The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 11

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Chapter 11. The Maid, Catherine (1)

“Well. Isn’t that something a nanny should be able to do?”

Actually, I don’t really know what kind of status a nanny has in society.

But I just guessed that if she’s the nanny of a ‘prince,’ she should have that kind of authority.

‘Judging by her reaction, it seems my words weren’t wrong.’

The Maid Captain was glaring at me with her face flushed red.

“You are someone who hasn’t even been in the Imperial Palace for a full month.”

She snapped back quickly with an irritated voice.

“I cannot entrust His Highness’s safety to someone who hasn’t even finished being vetted. Do you understand?”

“That’s strange. It seems like the people who need vetting are the maids serving His Highness, not me.”

“What did you say?”

“Surely the Maid Captain didn’t order them to bring His Highness cold washing water.”

The Maid Captain seemed at a loss for words and pressed her lips tightly shut.

She glared at me for a while, then twisted her eyes.

“Hah, now I see. There was a reason why a mere adopted child of some insignificant count’s family got in through Mrs. Conrad’s recommendation.”

What kind of kindness is it to mutter loud enough for everyone to hear?

By the way, so the real ‘Rachel Brown’ was an adopted child of a count’s family.

‘It’s more shocking that there’s a count’s family I don’t know about.’

Well, if it’s a family that received a count’s title while I was dead, it’s not impossible.

“If what Brown Lordling says is true, that’s quite unfortunate.”

The Maid Captain had already returned to an indifferent expression as if nothing had happened.

It was truly admirable facial expression management skills.

“Fine. Then let’s do it this way.”

She narrowed her eyes and added.

“From now on, all matters related to His Highness’s safety will be entrusted to Brown Lordling, the nanny. Is that satisfactory now?”

She seemed to have no intention of apologizing even if it killed her.

The Maid Captain snorted and left with an incredulous expression.

Until then, I thought it was rather fortunate.

That was before I learned what weight the Maid Captain’s words carried in this place.

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“What do you mean by that?”

The very next day.

I was able to understand very clearly what the Maid Captain’s last words meant.

And from very early in the morning at that.

“The Maid Captain said that the nanny would take care of everything regarding His Highness.”

The maid looked at my face with a troubled expression.

“I’m sorry. I’m just doing what the Maid Captain ordered me to do…”

The maids who used to come according to the prince’s wake-up time and meal times were nowhere to be seen, so I came to check.

What was waiting for me was news like a bolt from the blue.

“So you’re saying I have to prepare His Highness’s meals myself?”

The maid looked at a loss at my words.

“Th-then I have work to do, so I’ll excuse myself first!”

She mumbled an answer and disappeared before I could catch her.

“Ha, this has become troublesome.”

I irritably ran my hand through my hair.

‘That woman planned this from the beginning.’

Watching the maids glancing at me as they passed by made me chuckle.

Somehow the noble Imperial Palace isn’t much different from the dirty Back Alleys.

‘Well, to the maids here, I’m nothing more than a foreigner who insulted their leader.’

I had only lived in this body for two days, but I could feel it very keenly.

In this place, there wasn’t a single person on ‘Rachel Brown’s’ side, not just the prince and princess.

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‘What should I do?’

No matter how bad the situation was, I couldn’t let the prince starve as his nanny.

‘But I can’t feed him food I made either.’

The only time I made food was when I was poisoning someone.

Just as I was turning my steps to bring some black bread that the servants eat.

I heard voices from somewhere. It was coming from outside the open window.

‘Quite noisy. Did a fight break out?’

Among all spectacles, watching fights is the best.

I quietly poked my head out the window.

Below the window, I could see several maids surrounding someone.

“Doesn’t what I’m saying make sense? Did I tell you to wash all the curtains by this morning or not?”

“Why should I always do your work for you? I’m not your maid!”

“What? How dare you speak informally to me! How impudent!”

Smack—

With the sound of palm meeting cheek, one maid fell down.

The fallen maid had ivory-colored hair and light amber eyes.

Because of her thin, lanky build, she looked exactly like a pretty scarecrow.

“A fake noble dares to compete with me, a countess?”

The maid who introduced herself as a countess shouted with her head held high.

She trampled the fallen scarecrow maid’s skirt with her shoe heel.

“Really, Mrs. Conrad has ruined the entire Imperial Palace order! The Annex maids are so arrogant!”

She continued with an unpleasant voice.

“First she brings in some bitch who knows where she came from as a nanny—!”

Hmm, I’m the only nanny in the 3rd Prince’s Palace.

Is she calling me some bitch who knows where she came from right now?

Quite a perceptive maid.

‘Hmm, but wouldn’t it be problematic if even maids like that look down on me when I’m supposedly the prince’s nanny?’

Respect for the prince’s nanny would be the same as respect for the prince.

‘Still, since this is where I’ll be staying for a while, I should establish some order before leaving.’

I hesitated for a moment, then decided to mediate their fight.

I swear to heaven it wasn’t because they were talking badly about me or because they were the Maid Captain’s lackeys.

It was purely to practice the admirable thought I had of straightening out the order of the Prince’s Palace.

“Are you talking about me right now?”

I spoke while resting my elbow on the window frame.

Then all the maids’ heads turned toward me at once.

Their faces immediately turned pale.

“N-Nanny?”

“If you’re talking about me, let me join in too.”

“Th-that is…”

As soon as the maids saw me, they all froze in place.

Whether it was because I, the subject of their gossip, suddenly appeared, or because I had jumped over the fairly high window frame in one bound to approach them.

Or maybe it was because the story of me pouring cold washing water on a maid had already become a rumor.

I couldn’t tell which reason it was.

“You don’t seem very busy? Seeing how you’re gathered here chatting.”

When I spoke sarcastically on purpose, the maids’ expressions hardened.

“So what? Are you going to blame us for some crime right now?”

But the maid standing in the center replied boldly without changing her expression.

“Do you think you have the right to do that, Nanny?”

“Of course not. Who am I to judge your rights and wrongs?”

At my response, the maids exchanged glances with triumphant expressions.

“However, I do have the right to question the crime of gossiping about me based on social status when you weren’t even present.”

As I continued with a cold expression, the maids’ shoulders flinched.

“Why do you all look like that? Don’t you want to hear from some bitch who rolled in from who knows where?”

“N-no, that’s not it…”

In terms of rank alone, my position as the prince’s nanny was higher than the maids here.

They knew this fact better than anyone, which is why they didn’t dare argue with my words.

However, I seemed to have underestimated the shamelessness and petty pride of nobles.

One maid who claimed to be from The Count’s Family stepped forward boldly with a sneer on her lips.

“See, this is why you shouldn’t be nice to lowly things. Give them a little kindness and they act like they’re something special.”

Poke—

“Who do you think you are?”

She poked my forehead with her finger.

“Huh? Who do YOU think you are! A bitch who can’t even lift her head in front of me outside, where do you get off lecturing me? An adopted daughter of The Count’s Family who doesn’t know her place…”

I grabbed her arm that was pointing at me and twisted it behind her back.

“Kyaaaah—!”

The Countess Maid let out a shrill scream.

As I applied pressure, her face turned pale.

“I suppose The Count’s Family didn’t teach you that pointing fingers at people is rude behavior.”

“Wh-what did you say?”

I deliberately pressed my body close and whispered.

So that only she could hear.

“Young lady, you should be grateful that I don’t know your family’s name.”

“Wh-what?”

I whispered in her ear with a mischievous voice like a wicked fairy plotting something terrible.

“Otherwise, tonight your family and all your household might have died from poison.”

“St-stop talking nonsense! I won’t fall for such pathetic threats…”

“Young lady, you shouldn’t carelessly insult people who rolled in from who knows where.”

“L-let go of me! Let go and talk!”

“You never know.”

I let out a low laugh against her ear.

“I might have rolled in from somewhere far more dangerous than you could ever imagine.”

The maid trembled all over and struggled.

Of course, it was useless.

She swayed as if about to collapse, her face deathly pale.

Oops. Was my prank too harsh for a young noble lady?

I soon relaxed my expression and smiled brightly.

“If you get caught having ‘pointless chatter’ in the future, you’ll be in trouble. Do you understand?”

This time I asked loudly enough for the maids standing behind to hear.

The maids hurriedly nodded as if they understood.

When I released the pressure, the Countess Maid immediately fled from the spot.

The two maids with her panicked and disappeared following her.

Really, these insignificant things always cause trouble.

I watched the maids’ retreating figures before turning my head.

The maid who had been slapped was still lying there, staring up at me blankly.

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