The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 332

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Side Story 4. The Queen of the New Nation, Her Special Skill Is… (5)

“Your Majesty the King!”

Marquis Raldo rushed over with a face so shocked he looked ready to faint and collapsed prostrate in front of the staircase.

He wiped the cold sweat flowing down his forehead with a handkerchief while forcing a smile.

“How did you come all the way down to such a humble countryside?”

Kaiden, the King of Adamant, was dressed in shabby clothes as if he had come out on a secret journey.

He was surveying the surroundings with his arm resting on the hilt of the sword at his waist.

“Your, Your Majesty?”

“The air is good, and the water is good in this region.”

Kaiden looked around for a while before making eye contact with Marquis Raldo.

“Marquis Raldo, it seems you think Adamant’s territory is humble?”

“No, no! How could that be! I didn’t mean it that way…”

“I know. It’s a joke.”

This damn young bastard.

Marquis Raldo cursed inwardly as he watched Kaiden toy with him.

But he pretended nothing was wrong and smiled warmly as he guided him into the castle.

“But how did you come all this way without any notice? If you had told me in advance, I would have come out to greet you.”

“What. How troublesome.”

“What could be troublesome about serving Your Majesty the King?”

The marquis sent hand signals to the attendants following behind him.

At his gestures telling them to hurry and prepare decent food and alcohol, the attendants moved frantically.

“However.”

Marquis Raldo raised one eyebrow as he realized there wasn’t a single knight following the king.

“Did you come alone?”

“That’s right, it was an unplanned trip.”

What a comfortable life.

A king of a newly established nation, who should be busy laying the foundation of the country, leisurely traveling to the countryside.

Marquis Raldo entered the reception room while hiding his displeasure.

“Please sit. Since you came so suddenly, there are only modest things available…”

On the reception room table, wine and cheese, dried meat and various fruits were beautifully arranged, prepared who knows when.

“You said you came to travel. This place is certainly suitable for a vacation. As Your Majesty said, it’s a region with good air and good water.”

Marquis Raldo smiled as he poured wine into a silver cup with rough hands.

“They say alcohol should originally be brewed in regions with good water for the best taste. Please try some, Your Majesty. It’s not a specialty, but when people mention wine from this region, it’s well-known in the surrounding areas.”

“Marquis Raldo.”

When the cup was nearly full, Kaiden spoke.

“You must have heard too?”

“Yes? Heard what…”

“The fact that illegal slave trading has been increasing in Adamant recently.”

For a moment, the marquis’s complexion seemed to change slightly.

But he carefully set down the wine bottle and replied calmly.

“Yes, I heard. Didn’t Your Majesty personally issue orders to each fief?”

To strengthen crackdowns on illegal slave trading sites, and to arrest and interrogate any forces that cooperate with them.

Although Marquis Raldo had snorted and ignored the document containing the king’s orders.

“Right.”

Kaiden picked up the cup containing alcohol and gently swirled it in a circle.

“Has there been any trouble in the marquis’s fief?”

What’s with that question?

Marquis Raldo slightly frowned beneath his hair-covered brow.

‘Does he know something? No, that can’t be.’

If he knew about his dealings with slave traders, he wouldn’t have come alone, and given the king’s personality, he wouldn’t be sitting so quietly in front of him.

‘Is he just testing the waters? Why?’

Even if he wasn’t certain, had he found some clue?

Marquis Raldo finished his brief contemplation and spoke again.

“The only news worth mentioning is that a neighbor’s cow gave birth to two calves at once, and a young lady who married into another village finally had a baby – it’s such a small fief.”

He smiled good-naturedly.

“The kind of violent incidents Your Majesty mentioned have no possibility of occurring here, hehe.”

“Really?”

Kaiden brought the cup to his lips but set it down without drinking.

“What I saw on my way here seems a bit different.”

“Pardon?”

“For a small village, there were too many people. And the fief’s residents don’t even come near this castle.”

The young king crossed his arms and leaned back against the sofa.

“As if something terrible lives in the lord’s castle.”

“Good heavens, Your Majesty.”

Marquis Raldo opened his mouth wide as if shocked and poured out words.

“What are you saying! The reason the fief’s residents don’t approach this castle is simply because it’s quite far from the village! And the entire castle is surrounded by part of a mountain ravine, so many wild beasts come down, making it dangerous.”

It was a smooth excuse as if he had prepared it.

Kaiden quietly looked at Marquis Raldo and smiled slyly.

“I should have skipped the preamble after all. It’s a waste of time.”

“And, pardon?”

“Marquis Raldo.”

The young king slowly rose from his seat as if stretching.

His massive body, as if it had been crammed into the sofa, found its place and looked imposing.

Marquis Raldo watched Kaiden approaching him with tense eyes.

“Where did you hide them?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about…”

“If you keep pretending not to know, you’ll face even greater trouble.”

Kaiden raised one corner of his mouth as if amused.

“Fog Sunset.”

The moment that name came from the king’s mouth, Marquis Raldo nearly lost strength in his legs.

‘How on earth?’

His fief was far from the capital and quite closed off.

He thought that as long as he turned a blind eye, no one would notice Fog Sunset’s existence.

‘How does the king know about Fog Sunset?’

That crazy bastard didn’t go to other fiefs and cause trouble, did he?

‘No wonder the tribute money decreased – was his tail caught this way?’

All sorts of questions and hypotheses chained together in the marquis’s mind.

“I heard that criminal is hiding here.”

Marquis Raldo could no longer answer carelessly.

He just looked at Kaiden silently.

“I hear he’s been a vicious criminal who’s been doing such things for a very long time.”

Beast-like yellow eyes heavily settled on Marquis Raldo’s face.

“Is the marquis protecting such a criminal?”

“I’m not protecting him…”

“Hmm? You’re not denying Fog Sunset’s existence, I see?”

Damn it, damn it!

Marquis Raldo couldn’t bring himself to speak.

Denying Fog Sunset’s existence now would only raise more suspicion.

‘I should have immediately asked what that was when he mentioned the name.’

I should have reacted innocently as if I didn’t even know if Fog Sunset was a person.

Marquis Raldo bit his lower lip in dismay and clenched both fists tightly.

‘But there are still excuses left to make.’

Right now, he had to prove that he was someone completely unrelated to Fog Sunset.

He needed to appear as a powerless and incompetent lord who had no choice but to keep his mouth shut, unable to resist the threats of a vicious criminal.

“I’m, I’m sorry! Your Majesty The Emperor!”

Marquis Raldo knelt on the floor and prostrated himself, shedding tears like chicken droppings.

“I was just, that man threatened to kill me if I didn’t turn a blind eye to his business, so I had no choice! Absolutely, absolutely not to go against Your Majesty’s will or harm Adamant…”

“Then you’re saying you didn’t hide him in this castle?”

“How could that be! There’s absolutely no such thing! How could I keep such a vile criminal in my castle!”

Kaiden frowned at one corner of his eye as if gauging something, then spat out a word.

“Well. I’ll naturally find out about that in an hour or two.”

Kaiden gave a cold smile to Marquis Raldo, who was shedding fake tears while looking up at him.

“I’m curious whether you’ll still be able to cry and claim innocence before me even after two hours.”

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The old backdoor of Marquis Raldo’s castle.

At that place leading to the mountain path, large men were silently moving huge oak barrels onto a wagon.

Thud.

That is, until The Unknown Figure with Green Eyes landed on top of the oak barrels they were moving.

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