The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 190

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Chapter 190. The Mage of Polar Night (1)

Hissssss.

There exists a calamity that comes when you offer blood and call its name.

When that name is called, pitch-black darkness arrives even in the bright daylight when the sun is up.

“What? It suddenly got dark.”

“Wait. It feels like the ground under my feet is suddenly sinking…”

The sky was still clear, but shadows fell upon the ground.

The sticky darkness slowly expanded its territory.

Kraaaaaaak.

The monsters that had been rampaging everywhere sank into the darkness.

As the black thing crawling across the ground grew in size, fear grew along with it.

“What is this, aaaahhh!”

“S-save me!”

The darkness resembling plant stems wrapped around not only the monsters but also the mercenaries’ limbs.

As if mocking those who struggled, it very easily dragged them underground.

Crunch, crunch.

From within the formless darkness that devoured the mercenaries came bizarre sounds as if something was being chewed up.

Finally, nothing remained where the darkness had passed.

“What the hell is this…”

The 3 Knights looked down at the darkness writhing beneath their feet.

The darkness that had eliminated all the enemies at once was now lurking beneath their feet.

“Damn it! What is this now!”

“A-are we going to die too?”

They stood there gripping their swords, unable to do anything.

I let out a sigh while clutching my wounded palm.

“That’s enough now.”

To others, it would look like I was talking to thin air.

Sure enough, I could feel the knights looking at me strangely.

“How long are you going to keep that up.”

At my words, the shadow began to writhe.

The darkness that had been rippling beneath the knights’ feet approached me.

Slither, slither.

From the darkness settled beneath my feet, hand-like tendrils stretched out.

The eerie sensation very leisurely climbed up my body and wrapped around my back.

“I was wondering when you’d call me.”

A rough voice like scraping metal echoed in my ears.

From within the darkness draped like a curtain behind me, a snow-white arm stretched out.

Soon, a cool body temperature embraced my shoulders.

“Has it been fifteen years?”

Snow-white hair that glowed softly even in the darkness.

Strange crimson eyes that sent chills just by meeting them.

Features so delicately beautiful it was unsettling to call him a man.

‘This is the one guy I really didn’t want to get involved with again.’

I quietly glared at the man who was casually embracing me from behind.

“I missed you.”

The one who brings eternal night to the world.

The mage of polar night, Saylus.

“Kayla Angel.”

He called my name and stretched his lips into a smile.

It was a smile beautiful enough to truly send chills down one’s spine.

“Is that face a disguise?”

“You don’t need to know.”

Saylus’s eyes curved thinly like a crescent moon.

“We meet after so long and you’re being too cold.”

He rested his chin on one of my shoulders and purred like a cat.

“I missed you so much, darling.”

Goosebumps rose all over my body.

I quickly shook off Saylus’s arms.

“I warned you before not to call me that way.”

“Why? Don’t tell me you’re still carrying around that pathetic brat?”

“Pathetic brat?”

“Yeah, that goldfish poop-like guy you used to drag around saying you liked him.”

“Who are you talking about.”

“The name, what was the name again?”

Saylus frowned as if even making the effort to remember was unpleasant.

“Right, Ian or something like that.”

Damn it, who knew my ex-boyfriend’s name would follow me around like a brand.

First Somnia and now this guy – the first thing they talk about when they see my face is that bastard.

‘Did I make it that obvious that we were dating?’

I don’t remember being particularly showy about our relationship though.

I hardened my expression and spoke.

“…It would be best if you didn’t mention that bastard’s name in front of me.”

“What, did you break up? Great!”

Color returned to Saylus’s pale face.

“Now I can stick to you to my heart’s content, darling.”

“Can’t you stop with that damn ‘darling’ thing?”

“If you don’t like darling, should I call you baby? Or honey? Sweetie?”

How can he manage to be irritating with every single word he utters?

That’s a talent too, if you can call it that. A talent for getting beaten up.

“…Just stick with darling. And don’t move from here.”

“If darling tells me to wait, I have to wait, right?”

Since I called him out anyway, maybe I should just take his life instead of payment.

I glared at Saylus once and then slowly moved my steps.

“Prince Edwin.”

When I approached, Edwin flinched and stepped back.

The guy with a face full of terror squeezed his eyes shut when I reached out my hand.

I pulled him into my arms just like that.

“I’m glad you’re safe.”

I could hear Edwin’s confused breathing.

He stopped trembling and slowly raised his head.

His large eyes were full of questions.

“…K-Kayl?”

“Yes.”

“Why aren’t you angry?”

“Did you think I would be angry?”

“Well, I selfishly pushed you away and ran off, then got captured by mercenaries and almost died…”

“You know exactly what you did wrong. That’s fortunate.”

Edwin lowered his head again at my pointed remark.

I continued speaking while looking at the dejected guy.

“But I also did something wrong to you, so let’s call it even.”

“Kayl did something wrong to me…?”

“She spoke rudely to Your Highness.”

There was no need to tell someone struggling in a life-and-death battlefield that they weren’t being helpful. There was no need to reveal that you were actually the source of all the crises.

Especially when the other party was a child who believed adults’ words without question.

‘I knew that children are beings whose entire fate can be determined by a single passing remark.’

As a street orphan, I thought theft and murder were legal.

The adults on the streets said that the theft and murder they committed to survive were legal. Until I met Emma later, I believed that was the truth of the world.

“Please don’t take what I said to Your Highness to heart. It was all my misjudgment.”

I lightly ruffled Edwin’s hair as I added those words.

“Your Highness is strong enough. Even stronger than me.”

“Huh? I’m stronger than Kayl? That’s not…”

“No, you are strong.”

To protect Edwin, I had unconsciously only thought of using others.

‘Honestly, as long as Edwin could be safe, I thought a few knights dying was nothing much.’

I didn’t care if people pointed fingers at me calling me a hypocrite.

I simply preferred not to kill innocent people, but I wasn’t a fool with the absurd belief that I would save everyone.

‘How ridiculous.’

I quietly looked at Edwin.

Seeing that innocent face that didn’t understand what was going on made me chuckle.

‘So I was the cowardly one.’

If I wasn’t foolish but was cowardly, then Edwin might be foolish but wasn’t cowardly. So Edwin was no longer a weak being.

“However.”

But even if he had grown mentally stronger, a child was still a child.

Edwin still needed to be protected, and I had a duty to protect him.

“Don’t ever rush into dangerous places alone again. No matter how strong someone is, they don’t have multiple lives.”

“…Yeah, I understand.”

Edwin gave a short reply and then burrowed into my embrace.

After silently hugging me for a moment, he suddenly lifted his head.

“But!”

The young prince chattered in a voice full of complaints.

“But Kayl always rushes into dangerous places alone.”

“Didn’t I promise that I wouldn’t get hurt or die? Can Your Highness make the same promise?”

“Th-that’s…”

Edwin examined the scratches on his body and then weakly shook his head.

Then, as if remembering something, he urgently shouted.

“Ah, right! Your palm! Is your palm okay? It bled a lot!”

A self-inflicted wound couldn’t even be called a wound.

I glanced down at my palm with the cut and clenched my fist.

“It’s fine. It just bled a lot but it’s not a serious injury.”

“But still…”

Edwin’s bright yellow head drooped dejectedly.

“I’ll get proper treatment later. So don’t worry about it.”

“Okay.”

He nodded and then suddenly frowned.

“But what’s with that person?”

Edwin kept glancing at Saylus in the distance.

“Who is he exactly that he was hugging Kayl like that?”

“We’re curious about that too!”

The 3 Knights rushed over as if they had been waiting for this topic to come up.

“Sir Kayl, who exactly is that person?”

“He suddenly appeared from the shadows…”

“Did he also eliminate the mercenaries and the monster?”

They fired questions like a machine gun.

They all seemed very curious about the identity of Saylus who had suddenly appeared and eliminated the enemies.

“That person is.”

I pondered for a moment before continuing.

“A mage I hired separately.”

“A mage?”

Johannes, who had approached at some point, frowned as he stared at Saylus.

“I’ve never seen a mage who uses such magic before. How did you manage to find someone like that?”

“That’s…”

I hesitated for a moment before giving a short reply.

“It’s a secret.”

“Pardon?”

“In exchange for hiring him cheaply, I promised not to reveal his identity to anyone.”

Of course, I had never made such a promise with Saylus.

However, it was difficult to reveal specifically where and how I had met him.

‘Since we met when I was in the Assassin’s Guild.’

The memories of that day were still vivid.

Ancient ruins and magic circles and old chains and people’s screams.

Even then, the darkness Saylus summoned devoured everything living around it.

– I’ll spare you. I like those indifferent eyes.

Except for me alone.

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