The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 246

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Chapter 246. Premonition (1)

“You’ve suffered a lot all this time. Surviving.”

Seiji remained silent.

He simply clenched his fists tightly while meeting my eyes.

“…I think I did well to save you that day.”

I placed my hand on Seiji’s shoulder.

“Thank you. For proving that my choice wasn’t wrong.”

His thin, lanky body trembled finely like an aspen tree.

Seiji covered his face with one hand and said nothing.

“Are you crying? A grown adult?”

“…Who! Who said I was crying!”

Seiji bristled at my words and shouted angrily.

When he removed his hand, there were no tear stains on his revealed face. But the area around his eyes was dyed bright red.

“If you didn’t cry, then you didn’t cry. Why are you getting angry?”

“You’re making me mad! You are!”

“I only brought good news, yet I feel wronged.”

“Right! You brought such shockingly good news but act like it’s nothing, and that’s what’s infuriating!”

“Pardon?”

Where on earth did such strength come from?

Seiji suddenly pulled me into a tight embrace with both arms before I could react.

“Well, even though we’ve known each other for a long time, I don’t think we’re close enough for this…”

“Thank you.”

It was a voice so small only I could hear it.

“Thank you, really thank you.”

The cantankerous tall old man who seemed like he wouldn’t yield to anyone muttered in a voice mixed with tears.

“For letting me prove my worth to the world. And…”

For letting me keep the promise I made with my wife.

The last words were so faint they were barely audible.

‘Right! Actually, grand reasons don’t matter at all! Damn it!’

Thanks to those words, I was able to recall his old past that I had heard from Seiji’s mouth long ago.

‘I can’t die like this!’

In fact, the old sage’s driving force wasn’t just ambition for fame and thirst for knowledge.

Because human purpose isn’t born from such trivial things.

‘I promised my wife! That I would definitely create a medicine to cure this disease!’

Seiji’s wife had passed away not long after they married.

There were no children between them, and the only person he could call family was the wife he married before gaining his title.

‘If those temple priests hadn’t only treated the rich and powerful! If only I had made a proper cure earlier, my wife wouldn’t have died so meaninglessly!’

The old man who seemed detached from worldly affairs hugged his research notes and books and wailed like a child.

‘So I can’t die! Not right now, I can’t die right now!’

I had long since abandoned the thought of killing him once he created the cure for scale disease.

So I saved Seiji, and Seiji lived in hiding in Ruxen Village.

Waiting indefinitely for the day to release his cure to the world.

“…I’ve felt your gratitude sufficiently, so please let me go now.”

“Ahem, I was going to let go anyway. Making a person feel embarrassed.”

Seiji released me and stroked his beard once as if feeling awkward.

“So, what’s that. How’s your love business going?”

“I’ll be going now.”

“Hey, don’t ignore what people say!”

“You suddenly said something nonsensical, so I thought you were telling me to leave.”

“Seeing you pretend not to know, you really are doing love business.”

Seiji grinned and put his arm around my shoulder.

“You seem to be sticking close to that young king of Adamant. How is it, any progress? Didn’t he ask you to go to Adamant together when you return this time?”

“Why is someone called a sage suddenly imitating lowly street ruffians?”

“Street ruffians, how disappointing. I just asked out of curiosity.”

Disappointing my foot.

I mercilessly shook off Seiji’s arm and turned around.

“What, are you sulking? Come on, an old man can make some comments when he sees young men and women in love, why are you getting so angry…”

“I don’t do such things.”

“What? What kind of things?”

“…Love games.”

Kaiden’s hurt face suddenly came to mind.

But that was the only word that came to mind to replace the term romance.

“I’m busy.”

“Puhehe, so young, so young.”

“Are you mocking me now?”

“Listen, Rachel Brown Lordling. You’d better not look down on love by calling it a game.”

Seiji picked up a hoe and threw me a remark.

“Since very ancient times, love has been treated as something very powerful and troublesome enough to change the flow of history.”

I wasn’t unaware that it was a powerful and troublesome emotion.

Ian being able to kill me, and my decision to take revenge on Ian, were all because of that damn love.

‘I love you, Rachel.’

Kaiden’s confession that I heard every night came to mind.

He was the person who made me feel that damn emotion again.

‘That’s exactly why it must be a love game.’

A feeling deep enough to soak my whole body, but may its depth be very shallow; a feeling hot enough to burn my whole body, but may its temperature be lukewarm.

‘…Though it seems too late already.’

I turned my eyes away, recalling Kaiden’s excessively hot body temperature.

“Anyway, I hope you enjoy that game sufficiently.”

“Pardon?”

“Although it’s an emotion that torments and troubles people…”

Seiji smiled, showing his teeth until his wrinkled face crumpled.

“Love makes people want to live more than anything else. Even in the most terrible world.”

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Quiet days passed like the calm before a storm.

I heard that the Marquis of Redcliff’s head was displayed near the Imperial Capital, but I didn’t bother to go confirm it.

‘Ian’s whereabouts are still mysterious.’

The Adamant Kingdom contacted me periodically, but there was no information about Ian there either.

‘By the way, sending letters instead.’

The person who used to contact me only through communication orbs to a troubling degree suddenly only contacted me through letters, which was a bit concerning.

‘…No, maybe it’s better this way.’

If we contacted through communication orbs, I’d have to see his face and hear his voice, which would be more concerning.

‘It seems his mood still hasn’t improved since we parted like that.’

The day Kaiden left the Imperial Capital.

He didn’t even give me a proper farewell.

He just left the Prince’s Palace with a face cold as the chilly wind.

‘Then it might be better to stay quiet rather than contact him first and make him angrier.’

I was thinking that communicating through letters was better, then thinking that it would be more convenient to contact through communication orbs since we had them.

“Rachel!”

While I was having such various thoughts.

Edwin approached me with a bright face.

Behind him, in one corner of the backyard, Bridget and Emilia were sitting under the shade of a tree.

“I was thinking of having snacks in the backyard with Bridget and Emilia, would that be alright?”

Right, today was the day the Crowner Ducal Princess was visiting.

The young ones had been running around excitedly since morning and seemed to be hungry already.

“Of course, I’ll ask the Housekeeper to prepare it.”

I was about to nod lightly to Edwin and head to the annex when it happened.

A chilling murderous intent and the sound of something cutting through the air brushed past my ears.

“Kyaaaah!”

“Emilia! Bridget!”

Edwin turned pale and ran out like the wind.

He pulled Bridget and Emilia into his arms and crouched down as much as possible.

“Your Highness!”

I too didn’t hesitate and threw myself toward where the children were.

Swoosh, thud.

An arrow that flew from beyond the wall grazed my shoulder and scratched the stone corridor pillar.

“Rachel!”

Fortunately, there was only one arrow, and the murderous intent disappeared in an instant.

It was rather fortunate since I didn’t need to worry about whether to pursue while leaving the children behind.

“What do we do! There’s blood, you’re bleeding!”

“Are you alright? I, I have a handkerchief…”

Edwin and Bridget looked like they were about to cry as they panicked.

“I’m fine. It just grazed me.”

“But…”

“Princess Emilia, are you alright, Princess Emilia?”

Fortunately, Emilia was perfectly fine without a single scratch.

But the young princess began crying loudly when she saw the wound near my shoulder.

“Waaaaah, Racheeeeel—!”

“Sob, sob, what do we do…”

They say children are easily affected by each other’s emotions.

As if Emilia’s crying acted as a trigger, Bridget also began sobbing with a startled heart.

“Why, suddenly why…”

Even Edwin’s eyes welled up with tears.

“I’m really fine, Prince Edwin, Princess Emilia. I’m really alright, Lordling Bridget.”

I pulled the three children who couldn’t easily stop crying into my arms.

And while gazing at the direction the arrow came from, I quietly repeated to myself.

‘Saylus.’

As if answering my call, my shadow rippled once greatly.

I held the children even tighter and commanded the mage in the shadows.

‘Bring them to me. Don’t kill them.’

The very moment the command was given.

The shadow swiftly extended toward the thicket beyond the wall.

As fast as the arrow that had flown toward the children.

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