The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 299

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Chapter 299. Happily ever after (1)

“I really don’t know how time passed by so quickly.”

Catherine pretended to wipe her forehead with the back of her hand.

She looked at Edwin’s investiture outfit hanging on the wall and smiled contentedly.

“It looks magnificent no matter when I see it. I’m so excited to see Prince Edwin wearing this.”

On the dark navy uniform, splendid insignia and large golden buttons were positioned. In the center of each button, a large paraiba that resembled Edwin’s eye color was embedded.

“Catherine’s hard work with the chamber maids all night was certainly worth it.”

“Right? I probably wouldn’t have worked this hard even on my own wedding dress.”

That’s right, the wedding.

I turned to look at Catherine.

A small diamond ring was sparkling on the ring finger of her left hand.

“Catherine, when did you say the wedding was?”

Catherine answered my question with an excited voice.

“We’ll do it before The Caretaker leaves for Adamant. That way The Caretaker can attend my wedding.”

“Are you holding the ceremony at House Mayer?”

“No, we decided to borrow the banquet hall at the Crowner Duchy. You can see how much the Duke cherishes Philip, the Count.”

Catherine couldn’t hide her twitching lips and shrugged her shoulders.

“They say no one except the Duke and his wife has ever held a wedding in that hall. He’s even personally calling a cleric to help with the marriage vows. I’m so grateful.”

“That’s good. I’m glad it worked out.”

“Of course, it’s all thanks to The Caretaker that I can marry safely.”

She clasped her hands together and her eyes sparkled like a young girl.

“Really, the sight of The Caretaker breaking down our door with Philip, the Count is still so vivid…”

“Let’s stop that story. Aren’t you tired of it?”

“Tired of it! This is a heroic tale I need to pass down to my children and grandchildren!”

This person’s dramatics are still the same.

I let out a small laugh watching Catherine making a fuss.

“Alright. I understand, so let’s go attend to Their Highnesses now. Today is Prince Edwin’s day, not ours.”

“Oh my, is it already this time!”

Catherine looked at the clock after my words and covered her mouth.

She ran down the corridor like lightning with the maids who were waiting outside.

“I’ll help Princess Emilia get ready and go straight to the hall! See you in a bit, Caretaker!”

I watched Catherine’s figure disappearing in the distance before turning around.

The Crown Prince investiture outfit hanging on the wall glowed softly in the sunlight from the window.

* * *

“Good morning, Rachel.”

When I entered Edwin’s room with the investiture attire, he had already finished simple preparations with the help of the maids.

“Good morning, Prince Edwin.”

Edwin’s smile in the morning sunlight was brilliantly radiant.

At fifteen years old this year, he didn’t look like just a child anymore.

He had grown tall enough to meet my eye level even without shoes, and his naturally born beauty had become more radiant as it matured.

There were already rumors that young aristocratic ladies frequenting the Imperial Capital were attending banquets just to see Edwin.

“I’ve been busy washing and polishing since dawn.”

“Today is a day for Prince Edwin.”

“If you make it for me twice, it’ll kill someone.”

Now he even knew how to make silly jokes.

I let out a small laugh listening to Edwin’s complaints.

“If you’re this tired, what will you do during the Emperor investiture ceremony later?”

“That’s what I’m saying. They say the Emperor coronation takes half a day longer. I’ll be in big trouble if I don’t build up more stamina by then.”

Edwin gestured for the maids to leave when I approached.

Then he naturally spread his arms on the dais.

“Rachel, dress me.”

“You’re being unusually childish.”

“Just because.”

The smile briefly disappeared from Edwin’s face before returning to normal.

“I’d like Rachel to dress me today.”

“…I understand.”

I slowly helped Edwin into the formal attire I brought.

I moved as carefully as possible to avoid wrinkling the clothes, when he spoke.

“You know, did Rachel ever have confidence that a day like this would come?”

Edwin looked down at me and asked.

“That the day I’d become Crown Prince would come, I mean.”

“…I’ve been confident about that since two years ago.”

“No, I mean even before that.”

Instead of answering, I stared at Edwin quietly.

‘Confidence.’

How could there have been such a thing.

Who could have imagined that Prince with Fur, who was surrounded and bullied by stable hands, would become Crown Prince.

“No.”

At my answer, Edwin looked stunned and then suddenly burst into laughter.

“Ahaha, right, that makes sense.”

“Why are you laughing.”

“Just, I thought Rachel would be like that.”

Edwin shrugged his shoulders while adjusting the collar of the formal wear I dressed him in.

“Even I wasn’t confident I’d become like this, so how much more so for Rachel. Still, to stand by my side despite that, I think Rachel is truly amazing.”

Edwin in the navy formal wear looked much more beautiful than I had imagined.

He smiled playfully at me as I stood still watching him.

“How is it? Does it suit me?”

“Yes.”

I gave a brief reply and then belatedly added a word.

“…You look magnificent.”

“Thank you, Rachel looks great today too. Emilia has good taste.”

Since it was such a day, I was also wearing formal attire instead of the old dress I usually wore. My formal wear was even an outfit Emilia had chosen for me.

‘I want Rachel to wear blue. Because it’s mine and Brother’s color.’

On the light sky-blue dress that resembled the two children’s eyes, golden embroidery was splendidly sewn.

“Wearing your hair down like that suits you well too.”

“…Thank you.”

With my long hair hanging halfway down past my shoulders, it tickled below my collarbone. The sensation of hair touching my skin was still unfamiliar.

“Well then.”

Edwin slowly stepped down from the dais one step at a time and stood facing me.

“Shall we go now?”

Edwin extended his hand to me.

“As promised, Rachel will be my escort, right?”

Originally, when a prince goes to an investiture ceremony, it’s proper to move with a knight’s escort. But this adorable fellow committed the adorable act of designating me as his escort partner.

In the end, he managed to obtain The Emperor’s permission to receive my escort to the ceremony entrance.

Being persistent and tenacious, he really resembled his uncle.

“…Yes.”

I took Edwin’s hand and opened the door.

“Let’s go, Prince Edwin.”

We walked hand in hand, matching our steps.

On the path dyed with pure white light.

* * *

Buuuuu.

Hearing the sound of horns somewhere other than a battlefield was an unfamiliar experience.

When we arrived at the banquet hall located inside the Imperial Palace, The Scribe welcomed us warmly.

“Welcome, Prince Edwin. After the ceremony ends, you’ll be called Crown Prince. Congratulations.”

“Thank you, Scribe.”

The Scribe received Edwin’s greeting and bowed deeply.

Then he forcefully threw open the banquet hall doors and shouted loudly.

“His Highness Edwin Anaxinianus Bentrum, Third Prince of the Bentrum Empire, enters!”

The massive doors of the banquet hall opened.

Countless nobles and officials stood in lines along both sides of the long corridor that led to the deepest part where The Emperor and Empress sat.

“Well, I’ll go first, Rachel.”

Edwin said spiritedly as he let go of my hand.

“You have to watch until the very end of the investiture ceremony, understood?”

He walked into the banquet hall with the knights who had approached his side. His back as he crossed the corridor alone looked so steadfast that it seemed like no trial could easily bring him down anymore.

* * *

“Rachel!”

After sending Edwin ahead first, when I went around to the back door of the banquet hall, Catherine and Emilia greeted me. The two were standing right below the dais where The Emperor and Empress sat.

“Why are you so late?”

“I was seeing Prince Edwin off to the entrance. I apologize, Princess Emilia.”

“There’s nothing to apologize for, I was just worried because Rachel didn’t come quickly.”

Emilia, wearing a gorgeous dress in a similar blue shade to mine, stood in front of Catherine and haughtily lifted her chin.

“Princess Emilia?”

“She said I have to stand like this to look dignified.”

“Who said such a thing…”

“It said so in ‘The 36 Attitudes That a Dignified Leader Must Possess.'”

She must have read another strange book.

I looked at Emilia standing straight with her chin raised and smiled lightly.

“Caretaker, it looks like it’s about to start now.”

As Catherine said, the formal ceremony was about to begin.

“The Third Prince of the Empire, Edwin Anaxinianus Bentrum, has turned fifteen this year and is therefore recognized as an adult according to imperial law. Accordingly, the Bentrum Imperial House grants the prince five hundred noma, land located in the northwest, and…”

A list of all sorts of gifts bestowed in commemoration of the prince becoming an adult followed.

Edwin stood below the dais with a serious expression, listening attentively to The Emperor’s words.

“And today, in this place.”

Emperor Cabellius III looked around the audience with a solemn face, then shouted loudly.

“I appoint Third Prince Edwin Anaxinianus Bentrum as Crown Prince of the Bentrum Empire.”

As soon as his words ended, the crown prince’s crown was brought down to Edwin along with a rolled-up investiture document.

“Let the subjects of the Empire joyfully welcome this nation’s new heir.”

Edwin, wearing the crown prince’s crown, slowly turned around.

At the appearance of the new crown prince, the banquet hall filled with thunderous applause and cheers.

“Caretaker, look at Prince Edwin. He’s so handso…”

Catherine stopped mid-clap when she looked toward me.

She moved her lips with a flustered expression, then pressed her shoulder against mine. In her discreetly extended hand was a handkerchief.

“…Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it.”

I brought the handkerchief Catherine offered to my face.

Because of that, I couldn’t clap properly, but I kept my eyes on Edwin’s figure as he smiled more confidently than anyone else until the very end.

Until the very moment Edwin left the banquet hall to tour the Imperial Capital and greet the people.

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