The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 111

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Chapter 111. Alliance of Revenge (3)

‘Someone he could never reach.’

Then it must have been a terrible one-sided love, not a mutual relationship.

I clicked my tongue inwardly.

‘Even regular love is shitty enough, but unrequited love?’

I couldn’t understand it at all.

To give your heart away knowing full well it could never be fulfilled.

‘But the woman that man loved. I’ve never killed a woman with my own hands in my life.’

I pondered this, then gasped.

‘Wait, could it have been a man?’

Suddenly my head felt complicated.

The number of men I’d killed directly was so vast I couldn’t even count them.

‘Let’s think about complicated matters later.’

It’s not like I could figure out who Kaiden loved right now anyway.

I quickly erased Kaiden’s love story from my mind.

‘But he wants to destroy the Breath of the Angel?’

Hearing someone say they’d destroy an organization I once belonged to right to my face should have been disturbing.

But for me now, it was something to welcome.

‘If Ian is leading the organization, it would be hard for me to face them alone.’

Then having even one strong ally would make revenge easier.

Of course, Edwin becoming crown prince might help, but would I have the luxury of waiting that long?

“Prince Kaiden.”

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, as they say.

If we had a common enemy, there was no reason we couldn’t join hands.

Even if he was the king of another nation.

“There’s something I’d like to tell Your Highness.”

I revealed my hidden trump card to the dangerous man before me.

“Actually, I recently encountered a member of the Breath of the Angel organization in the Imperial Capital.”

Kaiden froze with the cup at his lips.

A pair of golden eyes glared in my direction.

“…You encountered a Breath of the Angel member?”

The king slowly lowered his cup.

“Where?”

“At the Imperial Hunting Grounds.”

Kaiden seemed to think for a moment, then narrowed his eyes.

“At the Imperial Hunting Grounds, you recently encountered an organization member.”

He continued, mulling over my words.

“I understand there was an imperial hunting competition held there recently. So you’re saying you encountered them on the day of the hunting competition?”

“…Yes.”

“I haven’t received any reports of imperial family members being attacked by assassins?”

His tone carried the confidence that he would have known immediately if such a thing had happened.

Planting spies in other nations is basic when trying to understand continental politics, but the opponent was the Empire. Still, seeing him so confident, I wondered if I should call it self-assurance or arrogance.

“…I saw it myself.”

“You saw it yourself?”

Was that what “encountered” meant?

Kaiden slowly blinked twice.

“So, Rachel Brown Lordling. You’re saying you directly encountered an assassin organization member and returned alive?”

Indeed, how could anyone believe that a prince’s caretaker, a commoner woman with nothing to her name, could encounter a member of the continent’s top assassin guild and survive?

‘I wouldn’t have believed it either.’

Of course, that would be true if the woman’s true identity wasn’t the former leader of the continent’s top assassin guild.

I tried my best to look suspicious as I continued.

“They seemed to be targeting a moment when Prince Edwin was alone, but when I caught them, they seemed flustered and just ran away.”

At my words, Kaiden’s expression grew increasingly strange.

The idea that a mere caretaker had interfered with an assassin’s work seemed utterly unbelievable to him.

At times like this, it was more effective to mix a bit of truth with lies.

“That person said this in front of Prince Edwin. That the Breath of the Angel would reach him.”

Of course, those words were spoken directly to me, not Edwin.

The assassin who delivered that message had taken his own life and was no longer in this world.

“If I may venture a guess.”

I slightly bowed my head, pretending to gauge Kaiden’s reaction.

“It seems there’s someone connected to the Breath of the Angel within the Imperial Capital.”

Though I expressed it delicately, it was essentially saying that there seemed to be someone among the imperial family who had hired the Breath of the Angel to kill Edwin.

“I understand that attempted regicide is treated as high treason, even if unsuccessful.”

Kaiden stared at me intently and asked.

“Why didn’t you inform the Emperor? If you had told him, it might have been easier to catch the Breath of the Angel?”

What nonsense.

The Breath of the Angel had maintained their organization for ages by parasitically feeding off the shadows of high-ranking people.

‘Hiring assassins for personal revenge or profit is something only the wealthy and high-born can do.’

Thus the organization could guarantee unimaginable wealth and privileges in exchange for keeping their employers’ dirty secrets. The right to trade in human lives.

‘A kind of symbiotic relationship.’

A truly disgustingly sticky symbiotic relationship.

Like filthy refuse stuck to the bottom of a shoe that won’t come off.

‘The Emperor is no exception.’

No matter how much he treated his children like chess pieces, the Emperor wouldn’t have directly commissioned the Breath of the Angel to kill the 3rd Prince.

‘But even if I had reported the truth, nothing would have changed.’

Edwin’s position wasn’t secure yet.

The Emperor was only considering Edwin as a crown prince candidate, not truly thinking of him as a cherished child.

‘The Emperor has neglected Edwin until now. He wouldn’t actively step forward to help him now.’

Rather, there was a high chance of complications arising during the process of uncovering the mastermind.

For example, the person behind it might confess their crimes first and ask the Emperor to just let it slide. Or the Breath of the Angel might directly petition the Emperor.

‘I used all those methods myself.’

Recalling the past made my mind feel unnecessarily complicated.

When I was young, it was because I didn’t know better; when I got a bit older, it was to survive; when I aged more, it was just because it was what I’d always done.

‘…There was a time when I used all sorts of vile and despicable methods with such excuses.’

Perhaps the reason I was killed so miserably by the lover I cherished was payment for living so thoughtlessly.

Payment for prolonging my life by staining my perfectly good hands with others’ blood.

“Prince Kaiden.”

I slowly opened my mouth.

With a serious attitude that wouldn’t look reckless to anyone.

“…I haven’t even been at the 3rd Prince’s Palace for a full year.”

And what I realized immediately in less than a year was that the Imperial Capital of this Empire truly operated by the law of the jungle.

And the 3rd Prince Edwin Anaxinianus Bentrum, whom I served, was among the weakest.

“Here, you need someone who will listen before you can voice your grievances.”

Just saying this much would make Kaiden understand.

That Edwin wasn’t yet in a position to openly appeal to the Emperor even when his life was threatened by other imperial family members.

“…Well.”

Fortunately, Kaiden showed an understanding attitude as I had expected.

He sighed as if in sympathy, then turned his gaze elsewhere.

“That could be the case.”

The Emperor’s reputation for being cold even to his own blood was a fact known to everyone on the continent.

After all, he was a ruthless man who had risen to the throne by defeating his own siblings.

Kaiden showed a somehow uncomfortable expression and fidgeted with his fingertips.

I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.

But this seemed like the perfect opportunity to persuade him.

“I believe this is an opportunity, Your Highness.”

“An opportunity?”

“Yes, they’ve already failed at assassination once, haven’t they.”

The Breath of Angels was famous for never having failed a mission even once.

The reason was surprisingly simple. They kept attempting assassinations until they took the target’s life.

‘Employers who commission murders usually don’t give up just because of one failure.’

Rather, they would pay more upfront money and hire more assassins if necessary, doing whatever it took to end the target’s life.

“Surely, they will attempt assassination again.”

I looked at Kaiden, whose expression still revealed nothing of his thoughts.

“If so, they will show movement within the Imperial Capital before attempting a second time. If we track the moving tail, couldn’t we reach the body, or if we’re lucky, even the head?”

Assassination was delicate work that required more effort than it appeared.

It might seem like assassination was simply breaking in at night and cutting a sleeping target’s throat, but the reality was completely different.

To break in at night, one had to memorize everything from the number of guards and attendants in that mansion to their shift times and positioning, and to quietly cut the target’s throat, one had to find out even the time when he slept most deeply.

‘Since they missed a good opportunity like the hunting competition, the next attempt will likely be right after the Founding Festival period ends.’

The Founding Festival period, when many envoy delegations from other countries visit, wasn’t suitable for assassination attempts due to too many variables.

Instead, they would attempt assassination again right after the delegations returned, during that chaotic time when the Imperial Capital’s interior was being reorganized.

“So right now.”

Kaiden narrowed his brow and twisted one corner of his mouth.

He still wore an expression as if finding this absurd.

“Are you saying you would personally find traces of the Breath of Angels and report to me?”

“Yes.”

Kaiden lightly swirled the wine glass in his hand.

“…Well, those who serve as my eyes and ears are already spread throughout this Imperial Capital.”

His straight, dark eyebrows rose up.

“What if I say I don’t need your help?”

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