The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 298

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Chapter 298. Confession (7)

‘Everything is pink.’

The young princess’s room was entirely pink in all directions, as if it completely reflected only the child’s preferences. The decorations and furniture were all of the highest quality.

‘Everything is brand new. Did the Emperor replace them?’

Kaiden sat quietly on a small sofa prepared in the center of the princess’s room.

Whether it was made for infants, when he sat down, the sofa that looked like it was for three people now looked like just a chair.

‘A man who didn’t even know the princess existed.’

Whatever wind had blown, should he consider it fortunate that he at least treated Emilia well?

“…Small.”

Kaiden muttered to himself while looking at the table in front of the sofa.

The infant fork and spoon placed on the table were as small as toys.

It was when he was mindlessly picking up the spoon and fidgeting with it.

“Kids’ stuff is all small originally.”

The door opened and Edwin appeared.

The prince was holding his sister’s hand and looking at Kaiden with a sullen expression.

“That…”

He needed to say something.

Kaiden stopped in an awkward half-standing position, having risen halfway from his seat.

He was at a loss for how to explain himself to his nephews who had learned his true identity.

“Hah.”

Meanwhile, Edwin let out a deep sigh while looking at Kaiden, who was standing in an awkward position unable to do anything.

“You said you came to talk.”

The prince walked over with slow steps and sat on the sofa across from Kaiden.

The prince and the young king finally faced each other, both sitting on infant sofas.

“Ria too, Ria has to sit too!”

Emilia squeezed herself into the seat next to Edwin and sparkled her eyes.

“So what do you have to say, Your Majesty the King?”

He hadn’t expected to have to deal with the princess as well.

Kaiden fidgeted with his fingertips as if slightly troubled.

“…Aren’t you going to talk?”

Edwin’s face was more indifferent than usual.

No, he was pretending to be indifferent, but the hostility seeping through couldn’t be hidden.

“I, I am…”

It was harder to begin than when he had proposed to Rachel.

Looking at the two pairs of blue eyes staring at him, he felt as if the words he had prepared were scattering into thin air.

“I have something I want to ask.”

He had thought Edwin would keep his mouth shut until the end.

Suddenly, Edwin was the first to break the silence.

“If Your Majesty the King was really our mother’s brother, then why…”

Edwin slightly clenched his two fists that had been placed on his knees.

“Why didn’t you look for us?”

It was the most fundamental question.

Kaiden’s eyes widened like someone caught off guard.

After pondering how to answer, he immediately opened his mouth under the children’s gazes.

“…It’s not that I didn’t look for you.”

“What?”

He had just thrown out the question hoping to hear some excuse.

Edwin’s eyes widened at the unexpected answer.

“You looked for us?”

“…Yes.”

“Since when?”

Since when.

Kaiden answered while fidgeting with his fingertips.

“…When I heard that my sister, that is, Idis the Previous Empress who was Your Highnesses’ mother, had passed away, I was living as a mercenary.”

It was during his mercenary days when he had escaped the barbarian village and was wandering all over the continent, so his circumstances weren’t very favorable.

Going to find the young nephews left alone and lonely after losing their mother was unimaginable.

“With my status at that time, I couldn’t even visit the Imperial Capital to meet Your Highnesses.”

Even after becoming a mercenary, pursuit teams sent by the Kingdom of Lionel occasionally chased after him.

To shake them off and continue his mercenary life, he had no choice but to save even the time for sleep.

“…Then I heard rumors that the Empire’s imperial family was neglecting Your Highnesses.”

The story he happened to hear at a tavern he stopped by after finishing a commission was truly shocking.

‘I heard there are only two princes in the Empire? Ah, that youngest prince is hopeless anyway. His dead birth mother was from that rotten Kingdom of Lionel, and since he can’t get proper support from his maternal family either, fat chance they’ll treat him well.’

To think that the Empire’s 3rd Prince, the child his sister had given birth to with difficulty, his only blood relative, was being called Prince with Fur.

“So I committed an uncharacteristically reckless act.”

A mere mercenary couldn’t enter the Imperial Capital.

Then he had no choice but to target when the royal family came outside.

“So I hired mercenaries I was acquainted with at the time and ambushed the imperial procession.”

“You attacked the imperial procession?”

“Yes, probably to the carriage Your Highnesses were in…”

Kaiden lightly tapped around his eyes.

“A man with scars around his eyes would have gone.”

Edwin opened his mouth as soon as he heard those words.

Because there was a memory that flashed through his mind at that moment.

“Could it be, that one with the X-shaped scar on his eye…”

“Yes, that’s right.”

That barbarian mercenary was one Kaiden had hired at quite an expensive price. He had given orders to bring the prince and princess safely without harming a single hair, but the mercenary had his throat cut before he could even carry out that command.

“Unfortunately, the plan failed because of Count Crowner, who had accompanied as the escort captain at the time.”

It was a reckless operation carried out just to extract Edwin and Emilia.

Most of the mercenaries Kaiden had hired were defeated, and he too barely managed to escape from the imperial knights’ pursuit.

“Even now I think it was a reckless act. I should have moved more thoroughly.”

It was something the current Kaiden would never have done.

Nevertheless, the reason he had committed such an act was because he couldn’t control his momentary anger at the fact that his nephews, whose faces he didn’t know but who surely resembled his sister, were being treated that way.

“…But I won’t ask you to understand. As Prince Edwin said, I didn’t look for Your Highnesses after that.”

His mercenary life had toughened him, he met comrades who helped him lay the foundation for the current Adamant Kingdom, he conquered the Kingdom of Lionel and succeeded in his revenge.

“To be honest, I thought there was no longer any reason to care.”

Kaiden’s life purpose was solely to revive and find again Kayla, the benefactor who had saved his life.

As a result, he felt indifferent about what happened to other things.

“…To me, family has been nothing but a troublesome existence until now.”

His biological father who gave him the blood of Lionel’s royal family, his biological mother who gave him barbarian blood, and his half-siblings who detested him terribly were all nothing but obstacles in life.

Even Idis, the only one who had taught him what affection was, ultimately abandoned him and left first.

Even the nephews she left behind felt like nothing more than baggage that would someday make him troublesome.

“Mmm.”

Emilia, who had been listening to the story intently, blinked with a gloomy expression.

“Is Ria troublesome?”

“Of course not.”

Kaiden immediately refuted Emilia’s words.

“I was wrong in my thinking.”

It didn’t take long for him to realize his thoughts were wrong.

“…I only realized it when I met Your Highnesses in person.”

Until now, he had thought there needed to be a reason to love someone.

But the moment he saw the two children who looked exactly like the one he had once loved most, everything changed.

“I mean that I absolutely cannot and must not pretend not to know Your Highnesses.”

It couldn’t be explained simply by saying it was because they shared the same blood.

Strictly speaking, he only shared half his blood with Idis, so Kaiden and the two children might be no closer than distant cousins by blood.

“…I will work harder to make up for all the time I couldn’t be there to watch over you.”

Somehow he felt anxious.

Kaiden looked at the two children sitting in front of him and clenched his fingertips.

“So please, with me, me…”

At this point, it was almost ridiculous.

He hadn’t acted this foolishly even in front of the Emperor.

It was at that very moment when Kaiden was hesitating, choosing his words again and again.

“Uncle!”

The smaller child was the first to embrace Kaiden.

Following her, the slightly older child awkwardly approached and nestled into his arms.

Kaiden froze in place with his arms spread wide and blinked his eyes.

“Hehe, now Ria has an uncle too! I’m going to brag to Catherine!”

Emilia looked at Kaiden’s flustered face and giggled as she hugged him even tighter.

“…I knew it too. If you really had no interest in us and truly hated us, you wouldn’t have treated us so well.”

Edwin murmured in a small voice while lightly embracing one of Kaiden’s shoulders.

“Congratulations on your marriage to Rachel.”

The young prince whispered in a voice that trailed off as if embarrassed.

“Uncle Kaiden.”

It felt like his hair was standing on end.

But strangely, that feeling wasn’t entirely unpleasant.

Kaiden wiggled his fingers before finally embracing the children who had come into his arms.

“…Sorry for being late.”

The bright pink room filled with sunlight.

One adult and two children had finally become each other’s family.

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“Time really does fly by so quickly.”

Catherine looked at the lush greenery outside the window and turned her head.

“To think it’s already the day of Prince Edwin’s crown prince investiture ceremony. Don’t you think so, Caretaker?”

I looked up from arranging Edwin’s clothes at Catherine’s words.

“Indeed it is.”

Two years had passed since the day of the rebellion.

Today was the day when the 3rd Prince, Edwin Anaxinianus Bentrum, would undergo his coming-of-age ceremony and simultaneously be invested as Crown Prince.

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