The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 188

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Chapter 188. Those Who Share the Same Will (3)

The surroundings were still in chaos.

However, a heavy silence had settled between Edwin and me.

“Oh my, oh my! How terrifying!”

Just then, Johannes tactlessly inserted himself between us.

“I’m going crazy! Those monsters don’t even respond to divine power, so I’m scared to death!”

“Let go of me!”

“I’m scared, I’m so scared!”

Johannes clung to Edwin, who was trying to shake him off, while groaning.

“Without divine power, I’m just a corpse! I don’t even know how to use a sword! So please, kind knight, protect me!”

He kept squealing and even pointed at me.

“Tell that scary black-haired knight to go over there and deal with the monsters instead!”

Edwin said nothing.

He just stood there with his sword drawn, looking down.

That face, looking as if he’d been abandoned, bothered me so much I couldn’t bring myself to leave.

‘Please go quickly.’

Meanwhile, Johannes shook his head and mouthed words to me.

‘Leave this to me. Even if I can’t use a sword, I can handle a few monsters.’

How could someone who claimed to be a corpse without divine power possibly handle monsters?

I had fundamental doubts about whether it was safe to entrust the prince to such a person.

But right now, even having time for such concerns was a luxury.

‘Better to take down one more monster than waste time worrying.’

That would be far more efficient in this situation.

I quietly looked at Edwin.

He avoided my gaze with a shadowed face.

“…It’ll be over soon. Stay behind me.”

I drew my dagger and turned around.

Then I ran toward the knights.

Clang, clang clang clang.

An unexpected battle erupted in the forest.

All three remaining knights, led by Karl, joined the fight.

Everyone was frantic dealing with the monsters charging at them like mad.

‘I had obtained monster pheromones in case something like this happened.’

But I’d used those hard-to-get pheromones in a different situation, and now I had no immediate solution.

So for now, I had no choice but to fight with everything I had.

‘I wonder if the other extermination forces are fighting the same creatures.’

Kaiden suddenly came to mind.

Was he perhaps struggling against variant monsters too?

‘Especially with his injured side.’

It must be difficult for him to move his body freely.

I was startled by the thoughts that arose in my mind.

‘Why am I worrying about that bastard…!’

Working as a caretaker for so long must have made me less disciplined than before.

To think I was having such thoughts even in this urgent situation.

“I can see the end!”

“There don’t seem to be any more! No new ones are appearing either!”

The fortunate thing was that the monsters were gradually disappearing.

At this rate, we could optimistically expect to return safely to the village soon.

“Well, well, impressive work there.”

If not for the vile voice that came from the thicket.

“What?”

“Who’s there!”

The knights took defensive positions at the stranger’s appearance.

The person seemed to have no intention of answering the knights’ questions and muttered to himself.

“Let’s see, golden dog fur, a prophet, and even a guardian all gathered in one place? What a jackpot, a real jackpot!”

“Hehe, exactly. This time we can collect all our payment at once, can’t we?”

There wasn’t just one figure emerging from the thicket.

Starting with the owner of the first voice, dozens—no, easily over a hundred masked men revealed themselves.

‘Not assassins, but mercenaries?’

I quickly returned to Edwin’s side.

Karl had also positioned himself right next to his master.

“Sir Karl, those are the same guys, right? The ones who kept chasing us.”

“That’s right. I thought we’d completely lost them, but to think they followed us all the way here…”

The ones who had been continuously pursuing Johannes’s group?

I gripped my dagger tighter while observing the mercenaries’ movements, then my eyes widened.

‘I don’t see those guys.’

The mercenaries I’d seen at the Imperial Temple weren’t visible.

It seemed these were different ones operating separately from them.

“Truly persistent fellows.”

“For our guardian to be calling the kettle black makes me not know where to put myself.”

The mercenary who appeared to be their captain picked his ear while chuckling.

He was glaring at Karl with eyes full of hostility and killing intent.

“You’ve been running around like a rat here and there, killing all my subordinates and causing me so much loss.”

The mercenary captain grabbed and drew the hand axe hanging from his waist.

“So you’ll have to die obediently here. Any more losses would be dangerous for us too.”

“Try it if you can.”

Karl pointed his great sword toward the mercenaries.

“This time I’ll show you what divine punishment truly is.”

“What? Divine punishment? Divine punishment, you say?”

The mercenary captain’s eyes widened at his words, then he burst into hysterical laughter.

“Boys, did you hear that? He says he’ll bring divine punishment on us!”

“Bwahahaha, divine punishment! Oh, my sides!”

The mockery was too cutting to be without reason.

Karl also seemed to sense something was off and frowned.

“What’s so funny?”

“What’s funny? It’s hilarious that you don’t know your place and say such things!”

“Know our place? You really must be dying to…”

“Who do you think ordered us to chase and kill you?”

The mercenary captain pointed at Karl and Johannes with his finger.

“It was the Emperor! The ruler of the Holy Kingdom, the representative of the god you believe in and follow so faithfully!”

Karl’s brow twitched.

“So you’re the ones who should receive divine punishment! You traitors to the Holy Kingdom!”

I already knew that Johannes, the next Emperor, and the current Emperor didn’t get along well.

‘But I didn’t know the Emperor had gone so far as to order their deaths.’

Of course, there was a possibility they were lying.

But given the circumstances, it seemed true that the Holy Kingdom was trying to eliminate Johannes and Karl.

‘Moreover, earlier they mentioned the prophet, guardian, and dog fur all together.’

Dog fur must surely refer to Edwin.

That meant these mercenaries were also in league with the Marquis of Redcliff.

‘The Marquis’s house and the Holy Kingdom have joined hands to eliminate all elements that might interfere with the imperial succession.’

Their very existence was proof enough of that fact.

“Acting all high and mighty when you’re just mercenaries rolling around in the gutter.”

Meanwhile, Karl growled with veins bulging on his forehead.

“Scum like you could never harm us.”

“Hmm, well. We’ll have to see who’s longer and who’s shorter, won’t we?”

The mercenary captain whistled with a meaningful smile.

Then strange movements began stirring from within the thicket.

“You were all celebrating just moments ago, thinking you’d eliminated them all, weren’t you?”

He gazed at us with a confident expression.

From the darkness behind them, countless yellow eyes glowed.

The ones bound in chains were breathing roughly as if they would charge at any moment.

“Those things, don’t tell me they’re all monsters?”

“I thought we’d defeated them all…”

“We’re all dead. Mother, I’m sorry. I never thought I’d leave like this without even showing you your grandchild’s face…”

The 3 Knights began muttering to themselves with despairing faces.

Some of them were even reciting their last words.

“Oh right.”

The mercenary captain continued speaking nonchalantly, as if he had forgotten to mention something.

“Divine power doesn’t work very well on these mutant bastards either. Did you know that?”

“…Thanks to you, I learned that well.”

Johannes smiled good-naturedly even at the taunting remark.

“But isn’t it a bit much to sacrifice people who have nothing to do with our fight? The Holy Kingdom wouldn’t like making things this big either.”

He pointed at Edwin and the 3 Knights with his chin.

“Let them go. They have nothing to do with the Holy Kingdom, and there’s an important figure from the Empire among them.”

“Unfortunately, I can’t do that.”

The mercenary captain shrugged and turned his head.

At the end of his ominous gaze was Edwin.

“I have orders to eliminate that blonde brat over there too.”

I knew it would be like this.

To think they’d try to eliminate Edwin as well in a place where the Prophet and Guardian were gathered together.

‘Whether they set up the board or the board just opened up with good luck.’

Whatever the reason, it was good news for House of Redcliff.

They could achieve maximum efficiency with minimum cost.

‘That bastard Ian will be celebrating.’

That thought automatically made my face scrunch up.

As I readjusted my grip on my sword, the mercenary captain chuckled and continued speaking.

“So even if you want to play savior, hold back a little.”

A chilling wind blew through the thicket.

“After all, none of the bastards here will be going back alive anyway.”

It wasn’t just an empty threat.

The monsters among the mercenaries were flaunting their presence.

“…Then at least let the knights here go.”

A quiet voice echoed through the tense atmosphere.

The young voice was strangely resolute and dry.

I slowly turned my head.

“It’s a problem that would be solved if I just disappeared anyway.”

Edwin was looking at the mercenaries with an expressionless face.

As if he didn’t know what words he was spitting out.

“Well, well! Our Prince has really matured, hasn’t he? Sacrificing yourself alone to save everyone? What admirable responsibility!”

The mercenary captain clapped as if Edwin’s statement was praiseworthy.

“But what can we do about this? These damn monsters are hungry.”

He drooped his eyebrows and put on a pitiful expression.

“Hungry beasts don’t recognize even their own masters and devour them. So I’m afraid we can’t grant His Highness the Prince’s request.”

The mercenary captain raised his thumb and then flipped his hand over.

“Well then, farewell, moneybags.”

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