to sleep too.”

I’m more experienced at killing than putting to sleep, though.

‘Though lately I have gotten used to putting people to sleep.’

Instead of answering, I quietly lowered my head.

“Is it because you’re a caretaker?”

“Perhaps the reason Your Majesty can’t sleep isn’t because there’s no one nearby, but because there is someone?”

“…What a polite way to tell me not to talk and just go to sleep.”

Kaiden let out another quiet laugh and closed his eyes.

Despite looking like someone who had never listened to anyone else’s words even once in his life, he seemed surprisingly obedient.

‘Can’t sleep alone, but surprisingly listens well to what he’s told.’

He was just like a child.

Though it seemed unreasonable to treat a man with that build and that face like a child.

‘Besides, to call him a child, he’s too.’

Excessively handsome.

Kaiden’s appearance as he closed his eyes tightly and tried to sleep was honestly beautiful by anyone’s standards.

‘I wonder if Edwin will look like that when he grows up.’

It was while I was thoughtlessly imagining Edwin’s future beauty and comparing him to Kaiden.

Kaiden suddenly opened his mouth.

“…I’m asking just in case.”

Just as I was worrying whether he was going to say something about me staring at his face.

Completely unexpected words flowed from Kaiden’s mouth.

“Haven’t we met somewhere before?”

The golden eyes that had been hidden beneath his eyelids revealed themselves once more.

Eyes that were reflecting only me at this moment.

‘Haven’t we met somewhere before.’

We met in the garden.

I didn’t know The King of Adamant was related to goldfish.

“Back then, not in that garden.”

“…I wonder.”

I replied to Kaiden’s words with my eyes closed.

“Where would a humble caretaker like me have occasion to meet a king of a nation?”

“…Is that so.”

I could tell without looking.

Kaiden was staring at me intently.

‘My face is going to have holes burned through it.’

I opened my mouth again.

“I was an orphan. I entered the palace to become a caretaker here at the Prince’s Palace. The first time I saw Your Majesty the King was in that garden back then.”

“You were an orphan?”

Kaiden asked back in a slightly surprised voice.

“Weren’t you a noble?”

“I’m a noble now. I was adopted into The Count’s Family.”

Don’t tell me he’s displeased that someone who isn’t even a pure-blood noble dared to occupy the spot next to the king.

“Perhaps.”

I hesitated for a moment before opening my mouth.

“Are you uncomfortable because I’m not a noble?”

“It would have been more uncomfortable if you were a noble.”

“…Ah.”

I had forgotten that the King of Adamant was said to be of common birth.

Kaiden looked at my expression and let out a quiet chuckle.

“Well, never mind.”

He waved his hand dismissively and turned away.

“Forget what I said earlier. I was just talking nonsense.”

With those words, no more sounds could be heard.

I carefully turned my head toward Kaiden.

‘He’s already asleep?’

The young king had already laid down facing the ceiling and was sleeping peacefully.

Watching his chest rise and fall steadily was astounding.

‘Completely defenseless with a stranger beside him.’

Whether he had a carefree personality that didn’t think deeply, or perhaps he was overconfident in his own abilities.

‘Maybe it’s both.’

I stared intently at Kaiden’s face.

It was indeed a face that was hard to look away from once you set eyes on it.

‘Even though they’re so afraid of him, I can understand why women try to cling to him.’

A straight forehead and a prominent nose bridge, moderately full lips.

Straight eyebrows and neatly arranged long eyelashes.

Looking at Kaiden’s face, which boasted perfect harmony and balance, I was reminded of a young god’s statue that might appear in mythology.

‘He certainly resembles him.’

I discovered similarities between Kaiden’s face and Edwin’s and smiled softly.

‘Beautiful things all seem to look somewhat similar.’

Come to think of it, perhaps this was an extension of my work.

Putting children to sleep was also one of a caretaker’s duties.

‘The more I think about it, the more amusing it is.’

Before my death, my main job was secretly killing those who slept, but now my work was watching over others’ sleeping heads.

Of course, it wasn’t that I disliked my current job.

It was just still awkward.

“Sigh.”

I quietly sighed and turned my head.

Seeing that it was still dark outside the window, it seemed I would have to wait quite a while for dawn.

It appeared that tonight, sleeping peacefully would be difficult.

* * *

Rustle, rustle.

Kaiden slowly opened his eyes to the sensation of hair tickling around his eyes.

A cool morning breeze was blowing in through the slightly open window.

He looked at the empty space beside him and reached out his arm.

Warmth still remained on the slightly wrinkled blanket.

“…Leaving without permission.”

His voice, hoarse from morning, carried a hint of laughter.

In fact, Kaiden had been awake since Rachel left the bedroom in the early morning.

‘Amusing woman.’

The 3rd Prince’s caretaker, Rachel Brown.

Remarkably, that woman was not afraid of him.

Rather, she looked him straight in the eye and spoke her mind completely.

Who would have thought he’d see such courage and spirit in a small woman that even the knights who had roamed battlefields with him lacked.

Kaiden let out a chuckle while washing his face with one hand.

“…It’s not just the eyes that are similar.”

As he muttered these cryptic words to himself, the sound of knocking on the door could be heard.

“Your Majesty, it’s me.”

At his familiar aide’s voice, Kaiden lightly sat up.

Rising from the bed, he picked up the pants lying beside him, put them on, then grabbed a water bottle.

“Come in.”

Finally, with his permission granted, Oliver, who had been outside, entered the room.

His appearance was far too disheveled for someone who had just had a good night’s sleep.

The pitch-black hood and leather armor he wore were covered with weeds and mud.

“Did you sleep well?”

“Well enough.”

“I couldn’t sleep a wink because I was carrying out the orders you gave me as soon as we arrived in the Empire, but I’m glad to hear you slept well enough, my lord.”

“Seeing you being sarcastic to your superior from morning, it seems you could stay up for two more nights.”

“I apologize, my lord. Please forgive me.”

Kaiden continued speaking while putting on a fresh shirt hanging on the wall.

“So how did it go?”

“Your Majesty’s prediction was correct.”

Oliver bowed his head respectfully toward his one and only master.

“The last traces of the ‘Angel’ were in the Empire.”

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