The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 50

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Chapter 50. Knight Commander, Jerome Crowner (3)

“Your Highness, I’m coming in.”

As soon as I left the knight order, I headed to Edwin’s room.

Edwin was sitting at his desk with Emilia on his lap, wrestling with a thick book.

“What are you doing?”

“Oh, homework. My teacher told me to memorize everything about all the noble families in the Empire by tomorrow.”

Edwin sitting at his desk and earnestly muttering looked quite different from when I first met him.

Not much time had passed, but in the meantime, he had become more dignified and shed his childish demeanor.

“Do you just need to memorize the family names?”

“No, everything including the characteristics of those families and their family trees.”

What? That old man Seiji, is he planning to teach imperial studies?

What’s this kid going to do knowing about the families in the Empire?

Edwin only looked up from his book after a bit more time had passed.

“But where did you go? Catherine said you went outside.”

“I was on my way back from meeting Count Jerome Crowner.”

Edwin’s mouth dropped open at my answer.

At the same time, the quill pen he was holding rolled across the desk.

“You, you met Sir Jerome?”

“Yes.”

“You really met Sir Jerome? Where? How? What did he say? Did you talk about me by any chance?”

What’s with this kid? Don’t tell me he likes Jerome?

This was the first time I’d seen him with such sparkling eyes.

‘I’m getting a bit annoyed.’

I didn’t even want to associate with that human called Jerome Crowner.

Does he even know who I faced that human because of?

“…Do you like Sir Jerome, Your Highness?”

“Huh? Of course!”

Edwin said, raising his small fist into the air.

“He’s so cool! He’s also the strongest knight in the Empire!”

Cool? That muscle-bound macho man?

I couldn’t understand it at all.

“Is that the only reason?”

“Well, and he’s also my, no, our lifesaver!”

“Lifesaver?”

“When I was young, Sir Crowner saved us once.”

About four years ago in summer, there was an attack by barbarians while the royal family was heading to their summer villa.

Edwin’s group, positioned at the very end of the procession, was in a more vulnerable state during the attack.

“I thought I was going to die then. There was no one to protect us.”

“What about the knights?”

“All the knights had gone to protect the Emperor and my brothers.”

The battle with the barbarians only grew fiercer.

Eventually, Emma ran out of the carriage holding baby Emilia in her arms and grasping Edwin with her other hand.

But unfortunately, they came face to face with a barbarian warrior.

“He was a man with a large cross pattern on his face.”

Edwin closed his eyes before the barbarian’s axe blade while being held in his caretaker’s arms who was trying to protect him.

“But then, Sir Jerome appeared and cut him down with one stroke.”

The one who saved the 3rd Prince, whom no one cared about, was none other than the Empire’s strongest knight, Count Jerome Crowner.

“So Sir Jerome is like my hero. But I couldn’t even thank him properly before we parted…”

A hero.

I opened my eyes wide at his words.

“…Someone suffers like hell and gets called a butcher, while someone else gets called a hero. Even though they both get blood on their hands just the same.”

When I muttered sarcastically to myself, he opened his eyes wide.

“Huh? What did you say?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

I continued with an indifferent expression.

“I didn’t know Sir Jerome was Your Highness’s benefactor. If I had known, I would have shown him more courtesy.”

I was sorry to learn that fact so late.

I truly meant it.

“Did something happen with Sir Jerome?”

“Not at all.”

When I shrugged nonchalantly, Edwin anxiously fidgeted with his fingers.

“Then what did you talk about with Sir Jerome?”

“Well, we discussed something that would benefit Your Highness.”

“Something that would benefit me?”

He tilted his head with an innocent face, ignorant of worldly affairs.

Grabbing Edwin’s shoulders, I showed him a bright smile.

“Your Highness, do you remember what I promised you? The promise that I would make it so you could ‘choose’ anything.”

He quietly nodded at my words.

“I’m going to keep that promise starting now.”

Edwin just blinked in surprise at the words “starting now.”

“While we’re at it, you can also give your thanks to Sir Jerome.”

Despite my meaningful smile, the innocent 3rd Prince still had a puzzled expression.

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“You went to the Gloria Knight Order?”

A small cottage set up in a shadowy corner of the 3rd Prince’s Palace.

That place was the new gardener’s home.

“Are you in your right mind?”

Seiji, the gardener (and the 3rd Prince’s teacher), covered his mouth with both hands at my words.

“You’re not in your right mind, are you?”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

“No, it’s not a compliment!”

He let out a hollow laugh while keeping his gaze fixed on me.

“…You’re crazy, absolutely crazy. Not only did you barge into the Gloria Knight Order on your own, but you also made an unreasonable request to Count Crowner?”

“I don’t think it was particularly unreasonable. I just asked him to let Prince Edwin join the knight training briefly.”

“Hey, is Jerome Crowner an ordinary person? What if he had discovered your identity?”

“He didn’t discover it, so isn’t that fine?”

Seiji made a dumbfounded expression after hearing my words.

“…Hah, it really is Kayla. It’s really Kayla. This recklessly fearless behavior is exactly like Kayla Angel.”

“I told you that name is forbidden.”

“Is the name important right now?”

Seiji made a serious expression with his clasped hands under his chin.

“Are you confident you can handle the consequences?”

“What consequences are there to handle? I just asked to let him join briefly during physical training.”

“No, so why did you do such a thing! And of all places, at the Gloria Knight Order!”

“Because the Gloria Knight Order is the most famous?”

“So why did you go to the most famous knight order!”

Seiji slammed the table with his thin, branch-like arms.

“The news that the 3rd Prince’s caretaker visited the Gloria Knight Order must have reached the 2nd Empress’s ears. Do you know that the 2nd Empress holds a grudge because she failed to make Count Crowner her son’s sword instructor?”

“Ah, I did hear about that.”

“What, you heard about it but you’re still this calm?”

“What is there to not be calm about?”

“Don’t you know what kind of person the 2nd Empress is? She definitely won’t stay still. She might even send assassins to the 3rd Prince’s Palace!”

Seiji cried out in anguish, clutching his head.

“Then the fact that I’m here will be discovered too! I don’t want to die before I’ve accomplished anything!”

And here he was saying he had no regrets about dying just earlier.

Indeed, there’s no one in this world who truly wants to die.

All the words “I want to die” that come from human mouths are lies.

With such thoughts, I quietly opened my mouth.

“Don’t worry too much.”

“What do you mean don’t worry! You should be the one worrying more…”

“Do you think the news that I found the Gloria Knight Order only reached the 2nd Empress’s ears?”

When I smiled with a face free of any worries or concerns, Seiji frowned.

“What, don’t tell me you…”

Seiji finally seemed to realize something, wearing a dumbfounded expression.

“Did you do it on purpose? To catch the Emperor’s attention?”

For someone called the Great Sage, he’s terribly slow at reading situations.

After catching onto my scheme, Seiji shook his head in disbelief.

“Why on earth did you do such a thing? Are you really trying to make Edwin participate in the succession struggle?”

“No, it’s not particularly that.”

“If it’s not that, then why did you bother doing such a thing…”

“I have no intention of getting involved in the succession struggle, but I also have no intention of doing nothing.”

“Huh?”

“Didn’t you tell me to establish a foundation?”

“I just…”

“That’s why you also made His Highness memorize all the personal details of the Empire’s noble families, isn’t it?”

At my words, Seiji shut his mouth tight.

It seemed he had nothing to say either.

“Anyway, I too had no choice in order to establish a foundation.”

I shrugged my shoulders and continued speaking.

“I’m too lowly to directly seek an audience with His Imperial Majesty, so I had to make His Imperial Majesty come looking for me.”

The Emperor of the Bentrum Empire, Cabellius III.

‘I remember he definitely wasn’t an ordinary person.’

I recalled the materials about ‘Cabellius III’ that I had read in the Organization.

‘The Empire’s Emperor has two epithets.’

The ‘Wise Ruler’ who ascended to the throne at the young age of twenty and led a great empire.

Or, the ‘Unfilial Son’ who massacred his own siblings to seize the throne.

Thanks to this, he was quite a famous figure even in the Organization.

‘The assassins who massacred the Emperor’s blood relatives back then were all from our Organization.’

So the Emperor was also one of the people I didn’t want to get entangled with.

‘But for Edwin’s sake, the Emperor’s support is necessary.’

The fact that the 3rd Prince’s caretaker sought out the head of the Empire’s greatest knight order would somehow reach the Emperor’s ears.

Whether Count Crowner directly advises the Emperor or someone else tattles about it.

Of course, as Seiji said, the news has probably already reached the 2nd Empress and other royals as well.

‘But such facts aren’t important.’

What’s important to me is how the Emperor will receive this matter.

Will he give an opportunity to his one and only youngest son?

Or will he mercilessly cast him aside this time as well?

‘If he shows no interest because there’s no value, then I just need to show him otherwise.’

If only there’s a chance to show what Edwin possesses.

The Emperor will surely look at the 3rd Prince anew.

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