I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 107
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【Chapter 107】
As the study door closed, a heavy silence settled down like a weighted pendulum.
In the rigid space where even the breathing of the two people could be heard, Grace sat down on the sofa.
No servants were brought in, nor was tea offered as a courtesy as nobles typically did.
Callipus knew this situation was somewhat strange. Grace seemed to be aware of it too.
Observing her, he stood beside the sofa until permission was granted.
“Ah, sorry. Please sit quickly.”
Grace, who had been silent as if lost in thought, belatedly grasped the situation and hurriedly nodded.
Finally, as he sat on the sofa, the leather creaked sharply under the weight.
Though she wasn’t usually talkative, Grace was someone who would express her thoughts without hesitation when necessary.
‘As expected, King Arjen did something.’
To dare touch the Queen.
Added to his intolerable atrocities, the fact that immediate conversation was difficult made him sigh.
‘…I’ll have no choice but to keep prompting responses.’
Just as Callipus, who had sighed, was about to speak again.
“Wolf.”
Suddenly, Grace’s frighteningly dry voice stopped him.
‘…Wolf?’
It was too sudden, a word that didn’t fit the context.
‘Wolf. Why wolf…?’
As he tilted his head, theorizing what meaning might be hidden in the word, his eyes narrowed.
“Lion.”
Another unexpected word popped out.
“…Lion, you say.”
When he asked back in confusion, Grace nodded with a more solemn expression than ever.
“Lion.”
“…”
Lion, she says. Her Majesty the Queen of the Frozen Kingdom.
“Um. Yes, wolf and lion.”
For a moment, he worried whether Grace’s mental age itself had regressed.
But fortunately, that wasn’t the case.
Even if she couldn’t explain facts in precise sentences, her emerald eyes still shone with intelligence.
She was still the Grace he knew.
“I’d like you to ask me questions like before.”
This time Grace spoke first, prompting conversation.
Callipus pondered for a moment.
‘What exactly is her condition?’
He thought she’d be dazed like someone whose will had died, but now she seemed quite proactive.
It didn’t seem like she couldn’t express her thoughts at all.
‘How should I ask questions…’
Thinking about their previous conversation, she seemed unable to say anything related to Croste, like Aisha and Callipus.
He should find out about that first.
“Can’t you say the word Aisha?”
A strange light flashed in Grace’s eyes for a moment.
“Wolf.”
At her response, Callipus’s eyes narrowed.
“What about your attendant’s name? Can you say it?”
“Lion.”
This time it was lion.
‘What on earth does that mean?’
It was then that Callipus was pondering the meaning of the words.
“I’d like you to ask questions a bit more one-dimensionally.”
“Pardon?”
Grace sighed as if frustrated and asked back with a slightly tired expression.
“Ask me if I’m a woman.”
“Surely you’re not a man?”
“I’m a woman, so shut up and just ask.”
“Understood.”
To end this strange Q&A as quickly as possible, Callipus immediately asked.
“Are you a woman, Your Majesty?”
“Wolf.”
“…Then are you a man?”
“Lion.”
At the different answers depending on the question, Callipus’s gaze sharpened.
Grace’s face also brightened compared to before.
After a moment of silence, Callipus spoke again.
“To gain certainty, I’ll ask once more. Is Your Majesty’s father the Marquis of Shulets?”
“Wolf.”
“Is Your Majesty’s father Viscount Andante?”
“Lion.”
Grace, who finished answering with a definitive expression, smiled.
“Right. That’s what it means.”
As if pleased that he quickly caught on.
The meaning of wolf and lion was none other than ‘yes’ and ‘no’.
When asked if she could say Aisha’s name, she couldn’t answer yes, so she said wolf.
‘She’s not an Archmage for nothing.’
To quickly find a solution even in such a desperate situation.
For this moment at least, Callipus, freed from the serious atmosphere, let out a low laugh.
“Your Majesty. You’re quite brilliant.”
“There’s always someone better than the best. Now ask what you want to know.”
She crossed her legs leisurely and nodded.
In the lighter atmosphere, Callipus nodded.
And.
“…Is it correct that His Majesty Arjen cast black magic on you?”
“Wolf.”
A chilling light flashed in her emerald eyes as she answered.
To really lay hands on his own wife.
Suddenly thinking of Ariena, Callipus frowned.
She was originally a spy of Duke Pose who approached him to use him.
She left after completing her mission, and when they met again, she looked at him with somewhat pitiful eyes…
‘Why on earth? She’s the one who destroyed my life, so why those eyes…’
“Ah.”
Callipus, who had briefly fallen into other thoughts, slowly closed his eyes.
Anyway. Arjen and Grace were different.
Though their marriage was political, the couple always appeared harmonious and received the admiring gazes of the kingdom’s people.
Yet far from being harmonious, he used forbidden magic because she might interfere with his affairs.
King Arjen, whom he already hated for Aisha’s matter, now felt disgusting.
“I think Your Majesty suits the throne better than the Queen’s position. Do you think so too?”
If Grace wanted him dead.
“Wolf.”
Following that command, I was prepared to kill him with my own hands.
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Clang, clang, clang-!
Sudden emergency bells rang out throughout the massive Frozen Palace.
“External invasion! Everyone to battle stations!”
“The Duke of Shulets’ knight order is waiting in front of the castle gate!”
The security of the Frozen Palace, which had never been breached, was ridiculously easily broken through.
Because the ringleader of the rebellion was none other than Queen Grace’s family.
“Tell King Arzen-!”
At the very front of the knight order that filled the city center, the aged Marquis of Shulets shouted.
Anger and madness that belied his age overwhelmed the atmosphere.
“If you don’t immediately lift the black magic cast on Her Majesty Queen Grace, I will execute you on charges of attempted regicide and illegal magic use!”
At those words, the royal knights who had been moving in unison to suppress the rebellion hesitated.
“Charges of attempted regicide? When it’s Marquis Shulets himself who’s set up camp in front of the royal palace?”
“He says illegal magic was used. That black magic was cast on Her Majesty Grace?”
“By His Majesty the King?!”
This country’s king, who was full of jealousy and envy but lacked equivalent wisdom, had unfortunately never once considered what kind of response his wife might show.
Therefore, the knights who hadn’t prepared for such a situation panicked and fled to find superiors who could give them orders.
And so, currently, in King Arzen’s study.
“Let the King hear-!”
“Aaaaah!”
At Marquis Shulets’ voice faintly heard through the massive window, Arzen let out a scream filled with agony.
She shouldn’t have been able to tell anyone.
He had placed all kinds of binding spells to prevent her from speaking, so how the hell had that woman managed to inform them!
He could only scream, but had no way to do anything about it. Callipus and Grace were more methodical than him.
Following their orders, the Duke of Shulets’ knight order that had been waiting in advance subdued the royal knights.
The King, who had requested a private meeting to pressure Callipus, was instead captured.
Even if he tried to request help from neighboring families, he couldn’t send a message because of Duke Callipus standing right in front of him.
It was one problem after another.
“There’s no evidence, no evidence… Uuuup!”
Unable to advance or retreat, Arzen screamed like a child.
“There’s plenty of evidence.”
A large hand with bulging veins covered his mouth.
Callipus bent down and gripped Arzen’s face as if he would crush it, speaking in a low voice.
“Actually, we don’t even need much – one piece is enough. Asking Her Majesty the Queen to call my name in front of the kingdom’s people.”
“Uup, uup!”
“If that brilliant Her Majesty the Queen can’t say anything, what do you think everyone will think? Marquis Shulets would be quite pleased.”
“Uup…!”
“You’ve crossed the line for a while now, but this time you acted too stupidly.”
Callipus clicked his tongue as he watched Arzen’s eyes widen in shock.
But just then.
“Wh-what’s happening?”
Voices could be heard from beyond the reception room door. They were nobles still remaining in the palace.
“A rebellion has broken out. Please evacuate quickly!”
“A rebellion? What do you mean all of a sudden?”
“Where is Duke Croste? Shouldn’t the Duke be protecting the royal family at a time like this!”
Arzen’s eyes lit up with hope as he heard the conversation.
‘Help… I need to ask them for help…’
His face turned from red to purple.
Just as he twisted his body trying to scream somehow.
“Perfect timing. We can use them as witnesses.”
A smile leaked from Callipus’s lips as he watched.
Soon he grabbed Arzen by the back of the neck and approached the door.
Bang-
The door opened.
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