The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 189

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Chapter 189. Those Who Share the Same Will (4)

Kieeeeeek.

As soon as the hand signal dropped, the monsters charged forward.

They looked similar to the ones we had been fighting just moments ago, but they were much larger.

And naturally, as their size increased, so did their strength.

“Waaaaah! What is this!”

“Damn it! We absolutely cannot let them get past us…”

The 3 Knights squeezed out every ounce of strength they had to face the monsters.

But they didn’t have much stamina left.

It was because they had been continuously fighting monsters until now.

“Kruuuugh!”

“Migel, get up quickly! It’s dangerous if you stay there!”

It seemed one of the 3 Knights had finally been struck down.

“…Migel?”

Edwin reacted to the name Migel.

The guy who had been hesitating with his sword drawn suddenly leaned his body forward.

As if he was about to jump into the area swarming with monsters at any moment.

“You cannot!”

I quickly grabbed Edwin’s wrist.

“Where are you trying to go! Stay here!”

Edwin struggled to shake off my hand.

“Let go! Let go of me!”

“What are you trying to do!”

“I have to save him! He’ll die like that!”

The knight called Migel was still swinging his sword even while collapsed on the ground.

Blood was streaming down his forehead.

“You cannot.”

“What?”

Edwin looked stunned at my response.

“What do you mean? If we leave him like that…”

“You could lose your life trying to save him.”

“What does it matter!”

Edwin turned to look at me and shouted.

“I can’t stand to watch knights sacrifice themselves because of someone useless like me!”

For a moment, I felt dizzy as if someone had struck the back of my head.

I stared blankly at the shouting Edwin.

“In the end, it’s all happening because of me! The fact that those monsters suddenly attack only us! Getting caught up in this situation! So I’ll take responsibility!”

“What responsibility and how will you take it! In this situation, even if you sacrifice your life, the situation won’t…”

It seemed my patience had weakened from continuously fighting monsters.

I tried to calm my excitement and changed my words.

“If you’re concerned about what I said earlier, I apologize. When I said you weren’t helpful, I didn’t mean you were truly useless baggage, but that the situation wasn’t helping us.”

But Edwin didn’t budge at my words.

He was still tensing his whole body as if determined to shake off my hand.

‘This is really.’

Why don’t children ever listen when you speak nicely to them?

They have no intention of understanding the feelings of someone who’s only thinking about saving them.

‘Ah, I really have no talent for coaxing and persuading.’

I gave up on the idea of calmly persuading him and immediately raised my voice.

“Please stop being so stubbornly unreasonable! Didn’t you hear what their leader said earlier? Even if you step forward and sacrifice your life, the only outcome is all of us becoming monster food!”

When I shouted with a mix of urgency and anger, Edwin’s shoulders trembled.

“In that case, it’s better to aim for escaping this place by any means…”

Before I could finish speaking.

Edwin suddenly raised his head and looked straight into my eyes.

“You said you’d help me become someone who can choose!”

He screamed at me as if in agony.

“I believed that if I became stronger, even just a little stronger, I could protect everyone, that I could become someone truly necessary.”

His voice, heightened with emotion, was trembling finely.

“Because you told me. You said the weak have no choice but to be cowardly, and the strong can choose anything.”

Why was it?

It felt like time was flowing slowly only between Edwin and me.

“So I’ve been enduring and training all this time! Because I wanted to become someone who could choose! Because I didn’t want to be a coward!”

He asked with his eyes contorted.

“Then why are you now telling me to become not only a useless person but also a coward?”

My face was reflected in his lake-like transparent blue eyes.

My face seen through Edwin’s eyes was unfamiliar.

It was an expression I had never encountered myself.

“It’s fine if I can’t be of any help.”

A resolute will appeared on Edwin’s face.

“I choose not to become a coward.”

“Your Highness, wait! Edwin…”

Before I could grab him, another monster interfered.

“Damn it! Get lost!”

By the time I cursed and cut the monster’s throat, Edwin had already reached the fallen knight.

“Y-Your Highness?”

“You need to fall back quickly. They said it’s dangerous here!”

“Leave me behind, Your Highness! You’ll be in danger too!”

Edwin seemed choked up by the knight’s words.

He put both arms under the knight’s armpits and shouted loudly.

“Be quiet!”

“Y-Your Highness?”

“Why, why does everyone keep telling me to abandon people!”

The young prince fumed with a tear-stained face.

“I won’t abandon you! I won’t! Why does everyone act like it’s natural to sacrifice themselves for me? I don’t want anyone to die!”

The child cried while hugging an adult larger than himself and stepped backward.

His staggering steps looked precarious as if he might fall at any moment, but he didn’t give up.

“Let’s go together! Let’s return alive together! We promised that!”

The knight twisted his lips as he watched Edwin not letting go of him.

He choked up as if about to burst into tears.

“Your Highness, what am I that you would go this far…”

“What do you mean ‘what are you.’ Why do you speak like that?”

Edwin gritted his teeth and panted heavily.

“Migel is Migel. You were the first to teach me how to sharpen a sword, and you said you have two young sisters at home.”

Even so, he never let go of Migel.

“I know Migel. So I will never abandon you.”

Suddenly, I remembered what Pinet had said on the way here.

– When a person gets to know another person, from that moment on, they can’t help but wish for that person’s happiness.

Just as Pinet thought of Edwin as a member of the Knights, Edwin also cherished them. Enough to want to protect them even at the cost of his own life.

‘Perhaps I was wrong in my thinking.’

I stepped toward Edwin.

Monsters occasionally interfered and got in the way, but I immediately eliminated them.

‘It’s not that the weak become cowardly, nor that the strong can choose anything.’

Those who act cowardly are weak.

Those who push through with their chosen decisions to the end are strong.

‘Maybe I was trying to be too overprotective.’

Edwin was strong enough.

At least more so than certain others who would sacrifice the lives of their subordinates to protect their own safety.

“Your Highness!”

“We’ll provide cover!”

The 3 Knights who had belatedly joined Edwin’s side struck down the approaching monsters.

But that alone wasn’t enough.

“How touching.”

“We’ll finish this quickly, so why don’t you just close your eyes?”

Several mercenaries who had been clinging to Johannes approached Edwin.

They seemed to have judged it more efficient to eliminate the prince who was trying to save the wounded knight first.

“Your Highness!”

“Prince Edwin!”

The knights protecting the prince were tied up by the mercenaries.

Thanks to that, other mercenaries were able to close in on Edwin.

“Die, brat!”

“Eeek!”

Edwin hastily drew his sword to block the mercenary’s attack.

But he ended up helplessly caught by another bastard who had snuck up behind him.

“Let go! Let me go!”

“Such pointless resistance from a little thing! Now it’s time to end—”

Swish, thud.

The mercenary holding the prince couldn’t finish what he was saying.

It would have been his last words before dying, which was unfortunate.

“Wh-what?”

The gazes of the mercenaries surrounding Edwin turned toward me.

When they saw the small dagger in my hand, they bared their teeth.

“Ha, what do you think you’ll do with that little dagger? Throw it again? Go ahead and try! This time we’ll deflect them all!”

“I don’t want to.”

“What?”

“I’m not going to throw it at you bastards.”

After hearing my answer, the mercenaries looked bewildered.

Their eyes seemed to say there was no way I could face them with just one dagger.

“Really, I was trying not to use this move if possible…”

I looked at Edwin.

His pretty face was covered in tears and snot.

Small droplets of blood had formed on his pure white nape.

It seemed to be a wound from struggling with the mercenary.

“…Since things have come to this, I won’t hold back either.”

I unhesitatingly slashed one of my palms with the dagger.

Bright red blood poured out from between the gaping wound.

“What? Why is he suddenly acting like that? Has he gone crazy?”

“Is this some kind of self-harm threat? Do you think we’ll be scared just because you do something like that!”

Not knowing the fate that would soon befall them, the bastards chattered noisily.

I ignored their shouting and quietly closed my eyes.

Between my parted lips flowed a brief word that was neither Imperial nor Sacred language.

“Wh-what did Lady Kayl just say?”

“I don’t know? Is it another country’s language?”

They were all wrong.

The words I had spoken were a language that had died out long ago on the continent, and their meaning didn’t refer to any specific object.

“Come out.”

It was a name.

The name of an existence as ancient as the dead language.

“I’ve come to collect the price of your life.”

With my eyes closed, I muttered that name once more.

That detestable name I had never wanted to speak again.

“Saylus.”

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