The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 209
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Chapter 209. The Boy and the Assassin (4)
“…Do you think this will make me less angry?”
The man called Ian muttered in a disgruntled voice.
“So you don’t like it?”
“No. Do it one more time.”
“He’s climbing on again.”
“Ah, whyyy.”
“Not now. Can’t you see there’s a kid over there?”
Ian grumbled while holding Kayla in his arms, then turned his gaze.
Unreadable gray eyes glared at the back of Kaiden’s head.
“A boy, you said? How did you end up picking up something like that?”
Treating a person like lost property.
Kaiden quietly gritted his teeth.
“…I picked him up by chance on the road. He looked like he’d die if I left him there.”
It wasn’t by chance but on purpose that she picked him up.
Kaiden pouted while gripping the blanket tightly.
“Anyway, your problem is that you’re too soft-hearted.”
“Who’s soft-hearted?”
“Getting all worked up. I was just stating facts…”
“Ian.”
“Fine, I take it back. My lovely girlfriend is a cold and cruel lord of assassins…”
Before Ian could finish speaking, a thud was heard.
“Hey, why’d you hit me!”
“Because you’re annoying.”
“Where does someone mercilessly punch their boyfriend’s head like that?”
“You were so annoying I got confused whether you were my boyfriend or my nephew, you bastard. What are you gonna do about it?”
Kayla and Ian.
The two seemed more like friends than lovers.
They appeared that close and informal with each other.
‘Annoying.’
Kaiden frowned deeply.
Watching them bicker while calling each other’s names was more irritating than seeing them kiss.
“But Kayla, you have missions piling up. The Captain is really looking forward to this big job assigned to you. If you don’t return right away…”
“I said from the beginning I wouldn’t take that mission. The Captain scheduled it on his own.”
“But what can you do? When the higher-ups tell you to do something, you have to do it. Otherwise heads will roll.”
Kayla didn’t answer.
Was she perhaps considering it?
‘…So we’re parting ways here after all.’
The boy was used to farewells.
Adults always had their own circumstances and left his side as if it were promised.
His mother had done so, and so had his sister Idis.
‘Yeah, I knew it.’
The desire to stay together until the end was only Kaiden’s feeling alone.
Kayla had no obligation to respond to those feelings.
‘After all, Kayla is, that person is a stranger.’
It was a fact he knew well, but facing reality was always painful.
Kaiden half-lowered his eyes.
“My head won’t roll. So don’t worry.”
“What, you’re really not coming back with me?”
“It’s difficult right now.”
Kayla answered in a firm voice.
“I can’t leave that kid alone.”
“What? Why?”
“Because he’s a child.”
“No, even if he’s young, he’s a boy who can take care of himself. It’s not like he just learned to walk…”
“Thirteen years old is barely different from just learning to walk.”
Suddenly there was the sound of Ian sucking in his breath.
He was silent for a while, then suddenly shouted.
“What? Thirteeeeen?”
“Why are you suddenly yelling? My ears are going to fall off.”
“Thirteen is old enough to know everything! What’s this talk about being a child!”
“Know everything, my ass…”
“Kayla, I was twelve when I joined the organization! At thirteen, you should know how to survive on your own!”
“Are you and him the same?”
“What’s different! And if that dark-haired boy develops feelings for you…”
“Ian!”
Kayla shouted her boyfriend’s name.
“What are you saying about a child who’s still wet behind the ears! And if that kid looked at me that way, I would have strangled him with my own hands long ago.”
“W-well, that’s true, but…”
“If you know that, don’t even bring up such disgusting talk. I don’t want to have to kill my boyfriend with my own hands either.”
“Ah, I said I’m sorry. I misspoke, okay?”
Ian apologized for a while, then continued in a sighing voice.
“But I must be really worried to say this much.”
“There’s a limit to how much you should worry.”
“You know very well what the Captain thinks of you these days. Or I’ll take that kid instead. I can just drop him off at some village with good security nearby.”
“No.”
It was truly a sharp refusal.
He thought she would consider it longer this time.
Kaiden’s eyes widened.
“He’s something I picked up. I’ll handle it myself.”
“Kayla, why this pointless stubbornness…”
“Go back, Ian.”
Kayla cut off Ian’s words as if she wouldn’t listen anymore.
“It would be troublesome if you got in trouble with the Captain too.”
“…Kayla, I’m really curious so I’m asking.”
Ian asked back in a voice that sounded completely puzzled.
“Why are you going through this trouble? You don’t even know that kid. Did he perhaps commission you to protect him for money?”
“No.”
“Then why…”
“Killing people is something I must do if I’m paid, but saving people is something I can do even without being paid.”
Kayla’s quiet voice echoed through the cave.
“Saving people is one of the few things I can do entirely according to my own will.”
“…Kayla.”
“That’s why.”
A silence fell that was neither heavy nor light.
Was it possible they were having a silent conversation just between themselves without him knowing?
Kaiden held his breath and perked up both ears.
“…Can’t be helped.”
Ian was the first to speak.
The sound of him sliding one foot back could be heard.
“I’ll somehow make excuses to the Captain. But you need to come back quickly.”
“Thanks, Ian.”
“Just words? Hm? You’re only going to thank me with words?”
The serious atmosphere from moments before lightened a bit.
Kayla smiled softly at Ian’s playful voice.
“Really, I don’t know who’s more of a child here.”
“Who are you calling a child? I’m an adult who’s already had my coming-of-age ceremony.”
“Anyone younger than me is a child.”
“We’re only three years apart, you know.”
The sound of Kayla patting Ian’s back a few times could be heard.
“So hurry back. It would be troublesome if other organization members found out we were both here alone.”
“Got it.”
Ian exchanged a few more words of farewell before instantly concealing his presence.
The cave returned to silence once again.
Crackle, crackle.
Kayla revived the embers placed in the middle of the cave and threw in a few pieces of firewood.
Then she sat down near the entrance and didn’t move at all.
“…Do you really like your lover that much?”
“If you’re going to pretend to sleep, do it properly to the end.”
Kayla looked at Kaiden with a light laugh.
She spoke while looking at the boy who had now turned completely toward her.
“And that’s a strange question. Is there anyone who dislikes their lover?”
Well, that’s true.
Kaiden pursed his lips and pulled the blanket up to below his eyes.
“If you like him that much, why did you lie?”
“Lie?”
“You said you picked me up by chance while passing by.”
“How is that a lie?”
“It wasn’t picking me up by chance while passing by, you deliberately saved me.”
Kayla made a startled expression.
She awkwardly brushed her bangs aside.
“It’s not exactly a lie. Saying I saved you while passing by isn’t completely wrong either. It’s true that we met by chance…”
“You were the one who first asked if I wanted to live, and offered to save me if I did.”
Kaiden stared directly at the assassin with uncomfortably straightforward eyes.
Finally, Kayla confessed honestly in a half-resigned voice.
“…I just didn’t want Ian to take interest in you.”
Kayla replied with one arm resting on her half-raised knee.
“That guy doesn’t care about anyone else’s safety except mine. If he knew you were being chased by other assassins, he’d definitely try to dig into your background.”
And then if he thought there was any money to be made, he’d try to kill you with his own hands.
Kayla muttered as if talking to herself, then shrugged her shoulders.
“So I made up a story as a precaution. Did that bother you that much?”
“…He has a bad personality.”
“What?”
“Your lover, I mean.”
Making someone precious to him lie.
Kaiden slowly blinked his golden eyes and asked.
“And you still like him?”
“…Are you trying to get back at me? Saying I have bad taste in men?”
“No, I’m just genuinely curious.”
The boy added with furrowed brows.
“I was wondering if romantic relationships are somehow different from other relationships.”
“You’ve never dated, have you, kid.”
“…Wouldn’t it be strange if I had dated at my age?”
“Well, that’s true too.”
Kayla kept giggling as if teasing the boy was amusing.
“Right, don’t do it now. Wait until you’re older and date lots.”
Treating him like a child again.
Kaiden muttered with a thoroughly sulky face.
“What’s the point when everyone breaks up anyway.”
“If you don’t want to break up, you can get married.”
Ah, there was that option.
Kaiden made a dumbfounded expression before frowning.
“Then are you going to get married too? With that person from earlier?”
“Huh? Marriage?”
Kayla blinked and then narrowed her eyes.
After tilting her head with a subtle expression for a while, she answered with a displeased look.
“Well. I haven’t thought about it until now…”
Marriage, huh.
After thinking deeply for a while, Kayla laughed lightly.
With her right eye slightly crinkled.
“Still, well, living married to that guy someday wouldn’t be bad either.”
Looking at Kayla smiling, he didn’t feel happy at all.
This feeling was too intense to be called jealousy, and too powerless to be called anger.
Kaiden clutched his churning stomach and pulled the blanket over his head.
“Kid, what’s wrong all of a sudden?”
The boy didn’t respond to the assassin’s question.
And he closed his eyes tightly, trying to sleep.
While ignoring her muttered words about whether it was puberty.
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