The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 117

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Chapter 117. The King’s Promise (2)

“Emilia! What kind of rudeness is this! Catherine, do something about this!”

“Ah, yes yes!”

Catherine hurriedly tried to pull away Emilia, who was crying while embraced in the king’s arms.

But at that moment, Kaiden extended one hand and stopped her.

“Princess Emilia.”

Kaiden lifted the sobbing princess into his arms.

The child buried her head against Kaiden’s neck and cried sorrowfully.

“Hueeeeeng.”

She cried so pitifully that even Kaiden, who could cut down enemies’ throats without hesitation, felt his heart waver for a moment.

“Princess Emilia.”

Kaiden called Emilia’s name once more.

“This is not a permanent farewell. Please stop your tears.”

“Lies! Emma said the same thing but she never came back!”

When Emma’s name was mentioned, Edwin’s face hardened.

Catherine also seemed flustered as she covered her mouth.

‘Emma?’

Kaiden frowned at the unfamiliar name, then relaxed his expression again.

Supporting the princess with one arm, he awkwardly stroked the child’s hair with his free hand.

“It is not a lie. I promise you.”

“Promise?”

Emilia looked at Kaiden with pouting lips.

“Yes.”

Kaiden smiled as he looked at the princess.

“I will definitely come to see Your Highness again. If I cannot come, then I shall invite Princess Emilia to Adamant Castle.”

Invite the Empire’s princess to the Adamant Kingdom?

Did this young king understand what those words meant?

Catherine looked at the young king with surprised eyes.

“You’ll invite Ria to the castle?”

Emilia had already stopped crying.

She sniffled and asked back.

“Really?”

“I am someone who always keeps the promises I make.”

Kaiden was about to wipe the snot under the young princess’s nose with his finger, but realizing he was wearing gauntlets, he borrowed a handkerchief from a nearby knight.

“So please trust me. I have never once failed to keep my word.”

Emilia’s small face swayed back and forth as the handkerchief wiped it.

“Oh my.”

He had wiped as carefully as possible, yet she swayed this much.

A child’s head seemed much more fragile than he had thought.

Kaiden tossed the handkerchief back to its owner and gently supported the back of Emilia’s head.

“Are you alright, Your Highness?”

“Mmhm.”

Emilia wiped around her eyes several times with her tiny hands.

Then she looked at Kaiden with her large eyes.

“Then, you really promised? To invite Ria?”

“Yes, I promised.”

“Mmhm.”

Emilia finished wiping her tears, then suddenly rummaged through her skirt pocket and pulled something out.

“Here, I’ll give this to Your Majesty.”

What the princess pulled out was a very small rabbit doll.

On top of the doll’s head was something like a loop made of thread.

“It’s a gift to commemorate becoming friends with Ria.”

Kaiden silently accepted the rabbit doll that Emilia handed him.

What had seemed palm-sized when the princess held it now looked only about two finger joints in size in his hands.

“A gift, you say?”

“Yeah, so you won’t forget Ria.”

Emilia stared intently at Kaiden’s face and asked.

“Why? Don’t you like it?”

If asked whether he liked it or not, honestly it was closer to not liking it.

He had never been the type to enjoy playing with dolls since childhood.

“…”

Kaiden stared at the rabbit doll in his hand for a long while.

Then, without saying anything, he attached the rabbit doll to the end of the dagger handle at his waist.

“Thank you, Your Highness.”

Kaiden smiled broadly at Emilia, who had a proud expression.

“I will always carry it with me.”

“Hehehe!”

Pleased that Kaiden had readily accepted her gift, Emilia suddenly planted a kiss on his cheek.

“E, Emilia!”

Edwin reached out toward them with a shocked expression.

He wasn’t shocked by the princess’s rudeness, but by the fact that his only sister had kissed the cheek of a man who wasn’t him.

“Ria likes Your Majesty! I like you so much!”

Emilia hugged the half-dazed Kaiden’s neck and smiled brightly.

“So Ria will wait quietly too! You must come see me again, okay?”

“Me, me too!”

At that moment, Edwin caught the tail end of Emilia’s words and raised his voice.

“May I come along too?”

“…Pardon?”

“If you’re inviting Emilia, may I come along as well…?”

Edwin spoke with a trembling voice and trailed off.

His large eyes held regret and disappointment.

“…Prince Edwin as well.”

Kaiden stared at the prince and said.

“You seem disappointed that I’m leaving early.”

Edwin bit his lips.

Even though Kaiden was a king of another country, he was one of the few adults who had shown interest in him first.

Thinking they were already parting made him feel strangely sad and regretful.

‘If he leaves now, he might become someone I’ll never see again.’

Even if Kaiden visited the Empire next time, who knew how the situation might have changed by then. Perhaps Edwin himself might not be in the Imperial Palace.

“…Yes.”

Edwin gave a short reply and looked down at his feet.

Kaiden stared at the dejected young prince for a moment, then carefully set Emilia down on the ground.

Then he drew the long sword that had been tied to his horse’s saddle.

“Please accept this.”

“Your Majesty! That is!”

When Kaiden offered the sword he had drawn to Edwin, the knights of Adamant Kingdom were alarmed.

“Your Majesty, isn’t that your treasured sword!”

“How could you give such a precious thing to a foreign royal…?”

But Kaiden completely ignored his subordinates’ words and continued speaking to Edwin.

“This is a sword made by Adamant Kingdom’s skilled blacksmith.”

Kaiden drew his sword from a scabbard made of dark blue leather.

The blade gleamed blue-white in the bright dawn light.

Edwin’s eyes widened at the sight.

“The blade is made from processed high-purity adamant. There’s no better sword than this for slaying monsters.”

Edwin nodded with a bewildered expression at the sudden sword boasting.

“I, I see.”

Kaiden sheathed the sword he was holding and suddenly held it out to Edwin.

Edwin looked at him with surprised eyes.

“It’s a return gift. Let’s say it’s a present to show that I was well entertained at the Prince’s Palace.”

Edwin took the adamant sword in his confusion.

Kaiden smiled quietly at the young prince.

“I came in such haste that I didn’t prepare a proper gift, so I’d like to give you the most valuable thing I have on me. I hope it pleases you.”

It was clearly a masterwork sword that anyone could see had been crafted with great care.

After all, if it was a sword worthy of being carried by a king, how much effort must have gone into making it.

“W-wait a moment!”

Edwin belatedly came to his senses and shook his head vigorously.

“This is far too generous a return gift! I never expected anything like this…”

“Objects have their rightful owners. And that sword seems to suit Your Highness better than it does me.”

Kaiden showed a kind smile.

“Besides, it’s not such an expensive or precious item. It’s similar to the bow I gave you before, so please don’t feel too burdened.”

At his words, Oliver, the aide who had been standing beside them, opened his mouth in disbelief.

‘Come on, you should at least wet your lips before lying like that. That sword alone could buy several castles.’

The sword Kaiden had just gifted to Edwin was a masterwork—no, a legendary blade—that couldn’t be bought even for countless fortunes.

The bow he had sent Edwin as a gift before was also a precious item, but it couldn’t compare to the legendary sword he’d just handed over.

He’d said it could buy several castles, but in truth, it was such a precious sword that its value was difficult to estimate.

‘High-purity adamant is extremely difficult to process, so even transforming it into other forms is challenging with ordinary techniques.’

Oliver swallowed a sigh as he looked at the young prince holding the legendary sword.

‘It’s a sword painstakingly made by gathering hidden dwarf craftsmen.’

The first thing the young king of Adamant had done after destroying the Kingdom of Lionel and seizing the Adamantite Mines was to develop independent steel technology.

And at the center of that were the dwarf blacksmiths scattered throughout the Continental Mountains.

‘But the fact that we’ve allied with the dwarves has never been revealed to the outside world.’

He said he absolutely didn’t think of him as his nephew.

Oliver glanced sideways at Kaiden, who was beaming with smiles, and pressed his forehead.

‘So my lord is human after all. Seeing how his arm bends inward like this in the end.’

Unlike Oliver, who was full of worries, Edwin’s face, the recipient of the sword, was blooming as brightly as a flower.

“Then, th-thank you for accepting it.”

Edwin gripped the sword tightly.

It didn’t feel real that such a fine sword was now his.

“Your Highness.”

Then Kaiden slowly opened his mouth.

“You seem to have talent with the sword, so if you continue to hone your skills, you could become an excellent swordsman.”

It was praise he had never expected.

Edwin blinked at Kaiden’s words.

Though he had landed a hit during their sparring match, he was ultimately the one who had been defeated.

‘That person only used one hand too.’

Unlike Edwin, who had attacked with all his might, Kaiden had simply stood in place and swung only the arm holding his scabbard.

Nevertheless, it was Edwin who had been so thoroughly overwhelmed that it was painful to watch.

How embarrassed he had been when he realized this fact only after the sparring ended.

‘Still…’

Edwin stared intently at Kaiden.

‘I thought he would be an extremely difficult person.’

Suddenly, Edwin realized the identity of the strange sense of déjà vu he had felt since first seeing Kaiden.

‘He resembles her.’

The young prince recalled his mother’s face from the portrait.

The Third Empress Idis’s eyes and Kaiden’s eyes had remarkably the same color.

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