The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 152

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Chapter 152. Reunion (3)

‘There’s no way to know whether Helena knew that fact when she commissioned the job.’

The Assassin Group only learned that the deceased First Imperial Consort had been pregnant after the commission was successfully completed.

‘She probably didn’t know. If she had known, she wouldn’t have thought to pull such a dangerous stunt.’

In any case, from the 2nd Imperial Consort’s perspective, she could consider herself lucky since she had even eliminated her son’s competitor.

‘But if someone who shares the secret betrays her, that would be the end of everything.’

If Ian had seriously decided to blackmail her, the 2nd Imperial Consort would have had no choice but to be manipulated.

If it were revealed that Helena had assassinated not only the First Imperial Consort but also the Emperor’s child, she would face execution at minimum.

‘That’s exactly why I find it puzzling.’

Why is the Marquis of Redcliff just leaving alone someone who holds his daughter’s weakness?

‘Don’t tell me the Marquis of Redcliff doesn’t know what his daughter has done?’

At the time of the commission, it wasn’t the Marquis who visited the organization with Helena.

‘If that’s the case, then it makes sense.’

The crime Helena committed was high treason that could drag the entire marquess house into ruin.

If the Marquis had known that fact, he would have tried to eliminate Ian by any means necessary.

The dead never speak, after all.

‘Ian’s name also came up in the conversation between those mercenary bastards at the temple.’

The Marquis of Redcliff and the temple, with Ian positioned between them.

He seemed like a simple messenger, but the fact that the Marquis entrusted Ian with matters related to the Holy Kingdom meant he trusted Ian that much.

‘The Marquis of Redcliff is the leader of the 2nd Prince’s Faction.’

Following him ultimately meant that Ian’s purpose was to make the 2nd Prince emperor.

“So we’re destined to be enemies.”

My beloved lover and the enemy who killed me seemed destined to become my political rival as well.

‘Then.’

I frowned as I stared out the window across from me.

The sky, tinted like red paint, was gradually growing darker.

‘What exactly was Ian’s reason for killing me?’

Surely it wasn’t just to eliminate the organization and obtain the surname Miller and the title of viscount.

He couldn’t have betrayed me for such trivial things.

It had to be that way.

‘If he really betrayed me just to obtain such petty things, I think I’d truly go insane.’

As I continued thinking about Ian, the area around my eyes began to throb painfully.

I rubbed my temples and stood up from my seat.

‘In any case, I no longer need to investigate Ian’s activities separately.’

Viscount Ian Miller, who follows the 2nd Prince’s Faction.

Now I knew that the person I thought was just someone with the same name was actually the person I’d been looking for.

‘Then it would indeed be impossible for me to kill Ian right now.’

Ian was no longer an assassin hiding in the shadows, but a nobleman.

And I was no longer the leader of an assassin group, but a prince’s caretaker.

It was a combination where neither of us would benefit from a direct confrontation.

‘If I could follow my heart…’

I wanted to strangle that traitor with my own hands right now.

But I had to endure it.

‘I have things I must protect.’

Edwin and Emilia. Catherine and Seiji.

And even the maids working in the 3rd Prince’s Palace.

‘One wrong step and everyone would be massacred.’

With Ian backed by the protection of the Marquis of Redcliff, I had to consider my chances of victory almost nonexistent.

‘If it’s Ian, he’d notice my identity with just the slightest mistake on my part.’

Ian was a perceptive bastard.

Moreover, there was nothing he didn’t know about me.

‘Not just my fighting style, but my way of speaking, my gait, even my eating habits – he knows everything.’

I felt slightly regretful that I couldn’t directly question him for information when we encountered each other, but thinking about it, running away immediately seemed like the right decision.

‘If our eyes had even met.’

He might have recognized me.

My eyes were the only part of my current appearance where traces of my past self could be found.

“Hah.”

Just as I let out a small sigh.

Swoosh, tap.

There was a sound of a small pebble flying from outside the window and hitting it.

I quickly got up from my seat and looked out the window.

Under the tree shade outside, I could see a familiar shadow.

It was Lili, Somnia’s doll that I had planted in the 2nd Imperial Consort’s palace.

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“Sorry.”

I offered a casual apology to Lili, who was hiding under the shade.

“I completely forgot that today was our meeting day.”

“It’s okay. I didn’t forget.”

“Did you encounter anyone on your way here?”

“No. I deliberately took a route where there were no people.”

Lili smiled on her smooth, porcelain-like face.

“Even if I had encountered someone, no one would have noticed my presence, so don’t worry.”

As Lili said, I couldn’t sense any presence from her at all.

There was no artificially created heartbeat sound either.

“You can control your heartbeat too?”

“Yes, my master said there might be situations where I need to look like a real doll, so she gave me that function. When I completely erase my presence, I eliminate all sounds coming from my body.”

What a convenient function indeed.

I looked at Lili’s innocent face once and changed the subject.

“So, what’s the news you have to report?”

“A man called Viscount Ian Miller came to the 2nd Imperial Consort’s palace.”

So that bastard did go to the 2nd Imperial Consort’s palace.

I grimaced as I listened intently to Lili’s words.

“He came on a day that wasn’t scheduled, and the 2nd Imperial Consort’s head maid said he might have come early because of something related to the Prophet.”

Lili continued speaking smoothly without a single stutter.

“The man called Viscount Miller was a man who appeared to be in his late twenties to early thirties, with dark ash-tinted blonde hair and ash-colored eyes…”

“Skip the appearance.”

When I interrupted, Lili looked slightly surprised.

“Was that information you already knew?”

“…Roughly.”

I crossed my arms and nodded.

“Aside from that bastard’s appearance, did you find out anything about the content of his conversation with the 2nd Imperial Consort?”

“By conversation content, do you want the full transcript?”

Something about that phrasing seemed odd.

I frowned as I looked at Lili.

“Are you saying you eavesdropped on their entire conversation?”

“Yes. The hearing of dolls made by the Golden Goose is a hundred times superior to that of humans.”

I’m so amazed I’m speechless.

How the hell did that bastard Somnia manage to create something like this?

My amazement was brief, and I urged Lili on.

“I want the full transcript.”

“Please wait a moment.”

Lili stared blankly into space for a moment, then began moving her mouth at a steady pace.

“You’re later than expected. I heard you arrived at the Imperial Palace some time ago. Oh, my apologies, Your Highness the 2nd Imperial Consort. There was a brief problem on the way here. A problem? What kind of problem…”

The conversation between the 2nd Imperial Consort and Ian, delivered in that monotone voice, contained more information than expected.

‘The relationship between Ian and the 2nd Imperial Consort isn’t as close as I thought.’

It seemed Ian had gotten to the Marquis of Redcliff first.

And Helena appeared to be in a situation where she couldn’t even say a word about getting rid of him, despite seeing him side with her father.

‘That’s only natural since he has leverage over her.’

Also, Ian seemed to have a rough idea of the Prophet’s whereabouts.

‘Though he doesn’t know the exact location, people always leave traces where they’ve passed.’

Since he said they found a village where he’d recently stayed, it would only be a matter of time before Ian’s organization members tracked him down.

Assassins were naturally the most skilled at tracking, after all.

‘And the most important information is.’

The fact that Ian would be attending this monster subjugation as the 2nd Prince’s attendant.

‘He’s even fully grasped and investigated all the subjugation zones. Yet nothing has been officially announced.’

Did the House of Redcliffe inform him in advance?

Then the 1st Prince’s side must already know where the subjugation will take place too.

‘Other information might be easy to obtain, but this is about the subjugation that will determine the next heir to the throne.’

Even if it were my past life self, information about the subjugation would have been difficult to obtain.

‘Damn, is this why you need a powerful noble as your backing?’

Whether in assassination or war, information was the most important thing.

As you could see, the quality and quantity of information you could obtain differed depending on how wealthy and powerful your supporter was.

“That’s all.”

Meanwhile, Lili had finished relaying everything she heard and was looking lively again.

“Didn’t they say anything more about the subjugation?”

“No, unfortunately that was the entire conversation.”

How truly unfortunate.

I clicked my tongue softly and frowned.

“I should probably head back now.”

Lili turned toward me and blinked her large eyes.

“Do you have any other instructions for me?”

“…Count Miller, if that man visits the 2nd Imperial Consort’s Palace again, let me know. Everything he says and does at the 2nd Imperial Consort’s Palace.”

“Understood. Any other instructions?”

When I silently shook my head, Lili gave a light curtsy.

I quietly watched Lili’s retreating figure as she disappeared.

“…It seems there won’t even be time to feel angry.”

The subjugation that would determine the princes’ fates was imminent.

I quietly turned around to look at the 3rd Prince’s Palace.

As I lowered my head with an inexplicable heavy heart, I heard a bell-like voice.

“Neitcheeeee!”

Emilia, who had spotted me from afar, was running toward me.

Behind her, I could see Catherine hurriedly chasing after her.

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