I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 1

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【Chapter 1】

“So. How are things going with the Croste Family?”

In a room so quiet that even breathing seemed dangerous, a man with a tense expression swallowed dry saliva and reported to his superior.

“The spy we sent six years ago is still undercover, but the security is so tight that it’s difficult to even catch a glimpse of the duke’s face.”

“Then we need to make them let their guard down.”

“But how exactly…”

“We send someone who clearly doesn’t look like a spy.”

A confident low voice cut off his words.

“They won’t suspect this one.”

Thick, wrinkled fingers pointed somewhere.

A man with an unpleasantly toad-like appearance rested his chin on his hand as he pointed at someone.

“Come here, Aisha.”

At his command, small legs wearing little shoes emerged from the shadows.

“Your Grace, Pose Duke.”

The figure that emerged from the shadows was none other than a 5-year-old girl.

When the child raised her head to look up at Pose Duke, who was much larger than herself, the retainer quickly hid his expression.

“…What could such a child possibly accomplish?”

“Why? Are you worried?”

“…She’s only 5 years old…? Don’t we usually assign spy missions to children who are at least 12?”

“Haha! Exactly!”

Pose Duke chuckled and greedily stroked his chin.

“That’s precisely why I’m sending a 5-year-old. They would never imagine that such a little kid could be a spy.”

‘But the chances of mission failure are high, and so are the chances of that child dying.’

The retainer swallowed his inner thoughts along with his saliva before they could escape.

Currently, the Kingdom of Odtia’s greatest concern was absorbing the Frozen Kingdom.

However, they didn’t even dare to think of invading the Frozen Kingdom.

It was because of the demons.

The demons from Beyond the North, called ‘the end of the world.’

The reason humanity hadn’t collapsed yet was thanks to the Crosht Duchy of the Frozen Kingdom, which stood guard like a pillar.

The Crosht Duchy had built walls using the ice abilities passed down through generations.

‘But our Pose Duchy has finally created it.’

A power even stronger than ice abilities.

So now there was no need to worry about the Frozen Kingdom’s reactions.

‘We should start by gradually destroying the Crosht Duchy.’

Greed flickered in Pose Duke’s eyes as he reviewed his plan.

While the Crosht Duchy protected the kingdom from demons, Pose Duke had devoted himself to training numerous spies for this moment.

This was exactly the result of that effort.

“Aisha. Listen carefully.”

Aisha was an A-grade among the 5-year-old children who had received spy training.

Because she was the most obedient.

What if she were discovered while infiltrating the Crosht Duchy?

There was no worry about the mastermind being exposed. The child would take her own life without hesitation.

“Aisha. This is your first mission. Become the missing daughter of Croste Duke.”

His greedy gaze seemed ready to burn the child alive.

“The fact that the duke who protects the kingdom couldn’t protect his own children. That’s exactly Croste Duke’s weakness. You must exploit that weakness and become the apple of his eye. And…”

Crash—

The whiskey glass in his hand shattered.

“When the time comes, I’ll tell you where, so bring Croste Duke to that place. Understood?”

Sharp glass fragments fell as if they would pierce the child’s shoes, but Aisha didn’t flinch.

“Yes, I understand.”

“Good.”

The duke commanded for final confirmation.

“Now show me an expression that anyone would find adorable.”

At those words, the young child who had been expressionless began to smile.

A bright, innocent smile.

Her flour-white, soft cheeks became even plumper with the smile.

Ocean-blue eyes that sparkled between naturally creased eyelids.

Even her hair, tied up on both sides and designed to sway adorably with the slightest movement.

“Understood, Your Grace!”

“Good. Smile exactly like that in front of Croste Duke. Like an innocent little child!”

“Yes!”

As Aisha, who had instantly transformed from a colorless face to an ordinary 5-year-old, beamed with joy, eerie satisfied laughter echoed through Pose Duke’s office.

“It was worth raising her as a spy from such a young age!”

“Thank you.”

Thus, the 5-year-old child sent by the Pose Duchy became a spy who would soon shake the Crosht Duchy.

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Pain is youth.

Living as a typical example of a Korean office worker, working overtime as regularly as eating meals, I eventually died from overwork.

When I opened my eyes again, I was in the body of a young child.

Chubby hands like maple leaves.

Blue eyes like embedded sapphires, rare to see in Korea.

As a romance novel reader, I realized this was possession.

Moreover, such an adorable child that I wanted to coo over her. With this level of cuteness, wouldn’t the original work be a childcare genre?

A rich, handsome father. Rich, handsome older brothers. And even a male lead who seems pitiful at first but turns out to be rich and handsome.

“…So this is my reward for working without sleep…!”

I widened my round eyes and prepared to meet handsome men, but only briefly.

I realized my fate.

That people destined to work will work for life.

‘A spy must maintain a poker face even if someone throws trash at you.’

‘Yes.’

‘I’m going to throw trash at you now, so maintain your poker face.’

‘What?’

It would have been better if I had awakened in an orphanage.

Saint. Knight. Maid. Orphan.

Among all those roles, why did I have to possess a spy!

‘You failed to manage your expression. In a real situation, you would have been exposed as a spy already. What should you do in this situation?’

‘I… I should take my own life before being discovered.’

‘That’s right.’

And it’s such grueling spy work that requires daily training rivaling overtime and even suicide preparedness…!

It’s been three years since I was reincarnated as the character Aisha.

I had to undergo high-intensity training with a body too small to even roll around like a baby panda.

And on the day of my long-awaited field deployment.

‘Aisha. This is your first mission. Become the missing daughter of Croste Duke.’

‘…Croste?’

When the words “Crosht Duchy” came out of Pose Duke’s mouth, I realized.

That this damn fate would repeat itself again.

‘I had my suspicions because of the name Aisha, but I never thought those suspicions would be true.’

I had possessed a growth-type fantasy novel without a single romance.

Titled [Sword of Judgment].

A world where the Kingdom of Odtia and the Frozen Kingdom, both possessing supernatural abilities, are in conflict.

It was a story about a male protagonist, born as an illegitimate son of the Pose Duchy, who endures persecution and hardships to grow stronger and eventually unifies two kingdoms.

But right now, the male protagonist isn’t important.

I was an extra who dies before the male lead even appears.

To be precise, I’m a spy who pretends to be the fake daughter of the main villain, Croste Duke, only to be exposed, expelled, and killed.

If I died from overwork in my previous life?

In this life, I’m destined to die while pretending to be the fake daughter of Duke Calips Crosht.

‘What if the difficulty of life gets even higher!’

Duke Calips Crosht.

He was the villain who opposed the male protagonist.

To briefly describe Callipus, well, how should I put it. You know, those villains who aren’t the protagonist but are unusually popular.

The head of the Crosht Ducal Family, responsible for the security of the Frozen Kingdom.

The pillar of the Frozen Kingdom. A massive wall. An impenetrable shield.

Anyway, his solidity, which carried all the finest epithets, cracked when he lost his three children and wife.

During the five years of war, his children mysteriously disappeared.

The same happened to the duchess. They all vanished without a trace.

In the end, Callipus protected the kingdom but failed to protect his own family.

He frantically searched for his missing children but failed, and in the process, he wore a black mask to hide his increasingly crumbling expression.

And with a twisted heart, he began protecting only the Crosht Duchy instead of the kingdom. Therefore, he becomes the most formidable enemy of the male protagonist who aims for unification.

And I had to enter that very man’s house and pretend to be his fake daughter.

And so, presently.

“You claim to be Duke Crosht’s lost daughter?”

The place I arrived at after being forced onto a carriage was in front of Crost Ducal Castle.

Pose Duke threw me some shabby clothes and a few potions for emergencies before leaving.

And among the emergency potions,

there was also a suicide poison, an essential item for spies.

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