The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 29

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Chapter 29. Having a Cold is Cheating (2)

“The Lordling?”

Sas looked at me as if I were strange.

“Why are you suddenly picking up a pen?”

“Physician, you said all the other physicians have gone out on external visits.”

“Yes? Ah, yes.”

“Then the only people remaining here are you and that pharmacist.”

“That’s correct, but why are you asking that?”

The physician looked at me as if wondering why I was asking such a question.

“Because I’m not confident I can handle two men at once with this body.”

As soon as I finished speaking, I shoved the medicine bottle I was holding into his mouth.

I had already opened the cap beforehand.

“Ugh, ughhhhh―! Ughhh―!”

The physician, who had been caught off guard, swallowed the medicine that flowed down his throat.

He struggled violently while I held his jaw.

It was a suspicious reaction for someone who had just taken the cold medicine he prescribed.

“What’s wrong?”

I released my grip after confirming he had swallowed all the medicine.

“It should just be ordinary cold medicine, but your reaction is excessive.”

“Cough, cough! Ahhhhh―! No, no―!”

As soon as Sas was freed from my grasp, he collapsed to the floor.

He tried to shove his fingers down his throat.

‘Where do you think you’re going.’

I firmly grabbed Sas’s wrist.

An old physician who had spent his life turning pages couldn’t overpower me with strength.

“What are you doing!”

Sas twisted his wrist and screamed.

“Let go! Let go right now! I said let go―!”

“What am I doing? Since this is medicine for His Highness the Prince, I’m just having you taste it first.”

“What, what did you say?”

“Physician.”

I crouched down across from the frantic Sas.

“I may not know much about medicine, but I know a bit about poison.”

“What, what are you saying….”

“Why are oleander leaves in cold medicine?”

When the name of the poisonous plant came from my mouth, the physician’s face turned ashen.

“Oleander! What kind of terrible thing to say!”

Sas shook his head frantically.

“I, I never used such a thing―!”

Oleander, it was a poisonous tree imported from the distant eastern continent.

Its toxicity was so powerful that assassins mainly used its poison by coating arrows or blades with it.

I spun the fountain pen I held in my other hand round and round.

“I know oleander is definitely a poisonous tree.”

“How dare you frame me! There’s no way such a thing could be in medicine!”

“Exactly. There’s no way such deadly poison would be in medicine.”

Swoosh―

I brought the pen tip to Sas’s nape.

The sharp tip quickly made a wound on the old man’s delicate skin.

Feeling the fountain pen tip gradually digging into his flesh, his face turned even whiter.

“Why, why are you suddenly doing this to me!”

“Since you, the physician who prescribed the cold medicine, are reacting excessively after taking it, I’m simply harboring reasonable suspicion.”

I put more force into the hand holding the fountain pen.

“I ask you. Why did you try to kill His Highness the Prince?”

“Non, nonsense! Don’t talk nonsense! When did I ever do that!”

“You’re the one talking nonsense.”

I stood up and without a moment’s hesitation, trampled the physician’s shoulder with my foot.

“Ahhhhh!”

“I saw with my own eyes that pharmacist putting oleander leaves in. Do you still plan to deny it?”

“I never, I never did such a thing! If it was added, then yes! It must be that guy’s doing! That guy did it on purpose!”

Sas pointed accusingly at the pharmacist standing beyond the reception desk.

“That guy―!”

But his attempt to drag someone down with him failed.

Because the pharmacist was a more cunning person than he thought.

“That’s not true! I’m innocent!”

The young pharmacist, as if he had been waiting, brought me the prescription Sas had written.

“Clearly, clearly it was written here to add four oleander leaves!”

Just as the pharmacist said, that’s what was written on the prescription.

Meanwhile, Sas, betrayed by the pharmacist he had trusted, writhed beneath my foot.

“This, this, this―! Remove this! Remove it! Remove it right now―!”

“Four leaves. An amount that wouldn’t be strange if you died, and wouldn’t be strange if you lived.”

I grabbed the collar of the physician lying on the floor and lifted him up.

As soon as he made eye contact with me, he spat out curses.

“You bitch! Do you know who I am? I am The Physician of this Empire who has served His Majesty the Emperor for 10 years! The Physician! And yet you dare!”

Cornered, he resorted to flaunting his position – how predictable.

“So what?”

“What, what….”

“Haven’t you realized that being The Physician actually works against you right now?”

At my words, the physician’s faded pupils trembled finely.

I raised my eyebrows and sneered.

“It would be quite a sight if it became known that The Physician plotted to assassinate a prince.”

“You, youuu―! Who would listen to a lowly maid like you!”

“While no one may listen to my words, it seems you won’t be able to speak even if someone would listen.”

It was about time for the poison to take effect.

“What, gasp, cough, coughhhhh!”

Sure enough, the physician clutched his chest and breathed roughly.

“You should have answered my questions quickly from the beginning.”

“You, you―!”

“So why did you try to kill him?”

“Who tried to kill anyone! I never did such a thing! Never―!”

Seeing he still had a lot to say, it seemed bearable for him.

But I had no intention of waiting any longer.

“Sorry, but there isn’t much time left now.”

“What, ahhhhhhh―!”

I stabbed the physician’s thigh with the fountain pen.

He collapsed and trembled all over like an aspen leaf.

The white cloak he wore was stained with bright red blood.

“Who ordered you to do this?”

“Huff, huff, hufffffff!”

Sas clutched his stabbed thigh and panted.

He looked up at me with terrified eyes.

“You, no, Lordling, why on earth are you doing this to me…?”

The poison spread, and blood flowed out.

For his aged body, it would be unbearable pain.

“You would have no reason to kill a prince, so someone must have ordered you.”

“Kkeuk, kkeuheuueuk!”

“Who ordered you?”

Sas eventually shed tears and clung to my leg.

“Lordling, I, I was completely wrong. Please spare my life, spare me!”

“Your life is being gnawed away by yourself.”

I spoke in a firm voice.

“If you answer quickly, there will be more time to detoxify you, so why won’t you speak?”

“Th, that!”

Sas hesitated until the very end.

He seemed to be thinking of someone in his head but couldn’t easily say it out loud.

‘I think I already know the answer.’

It was more than enough to guess.

It would be the person he had just mentioned with his own mouth.

“As expected.”

I quietly opened my mouth.

“Is it The 2nd Imperial Consort?”

Sas did not answer.

However, it wasn’t difficult to know that my words were the correct answer.

As soon as he heard my words, he seemed to give up and relaxed his shoulders.

“I, I was just, as The Imperial Consort requested, I had no choice but to…”

“What did The 2nd Imperial Consort ask of you?”

“Well, when the opportunity came, to send The 3rd Prince to, to the arms of angels…”

In any country, the struggle surrounding the throne is fierce.

Succession candidates trying to kill each other was as common as grains of sand.

– What did I do so wrong―!

That day, Edwin’s cry to Lloyd in the garden echoed in my ears.

What did he do so wrong?

‘Nothing.’

If anything, it was only the sin of being born a prince.

Only the sin of having noble blood while possessing nothing.

‘You too live such a weary life.’

I smiled bitterly.

“Lo, Lordling, please spare me. I too, have my circumstances!”

“You there.”

I turned my head, ignoring the clinging Sas.

“M, me?”

The pharmacist’s eyes widened in surprise at my call.

“Since you’re supposedly a pharmacist, you’d know how to detoxify, right?”

“Ah, yes, yes.”

“Detoxify him.”

The pharmacist quickly approached the physician at my words.

He made Sas vomit up the poison, then gave him medicine mixed with charcoal powder.

Having barely overcome the crisis, Sas’s condition looked more comfortable than before.

“I’m warning you, from now on.”

I continued speaking while looking down at the deflated Sas.

“Don’t touch The 3rd Prince, no, anyone related to the 3rd Prince’s Palace, whoever they may be.”

“Of, of course. How could I dare, I absolutely won’t touch them.”

“If you don’t keep your promise, I’ll come to the Zail Countship.”

I brought my face close to the cowering Sas’s ear.

“I’ll go there and expose all the misdeeds and corruption you’ve committed to your wife. More than half of House of Zail’s wealth came from what the Countess brought when she married in, right? If you’re abandoned by your wife, you’ll have to spit out all that wealth.”

Instantly, Sas’s eyes widened as if they would tear.

“No, no, how do you know that…”

“I have my ways of knowing everything.”

I smiled brightly while making eye contact with the old physician.

“So watch your tongue. Don’t tell anyone about what happened today.”

“Heo, heoeok.”

“If you leak it, I’ll show you what’s more painful than death.”

Sas trembled at my final words and nodded his head.

“Yes, yes. I’ll engrave it in my mind.”

“Then that’s settled.”

Thwack―!

I struck the back of Sas’s neck.

Like a light going out, he instantly lost consciousness.

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