The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 2

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Chapter 2. Me, a Nanny? A Nanny! (2)

I had lived my entire life without any connection to children.

Thanks to my confused mind, I was now on the verge of getting dizzy.

‘Anyway, if she came in with a recommendation, she must be a young lady from a noble family.’

I formed my first hypothesis about Rachel Brown, then immediately dismissed it.

At least as far as I knew, there was no one among the Empire’s nobles with the surname ‘Brown.’

To begin with, ‘Brown’ wasn’t the kind of surname commoners would use.

A noble’s surname should have beautiful pronunciation and grand meaning.

‘If not that, then she’s probably a young lady from some insignificant family in dire straits.’

This woman probably belonged to the latter category.

No matter how much of a servant she was, a daughter of a prestigious family wouldn’t wear such shabby clothes.

At that moment, a sharp headache struck me as if it had been waiting.

A chillingly familiar voice echoed in my ears.

– Then take this opportunity to think carefully about why I’m doing this.

The existence of ‘him’ that I had forgotten came back vividly.

– In the afterlife.

The center of my chest began to burn as if I had swallowed a lump of coal.

As if that damned flame that had greedily devoured my body was now burning my heart.

“…Ian.”

I wasn’t trying to call him.

I shouldn’t have let the name of that bastard who killed me pass my lips.

The flame that had been burning in one corner of my chest had somehow spread to my eyes.

Tears flowed from my heated eyes.

“Nanny, crying? Hurt?”

Then the ball of fur—no, the child called Princess Emilia—hugged my knees.

“Nanny, don’t hurt! Waaahhh—!”

“No, wait…”

The princess had already started crying loudly, shedding tears.

Seeing the princess crying along with me was troubling.

I had no choice but to carefully place my hand on Emilia’s tangled, fur-like hair.

I was flustered since I couldn’t remember ever comforting such a young child, except perhaps in times I couldn’t recall.

“…Please stop crying.”

I carefully stroked her soft, downy hair.

I wondered if this method would work, but fortunately it seemed to.

Emilia quickly stopped crying when I stroked her head.

“Mm, then Nanny won’t cry anymore either?”

“Yes. I won’t cry anymore either.”

“Then Lia won’t cry either!”

The princess wiped her tears quite bravely and pursed her lips.

Watching her somehow made my mind feel clearer.

Right. Now that I had died and come back to life, what mattered wasn’t petty emotions.

I clenched both fists and recalled what that bastard had said.

– Burn her. Leave no ashes behind.

Ian had wanted me to leave no ashes behind.

But contrary to his wish, my soul had defiantly come back to life by borrowing another’s body.

‘Wait for me, Ian.’

I gritted my teeth while recalling the face of the lover who had stabbed me in the back.

‘Whatever the reason may be.’

For traitors, there was only death.

I gritted my teeth while recalling the organization’s iron rule.

‘I will never forgive you.’

The day I opened my eyes not in the body of the leader of the continent’s top assassin guild, but as an imperial nanny.

I resolved to live my newly given second life solely for revenge.

* * *

“Nanny, Nanny.”

While I was silently burning with vengeance.

Emilia tugged at my skirt hem and whined.

“Brother ran away. Find him.”

Brother? Ah, come to think of it, the head maid had told me to find ‘Prince Edwin.’

“Are you talking about, I mean, referring to Prince Edwin?”

I became aware of the child’s status as a princess and spoke more formally.

“Yes! Brother’s name is Edwin!”

As I nodded at Emilia’s words, I soon frowned.

‘Wait, is there any reason for me to be doing this here?’

Escaping the Imperial Palace wouldn’t be difficult for me.

I knew more than five secret entrances to the Imperial Palace right now.

‘But even if I go outside right now, I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to find Ian.’

I didn’t know how much time had passed since I died, and I didn’t have a single coin.

Going outside recklessly in this situation would be foolish.

‘This isn’t my trained body from before either, and if I move without a plan, dying twice wouldn’t be impossible.’

I looked at the young princess in front of me, Emilia, and made a decision.

For the time being, I should live as this ridiculous ‘nanny.’

I opened the door with an extremely determined expression.

It was finally the moment my new life began.

* * *

Finding the prince wasn’t as difficult as I thought.

Because Emilia knew where he was.

“Are you really sure it’s there?”

“Yes! Brother Edwin always plays there!”

I was frustrated with Emilia following me with short steps, so I picked her up with one hand and walked quickly.

‘How can she be so light?’

The princess, light as if she’d blow away in the wind, had a sweet powdery scent coming from the top of her head.

‘My goodness, was she cotton candy instead of a ball of fur?’

The young princess who resembled cotton candy wrapped her arms around my neck and giggled happily.

“Nanny, high!”

What was so enjoyable about it?

I let Emilia play with my hair and walked diligently.

‘Come to think of it, what kind of guy was Edwin?’

Though I had frequented the Imperial Palace countless times before my death, this was my first time at the Third Prince’s Palace.

‘Speaking of which, for a prince’s palace…’

The palace surrounded by arched corridors was, how should I put it.

Large in scale, but lacking things to fill the inside.

‘Desolate.’

It was literally a barren place beyond compare.

‘Ah, now I remember a bit.’

Looking at the empty palace, some information about the Third Prince came to mind.

The Third Prince of the Bentrum Empire, Edwin Anaxinian Bentrum.

‘Truly an abandoned child.’

Third Prince Edwin was the only son born between the current Emperor ‘Cabellius III’ and the Third Consort ‘Idis Lionel.’

However, Third Consort Idis had passed away three years ago.

She died from excessive bleeding during childbirth, so she probably died right after giving birth to Emilia.

Without leaving anything for her children.

‘But that couldn’t be helped.’

Being from a foreign country, she had no significant support base within the Empire.

She had been sold off as a hostage, so there was no way she could have such things.

‘The Kingdom of Lionel was probably too busy solving their own problems to pay attention to this side.’

3rd Prince Edwin and 1st Princess Emilia, who had nothing to boast about.

Their presence gradually disappeared from the Imperial Palace.

As if they had never existed in the first place.

That was all I knew about 3rd Prince Edwin.

‘No wonder my memory was hazy. It was because he was someone with no presence.’

Servants who serve powerless masters always have the hardest time.

If I stayed here, a life of hardship was clearly visible ahead.

‘It would be best to escape as quickly as possible.’

While thinking about this and that, I had arrived at the rear garden of the annex.

‘Hmm, something’s strange?’

No matter how much I looked, I couldn’t see the prince anywhere.

I frowned and looked around, then finally closed my eyes.

I concentrated all my attention on my senses so as not to miss even the slightest presence.

Then, I felt quite a commotion from outside the wall.

I hurriedly moved my steps toward that place.

“This is…”

The wall in the corner of the detached palace garden.

There were traces clumsily hidden by bushes, but my eyes couldn’t be fooled.

When I cleared away the bushes, a small hole in the wall revealed itself.

The grass around it was flattened.

It was clearly traces of a small animal or a young child passing through.

The fact that the prince who should be in the garden was missing meant he must have escaped through this hole.

‘There’s no choice.’

I set Emilia down on the ground.

“Nate?”

“Your Highness, you must stay here quietly. Do you understand?”

“Quietly?”

Emilia wiggled her fingers with a troubled expression.

“Lia is hungry.”

Come to think of it, she had been saying she was hungry since we first met.

I was also troubled, but there was nothing I could do.

I couldn’t carelessly take the young princess outside.

Moreover, if it were discovered that the prince had left his palace without an attendant, it would cause an uproar.

I had to hurry and find that prince.

“I’ll be back soon. Please wait just a moment.”

“Mm, okay. You have to come back quickly, right?”

Instead of answering the princess, I nodded lightly and took a deep breath.

Then I kicked off the ground in one motion and leaped over the wall.

“Nate! Amazing!”

I heard Emilia’s exclamation from beyond the wall.

Fortunately, this new body had decent athletic abilities.

I was dusting off my hands and leisurely turning around when it happened.

I felt a gaze.

A secretive but persistent gaze that clung to me.

It didn’t seem malicious, but it wasn’t exactly a pleasant gaze either.

I quickly turned my head.

But the gaze had already disappeared without a trace.

‘Was it my imagination?’

I was narrowing my eyes and about to turn toward where I felt the gaze when it happened.

“Give it back!”

A scream-like shout came from the opposite direction.

It was a young child’s voice.

* * *

The source of the commotion was the Royal Stables located near the 3rd Prince’s Palace.

“Give it back! Give it back, I said!”

About twenty steps away, under the wooden roof of some stable.

A group of large boys was surrounding one small child.

“Give it back, you said!”

“Give it baaack~ Give it back, he saaays~”

The boys seemed to be having great fun teasing the little one.

Judging by their clothing, they didn’t seem to be of low status.

‘They’re big but their faces are young. They all look like nobles, could they be attendants?’

While I was pondering the identity of the group of boys.

I caught a glimpse of a particularly out-of-place little one among them.

‘Found him.’

3rd Prince Edwin.

That was exactly the one I had been looking for.

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