The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 327
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Side Story 3. So the Two of Them (5)
The grand wedding ceremony had finally come to an end.
I received greetings from the guests in the reception room and saw them off.
“Congratulations on your marriage, Your Majesty the Queen. The Master has gone on a distant business trip, so he sent us in his place.”
Among them were dolls sent by Somnia.
Disguised as merchants, they presented vast treasures of gold and silver along with wedding gifts before departing.
“Sob sob, Caretaker, no, Your Majesty the Queen…”
And there was also the most troublesome guest.
The task of comforting an imperial noblewoman who had dressed up elaborately only to burst into tears.
“Catherine.”
“Hic, y-yes.”
I brought a handkerchief to Catherine’s tearful face.
It was amusing that the bride was comforting a guest after the ceremony, but it couldn’t be helped.
“Please stop crying.”
“Huuung…”
If I left her alone, it seemed like Catherine’s tears might flood Adamant Castle.
“Isn’t it time you started calling me by my name?”
“Huh, what?”
Catherine, who had been sobbing, suddenly stopped crying.
She opened her already large eyes wide and stared straight at me.
“B-by your name?”
“How long are you going to keep calling me Caretaker?”
“I-I’m sorry. From now on I’ll always call you Your Majesty the Queen…”
“That’s not what I mean.”
I smiled gently at Catherine.
“I mean I want you to call me by my name.”
“Uh…”
“You’re my only friend, aren’t you?”
Catherine covered her mouth.
Her pale-colored eyes filled with emotion.
“Racheeeel!”
“Yes, that’s much better than ‘Your Majesty the Queen.'”
Catherine, who had been continuously dabbing at her tears, gave her final greetings before leaving the room with her husband.
“Goodbye.”
The last guests to appear were familiar figures, all too familiar.
A tall and beautiful boy in a dark navy uniform stood holding a girl in a pale pink dress.
“Rachel!”
“Congratulations on your marriage, Rachel.”
Emilia waved her hand while being held by Edwin.
Edwin, holding his young sister with one arm, was grinning at me.
‘He’s grown again since I last saw him.’
Why do children grow so fast?
I smiled faintly as I looked at Edwin, whose eye level was now slightly higher than mine.
“Welcome, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
“That’s too much.”
Edwin furrowed his brow and deliberately made a grumbling voice.
“You tell Catherine to call you by name, but Rachel calls me so stiffly?”
“Prince Edwin.”
“Yeah.”
Only when I called him by name did he finally smile with satisfaction.
“The saying ‘clothes make the man’ isn’t just empty words.”
Edwin stepped closer and faced me with his hands on his waist.
“I almost didn’t recognize you.”
“I don’t think I raised you to have such poor observation skills.”
At my words, Edwin burst into hearty laughter.
“Haha, that’s true!”
“What about Her Highness the Crown Princess?”
It was Emilia who answered the question.
“Sister Bridget said she knew someone among the wedding guests and went to greet them!”
It seemed there was someone among the Adamant nobility who had connections with House of Crowner.
“So how do you feel?”
“Feel?”
“Yeah, you’re really married now. Aren’t you worried about anything?”
Edwin playfully lifted one corner of his mouth.
“I am a marriage senior after all, so if you need any advice, feel free to ask anytime.”
This kid who’s still wet behind the ears.
When I was still at the Imperial Capital, this was the same boy who asked if it was okay for newlyweds to hold hands.
“Don’t worry.”
I let out a small laugh at the absurdity.
“I’m not so hopeless that I don’t know how to hold hands like someone else.”
“Wh-what…”
Edwin’s face immediately turned pale pink.
“Brother’s face turned red!”
“Emilia, you don’t need to point out every little thing.”
“Why? Are you embarrassed? Ashamed?”
Emilia cutely tilted her head from side to side as she asked.
“A-ashamed! Where did you learn to say such things?”
“I saw it in a book.”
“A book? What book? I keep telling them not to put strange books in the library…”
Edwin sighed and tidied Emilia’s disheveled hair.
“Rachel, look at her. Day by day she’s throwing away her dignity as a princess and becoming more of a troublemaker.”
“Brother was a troublemaker too.”
“What? I never was. I was such a well-behaved model student! Right, Rachel?”
“Really, Rachel? Wasn’t brother a troublemaker?”
Two identical faces turned toward me.
As if urgently asking me to confirm the truth.
“…Pfft.”
“Rachel?”
I tried to hold it in, but the laughter that finally burst out was incredibly loud.
“Ahahahahaha!”
I laughed so hard that tears welled up in my eyes.
Edwin and Emilia looked at me suddenly bursting into laughter, then looked at each other and tilted their heads in confusion.
“Both of you.”
After laughing for a while and calming down, I pulled both of them into my arms.
“Were good children.”
Yes, incomparably so.
Edwin and Emilia smiled softly while being held in my embrace.
“Oh my.”
Just then, someone standing at the doorway made their presence known and entered.
“Am I interrupting?”
“Uncle Kaiden!”
Instead of the pure white ceremonial uniform he wore at the ceremony, Kaiden was dressed in blue formal attire, and somehow he looked so similar to Edwin that they could pass for father and son.
“Princess Emilia, you did wonderfully today.”
Emilia, who had jumped down from Edwin’s arms, immediately leaped into Kaiden’s embrace.
“Of course! Ria practiced so much!”
“You even practiced the procession?”
“Yes! I practiced in my head! Rachel told me before. She said that just imagining actions continuously in your mind counts as practice!”
“Is that so.”
Kaiden looked tenderly at Emilia in his arms, then turned his head.
“Prince Edwin.”
“You looked quite handsome today.”
“Thank you. You looked splendid as well, Your Highness.”
“What about Ria? Tell Ria she’s pretty too!”
An uncle and his nephew and niece.
Is this what real family feels like?
I quietly watched the three people who seemed particularly close.
‘Our Kayla is so caring.’
A beloved voice echoed softly in my ears.
Somehow I felt as if Emma’s warmth still lingered with me.
“Their Highnesses said they’ll stay for a few more days.”
Just then, Kaiden’s voice pulled me from my reverie.
“Any good ideas?”
“Good ideas?”
“Yes, something you’d like to do together, or somewhere you’d like to go together.”
Edwin and Emilia were now standing by the window, looking outside together.
Even though they must have seen it before, Adamant Castle still seemed fascinating to them.
“Well.”
I’ve experienced just about everything with those kids.
Happy things, fun things, sad things, even life-and-death situations.
“What about you? Don’t you have any good ideas?”
Kaiden flinched slightly at my question, then slowly turned his head.
Looking at the backs of the two children gazing out the window, he answered quietly.
“Well. A picnic?”
“A picnic?”
It was a more modest answer than I expected.
Kaiden met my eyes and smiled sheepishly.
“Someone just told me that families would enjoy going on picnics together.”
Kaiden’s face, bathed in sunlight from the window, somehow took on a wistful expression.
Like someone remembering someone they’d longed for.
“…That sounds nice.”
I slowly turned my head to look at Edwin and Emilia’s backs.
“Let’s go.”
“Go? Where?”
Had she heard our conversation?
Emilia whipped her head around and came running toward us with quick little steps.
“Where are we going?”
“On a picnic.”
I lifted Emilia up in my arms.
“As a family.”
What could have made her so happy?
Emilia suddenly brightened her eyes and threw both arms up in the air.
“Great! I love it!”
With Emilia radiating pure joy between us, we smiled.
“Brother, we’re going on a picnic! Where should we go?”
“A picnic? Well, where would be good? Oh, maybe where the dwarves live…”
“That might be difficult, but I’ll consider it for now.”
Kaiden, Edwin, and Emilia soon put their heads together and began choosing a picnic spot.
Rustle rustle.
Through the half-open window came the sound of leaves rustling in the wind.
It was a similar sound to that day when I first faced death, but here there was no fire or death.
“Ah, Ria wants to play in the water toooo!”
“Emilia, I told you to stop acting cute like that only when you’re whining.”
“Uncle! Brother keeps saying things to Riaaaa!”
“Both of you, please wait a moment…”
Wind, sunlight, the voices of those I love.
There was only noisy, bustling happiness.
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