The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 196

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Chapter 196. When the Heart Beats (2)

“…What?”

One corner of Kaiden’s mouth curved upward.

One of his straight eyebrows also twitched, following the upturned corner of his mouth.

“Just now.”

The young king asked back in a voice that seemed utterly disbelieving.

“What did you say?”

“Oh my, how can a young man already have such poor hearing?”

Saylus put on an extremely pitying expression.

Then he waved one hand nonchalantly.

“But I’m the kind type, so I’ll say it once more.”

The bright red pupils beneath his white eyelashes gleamed with a threatening light.

“I said show some manners if you don’t want to die, brat.”

Kaiden wasn’t one to miss the hostility directed at him.

He bared his teeth in a grin toward Saylus.

“It seems you’re the one who wants to die, talking about manners to me.”

“A lowly human dares to talk back at every turn. Really irritating?”

The atmosphere grew increasingly cold.

Edwin also glanced between the two and grabbed the hem of my shirt.

“Stop it.”

In the end, I had to step forward as a mediator.

“And who told you to interfere? Step back.”

I brushed off Saylus’s arm and straightened my clothes.

“That’s too much, honey!”

Saylus pressed his clenched fists against his sides and stamped his feet.

If it weren’t for his extremely beautiful face, it might have been quite an unpleasant sight.

“That guy started picking a fight with me first! You heard everything!”

“‘That guy’? You should show manners too. What rudeness is this toward the King of Adamant?”

“What? King? That guy?”

At my words, Kaiden’s momentum softened in an instant.

Saylus frowned at the somewhat smug expression on his face.

“Good grief, look at that disgusting face? I can’t believe that bastard is a king. Isn’t he a swindler?”

“If you keep not listening to me, I’ll send you back again…”

“Fine, I got it!”

Saylus only backed down after hearing the threat that I would send him back.

He kept grumbling and then crossed his arms and shuffled toward the back of the three knights.

“I apologize, Your Majesty. The mage I hired was rude…”

“What’s your relationship with that guy?”

“Pardon?”

I just said it, you bastard. That he’s a mage I hired.

Why do both this guy and that guy listen with deaf ears?

“He was calling you ‘honey.'”

Kaiden looked down at me with displeased eyes.

“Don’t tell me he’s your lover…”

“It’s nothing like that.”

I should have forbidden him from calling me that.

Having to explain everything is annoying as hell.

“It’s just his habit. He’s called me ‘honey’ meaninglessly since long ago.”

“Since long ago?”

Is it my imagination that Kaiden’s face looks even more displeased?

He looked at the spot where Saylus had disappeared and spoke.

“You’ve been close enough for him to use such terms since long ago?”

“No, I mean it’s meaningless like that…”

“What about you?”

“Pardon?”

“How did you address him?”

How did I address him? I just called him by his name.

While I hesitated to answer out of absurdity, Kaiden struck first.

“Don’t tell me ‘darling’ or something…”

“Please stop saying such horrible things. Do you find such jokes amusing?”

Only after I showed how much I detested it did the displeased look disappear from Kaiden’s face.

“It wasn’t a joke though.”

“If it wasn’t a joke, that’s even more horrible.”

“Since you deny it so strongly, it’s somewhat better.”

“What’s better?”

“My mood.”

Is this young bastard playing around?

Kaiden looked at my expression and chuckled.

“Your emotions show completely on your face.”

“Pardon?”

“You’re thinking I’m teasing you right now, aren’t you?”

I looked at Kaiden silently.

Being told that emotions show completely on my face was almost the first time since becoming an assassin.

‘I thought I was confident in hiding emotions and thoughts.’

Even Ian, that bastard who’d shared hardships with me for almost ten years, rarely guessed what I was thinking just by looking at my expression.

‘But this guy…’

Just how did he read my thoughts?

It was when I was unconsciously frowning while looking at Kaiden.

“Your Majesty!”

One of the Adamant knights came rushing toward us breathlessly.

“We found the extermination force led by the Empire’s First Prince! The Second Prince is with them too!”

Fortunately, the Empire’s other extermination force seemed to be safe as well.

The knight reported that they were waiting not far from this location.

“Good.”

Kaiden replied briefly and then looked at Edwin.

“Let’s join them and move to the next base, Prince Edwin.”

“Ah, yes!”

“And…”

The golden gaze eventually turned back to me.

“I’ll hear the rest of your explanation there.”

“Pardon? What do you mean…”

Explanation?

What explanation do I need to give?

Kaiden walked toward the Adamant knights before I could stop him.

“Explanation?”

Even to the young prince who had been watching from the side, Kaiden’s reaction seemed difficult to understand.

Edwin looked at me with bewildered eyes.

“Kayl, did you perhaps do something wrong to His Majesty?”

“…Who knows.”

I’d rather it be that I actually did something wrong.

I couldn’t even understand what kind of explanation he wanted, so it was frustrating.

‘What a strange guy.’

I wrapped my arm around Edwin, who had a worried expression on his face.

Kaiden’s jet-black hair was fluttering in the wind as he walked far ahead of us.

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The Empire and Adamant’s extermination forces successfully regrouped.

Although there was an unexpected incident that scattered the entire extermination force, it could be considered an excellent result in the end. We were able to completely wipe out the monsters inhabiting the nearby area.

“I don’t like it.”

As soon as we arrived at the new base, I was organizing the assigned barracks.

I let out a sigh while hanging the washed clothes on the clothesline near the barracks.

“What?”

“That guy from earlier today!”

Saylus, who had crawled out from the shadows, sat on a makeshift chair and shouted angrily.

“That dark-haired bastard! I don’t like him! That damn brat!”

“Lower your voice.”

I quickly turned my head to check inside the barracks.

Fortunately, Edwin was sleeping deeply.

“Can’t you see the kid is sleeping? Why are you suddenly crawling out and causing a ruckus?”

“You’re the one who neglected me for fifteen years and suddenly called me out, so why won’t you even take my side?”

“Speak properly. What do you mean I neglected you for fifteen years?”

It was definitely fifteen years ago when I first made a contract with Saylus and summoned him outside the seal.

“You summoned me once, then stayed put for over five years without going back on your own.”

“Tsk, that couldn’t be helped!”

“What couldn’t be helped?”

“That, that…!”

Saylus pouted his lips and muttered resentfully.

“Hmph, try being bound for hundreds or thousands of years. See if you can easily give up the outside world you’ve tasted after so long…”

He looked at me with the most pitiful expression in the world.

Before I knew it, tears were welling up in the corners of his eyes.

“Don’t you feel sorry for me?”

“You want me to pity you?”

“Yeah.”

Saylus gently tugged at the hem of my clothes.

Wondering what he was planning, I deliberately didn’t resist.

“So comfort me.”

He positioned me between his knees and looked up at me.

His bright red eyes, which didn’t match his angelic face, glowed mysteriously.

“…Saylus.”

I looked down at Saylus intently and asked.

“Do you still think you like me?”

“Of course.”

Saylus smiled brightly while maintaining eye contact with me.

“You were the first woman to ever make my heart race.”

Was he talking about when we first met?

I recalled the time I held a knife to Saylus’s throat.

“I think that was just you being scared.”

“That can’t be.”

Saylus firmly denied my response.

“When your heart races, it’s love.”

Before I knew it, he had stood up and was looking down at me.

His beautiful face, which shone brightly even in the night, seemed to be getting closer.

“Saylus.”

“Yeah?”

I struck Saylus’s crown with my fist as he innocently pursed his lips.

“Where do you think you’re trying to pull something?”

“Ow! That hurts!”

“I hit you because it’s supposed to hurt.”

Saylus clutched his crown and fumed.

“That’s too much! You called me because you needed my help, but you’re treating me like this!”

“If you want to be treated like a master, you chose the wrong contract partner.”

“You’re really annoying!”

“Yeah, you too.”

He must have been quite upset about losing the argument.

Saylus fumed and abruptly turned his sulking body away.

‘How is that supposed to be a mage who’s lived for thousands of years?’

His behavior is more childish than Emilia’s.

I chuckled softly while watching him.

Then I raised my hands to finish hanging the laundry and stopped.

“But you.”

I slowly turned my head to look at Saylus.

“How did you know I had died and come back to life?”

“What kind of obvious question is that?”

Saylus replied in a sulking voice, still with his back turned.

“Your whole body reeks of black magic, so it would be strange not to notice, wouldn’t it?”

Black magic.

I frowned.

‘I was revived because of magic?’

Then does that mean someone intentionally resurrected me?

Who exactly? For what purpose? If someone resurrected me, why aren’t they appearing before me?

“Can’t you tell who resurrected me?”

“Well, I can’t tell. Black magic is like a kind of sorcery that even non-mages can use if they know the method.”

Saylus turned his head back toward me.

“By the way, Kayla Angel.”

He looked me up and down carefully, then asked with a serious expression.

“How exactly did you die?”

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