The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 37

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Chapter 37. Plague Village, Ruxen Village (2)

“Yes, for now that’s the case.”

“For now?”

“That man is quite stubborn. He might turn us away at the door.”

“What? Then what do we do? What should we do?”

What do we do about what.

Edwin, this kid just has to win over that old man’s heart.

“Will he, will he like me?”

“Don’t worry. I plan to take him with us whether he likes it or not anyway.”

I left the visibly nervous Edwin behind and examined the front door.

The small door that would require a grown man to bow his head to enter had a large yellow X mark drawn on it.

“Looking at the marking, it seems he hasn’t died yet.”

“Marking?”

“Your Highness must have seen many houses with X marks on their doors while coming here.”

“Yeah, I saw them.”

“Yellow X marks mean that the person living in that house died from the epidemic.”

“What? Then, then that means the person living here has passed away too!”

“No. This one is the opposite.”

“The opposite?”

Instead of answering, I quietly nodded my head.

“If they haven’t died yet, a yellow X mark, if they’re dead, a red X mark. It’s a kind of deception.”

Even the guards who occasionally came inside the village to patrol avoided houses with yellow X marks.

Saying it was ominous or something.

“A code? That’s cool!”

Edwin’s eyes lit up at the mention of a code.

Unlike before, the kid was showing behavior quite befitting his age.

‘When did he say he was scared to enter the village. Are children originally this fickle?’

I shook my head and turned my gaze.

It was the moment I raised my arm to knock on the door.

I hesitated for a moment.

‘Beyond this door, there’s the past. Kayla Angel’s past.’

While I would have to face Ian someday for revenge, I had no desire to reunite with the rest of those humans.

Especially not with humans who could become my weakness.

‘Why?’

Because I had an ominous premonition.

A premonition that once I started digging up past connections, I wouldn’t be able to stop.

A premonition that past connections severed by death would devour even this life.

“Rachel, what’s wrong?”

“…It’s nothing.”

But what good would regret do now.

I had promised to save the prince’s teacher, and I had even brought Edwin himself here.

So I couldn’t return empty-handed.

* * *

Bang, bang, bang—

“Hey, hey.”

Bang, bang, bang, bang—

“Hey, Rachel. Stop it. Maybe he went out? Seeing how there’s no answer even after all this knocking.”

“No, he’s definitely here.”

When I answered with a confident tone, Edwin scratched his head.

“But is the person living here really that amazing? Enough to go this far?”

“Yes, at least as far as I know, he’s the smartest human on the continent.”

“What, really?”

“Yes. He’s so smart that he earned hatred and is hiding like this.”

Shouldn’t smart people be loved? Why would they be hated?

Edwin tilted his head as if he couldn’t understand.

“He’s definitely pretending not to hear even though he can. It’s his specialty.”

Bang, bang, bang, bang—!

“Rachel, still, continuously knocking on the door like that is rude…”

CRASH—!

“Never mind, just do whatever you want.”

Edwin watched me from a distance as I pounded on the door with enough force to break it.

‘By the way, what is this old man doing inside his house?’

Just as I was considering whether to just break down the door.

The door that hadn’t budged until just moments ago suddenly swung open.

“Damn plague!”

It was the homeowner’s entrance.

Edwin, startled by the sudden cursing, hid behind me.

“Which crazy bastard is banging on someone’s door! You must be dying to get killed! Who is it!”

What emerged from the small house was a white-haired old man wearing shabby robes.

His tall stature of just under 7 feet (about 210cm) and sharp eyes seemed to hint that he was no ordinary person.

He looked around angrily and finally spotted me and Edwin.

“What, it wasn’t a guy but a couple of wenches? What are two brats who aren’t even dry behind the ears doing together? Did you come to beg?”

Even though I was still wearing my hood, he immediately recognized that I was a woman.

‘Still has a foul mouth as always, that ill-tempered old man.’

Meanwhile, the old man raised his voice even more, apparently annoyed that I was staring at him without answering.

“What! You knocked on someone’s door but now you have nothing to say? If you have no business, get lost! If you don’t get lost, I’ll throw sewage…”

“Sage Ril Jaebak.”

When his real name came from my mouth, the expression disappeared from the old man’s, no, Sage’s face.

“I’ve come to collect the price of your life.”

* * *

The price of life.

A moment of silence fell at those words.

“What, you. How…”

Sage’s eyes widened as if they would tear at the words ‘price of life.’

“How do you know that name, no, those words?”

“Let us in first. We’ll talk after that.”

“What? Are you kidding? Who do you think you are, some random piece of trash?”

Such a suspicious old man.

Well, with that kind of personality, he would have survived until now.

“I don’t mind, but my companion got quite tired on the way here.”

Sage was about to snort dismissively when his eyes met Edwin’s.

Faced with the kid’s innocent eyes that even made me helpless, he made a sour face.

“…Damn plague, this is why they say not to even open the door for beggars traveling with children.”

Sage clicked his tongue and finally gestured.

“Hurry up and come in! Before I change my mind!”

At his words, I stepped into his house without hesitation.

Edwin, who had been standing behind me, also glanced at Sage nervously before shuffling in after me.

Sage’s house was exactly as it appeared from the outside. The ceiling was low and the interior was cramped.

Even half of that narrow space was occupied by a large table.

The table was filled with all kinds of herbs and what looked like dried animal organs.

The smell they gave off was so strong that I couldn’t even smell the rotting stench from outside.

“Sit anywhere! Or sit on that bed over there!”

I sat the bewildered Edwin on the bed and then removed my hood.

When I turned my head toward Seiji, he was also staring at me intently.

“Now, tell me. What exactly are you two?”

“I am….”

“Why bother talking! That damn brat must have sent you, right? Judging by all this talk about life debts.”

Damn old man, still has that habit of answering his own questions.

“So what do you want as payment for the life debt? Knowing Kayla’s personality, that brat wouldn’t make a losing deal.”

Seiji picked at his earwax with an indifferent expression.

“Hurry up and tell me. If it’s something I can give, I’ll give it quickly and be done with it.”

“Sus….”

“Suspicious, you ask? Of course. But there’s no need to be. That brat is so thorough. She wouldn’t tell complete strangers where I am.”

I thought he disliked me from the moment we first met.

At this point, wasn’t he actually fond of me while pretending to dislike me?

“Then I’ll get straight to the point.”

“Yes, hurry up and finish….”

The old sage nodded as if annoyed.

And this time, I cut off his words.

“Please become my teacher.”

“Yes, teacher. What, teacher?”

Seiji frowned as if he had misheard.

“What kind of novel nonsense is that?”

“It’s not nonsense. Please become my teacher.”

“A teacher out of nowhere.”

He sighed as if dumbfounded.

“Ha, didn’t that brat tell you that I could die the moment I leave this place?”

“I know. You’ve earned the hatred of the Imperial Merchant Guilds.”

Of course I know. Those guild masters put in assassination requests to our organization.

They asked us to eliminate Seiji without a trace.

Both Seiji’s life and the achievements he left behind.

“It’s not just those bastards. The Holy Kingdom considers me someone who killed a god or something. And knowing that, you make such a proposal?”

“Don’t worry about that. You’ll leave this place and go to the safest place in the Empire.”

“The safest place? There’s no such place! That doesn’t make sense….”

“The Imperial Capital.”

As soon as I finished speaking, silence fell over the room.

“…The Imperial Capital? The Imperial Capital?”

Seiji kept repeating the words “Imperial Capital” and then glared at me.

“You ask me to become a teacher and mention the Imperial Capital? I suppose the one I’m supposed to teach is a prince?”

“You’re quite perceptive as expected.”

“Cut the useless chatter. Do you think I’d go to the Imperial Capital for such a trivial reason? Safe my ass. Why would I go to that battlefield?”

“You will go.”

When I replied without changing my expression, Seiji’s eyes narrowed.

As if thoroughly searching for something.

“You strangely resemble Kayla. Those arrogant green eyes and that irritating way of speaking are just like that brat.”

I told you he was perceptive.

When I smiled instead of answering, Seiji clicked his tongue again.

“Tsk, how did I end up making a deal with such a cunning brat.”

Seiji muttered something under his breath, then got up and approached Edwin.

The boy seemed startled as the large old man suddenly came toward him.

Seiji didn’t care that Edwin was looking at him with a frightened expression.

“Well, I was getting tired of life here anyway. Being a teacher in the Imperial Capital wouldn’t be too bad. By now, there probably isn’t anyone who would recognize me.”

He muttered to himself while examining Edwin for a long time.

“Sending a child to a plague village… I don’t know whether to call it thoughtful or thoughtless.”

He clicked his tongue looking at the black lime chunks attached to Edwin’s arm.

“What’s this ridiculous disguise? Did Kayla tell you to do this? Her handiwork hasn’t improved from the old days. Well, the gatekeepers do have exceptional eyes. Absolutely terrible.”

After sneering for a while, Seiji turned his head toward me.

“But is this kid really a prince? He looks too simple-minded for a prince.”

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