The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 236

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Chapter 236. Turning the Tide (4)

“Please wake up, Prince Edwin.”

“Mmm, just a little longer…”

Perhaps it was because he had been stuck at the banquet hall until late last night.

Edwin had collapsed as soon as he returned to the Prince’s Palace at dawn and only opened his eyes when noon arrived.

“The sun is high in the sky, you need to get up. Didn’t you say you would receive sword training from Prince Kaiden today?”

“Huh? Oh right, I did say that…”

Edwin, who had been yawning and rolling around in bed, suddenly opened his eyes wide.

Had he belatedly realized that the voice waking him wasn’t Catherine’s?

“Rachel!”

“You’re finally awake.”

I looked down at the prince, dressed in my usual caretaker’s attire.

“Good morning, Prince Edwin.”

“You, you…!”

Edwin kicked off the bed and stood up.

Tears instantly welled up in his large eyes.

“Ugh, why are you only coming now!”

“I apologize, I tried to come as early as possible…”

“Stupid, you’re stupid! I was worried! You didn’t even contact me…”

“Didn’t I send word through Saylus?”

“All I heard was that you were alive so I shouldn’t worry! You broke your promise to return on time!”

Edwin got down from the bed and stood in front of me.

The young prince glared at me with sharp eyes full of complaints.

“What did you do with your hair? Didn’t you cut and dye it?”

“I borrowed Saylus’s power.”

At my answer, Saylus popped up from the shadows.

“Making hair grow is nothing for me.”

Saylus wrapped his arms around my shoulders from behind.

“Hehe, my dear, you worked hard getting here.”

“Stay back. And I’ve told you countless times I’m not your dear.”

“Aw, once a dear, always a dear. Are you upset?”

“What’s there to be upset about?”

What an annoying fellow. What good is being useful when he bothers people like this? I casually shook off Saylus.

“Your Highness, I’ve prepared washing water. First, please wash…”

I tried to hand the prince a towel as usual.

However, I couldn’t finish my words because Edwin suddenly rushed into my arms and hugged me.

“…I was worried you might not come back.”

Edwin tightly gripped my waist with both arms and muttered as if talking to himself.

“I worried about what would happen if you wanted to return but couldn’t.”

“Your Highness.”

“Everyone I loved, everyone who tried to protect me, they all suffered terribly or left forever.”

Mother, Emma, and the knights who shared hardships with him.

Edwin, muttering to himself, burrowed deeper into my embrace.

“But if even you, Rachel, if even you were like that, I…”

Silence flowed through the prince’s sunlit bedroom.

I quietly looked down at Edwin’s crown nestled in my arms.

His crown appeared much closer to my view than before.

‘Has he grown more in the meantime?’

They say children grow in the blink of an eye.

However, a person’s soul cannot keep up with the speed at which the body grows.

Though his body had grown, Edwin was still a young child.

“…Prince Edwin.”

Saylus had gone into the shadows and was quiet.

He may have an annoying personality, but he’s not completely tactless.

“Your Highness, please lift your head.”

“I don’t want to.”

“Then will you stay like this forever?”

Edwin shook his head instead of answering.

Blood doesn’t lie, they say. It was just like watching Emilia throwing a tantrum about not wanting to go to bed.

“First, I apologize for failing to reassure Your Highness. I will apologize for that as well.”

“I didn’t want an apology…!”

“Then what do you want?”

“I, I…”

“If you want something, say it clearly. If you don’t speak, I cannot know Your Highness’s heart.”

What could have made him so upset?

Edwin suddenly lifted his head and looked up at me.

“Promise me!”

The young prince suddenly shouted.

His soaked face, his reddened eyes and nose tip looked pitiful.

“That no matter what happens, you won’t leave my side!”

Edwin continued with his face covered in tears and snot.

“That you won’t do things like jumping off cliffs because of me!”

Was that incident really that shocking to him?

I silently looked at Edwin.

“Promise me!”

The prince shook my clothes as if urging an answer.

He spoke in a trembling voice as if threatening.

“If you do something like that again, I’ll jump with Rachel too. I won’t listen even if you try to stop me.”

“Supporting Your Highness is my duty. If I hadn’t done so, Your Highness’s life would have been in danger.”

“Then if I die, will you follow me in death? Will you?”

“…If Your Highness had lost your life, I would have died before that.”

“Why do you always talk like that, Rachel?”

“I’m only stating facts.”

As long as I’m alive, I won’t let Edwin be put in danger.

Edwin listened to my words and stayed quiet for a while before speaking again.

“…Then promise you’ll live.”

“Pardon?”

“Even if you face danger, even if you’re on the brink of death, promise you won’t give up! Promise you’ll definitely live!”

Does he know that surviving is harder than dying when he says this?

I stared blankly at Edwin, who was shouting with trembling shoulders.

“Don’t act like you don’t care if you die as long as you can save me! Promise that no matter what happens, you’ll survive, and that you’ll live happily forever with me and Emilia here in the 3rd Prince’s Palace!”

It felt like he was aiming arrows with his eyes.

I quietly looked into Edwin’s large eyes.

‘These little ones.’

These kids who aren’t even dry behind the ears are playing with people’s hearts.

I unknowingly let out a small laugh and hugged Edwin.

“Understood. I promise.”

“…Really?”

“Yes, from now on I’ll ensure there’s nothing for Your Highness to worry about. So please stop crying now.”

Was he relieved by my promise?

Edwin said nothing more.

After holding me for a while, he eventually straightened up energetically as if nothing had happened.

“…I want to wash my face now.”

“A wise decision.”

I continued speaking while watching Edwin wash his face.

“What would you like to do about your meal?”

“I’ll eat. What about Emilia?”

“She’s already gone to the dining room with the head maid. You should change clothes and go down right away.”

“Got it. By the way, has His Majesty the King had his meal?”

“He left early this morning to have an audience with His Majesty the Emperor. He said he’d return around lunchtime, so you can receive sword instruction after that.”

“Wait, he went to see Father?”

Edwin stopped drying his freshly washed face and turned his head.

“Why? Did something happen?”

“Rather than something happening…”

I quietly answered while handing Edwin a towel.

“You could say it’s a process to clean up something that’s already occurred.”

“Clean up? Clean up what?”

“You’ll naturally find out.”

As soon as this long banquet period ends, a bloody storm will blow through the Empire.

‘Fortunately, we won’t be caught in that storm.’

The blade of the Emperor’s wrath will be directed precisely at those who carry the blood of the Marquis of Redcliff.

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The backyard of the Second Prince’s Palace.

Someone kicked a tree in the darkness.

“Aaaahhh! Damn it! Damn it!”

The Empire’s Second Prince, Lloyd, couldn’t contain his anger and clutched his head with both hands.

“Those bastards who wouldn’t be satisfied even if torn apart and killed, what do they know to speak so carelessly! What do they know!”

The banquet held to honor the princes’ hard work returning from the subjugation campaign.

Lloyd immediately noticed the unpleasantly disgusting stares and gossip directed at him there.

“Those pig bastards who can only sit around counting on their abacuses and sucking their fingers dare to insult me, me?”

The nobles of the Imperial Council who cursed the House of Redcliff for achieving no merit, the Emperor who suddenly treated only that beast-like young girl like his own child, and that bastard with dog hair who casually chatted with the Crowner Ducal Princess without a care.

“…I wish they would all disappear.”

Lloyd’s fierce blue eyes flashed in the darkness.

His shoulders heaved up and down with his panting breath.

“Yes, I wish they would all just die…”

“Let go of me!”

Just then, a sharp scream echoed through the Second Prince’s Palace.

Lloyd was startled and turned his gaze toward where the scream came from.

“Mother…?”

Below the palace steps.

Empress Helena was being dragged out by the Emperor’s knights.

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