The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 110

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Chapter 110. Alliance of Revenge (2)

“My apologies, Your Majesty.”

I bowed my head politely in response to Kaiden’s question.

“I’m not clever enough to calculate and weigh every word I speak.”

“Speaking so freely is exactly what I call being clever.”

Kaiden looked at me with his chin resting on his hand.

An ambiguous smile hung at the corners of his mouth.

“You must believe that a king of a nation wouldn’t kill a prince’s caretaker inside the Imperial Palace. Am I wrong?”

It wasn’t an incorrect assumption.

If rumors spread that a foreign king visiting the Empire during the Founding Festival had harmed none other than a prince’s caretaker, there would be no benefit for Kaiden himself.

“In any case, if it seemed to you that I was disrespecting His Highness the Prince, then there must have been some problem with my attitude as well.”

Fortunately, Kaiden seemed to be quite good at self-reflection.

He continued in a calm voice.

“But it seems there was some misunderstanding.”

“A misunderstanding?”

“I, well…”

He scratched his cheek and frowned.

“I’ve never held any ill feelings toward Their Highnesses.”

“…I see.”

I pondered for a moment before speaking again.

“Should I offer my thanks?”

“…You really are an interesting person.”

Kaiden took a sip of cider and changed the subject.

“May I ask you a question?”

“Is there something you’re curious about regarding me?”

“You learned something about me, didn’t you? Then I should learn something about you as well to make it fair, shouldn’t I?”

I had only casually asked if he drank frequently.

I stared at Kaiden quietly.

He was slightly squinting one eye as if waiting for my answer.

“Is there something about me that Your Majesty the King would be curious about?”

“Quite a lot.”

Quite a lot?

I furrowed my brow at the unexpected answer.

‘Wait.’

Suddenly, a good idea occurred to me.

I interrupted before Kaiden could say anything more.

“Then how about we take turns asking each other one question we’re curious about?”

“That’s quite an appealing proposal.”

Kaiden’s reaction was positive as expected.

His eyes narrowed like a wildcat as he looked at me.

“I didn’t know you had such interest in me.”

“…Who wouldn’t be curious about the founding king of Adamant?”

While I had purely personal curiosity, the man before me was indeed a figure shrouded in mystery to the outside world. Apart from his battlefield exploits and ghost stories, almost nothing was known about him.

“Then I’ll take the first turn.”

Kaiden set down his glass.

He crossed his arms and crossed one leg over the other.

“Which region are you from?”

“…Pardon?”

“It didn’t seem like such a difficult question.”

Right, it wasn’t a difficult question.

Though it was a strange one.

‘What’s his intention in asking? Is he curious about a caretaker’s hometown?’

I hesitated for a moment before answering in a calm voice.

“If you’re asking about my birthplace, I don’t know. As I mentioned before, I was an orphan who was adopted by the Count’s family.”

“…My apologies.”

Kaiden tilted his glass with an embarrassed expression.

Then he nodded his chin toward me. It was a signal to pass the turn.

“…Your Majesty, by any chance.”

I gazed into the cider swirling in my glass.

Kaiden’s face was reflected on the transparent surface.

“Have you ever heard of Breath of the Angel?”

Instantly, a terrible silence fell.

So quiet that even the creaking sounds of old wooden furniture, normally inaudible, could be heard clearly.

“…”

I closed my mouth at Kaiden’s expression visible on the surface.

He was staring at me with vacant eyes like someone whose soul had been stolen.

After remaining still for a long while, Kaiden finally managed to speak.

“…Did you say Breath of the Angel?”

“Yes.”

I lifted my head slightly to meet Kaiden’s eyes.

“My question didn’t seem too difficult either.”

“…How do you know about Breath of the Angel?”

I knew he would ask that in return.

How would a young lady raised in a Count’s family know the name of an assassin’s guild?

“The most precious person in the world to me was murdered.”

It was a truth that sounded like a lie.

By Breath of the Angel, by Ian Angel, I had lost my most precious life in this world.

“Without even knowing the reason why they had to be killed.”

Why did Ian kill me?

Why did the organization betray me along with him?

I was the leader, so why?

“I wanted to know that reason, at least.”

I clenched my hands resting on my knees.

The hem of my dress wrinkled terribly and stuck out between my fingers.

Even the old information broker in the back alleys couldn’t provide information about Breath of the Angel and Ian, and after that, I had no opportunity to leave the palace.

“My strength alone had its limits. In the end, I couldn’t discover why the person I loved died.”

Another silence fell.

Kaiden wore a suspicious expression before speaking in a serious voice.

“…You’ve had quite a troubled life, no less than mine.”

He placed the glass he was holding back on the table.

This time, he didn’t refill the empty glass.

“You asked if I knew about Breath of the Angel.”

Kaiden’s voice was mixed with a sigh.

It was a deep sigh that seemed mixed with long-held sorrow and lamentation.

“Yes, I know them. I know them very well.”

I waited for what would follow.

But Kaiden didn’t continue speaking.

“…Is that all you have to say in response?”

“You asked if I knew, and I answered that I do.”

Kaiden asked back with a brazen expression.

“Then isn’t that settled?”

Who was calling whom cunning?

I closed my mouth with a displeased expression.

Then Kaiden chuckled softly and nodded his head.

“If you have more questions, save them for your next turn.”

Petty bastard.

While I was internally cursing Kaiden’s underhanded move, Kaiden threw his second question.

“What’s your reason for asking me about Breath of the Angel?”

His golden eyes gleamed fiercely as if they could see through anything.

“I’m asking why you chose to ask me, of all people, about such a thing.”

Well, because you seemed to know about my past life.

But since I couldn’t speak honestly, I had no choice but to deflect somehow.

I flinched for a moment, then bowed my head and replied.

“I want revenge.”

It was sincere.

Taking revenge on Ian was my ultimate goal, after all.

“…On Breath of the Angel.”

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“You want revenge?”

“Yes.”

“On Breath of the Angel?”

“That’s correct.”

At my firm and unhesitating answer, Kaiden made an incredulous expression.

His eyes seemed to ask, “You?”

“I heard that Your Majesty has traveled throughout the continent. So I thought you might know something about Breath of the Angel, whose whereabouts are mysterious.”

The level of information a king of a nation could access was on a different scale from what I could access as a prince’s caretaker. I could tell just from how he had found The Lush Reeds Forest near the Imperial Capital, which even citizens of the Empire barely knew about.

“…I see.”

Kaiden’s gaze became strange.

He stared at me silently, then opened his mouth.

“I don’t know whether to call this coincidence or fate.”

“Pardon?”

“I also have a grudge against Breath of the Angel.”

Kaiden showed his teeth in a smile.

It wasn’t a friendly smile, but a warning smile filled with anger and resentment.

The aura he emanated made me feel goosebumps all over my body.

“I don’t know what kind of revenge you want.”

The cup on the table trembled slightly.

It was reacting to the energy Kaiden was emitting.

“But I intend to completely erase the existence called Breath of the Angel. So that no trace remains anywhere on the continent.”

I had only speculated that Kaiden might have had some feelings toward my past life.

I never imagined such an intense reaction would come out.

“…Your Majesty too.”

I barely managed to get my voice out.

“It seems you lost someone important to Breath of the Angel.”

“Someone important?”

Kaiden repeated my words, then smiled and corrected them himself.

“The word ‘important’ wasn’t enough for that person.”

“Then was it a family member?”

“No, someone more precious than such things.”

Surely not. Damn it, please let it not be me who killed that precious person.

Please let the tears he shed at my grave, which was nothing but ash, not be tears of frustration at being unable to take revenge on me directly.

“…It was someone I could give everything I had to.”

Did he lose a lover or something?

It was fascinating that the highest person in a nation and I, who had only lived a bottom-feeder life, had something similar.

Though there was a difference: I was killed by someone I could have given everything to, while he lost someone he could have given everything to.

“You must have been deeply grieved.”

“…Yes.”

Kaiden stared intently at the cup in his hand and murmured.

“Death certainly hits differently. Even if they were alive, they would have been someone I couldn’t reach anyway.”

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