The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 98

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Chapter 98. Guest of the Prince’s Palace (3)

[I don’t intend to make such extreme leaps in logic.]

Aurel shrugged his shoulders while crossing his arms.

[Anyway, shouldn’t we be on guard? According to the spies we’ve planted in the Holy Kingdom, the internal atmosphere is very chaotic due to the papal election that will take place the year after next.]

When the Pope and other clerics would be too busy with domestic affairs, that would be the opportunity.

[How about secretly sending reconnaissance teams around the Holy Kingdom? We could just investigate the areas where monsters frequently appear.]

Kaiden pondered for a moment.

If they were caught, it could strain relations with the Holy Kingdom.

But what was important now was eliminating even one more monster roaming this land, rather than improving relations with the Holy Kingdom.

“Yes, being careful as you suggest wouldn’t hurt. Our kingdom and Leon Kingdom are separated by only one mountain range.”

If there were definitely problems in Leon Kingdom, Adamant would be the first to bear the consequences.

“Send only those with excellent mobility.”

[I shall obey Your Majesty’s command.]

Aurel bowed his head with a serious expression devoid of any playfulness.

But that only lasted for a moment.

[Oh, and don’t forget to score points with those nephews of yours…]

“What? Those brats should be scoring points with me, why should I score points with them? If you’re done talking, I’m cutting the communication.”

Kaiden grimaced and tried to withdraw his mana from the crystal orb.

[Ah, I’m not done yet? Don’t forget to conduct yourself well so you don’t get branded as a libertine there. And try to restrain yourself when you see green eyes…]

Splash.

Before Aurel could finish speaking, the crystal orb fell.

Kaiden had cut off the communication as if there was nothing more worth hearing.

“Tsk.”

He clicked his tongue and rose from the bath.

Large and small scars were densely scattered across his sculpture-like body that had been trained to the extreme.

Among them were many that appeared to be scars from deep wounds that seemed life-threatening.

Splash, splash.

Kaiden nonchalantly walked out of the bath and put on the robe placed at the entrance.

When he came outside, the housekeeper was standing there holding a tray with a wine cup.

Her gaunt body and pale hair color reminded him of something.

‘I thought they had set up a scarecrow.’

Kaiden picked up the wine cup from the tray.

“Th-that…”

The housekeeper, Catherine, blushed under Kaiden’s stare as he looked directly at her.

‘No, I have Philip! Get a grip, Catherine Bale!’

She tried to regain her composure by mentally repeating her marriage candidate’s name.

But the sight of this devastatingly handsome man standing there still damp was stimulating enough to make her knees weak.

“That was good. Thank you.”

Kaiden downed the wine in one gulp and placed the cup back on the tray.

“Thank you for guiding me around during the day too.”

“Oh, n-not at all.”

Catherine was startled by his thanks and bowed her head deeply.

She never dreamed she would receive gratitude from a king of a nation, especially the King of Adamant.

“What was the housekeeper’s name again?”

“Pardon?”

Catherine’s eyes widened at Kaiden’s question.

“My name?”

Fear spread across her large eyes.

“C-Catherine. Catherine Bale.”

“Catherine.”

Kaiden wiped the wine from his lips with his thumb.

He gazed at Catherine and smiled with his eyes.

“Then may I ask you for one favor, Catherine?”

“…A favor?”

What kind of favor required such a heart-stopping smile?

Catherine’s pupils trembled finely.

* * *

“What brings you here at this hour?”

Late at night, I was returning to my chamber after putting Edwin and Emilia to bed, who had been exhausted from receiving the delegation all day.

“Do you have business with me, Catherine?”

The identity of the familiar shadow in front of my door was the housekeeper, Catherine.

“Caretakerrrrr!”

Catherine, who had been stamping her feet in place, rushed at me as soon as she saw me.

She grabbed my skirt hem and clung to it, sobbing.

“Caretaker, please save me! Waaaaaah!”

“My skirt is falling down. Let go first and then speak.”

“What should I dooooo!”

She shows no sign of calming down. I have no choice.

I asked while firmly holding my skirt to prevent it from falling further.

“So what exactly happened to cause such a commotion…”

“The guest of the Prince’s Palace asked me to serve him at night!”

What?

I frowned and asked again.

“The guest asked you to serve him at night?”

Among the guests currently staying at the 3rd Prince’s Palace, there was only one person who could make such an absurd demand.

‘The King of Adamant, that bastard?’

I recalled Kaiden’s appearance from when I encountered him during the day.

‘I thought there was something perverted about him…’

That despicable bastard.

Was he really going to try to touch a maid working in the Prince’s Palace?

If he were in his right mind, he wouldn’t do such a thing.

“Caretaker, what should I do? What if my head gets cut off for refusing the king? But I already have someone I’ve decided to give my purity to!”

Catherine clung to me with reddened eyes.

I sighed softly while looking at her pitiful sobbing.

“Catherine, what exactly did the King of Adamant say?”

Perhaps he didn’t use the term ‘night service’ in its commonly understood meaning.

At my question, Catherine stammered out her answer.

“Well, he asked me to come to his bedchamber at night. He said I just need to stay with him until morning…”

Stay with him until morning.

I sighed after hearing her answer.

“How exactly did you end up receiving such a request?”

“While serving his bath…”

“Aren’t you the housekeeper? Yet you were assigned to bath service?”

“Do you think I wanted to do it!”

Catherine struck her chest as if feeling wronged.

“All the other maids said they didn’t want to do it and passed it along until it came to me! I only took it on reluctantly because there was no one else to do it!”

The day news spread that the King of Adamant would be staying at the 3rd Prince’s Palace.

The maids each volunteered to serve His Majesty the King.

“Since he’s rumored to be the most handsome man on the continent, everyone was interested.”

Although he had the fearsome nickname of warmonger, rumors circulated that according to those who had seen him in person from afar, he was breathtakingly beautiful.

However, the maids who faced the king in person were busy hiding here and there like frightened herbivores.

‘He’s devastatingly handsome, but if I get close, I feel like I’ll really die.’

The King of Adamant was a man who had roamed battlefields daily, annihilating enemies and surviving to the very end.

There was no way ordinary people could withstand the overwhelming presence such a man exuded.

“But Catherine managed to endure it quite well.”

“Huuugh, that’s because of you, Caretaker.”

“Because of me?”

Catherine wiped away the tears pooling in her eyes with the back of her hand as she continued speaking.

“Should I say it was similar to the atmosphere when you sometimes make that scary face without saying anything? Anyway, when I thought of you standing in front of me all angry, it seemed a bit less frightening.”

That meant Kaiden just standing there was scary, but me being angry wasn’t scary at all.

My displeasure at this oddly pride-wounding remark was only momentary.

Catherine grabbed my hand and started stamping her feet again.

“Caretakeeer, please help me! Please!”

“What could I possibly do?”

“Could you perhaps tell them I suddenly fell ill and couldn’t come?”

“You want me to lie for you?”

“But I can’t think of any other way!”

Serving a handsome man would have been a pleasant task, but it was different when that man was a god of war who generated all sorts of battlefield horror stories.

“I could barely manage to stand without collapsing in front of him! What if he gets displeased and tears me limb from limb!”

“Catherine, this is the Imperial Palace. Would the King of Adamant be mad enough to do such a thing?”

At my words, Catherine silently hung her head.

Her frail shoulders were trembling finely like a rain-soaked sparrow.

“…Sigh, fine.”

I eventually accepted Catherine’s proposal.

“I’ll speak well to His Majesty the King. Are you satisfied now?”

“Ca-Caretakeeer!”

Catherine’s head shot up and she threw herself into my arms.

“Thank you! You’re the best, Caretaker! I’ll definitely repay this kindness! If there’s anything you want to eat, just say the word anytime…”

“That’s enough, so please step away.”

I barely managed to pry off Catherine, who was clinging like a leech.

After sending her back to her quarters while she bowed deeply for a long time, I turned my steps.

Toward the chamber where the Prince’s Palace guest would be staying.

* * *

Knock, knock, knock.

I knocked on the door exactly three times, but no answer came.

They definitely said Kaiden was staying in this chamber.

‘I absolutely hate wasting time.’

I hesitated for a moment, then turned the door handle.

The door wasn’t locked.

Creak.

As I slowly opened the door and entered, pitch-black darkness greeted me.

Light from the torches hanging in the corridor seeped into the unlit chamber, making outlines faintly visible. No one could be seen on the massive bed.

Creak, thud.

As I silently took one more step into the chamber, the door closed behind me.

In an instant, darkness enveloped everything around me.

“This is unexpected.”

A low voice came from behind me along with the sound of wooden planks being pressed.

“I didn’t expect you to come, Rachel Brown.”

I froze in place within the darkness.

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