The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 115

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Chapter 115. The Knight King and the 3rd Prince (2)

‘This movement is….’

It was part of the Empire’s flashy sword dance that had no practical combat value whatsoever.

And it wasn’t the movement of the evil dragon role that Edwin had played, but rather the movement performed by the first emperor role.

However, it wasn’t exactly the same movement.

‘He’s removed all the unnecessary movements and extracted only the essence.’

It was a sharp strike that had stripped away the movements meant to look beautiful, leaving only the trajectory to slice through the armpit and nape of the neck.

‘Not bad.’

For a mere novice.

Kaiden smiled slightly.

He deliberately neither blocked nor dodged the prince’s final strike.

“Uh….”

Edwin, having finished his attack with all his might, stared at him blankly.

This was because a very small, thin line had appeared on the cheek of Kaiden, the King of Adamant.

When a droplet of blood finally appeared over the thin line, the young prince’s face turned pale.

“I’m, I’m sorry!”

Edwin turned pale and didn’t know what to do.

Meanwhile, Kaiden casually brushed the wound on his cheek with an indifferent expression.

“I, I didn’t mean to do that….”

“Of course you didn’t mean to.”

“I’m sorry, truly sorry….”

“There’s no need to apologize.”

Kaiden spoke as if it truly didn’t matter.

“It would be embarrassing to even call this a wound.”

He was someone who had survived perfectly fine even when his flesh was torn by monster teeth and claws and his belly was pierced.

It was laughable to call such a minor scratch a wound.

“But….”

Edwin looked tearful.

As Kaiden said, it was such a light wound that it wouldn’t be noticeable unless examined closely.

Even that, after being brushed once with a finger, looked like the skin had merely been slightly scraped rather than wounded.

‘What should I do?’

It might be a trivial wound, but the problem was the location.

The imperial family and nobles of the Empire considered wounds on the face, whether large or small, to be very shameful and blasphemous.

‘If it becomes known that I wounded the king’s face….’

Edwin bit his lips tightly.

The King of Adamant might be fine with it, but his position as the 3rd Prince of the Empire could become difficult.

If that happened, he might not only fall out of favor with the Emperor, but if he were questioned about how he managed to wound the king’s face, his secret sword training would surely be exposed.

“Prince Edwin.”

At that moment, a respectful voice came from above his head.

Kaiden was looking at him intently.

“As promised, I will grant whatever Your Highness desires.”

“Pardon?”

Edwin blinked his large eyes that were welling up with tears.

“Didn’t I promise you?”

Kaiden’s eyes curved into crescent shapes.

“I said that if Your Highness could land even a single blow on me, I would grant any one request you might have.”

He tapped the scratch on his face lightly with his finger.

“You’ve succeeded, so I must keep my promise.”

“Ah….”

Edwin stared blankly up at the man who was much larger than himself.

The golden eyes that he had initially found frightening, like those of a beast or monster, somehow seemed to hold a warm light at this moment.

He couldn’t understand why.

“Please tell me.”

Kaiden planted his scabbard on the ground.

“I will grant any request.”

He cast a strange look toward the young prince.

“If you ask me to hand over the Adamantite Mines, I could even do that.”

“Pardon?”

The Adamantite Mines?

It was such an absurd statement.

Edwin froze stiffly as if he had fainted with his eyes open.

Then Kaiden burst into laughter as if he found it amusing.

“Oh my, that seems to have been too burdensome a suggestion for the young prince.”

“Don’t, don’t tease me.”

“I wasn’t teasing.”

Kaiden stretched his lips into a long smile.

“I’m not someone who enjoys jokes.”

So he really would give the Adamantite Mines if asked?

Is this person sane?

“Of course, if you made such a request, I couldn’t take responsibility for what would happen afterward.”

It felt like goosebumps were rising on his spine.

Edwin didn’t know how to react and only moved his lips slightly.

Then, realizing that the man before him was waiting for his answer, he hurriedly composed his voice.

“I….”

After all, what he wanted to ask the King of Adamant was already decided.

Wasn’t it because of that very thing that he had put more earnest effort into the sparring?

Finally, Edwin’s lips opened with difficulty.

* * *

“Prince Edwin?”

I frowned.

This was because Edwin was sighing deeply with a face full of worry, as if the ground would cave in.

The boy, who had obediently changed into his pajamas, sighed deeply once more as soon as our eyes met.

Sighing at the sight of someone’s face—somehow that doesn’t feel very good.

“What’s wrong?”

“You know.”

Edwin looked at me with a furrowed brow.

“What kind of woman do you think the King of Adamant would like?”

“…Pardon?”

Why is he suddenly curious about such useless things?

I stared at the prince with suspicious eyes.

“Actually, today.”

Edwin drooped both eyebrows and muttered in a small voice.

“I ran into the King of Adamant in the garden, you see? Unfortunately, he caught me practicing swordsmanship….”

The boy stopped mid-sentence and glanced at me.

Since I was the one who had repeatedly warned him that he mustn’t let anyone else find out about learning swordsmanship, he couldn’t help but be cautious.

“And then?”

When I asked without much reaction, Edwin sighed in relief and continued.

“He suddenly suggested we spar.”

“…Spar, you say?”

That bastard made the first move?

I had simply asked him not to disregard Edwin.

‘Though I didn’t mean for him to take excessive interest either.’

I stretched my lips into a long line as I recalled my conversation with Kaiden.

“Yeah, he said if I succeeded in landing even one attack, he’d grant me any favor I asked for.”

“Surely you didn’t make an unreasonable request.”

“What’s that supposed to mean.”

When I made a serious face, Edwin frowned.

“Shouldn’t you be asking first whether I managed to land an attack?”

“Of course you did.”

“Huh?”

Edwin’s eyes widened at my confident answer.

“How can you be so certain?”

“It’s not like I don’t know Your Highness’s abilities.”

Kaiden certainly wouldn’t have been fighting seriously.

If he had been serious, Edwin couldn’t have returned looking so unharmed without a single scratch.

‘Well, you can tell just by watching the sword dance.’

In terms of natural talent alone, Edwin was superior to even Prince Lloyd, who was called a genius of swordsmanship.

If he hadn’t been a beginner just starting to learn swordsmanship, Edwin could have overwhelmed that guy in the sword dance.

‘So landing just one hit on Kaiden wouldn’t have been too difficult.’

Of course, that’s assuming Kaiden held back while Edwin gave it his all.

I approached Edwin and looked down at him.

“Your Highness would certainly have landed a strike. Am I wrong?”

“No, you’re right, but…”

Edwin’s eyes darted around at my words.

Then he muttered in a small voice.

“Listening to you really makes me feel strange.”

“Strange? In what way?”

“How should I put it.”

Edwin continued while scrunching up his nose.

“It’s like you believe in me more than I believe in myself.”

He muttered in such a small voice it seemed like he might dig a tunnel and crawl into it.

“I still don’t trust myself…”

“I simply believe in what Your Highness has shown me, in that effort.”

This kid who had no basics endured the harsh knight training through sheer grit and learned swordsmanship in a short time.

How could I not believe in the abilities of someone who achieved success through effort alone?

“So please don’t think of yourself as untrustworthy.”

Before I knew it, Edwin was looking up at me with wide eyes.

“Even when you feel like you can’t trust yourself, you can believe in the words of those who know Your Highness better than anyone.”

“Those who know me well?”

“Yes, people like me and Catherine.”

At my answer, his clear blue eyes sparkled innocently.

Edwin stared at me intently and slowly nodded his head.

“…So.”

I still hadn’t heard the important story.

I redirected the conversation.

“What exactly did you mean by what you said earlier?”

“Huh?”

“Didn’t you ask what kind of woman Kai—no, His Majesty the King of Adamant—would like?”

At my words, Edwin let out an “Ah!” of realization.

“Right, at first when I succeeded in landing a hit, he told me to make any request. He said he could even give me the Adamantite Mines.”

The Adamantite Mines? Is he insane?

‘What kind of scheme was he trying to pull on a kid?’

If Edwin had asked for the Adamantite Mines, he could have used that as an excuse to start a war.

He could give the mines as promised, then change his mind and decide to take them back.

I couldn’t know if Kaiden actually had such intentions, but the possibility certainly existed.

‘He did say he’d form an alliance with me, but human hearts are bound to change.’

How many people smile and promise to help to your face while thinking of stabbing you in the back?

Especially among those in power, such petty schemes were all too common.

“But I made a different request. There was something I wanted to find out.”

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