The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 237

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Chapter 237. Karma (1)

Early in the morning when the sun had barely peeked halfway over the horizon.

The Second Prince’s Palace was in chaos with untimely shouting and struggling.

“Let go of this! Let go, I said!”

The 2nd Imperial Consort Helena, who had stormed out of the banquet hall last night, had been unable to sleep until dawn. Now she was suffering the humiliation of being dragged outside by the hands of unexpected unwelcome guests.

“You’re all out of your minds! Crazy bastards! Are you all deaf!”

Helena twisted her entire body and struggled frantically.

She screamed at the top of her lungs at the knights who were holding her on both sides.

“You insolent fools! Do you know whose body you dare to lay your hands on!”

“We don’t wish to commit such rudeness either, Your Majesty the 2nd Imperial Consort.”

“Do you think you’ll be safe after doing this?”

Philip, the vice-captain of the Gloria Knight Order, simply looked down at the 2nd Imperial Consort with indifferent eyes.

“If you had complied quietly from the beginning, we would have escorted you courteously as well.”

“Don’t make me laugh! Not only did you invade someone else’s palace without permission, but you even barged into the Imperial Consort’s bedroom, and you talk about courtesy!”

“That was a method we had no choice but to take because Your Majesty the Imperial Consort refused to go, saying you wouldn’t. Even when we told you it was His Majesty the Emperor’s command, didn’t you lock the door?”

“…Ha!”

Helena frowned at Philip’s words and pulled her arms with all her might.

“Fine, so untie this first! I’ll walk on my own feet!”

Philip seemed to contemplate for a moment, then gestured to the knights holding the 2nd Imperial Consort on both sides.

Crack.

As soon as the knights released her, Helena slapped Philip across the face.

The knights were startled and tried to grab her again, but Philip stopped them.

“Insolent fool, how dare someone of lowly blood hold their head high and speak before me?”

Red eyes filled with hostility and resentment glared at Philip as if to kill him.

“It seems you’ve forgotten your place because Duke Crowner dotes on you. Just wait and see, Philip.”

“…Too much time has been wasted. Let’s go quickly.”

Philip turned around as if his reddened cheek didn’t bother him at all.

Seeing this, Helena gritted her teeth in frustration.

“Mother―! Mother!”

Just then, the 2nd Prince Lloyd came running toward them.

The Prince swung his arms and legs at the knights surrounding his mother while shouting.

“Where are you trying to take Mother! Release Mother immediately! Release her, I said!”

One would expect her to turn around at least once at her son’s call.

But the 2nd Imperial Consort Helena glanced coldly at Lloyd, who was calling for her desperately, then walked away heartlessly.

“…Mother?”

Lloyd stared blankly at Helena.

Even after seeing him, she was walking away with the knights, pretending not to know him.

“Mother! Mother!”

He called out desperately, but no answer came back.

Lloyd stood there dazedly, watching Helena disappear into the distance.

“Prince Lloyd.”

The head attendant of the Second Prince’s Palace quietly approached the Prince.

“His Majesty the Emperor has ordered that Prince Lloyd remain confined in the Prince’s Palace.”

“…Confinement? Why?”

Instead of answering, the head attendant bowed his head.

Lloyd hadn’t really expected an answer from him either.

Even he could guess the reason.

“…The Marquis, has there been any separate order for the Marquis of Redcliff?”

“The Marquis has also been ordered to remain confined at his residence.”

His mother being dragged away by the Emperor’s direct knight order, his grandfather receiving house arrest orders, and himself trapped in the Prince’s Palace.

Lloyd clenched his fists tightly and let out a rough breath.

‘That rumor from the banquet.’

The fact that his mother, the 2nd Imperial Consort, was dragged away meant that the Emperor was also suspicious of that damned vile rumor.

‘No, His Majesty the Emperor wouldn’t believe such false rumors.’

The fact that he was of the Emperor’s bloodline was something even the Holy Kingdom had acknowledged.

‘Who dares to spread such rumors.’

He had simply come out of his mother’s womb just a few months early.

The situation where his status and legitimacy were being questioned for such a ridiculous reason was utterly unpleasant.

“Prince Lloyd, if you disobey His Majesty the Emperor’s orders again this time, something terrible might happen…”

“I know, I know.”

Lloyd replied with an irritated voice to the head attendant’s worried call.

He stared intently in the direction where the 2nd Imperial Consort had disappeared, then turned around.

“God will reveal who is right and who is wrong.”

A confident attitude without a shred of doubt about his own existence.

The Prince entered his quarters without regret.

Unaware of the storm-like fate that awaited him.

* * *

When the sun rose overhead.

The King of Adamant returned to the 3rd Prince’s Palace a little past lunchtime.

“I heard the 2nd Imperial Consort was arrested this morning on the Emperor’s orders.”

Kaiden spoke while leaning his back against a pillar.

Having returned from the Imperial Palace, he was wearing his rarely seen formal uniform.

“I’m told that after the first interrogation ended, she’s now confined at the Gloria Knight Order headquarters.”

He continued speaking while keeping his gaze fixed on Edwin, who was diligently swinging his wooden sword a few steps away.

“…Is this your doing?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

I patted the belly of Emilia, who was sleeping in my arms.

Edwin was sparring with Oliver, Kaiden’s aide, in the small training ground set up in the backyard of the Prince’s Palace.

“Wasn’t it His Majesty the Emperor who gave the order to arrest Her Majesty the 2nd Imperial Consort?”

“I heard the documents that Duke Crowner handed to the Emperor were decisive.”

I could feel Kaiden’s gaze reaching me.

“Not only the correspondence exchanged between the Holy Kingdom and the Marquis of Redcliff, but also the Holy Emperor’s certificate acknowledging their mutual conspiracy was attached.”

“I didn’t know Duke Crowner was also acquainted with the Holy Emperor.”

“…How disappointing.”

Kaiden turned his body openly toward me.

He looked at me with his brow slightly furrowed.

A faint light of resentment lingered in his golden eyes.

“Even if others don’t know, is there a reason you had to hide it from me too?”

“Prince Kaiden, I…”

“Why did it have to be Duke Crowner? You could have delivered the documents directly to the Emperor through Prince Edwin.”

Kaiden seemed certain that I was the one who had handed the documents to Duke Crowner.

‘His intuition is annoyingly sharp.’

Since I was caught, there was no helping it.

I lowered my voice smaller than before.

“It was necessary to borrow the hand of the person His Majesty the Emperor trusts most. Since this was about bringing up a case that had already been concluded in the past to determine right from wrong.”

The 2nd Prince’s suspicious bloodline and the 2nd Imperial Consort’s instigation of the 1st Imperial Consort’s assassination.

Since these were the most sensitive issues in the imperial family, I couldn’t have Edwin mention them directly.

“His Majesty the Emperor doesn’t completely trust Prince Edwin yet. In this situation, if Prince Edwin had directly delivered such documents and raised questions…”

The quick-witted Kaiden immediately grasped my meaning this time as well.

“He would be turned against instead.”

“That’s right.”

No matter how brilliantly Edwin’s talent shone, a prince without backing was still nothing more than a dog’s hair in the Empire’s vast political arena.

“Within the Empire, the only rival to the House of Redcliffe is the House of Crowner. So I simply used Duke Crowner.”

I glanced at Kaiden’s expression and continued.

“There was no other meaning to it.”

“…I see.”

Fortunately, the wrinkles had disappeared from Kaiden’s brow.

Then he suddenly raised one eyebrow as if something had occurred to him.

“But did Duke Crowner trust you? I don’t think he would have believed what The Prince’s caretaker said at face value.”

“Well, the seal on The Emperor’s certificate was genuine, and…”

I hesitated for a moment, then added lightly.

“I also revealed my identity to The Duke.”

“…What?”

Kaiden’s eyes widened.

He moved his lips with a rarely seen flustered expression.

“So, when you say you revealed your identity, surely you don’t mean…”

“Yes, it’s probably what Your Highness is thinking.”

My past as the assassin ‘Kayla Angel.’

I had revealed my true past to Duke Crowner.

As soon as Kaiden heard my words, he lowered his body and grabbed my shoulder with one hand.

“No, what are you saying? Why on earth would you…!”

Kaiden unconsciously raised his voice.

When Emilia, who was nestled in my arms, whimpered softly and twisted her body, he immediately lowered his voice to a whisper.

“Duke Crowner is a man who moves only for his family’s interests and gain.”

“I know.”

I smiled faintly at Kaiden.

“That’s exactly why I revealed it. Once he knew my identity, he absolutely couldn’t resist helping me.”

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