The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 101

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Chapter 101. A Guest at the Prince’s Palace (4)

“…Where was it located?”

At Kaiden’s question, Oliver continued speaking with his head bowed.

“It’s at a lakeside not far from the Imperial Palace.”

“The lakeside?”

“It’s the place you once visited before, my lord.”

Oliver hesitated for a moment before adding an explanation.

“The, the reed bed where Your Majesty went to search for that woman’s remains, near that area.”

A murderous glint flashed across Kaiden’s face for a moment.

He wore a frightening expression as he seemed to ponder something deeply, then spoke again.

“Prepare to leave when the sun sets.”

Thud.

Kaiden set down the water bottle he was holding onto the nightstand.

“This time, I will definitely find the Angel’s whereabouts.”

“My, my lord.”

“What is it?”

“If the woman you seek has truly been revived and is living somewhere, wouldn’t it be enough to just find her?”

Oliver continued with a puzzled expression.

“Why do you also want to capture the Angel?”

The ‘Angel’ was a code name referring to the leader of ‘Breath of the Angel,’ an assassin group that had spread infamy across the entire continent.

“Do you truly believe that the one who killed the woman Your Majesty seeks is really the ‘Angel’?”

“Yes.”

“But wasn’t the woman Your Majesty seeks once an ‘Angel’ herself? I heard she was skilled enough to be called the strongest in the organization’s history.”

Oliver frowned as if he couldn’t understand.

“What reason would there be to kill such a person? Did they commit such an act to become the Angel themselves?”

“The reason doesn’t matter.”

Kaiden cast a sharp gaze out the window.

“What matters is the fact that damned bastard killed my angel.”

‘My angel.’

Oliver inwardly cringed at the cringeworthy combination of words that flowed from his lord’s mouth.

‘What is it about that woman anyway.’

It was truly strange how the man before him had come to be connected with an assassin leader.

‘But the strangest thing is…’

His lord was still harboring unrequited love for a woman he had met only once, twelve years ago.

‘At first, he didn’t even believe the news of her death and wandered around searching for that woman.’

Oliver recalled his lord’s appearance from a year ago, wandering the continent like a madman.

‘Then he even dabbled in strange black magic.’

As soon as he conquered the Kingdom of Lionel, instead of focusing on organizing the country, he went around searching for the dead woman’s remains and her belongings.

This was because a black mage had told him that to revive someone with black magic, he needed that person’s remains and objects related to them.

“My lord.”

Oliver asked as if he couldn’t understand at all.

“What exactly is that woman to you, my lord?”

If she was simply a woman he had unrequited feelings for, he wondered if there was reason for such obsession.

“What could she possibly be that…”

“She’s the person who allowed me to have everything.”

Oliver’s eyes widened at his lord’s answer.

“…So, she was the person I wanted to share everything I had with.”

The scent of summer seeped through the open window.

Kaiden was still gazing out the window.

“Without that woman, my life has no meaning whatsoever.”

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Step, step.

Early morning at the 3rd Prince’s Palace.

Someone’s footsteps echoed through the corridor.

“Hmm.”

Kaiden, the King of Adamant, was slowly touring the 3rd Prince’s Palace with his hands clasped behind his back.

His momentary surprise at the palace’s larger-than-expected scale was brief.

He stopped when he saw a portrait hanging in one of the reception rooms.

“…So it was here.”

It was a portrait large enough to occupy one entire wall.

The subject of the painting was a very pure and beautiful woman with blonde hair and golden eyes.

Her snow-white skin and pink dress suited her remarkably well.

Just then, he sensed a presence nearby.

“Hmm?”

Some golden furry bundle was half-visible through a crack in the door.

Kaiden unconsciously frowned before relaxing his expression.

He realized it wasn’t a golden furry bundle, but the 1st Princess Emilia he had seen yesterday.

“Hmm…”

The 1st Princess, Emilia, was hiding behind the door with only half of her tiny face peeking out.

The child was observing Kaiden with eyes full of curiosity.

‘Certainly.’

Kaiden also quietly observed Emilia.

‘She resembles her.’

Perhaps because the Princess was also wearing a pink dress today, she bore a striking resemblance to Empress Idis in the portrait.

So much so that he thought this might be what Empress Idis would have looked like as a child.

“Good morning, Your Highness the Princess.”

Kaiden offered a friendly greeting.

However, instead of returning the greeting, the young Princess simply stared at him intently from behind the door.

“…”

“…”

It was an unintended standoff situation.

Kaiden was inwardly flustered.

‘What does she want?’

He had plenty of experience on the battlefield, but absolutely no experience dealing with young children.

Just as Kaiden was wondering how to end this standoff situation.

Patter patter patter.

The Princess, who had been silently staring, suddenly ran out from behind the door and thrust something she held in both hands toward him.

“This!”

Kaiden, who had instinctively been about to assume a defensive stance, blinked when he saw what the Princess held in her hands.

“A book, is it?”

“Yes, it’s Ria’s!”

The Princess lifted the large book above her head with her stick-like arms.

Her bright blue eyes were now sparkling almost overwhelmingly.

“Ria read this really hard! A heroic story!”

Kaiden’s face hardened when he saw the ornate book cover.

It was a fairy tale book about Kaiden that had been designated as a banned book in the Adamant Kingdom.

‘I’m sure I prohibited both its publication and distribution.’

To put it nicely, it was a fairy tale book, but it was essentially no different from a novel written by someone with delusions of grandeur who deified himself.

‘But don’t people usually say heroic tale rather than heroic story?’

Was she still too young to memorize such words?

Kaiden looked down at Emilia, who couldn’t even reach his knees.

“The knight in the fairy tale defeats monsters and wins every single day? And he’s so handsome that all the princesses like him!”

“Is that so.” “Yeah! But the knight doesn’t like anyone! So he goes back to his hometown and builds a country and becomes a king!”

“I see.”

Hearing his own story, even an exaggerated version, from the young princess’s mouth made his face feel strangely warm.

“Hey, you’re really His Majesty the King of Adamant, right?”

Mister.

Had he already reached the age to be called by such a title when he wasn’t even married yet?

Kaiden couldn’t believe this reality at first, but soon accepted it.

He thought that to a child as young as the princess, he could certainly look like a mister.

“Your Majesty, you look like the knight king in this story!”

“…Is that so?”

“Yeah!”

Emilia opened the book with her tiny hands and pointed at an illustration with her finger.

“Black hair and golden eyes! Just like Your Majesty!”

“Haha, I see.”

“And Your Majesty is handsome like the knight king too!”

There was no man in the world who disliked being complimented on his looks.

Even if the one giving the compliment was a young child with clumsy pronunciation.

“What an honor this is.”

Kaiden knelt on one knee and met Emilia’s eyes.

“That’s the most generous and pleasant compliment I’ve received recently.”

The child looked at Kaiden’s face, which had come down to her eye level, and hugged her fairy tale book tightly.

“Really?”

“Yes, I mean it.”

“Then, if Ria asks you to be friends, will you be friends with her?”

Kaiden smiled gently at the young princess’s cute request.

“Of course, Your Highness.”

“Really? Thank you! Ria had no friends, so she wanted to have a friend!”

No friends? Why not?

For such a cute and kind young princess to not have a single friend, something must be seriously wrong.

‘So the rumors about the Kingdom of Lionel disappearing and being neglected were true.’

Kaiden’s expression darkened for a moment.

But as soon as his eyes met the princess’s again, he smiled brightly.

“Princess Emilia.” “Yeah?”

“Was there something you wanted to do with your first friend?”

“Something I want to do?”

“Yes. Haven’t you ever thought about games or activities you’d want to do if you made a friend? Or if you could tell me about any toys you’d like as gifts…”

Friend, games, toys.

Words that Emilia loved came out in succession.

“Then, then!”

Emilia raised her voice with her cheeks flushed rose-colored.

“Let’s play horsie!”

“Horsie, you say?”

Somehow that sounded ominous.

When Kaiden narrowed his eyes slightly, Emilia grabbed his fingers with both hands and shook them.

“Yeah! It’s a game where Your Majesty carries Ria like a horse and crawls around on all fours!”

“…Your Highness.”

“Yeah?”

“I’ve thought of a more fun game. How about we try that game first?”

“Something more fun?”

Emilia kept tilting her head.

She seemed to find it hard to believe there was a game more fun than horsie riding.

“What is…”

Before the princess could finish her sentence.

Kaiden scooped up the princess with one arm and stood up.

Then he placed the princess on his shoulders.

“Kyaaaaa!”

Emilia screamed and grabbed Kaiden’s hair tightly.

“High! So high!”

The small child excitedly kicked her feet.

She seemed extremely excited by this eye level she was experiencing for the first time in her life.

“Fun! So fun!”

Kaiden inwardly sighed with relief at Emilia’s enthusiastic reaction.

‘Oliver’s useless chatter comes in handy sometimes.’

It was worth remembering his aide’s story about how children go crazy with joy when given piggyback rides.

If he hadn’t known that children love piggyback rides, he would have been stuck crawling on all fours in the middle of the Imperial Palace.

“Kyaaaang!”

Kaiden lightly held Emilia’s legs to prevent her from falling off his shoulders as he moved around.

“Hehehe hahaaak!”

Strange laughter from pure joy.

Kaiden found himself smiling unconsciously as he listened to that sound.

“…E, Emilia?”

At that moment, the 3rd Prince Edwin appeared at the reception room door.

The prince looked stunned as he saw Emilia riding on the King of Adamant’s shoulders.

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