The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 211
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Chapter 211. The Boy and the Assassin (6)
“Huh, what!”
It was utterly absurd.
The assassin who had been grabbing Kaiden’s hair and pointing a blade at him swallowed dryly.
‘Wait, was this brat actually connected to The Crimson Reaper?’
That couldn’t be possible.
The idea that the bastard son of the late King of Lionel had connections to The Crimson Reaper was so ridiculous even a passing dog would laugh.
“So hurry up and let that kid go.”
Kayla wiped the blood flowing down her face as she approached them step by step.
“Unless you want to lose your wrist.”
“D-don’t come! Don’t come any closer!”
The moment the assassin pulled Kaiden’s hair higher up.
A strange light flickered in the boy’s bright golden eyes.
“Hup!”
Kaiden kicked backward with all his might.
It was a sharp back kick aimed precisely at the assassin’s groin.
“Gahk!”
The assassin screamed in pain and staggered backward.
Thanks to that, his grip on Kaiden’s hair loosened.
“You little brat!”
Another assassin reached out to grab him, but that was all.
Kaiden quickly turned around, picked up the large machete the assassin had dropped, and swung it.
Slice.
With a horrible sound, both the head of the assassin who had been grabbing Kaiden’s hair and the wrist of the assassin who had reached for him were severed in one stroke.
Whether it was because the blade was too sharp or because Kaiden was strong for a child was unclear.
“Huff, huff…”
It was his first kill.
Kaiden looked down at the gruesome scene he had created with his own power, breathing heavily.
‘I killed someone.’
Death was familiar, but the act of killing someone was not.
Young Kaiden’s arms trembled.
‘I think I’m going to throw up.’
The acrid smell of blood pierced his lungs through his reddened vision.
His heart was beating so fast it made his head dizzy.
“Give me that.”
As the boy’s mind grew distant.
Someone took the sword from his hand and blocked his view.
It was Kayla.
“Close your eyes.”
Kaiden obediently closed his eyes as the voice instructed.
Soon the red color and smell of blood faded far away. Instead, a subtle floral fragrance enveloped his body.
“The Reaper is escaping!”
“Catch her, she stole the target!”
The assassins’ voices grew distant then close repeatedly.
Kaiden blankly looked up at Kayla’s face as she ran while holding him with one arm.
“Don’t lose focus.”
Perhaps she felt his gaze.
Kayla muttered quietly even while running.
“It’s okay. Everything’s okay.”
What exactly was supposed to be okay.
Why did she still smell like flowers even though she was covered in blood.
“You can live.”
Why was she telling him to live even in this urgent situation.
Why wasn’t she abandoning him and running away.
‘I can’t speak.’
Kaiden moved his lips several times before giving up.
He had mountains of questions but felt like the words were stuck in his throat and wouldn’t come out.
“There’s no point in running!”
“It’s over now, Reaper!”
Malice persistently chased them from behind.
But Kayla didn’t seem to have any intention of giving up.
Her strange green eyes that shone brilliantly even in the darkness were full of vitality.
“Just kill them both! We can make up any story for Breath of the Angel! We’ll benefit if that bitch disappears!”
“Arrogant bastards, chattering as if you could actually kill me just by wanting to.”
Kayla scoffed at one assassin’s shout.
She ran for a while then suddenly stopped.
They had temporarily gained some distance from the assassins chasing them.
“Kid.”
Her face showed she had made some decision.
Kaiden looked at Kayla with a frown.
“Stay here and hide without moving.”
The red-haired assassin hid the boy inside a large hollow in an old tree.
“Where are you going, alone.”
Kaiden barely managed to move his lips to call out to Kayla.
But she left without looking back.
“I’ll be back soon, so wait.”
Her aura was incomparably more murderous than before.
Kayla ran toward the direction the assassins were coming from, leaving Kaiden behind.
Clang, clang, clash.
It felt like all the hair on his body was standing on end.
Each time the sound of clashing weapons grew louder then quieter, Kaiden’s breathing also grew rougher then calmer.
“Monster…”
Finally, the noise of combat completely subsided.
Instead, someone’s groan-like voice could be heard.
“You are a monster. A monster born to kill people…”
Kaiden emerged from the hollow and slowly walked toward where the voice was coming from.
“Is that all you have to say?”
“Kuh, khup, you won’t die peacefully either, you monster of a woman.”
“I already know that.”
The sunset was setting between the horizon that met the endless sky.
Kayla stood in the middle of corpses scattered everywhere.
Her rose-red hair took on an especially deeper hue in the sunset light.
“…A monster.”
Kayla pulled out the dagger she had stuck in the neck of the assassin lying at her feet.
“I wasn’t a monster from the beginning either.”
With a somehow bitter smile.
“…I clearly told you to stay put.”
The sorrowful light in her green eyes instantly disappeared.
Kayla walked toward Kaiden with that same expressionless face as usual.
“You really don’t listen at all, kid.”
“How….”
To take down over thirty people all by herself.
Kaiden simply looked at Kayla with eyes full of admiration.
“You’re incredibly strong.”
“I’m not weak.”
Kayla glanced at the corpses scattered behind her and shrugged one shoulder.
“As you can see.”
“Amazing. I want to be like you too….”
“Well, it’s time to part ways now.”
What did I just hear?
Kaiden froze in place.
“Why are you so surprised?”
Kayla said, running one hand through her wet hair.
“We’ve reached our destination, so we should each go our separate ways.”
“What do you….”
The assassin turned the bewildered Kaiden around.
“From here begins the Barbarian Territory.”
Before his eyes spread a dense forest.
Here, from the Shade of Verdant Forests where even the sunset’s glow couldn’t reach, all the way to the northern edge of the land, was The Land of the Barbarians.
“Well then, farewell, kid.”
Kaiden hastily turned around.
Kayla was already walking in the opposite direction.
“Don’t, don’t go!”
“What’s wrong with you.”
Kayla looked down at Kaiden, who had wrapped his arms around her waist.
“Let go, brat.”
“I said don’t go!”
He didn’t want to part ways like this.
If he let her go now, it felt like they would never meet again.
Kaiden clutched at Kayla’s clothes and muttered.
“Don’t go, Kayla.”
The red hair fluttering in the wind, the green eyes looking down at him, the hands that always guided him, the back that shared warmth with him every night, even her embrace that smelled of flowers. If they parted like this, it felt like he would never see any of those things again.
“Don’t leave me behind.”
“Hey, kid….”
The boy pleaded with the assassin who was his savior.
“You told me to live! Then take responsibility until the end!”
“That was because you said you wanted to live….”
“You were the one who asked me if I wanted to live!”
His golden eyes, filled with desperate light, blazed intensely in the sunset glow.
“It’s a life you saved.”
It had been a miserable life where all his precious people left and no one showed any interest.
“Everyone told me to die, to just die. But you told me to live.”
Born as the king’s bastard, wandering the streets, it was a life destined to vanish helplessly under the blade of an assassin sent by his half-brother.
Until he met the assassin before him, that surely would have been his predetermined fate.
“So I belong to you.”
Kaiden’s serene face became flushed with heat.
“So take responsibility.”
The boy didn’t seem to have any intention of wiping away the tears streaming down his face.
He was simply looking at Kayla with an unwavering gaze.
“If you’re going to interfere in someone else’s life, then take responsibility for it!”
Kayla’s mouth opened slightly.
After hesitating like that for a long while, she took a small breath and slowly moved her lips.
“…I’m an assassin.”
“I know.”
“I can save your life, but I can’t take you with me.”
Kayla paused for a moment, then continued speaking.
“If you come with me, all you’ll learn is how to kill people for money.”
“I don’t care.”
Kaiden gritted his teeth.
The boy gripped the clothes in his hands tightly, as if he would never let go.
“If that’s the only way I can stay with you, then I don’t care.”
“I don’t like it.”
Thin, long fingers brushed against Kaiden’s cheek.
The touch of her slightly cool fingertips sent shivers through him.
“I can’t let the life I saved be wasted on something like that.”
Kayla’s voice echoed clearly in his ears.
“As you said, you’re a life I saved, so let me give you one piece of advice.”
“I don’t want advice….”
“Become strong, kid.”
Kaiden looked up with wide eyes.
The gaze looking down at him was both sad and tender.
“Become very strong, and obtain as much wealth as possible and as high honor as possible.”
For some reason, Kaiden felt like those words weren’t meant for him, but rather something Kayla was saying to herself.
“But become strong to save people, not to kill them.”
Power should be used to save people.
Kaiden recalled something Kayla had once told him.
“Make sure no one but yourself can control your life.”
Kayla, who had freed her hands from his grasp, now stood facing him.
“You said everyone told you to die.”
“Kayla….”
“Don’t die.”
Kayla smiled with the sunset behind her.
“Live until the end, kid.”
The assassin disappeared after leaving those words.
After knocking out Kaiden, who stubbornly tried to follow her to the end, and bringing him to the front of the Barbarian Village.
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