The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 204

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Chapter 204. The Fall (2)

 

“Who ordered you?”

 

The assassin who had fallen to the ground snorted at my question.

 

“How ridiculous. Do you think I’d tell you that?”

 

“The Breath of Angels?”

 

“What…”

 

His pupils trembled finely.

 

His complexion, which had seemed relaxed just moments before, instantly turned pale.

 

“That’s answer enough.”

 

I could tell without hearing it.

 

I silently drew my dagger.

 

“W-wait! How do you know that name? Just who are you…”

 

“How ridiculous.”

 

As I curved my lips into a crooked smile, fear appeared in the assassin’s eyes.

 

“Do you think I’d tell you that?”

 

I gave him the same answer back and swung my dagger.

 

The assassin’s head was instantly severed from his body and rolled across the grass field.

 

“C-Captain! You bastard…!”

 

Another assassin lying nearby gritted his teeth.

 

As if wanting revenge, he tried to charge at me with his sword raised.

 

“Ugh, urgh! What is this! Why won’t my body move…”

 

“Ah, how funny.”

 

Saylus, who had been behind me, stepped forward.

 

He crouched down in front of the assassin who was lying on the ground, flailing his limbs.

 

“Honey, look at this guy. He’s just like a moth caught in a spider’s web.”

 

“Stop playing around and get rid of him quickly.”

 

Saylus pressed the terrified assassin with his fingertips and grinned wickedly.

 

“Can’t I play with him just a little longer?”

 

Seeing his mischievous red eyes made me feel strangely troubled.

 

‘This is why I didn’t want to get involved with this guy until the end.’

 

While mages as a species generally had many incomprehensible aspects, this one in front of me was particularly severe.

 

‘In the past, didn’t he turn all the enemies I said he could do whatever he wanted with into strange monsters?’

 

How shocked I was when I saw enemies with their limbs in switched positions.

 

Well, since this human had been trapped in a magic circle for thousands of years, his mental state couldn’t possibly be normal.

 

‘Though I don’t know why he’s only obedient to me.’

 

How could I understand the mind of someone who spouts nonsense about love when his heart beats?

 

“Stop playing around and dispose of him quickly.”

 

The assassin struggled even more at the word “dispose.”

 

He tried to scream, but the shadow binding his limbs immediately covered his mouth as well.

 

“Mmph!”

 

In the end, the assassin couldn’t even scream and slowly sank into the darkness.

 

I watched that scene silently before turning my head.

 

“What about the clerics?”

 

“They’re stuck in that encampment over there, unable to move. I tied up all the assassins inside too.”

 

Saylus thrust his head forward as if asking for praise.

 

“I did well, right? I did well, didn’t I, honey?”

 

“…Yeah.”

 

I gently pushed Saylus’s head away and patted his forearm a couple of times.

 

He pouted beside me, seemingly unsatisfied with my praise.

 

‘Will there be another occasion to use magic?’

 

Saylus could use magic exactly three times per day.

 

Since he’d used one of those times to bind the enemies’ feet, he had two left.

 

“Um, Kayl.”

 

Then Edwin’s voice came from the darkness.

 

“Can I open my eyes now?”

 

“Yes, you may open them.”

 

Edwin’s blue eyes sparkled.

 

He gripped his sword tightly and slowly approached me.

 

“Is it all over now?”

 

“Yes, it seems so.”

 

I watched the extermination forces who had instantly subdued those in the encampment and the assassins outside.

 

“Capture them!”

 

“They’re all traitors!”

 

“The magic circle drawn on the ground must not be damaged! It’s important evidence!”

 

Along with the shouts of the extermination forces, the sun rose beyond the horizon.

 

Under the dimly brightening sky, the extermination forces’ final mission was coming to an end.

 

* * *

 

Right when the extermination forces struck the place with the magic circle.

 

The Marquis of Redcliff, who had been hiding in the forest watching that scene, turned away while gritting his teeth.

 

“You stupid fool!”

 

He grabbed Ian, who was standing behind him, by the collar.

 

“You told me to trust you and leave it to you! Didn’t all the plans you made fail! How will you take responsibility for this now! If the existence of that magic circle becomes known, we’ll all be dead to The Emperor!”

 

Ian stood with his eyes downcast and an expressionless face.

 

He only occasionally twitched his eyebrows when the marquis’s spit flew onto his face.

 

“I thought you were useful so I brought in someone of unknown origins and made him a baron! But you mess up the most important task! Do you think you’ll get away with this!”

 

“…I apologize.”

 

“How did those bastards know to attack this place before dawn in the first place! It’s as if they knew we were going to send people ahead of time!”

 

Ian’s lips set in a straight line.

 

He was equally bewildered.

 

‘Even if they knew we were sending people from our side.’

 

How could they have timed their attack so perfectly?

 

It was as if someone had deliberately followed his subordinates.

 

‘But if they were being tailed, those guys couldn’t have failed to notice.’

 

While most of The Organization’s skilled members had met their deaths at his hands, the remaining ones were also talented as assassins.

 

‘Unless someone with superior stealth and tracking skills had followed them.’

 

But Breath of the Angel was the continent’s greatest assassin guild.

 

There were no assassins on this continent with skills surpassing The Organization’s assassins.

 

If there were any, it would only be those who had once belonged to The Organization.

 

‘…I wondered if that bastard Saylus had appeared.’

 

Ian frowned as he fell into thought.

 

He recalled the words he’d heard from the mercenary captured in Adamant.

 

‘I-it’s true! That’s all I saw! The King of Adamant was trying to kill us all, when suddenly darkness appeared and swallowed everything!’

 

The mercenary knelt by the water’s edge, shaking his head frantically.

 

‘I didn’t see any white-haired mage or green-eyed woman! It’s true!’

 

It was truly useless testimony.

 

Ian mercilessly shoved the mercenary’s head into the water.

 

“What are we going to do!”

 

Meanwhile, Prince Lloyd shouted with his face flushed bright red.

 

“Everything’s become a complete mess because of you alone! How are you going to take responsibility!”

 

Such a noisy brat who couldn’t do anything with his own hands.

 

Ian was displeased but showed no sign of it as he slowly raised his gaze.

 

“…I will take responsibility.”

 

“What?”

 

“I will take full responsibility for everything.”

 

He was already wearing a smile across his face.

 

It was the same cheerful smile as always.

 

“I just need to make up for the failure by any means necessary.”

 

To do that, he would have to eliminate all potential risk factors.

 

Ian looked down at the Marquis of Redcliff who was gripping his collar and smiled.

 

“I’ll just eliminate all the evidence and witnesses completely.”

 

At his chilling voice, the marquis flinched and loosened his grip.

 

The hollow gray eyes he faced held a dangerous light.

 

* * *

 

“Are you saying this magic circle was supplying magical power to the mutant monsters?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“This is truly astounding.”

 

Duke Crowner shook his head after hearing Kaiden’s words.

 

“I never dreamed the Holy Kingdom would scheme such a thing.”

 

He glanced at the clerics tied up with ropes and clicked his tongue.

 

“My head is already aching. How should I report this to His Majesty, and how should I interrogate those people…”

 

“Your Majesty! Duke Crowner!”

 

Jerome raised his eyebrows as he saw someone running from the distance.

 

It was Prince Edwin and the group of knights following him.

 

* * *

 

“You’re late, Prince Edwin.”

 

Jerome delivered what was essentially a rebuke as soon as he saw Edwin.

 

“Ah, I got separated from the knights and lost my way. I’m sorry for being late.”

 

Edwin smiled awkwardly as he made excuses for his tardiness.

 

Then, as if something occurred to him, he wore an extremely worried expression.

 

“By the way, is Brother Adrian alright? I wanted to ask about his well-being directly, but I haven’t seen him anywhere.”

 

“He’s fine.”

 

Jerome replied in a curt voice.

 

He turned around immediately and added one more thing.

 

“…And why are you even apologizing?”

 

“Pardon?”

 

“You returned safely, so that’s enough.”

 

The duke stared intently at Edwin and then left the spot.

 

I frowned as I watched Jerome’s retreating figure disappear in the distance.

 

His strangely awkward attitude, unlike usual, didn’t sit well with me at all.

 

“Damn! You cursed bastards!”

 

“How dare you insult the clerics of the Holy Kingdom! I won’t forgive this!”

 

It was right then.

 

One of the captured clerics suddenly broke free from the knights and threw himself onto the magic circle. The magic circle suddenly flashed with red light.

 

“No way, I definitely cut off the magical circuits!”

 

Aurel let out a scream, but it was already too late.

 

“Monsters! It’s monsters!”

 

“Kraaaah!”

 

In an instant, the mutant monsters that had been hiding underground burst out.

 

“The magical circuits are going berserk!”

 

As the magical power went out of control, the monsters went berserk too.

 

The knights were overwhelmed and fell to the sudden attack.

 

“Saylus!”

 

When I urgently called his name, Saylus snapped his fingers as if he had expected this.

 

The rampaging magical circuits were instantly destroyed. But that wasn’t the end.

 

Kwaang.

 

With a sudden explosion, the ground beneath our feet shook.

 

With a chilling cracking sound, fissures appeared in the cliff where the extermination force was standing.

 

“Damn it, what the hell!”

 

“Ahhh, please save us!”

 

Soldiers from the extermination force fell through the cracks in the cliff.

 

Among them were Pinet and several of the three knights from our group.

 

Edwin, who was running while holding my hand in the chaos, screamed.

 

“No, Sir Pinet! Sir Bata!”

 

Though everything was chaotic, one fact was crystal clear.

 

I couldn’t save everyone with my power alone.

 

“Damn it, Saylus!”

 

Saylus snapped his fingers once more at my cry.

 

Thanks to that, Pinet, the three knights, and other knights were enveloped in shadows and floated up.

 

“Your Highness, we should also hurry…”

 

I couldn’t finish my words and turned my head.

 

Edwin was falling while reaching out toward me.

 

Through the cracks in the split cliff.

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