The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 97

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Chapter 97. Guest of the Prince’s Palace (2)

[Have you already arrived at the Imperial Palace? You arrived early.]

At Aurel’s words, Kaiden tilted his head back.

“That’s how it turned out. It’s not like I was in a hurry though.”

[By the way, must you turn on the communicator while half-naked like that?]

Aurel frowned with a disgusted expression and bared his front teeth.

[I have no desire to see my lord’s naked body. If you want to show such things, show them to the women who are infatuated with Your Majesty.]

“The only person I want to show my naked body to right now is you, Aurel, so this is quite disappointing…”

[Sexual harassment is punishable under Adamant Kingdom Law.]

Kaiden chuckled softly at the sight of his retainer acting as if he might have a seizure at any moment.

“How strange. During the war, you saw this sight all the time, didn’t you?”

[Since I saw it all the time, I don’t want to see it anymore.]

“How picky.”

[Stop with the jokes.]

Aurel immediately put on an extremely serious expression.

[So how is the atmosphere in the Empire?]

At his subordinate’s question, Kaiden shrugged his shoulders.

“Well. It’s neither particularly good nor bad.”

He stirred the bathwater with his hand as if it truly didn’t matter.

“The eyes looking at me weren’t as hostile as I expected. And they even gave me a room with a bath like this.”

[What if they had put poison in that water?]

“If they had, long ago…”

Kaiden smiled pleasantly toward the screen.

“All the humans in this place would be dead.”

Silence flowed through the spacious grand bath.

Aurel opened his mouth with a deliberately serious expression.

[You know it would be a disaster if that really happened, right? We’re still not ready for an all-out war against the Empire…]

“Aurel, your problem is that you’re too serious about everything.”

Kaiden drooped both eyebrows as if feeling wronged.

“Can’t I even make a joke?”

[The problem is that when Your Majesty says such things, they don’t sound like jokes.]

The King of Adamant was someone who could face an entire legion alone.

He had resistance to most poisons so they wouldn’t work on him, and his recovery ability surpassed that of ordinary humans, possessing a robust body that could heal most wounds in a day or two.

When such a person spoke of killing, one had no choice but to be tense.

[Sigh, so then.]

Aurel let out a deep sigh.

He asked Kaiden, who was still busy splashing water with one hand.

[Are both the 3rd Prince and the 1st Princess doing well?]

Instead of answering, Kaiden stopped the hand that had been stirring the water.

Water droplets hanging beneath his slightly lowered eyelashes fell with a dripping sound.

[Why aren’t you saying anything?]

Aurel looked at his silent lord with puzzled eyes.

[Surely you didn’t fail to meet them?]

“My quarters are in the 3rd Prince’s Palace, so there’s no way I wouldn’t meet them.”

[Then please tell me properly.]

Aurel pressed his lord as if frustrated.

[Are both of them doing well? How are they?]

“How were they.”

Kaiden made an indifferent expression.

“They still look naive. The Princess was so small I almost walked past without noticing her.”

It was a lie.

From the moment Kaiden entered the hall, he could recognize who the Princess was at a glance.

Because she was the spitting image of someone he could never forget.

“…They both resembled their mother a lot.”

[They resemble Princess Idis a lot?]

“Yes, they looked like they were cast from the same mold. Except for their eye color, they were exactly like Sister Idis.”

[Well, this is something.]

Aurel made a troubled smile and scratched his cheek.

[It’s good news that the Princess resembles Princess Idis, but for the Prince to also be the spitting image of the Princess.]

Aurel clicked his tongue as if the thought alone gave him a headache.

[If a boy inherited that beauty, he’ll make many women cry when he grows up.]

After all, it was said that men rise through women and fall through women.

If many women flocked around him, he would suffer greatly.

It seemed the 3rd Prince’s future would not be smooth.

Unless he met a woman of upright character as his spouse early on.

[But is he really a fool as rumored?]

The Empire’s 3rd Prince Edwin was already a person widely rumored to have been excluded from the imperial power struggle.

But recently, not only did he participate in a hunting competition held by the imperial family, he became the winner, making him the very person who threw the Empire’s political situation into chaos.

“The rumor about him being a fool seems wrong. The Emperor even had him greet me as his son.”

[Hmm, that’s quite fortunate.]

Aurel stroked his smooth chin without a beard and smiled.

[I cannot tolerate Your Majesty’s only nephew and niece being mistreated.]

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The founding king who established Adamant, ‘Kaiden Ram’.

To the world, he was known as a commoner-born knight king who brought down the corrupt House of Lionel and established a new monarchy, but the reality was slightly different.

‘A dirty bastard born between the King of Lionel and a barbarian slave-born dancer.’

Kaiden let out a bitter smile as he recalled the label that had followed him since childhood.

If he had been born into an ordinary family, he might have become a knight loyal to the House of Lionel. But his destined fate controlled even his choices.

– How dare you! You ungrateful wretch who doesn’t know the grace of being taken in!

The image of his half-brother hiding behind the throne and screaming came to mind.

That figure glaring at him with eyes full of hatred.

– That’s strange, I don’t remember being taken in by you, brother.

Kaiden beheaded his half-brother, the King of Lionel, and ascended to the throne.

Not as a blood-related brother, but simply as a usurper.

[It must bring back memories.]

Aurel on the other side of the communication screen continued with a joyful voice as if congratulating him.

[Aren’t they the only people alive who share blood with Your Majesty?]

The 3rd Imperial Consort Idis, Edwin’s birth mother, was Kaiden’s half-sister.

She was the only one who treated him like a human being when he was rolling around like a slave in Lionel Palace.

Idis always said the same thing to young Kaiden, who had become thoroughly twisted.

– We share the same surname, so we’re family. Don’t forget that fact no matter where you are, Kaiden.

She was truly a woman with naive beliefs.

Was that why she wasn’t so upset when she was sold off to marry into the Empire?

Kaiden recalled the image of Idis smiling as she boarded the carriage.

– Don’t cry, Kaiden. If you miss your sister, come visit me anytime.

She was truly a woman who only said convenient things.

She couldn’t have been unaware that it was impossible for a mere bastard of the king to visit the Imperial Consort of the Empire whenever he wanted.

– No matter how far apart we are, the fact that we’re family will never change.

No, that was wrong.

Even blood-related family could sometimes be worse than strangers, and there comes a moment when even the closest relationships become strangers if they’re out of sight.

Like Idis, who was completely forgotten by Lionel after being dragged to the Empire’s Imperial Palace.

“…Ridiculous.”

Kaiden glared at Aurel beyond the screen and lifted one corner of his mouth.

“I haven’t acknowledged those brats as my nephews yet.”

[But….]

“Enough with the chatter.”

The young king of Adamant raised his hand toward his subordinate who was trying to drag out the conversation.

“What happened with what I told you to look into?”

At his lord’s words, Aurel twitched his eyebrows as if he had no choice.

[We haven’t clearly identified the cause of the sudden increase in monster numbers that Your Majesty ordered us to investigate. However!]

He stopped mid-sentence and walked toward the wall behind him.

On the huge continental map hanging on the wall, dots of various colors and small arrows were tangled in a chaotic mess.

[While backtracking the movement routes of pack monsters like orcs, ogres, and lycans, we derived an interesting result.]

Aurel pointed to one spot with his long finger.

[They all came from one place.]

Kaiden looked at the spot his subordinate pointed to and frowned.

“Are you being serious?”

[When have you ever seen me joke about something like this?]

“…I was hoping you’d say it was a joke this time.”

The spot Aurel’s finger pointed to on the huge continental map was an utterly unexpected location.

A place that seemed to have no connection to monsters—no, a place that shouldn’t have any connection.

“Leon Kingdom.”

The sacred nation ruled by the Holy Emperor, the ‘Leon Kingdom.’

Magic power and divine power were complete opposites to begin with.

Yet monsters were appearing from land filled with divine power.

‘If the reason for the sudden increase in monster numbers lies with the Holy Kingdom, things will become even more troublesome.’

Leon Kingdom was the continent’s only neutral nation ruled by the Holy Emperor.

Only clerics and paladins who used divine power, and the believers who followed them, lived there.

Normally they maintained a gentle and peaceful attitude under the teaching of practicing God’s mercy, but when their faith was attacked, they completely transformed.

“I’d rather fight monsters all year long—that would be more comfortable.”

Kaiden swept back his wet hair and furrowed his brow.

“So Aurel, are you saying the Holy Kingdom is behind the monster appearances? That the Holy Emperor is some kind of monster leader?”

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