The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 330
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Side Story 4. The Queen of the New Nation, Her Special Skill Is… (3)
“P-please spare me! Please have mercy!”
The thin young man knelt on the ground and begged desperately.
“The money, I’ll definitely pay back the money! Please, I beg you!”
“Sorry about that, buddy.”
The man with a large scar on the side of his neck trudged across the narrow alley.
“You see, in all my life, I’ve never seen anyone who says that actually pay back their money on time.”
A menacing face that matched his bear-like build.
But that crude face showed no expression whatsoever.
“Th-that…”
The young man pleading on the ground stammered.
He probably couldn’t find the right words to respond to what the man approaching him had said.
“If you don’t have money, you can pay with something else.”
The man continued in a flat, heavy voice.
“I can turn anything into money, you see.”
Dead eyes like rotten fish, completely devoid of life, scanned the young man’s entire body.
“For example, that body of yours.”
“…What?”
“Surprising? Actually, that body is the most valuable thing you own.”
The man folded his thick, wooden-stick-like fingers one by one.
“Selling you as a test subject to mages pays pretty well, or I could just sell your organs to nobles with twisted appetites. Sex slaves are in decent demand too, but you’re lacking in the looks department for that.”
After waving his hand dismissively over his face, he stared directly at the young man.
“So what’s it going to be? Will you take my offer?”
Sell his body.
It was basically telling him to die.
The young man clenched his trembling hands tightly.
“D-don’t be ridiculous! Aaaahhh!”
And squeezing out his last bit of courage, he ran away.
But the young man had no idea that the decision he’d just made would be his final decision in life.
“Honestly, all debtors are idiots.”
That’s probably why they resort to loan sharks.
The man sighed briefly and looked at the fleeing young man with disdain.
“Running away? He should have at least shown some guts and fought back.”
Running away in front of a hunter was basically asking to be caught.
At least he should have incapacitated his opponent before running for the escape to have any meaning.
Throb, throb.
The man slowly raised his hand and stroked the scar on his neck.
“…Still, that bitch had the most spirit.”
Stubborn too, for a slave.
Those types were the most satisfying to break in.
The man’s lips curled up, revealing crooked yellow teeth.
“Come to think of it, Somnia, that bitch became a noble, didn’t she?”
The little brat who stabbed him and ran away had become a noble of the Empire.
“You really do have to live long to see everything.”
The man stood in the alley where no light entered and waited quietly.
Soon, the young man who had run away earlier was dragged back in front of him, crying.
“Young Lord, what should we do?”
“If he tries to run again, cut his tendons. This guy’s commodity value won’t drop even if he can’t move.”
The ones casually spouting these chilling words were the man’s subordinates.
“P-please spare me, spare me, I was wrong, I’ll do whatever you say, please just don’t kill me, please don’t kill…”
“Buddy.”
The man bent his knees and kindly matched the young man’s eye level.
His face had swollen up from the beating he’d received while being dragged back.
“That kind of request.”
The man looked into the sobbing young man’s face and smiled broadly.
“You should make before running away on your own.”
The expression disappeared from his menacing face again.
The subordinates then lifted the young man up on their own and dragged him back toward the back alleys.
“Ahhh! Let go of me! Please save me! Someone help me! Aaaahhh!”
The young man’s resentful screams leaked from the alley to the streets, but no one looked back.
“Ah.”
The man looked at the bright street with a bored expression.
He could see ordinary people walking diligently down the road, deliberately not even thinking of looking in this direction.
“How boring.”
He had been suffering from scale disease, just waiting for the day he would die.
He had plenty of money, but the clerics absolutely refused to treat slave traders.
“Hmm.”
But miraculously, a cure for scale disease was developed, and that medicine was distributed to patients without any conditions. The man was one of those beneficiaries.
“What disgustingly nice weather.”
A narrow strip of sky was visible between the tall buildings.
A blindingly blue sky.
“Well now…”
The man frowned and smirked.
“Perfect weather for beating people up.”
Fog Sunset.
The terrifying slave trading group that brought blood mist-like sunsets to the dim back alleys.
“Young Lord.”
The man, owner of that notorious trading group, slowly turned at the voice calling him.
“Right, let’s head back.”
The man called by his trading group’s name instead of his real name, Fog Sunset, stretched and disappeared back into the darkness of the back alleys.
“Get today’s merchandise ready.”
Into the darkness of the nameless back alleys of Adamant.
Tap.
So he failed to hear it.
The sound of someone on the sunlit street peering into the darkness and running away.
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[My dear, you never used to lie before, but now it breaks my heart.]
A voice chattered from within the shadows.
When I gave no response, the voice quickly grew louder.
[Dear, are you listening?]
I could feel it without looking.
Saylus, the way he was glaring at me.
“What’s that bastard babbling about now?”
What a commotion from both sides.
Maybe it would have been better to be alone.
I let out an awkward chuckle and turned my head.
“Are you going to torment me too, Kaiden?”
“I’m not tormenting you, I’m trying to help.”
Kaiden’s golden eyes sparkled for a moment.
“Since there’s no telling what kind of nonsense that bastard might pull.”
[What nonsense. Acting like that when you stole another man’s woman.]
“Who’s your woman?”
“Did that bastard call you his woman? That son of a…”
The feeling of getting three words back for every one I said.
The moment of shuddering at this mental chaos I was experiencing after so long was brief.
“Welcome!”
A village located about two days’ distance from the capital of Adamant.
We had entered a butcher shop on the outskirts of that village.
“Is there a particular cut you’re looking for?”
A friendly-looking bearded man who seemed to be the owner welcomed us.
Among the fresh whole meats hanging from the ceiling, I could see a stately woman who appeared to be his wife walking around.
“Good day.”
Now accustomed to my male disguise, I naturally responded to the bearded man’s words.
“But we’re not here to buy, we came to sell.”
“Oh, I appreciate it, but we have our own suppliers so that would be a bit difficult…”
“We’re here to sell goose meat.”
The bearded man’s expression cracked for a moment.
He glanced at Kaiden and me with eyes that seemed to be gauging something.
‘I might pass, but Kaiden would look dangerous.’
He was large in build and currently wearing a dark-colored hood pulled low.
How many stares we had received on our way here.
I had said I would go alone, but he insisted he couldn’t let me go by myself no matter what, which led to this situation.
“…Goose meat?”
Meanwhile, the bearded man still seemed suspicious of us and tried to deflect.
“I’m sorry, but we don’t handle poultry…”
“Oh my.”
I smiled brightly and added,
“It’s good goose meat that can’t be bought even with gold, and you won’t buy it?”
A flash of realization crossed the bearded man’s face.
He moved past us with speed that didn’t match his build, locked the shop door, then turned around.
“Are you the ones sent by Lady Somnia?”
“Yes. She said she had spoken to you beforehand…”
“I apologize. This neighborhood has been quite unsettled lately. There’s no one to trust.”
The bearded man, who had been rambling apologies for not recognizing us immediately, opened his mouth with a dark expression.
“I saw him, Fog Sunset, that bastard. I also found out where his base is.”
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