The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 207
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Chapter 207. The Boy and the Assassin (2)
“Red hair and green eyes? Why is that person here?”
“I don’t know, we’re all screwed.”
The quiet forest stirred.
The assassins who had been chasing Kaiden couldn’t take their eyes off the suspicious figure in the tree.
As they hesitated to approach, the young boy looked puzzled.
“I can’t even rest properly because of these idiots.”
The red-haired masked person muttered to themselves with a sighing voice.
Then in the blink of an eye, they jumped down from the tree.
“You all must have your ears blocked. I gave you a warning out of the goodness of my heart, but I see you’re still standing there stubbornly.”
Had there been a warning?
Surely telling them to get lost wasn’t what they meant by a warning?
Kaiden quietly held his breath as he watched the red-haired person standing before him.
“Still haven’t left.”
The red-haired person spoke quietly, seemingly unafraid of the assassins surrounding them.
“You’re just asking to be killed?”
The assassins exchanged glances among themselves.
Then one who appeared to be their leader stepped forward and spoke.
“We had no intention of intruding on your territory, Silver Thread Reaper.”
The assassin’s tone, which had been full of curses and threats while chasing Kaiden, had become infinitely respectful.
“We were merely carrying out our mission. If you hand over the target, we’ll quietly withdraw.”
“Target?”
The red-haired person frowned and looked around.
“Where is this target?”
“That child at your feet is our target.”
The red-haired person’s eyebrows twitched at the word “child.”
“…Your target is.”
Eyes like fresh green holding starlight finally turned toward Kaiden.
“This scrawny little colt?”
The gaze was cold but not contemptuous.
Rather, it was eyes full of life, curious enough to be felt.
“Yes, so if you just hand him over quietly…”
“What if I don’t want to hand him over?”
A voice tinged with laughter mixed with the wind.
“What will you do then?”
A somehow mischievous yet confident smile.
Kaiden stared blankly at the red-haired person’s smile visible beneath the mask.
“Look, Silver Thread Reaper, even if you abandon human morality, you should keep business ethics.”
“Right, right! Why are we doing this when we all know each other? We just want to take the target, so why do you keep picking a fight…”
One overzealous assassin raised his voice and stepped forward, then collapsed.
A small dagger was already embedded in the head of the one who had been talking about picking fights.
“I haven’t slept for two weeks because of a mission.”
The red-haired person flexed the hand that had thrown the dagger and shrugged.
“I just finished my mission safely and was about to get some sleep when mosquito-like bastards started buzzing noisily nearby. So what should I do?”
The killing intent was so intense that the grass on the ground bent over.
All the assassins who had been chasing Kaiden were frozen in place, unable to move from the aura emanating from just one person.
“You dare demand I hand over the target when you’ve ruined my precious sleep time?”
The red-haired person twisted one corner of their mouth.
“Go ahead and try to take him if you can.”
Though they said to try taking him, anyone who got even slightly closer would lose their head. In the end, it was the assassins who had been chasing Kaiden who surrendered first.
“…We won’t forget this, Silver Thread Reaper.”
They exchanged glances with each other, left behind a cliché parting line, and disappeared into the darkness. Not forgetting to glare at Kaiden one last time.
Hoo, hoo, hoo.
The forest regained its quiet.
Only the cry of wood pigeons echoed in the silence.
“Are you a bit slow?”
It was a much thinner, higher voice than before.
Kaiden looked up with wide eyes.
‘She was a woman?’
The red-haired person was looking at him with the same cold eyes as before.
“If it were me, I would have run away long ago.”
“…Would you not kill me if I ran?”
It seemed to be an unexpected answer.
The red-haired person listened to Kaiden’s words and raised one eyebrow.
“I don’t kill women or children.”
“Why?”
Kaiden struggled to get up.
“Why don’t you kill them?”
No answer came.
The red-haired person looked at the boy as if seeing all sorts of strange things, then turned around.
“The ones chasing you won’t come this way for a while. If you want to live, head north. The Kingdom of Lionel has good security, so if you hide there, they won’t dare…”
The red-haired person stopped mid-step.
“…Were you already dying?”
The upper body he had barely managed to raise collapsed powerlessly to the ground.
Kaiden exhaled with difficulty, unable to even think about spitting out the grains of sand in his mouth.
“…Kid, stay conscious.”
The red-haired person who had approached crouched in front of the boy and poked his cheek with a finger.
“If you fall asleep here, you’ll die. Do you want to die?”
The red-haired person continued in a voice as if doing a favor.
“Well, if you want to die, I can kill you. Even children have the right to die comfortably when it’s time.”
A cold blade touched his neck.
“How about it? Should I just kill you right now? There won’t be any pain.”
So this person was also trying to kill me.
No different from those who had been chasing me.
Somehow feeling wronged, he gritted his teeth.
‘Do I want to die?’
No, he didn’t want to die.
But he didn’t want to live either.
He felt like his ankle was caught in the snare of fate that he couldn’t escape even by running.
As long as he was born a king’s bastard, as long as his half-brother had decided to kill him, even if he was lucky enough to survive, there was no future.
‘I’ll have to live running away like this for the rest of my life.’
Kaiden clenched his fist.
His fingers dug into the black soil.
Through his blurring vision, he saw Idis.
His only sister, with whom contact had been lost since leaving the royal castle.
‘…I wanted to see her at least once.’
By now, his nephew, whose face he didn’t know, would be about five years old.
Since it was said to be a boy, both Idis and the newly born nephew were surely living well, receiving devoted care.
‘Living happily.’
Even though he couldn’t be part of that happiness, it didn’t matter.
He wanted to see Idis, who had once been his only family, and the son she bore living well. If there was any regret in his short life, it was only that.
“Hey.”
Kaiden listened to the voice that reached him through his fading consciousness.
“Do you want to live?”
The dry, emotionless voice strangely sounded gentle.
“If you want to live, say you want to live.”
The fingertips touching his face were cold.
“I’ll let you live.”
The human heart is truly fickle.
Just moments ago, he had thought he just wanted to die.
But with a single word from someone whose name he didn’t even know, he suddenly wanted to live.
“…Yeah.”
Kaiden gritted his teeth.
His mouth tasted salty from the tears that had flowed down between his eyes hidden by his hair.
“…I want to live.”
The boy said quietly, but clearly.
“I want to live.”
He truly wanted to live.
Even if no one in this world wanted him to be alive.
“…I see.”
Red-haired heard his answer and gave a brief reply.
“Then live.”
Kaiden felt his body being lifted into the air and closed his eyes.
The embrace of whoever held him was excessively comfortable and excessively warm.
So much so that he instantly let go of everything and fell into a deep sleep.
* * *
“If you don’t hurry up and follow, I’ll leave you behind.”
It had already been five days since he’d been with the red-haired assassin.
Kaiden had come to know quite a lot about his companion.
“Come with me, Kayla.”
The red-haired woman’s name was Kayla.
She was twenty-one years old, eight years older than Kaiden.
With her much taller height than ordinary women and skinny frame, at first glance she could sometimes be mistaken for a man rather than a woman.
“You little brat who’s still wet behind the ears.”
Red-haired, no, Kayla stopped in place and frowned.
“Why do you keep speaking informally? Don’t you know how to speak politely?”
“I don’t know.”
“You’ll die if you lie.”
Instead of answering, Kaiden just stared at her blankly.
“…Fine, never mind. Where on earth did you learn such bad manners, only keeping your mouth shut when it’s disadvantageous to you?”
Kayla let out a deep sigh and extended one hand.
“What are you doing? Take it.”
Kaiden smiled faintly and took her hand.
Whenever his pace slowed down, Kayla would always take his hand and walk at his speed.
‘It’s warm.’
Unlike her cold expression, Kayla had a high body temperature.
When he held hands with her, it felt like warmth seeped into one side of his chest.
He liked that feeling, so Kaiden would deliberately dawdle from time to time while walking.
“Follow me even if it’s hard.”
Kaiden stopped walking and looked at Kayla.
She spoke indifferently while keeping her gaze fixed straight ahead.
“There’s a hideout just thirty more minutes ahead, so we’ll rest there.”
Kayla always said she would leave him behind if he didn’t follow quickly, but she had never actually left him.
Instead, she would tell him when and where they should rest, like now.
“Eat this if you’re hungry.”
As soon as they arrived at the hideout, Kayla handed him dried rations.
The blackish jerky-like thing had a strange texture that became chewier the more you chewed it.
“Stay still while I light the fire.”
Upon arriving at the hideout, Kayla lit a fire and tidied up the surroundings, then gave the boy the spot next to her.
“…Kayla.”
When they sat side by side by the fire, something inside his chest rippled along with the flames.
It was an unfamiliar emotion he’d never felt before, so he didn’t know what to call it.
“I have something I’m curious about.”
Kaiden would glance at the profile of his companion who wouldn’t even look at him, and secretly try to touch his fingertips to hers.
Then he suddenly voiced the thought that had bubbled up in his heart.
“Why did you say you’d save me? At first you said you’d kill me without pain.”
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