The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 186

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Chapter 186. Those Who Share the Same Will (1)

“Are there scale disease patients in the village?”

At my question, silence flowed among the villagers.

In contrast, the reaction of the 3rd Knights was far from calm.

“What? Scale disease?”

“Are you saying there are scale disease patients here right now?”

“Why are you only telling us this now! Damn it, we need to get out of here immediately…”

The only people in our group who weren’t making a fuss were Edwin and myself.

“Oh my, knights! Don’t worry!”

Just then, a cheerful-looking woman stopped stirring the soup in her pot and shouted.

“The quarantine area is very far away from here, and since Johan has been taking care of them, no one has caught scale disease anymore.”

“No, scale disease is such a dangerous illness! Is this Johan person a high-ranking cleric or something? How could he treat scale disease…”

“He probably is a high-ranking cleric, isn’t he?”

The other villagers in the hall began to chime in one by one.

“When he treated patients, sometimes white light would come from his hands.”

“I think he said it wasn’t healing magic though.”

“Healing magic can’t cure scale disease anyway. Only divine power works on scale disease.”

“Right, a disease that can only be treated with divine power is practically incurable.”

“Really, when you think about it, we’re so lucky that Johan came to our village.”

I listened to the villagers’ conversation and turned my gaze.

Edwin, sitting beside me, was fidgeting restlessly.

Looking closer, it wasn’t just his body fidgeting, but his lips were twitching too.

He seemed desperate to talk about the scale disease cure that Seiji had created.

“Restrain yourself.”

“But Kayl, scale disease isn’t an incurable disease…”

“We can’t give them the cure right now anyway, can we?”

I stirred the soup in my bowl while whispering quietly.

“In situations like this, when you can’t immediately provide a solution, it’s better not to step forward.”

Edwin bit his lips tightly and lowered his head.

It seemed he acknowledged that there was nothing he could do.

“Good thinking…”

“This is terrible!”

Just when I was about to give Edwin some praise.

I turned my head toward the man who had burst through the village hall door.

“Huff, huff, this is terrible!”

“What? What’s wrong all of a sudden?”

“Monsters, monsters have appeared!”

I think there was a saying on the Eastern Continent about tigers appearing when you speak of them. This was exactly that situation.

“But the monsters! The monsters attacked the quarantine area!”

“The quarantine area?”

“Yes! The people in the quarantine area are in danger!”

The villagers looked at each other with startled eyes.

However, no one stepped forward first.

“Please, please help us!”

The young man who brought the news pleaded with tears in his eyes.

“My mother and sister are there! Village Chief, please help us! The people in the quarantine area are also villagers, aren’t they!”

“Ahem, well, we’d like to help if we could, but…”

Fighting monsters was dangerous, but rescuing scale disease patients was dangerous in itself. There was a risk of catching the disease.

“Please, everyone! Please! The families of the quarantine patients alone aren’t enough! Several monsters have already crossed the wooden palisade!”

“What did you say?”

Only now did they seem scared hearing that monsters had crossed over.

The faces of the villagers gathered in the hall darkened.

“Johan and Karl are fighting to hold them back, but the two of them alone aren’t enough! So if we all work together…”

“Oh, Johan and Karl stepped forward?”

The villagers suddenly let out sighs of relief hearing that the two were fighting the monsters.

“Then we don’t need to go.”

“What? What do you mean! We need to rescue the patients while those two can buy us time!”

“If powerless people like us get involved, we might just cause more damage. You should just stay here until those two handle it…”

“Let’s go!”

A somewhat light and clear voice echoed through the village hall.

The owner of the voice was none other than Edwin.

“What are you all doing! We need to save people!”

“W-wait a moment, Edwin!”

The 3rd Knights were quick to catch on.

They had realized from the moment I didn’t call him “Your Highness” that his identity needed to be kept secret.

“They’re scale disease patients! If we approach carelessly, it might be dangerous!”

“It’s not dangerous!”

Edwin shouted with a voice full of conviction.

“And they’re still living people! Are you going to just watch as people get eaten by monsters?”

He looked at each of the 3rd Knight members as he spoke.

“How can knights who know glory do such a thing!”

The Gloria Knight Order.

The knights recalled the name of their order and fell silent.

“Isn’t protecting the weak what knights do? Then we should go protect them!”

Edwin threw open the door wide and pointed outside.

“People are dying!”

“But…”

Edwin bit his lower lip and opened his eyes wide.

He seemed disappointed that the knights wouldn’t move easily even at his words.

“Why is everyone…”

“Let’s go.”

I had only said one thing.

This time, everyone’s gaze turned to me.

“K-Kayl?”

“What are you doing? You said let’s go.”

I nodded while checking the position of the weapons hidden in my clothes again.

Then the knights tried to dissuade me.

“Kayl! Even if it’s you, this time…”

“I don’t listen to cowards.”

“What? What do you mean!”

“In the end, you’re scared of dying and want to hide in a place like this, aren’t you?”

One of the knights reddened his face at my words and protested.

“It’s not that we’re afraid of death, but afraid of dying a useless dog’s death! For a knight to die from scale disease, such a disgraceful thing…”

“I suppose the life you save by hiding in a place like this is very honorable?”

I glanced at the knights and turned my head.

“If you don’t want to follow, don’t. If something happens later…”

“Oh my, you’re so impatient. Are you two going alone? You should take us with you.”

Pinet was already standing beside me wearing his armor.

As always, Bata was with him too.

“Hey, you cowards! Even this young child is stepping forward to save people, so what are you! Really, thinking that I ate and trained under the same roof as guys like you makes me want to curse!”

Pinet unleashed harsh criticism at his fellow knights without warning.

“Hey, Pinet! Are you out of your mind? Scale disease is incurable!”

“That’s exactly why it’s a disease that doesn’t spread easily!”

He shouted with veins bulging in his neck at the knights’ resistance.

“And so what if we catch it! That Johan fellow or whatever his name is, he’s a cleric! If we get sick, we can just ask him to heal us!”

A moment of realization flashed across the knights’ faces.

Pinet shouldered his sword and shouted.

“You all know deep down what the right thing to do is!”

He flashed what could have been a mocking or cheerful smile at his companions.

“So if you don’t want to be ashamed later, do what you think is right now, you idiots!”

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Kraaaang!

It was always a menacing sound to hear.

“Hahaha, this is quite a predicament!”

Johannes burst into laughter as if troubled.

Perhaps stopping by the quarantine area to care for patients had been the cause of trouble.

He was frantically dealing with the monsters that had attacked the quarantine area.

‘If it were just fighting, I would have finished this quickly.’

Johannes looked at Karl, who was fighting a monster several steps away.

His guardian knight couldn’t exert his full strength as he fought while protecting the patients in the quarantine area.

‘Of all times, why did they have to swarm in like this.’

Moreover, the monsters that had crossed the wooden palisade seemed strangely off somehow.

‘They’re not afraid of my divine power.’

Monsters should naturally avoid divine power.

Johannes threw a large stone into the mouth of the monster chasing him.

Kek, kehek.

The monster made choking sounds and scratched at its snout with its paws.

“Ahah! Too bad! Just because divine power doesn’t work doesn’t mean I’m powerless!”

He quickly changed direction toward a patient lying on the ground.

“Are you alright? Can you walk?”

“Yes, yes, but Johan-nim, it’s too dangerous for you…”

“Don’t worry about me. I may not look it, but I’m incredibly sturdy.”

Johannes supported the patient and headed toward the windmill.

Below the massive windmill on the village outskirts was a warehouse large enough for several people to enter.

“Stay here and don’t move!”

Johannes laid the patient down inside the warehouse and immediately rushed back out.

“Sir Karl! Can you hold out a bit longer?”

“Holding out is possible!”

Karl gritted his teeth and swung his greatsword.

“But fighting while protecting the patients is tricky! And divine power barely works on these things!”

Monsters unaffected by divine power.

Johannes frowned.

“Johannes-nim!”

That was the exact moment.

One monster leaped up toward Johannes’s head.

‘Oh no.’

Johannes reflexively tried to use divine magic but froze.

His body stiffened at the fact that divine power didn’t work on the monster before him.

‘I’m going to get quite the lecture from Sir Karl later.’

It was the moment he half-gave up, thinking he’d have to sacrifice an arm or so.

Thwack.

With a dull sound, the monster toppled sideways.

“Are you alright?”

Johannes slowly raised his head.

Green eyes with a golden gleam were quietly looking down at him.

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