The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 149

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Chapter 149. Prologue (2)

‘No, more precisely.’

Should I say that I found myself hoping Kaiden would win?

Edwin lowered his eyes.

– Your Highness.

The day after the Founding Festival ended and Adamant’s envoy delegation returned to their home country.

Kaiden’s words to me that day still echoed in my ears.

– You seem to have talent with the sword, so if you continue to refine it, you could become an excellent swordsman.

It might have just been polite conversation.

But just hearing those words from the Sword King itself gave me great strength in training my swordsmanship.

I wonder if Kaiden knows that fact.

“Prince Edwin!”

What awakened Edwin from his deep thoughts was the voices of the knights.

They had already finished their complaints and were moving to another training area.

“Afternoon training is resuming! Let’s go to the archery range!”

“Ah, yes!”

“By the way, Your Highness.”

Edwin looked up at Pinet’s words as he approached his side.

“If all direct imperial family members are participating in battle, then Your Highness will also participate in the subjugation war, right?”

“…Yes.”

Edwin nodded slightly.

“Probably.”

In the past, whatever happened outside would have been irrelevant to him, but now it was different.

Since he had received recognition from The Emperor as a prince, he had to fulfill those duties as well.

‘If this subjugation war is the place that will determine the crown prince position, I need to work even harder.’

Achieving merit in the subjugation war to somehow stand out more than the other princes.

That was Edwin’s goal.

“Then did you already know about it?”

Pinet asked, looking down at the young prince.

“The question you asked earlier seemed like you knew you’d be participating in the monster subjugation war.”

The question about what to do when fighting against very strong monsters.

Pinet couldn’t stop thinking about that question.

“Uh, um.”

Should I say yes, or should I say no?

As Edwin hesitated with his answer, Pinet once again put his arm around his shoulder.

“Of course, regardless of the situation, my answer would have been the same.”

“Huh?”

Pinet winked at Edwin, who had a puzzled expression.

“No matter what strong monster attacks, we of the 3rd Knight Order will protect Your Highness.”

Edwin’s eyes widened at his words.

For a moment, he couldn’t figure out how to respond.

Then he asked without thinking.

“Uh, why?”

“What? Well…”

Pinet frowned as if the question of why was confusing.

Then he soon smiled brightly.

“Because Prince Edwin is a member of our 3rd Knight Order.”

“That’s right!”

Perhaps everyone felt the same way.

As soon as Pinet finished speaking, knights from here and there chimed in as if they had been waiting.

“Who else would we protect besides Your Highness!”

“His Majesty The Emperor has the 1st Knight Order and the 2nd Knight Order, so they’ll take good care of him!”

“Even so, how can you say such irreverent things? What if someone overhears you?”

Another knight who had approached nearby, Bata, scolded his colleagues for their careless words.

He lowered his head and whispered softly in the prince’s ear.

“But I share the same opinion. Rather than protecting high-ranking people whose faces we don’t even know, it would be more rewarding to protect Prince Edwin, who has sweated and suffered alongside lowly people like us.”

Edwin looked at Bata with surprised eyes.

Then he winked at him.

“If it’s a joint operation, probably all members of The Gloria Knight Order will participate. We’ll be able to fight alongside Prince Edwin too.”

Then Pinet, who was standing on the opposite side, giggled.

“You’re just as irreverent yourself, Bata.”

“Shut up, Pinet.”

It was truly strange.

Edwin watched the two people bickering with him in the middle, then looked at the other 3rd Knight Order members walking ahead.

‘What is this?’

Tears welled up in his eyes, but he wasn’t sad.

Deep in his heart felt like it was heating up, then aching.

But it didn’t hurt, and rather felt overwhelming.

It was similar to the feeling when catching your breath after running at full speed.

“So for the remaining time ahead.”

Pinet lightly poked Edwin’s back with his elbow as he walked along in a daze.

“Let’s work hard together with us, Prince Edwin.”

If it were another prince, they would have been outraged at such impudence.

But Edwin was different.

“…Yes!”

The 3rd Prince nodded brightly with a joyful smile instead.

“Then let’s compete to see who reaches the archery range first! Whoever arrives last has to give up all their snacks!”

“Ahhh, Pinet you sneaky bastard!”

When Pinet shouted loudly and ran off, the other knights who had been walking slowly also started running in confusion.

“Really, that thoughtless guy.”

Bata also clicked his tongue but started picking up speed.

“Prince Edwin, Your Highness is automatically participating too!”

“Uh, uhh!”

He could eat snacks to his heart’s content when he returned to the Prince’s Palace anyway.

Nevertheless, Edwin began running along with the knights.

“Let’s go together!”

Edwin shouted loudly.

As he ran swinging his arms, he suddenly looked at his palm.

Unlike before, his palm covered with calluses wasn’t pretty to look at, but he quite liked it.

‘…Yes, I can do it.’

His once delicate palm that would get injured from just brushing against a small twig was now perfectly fine without a trace even after falling on sharp stone ground.

So he too could become much stronger than now.

Just as his once soft and tender palm had become rough like Rachel’s.

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“Your Imperial Majesty, is there anything uncomfortable?”

The head maid of the 2nd Empress’s Palace watched her mistress’s mood.

Empress Helena, with her lustrous golden hair and beautiful red eyes like sunset, had stopped putting on her dress and was staring intently into the mirror.

“This dress.”

Helena stroked the waist part of the half-worn dress with her palm.

“Who made this?”

“Yes? Oh, of course our chamber maids….”

“The embroidery sewn here isn’t the work of the original girls.”

I’m not sure what exactly is different about it.

While the maid captain stood there flustered, unable to say anything, one of the chamber maids who had been attending to her clothing stepped forward.

“Your perceptiveness is truly exceptional, Your Highness.”

The maid brought forward a small young child who had been standing behind her.

Helena looked at the young child and tilted her head sideways.

“An unfamiliar face. Is this a new child?”

“Yes, she originally worked in the Imperial Palace’s chamber and her embroidery skills are quite exceptional.”

An Imperial Palace chamber maid.

Helena’s eyes narrowed slightly.

She had heard that a maid from the Imperial Palace had been transferred, but she hadn’t had time to pay attention to it.

She had been busy holding meetings with nobles who followed the 2nd Prince due to news of a large-scale monster subjugation campaign.

“…The embroidery is quite pleasing.”

Around the waist, white peonies were abundantly embroidered.

As if she knew that Helena liked those flowers.

“You.”

Helena turned around after fully dressing.

She could see the crown of the child who was politely bowing below the platform.

“What is your name.”

At the 2nd Imperial Consort’s question, the child bowed her head even more respectfully.

And answered in a small but clear voice.

“My name is Lili, Your Highness The 2nd Imperial Consort.”

“Good, may I entrust you with the dress for next week’s banquet.”

To directly assign work to an attendant who had just arrived.

The embroidery skills of the newly arrived young maid must have pleased her considerably.

“Really? Truly? If you entrust it to me, I will work hard!”

The young maid named Lili also seemed happy to receive her master’s expectations and smiled brightly. It was a transparent smile that seemed to harbor no ulterior motives.

“Then everyone may leave….”

It was the moment Helena was about to dismiss all the other maids.

A maid who had hurriedly entered from outside ran to the maid captain and whispered in her ear.

The maid captain’s complexion visibly changed before returning to normal.

“Your Highness Helena.”

The maid captain approached Helena’s side.

And whispered in a voice so small that no one except the Imperial Consort could hear.

“Baron Miller and people from The Temple have arrived at the Imperial Capital.”

“They came now? It’s not the appointed date yet.”

“Then they must have discovered The Prophet’s whereabouts.”

The moment she heard those words, Helena’s complexion changed.

A truly menacing light flickered across her face that had only been beautifully fierce.

“When they come to my palace, bring them to the reception room.”

The maid captain bowed deeply instead of answering.

She signaled the other maids with her eyes to leave.

The maids who left the Imperial Consort’s chamber each breathed a sigh of relief and quickly departed to find their respective places.

The new chamber maid ‘Lili’ also exited the room with sparkling eyes.

‘The Prophet.’

To think she would hear the word Prophet like this.

Lili’s transparent glass-like pupils sparkled.

‘And Baron Miller.’

Among the Empire’s noble families that her real master had told her about, there was no such family.

That meant he was a newly risen noble.

‘I should inform that person as well.’

Lili walked down the stairs with steady steps, a smile spread across her face.

Thinking that she should also inform a certain woman she secretly met frequently in this vast Imperial Capital about this fact.

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