The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 212

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Chapter 212. The Boy and the Assassin (7)

 

“There’s no food for a half-breed to eat.”

 

Just because he had safely arrived in Barbarian Territory didn’t mean his hardships were over.

 

Like most children left alone without parents, Kaiden’s life wasn’t easy either.

 

“If you want to eat, work for it.”

 

Kaiden was nothing more than a half-outsider even among the Barbarians.

 

The Barbarians, who had no concept of being kind or considerate to children in the first place, treated him almost like a slave.

 

“If you can’t prove your worth, you can’t live on this land.”

 

Harsh cold, monsters swarming everywhere, and unfriendly Barbarians.

 

However, even in the barren environment, Kaiden never gave up on anything.

 

To survive, he couldn’t afford to give up anything.

 

“Kaiden.”

 

Around two years after entering Barbarian Territory.

 

Kaiden had grown enough that he didn’t look out of place standing among the large Barbarian boys.

 

“It’s time to go hunting.”

 

That wasn’t all.

 

Among his peers, no one could match Kaiden’s monster hunting skills, and no one could handle a sword as well as he could.

 

“P-please spare me!”

 

Kaiden looked indifferently at Lionel’s Knights he had encountered during monster hunting.

 

They had been caught by him while trying to kidnap a Barbarian girl.

 

His mother had probably been kidnapped in the same way and sold as a slave to the Empire.

 

At that thought, cold anger began to creep up from within his chest.

 

‘Close your eyes.’

 

Kaiden drew his broad dagger.

 

And he remembered a certain assassin who had tried not to show a young boy the sight of killing people.

 

‘It’s okay. Everything’s okay.’

 

What exactly was supposed to be okay?

 

Kaiden struck the necks of Lionel’s Knights with cold eyes.

 

Now, even when red blood flowed endlessly before his eyes, even when people’s heads rolled around, he felt no particular emotion.

 

“Thank you, thank you.”

 

Kaiden watched the girl who thanked him and returned toward the village, then looked down at his feet again. He saw a pool of blood that had turned black.

 

‘Maybe I should have forced myself to follow her back then.’

 

That she could only teach him how to kill people.

 

Kayla had left him behind for just that reason.

 

‘It was a misjudgment.’

 

This world was a place where you couldn’t survive unless you sacrificed others to survive.

 

To survive, he had no choice but to learn how to kill people somehow.

 

“…Kayla.”

 

The fully grown boy slowly raised his head to look at the sky.

 

Regardless of himself standing in the pool of blood, the high and vast sky looked peaceful. Somehow he felt like he had been thrown into an endless dark abyss.

 

‘Did you feel this way too?’

 

Kaiden lowered his eyes.

 

The red sunset light was coloring his hair.

 

Just like it had shone on the assassin who had saved him that day.

 

* * *

 

“You still have no experience with women?”

 

One day when he turned sixteen.

 

The Barbarian boys couldn’t hide their amazement at the fact that Kaiden was still a virgin.

 

Due to the harsh environment that shortened their lifespans, Barbarians tended to start dating and marrying early.

 

“Hey, this guy is already married and will become a father next year.”

 

“Kaiden, you should start thinking about starting a family too. You’re not still bothered by being called a half-breed, are you?”

 

Kaiden downed his liquor in one gulp and wiped his lips.

 

He sat by the campfire and quietly shook his head.

 

“Then do you have a girl you like? How about Mariamm? What about Reke?”

 

“Hey, she said she has a guy she likes.”

 

“Then how about Galatea? That girl has been going around singing that Kaiden is her ideal type since way back.”

 

“Galatea says she likes any handsome guy.”

 

One Barbarian Boy muttered with a sullen expression.

 

Then the other boys sitting on either side of him giggled.

 

“Oh, this guy’s jealous! Just give up! A man has his pride! There’s not just one woman named Galatea, you know?”

 

“Damn it, there’s only one! Only one!”

 

The boy being teased turned red and shouted angrily.

 

“The woman I love is only Galatea!”

 

Wooooo.

 

It was when everyone was playfully jeering at that boy.

 

Kaiden, who had been sitting silently among them, spoke for the first time.

 

“…What does it mean to love?”

 

Was it a different emotion from liking someone?

 

He remembered his late mother and Idis, who had left for the Empire, telling him they loved him several times.

 

In his childhood, he had simply thought those words were just a prettier way of packaging the phrase “I like you.”

 

“Huh? What love is? Are you really asking because you don’t know?”

 

“But now that I think about it, I don’t know how to explain it either.”

 

The boys each gave their own answers to his question.

 

“It’s wanting to keep seeing them! Wanting to do everything for them!”

 

“Wanting to hold hands, wanting to kiss, wanting to hug, wanting to sleep with…”

 

“Hey hey, can’t you tell the difference between being horny and being in love?”

 

“It’s the same thing! You have to be turned on first to fall in love!”

 

“It’s different! Do you get turned on by your family members too?”

 

“Isn’t this guy completely crazy? Just spouting anything that comes out of his mouth? Should I sew it shut? Huh?”

 

They were at a hot-blooded age.

 

The boys bickered over a few words and eventually grabbed each other by the collar and rolled on the ground.

 

“Seriously, those idiots.”

 

The boy sitting right next to Kaiden clicked his tongue several times and turned his head.

 

“Hey, Kaiden. I asked my mother the exact same question before. Do you know what she said?”

 

“What did she say?”

 

“She said it’s wishing for that person’s safety anytime, anywhere, even when you can’t see them, even when they’re not by your side.”

 

Why was he thinking of that red-haired woman at this moment?

 

Kaiden frowned and lowered his head.

 

“No! Absolutely not! Don’t be happy with another guy where I’m not! Be in front of my eyes! Stay by my side! Galateaaa—!”

 

“This guy’s drunk. Hurry up and dump him at home.”

 

“I’m not drunk! I’m not drunk! Kaiden, listen carefully! I liked Galatea first! I liked her first! You bastard, if you touch Galatea I won’t let you…”

 

“What are you going to do if you don’t let him? You’d get knocked out with one punch if you fought Kaiden.”

 

“Wahhh, Kaiden, don’t like Galatea! You’re handsome so you can seduce other women! Not Galateaaa—!”

 

Does love make people pathetic?

 

Kaiden looked at the boy being dragged away by his friends with contemptuous eyes.

 

With some members leaving midway, the Barbarian boys’ gathering ended awkwardly.

 

‘You always only think about yourself.’

 

And that night, Kaiden saw Kayla in his dreams for the first time.

 

Kayla was kissing her lover in front of the cave.

 

‘Don’t be angry.’

 

Kayla smiled, frowning around her right eye.

 

Cold fingertips brushed against his cheek. The scent of flowers was close.

 

‘Kaiden.’

 

For a moment, it felt like his heart dropped to his stomach.

 

Kaiden bolted upright just like that.

 

“Huff!”

 

His whole body was hot as if he had a fever.

 

Kaiden looked around in a daze and then hung his head.

 

Below his waist was hot, damp, and sticky.

 

“Damn, what the hell. Did a monster attack or some…”

 

The Barbarian Boy who shared the same tent looked at Kaiden’s condition, clicked his tongue, and lay back down.

 

“Geez, how old are you to be having wet dreams? If you don’t want the aunties gossiping about you, do your laundry before dawn~”

 

Indeed, love makes a person vulgar.

 

Kaiden only realized this fact after a little more time had passed.

 

* * *

 

“You’re really leaving?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Why?”

 

The year he had just turned seventeen.

 

Kaiden decided to leave the Barbarian Village.

 

“I want to go to the wealthiest and most honorable place.”

 

The last advice Kayla had left him.

 

The Boy decided to live according to her advice.

 

“…There’s also someone I want to meet again.”

 

If he reached the wealthiest and most honorable position, wouldn’t he be able to reunite with Kayla?

 

If he was lucky, he might even meet Idis and the nephews she had given birth to before then.

 

“So.”

 

Kaiden smiled toward the Barbarians who were seeing him off.

 

“I’m going to live to the end.”

 

Finally, The Boy set off on the road again.

 

To meet again the Assassin who had let him live.

 

* * *

 

Drip, drop.

 

The sound of water droplets falling echoed in my ears.

 

It seemed I had survived even after falling from such a height.

 

I slowly lifted my heavy eyelids.

 

“Are you conscious?”

 

Water droplets formed on the High Stone Ceiling fell and brushed against my cheek.

 

I clenched my fist and tried to raise my body.

 

“That would be too much.”

 

A blunt yet gentle voice came closer.

 

Large hands tried to grab my back and arm.

 

I gritted my teeth and swatted those hands away.

 

“…Just how long have you known?”

 

The scene I saw before falling was still vivid in my eyes.

 

Surely that person had called me Kayla.

 

“Kaiden Ram.”

 

The young king with golden eyes, Kaiden, looked at me quietly.

 

I glared at The Man who was sitting looking at me with one knee down.

 

“Just what exactly are you?”

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