The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47. The Goal (2)

“Huh.”

Seiji heard the prince’s answer and gaped in bewilderment.

“Master? What’s wrong?”

Finding his master’s reaction strange, Edwin asked back with a puzzled voice.

“No, well. It’s just unexpected. I never thought such words would come from the mouth of a timid fellow like you.”

Seiji stroked his beard as if amused.

“It’s also an ambition far too grand for your current self to speak of.”

At his master’s pointed remark, Edwin immediately showed a dejected expression.

“Well, it depends on how you define ‘strength,’ I suppose.”

Seiji looked down at his young disciple with his arms crossed.

“What kind of ‘strength’ do you desire?”

Edwin answered his master’s question without hesitation.

“I want to become strong enough to defeat monsters on my own!”

“Hmph, that’s not my specialty.”

Seiji snorted with displeasure at the prince’s answer.

“You wouldn’t want to learn how to swing a staff from an old man who’s close to death either.”

He opened a random book with a bored expression and turned the pages.

“You’ll need to find a separate master for that field.”

At the mention of needing to find another master, worry immediately clouded Edwin’s face.

Where would there be anyone willing to become the master of a worthless bastard prince?

Even Seiji, who was right before his eyes, might not have been possible to welcome as a master if he hadn’t been a criminal.

‘Someone else would have already taken him as a master for my brothers.’

Edwin lowered his head with a dejected expression.

Then Seiji raised his voice as if he couldn’t stand the sight.

“Tsk, you brat!”

“Yes?”

“What’s a kid who’s still wet behind the ears worrying so much about! Don’t worry. It’s a problem that will resolve itself.”

Seiji told the prince not to worry while wearing a somehow mischievous smile.

“Isn’t that right?”

At that moment, Edwin realized his master’s smile wasn’t directed at him and turned his head.

Standing at the door was his caretaker, Rachel.

* * *

“What is it you wanted to tell me?”

In the library, there were only two of us: the old man Seiji and myself.

He said he had something urgent to discuss with me privately and told Edwin to go ahead.

Edwin seemed to obediently follow his master’s words and left the library without complaint.

“I’m a busy person. Just get to the point briefly.”

I leaned against the bookshelf and waited for Seiji’s words.

“It seems there’s still a lot left to discuss with you.”

Seiji opened his eyes wide and stared intently at my face.

“Don’t you have something to explain to me?”

“I’m not sure what you’re talking about.”

When I feigned ignorance, Seiji laughed as if amused.

“Listen, caretaker. What do you think are the odds of an ordinary caretaker defeating a monster with just one worn-out dagger?”

Instead of answering, I frowned.

‘I never said I defeated a monster with a dagger. How does he know?’

Edwin was the only one who witnessed me directly killing the monster.

Then could it be that Edwin…?

“I heard it from Edwin.”

Sure enough, my suspicion was correct.

I should have warned him more strictly never to mention anywhere that I killed the monster.

“He said you saved him. Monsters are persistent, so there would have been no escape without killing it.”

I frowned at Seiji’s words.

Anyway, since coming here, he hadn’t brought up matters about monsters or stories about ‘Kayla Angel,’ so I thought it could quietly pass by.

‘Apparently not.’

When I just glared instead of answering, Seiji continued.

“I’ve long noticed that you’re not an ordinary woman. You can tell from your speech and behavior.”

The Great Sage’s voice was filled with certainty.

“As far as I know, there are only three types of beings who can single-handedly defeat monsters. Knights, mages, and.”

Seiji’s sharp gaze turned toward me.

“Highly trained assassins.”

Seiji apparently thought I was something like a subordinate of ‘Kayla Angel.’

Well, that would be the limit of human imagination.

I never knew I would die and possess someone else’s body either.

“You’re the same type of human as Kayla. Isn’t that right?”

“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I am…”

“Or perhaps, you.”

I was about to make a half-hearted excuse when he added one last remark.

“Are you Kayla?”

* * *

A suffocating silence descended upon the library.

But contrary to the terribly suffocating atmosphere, my mind was in complete chaos.

‘From where did he catch on?’

‘How did he figure it out?’

‘Is it possible to notice so easily?’

Finding out that I was an assassin was one thing, but Kayla?

‘…Kayla, he said.’

While I was frozen stiff like a plaster statue, Seiji opened his mouth.

“Seeing as there’s no answer, it seems my absurd speculation wasn’t entirely absurd after all.”

He stared at me for a while then suddenly burst into loud laughter.

It was such a refreshing burst of laughter that I wondered if he had finally lost his mind.

“Puhahahaha—!”

“What’s suddenly…”

“Right, there’s no way you’d die so easily! What’s with that appearance? Is this undercover work this time, Kayla Angel? Well, the disguise is unusually convincing for you…”

I covered his mouth as he loudly called out my old name.

“Don’t call me by that name. I am ‘Rachel Brown.'”

“Right, right. Rachel Brown Lordling. This couldn’t be more ridiculous.”

Seiji slumped into a chair with an utterly helpless expression.

I couldn’t understand his reaction at all.

‘Wait a minute.’

There was an inexplicable sense of discord in what Seiji had said earlier.

I slowly blinked while frowning.

“…Have you ever heard that Kayla Angel died?”

I had never told him that ‘Kayla’ was dead.

I had only said that I came to collect the blood debt as Kayla’s proxy.

‘But how does he know?’

At my question, Seiji frowned instead.

“I’m the one who wants to ask. Why did you tell some knight I don’t even know about my whereabouts?”

A knight? A knight?

“When I first saw him, I thought he was some kind of monster. Reeking of blood all over his body and smashing down someone else’s front gate.”

“Just who exactly are you talking about? What was his name?”

“I don’t know his name either. He was just a knight wearing a black cloak. He suddenly showed up and asked me if I had killed Kayla Angel.”

Not ‘did she die’ but ‘did you kill her.’

It was as if he already knew the fact that I had been murdered by someone.

Seiji rubbed both his arms as if his legs went weak just thinking about that time.

“So when I asked back if Kayla had really died, he stood there for a while, then said ‘It’s not you’ and disappeared.”

“What did he look like? Wasn’t there some distinguishing feature?”

“He was wearing his hood pulled down deep so I couldn’t see well, but his eyes were truly menacing. Just like a beast.”

“Not those vague impressions, tell me some more concrete features.”

“Hmm, he was carrying a large greatsword. It was a black sword as big as his own body.”

A giant knight with a black greatsword and beast-like eyes?

Who could that be? Had I ever met such a person in the past?

‘The only knight whose name I remember is Duke Jerome Crowner.’

That busy man wouldn’t have bothered to travel to Luksen to find me.

‘Besides, he wouldn’t even know that I died, so I should rule him out.’

As I was quietly mulling over my memories, Seiji continued speaking.

“So because of that bastard, I was convinced you were dead.”

“…You believed what some stranger said? You?”

“Well, that guy had eyes like he was going to tear someone apart.”

Seiji rolled his eyes and added briefly.

“Like someone chasing an enemy.”

Was he someone who thought of me as an enemy? There are so many of those that I can’t even guess.

In any case, I had no way of knowing who the knight with the black greatsword was.

‘Rather fortunate, actually.’

It was quite fortunate that Seiji learned of my death not because of the Assassin’s Guild.

‘…Ian is a thorough person.’

I had never told anyone about Seiji, but you never know.

If he had killed me, he would have tried to erase everything I left behind.

Starting with things he already knew, down to things he hadn’t yet discovered.

‘He would have erased everything as if I had never existed in this world.’

Because that’s Ian Angel’s method of ‘murder.’

“What’s wrong, Kayla?”

“…It’s Rachel.”

“Ugh, that name just doesn’t stick in my mouth.”

“What are you saying when you’ve been calling me that just fine until now.”

My head was complicated, but I tried to maintain my composure.

“So, is that all you had to say?”

“No, this time I have something to say as the prince’s teacher.”

Seiji crossed his arms and asked back.

“What do you plan to do with Edwin from now on?”

What do I plan to do with him.

I quietly met Seiji’s eyes.

“That child said he wants to become strong. Did you know that too?”

Of course I knew.

I had even promised to make him strong with my own hands, so how could I not know.

“Yes, I know.”

“Huh.”

Seiji raised one eyebrow as if he was dumbfounded.

“Do you know what that means?”

“What are you trying to say.”

“Listen here, Kayl— I mean, Rachel.”

The Great Sage put both hands on his waist and spoke in a serious voice.

“A prince building his power is tantamount to declaring participation in the succession war. Surely you’re not going to say you don’t know that fact?”

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