The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 14

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Chapter 14. The Maid, Catherine (4)

“Ahhh, be gentle!”

Catherine screamed as one of the maids wiped her wounds with a wet cloth.

“I am being gentle! Geez, where was there even a place to hit on this skinny body that they whipped her like this!”

Then, starting with one maid’s grumbling, complaints erupted from here and there.

“Isn’t the Housekeeper really going too far? When the main mansion maids cause trouble, she doesn’t say anything.”

“That’s what I’m saying! They slack off all the time but she doesn’t scold them!”

“It’s because we do all the work they slack off on.”

“If we don’t do it, it all becomes our fault anyway.”

“That’s why Catherine, why did you disobey the Housekeeper’s orders and end up like this!”

“Is that something to say to someone who’s hurt? Just leave her be. It hurts a lot, doesn’t it Catherine?”

Catherine lying face down on the bed groaning, and the annex maids surrounding her.

Looking again, they seemed more like family than just colleagues.

– We may not share blood, but we’re family, Kayla. You understand, right?

From an old memory, a gentle woman’s voice echoed like a reverberation.

If I hadn’t been sold to the assassin group, could I have lived like that too?

– You can do it with me. Family.

Suddenly, a voice I wanted to forget was heard along with it.

I lowered my eyes.

It was something that had already happened and was in the past anyway.

Getting lost in useless sentimentality, I must have become quite loose.

It was when I was about to turn around and leave silently.

The conversation of the annex maids drifted to my ears.

“If it weren’t for Countess Katrina, that woman would have been kicked out long ago!”

“Shh! What if someone hears you saying such things!”

This time, fortunately, it was a familiar name.

‘If you don’t know that name in the Imperial Social Circle, you’re a spy.’

The flower of high society who became the 2nd Empress’s right hand in one stroke with her brilliant beauty and skillful social maneuvering, Countess ‘Paylin Katrina’.

‘I never would have thought the Housekeeper had connections with that woman.’

But why would that woman’s confidant be stationed next to Prince Edwin?

Edwin’s background was too insignificant to be considered a surveillance role.

‘Maybe they’re keeping him in check unconditionally just because he’s a prince?’

Coincidentally, I had met the Countess before I died.

She was a beautiful but venomous woman.

Originally, the more beautiful the flower, the sharper thorns it has.

And those who get pricked by those thorns are always the ones who keep the flower closest.

Suddenly, the Housekeeper’s excessively harsh actions flashed through my mind.

‘What should I do.’

While I was pondering with my eyes lowered, I felt the maids’ gazes.

Why are they all looking at me?

“Um, Governess?”

One maid who made eye contact with me approached me cautiously.

Instead of answering, I stared at her, and she continued with a troubled expression.

“Catherine says you saved her, is that true?”

“That’s right.”

“We’re grateful that you saved Catherine, but honestly, we’re just maids, so if the Housekeeper finds out about this…”

She seemed very apologetic and didn’t know what to do.

The other annex maids standing behind her were the same.

Their faces were very dark, unlike before.

Naturally, Catherine was no different.

I also knew very well what they were worried about.

They were afraid the Housekeeper would retaliate against them for their low status.

“Don’t worry.”

When I answered with an indifferent face, the maid opened her mouth in surprise.

“Pardon?”

“Since I did it, I’ll take responsibility.”

“You’ll take responsibility, Governess?”

The maids stirred at my words about taking responsibility.

“It must be true that you came with a recommendation letter from Mrs. Conrad.”

“Then we can live without watching the main mansion maids’ faces like before?”

I observed their reactions for a moment, then spoke again.

“Instead, there are a few things I’d like to ask you.”

* * *

‘I’ve obtained all the information I need for now.’

I was returning to the main building after finishing my conversation with the annex maids.

‘Now all that’s left is deciding what to do.’

The distance between the annex and main building wasn’t that far.

In the end, I couldn’t make a decision until I reached the front door of the main building.

‘I’m someone who will leave soon anyway.’

What held me back until the end was a kind of hesitation.

‘I’m not really Rachel Brown, and I wonder if there’s really a need to get this involved in the Prince’s Palace affairs.’

The fact that I was having such concerns in the first place was incomprehensible even to myself.

‘What is making me try so hard?’

What does it matter to me whatever the Housekeeper does?

The prince, the princess, the annex maids – they’re all complete strangers to me anyway.

It was a world where parents sold their children and children killed their parents.

So where was the reason to help others while taking risks?

– You’re quite contradictory, Kayla.

Again, that damn Ian’s voice rang in my ears.

– You kill people without batting an eye, yet you also help unrelated people without batting an eye.

It was something he had said to me when we hadn’t known each other long.

– I really don’t understand.

That was what I wanted to say to myself right now.

Why am I stepping forward for one annex maid I’ll soon part ways with?

Simply because I couldn’t accept that the Housekeeper punished an innocent annex maid?

Actually, I couldn’t accept myself being so proactive for just such a reason.

‘Let me settle this matter first, then decide.’

I quickly shook my head.

Anyway, I had promised the annex maids I would settle things, so I had to keep that promise.

Breaking promises was even more distasteful.

I convinced myself with that reasoning and threw open the door.

* * *

As soon as I entered the main building, two maids grabbed my arms as if they had been waiting.

They dragged me outside the main building and made me kneel on the dirt ground.

The Housekeeper, who had come outside at some point, approached and stood in front of me.

“Rachel Brown Lordling. You know what you did wrong, don’t you.”

When I raised my head, I saw the Housekeeper’s face like an angry bull and the main mansion maids gathered behind her.

They looked excited as if anticipating what was about to happen.

As soon as the Housekeeper made eye contact with me, she let out a thunderous shout.

“What country’s law is it to release a maid being punished without the Housekeeper’s permission?”

A tyrant who even ignores the prince, yet preaching about propriety.

It was truly an unfitting line.

It was then that I let out an inward sneer.

The Housekeeper’s hand rose above my head.

Thanks to that, I fell into an untimely dilemma.

Should I take that wicked palm flying toward my face, or shouldn’t I?

Avoiding the hand movements clearly visible to my eyes wouldn’t be difficult.

However, if I didn’t obediently take it, it would only fuel the Housekeeper’s anger further.

‘I have no choice for now.’

I lowered my eyes.

With a loud friction sound, everything went white before my eyes.

My left cheek stung.

It had been so long since someone hit me that it felt extremely awkward.

‘And it feels disgusting too.’

Meanwhile, the Housekeeper was still glaring at me venomously.

“Didn’t I clearly tell you, Brown Lordling? I would take charge of all matters concerning His Highness the Prince, so you should fulfill all your responsibilities as a governess.”

She placed her hands on her hips and shouted.

“But not only did you push your own work onto others, you even interfered in my jurisdiction.”

The Housekeeper gestured to a maid standing beside her.

“Go and bring a whip right now…”

“I cannot accept this.”

The line I could tolerate was exactly up to my ‘left cheek.’

I continued with a cold expression.

“It’s impossible for me alone to serve both Your Highnesses. I need the cooperation of the maids.”

The Housekeeper sneered at my words and frowned.

“Ha, are you making pathetic excuses now?”

“I’m merely stating facts.”

I stared quietly at the Housekeeper.

“But you, Housekeeper, used the excuse of entrusting me with matters concerning His Highness’s safety to forbid the maids from serving His Highness. Isn’t that strange?”

“What did you say?”

“The master of this place is, after all, Prince Edwin.”

At my words, the Housekeeper frowned as if sensing something was wrong.

“What are you trying to say?”

“But to punish a maid who prepared His Highness’s meal without His Highness’s permission. Doesn’t that not make sense?”

At that moment, the Housekeeper’s eyes widened.

“That’s!”

“If this isn’t a challenge to imperial authority, then what is it?”

It wasn’t even acting like the master in a house without an owner, but acting like the master when the homeowner was right there.

It was something no one could tolerate.

At my words, a stir arose among The Main Mansion Maids.

When those working under her became agitated, the Housekeeper instead raised her voice louder.

“Just because you have a mouth doesn’t mean you should babble nonsense! To incite with such groundless words!”

The Housekeeper’s hand shot up once again.

That’s when it happened.

“Stop it—! What is this behavior!”

A shrill shout came from behind the Housekeeper.

The owner of the voice was none other than the master of this palace, 3rd Prince Edwin.

Edwin stood at the top of the stairs with a deeply furrowed brow.

Beside him, a startled-looking Emilia was clinging closely.

Prince Edwin looked back and forth between me and the Housekeeper, then slowly descended the stairs.

“I asked what this behavior is supposed to be.”

His voice was unusually agitated.

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