The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 67

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Chapter 67. How to Become a Hunter (2)

“Caretaker, why are you suddenly acting like this?”

As I suddenly shot up from my seat, the water in the grand bath overflowed.

Catherine looked bewildered while holding Emilia in her arms.

“Catherine.”

I got out of the water and put on fresh nightclothes.

Then I twisted two towels together and held them in my hands.

“I’ll go out first.”

“Huh? But Her Highness the Princess will be done with her bath soon, so why don’t you leave together?”

“I need to use the bathroom urgently, so I have to go first.”

I made a quick excuse and rushed out of the grand bath.

As I came out of the annex where the grand bath was located, the killing intent grew even thicker.

‘Two of them?’

The presences I could immediately sense were two.

They seemed like well-trained assassins.

‘This might actually work out well.’

At first I was annoyed that my leisurely bath time was being interrupted, but thinking about it again, this might actually be good.

‘Should I test it out?’

In a way, this was an opportunity.

What would be the result when I applied the training I had accumulated in Rachel Brown’s body, not Kayla Angel’s?

Thud.

I launched my body toward the presence of the night visitors who had come to the 3rd Prince’s Palace without permission.

To finish the situation before the Housekeeper and the royal siblings noticed their existence.

* * *

“Did they say the target was the 3rd Prince?”

“Yeah. They said he was just a 12-year-old kid.”

The masked men were armed in pitch-black clothing from head to toe.

The men’s identities were the ‘Human Hunter Gilbert Brothers’.

Because the older brother ‘Gil’ and younger brother ‘Bert’ always moved as a pair, they were quite famous among assassins.

“Easy. Let’s finish quickly and go.”

“Right.”

The two men looked around their surroundings.

“By the way, for an imperial palace, the security is quite lax.”

“I know. Either one of us alone would have been enough.”

Looking around the desolate grounds of the 3rd Prince’s Palace, they climbed up the wall and quietly crossed through a window.

They snuck inside without making a single footstep.

The two exchanged glances and nodded silently at each other.

The younger brother Bert went up the stairs first to survey the area.

Crack—

At that moment, a deadly sound echoed through the silent corridor.

Soon after, Bert, who had gone up the stairs first, collapsed sideways like a doll with a broken neck.

“Wh-what…!”

The older brother Gil’s eyes shook as he watched his younger brother get taken down before his eyes.

‘A guard knight? They definitely said there wouldn’t be any?’

His confusion was brief, as Gil drew his dagger without hesitation.

‘Hmph! No matter how skilled a knight is, we have the advantage in the darkness. Now that our presence has been detected, that bastard is finished…’

But something was strange.

The presence that had definitely been felt from beyond the wall toward the corridor had vanished without a trace in an instant.

“How is this, gasp!”

It was when Gil was half out of his mind due to the unexpected situation.

A long white towel wrapped around his nose and mouth and tightened strongly.

He felt lukewarm breath right behind him.

“Sending two little rats. Your master must have money rotting away.”

It was a chilling voice like a snake crawling up his limbs.

Gil froze on the spot.

The one who had revealed himself now was not some mere knight.

‘He was the same kind as me!’

He even seemed to possess skills superior to his own.

He hadn’t even noticed until his back was exposed.

‘He was definitely beyond that wall.’

When did he get behind me?

Gil rolled his eyes while breaking out in cold sweat.

Then the stranger let out a small sneer.

“Speak. Who sent you?”

Gil struggled violently with his mouth blocked.

“You don’t want to talk, I see.”

“Grrrr—!”

Gil was enraged by the voice that somehow overflowed with leisure.

When he exerted all his strength, surprisingly the opponent clicked his tongue and fell back.

“Tsk.”

“Damn it!”

Because the corridor was pitch dark, there was no way to confirm the opponent’s face.

“How dare you touch my brother…!”

Gil frowned.

The figure slightly revealed in the darkness was smaller than expected.

“Brother?”

“You bastard, you’ll regret messing with us…!”

“Don’t tell me you’re the Human Hunter Brothers?”

Damn, he even saw through their identity.

Gil growled while hiding his flustered expression.

“Ha, to know about us, you must also be quite well-known…”

“I wonder. It doesn’t seem like ‘us’ anymore though.”

At the opponent’s words, veins bulged on Gil’s forehead.

“Die!”

He swung his dagger with tremendous force.

But the opponent dodged very leisurely.

It felt like the sword had only cut through empty air.

“Damn it! Damn it!”

He had never expected to be in such a situation.

They had definitely said it wasn’t a dangerous mission, so why was this happening?

‘Where the hell did that bastard come from? Who hired him?’

Gil’s complexion grew paler with each swing of his sword.

“Worthless trash who can’t even serve as a warm-up, how annoying.”

“Wh-what did you say?”

The opponent who had only been dodging attacks suddenly stopped in place.

“Hey, do you know what basic quality a hunter should have?”

The opponent hidden in the darkness let out a low sneer.

“Completely concealing one’s presence so the prey doesn’t notice.”

The moment those words ended, the opponent’s presence scattered into the air.

As if he had never existed from the beginning.

“Damn it….”

Gil had lived as an assassin operating in darkness for 20 years.

But never had he feared the darkness as much as this moment.

Just as he, terrified, was about to throw himself out the window with all his might.

“The moment you let me detect your presence, you bastards were finished.”

Crack—

There wasn’t even time to scream.

Gil ended up in the same state as his younger brother, crashing to the floor.

The unidentified figure silently bent down and picked up a towel.

In the moonlight, the suspicious figure’s profile was revealed.

“Tsk.”

The 3rd Prince’s caretaker, Rachel Brown.

Her emerald eyes glowed dimly.

“I had expectations since they were quite notorious.”

The Human Hunter Brothers were assassins that Rachel was well aware of.

They had once belonged to the Breath of the Angel, but quit midway and were famous for operating independently outside and having a poor relationship with the organization.

“Hmm, let’s see.”

Rachel rummaged through the pockets of the deceased Human Hunter Brothers.

Not only various types of weapons including daggers, but also five gold coins came out.

“Well, at least these idiots were worth their keep.”

It was an unexpectedly decent income.

Rachel tossed the gold coins up, caught them, and stuffed them deep into her pajama pocket.

“Now then.”

She shook her still-damp hair and tilted her head.

“How should I handle the cleanup?”

* * *

A peaceful morning like any other.

Edwin frowned upon confirming Rachel’s absence from her seat.

“Catherine, where’s Rachel?”

“Oh, the caretaker?”

Catherine answered while serving food into Emilia’s bowl.

“She went to help the gardener with the vegetable garden work since early dawn.”

“Vegetable garden work?”

“Yes. She said she was going to spread fertilizer?”

Edwin recalled the vegetable garden located behind his master’s cabin.

Fertilizer out of nowhere in a place where all sorts of medicinal and poisonous herbs grew mixed together?

Edwin frowned.

“Why would Rachel? That’s originally work that master does himself.”

“Well, the gardener is getting on in years, so it would be too much for him to do strenuous work. And since he doesn’t let other maids even come near the residence, there’s no one else to help.”

“Hmm.”

It was Rachel who had suggested restricting the maids’ access.

It was a measure taken in case Seiji’s identity as the Great Sage was discovered.

‘Still, fertilizer out of nowhere.’

Why is master taking someone else’s caretaker to make her do such work.

Edwin pouted and stabbed at chunks of meat with his fork.

“By the way, Your Highness, how was the reaction to the snacks this time?”

“Ah.”

Catherine still occasionally delivered snacks to the Gloria Knight Order.

Thanks to that, it seemed she had established herself as the saint of the knight order among the 3rd Army knights.

“Everyone loved them.”

“Oh my, really?”

“Yeah, they said Catherine is like an angel, so the food Catherine makes also tastes heavenly.”

“My goodness, they’re such flatterers! At least they all have good taste!”

Catherine giggled happily.

“Huh? Catherine is an angel?”

Emilia, who had been diligently using her spoon, tilted her head with soup on her chin.

“Catherine, aren’t you human?”

“Oh my, Your Highness the Princess. I am human. Though I suppose I could be a little confused with an angel?”

Catherine joked while wiping Emilia’s chin.

“But it’s unfortunate. I already have someone I’ve set my sights on, so I can’t accept all the other knights’ feelings.”

Edwin’s eyes widened at Catherine’s words.

“What? Someone you’ve set your sights on?”

“Your Highness, did you think I was barging into the knight order every other day carrying loads of snacks for nothing?”

“…Weren’t you coming to cheer me on?”

“Oh, of course it started purely to cheer you on, Your Highness!”

Catherine grabbed both her cheeks and blushed.

“But later it became killing two birds with one stone, you know.”

Edwin looked at her with a displeased expression.

“So you’re saying you like someone in the knight order?”

“Yes! I had an intuition at first sight. That man is mine!”

Who exactly grants such intuitions.

Edwin asked while chewing the sliced meat.

“Who is it?”

Catherine covered her mouth and smiled mischievously.

“Hehe, who it is….”

She leaned close to Edwin’s ear and whispered someone’s name.

“Whaaaat?”

Edwin recoiled in shock.

The name that came from her mouth was someone the prince knew well.

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