The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 86

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Chapter 86. LOVE & POISON (10)

“Your Majesty!”

“Aunt!”

After the situation had been somewhat sorted out, the first to rush into The Empress’s bedroom were 1st Prince Adrian and Bridget.

Adrian, who always wore an indifferent expression whenever I saw him, looked more bewildered than anyone.

Bridget also seemed shocked, with tears welling up in her large eyes.

“What is the meaning of this?”

At Adrian’s question, an attendant bowed his head respectfully.

“My apologies, Your Highness. It appears that Her Majesty The Empress has ingested poison.”

“What? Poison?”

Adrian’s eyes wavered.

“Are you saying that Mother nearly fell victim to poisoning?”

“That is our assumption. Once Her Majesty The Empress awakens, we will investigate the circumstances…”

Just then, someone else burst noisily into the bedroom.

It was Edwin.

“Rachel!”

Edwin saw me standing there with my arms held by knights and turned pale as a sheet.

He immediately tried to run to me but was stopped by the attendants.

“Why, why is Rachel…”

“Her Majesty The Empress nearly fell victim to poisoning. That woman was the first person to discover Her Majesty in such a state.”

“What? Po, poisoning?”

After being shocked by the word poisoning for a moment, Edwin made a face as if he couldn’t understand at all.

“But why is Rachel…”

“In the current situation, she is the most suspicious person. When Her Majesty The Empress awakens, she will interrogate her directly, so please wait for a moment, Your Highness.”

Edwin looked at a loss at the attendant’s words, then turned his head toward me.

I quietly shook my head at him, who looked like he was about to cry.

‘There’s nothing we can do in this situation.’

I was the first witness to see The Empress collapse and the benefactor who saved her life.

‘But in the eyes of those who don’t know the circumstances, I’m just the most likely suspect.’

This was even The Empress’s Palace.

I should be grateful that they weren’t beating me outright for entering The Empress’s bedroom without permission.

“…Alright.”

Edwin saw my gesture and soon obediently bowed his head, sitting in the chair the attendant offered.

Bridget was sitting beside him, but unlike in the garden, she didn’t even glance at Edwin.

‘By the way.’

I glanced sideways at The Empress’s physician who was working hard on treatment.

‘It’s fortunate that the physician isn’t that bastard Sas. Does The Empress also know that he’s on The 2nd Empress’s side?’

I thought this while looking around at the people gathered in the bedroom.

Everyone seemed to be waiting with one heart for The Empress to wake up.

How much time had passed since the physician and maids had been nursing The Empress?

“Mmm.”

Finally, a moan flowed from between The Empress’s closed lips.

Then the physician called to her in an excited voice.

“Your Majesty, are you conscious!”

The Empress frowned as soon as she regained consciousness.

It was understandable to be surprised seeing so many people’s faces as soon as she opened her eyes.

“Your Majesty collapsed after ingesting poison. Do you remember if anything happened?”

At the physician’s words, The Empress frowned and pressed her forehead.

She seemed to think for a long while, then slowly shook her head.

“I only took the medicine I usually take.”

At The Empress’s words, this time the physician’s face turned ashen.

The person who had prescribed her medicine was none other than him.

“It wasn’t me! I don’t know anything about this! Really!”

When everyone’s suspicious gazes turned toward him, the physician shook his head as if wronged.

He prostrated himself flat on the floor and sobbed.

“Your Majesty, I have served Your Majesty for over 20 years! How could I dare to do such a thing, poison, something I can’t even bear to speak of…”

“If not the physician, then who else could have tampered with Her Majesty The Empress’s medicine!”

“That’s why I’m saying it wasn’t me…”

The attendants suspecting the physician and the physician protesting his innocence.

Just as The Empress’s bedroom was about to become noisy with the commotion between them.

The Empress, Melanie, quietly raised her hand.

“Everyone be quiet.”

She continued speaking quietly while pressing her forehead.

“The physician is not the culprit.”

“How can you be so certain, Your Majesty?”

At the attendant’s question, The Empress answered in a calm voice.

“He prescribed the medicine a week ago. I’ve been taking the same medicine for three days since then. I was fine until now, so why would this happen today?”

“What if the medicine was switched?”

Then, Adrian stood up from his seat.

The prince asked back in a calm but sharp voice.

“Only that physician knows what medicine Mother takes, doesn’t he?”

“Prince Adrian! I really don’t know anything about this!”

The Empress’s physician raised his voice as if wronged, but Adrian didn’t even glance in his direction.

Meanwhile, Melanie sighed softly at her son’s words and shook her head.

“I know him well. He doesn’t have the guts for such a thing.”

She caught her breath for a moment, then looked around at those gathered in the bedroom and asked.

“But how am I still alive? When I lost consciousness after drinking the poison, there was no one beside me.”

This time everyone’s gaze turned toward me.

Melanie made a puzzled expression, then slowly shifted her gaze.

She looked at me and narrowed her brow.

“You are…”

“This woman is Rachel Brown, The 3rd Prince’s caretaker.”

One of the knights holding me answered instead.

“This woman discovered Your Majesty collapsed.”

“She discovered me?”

Melanie frowned and stared at me.

“How?”

Her face showed she couldn’t understand how The 3rd Prince’s caretaker could have discovered The Empress collapsed in her bedroom.

“That is…”

“I couldn’t find the bathroom, Your Majesty The Empress.”

I quickly answered before the knight could interrupt.

Sure enough, The Empress looked even more bewildered after hearing my words.

“The bathroom?”

“Yes, I urgently needed the bathroom so I left the garden without even asking Prince Edwin’s permission. I asked passing attendants while looking for the bathroom, but ended up getting lost.”

I deliberately kept my eyes downcast and held my breath intermittently.

Then blood rushed to my face, making it red.

To anyone watching, it would look like I was blushing from shame at having to mention the bathroom myself.

“I was really desperate, so even knowing it was rude, I entered the main building. I was planning to ask the attendants inside the main building to guide me to the bathroom. But I couldn’t see anyone.”

It was a complete lie.

But if I claimed I was lucky enough not to encounter anyone else, who could argue it was a lie?

In fact, no one inside the main building had witnessed me, so there was no worry of being caught.

“Then I saw Her Majesty The Empress entering this room. Only then did I realize that I was an uninvited guest who had entered this place without Her Majesty The Empress’s permission, and I tried to leave quickly.”

The Empress continued to look at me intently as if telling me to continue speaking.

It wasn’t a bad reaction.

“But there was a loud noise from inside the room. It sounded like something falling to the floor, so I became worried. So I took the liberty of calling out to Your Majesty several times from outside the door, but there was no response.”

Everyone, including The Empress, was focused on my words.

I caught my breath for a moment, shook off the knights’ arms, and knelt on the floor.

“Please forgive me, Your Majesty The Empress! I know that not only entering Your Majesty The Empress’s bedroom without permission, but also laying hands on Your Majesty The Empress’s sacred body is a grave sin! But I couldn’t just stand still when someone was foaming at the mouth and dying!”

Logically, when someone collapses and foams at the mouth right before your eyes, how many people would just stand there and watch?

Especially if the other party was the Empire’s empress, anyone would have tried to save her by any means necessary.

When I appealed with a desperate voice, sympathetic sighs flowed from here and there.

“But how did you know that Her Majesty The Empress had drunk poison? To judge it as poisoning as soon as you saw Her Majesty, couldn’t that be proof that you’re the poisoner?”

Then, someone who had been in the room expressed doubt.

“There was a glass bottle rolling around beside Your Majesty. Thinking she might have drunk poison, I put my finger down Her Majesty’s throat to make her vomit. I know this is also an unforgivable sin, but I had no choice.”

I slightly raised my head and deliberately made eye contact with The Empress.

“Because I wanted to save Your Majesty.”

I quietly emphasized that I was the one who saved The Empress’s life.

Then Melanie frowned.

“…How can I believe those words?”

Then, the physician who had been quietly watching the situation carefully stepped forward.

“Your Majesty, that woman’s words are not wrong. When I entered the bedroom, I clearly saw saliva and vomit on that woman’s fingers.”

At the physician’s words, The Empress looked me up and down with an expressionless face.

“…If the physician’s words are correct, then it’s highly likely that you are my life’s savior.”

I pretended to be afraid and kept my eyes downcast while slightly trembling my shoulders.

Then I felt sympathetic gazes from several people.

Edwin, who was sitting in the chair, also seemed anxious as he kept checking my complexion and The Empress’s mood.

“Stand up.”

At The Empress’s command, I stood up unsteadily.

“You said you’re The 3rd Prince’s caretaker?”

At her question, I bowed my head deeply once again.

“I want to believe in your good intentions as well. But it’s hard to believe that you got lost and accidentally entered this place and discovered me. The fact that no one encountered you here is almost the same as saying there’s no one to prove your innocence.”

The Empress leaned against the headboard of the bed and looked at me intently.

“So how do you plan to prove that you weren’t trying to poison me?”

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