The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 141
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Chapter 141. Traces (1)
A shabby secret chamber so run-down it was hard to believe it was located within the royal palace.
A cold, sharp silence flowed through the air, making one’s skin crawl.
“…This woman.”
Kaiden, standing in the middle of the secret chamber, muttered in a low voice.
He was looking down at the woman kneeling before him with cold eyes.
“Is she the one I’ve been searching for?”
The woman was dressed in shabby clothes.
She was bowing her head so low she was almost prostrate on the floor.
The hand gripping her skirt trembled slightly.
“I’ve confirmed she has the mark of Ouroboros on her body.”
Aurel, standing by the door, shrugged his shoulders slightly.
“If that woman isn’t lying, then it’s also true that she remembers her past life.”
At the mention of past life, Kaiden let out a snort of derision.
“Past life.”
Kaiden knelt down in front of the woman.
“Raise your head.”
“Your, Your Majesty the King, I greet…”
Though he had clearly told her to raise her head, the woman didn’t lift it, as if terrified of something.
She only tried to offer her greetings in a trembling voice.
“How insolent.”
Kaiden lifted the woman’s chin with the tip of his scabbard.
“Did you not hear me tell you to raise your head?”
“How could someone as lowly as a commoner like me dare to raise my head before Your Majesty the King…”
“Then answer me as you are. What was your past life?”
At the question that came without warning, the woman’s body stiffened.
She couldn’t bring herself to look directly into Kaiden’s eyes and kept averting her gaze.
“I, I was previously in an assassin group.”
“What was the name of the assassin group?”
“…Breath of the Angel.”
“Your position?”
“I was… the captain.”
As the questioning continued, any trace of expression gradually disappeared from Kaiden’s face.
He asked in a dry, emotionless voice.
“What is your name?”
“My, my name is…”
The woman barely managed to reply in a voice that was barely audible.
“Kayla.”
Aurel observed his lord.
He sat motionlessly in front of the woman.
Since he was sitting with his back turned, Aurel couldn’t see his expression, but he instinctively sensed it.
‘This time too.’
Was it the wrong answer?
Aurel secretly let out a sigh.
“You claim to be Kayla.”
“Yes, yes. That’s correct.”
“How utterly ridiculous.”
“…Pardon?”
Kaiden’s lips stretched languidly to both sides.
He lightly moved the sword tip that had been against the woman’s chin.
“You put in some effort.”
Mysterious green eyes and reddish-tinged blonde hair.
The woman bore a strange resemblance to the one he was searching for.
“Though it’s clumsy.”
Despite wearing shabby clothes, her skin was far too white as jade.
Just like noble ladies who received regular care.
“If you were going to act, you should have sent someone who could do it properly. Your master is quite complacent.”
Insolent fools.
Kaiden thought of the lords who had recently come under his rule.
This woman was surely a trap sent by one of them.
“Who sent you?”
“Your, Your Majesty, what is this…”
“Is your act still not finished?”
Madness gleamed in his golden eyes.
Kaiden asked in a voice tinged with laughter.
“Then let me ask you just one thing, Kayla.”
His aura was so fierce it seemed he would kill her if she didn’t give the right answer.
The woman swallowed dry saliva as she looked at the king’s face that had come close to her nose.
He was certainly handsome enough to blind one’s eyes, but his intimidating presence made her feel like she might faint.
“Back then, why did you leave me behind?”
Left behind? Who left whom?
The woman looked at Kaiden with confused eyes.
“When I begged you so desperately…”
Kaiden twisted one corner of his mouth.
The madness in his eyes had already changed to grief and anger.
“Why did you abandon me and leave?”
Could there really exist a woman who abandoned and left the Knight King of Adamant even when he begged her not to go?
Kaiden pressed the woman who could give no answer and was trembling.
“Come now, answer me.”
“Your, Your Majesty…”
“If you’re really Kayla, this should be a question you can answer.”
It was an utterly malicious smile.
His face showed that he knew very well he was asking a question the other person couldn’t answer.
The woman surrendered to Kaiden who had seen right through her.
“Please, please forgive me! Your Majesty! I only did as I was told! I really don’t know anything! Count Sorel said if I did as he instructed, he would return my brother’s title!”
Count Sorel, as expected.
Kaiden snorted as if he had known it all along.
“Good that you’re honest.”
It was fortunate the woman didn’t stubbornly persist needlessly.
If she had, he might have twisted the slender neck of that woman who dared impersonate his precious one.
Kaiden stood up from his seat without lingering.
“Aurel.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Summon Count Sorel.”
At the king’s command, Aurel tilted his head to the side.
He looked at the woman who was shedding tears and said.
“Then what shall we do with this woman?”
“Handle it as you see fit.”
“Pardon? As I see fit?”
What a troublesome command to give.
Aurel scratched his cheek with a troubled expression.
“You mean, don’t kill them, right?”
No answer came back.
Kaiden had already left the secret chamber.
“Sigh.”
It seems he’s quite upset about coming up empty-handed again.
Aurel sighed and extended his hand to the woman who was still sitting on the floor.
The woman looked up at him with confused eyes.
“I thought your acting was terrible, but are you also stupid?”
“Pardon?”
“Extending a hand means to grab it and stand up. Do I have to teach you every socially agreed-upon gesture?”
“Oh, I’m, I’m sorry.”
The woman hastily apologized and took Aurel’s hand to stand up.
As soon as the woman stood, he immediately pulled his hand away and wiped the hand she had touched with a handkerchief.
“I’ll provide you with an escort, Baroness Schmitz. Please return home safely.”
The woman’s eyes widened at his words.
“Wait, wait a moment! You knew who I was?”
“How could I not know?”
“But when? How on earth…?”
“Do you think I’ve only seen one or two people like you until now? Good grief, to think of impersonating someone even after seeing them get beaten up like that—stupid nobles really…”
“Then why…!”
The woman asked with wide eyes.
“Why did you pretend not to know?”
“Why, you ask.”
Aurel furrowed his brow as if there was no more foolish question in the world.
“To catch the cunning flea who dared to exploit my lord’s weakness.”
A cunning flea.
The woman, Baroness Schmitz, looked at him with a dazed expression.
“Don’t tell me you deliberately called me here to catch Count Sorel? Even knowing I wasn’t the person His Highness was looking for?”
“Your comprehension is at least average level, which is fortunate.”
Aurel smiled as if relieved and clapped his hands together.
“Now then, would you please leave?”
He smiled brightly and turned his back.
“I need to go capture Count Sorel according to His Majesty the King’s orders.”
“Wait, wait a moment! If that happens, our family will…”
“Ah, that’s right.”
Aurel’s eyes widened as if something had occurred to him at Baroness Schmitz’s plea.
“House Schmitz will be granted the title of viscount starting today.”
“What? But our family was originally a count’s house!”
“Baroness Schmitz.”
His long, narrow eyes, different from those of Western Continent people, curved gracefully.
Aurel looked at her with coldly sunken eyes, unlike before.
“Be grateful that you survived after putting the name ‘Kayla’ in your mouth today.”
Kayla Angel.
The only name that the King of Adamant longed for, hated, and loved at the same time.
Not a single person who dared to impersonate that name had ever been spared.
That was Kaiden’s unspoken rule.
“Consider it an honor that you chose to oppose His Highness and yet are granted a noble title once again. Returning titles to nobles of a fallen kingdom is quite exceptional, you know?”
His tone left no room for argument.
In the end, Baroness Schmitz had no choice but to leave the secret chamber without saying a word.
Still completely unaware of who ‘Kayla’ was or why she had crossed Kaiden.
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“Rachel seems strange lately.”
Edwin, the 3rd Prince of the Bentrum Empire, wore an expression full of worry.
He stirred his still-warm soup with a spoon.
‘Something has changed.’
Since the day he returned from the knight training camp, Rachel seemed somehow different.
Should he say she had become strangely colder than usual, or that she had become even more rational?
“Did something happen on the day I returned?”
“Well, I’m not sure.”
At the prince’s question, Catherine smiled awkwardly and tilted her head.
“If something had happened, wouldn’t the caretaker have told you directly, given her personality?”
“That’s true. Then why did she suddenly become more blunt?”
Edwin sighed once more.
Catherine quickly changed the subject.
“Ah, right! Maybe she’s concerned about what I said?”
“Huh? What did you say, Catherine?”
“Well… I told her while we were bathing together that I wanted to become closer friends.”
Edwin’s eyes widened when he inadvertently learned that the two had bathed together.
“You two bathed together?”
“Yes!”
“Just, just the two of you?”
“Yes!”
The prince’s face flushed red at the mention of them bathing together alone.
“That, that’s something only married couples do!”
The nobles and royalty of the Empire considered bathing a very private time.
Being attended to was one thing, but even among blood relatives or same-sex friends, sharing a bathtub alone was extremely rare. Unless they were married.
“Huh? Ah, Your Highness wouldn’t know. We commoners all get into the same bath together from childhood. Water is precious, and soap is precious too.”
“Is, is that so?”
“And most importantly, bathing together as friends makes your relationship stronger, you know?”
Just as Catherine proudly puffed out her chest and made this guarantee.
“Whose relationship is supposed to get stronger?”
The caretaker, Rachel, appeared before them with her arms crossed.
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