The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 210
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Chapter 210. The Boy and the Assassin (5)
“The Crimson Reaper is still dragging that brat around?”
The black-masked figures exchanged words with troubled expressions.
They were the group of assassins who had been pursuing Kaiden before.
“They’re still on the move. Approaching the land where the barbarians are.”
“What? Doesn’t she know that brat’s identity? Why is she heading to such a dangerous place?”
The target the Crimson Reaper had intercepted was the half-brother of the King of Lionel.
The King of Lionel had issued a mission to bring back his half-brother’s head, claiming his very existence was a threat to royal authority.
“This has become troublesome. How did we get tangled up with that freak?”
“But is the Crimson Reaper really that strong?”
One of the youngest assassins retorted with displeasure.
“She’s just a woman after all. I don’t understand why everyone’s so afraid…”
“Don’t say that in front of the Crimson Reaper.”
A more experienced assassin tapped the young assassin’s shoulder as he passed by.
“Not if you don’t want to die young.”
“Are you looking down on me? Honestly, in terms of strength, I could win…”
Hahahaha.
Suddenly laughter erupted among the group of assassins.
“Come on, stop it. The heads that have flown by that woman’s hands number in the hundreds.”
“As you said, there’s a reason why a mere woman became famous in this world full of guys who are experts at killing people.”
The group’s captain repeatedly threw and caught the dagger in his hand.
“Kayla, that thing is a monster.”
There was something the Captain of the Breath of Angels would say like a habit when drunk.
That buying that woman from the slave trader was the best thing he’d ever done in his life.
One of the reasons their organization could surpass other assassin guilds and become the Empire’s top assassin guild was because of that woman.
“She’s cunning, moves well, and above all, has excellent ability to control that strange magic. It was heaven’s luck that woman wasn’t born into a proper family.”
If she had lived in comfort, it would have been talent she’d never have had occasion to display in her lifetime.
The captain caught the falling dagger from the air and sheathed it.
“But no matter how monster-like someone is, they can’t beat numbers.”
He had no intention of giving up the commission just because Kayla had stolen their target.
If they couldn’t bring back the brat’s head, they’d have to return even the advance payment to the Kingdom of Lionel.
“Let’s get moving.”
The assassins’ momentum turned sharp.
The eyes visible above their masks flashed with dangerous light.
“We’ll steal the brat from the Crimson Reaper before they enter barbarian territory.”
They all threw themselves into the darkness at once.
Their targets were no longer one, but two.
* * *
“Hey, brat.”
Kayla called out to Kaiden who was walking ahead of her.
“If you walk that fast, you’ll collapse from exhaustion before long.”
Kaiden didn’t answer.
He just walked silently, and kept walking.
Normally this would be when he’d stage a silent protest asking to hold hands, but this was strange.
‘Since Ian visited?’
It was around that time when Kaiden started showing signs of wanting to do everything alone.
When traveling, he tried to walk ahead first, and when sleeping, he tried to sleep as far away as possible.
Even when she told him it would be hard to protect him if he stayed distant, it was useless.
‘I’m not a child.’
The boy kept emphasizing that he wasn’t a child and was busy avoiding Kayla’s touch.
‘Honestly, it’s a bit annoying.’
Kayla wasn’t naturally blessed with strong patience.
How strong could a twenty-one-year-old’s patience be anyway?
‘When Ian was that age, I made him listen even if I had to beat him.’
At that time, she and Ian weren’t even dating.
He was nothing more or less than a junior who was damn stubborn, so she had no choice but to use somewhat violent methods.
‘But if I did the same thing to that kid…’
Kayla stared at Kaiden’s back and shook her head.
She couldn’t bring herself to lay a hand on someone who looked so fragile they might break if she grabbed them even slightly hard.
“Hey, kid.”
Kayla followed behind Kaiden without forgetting to watch their surroundings.
“Kid, are you ignoring what I’m saying?”
“…”
“If you keep ignoring me, I’ll leave you behind, kid.”
“I told you I’m not a kid!”
Kaiden whipped his head around and shouted.
“I’ve told you countless times I’m not a child! And I can manage my own stamina without you nagging me about every little thing!”
Why was he getting angry and making a fuss?
Kayla narrowed her eyes and raised one eyebrow.
‘Manage it himself, my ass. He doesn’t even know what his own walking looks like.’
The way he strode along on legs as thin as dry twigs looked precarious.
Kayla shook her head slightly and immediately caught up behind the boy.
“Stop right there.”
“Wh-what’s this all of a sudden!”
Kaiden stammered.
The boy seemed startled when Kayla wrapped her arms around him from behind.
“Let go of this. Don’t touch other people’s bodies carelessly…”
“Stay still. A pursuit team has caught up.”
Kaiden, who had been twisting his body with a flushed face, finally became docile after hearing those words.
“…A pursuit team?”
“Yeah. Those guys who were chasing you seem to have caught up again.”
Seeing how they were suddenly getting closer, it seemed they had been following while maintaining a certain distance and only now picked up speed.
“Just thirty more minutes and we’d reach barbarian territory. What a shame.”
It seemed they were coming to catch the two before they could enter barbarian territory.
Kayla half-closed her eyes and focused on the approaching presence.
“…At least thirty or more? Their numbers have increased quite a bit.”
More than thirty people.
Kaiden’s face turned pale.
“That many? Last time there were fewer than twenty…”
“You must have been quite an expensive target.”
At least thirty skilled assassins.
Kayla looked down with an expressionless face.
Through her long bangs, she could see the boy’s amber eyes.
His eyes, filled with worry and fear, were trembling finely.
“…Brat.”
Kaiden also recognized that the situation was serious.
The boy no longer bristled at the word “brat.”
“From now on, we’re going to run at full speed. Can you keep up?”
“…It’s not a matter of whether I can or can’t.”
“Right, exactly.”
Kayla grinned fiercely and gripped Kaiden’s wrist tightly.
“If you want to live, run with everything you’ve got!”
The two of them kicked off the ground and surged forward.
At the same time, whistling sounds and pursuing footsteps could be heard from not far away.
Thud thud thud thud.
Kayla was faster than he could have imagined.
Kaiden was being dragged along with his wrist caught in her grip.
Before his feet could even touch the ground, his body was pulled forward by the force of Kayla’s pull.
But the assassins chasing them were even faster.
‘What should I do.’
Kaiden gritted his teeth.
At this rate, they would be caught by their pursuers.
Perhaps it was because those bastards didn’t have baggage weighing them down like he was doing to her.
Swoosh, thunk.
Ominous premonitions were never wrong.
Kaiden frowned as he saw the hidden weapon that flew past his head.
“Ha, a bunch of talentless bastards getting all excited just because they’re in a group!”
Kayla immediately deflected the hidden weapons flying toward her.
In her other hand was a dagger that she had drawn at some point.
“Catch them!”
“Kill the assassin first!”
Several of the assassins who had been chasing them revealed themselves.
One of them threw a long iron chain.
“Stop right there!”
The chain with a weight aimed for Kaiden’s ankle.
“Huk!”
Kaiden tumbled forward.
Due to the pulling force from behind, Kayla also lost her grip on his wrist.
“Damn it, kid!”
Kayla quickly changed direction and ran toward where Kaiden was being dragged.
“Got him, got him!”
“Got what!”
She threw a dagger at the throat of the assassin holding the chain wrapped around Kaiden’s ankle.
As soon as the assassin fell, Kaiden frantically freed his foot from the chain.
“Slippery little bastard! Where do you think you’re going!”
“Krgh!”
But another assassin sprang out and grabbed Kaiden by the hair.
Under the forceful downward pressure, the boy had no choice but to fall to his knees.
“Hey, assassin!”
Kayla frowned as she dealt with the assassins attacking her.
“This one belongs to us, so we’ll be taking him now.”
The assassin brought a forearm-length machete from his back to Kaiden’s neck.
As soon as the sharply honed blade touched his tender nape, a trickle of blood flowed down.
“All we need is this bastard’s head, so we don’t care whether you deal with the rest or not…”
Kaiden’s eyes widened.
Even the pain digging into his nape felt like nothing.
“You bastards worse than beasts!”
The beautiful red-haired assassin was rampaging while spitting out rough curses.
She looked exactly like a wild beast mauling those who had touched her weakness.
“Aaaaah!”
The assassins’ screams echoed through the forest as the sun set.
Slash, splaaash.
It seemed like blind spots didn’t exist for Kayla.
She threw her dagger at enemies rushing from all directions, then picked up a chain from the ground. It was the same chain that had bound Kaiden’s ankle.
Whoosh, crack.
When Kayla swung the chain with all her might, the skulls of the assassins who had leaped at her burst open.
“Hiiiik! What the hell is that thing!”
“Stay still! I said stay still, you crazy bitch!”
Kayla straightened her posture while being showered with the blood of her enemies from above.
Dark, sunken green eyes were glaring at them.
“You bastards are the ones who should stay still.”
The red-haired assassin, or rather, the assassin now dyed red from head to toe, growled while catching her rough breath.
“If you hurt even one more hair on the kid’s head, I’ll kill every last one of you.”
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