The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 293

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Chapter 293. Confession (2)

[What did I tell you?]

It was while I was kneeling and embracing the children.

I heard Saylus’s sighing voice in my head.

[Didn’t I say you’d regret it? As if someone with your personality could just leave those brats behind.]

He clicked his tongue as if I was frustrating him.

[It would have been simple from the start if you’d just asked me for help. You’re really frustrating too.]

Just before leaving the Imperial Capital.

Saylus had told me to use him.

[With just a snap of my fingers, I could kill the Emperor or make him a puppet. If you wanted, you could have lived happily forever with those brats in this empire.]

I knew.

I knew it was a problem that could be easily solved by borrowing Saylus’s power.

[But why the hell did you refuse? Now you can’t even use magic when you want to. Because of that damn restraint!]

The Imperial Palace already knew about Saylus’s existence.

So they had put a restraint on one of my ankles that blocked the magical connection with Saylus.

‘As long as I’m wearing the restraint, Saylus can’t come out of the shadows. He can’t use magic either.’

I tried drawing my magical power to its maximum as a test, but it was useless.

The only consolation, if it could be called that, was that communication with Saylus was still possible.

[To even allow the restraint, just how much of a pushover do you need to be before you’re satisfied? Good grief, when you get out of here, come to where my main body is right away. Then I’ll get rid of that damn thing in one go.]

If the restraint disappeared, Saylus would be free again.

I too would be able to freely use Saylus’s abilities.

[What? Why aren’t you answering? Don’t tell me you’re planning to keep wearing that restraint? You’re really going to keep that damn promise?]

Instead of answering, I nodded my head.

Then Saylus screamed in my head.

[Good God, you’re really going to keep the promise to wear the restraint for 3 years?]

‘Yes.’

[Do you know what that means? It means the Empire bastards can openly track you for 3 years. It means they can legally monitor where you are and what you’re doing!]

‘I know.’

[How can you say that so calmly? It means they might try to kill you constantly for 3 years!]

I knew well.

Because I knew, I had to keep the promise to wear the restraint for 3 years even more.

‘Only then will Edwin and Emilia’s position in the Imperial Capital remain unshaken.’

I was willing to keep that promise until they could completely shed the stigma of being a prince and princess raised by an assassin’s hand.

‘Your existence no longer helps Prince Edwin or Princess Emilia. If anything, you’re a dangerous element.’

The words I had heard from Jerome echoed in my ears.

‘The restraint on your ankle is a token of promise. A token that you will keep your promise with His Imperial Majesty and the Imperial Palace, and that you truly care for His Highness the Prince and Her Highness the Princess.’

Shackles in the name of a token.

I frowned and hugged the children tightly.

“…Your Highness.”

At my voice, Edwin and Emilia both raised their heads simultaneously.

Their tear-soaked faces were puffed up like bread soaked in water.

“May I really stay by Your Highnesses’ side? Is it really okay?”

The children just stared at me blankly as if wondering why I was asking something so obvious.

“Yes, Rachel has to stay next to Ria.”

Emilia rubbed her face roughly with the back of her hand and burrowed deeper into my embrace.

“Rachel.”

Had he calmed down a little more than before?

Edwin asked me in a slightly hoarse voice.

“I know you made a deal with Father. I don’t know exactly what kind of deal it was, but…”

He clenched his fists tightly and looked straight at me.

“You know, if that deal was really something you wanted, and if it’s a deal for you, and if you’re leaving because of that, I won’t stop you.”

His voice, which grew smaller as he spoke, trembled anxiously.

“But if it’s for me, if it’s for me and Emilia, I can’t allow Rachel to leave.”

Edwin gripped my arm tightly as if worried I might slip away.

“Rachel leaving can never be something for our sake.”

“Your Highness, I…”

“You promised to stay by my side until I no longer need you.”

For a moment, I couldn’t breathe.

The bright blue eyes looking at me had a light so cold it hurt just to look at them.

“You said you always keep your promises.”

Edwin put more strength into the hand gripping my arm.

“I still need you, Rachel.”

Not just me, but all of us.

Edwin and Emilia looked at me.

At that moment, I saw someone running toward us from behind them.

“Caretakerrrrr!”

“…Catherine?”

Catherine, with her hair disheveled, collapsed in front of me as if falling, gasping for breath.

“I, I have something I couldn’t tell you earlier.”

Catherine panted roughly with her head down.

Then suddenly she took my hands and raised her head.

“I also don’t want you to leave, Caretaker!”

“…Pardon?”

“Not because of Their Highnesses, but I also don’t want you to leave!”

Her thin lips, drawn on her pale white face, trembled.

“You might deny it, you might not want to acknowledge it, but…”

Catherine opened and closed her lips several times before continuing.

“You’re my one and only friend!”

Friend, it was quite an unfamiliar word.

In my previous life, I had many colleagues but no friends.

If I had to name my only friend, it would be Ian, but he was also my lover, so it was different.

“So please don’t go.”

Catherine sniffled with her eyes scrunched up.

“I don’t want to lose my only friend.”

She wiped her tears with a handkerchief and continued talking to herself.

“Of course, I could go to another country to meet you, but now that I’ve become the head maid, it’s difficult to even leave the Imperial Capital, and if it becomes known that I’m going out to meet you, I’ll be monitored…”

“Catherine, don’t cry. Rachel won’t go.”

Emilia, who had stopped crying, sat next to Catherine and comforted her.

“What? Really? Did she say she won’t go?”

I hadn’t said I wouldn’t go yet.

I tried to stop Emilia in confusion.

But the child paid no attention and spoke with conviction.

“Yes, Rachel said she has never not loved Ria. So she won’t go.”

The hand I had extended toward Emilia fell powerlessly.

I remained still, kneeling on one knee.

“Please give us a little more time.”

“Step aside, His Imperial Majesty has ordered us to bring Their Highnesses.”

The reunion was brief.

In the distance, I could see Philip arguing with the imperial knights.

“Rachel, run away for now.”

Edwin looked at the knights and hurriedly tried to help me stand up.

“Escape from the temple and hide somewhere safe. I’ll somehow persuade The Emperor. I’ll definitely find a way so Rachel doesn’t have to leave…”

“Ria will ask daddy too! Ria will tell him she won’t see daddy for life if Rachel leaves! So everything will be okay!”

“I’ll also do everything I can as the head maid! If we go through The Empress or Countess Katrina, there might be a chance to change the negative public opinion about The Caretaker…”

Somehow, I found myself laughing.

Watching these three people who had rushed here for me, desperately trying to save me somehow, I felt strength return to my toes.

“Stay away from the criminal, Your Highness!”

Philip alone must not have been enough.

The knights sent by The Emperor drew their swords and pointed them in my direction.

“What are you doing? Hurry up and bring them here.”

The armored knights approached me and tried to take Edwin and Emilia away.

“Rachel!”

I know.

I know that letting them go like this would be the easiest way.

‘Yes, I know, but.’

In my head, I know this isn’t right.

‘I know, but.’

I slowly stood up from my seat.

Just as I was about to draw the knife hidden inside my skirt.

“That’s enough.”

A voice I never expected to hear reached my ears.

I slowly turned my head. A scent that my past self had loved brushed past my nose.

“What’s the point of causing a commotion in God’s temple? I came here for such a joyous occasion.”

The one who suddenly appeared before us was none other than The King of Adamant, Kaiden Ram.

“Why is Prince Kaiden here…?”

Kaiden heard my words and grinned.

He lightly touched the brooch hanging near my neck with his fingertip.

“I told you that if you have that, I can find you wherever you are.”

I thought he said he could only come when I called him.

I stared at Kaiden in a daze.

“Why is The King of Adamant in The Imperial Sanctum?”

Meanwhile, The Emperor’s knights, after being momentarily flustered by Kaiden’s sudden appearance, calmly spoke up.

“I came here on temple business. As you know, Adamant doesn’t have a great temple. Of course, I already received permission from The Sovereign, so is there a problem?”

No matter how foreign a country was, visiting a temple required The Sovereign’s permission rather than The Emperor’s.

That meant, in other words, with The Sovereign’s permission, one could visit the Empire without necessarily seeking The Emperor’s approval.

“We are currently carrying out orders given by The Emperor, so could you please step aside for a moment.”

Kaiden tilted his head at the knight’s words.

“By orders, you mean exiling this woman from the Empire?”

“That’s correct.”

“Then it’s even harder for me to step aside.”

“Excuse me?”

Kaiden grinned and suddenly pulled me toward him.

“Because this criminal is my fiancée, recognized even by The Sovereign.”

Even if lightning struck from a clear sky, it wouldn’t be more shocking than this.

The expressions of everyone present said exactly that.

“I don’t understand why everyone looks so surprised.”

Kaiden looked at the astonished knights with a mischievous smile.

“Didn’t I just say it? Don’t cause a commotion on such a joyous day.”

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