The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 297
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Chapter 297. Confession (6)
“…I don’t think what you’re saying is wrong.”
I thought he would surely be angry.
Kaiden opened his mouth with a calmer voice than I expected.
“But I don’t care anyway.”
Kaiden looked straight at me.
“When you saved me, you said you saw yourself in me.”
His beautiful golden eyes glowed softly in the sunlight.
The me reflected in his eyes looked like I was standing in a wheat field rippling with sunlight.
“Then you must see it now too.”
How you appear to me.
What kind of person I am standing before you.
“It was a lie when I said it didn’t matter what relationship we had. I want to be the only man who can stand by your side.”
Kaiden slowly reached out and grabbed my wrist.
Just like when he caught me trying to jump from the balcony of the Imperial Palace.
“So marry me, Rachel Brown.”
The wrist Kaiden held was unbearably hot.
As much as the heart he had constantly shown me since we met again in this life.
“I don’t care if others point fingers or whisper behind our backs. I became king solely to stand beside you.”
The hand holding my wrist slid down and grasped my hand.
“…If the proposal feels burdensome, you can think of it as a transaction.”
With his thick hands full of scars and calluses, so different from his beautiful face, he fidgeted with my hand.
“The you of the past used to go around collecting life debts from the people you saved.”
Life debt.
I looked at Kaiden with wide eyes.
He was already putting a ring on my left hand.
“So I should collect a life debt from you too.”
Since I’m the one who brought you back to life.
The ring that settled on my ring finger was beautiful enough to mesmerize even me, who had no interest in jewelry.
“It’s a ring made of adamant. The dwarves had quite a hard time crafting it.”
The adamant ore bordered with rubies and emeralds was emitting a brilliant blue light. It was dazzlingly gorgeous.
“…Is that, possible?”
Adamant ore was so strong and hard that even refining it into weapons was difficult.
Crafting such a mineral like a gemstone was nearly impossible.
“Making the impossible possible is my specialty.”
A bastard with nothing becoming king of a country, bringing a dead person back to life, persistently finding and catching that resurrected person.
As Kaiden said, everything he had accomplished was nearly impossible.
But he had managed to do it all. Triumphantly.
“Rachel, you are my life.”
His large hand touched my cheek.
A light more dazzling than the pouring starlight was looking at me.
“How could one breathe until death without loving life?”
Over Kaiden’s face flashed the image of the boy I had once pushed away.
“So live. I’ll love you until the moment I close my eyes.”
In the wind blowing from afar, our hair danced together in the air.
“Don’t run away anymore, and don’t sacrifice yourself.”
Kaiden lifted my wrist and brought his lips to my palm.
“Just live ordinarily and happily by my side, together with me.”
His breath tickled my palm.
Just like when an angel takes one’s last breath, as if a human offers their breath willingly.
“That’s the life debt you must repay me in this lifetime.”
It was a confession hotter than any words I had heard when we once made love.
“…Do you know something.”
The ring on my finger sparkled.
My vision suddenly blurred, probably because of that sparkle.
“When everyone told me to die, you were the first person to tell me to live.”
I was always called death.
Everyone screamed at me to die, and I too had tried to give up on myself.
But this man before me told me to live. He called me his life.
“…Are you confident you won’t regret it?”
I lifted my head straight and looked at Kaiden.
“Life isn’t easy, is it?”
“Don’t worry.”
Kaiden raised one corner of his mouth in a crooked smile.
“My life was much less easy before I met you.”
The young king speaking calmly about what might be a sad reality had a strangely magnificent dignity about him.
“…I’ll accept the transaction.”
It was too ungraceful an answer for accepting a proposal, but what could I do?
I didn’t have the talent to speak prettily like Catherine.
“Take my entire life.”
I stood straight facing Kaiden and pulled him into an embrace.
Just as thirteen-year-old Kaiden had caught twenty-one-year-old Kayla.
“In return, you must give me Your Highness’s entire life too.”
Kaiden looked at me blankly, then smiled brightly.
His relaxed smile was as innocent as that boy from those days.
“Of course. What kind of question is that?”
We held each other tightly as if we wouldn’t allow even the slightest gap between us.
The subtle jasmine fragrance warmly enveloped us as we clung together like we had been one body.
“I love you, Rachel.”
“…Me too.”
To the confession I had always heard, I responded with sincerity for the first time.
“I love you too, Kaiden.”
My second life, regained.
I was finally free from the past.
The moment I spoke aloud the love that had always burned in my heart.
* * *
“That Edwin fellow is more stubborn than he looks.”
The Emperor, Cabellius III, lifted his gaze from the documents.
“He still says he won’t see you. That must be disappointing.”
“It’s fine.”
There was a guest in the study.
The King of Adamant, Kaiden, smiled at The Emperor’s words.
“For someone who is a prince, wouldn’t it be better to have some degree of stubbornness?”
“So is that why you’re being so unreasonably stubborn too?”
“It’s not stubbornness, but conviction.”
“…Conviction, conviction indeed.”
The Emperor frowned.
He straightened his body that had been leaning against the window and slowly walked toward the desk.
Limp, limp.
His unusual gait was weak and powerless.
The aftereffects of the poisoning he had suffered before seemed to still be tormenting The Emperor’s body.
“Yes, I suppose rejecting a collateral woman from the Bentrum Imperial House and stubbornly insisting on that woman to the end could be called conviction, if you want to call it that.”
After the fact that Kaiden was Edwin’s uncle was revealed.
The Emperor had made a proposal to Kaiden – instead of Rachel’s pardon, how about marrying a woman of the Empire who had imperial blood flowing through her veins.
Of course, Kaiden rejected that proposal as if it wasn’t even worth considering.
“Are you really confident you can handle it?”
The Emperor stared intently at Kaiden and asked again.
“If you take that woman as your companion, the internal backlash will be more severe than expected.”
“I am prepared for it.”
“…This is advice from someone who has walked the thorny path before.”
Power and love cannot coexist.
Even those who gained power because of love ultimately had no choice but to betray that love.
The Emperor had realized this fact early on and never made foolish choices after that.
“It might not be you who suffers, but the woman you chose.”
A foreign woman who receives the king’s favor.
There would be no existence more like a thorn in the nobles’ eyes than that.
“In the Empire, she’s at least called the daughter of a count’s family, but even that isn’t true bloodline, so they’ll surely look down on her.”
It wasn’t the king who made the wrong choice who became a victim of power struggles.
It was the one who was subjected to the wrong choice who became the scapegoat.
“Watching with your own eyes as someone you gave your heart to gets destroyed is more painful than you think.”
“I…”
Kaiden, who had been quietly listening to The Emperor’s words, opened his lips.
“Find it much more painful when Rachel is not by my side.”
He looked out the window once, then looked back at The Emperor.
A confident smile hung on his handsome lips.
“And the woman I chose is not weak enough to be looked down upon or bullied by anyone.”
It was an annoyingly clear confidence.
The Emperor frowned as he looked at Kaiden, then sighed.
“Well, I hope the choice made by The King of Adamant will be different from mine and not be wrong.”
Though there was a hint of bitterness in his voice, no one paid attention to it.
“I will respect your will.”
The Emperor finally signed the document that specified his deal with Kaiden.
“I will pardon the crimes of The 3rd Prince’s caretaker, Rachel Brown, and allow her to maintain her position as caretaker.”
The term was until The 3rd Prince turned fifteen and held his coming-of-age ceremony.
He handed the document to The Emperor and added:
“Regarding Rachel Brown’s whereabouts after she finishes her caretaker duties, I will guarantee her freedom as long as it doesn’t pose a threat to the imperial family’s safety.”
Kaiden stood up from his seat at The Emperor’s long-awaited answer.
“Thank you, Your Imperial Majesty.”
With the smile of a victor who had obtained everything.
* * *
“Are you really not going to meet him, Prince Edwin?”
Edwin lay sideways on the bed and shook his head.
I quietly watched Edwin like that, then opened my mouth.
“Tomorrow Prince Kaiden will leave the Empire. I heard he has no plans to visit the Empire for a while after that.”
Edwin’s shoulders flinched momentarily at my words.
After being silent for a long time, Edwin suddenly complained in a small voice:
“He says he’s my uncle, but he never came looking for me when I was called Prince with Fur. And now he wants to act like family, which I really hate. Why was he hiding it in the first place?”
Edwin suddenly got up and waved his arms.
“If he was going to reveal it, he should have revealed it from when we first met. It’s like he was testing me. He probably planned to accept me as his nephew if I seemed useful, or pretend not to know until the end if not!”
Edwin’s resentment toward Kaiden was more severe than expected.
I was thinking that no amount of persuasion would work at this level when:
“Brother, when are we going to meet The Emperor?”
Emilia, who had somehow entered the prince’s chamber, jumped straight onto the bed.
“The Emperor is waiting in Ria’s room right now.”
Bringing news that was like a bolt from the blue for Edwin.
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