The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 335

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Side Story 4. The Queen of the New Nation, Her Special Skill Is… (8)

“Boring, so boring.”

Saylus let out a disappointed sigh.

He watched the slave trader gang being escorted away by the knights.

“I thought something interesting might finally happen.”

Saylus, who had been muttering to himself, turned his gaze away.

His friend and contractor, along with her companion, stood facing each other a little distance away.

“…Anyway, they really know how to make a person feel lonely.”

What would it feel like to be everything to each other?

Somehow he wanted to interfere and cause trouble, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

In the end, Saylus chose to quietly hide himself in the shadows instead of interfering.

“Rachel.”

Kaiden quietly looked at Rachel, who seemed somewhat dispirited.

“Thanks to you, things went more smoothly, so why do you look like that?”

No answer came immediately.

Kaiden fidgeted with Rachel’s hand that he was holding.

The person who always had warm hands and feet when she was Kayla in the past was always cold after becoming Rachel. Especially now, even more so.

“…Is it because I interfered in the middle?”

The habit of trying to shoulder everything by herself still remained in her.

Kaiden continued to fidget with Rachel’s small hand.

“It’s just that the knights arrived earlier than expected, and I didn’t think I needed to keep watching Marquis Raldo, and I was worried about you too…”

He rattled off excuses he would never normally make.

Neither before becoming king nor after had he ever acted this way to please someone.

“Besides, Rachel, you didn’t want to do this kind of thing anyway, so I thought it was right for me to step in when I could…”

“I thought other people’s gazes and opinions didn’t matter.”

Rachel finally spoke.

She was looking elsewhere while holding Kaiden’s hand in return.

“I’ve lived my whole life that way, and I thought I would continue to live that way.”

Her speech had become informal before she knew it.

Rachel’s brow was slightly furrowed.

Her gaze was fixed on the back of Fog Sunset’s head as he was being dragged away by the knights.

“I thought I had escaped from the past, that I just needed to live as myself, that I had realized this through those children.”

She thought of the children who would be doing well.

Her children who would now be smiling with brighter and more carefree faces than anyone else.

“But I keep losing confidence in myself.”

“Rachel.”

“I’m still a stranger in this place.”

She thought she had cut off long ago everything that couldn’t be overcome even with effort.

Every time she saw the nobles’ piercing gazes toward her and the maids who somehow kept their distance, she felt strange.

“…Why did you make such a law?”

That ridiculous law saying that anyone who wanted to become a citizen of Adamant would be accepted regardless of age or gender, origin or even criminal history.

“Did you think that if you gave villains a chance, they would repent and live as new people?”

“Rachel.”

“Accepting them without any conditions. Where does such a thing exist? You should have said you would only accept those who met at least some qualifications.”

Rachel’s words became faster.

“Isn’t it because of such complacent thinking that scum like that run around freely? Not knowing their place.”

“Rachel, stop it.”

Kaiden uncharacteristically cut off her words.

The two faced each other in silence.

“Why are you angry?”

Kaiden was the first to speak.

“I’m not angry.”

“You were angry.”

“I never was…”

“You’re angry at yourself right now. Aren’t you?”

This man always sees through people in strange ways.

Rachel slightly bit her lower lip at Kaiden’s words.

“You’re different from that bastard.”

Kaiden glanced at the Fog Sunset gang.

“Those bastards are irredeemable trash. And cunning rats.”

Just because you plug holes in the wall, just because you only accept qualified people, doesn’t mean such trash won’t come flooding in.

Rivers carry not only fish but also foul-smelling garbage along with them.

“You asked why I made such a law.”

Kaiden continued speaking by himself.

“Because I wanted to create a country where people like you could live comfortably.”

“Then why did you do such…!”

Why go through such unnecessary trouble.

Rachel frowned.

“Why do such a thing…”

She remembered the words the nobles had been saying.

Actually, she didn’t care what they said about her.

However, she was most afraid that her flaws would eventually be equated with Kaiden’s flaws.

That was what she feared most.

“You probably think you’re the same type as Fog Sunset.”

No matter how much I say you’re not.

Kaiden looked at Rachel with disapproving eyes and sighed.

Then he embraced her with eyes that shone more clearly than the stars in the night sky.

“Rachel, I want to see a world full of people like you.”

People who throw themselves into danger to save the life of an unknown child even in a life like a quagmire. People who struggle to somehow help powerless young prince and princess siblings live like human beings.

“Whatever you did in the past, that doesn’t matter.”

Someone who acknowledges their mistakes and tries to move toward a new life.

Someone who struggles to live a humane life somehow, someone who dares to accept loss and sacrifice for others. Someone who sheds blood and sweat to create a better tomorrow.

“I think you’re that kind of person.”

Kaiden gently stroked the cheek of Rachel, who still had a serious expression.

“You’re a good person, Rachel.”

“I am…”

“Edwin and Emilia taught you that, but you still can’t accept it?”

When the children’s names came up, Rachel’s expression finally relaxed.

Her green eyes, which had been swirling with all kinds of emotions, settled calmly as usual.

“So live as yourself. Just like you have been doing.”

Kaiden put one arm around Rachel’s shoulder.

And together they watched the scene of the knights working diligently.

“Still, if you feel uncomfortable, let’s go out for a stroll together like today.”

“…Is that really okay?”

“I’d prefer if you just looked at me and lived happily and comfortably inside the palace.”

Kaiden briefly frowned as if the sunlight was blinding.

Then he lowered his head to meet Rachel’s eyes again.

“But I think this kind of life suits you better than that kind of life.”

Someone who had abandoned her identity as an assassin but took pride in her strength more than anyone.

He didn’t want that talent and ability to rot away in the stuffy palace.

“If assassination skills are used to save and rescue people, then they’re no different from a physician’s skills, don’t you think?”

Just like you did for me, for Edwin and Emilia.

Kaiden gently kissed the cheek of Rachel, whose face showed she was no longer confused about anything.

“That’s what our Queen’s specialty is, after all.”

My lifelong lover, freer than anyone, stronger than anyone, more caring than anyone.

May you become the protagonist of a life worth living, happier and more joyful than anyone else.

“…You really are impossible to stop.”

The spring breeze scattered as Rachel smiled as if there was nothing to be done about it.

The two of them returned to the palace like that, embracing each other with one arm.

“They say there are no thieves in Adamant, and no slave traders either?”

“Maybe I should just immigrate to that country too.”

Years later, the people of the continent unanimously praised Adamant as the best country to live in.

“They say it’s a place where anyone can live well.”

The small kingdom that one man built for one woman became a kingdom for all people.

Just as the two of them had wished.

– 『The Prince’s Caretaker, Her Specialty Is Assassination』 Side Story Complete

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