The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 288

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Chapter 288. Deal (1)

“…This is giving me a headache.”

The Emperor, Cabellius III, rubbed his temples.

He turned his gaze away from Edwin, who was visible outside the window.

“Emilia threatens to cut off all visits to the Imperial Palace until I return that woman, and Edwin has been coming here for days staging a sit-in protest…”

The Emperor’s gaze turned to Jerome, who sat across from him.

“Now even you come to me with threats.”

“It’s not a threat, but a proposal I’m offering.”

Jerome, the Captain of the Gloria Knights and Duke of Crowner, spoke in a calm tone.

“Please appoint Prince Edwin, not Prince Adrian, as Crown Prince, Your Imperial Majesty.”

“…Is Adrian’s condition that critical?”

The Emperor had also heard about the illness Adrian had been hiding.

He asked Jerome with a dark expression.

“He’s not critically ill to the point of immediate danger.”

Jerome half-lowered his eyes.

He recalled Adrian, who had told him he would give up his position as Crown Prince.

‘I want to live freely, Uncle.’

It was the first time Adrian had called him uncle since he was a toddling baby.

‘…If it’s a short life that won’t last as long as others, I want to die doing what I truly want to do.’

The night of rebellion seemed to have been a memory too difficult for Adrian to bear.

He had looked up at Jerome, who came to visit him while he was ill. Tears were pooled in his eyes that resembled his sister’s.

‘If you truly care for and love me, please ask His Imperial Majesty to let me go, Uncle.’

Jerome spoke firmly while thinking of Adrian.

“But he’s not strong enough to handle the power struggles of the Imperial Palace. Prince Adrian needs time to care for himself, not to attend to state affairs.”

“Then, if he takes a temporary leave for recovery…”

“Recovery is only a temporary measure, Your Majesty.”

The promise the two had made long ago.

Jerome brought up that promise.

“The Marquis of Redcliff has fallen. The promise I made to Your Majesty has been fulfilled.”

He too had known what was best for his nephew, but had ultimately thought that placing him on the throne was the best method.

“So please let Prince Adrian, that child who is Your Majesty’s son and also my nephew, be at peace now.”

A decision he could make not as a duke, but as family.

Jerome bowed his head and pleaded with the Emperor.

“Instead, as a military commander, I request that you appoint Prince Edwin as Crown Prince.”

“…If Adrian steps down from the Crown Prince position, naturally that child is the only prince who can become Crown Prince.”

The Emperor let out a troubled sigh.

“However.”

He asked with a furrowed brow.

“Edwin has virtually no political standing, and with the remaining Senate nobles’ hostility reaching the heavens, you know what might happen if we place that child in the Crown Prince position, don’t you?”

“It’s a problem that can be solved if the Duke of Crowner becomes Prince Edwin’s backing.”

“But what about that woman?”

Not only was there an absence of a powerful maternal family, but rumors were rampant throughout the Imperial City that the 3rd Prince’s caretaker was an assassin who had led the Breath of Angels.

“With the Prince and Princess causing such a commotion, I can’t just execute her carelessly.”

“That too has been resolved amicably, so please don’t worry.”

Jerome answered with an expressionless face.

“I’ve already finished talking with that woman.”

* * *

The Maid Captain, who had been arguing with Edwin still standing in front of the Imperial Palace, brightened when he saw someone running from afar.

“Prince Edwin!”

The person who came running hurriedly while calling the Prince’s name was none other than Catherine, the Maid Captain of the 3rd Prince’s Palace.

“Maid Captain, why are you so late! Quickly take His Highness back! What if you upset His Majesty’s mood even more…”

“I’m sorry, Maid Captain.”

Catherine quickly apologized.

“I’ll take him back. Please go inside first.”

The Maid Captain coughed a few times and then disappeared into the Imperial Palace.

“Prince Edwin, you can’t do this here.”

As soon as the Maid Captain disappeared, she grabbed Edwin’s shoulders.

“Let’s go back quickly. His Majesty ordered all the Princes to exercise restraint in their quarters. You know this, so why are you doing this here?”

“Let go! Why are you doing this too, Catherine!”

“Prince Edwin!”

“Catherine!”

Edwin firmly pushed away Catherine’s hands that were trying to stop him and shouted.

“Aren’t you frustrated? Aren’t you upset? Rachel became like that trying to save us, all of us!”

The night when the Senate nobles’ rebellion attempt fell through.

Rachel had returned to their arms in a near-death state.

‘Rachel! Wake up! Please! Don’t do this…’

Saylus immediately used healing magic, but Rachel didn’t regain consciousness. As if she was refusing to wake up.

“I, I…”

Edwin’s voice trembled.

“That day, I thought Rachel was leaving forever.”

Rachel’s pale complexion that he had never seen before.

That appearance, clearly showing signs of death, was so terrifying that just looking at it made his legs shake.

“She promised me, she did…”

That she wouldn’t leave his side. That she wouldn’t recklessly risk her life.

That night, Rachel had almost broken all her promises with Edwin.

“I thought it was fortunate that she regained consciousness…”

He couldn’t even remember how many days had passed since then.

When Rachel finally regained consciousness, people from the Imperial Palace came and took her away.

“Rachel isn’t a criminal! She has nothing to do with the rebellion! I can vouch for her!”

He couldn’t lose another precious person.

Edwin shouted while looking toward the Imperial Palace.

“I can explain everything to His Imperial Majesty! What kind of person Rachel is! So…”

“Your Highness, actually. The Caretaker…”

Before Catherine could answer with a worried expression.

Clatter clatter clatter.

A knight in Gloria Knights armor rushed past the two of them and ran into the Imperial Palace.

“Prince Edwin.”

Then the Maid Captain came out again and suddenly ran toward Edwin. His expression seemed strangely excited and brighter than before.

“Please come inside quickly. His Majesty is looking for Your Highness.”

“What?”

The sudden change in attitude was bewildering.

Edwin looked at the Maid Captain with a dazed expression.

“Quickly, Your Highness. It’s very good news for you, so please hurry.”

Good news.

Could it be that His Majesty had decided to release Rachel?

Edwin’s face briefly brightened.

“Catherine, I’ll be back!”

The Prince’s steps as he ran into the Imperial Palace carried vague hope.

* * *

“Pardon?”

Edwin, who had finally succeeded in meeting the Emperor, muttered in a daze.

“I’m going to become the Crown Prince?”

“That’s right.”

“But Prince Adrian…”

In the Emperor’s bedchamber that the head attendant had guided him to, there were other guests besides Edwin.

“We have confirmed that Adrian has no intention of performing the duties of Crown Prince. Furthermore, His Majesty has also approved this matter.”

The Empress, who was sitting beside the Emperor, spoke in a calm voice.

“Since the 2nd Prince has been stripped of his position, it is only right that you, as the most likely heir to the throne, should ascend to the position of Crown Prince.”

“Congratulations, Prince Edwin.”

Jerome, who was standing across from Edwin, offered his congratulations.

“You have finally achieved your dream.”

I achieved my dream?

Edwin blinked and slowly looked around.

Since becoming Emperor had been his dream, becoming Crown Prince was practically the same as achieving that dream.

‘But.’

The young prince’s gaze reached each of the people before him one by one.

The Emperor lying half-propped up on the bed, Empress Melanie guarding his side, and even Count Crowner.

“…Father.”

Edwin asked the Emperor, who had been silent since earlier.

“What about Rachel?”

At his question, the silence that had fallen over the bedchamber grew even heavier.

“What will happen to Rachel, my caretaker? I thought you were going to talk about that…”

Why did he only feel an ominous feeling when they were offering him the Crown Prince position he had so desperately wanted? Edwin continued with a forced smile.

“While it’s truly an honor that you would appoint someone as lacking as me as Crown Prince, right now I would like to ask about Rachel’s treatment more than that…”

“Not Rachel, but Kayla.”

“…Pardon?”

“I’m talking about the real name of the woman who was pretending to be your caretaker.”

The Emperor spoke in a cold voice.

“That woman’s name is not Rachel Brown, but Kayla Angel, Edwin.”

The head of the continent’s most notorious assassination organization, the assassin called The Crimson Reaper, Kayla Angel.

“That’s not…”

I know that too, but it doesn’t matter at all.

Just as Edwin was about to say that, the Emperor cut him off.

“Do you think that’s all? That woman is a wicked being who died and was resurrected in another’s body using black magic.”

Black magic was practically taboo in the Empire.

Edwin looked at the Emperor with shocked eyes.

“Moreover, she’s a dangerous individual who even commands a living magic stone sealed in ancient ruins as her servant.”

A living magic stone, The Insane Black Mage.

Edwin naturally thought of Saylus.

The shadow magic he wielded was far from ordinary magic.

“Now that it’s certain that the rebels who plotted treason joined hands with Breath of the Angel, it’s hard to see Kayla Angel, who had deep connections with that organization, as innocent.”

The Emperor’s voice grew increasingly cold.

“Even if she’s unrelated to this incident, we cannot keep someone who was once the head of an assassin group within the Imperial Capital.”

“F-Father, what do you mean by that…”

“This is an imperial decree.”

He declared to Edwin, who stood there dumbfounded, in a resolute voice.

“Rachel Brown, the criminal who deceived us about her identity and name, shall be stripped of her position and family name and permanently banished from the Empire.”

Edwin stared blankly at the Emperor.

“That is the condition for you, Edwin, to live here as Crown Prince and as the Empire’s next Emperor.”

It was the cruelest deal in the world.

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