The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 206
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Chapter 206. The Boy and the Assassin (1)
There was a boy.
The boy’s name was Kaiden Ram.
“You’re a prince? Don’t make me laugh! If that were true, The Emperor would have already granted you Lionel Castle!”
Kaiden said nothing.
There was nothing wrong with what the pig-like bastard in front of him said.
Though he inherited the blood of the Lionel Royal Family, the mother who bore him was from the barbarians.
Even the foreign surname ‘Ram’ was something he received from his mother.
“An uncivilized lowborn who doesn’t know his place.”
The 1st Prince of Lionel, Bien, screamed at the top of his lungs.
“I clearly told you not to even come near the banquet hall!”
He pushed away the other princes who tried to stop him and kicked Kaiden.
“Get up, you filthy mongrel! Who told you to sit there so comfortably! Get up…”
“Stop it, Brother Bien!”
Kaiden, who had been curled up and taking the beating, slowly raised his head.
A beautiful woman who looked as if she were crafted from pure gold ran over and embraced him.
“Kaiden, are you okay?”
“Get away, Idis! Protecting such a mongrel! Have you lost your mind too?”
“Brother, you’re the one who should stop! What kind of behavior is this between siblings?”
“Siblings! Who said we’re siblings! A lowly bastard who couldn’t even receive the Lionel name!”
“Even if he didn’t receive the name, he’s still a brother who shares the same bloodline!”
“Same bloodline my foot! Half the blood flowing in that bastard’s body is fundamentally different from ours…”
“Fundamentally different? He’s human! A person who bleeds red blood when hurt!”
The Princess of Lionel, Idis Lionel.
Despite her gentle appearance, she had a strong-willed personality.
“And what exactly did Kaiden do wrong? Why are you tormenting an innocent child like this?”
“Innocent my ass!”
Bien’s face turned red as he shouted furiously.
He pointed accusingly at Kaiden, who was in Idis’s embrace.
“I clearly told him not to come near the banquet hall, but that bastard keeps lurking around…”
“I told him to come!”
“What?”
“I invited him! Is it strange for me to invite my younger brother to a banquet celebrating my marriage?”
Of course it was strange.
To invite a half-wit mixed with barbarian blood to a royal banquet.
“I won’t tolerate any more disturbance as the host of this banquet. So stop it.”
Idis looked directly at her eldest brother.
Her golden eyes that sparkled like stars held not a trace of fear.
“…Today I’m only holding back because of Idis.”
Bien glared at Kaiden and spat on the ground.
With a thoroughly disgusted expression, he half-turned his body.
“From today on, you’d better never appear before my eyes again. Otherwise, I might really twist your neck.”
“Be careful, Kaiden? From tomorrow, Sister Idis won’t be here either, so who will protect you. Right?”
The other princes giggled and followed Bien as he walked away.
They soon disappeared into the banquet hall filled with wine, food, music, and laughter.
“…Who’s calling whom uncivilized.”
Idis only relaxed her body after all the princes had disappeared.
“Are you okay, Kaiden?”
Instead of answering, Kaiden nodded his head.
The boy casually wiped the blood flowing from his lips with the back of his hand.
“My goodness, you’re not okay at all! Let me see, are there other injuries…”
Idis hurriedly took out her handkerchief to wipe her half-brother’s face.
But she stopped when Kaiden turned his head away, avoiding her touch.
“Sorry, you’re still angry, aren’t you.”
“…I’m not angry.”
Kaiden turned his head with an indifferent expression.
Though hidden by his carelessly grown hair, his lips were slightly pouting.
“Really? Who was it that said he’d never forgive me if I left for Bentrum. Who was it that said he’d absolutely never come to the banquet hall?”
Idis poked Kaiden’s face, which still had some baby fat, with her finger.
“Hmm? Who was it?”
“Don’t do that.”
“Hmm?”
“I said don’t.”
Kaiden lightly swatted away Idis’s hand.
His half-lowered eyes held a hint of hurt.
“You’re going anyway.”
“Does Kaiden hate it so much that his sister is getting married?”
“…It’s not that I hate you getting married. I hate that you’re marrying that guy.”
The Emperor of the Bentrum Empire.
Kaiden recalled the face of the man who had once come to meet Idis.
He had looked at Kaiden, who happened to be visiting Idis’s quarters, with contemptuous eyes.
As if he was displeased that the bastard son of the King of Lionel was staying in the quarters of the woman who would become his empress.
“Kaiden, calling His Imperial Majesty ‘that guy.'”
“Can’t I call the emperor of another country whatever I want?”
“You really are something.”
Idis laughed and sighed.
She pulled her young brother into her arms and roughly tousled his hair.
“Sister told you to fix that habit of speaking like that, you little rascal.”
“Ah, I told you not to!”
“I don’t want to? I’m going to do it anyway?”
Kaiden struggled to escape from his half-sister’s embrace.
Then suddenly, as if realizing something, he stopped resisting.
“Kaiden?”
Idis tilted her head, finding it strange that the boy had suddenly become docile.
“What’s wrong?”
“…Nothing.”
Kaiden murmured quietly in a barely audible voice.
“It feels like this might be the last time we do this together.”
Worry was already evident on the face of the child who was only seven years old.
Idis looked down at Kaiden like that and hugged him tightly.
“Last time, my foot. When sister gets settled in the Empire, I’ll invite you. Come visit the Empire then.”
“…Really?”
“Of course it’s real. When have you ever seen sister lie?”
Instead of answering, Kaiden shook his head back and forth.
“So endure it even when it’s hard. Even when your brothers bully you, think that it will all pass.”
Idis whispered while fixing her brother’s hair that she had messed up.
“You’re a strong child, so you’ll be able to do it, Kaiden.”
“…Sister thinks I’m strong?”
“Of course.”
Idis’s blonde hair fluttered lightly in the cool night breeze.
His gentle eyes curved thinly like a crescent moon.
“Even knowing the other brothers would be there, you still came to the banquet hall to see me.”
Even knowing you could get hurt if caught.
Idis gently touched the wound on Kaiden’s face.
“But now that I think about it, I wonder if I shouldn’t have asked you to come.”
“…I would have come even if you told me not to.”
“Oh my, have you decided to be honest now?”
She continued speaking while caressing Kaiden’s thin wrist.
“Kaiden, even without your sister around, make sure to eat your meals properly. Understood? Don’t stay up too late, and don’t go to dangerous places…”
“If you’re just going to nag, I’m leaving.”
“Hey, where do you think you’re going!”
The two sat on the grass field behind the banquet hall, playing around.
Kaiden, who had been indulging his sister’s playfulness, opened his mouth with a deliberately serious voice.
“…Sister.”
Kaiden quietly gazed at his sister.
‘You’re Kaiden, right? Nice to meet you, I’m Idis.’
The day he was brought to the royal castle for being the king’s hidden child.
Idis was the only person who acknowledged and welcomed him as family.
She was also the one who taught him how people should treat each other, and how to show proper etiquette in the royal court.
“Sister Idis.”
“Yes?”
Kaiden looked at Idis, who shone brightly even under the night sky.
“…Don’t live too kindly.”
That was the only advice he, who had grown up outside before entering the royal castle, could give to his precious half-sister.
“That’s how you live long.”
Those weren’t words that should come from an ordinary child’s mouth.
Idis smiled at Kaiden, who had such a serious expression.
“Alright, I understand. I need to live long so I can show our Kaiden his nephews’ and nieces’ faces.”
“What nephews and nieces…”
“The more family, the better.”
The princess of Lionel simply laughed innocently and left the boy’s side.
“Later, it would be nice to travel together with all the nephews and nieces. Don’t you think?”
Leaving behind a wish that would never come true.
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Thunk.
Kaiden gritted his teeth as he looked at the dagger embedded where he had been sitting.
He took a breath and then rushed out from behind the rock where he had been hiding.
“Catch him! We can’t let him escape!”
“No need to capture him alive! Just bring back his head!”
Kaiden, who had just turned thirteen, was being pursued.
‘Damn Bien.’
The assassins chasing Kaiden were sent by Bien, who had become the king of Lionel.
Bien was trying to eliminate Kaiden simply because he showed talent in swordsmanship.
“You little rat! You’re good at running around and escaping!”
“How many days do you think you can last in this forest, you little brat?”
The assassins had chased him right up to his back.
Kaiden’s stamina was reaching its limit after days without proper meals or sleep.
Thud.
Kaiden finally tripped over a tree root and fell.
It was just as the assassins were slowly approaching the fallen boy.
“How noisy.”
A voice came from above the tree where Kaiden had tripped.
“What are you lot?”
Red hair and green eyes.
Someone wearing a black mask pulled up below the eyes, like the other assassins, was looking down at them from the tree.
“All of you, get lost.”
The red-haired assassin threatened the assassins surrounding Kaiden.
“If you don’t want to die.”
In an indifferent voice, as if the fallen Kaiden beneath his feet wasn’t even worth his attention.
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