The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 24

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Chapter 24. What Could Not Be Protected (4)

“What….”

Lloyd stood there dazed for a long moment, then twisted his face like a demon.

He pointed at me and raised his voice.

“You think such excuses will work! And my knight was just following my orders, so there’s no problem…!”

“Prince Lloyd! The rudeness I committed was to stop a fight between brother princes, but that man pushed a prince without reason, so his crime is grave!”

I poured out my excuses like rapid fire before Lloyd could finish speaking.

With a voice so booming it made the leaves hanging from trees shake.

“So if you punish him first, I too will gladly accept punishment!”

Having finished what I had to say, I bowed my head deeply while holding Edwin.

Thanks to this, not only the noble children gathered there but even passing servants began to look this way and whisper.

“She has a point though. For a mere knight to dare lay hands on a prince….”

“Even if the 3rd Prince is easy-going, pushing him is a bit….”

“He may be the 2nd Prince’s guard, but he’s also a subordinate himself, isn’t this too reckless?”

“For a knight to be so ungentlemanly. Which knight order does he belong to?”

Lloyd’s guard seemed to realize the atmosphere was turning against him.

He finally grabbed me by the collar.

“What, what are you saying, you bitch! My crime can only be judged by Prince Lloyd! How dare you!”

“The same goes for this side!”

“What?”

“My master is Prince Edwin, so my crime can only be judged by Prince Edwin! It’s not your place to interfere!”

“You, you mouthy bitch! Where do you get off!”

The knight grabbed my wrist with a flushed face.

Then he raised the sword in his other hand high.

The moment the knight’s sword gleamed with sharp killing intent in the midday sun.

“Argh―!”

The knight suddenly let out a scream and collapsed to the ground.

His right wrist that had been holding the sword was bent in a grotesque direction.

“You shouldn’t carelessly swing a sword in the Imperial Palace.”

It was a languid low voice that seemed to crawl up my spine.

I slowly raised my head.

Where the knight had been standing, a man now stood.

A man clad in jet-black armor.

“Dangerous.”

The man lightly spun the sword in his hand.

Clearly, it was the sword the knight had been holding just moments before.

As I found myself staring blankly at the man, Lloyd walked over.

He looked much more displeased than before, but his tone had become polite.

“King Kaiden, Your Majesty.”

The young king of the newly founded Adamant Kingdom, Kaiden, gave a slight nod to the 2nd Prince.

Lloyd frowned, seemingly displeased with his attitude.

“Why is Your Majesty here?”

To Lloyd’s question, he continued with a smile on his lips.

“I happened to be passing by and thought this lady was being attacked by a ruffian, so I intervened.”

The guard wore silver armor and carried a sword.

Anyone could see he was clearly a knight, but the man played dumb as if mocking the 2nd Prince.

Lloyd’s voice turned sharp as if he’d been insulted.

“This man is not a ruffian but my guard!”

“Oh my. Is that so?”

Kaiden widened his eyes as if genuinely surprised.

“I had no idea. No matter how I looked, he only seemed like a thug waving a sword at a woman.”

“Ha!”

Lloyd sucked in air as if astounded by the king’s words.

“Your Highness, before criticizing others’ subordinates, you should manage your own first.”

“What, what….”

“Though of course, you’d first need to fix your habit of trying to cut off people’s hands for trivial reasons.”

“Trivial reasons? How dare you speak to me like that…!”

Just as the enraged Lloyd was about to raise his voice.

“Lloyd, what rudeness is this toward our honored guest.”

“Father…?”

From behind the man, someone wearing a red cloak walked out.

A middle-aged man wearing a golden crown decorated with jewels.

It was Cabellius III, Emperor of the Bentrum Empire.

He had an ordinary appearance more like a country bumpkin than an emperor, but his eyes were anything but ordinary.

“We greet the Sun of the Empire―!”

At the Emperor’s sudden appearance, everyone prostrated themselves flat on the ground.

Lloyd also knelt on one knee with a flustered face.

“The 2nd Prince greets Father!”

He too looked like he never dreamed the Emperor would appear here.

“Lloyd, what is this commotion in the sacred Imperial Palace.”

“Well, that woman was rude to me, so I was going to punish her.”

“Rudeness? What rudeness did she commit?”

“That is….”

Lloyd couldn’t easily open his mouth.

Well, he had done wrong too.

The Emperor sighed looking at his second son.

“Enough. If you won’t answer, I’ll have to ask someone else.”

Soon the Emperor’s gaze reached me.

“Stand up.”

I rose at the Emperor’s command and bowed deeply at the waist.

“I greet the Sun of the Empire.”

“Are you the woman who was shouting earlier?”

“That’s correct.”

“You have good lungs. Loud enough for me to hear from the path I was passing.”

“I apologize.”

“Yes. Is everything you said true?”

The Emperor continued while gazing at me.

“That you touched the 2nd Prince’s body to stop the princes’ fight, and that knight touched the 3rd Prince’s body without reason.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Then, the 2nd Prince’s knight interrupted my words.

“Your, Your Majesty! I am wronged! I was just making a mistake!”

The Emperor’s eyes turned coldly.

“I don’t recall giving you permission to speak.”

“I, I, I apologize.”

Why interfere when you won’t even break even?

I inwardly sneered at the knight and bowed my head.

“Yes, it is as Your Majesty heard.”

“So you are without sin, and that knight is guilty?”

“I never said that. I merely requested that he be punished first since his crime is heavier than mine.”

“Hmm.”

The Emperor let out a contemplative groan, then raised his hand as if he had made a decision.

At his single gesture, the guards who had been standing in line behind him sprang forward.

“Take that man to the execution grounds and cut off one of his arms. Strip him of his knighthood as well.”

At the Emperor’s command, the 2nd Prince’s escort knight turned pale.

“Your Majesty! Your Majesty―! I am wronged! Your Highness Lloyd, please save me! Your Highness Lloyd!”

The knight reached out toward Lloyd, but it was useless.

His master had already abandoned him long ago.

“And you.”

The Emperor looked at Edwin, who was trembling beside me.

The boy was so terrified that even breathing seemed like a feat.

The Emperor watched Edwin quietly, then turned his gaze back to me.

“Though your actions were rude, your intentions were good, so considering that, I will exempt you from punishment. But this is the only time.”

“I am deeply grateful, Your Majesty.”

Just then, Lloyd shot up from his seat with a livid face.

“Father! That woman also grabbed my arm and pushed me! So how―!”

“Lloyd. That’s enough.”

“Father―!”

It was unexpected for me as well.

My punishment was far too light compared to the knight’s.

But the Emperor seemed to have no intention of changing his mind.

“Lloyd, this father will personally find you a new escort knight. So stop this.”

“Grrrgh!”

At the Emperor’s words, Lloyd couldn’t contain his anger and turned his head away.

He huffed and glared alternately at Edwin and me.

“…Since everything has been resolved, there’s no need to stay here. Then I shall take my leave first.”

He gave the Emperor what could barely be called a greeting before leaving his seat.

Just from his rough gait, it was clear his anger hadn’t subsided.

The Emperor shook his head while watching that sight.

“For a prince to be unable to control his emotions like that.”

He smiled awkwardly at The Man standing beside him.

“Well now. I’ve shown you quite an unseemly sight.”

“Not at all. Boys of that age are naturally hot-blooded, aren’t they?”

The Man standing beside the Emperor.

I knew that man.

The man whose eyes had met mine in the Central Garden, and the young king of the emerging kingdom that Catherine had mentioned.

It was definitely him.

‘There was definitely no presence.’

I recalled the moment The Man had appeared before my eyes.

I hadn’t even noticed his existence until he broke the knight’s wrist.

Though my senses had dulled from possessing an ordinary woman’s body, to not sense his presence to this extent.

‘The rumor about single-handedly slaying a hundred monsters might not be entirely false after all.’

As I was making various speculations about The Man before my eyes, the Emperor moved.

“It’s hot today. Let’s return to the Palace and continue our conversation there.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Let’s go!”

I bowed my head to the Emperor as he passed by me.

The Man following the Emperor also passed by my side.

‘Jasmine?’

As he passed by me, a familiar scent brushed past my nose.

It was the scent of soap I had often used before my death.

A faint mint fragrance seeping through the jasmine scent that could be found anywhere.

It was soap sold only at a small rural pharmacy in the Empire, making it hard to find users.

But why would a foreign king carry the exact same scent as that soap?

‘How strange.’

To smell the same fragrance as my past life from an unfamiliar man.

Just as I was about to unconsciously lift my head, drawn by the scent.

A low voice that seemed to whisper only to me came from above my head.

“I thought you were only skilled at scaling walls, but you’re quite clever at scheming too.”

It was as if he had peered into my thoughts.

‘…Scaling walls?’

I raised my head with a stiff expression.

Beautiful amber eyes resembling those of a beast were directed at me.

The Man raised the corner of his mouth in a smirk, then passed by like the wind.

“See you again.”

Leaving behind those meaningful words.

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