The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 300

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Chapter 300. Happily ever after (2)

“Blessings to Crown Prince Edwin!”

“Blessings of the god Lion!”

Everyone has dreamed as a child of being loved by all.

Edwin thought that today felt exactly like that dream had leaped into reality.

‘Is this what it feels like to have your heart overflow?’

Throughout the entire ride around The Imperial Capital in the carriage, he received nothing but warm welcomes.

He felt as though he would be buried in the flower petals and blessings thrown by people who smiled brightly at him, without any malice or mockery.

‘But.’

Even amidst the happy commotion that left him dazed, one person’s face suddenly came to mind.

‘Why did Rachel have such an expression?’

Shouldn’t this be a moment of greater joy than ever for the caretaker of a prince who had become Crown Prince?

Yet Rachel had the saddest-looking face among all the people gathered in the banquet hall.

‘She was smiling, but.’

The smile Rachel hastily put on when their eyes met was awkward beyond measure.

It was exactly like the clumsy and artificial smile she had when they first met.

Waaaaah.

A clear day without a single cloud.

A day when everyone celebrated the birth of the new Crown Prince.

Edwin stood at the center of it all, waving his hand enthusiastically.

Without noticing that the smile on his face was gradually fading.

* * *

The investiture ceremony was another new beginning.

Edwin, now Crown Prince, began attending political meetings and formally started taking lessons in imperial studies and military science. Since he also had to consistently train with the Knight Order, the boy was busy enough to need two bodies.

“Catherine, congratulations on your marriage.”

“Be happy, Catherine.”

Of course, even amidst all that, he still attended Catherine’s wedding.

“I’ll live so happily, Prince Edwin! Princess Emilia! The Caretaker!”

Catherine, arm in arm with Philip, the Count who was now officially her husband, smiled with boundless happiness.

“His Highness is getting engaged… That little Prince Edwin…”

Catherine, having finished her wedding, shed far more tears at Edwin’s engagement ceremony held shortly after than she had at her own wedding.

“Please take care of me, Bridget.”

“Likewise, Prince Edwin.”

Edwin, having realized his long-held unrequited love, exchanged engagement rings with Bridget and smiled brightly. Though the formal marriage of the two children would come a bit later, I felt certain they would be happy.

“Wow, so I’m getting a sister-in-law now? Bridget will become my sister-in-law, right?”

“You can call me big sister instead of sister-in-law, Princess Emilia.”

“Brother looks really happy.”

Emilia held Catherine’s hand and asked with wide eyes.

“When I’m Brother’s age, can I also get engaged to someone I love and be happy like that?”

“Of course.”

I gently stroked Emilia’s head and answered softly.

“…Surely, that will happen.”

Thinking that this small child who only came up to my waist would grow up like Edwin and get engaged made me feel like wind was blowing through the center of my chest.

“They say there’s no point in raising children. Not knowing their father’s heart, laughing with such a wide grin.”

Meanwhile, Jerome spotted me leaning against the wall and casually approached to stand beside me.

“Prince Edwin is really too much. Taking away someone else’s precious daughter and smiling so smugly.”

“You also took someone else’s precious Prince, so if you treat him carelessly like before, you’ll be in big trouble.”

Jerome snorted at my words as if it were absurd.

“Anyway, Prince Edwin is now my son-in-law. And Brown Lordling will soon become queen of another country, so what does it matter…”

“If anything happens to Prince Edwin because of you, Duke.”

I continued speaking while staring straight ahead with an expressionless face.

“From that day forward, you should be careful when you sleep.”

“Hmph, what a joke.”

“…”

“…It is a joke, right?”

The Crown Prince’s engagement ceremony concluded successfully.

I returned to the Prince’s Palace, leaving behind Count Crowner who kept asking if it was really a joke.

“The Emperor commanded this to be delivered to Brown Lordling.”

And what greeted me upon returning with everyone was an imperial edict announcing that the promised day had arrived.

* * *

[You’re finally free. Congratulations, darling.]

I paused mid-motion while drawing the curtains.

Saylus’s excited voice echoed in my head.

[Where will you go? Straight to Adamant? Anyway, once you cross the border, you can break that damn seal, right? Then I can see my darling’s face too? Ah, I’m so excited I couldn’t even sleep.]

“…You don’t sleep anyway.”

[Why say such hurtful things? I practice closing my eyes and falling asleep every day, you know?]

Saylus chattered away before asking in an excited voice.

[But will you really come to where my main body is?]

“Yes, I promised.”

Over the past two years, I hadn’t only performed the role of the prince’s caretaker.

Knowing I couldn’t stay in the Imperial Capital forever, I had also planned my future moves. Visiting where Saylus’s main body was located was part of that plan.

“Somnia said she found several means to break your seal. When I get my hands on the most suitable one, I’ll go then.”

Saylus didn’t respond.

After being quiet for a while, he murmured as if whispering.

[You’re the only person who’s ever said you’d set me free.]

It was a voice that wasn’t purely joyful, but not sorrowful either.

[Thank you.]

I listened to Saylus’s voice fading like an echo as I turned around.

On the bed where I had been lying just moments before, two large suitcases were placed.

Knock, knock.

As if on cue, the sound of knocking was heard.

“Please come in.”

“The Caretaker, it’s me.”

The one who opened the door and entered was Catherine.

She stood with her hands clasped together, smiling cheerfully as usual.

No, perhaps I should say she tried to smile.

“The Emperor is waiting with a carriage. He says you must depart now.”

“…What about Prince Edwin and Princess Emilia?”

“Prince Edwin is with The Emperor. And Princess Emilia…”

Catherine looked slightly troubled.

“She says she won’t come out of her room, but I’ll try to bring her out somehow…”

“No. I understand that she doesn’t want to see me leave. So I’ll just go.”

Catherine and I each took a suitcase and left the room.

We walked silently along the path leading to the front courtyard of the Prince’s Palace.

“The Caretaker.”

While walking, Catherine spoke first.

“Do you remember when we first met?”

“…You were collapsed on the floor, I believe.”

“That’s right, I was being bullied by The Main Mansion Maids when The Caretaker appeared and saved me.”

“When you put it like that, it sounds like something grand and amazing.”

“It is a grand matter. It truly is a magnificent thing.”

Catherine suddenly stopped walking.

She stood there and quietly looked at me.

“I think it’s truly fortunate that you are The Caretaker, because you are The Caretaker.”

“…Is that so.”

“I sincerely think it was truly fortunate that I was able to meet The Caretaker.”

Her pale-colored eyes sank even more dimly.

I silently looked at Catherine, then took away the luggage bag she was carrying.

“It’s not like we’ll never see each other again, so why are you making such a fuss. It’s embarrassing if the princes see this. You should act befitting of a housekeeper.”

“But….”

Catherine eventually made a sniffling sound and sobbed.

“We’ve been together every day, but now thinking that I won’t be able to see you every day makes me so sad….”

“Catherine.”

“Of course, I congratulate you on your marriage! If you invite me to the wedding, I’ll threaten Philip, the Count to go! But still….”

I told her not to cry, yet she insists on it.

I eventually put down the luggage bag for a moment and hugged Catherine.

“C-Caretaker?”

“…Please really refrain from crying. I’m afraid the tears might be contagious.”

At my words, Catherine made even more sobbing sounds and hugged me tightly with both arms.

“Caretakerrrrr.”

“It’s not an eternal farewell.”

Where there are meetings, there are also farewells.

However, unless it was the eternal farewell of death, it was the way of the world that if one wanted to meet, they could meet.

“I’ll come to visit often. Catherine, please come visit anytime too.”

“Huuung, yesss….”

“And compose your face before Prince Edwin sees you.”

Catherine reluctantly nodded at my words, then vigorously rubbed her face with a handkerchief. Then she snatched one of my luggage bags again.

“I’ll carry it for you until you get in the carriage. Don’t try to stop me.”

Such stubbornness.

I let out a small laugh and started walking again.

Neighhhh.

Before long, I could see the delegation procession from Adamant Kingdom waiting in the front courtyard. And at the very front was him, riding a large black horse.

“Prince Kaiden.”

It seems that during those two years, it wasn’t only the child who could grow.

Even Kaiden, who was already an adult, had a maturity and composure that couldn’t be found in him until just recently.

“For seeing each other after so long, that’s quite a modest reaction, Rachel.”

As soon as Kaiden saw me, he took away my luggage bag.

He took even the luggage bag that Catherine was carrying with her slender arms in one hand and handed it over to the coachman.

“If I followed my heart, I would do something to you right now….”

“Prince Kaiden.”

“I’m just saying.”

His bright yellow eyes blazed as if they would devour me from head to toe.

Kaiden trailed off his words and tried to put on a gentlemanly smile.

“So now only farewells remain?”

I had already greeted The Emperor in advance, so there was no need to visit him separately.

So the person who would receive my final farewell was already decided.

“Prince Edwin.”

I turned to look at Edwin, who had been standing silently.

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