The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 148

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Chapter 148. Prelude (1)

“Prince Edwin, what are you thinking about so deeply?”

Edwin felt countless gazes directed at him and raised his head.

The knights of the 3rd Knight Order who had been training with him were staring intently at the young prince.

As if they had already noticed the worry etched on the prince’s beautiful face.

“Ah, it’s nothing.”

“Come on, it doesn’t look like nothing at all.”

The knights of the 3rd Knight Order gradually gathered around Edwin and surrounded him.

“Please tell us, Your Highness. You’re not worried about that slip you just had, are you?”

“Come on, surely it’s not that. Your Highness, I can solve anything except love problems. Just say the word.”

“Is someone still bothering Your Highness?”

“What? Who dares to bother our Prince Edwin! Who is it! I’ll cut them in half!”

Perhaps it was because they had endured harsh training together for so long.

The people of the 3rd Knight Order had come to think of Edwin as one of their own.

Of course, part of the reason they thought this way was thanks to Catherine sharing delicious snacks with them every day.

“Hmm.”

Edwin seemed to ponder their words for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth.

“Well, you see. I’m worried about what would happen if I had to face an incredibly strong monster I’ve never encountered before.”

“Huh?”

All the knights widened their eyes at the young prince’s words.

It was probably because completely unexpected words had come from the prince’s mouth.

“Come on, Your Highness.”

Then, one of the knights spoke up in a cheerful voice.

The knight with red hair and healthy bronze skin was named ‘Pinet’.

He specialized in swift swordsmanship that matched his lean build, and was considered one of the finest knights in the 3rd Knight Order.

“All monsters are pretty much the same. Even if it’s an incredibly strong monster you’ve never faced before, you can defeat them all by overwhelming them with numbers.”

Edwin smiled awkwardly at Pinet’s words.

He couldn’t bring himself to mention mutant monsters, so he had spoken indirectly, and it seemed everyone had taken it lightly as a result.

“And even if such monsters do attack!”

Pinet put one arm around Edwin’s shoulder and struck his own chest with the other hand.

“I’ll protect Your Highness, so don’t worry too much!”

“That’s right! We’re here, aren’t we! Please trust us!”

They were truly reliable people beyond measure.

Edwin smiled brightly, thinking he was grateful even if it was just words.

“Yes, thank you!”

The young prince’s beautiful smile brought color to the knights’ faces as well.

At the same time, they looked with worried eyes at the prince who remained pale and soft despite training with them every day.

“I’m sure he was shocked by seeing monsters during that last training camp.”

“He’s still young. He hasn’t even had his coming-of-age ceremony yet.”

“Even grown men wet themselves in front of monsters, so how much more so for His Highness the Prince.”

The knights still didn’t know.

The fact that Prince Edwin had actually seen a mutant monster in the Plague Village.

“Pinet is right. Monsters who don’t know how to cooperate can’t defeat humans anyway.”

This time, the largest knight spoke up with his arms crossed.

Thick veins stood out on his bulging arms.

His name was ‘Bata’, the only one in the 3rd Knight Order who wielded a greatsword.

He was so strong that there were rumors he wasn’t inferior even to Jerome Crowner, the knight captain, in terms of strength.

“What’s this? Bata, you’re actually agreeing with me?”

“A guy who seems to have only dust rolling around in his head instead of brains is saying something right for once.”

“What, you bastard?”

Pinet didn’t like Bata’s response and immediately bared his teeth.

Edwin stepped between the two and raised both hands.

“Both of you, calm down.”

“No, Prince Edwin! Didn’t that bastard Bata insult me first!”

“I never insulted you.”

“Damn it! So saying my head is full of dust is a compliment then!”

Strange, why were they suddenly fighting?

Weren’t they just comrades with the same opinion?

“Haha…”

Edwin smiled helplessly as he watched the two finally come to blows.

The other knights cheered and jeered at the unexpected spectacle.

“Seeing you all playing around, it looks like you still have energy left. Was the training insufficient?”

“Eek, eeek! Vice-Captain!”

The knights turned pale at the sight of Vice-Captain Philip who had suddenly appeared.

Philip looked around at the knights with disdain and spat out a brief word.

“Everyone, fall in.”

As befitting a knight order, their discipline was solid.

At Philip’s single word, the knights formed three orderly columns.

Edwin also hurriedly took his place at the very end.

“An official document has come down from the Imperial Palace.”

It was his usual dry and plain tone.

But Philip’s face carried an unusually solemn atmosphere.

“His Majesty the great Emperor of the Empire wishes to conduct a massive subjugation campaign against the monsters appearing in the Mondragón Mountains and central continent in exactly three months.”

The knights began to murmur at the vice-captain’s words.

“Monster subjugation is something we’ve been doing all along. But suddenly His Majesty the Emperor issued an imperial decree?”

“It’s a massive subjugation campaign. That means…”

The knights each chimed in with their own comments.

They only regained quiet when Philip closed his mouth with a solemn expression.

“This subjugation will be conducted in alliance with the Adamant Kingdom. There will be a joint monster subjugation campaign.”

A joint monster subjugation campaign with the Adamant Kingdom.

Edwin felt his heart beating violently at those words.

The face of the mutant monster he had encountered in Luksen came to mind, along with the young king who had once gifted him a sword. Was this emotion fear or excitement?

The young prince unconsciously clutched at his chest.

“Furthermore, His Majesty the Emperor and all direct members of the imperial family will participate in this joint operation. We must protect them with our lives.”

Sighs could be heard from here and there at those words.

They would be busy enough subjugating monsters, but now they had to guard the imperial family and nobles as well.

“Two lives wouldn’t be enough.”

“Well, the noble-born knights will handle the escort duties themselves. Would they entrust escort duties to commoners like us?”

“True, they think that if your status is lowly, your skills must be lowly too.”

If they had been knights from noble families, they might have desperately tried to catch the imperial family’s eye and aspired to higher positions.

But they were all of commoner origin, and the reality was that in the urgently moving battlefield, it would be difficult to even catch a glimpse of the imperial family’s faces.

‘As expected, Rachel was right.’

Meanwhile, Edwin was lost in thought, biting his lip.

‘The Emperor will also participate in the subjugation campaign. This subjugation campaign is definitely…’

It seemed certain to be an occasion to select a prince suitable for crown prince.

Edwin’s expression grew increasingly gloomy.

‘Will I be able to do well?’

When I struggled so much against just one mutant monster?

Of course, back then my stamina wasn’t as good as now, and I hadn’t learned swordsmanship either.

But even now, if I faced the mutant monster I encountered in Luksen again, would I be able to win?

‘I don’t know.’

Edwin looked at the monster’s corpse lying cold in the distance.

‘That thing seems too weak compared to the mutant monsters.’

The monsters that the knight order brought for training were far too weak compared to the mutant monsters.

‘Still, facing one alone would be overwhelming.’

Even with other knights providing support from the side, all he could manage was landing a fatal blow to vital spots to finish them off.

Edwin clenched his fist tightly.

‘As expected, I need to become stronger like Rachel said.’

Much stronger than I am now.

It was just as Edwin was renewing his resolve once again.

“But we’re really doing a joint operation with that Adamant Kingdom?”

“Damn it, is that really okay?”

The knights began talking loudly as soon as Philip, the Count left.

They were showing very skeptical reactions to the name Adamant.

“Even if the Adamant knights are specialists in monster subjugation…”

“I heard the knights there really hate outsiders.”

“Those guys were killing each other until recently. Of course they would.”

It was inevitable for knights from a kingdom established through civil war.

Until just a few years ago, they were stabbing each other in the back as fellow countrymen.

Trust hadn’t been built even among allies for very long, so there was no way they’d be friendly to outsiders.

“Ugh, how are we supposed to fight alongside such scary guys?”

“I don’t know about the others, but I heard their king is terrifying.”

The King of Adamant, Kaiden Ram.

The knights were talking about the Knight King, said to be the strongest on the continent, when they naturally turned their gaze to Edwin.

“Come to think of it, didn’t that person stay at Prince Edwin’s palace during the Founding Festival?”

“Oh? Then the royal knights must have stayed there too.”

The knight order members poured questions at Edwin with curious eyes.

“What kind of person is the King of Adamant?”

“How are the knights’ skills? Are they as amazing as the rumors say?”

“How do they compare to our knight captain? If the Adamant King and our captain fought, which side do you think would win, Your Highness?”

He never expected to suddenly receive this much attention.

Edwin waved his hands with a flustered expression.

“Well, I don’t really know who would win either…”

The knights showed disappointed expressions at the prince’s lukewarm response.

“Aw, we’re just speculating! I’m betting on our captain winning!”

“I’ll bet on our captain too!”

“Me too! No matter how much they call him the Knight King or whatever, he’s only around twenty years old, right? He can’t match our captain in experience!”

Edwin blinked at the knights’ words.

As an imperial prince, he should naturally bet on Duke Crowner winning.

But somehow.

‘I think that person would win.’

Unconsciously, he felt that if the two fought, Kaiden would win.

Very subconsciously, that is.

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