I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 111

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【Chapter 111】

At the calm question, I could feel Aisha’s face turning pale.

“…Yes.”

“The reason you couldn’t tell me…”

“I was afraid you’d get hurt…”

Half of those days when I loved with my life on the line had been fake.

Though I had already experienced this emotion through Ariena’s matter, unconsciously thinking of my eldest who smiled at me made my chest feel stuffy.

Callipus carefully chose his words for a long time.

Then he gently reached out his hand so as not to startle Aisha, caressing the child’s round cheek as he asked.

“Lucas is a normal child, right?”

“Yes, that’s right. Brother really loves the Croste family and father.”

Lucas had such great respect for the Croste family from a young age that Ariena couldn’t brainwash him.

This was a fact only Aisha, who had seen the original story, knew.

“I see.”

At least one was real. And this child now in my arms too.

“That’s enough then. Sedric is… once this situation is settled…”

His lips that were continuing to speak closed.

Find him? And then. What would I do after finding him?

After finding Sedric, would I just stand there dazed again, like when I couldn’t do anything upon meeting Ariena?

It felt like a huge lump of poison had filled his throat. Callipus tried hard to change the subject to clear away the stray thoughts.

What he needed to focus on now was this war and his daughter.

“Anyway, Aisha. Do you know where that potion is?”

“It’s at Croste Ducal Castle. We need to take the portal to get there…”

“Then we can just go. What’s the problem?”

When the child who had been active until now seemed hesitant, Callipus became curious.

Then Aisha asked carefully.

“I was wondering if it would be okay for me to go alone. Don’t you need to return to your position quickly, father?”

Ah. Of course that wouldn’t work.

But if he followed Aisha all the way to the ducal castle, there was no telling what might happen in the meantime.

Callipus, who had been pondering, thought of one person.

“Then let me ask someone else to take you there.”

“Someone else…?”

Perfect timing.

As Callipus’s gaze turned toward the open window, the child who had been staring at him blankly also turned her head.

Then-

“Give me back my daughter!”

Into the castle gate, an old man who was notably a span taller than the other knights appeared, bursting forth with a resounding roar.

One of Arjen’s knights, unable to withstand his force, went flying.

“Where is Her Majesty Grace!”

At the thunderous old voice, one knight hurriedly approached him.

It was Marquis Shulets and his knight order, who had succeeded in reaching the Queen’s Palace and then pressed forward with momentum to penetrate even the King’s Palace where Arjen was.

“Cu-currently we’re in a standoff with His Majesty King Arjen’s side. Duke Callipus also seems to be gathered there.”

“What? A standoff?! Why?!”

“Th-that is… we succeeded in recapturing the Queen’s Palace, but in the process, Ar-Arjen’s knights kidnapped Her Majesty Grace…”

“Aaaaah-!”

The father who belatedly learned that his daughter had been kidnapped roared in fury.

Looking down at that sight, Callipus asked.

“That grandfather would be more reliable than father, right?”

“Yesnio.”

“Huh?”

“Yes, no, yes. Nio.”

Aisha stammered.

Callipus was puzzled for a moment, but seeing the child with a slightly dazed expression opening and closing her mouth before obediently nodding, he nodded back in response.

* * *

A little later.

“Uaaaah!”

Clank, clank-

Every time the large old man moved his steps, I, hanging from his arm, fluttered back and forth.

“Everyone move aside! There’s evidence here that can save my daughter!”

“Uaah!”

As if the young child’s screams sounded like excited cheers, Marquis Shulets just walked with a joyful expression.

Unlike when I was held by father, it was much more dangerous, much more uncomfortable, and much scarier, but…

We quickly reached the portal without anyone’s interference.

* * *

Meanwhile, at that time. In the North.

The Fourth Castle, located farthest from the main castle of Croste Duke’s Mansion.

Going underground, there was a prison that could easily accommodate 100 grown men, but nobles who were difficult to imprison went to rooms on the ground floor.

Nox, who had received Callipus’s message, opened the door to one room.

“…Assistant Nox?”

Then the young boy sitting on the bed anxiously stood up.

It was a cozy room with thick carpets, warm blankets, and a tea table. Yet Tex looked as haggard as someone shivering in the bitter cold.

For him, who had lived as the only son of a marquis family, such an environment naturally couldn’t be satisfactory.

That’s what the room was made for.

“Can you use ice abilities?”

Nox got straight to the point without any greeting. Then Tex asked anxiously.

“…Why? If I have abilities… will you release me?”

“No.”

“…”

“I asked if you have them.”

When he raised his gaze to make eye contact.

“…”

For some reason, Tex, who couldn’t answer, shrank back and lowered his gaze.

‘I’m getting a rough idea.’

Nox’s eyes, sharply observing that behavior, narrowed.

[King Arjen claims to have manifested ice abilities through magic. Ask Tex about the source of the abilities.]

Callipus didn’t believe the shocking claim that King Arjen had created ice abilities, and Nox was also suspicious.

There seemed to be some connection between that and the appearance of ability users in the branch family.

“I don’t have abilities.”

“Right. I thought so. What, did you use magic to create some kind of illusion? You would have had to draw spell formations. When did you do such a thing at the ducal castle?”

“I didn’t use magic, I drank a potion.”

“What?”

Tex spoke while trembling. Nox raised one eyebrow as if he had misheard.

“A, a potion.”

“A potion?”

“Yes…”

“…You could use abilities after drinking a potion?”

Was it a magical potion?

But to think there was a potion with such effects. This was the first time he’d heard of such a thing.

“Y-yes. Hic, hiccup.”

The young boy, unable to bear the pressure, burst into tears.

He had already been trapped in this place for several months. It was unfair that he was here because of his father’s crimes, and he missed his mother.

Regardless, Nox coldly threw out his next question.

“You originally had no abilities at all?”

“…Y-yes… When I drank that po-potion, I could use ice abilities for several days. That’s how I pretended to be an ability user.”

Watching the boy speak truthfully and then sniffle again, Nox rubbed his forehead with a headache.

‘I thought so. There’s no way ice ability users could appear this easily.’

He had thought something was strange from the moment he received that sudden urgent message.

‘Creating abilities with magic? The people who fell for such a thing are ridiculous too.’

Abilities were called gifts from the gods.

Even the most skilled magicians couldn’t create so much as an ice cube without drawing formulas, yet granting permanent abilities? He had no choice but to be suspicious.

But as expected, there was something being hidden.

‘So taking drugs allows one to manifest abilities for a certain period of time.’

After being lost in thought for a while, he adjusted his monocle and stood up from his seat.

First, he needed to report this fact to Callipus.

It seemed continued investigation would be needed to find out where the drugs were and how they were made.

“I understand for now. Good work.”

Just as he was about to leave the room.

“What’s going to happen to me now?”

Behind him, he heard Tex’s tearful question.

An ordinary person might have felt sorry for the boy, but Nox, who didn’t particularly form attachments to people in the first place, answered without much consideration.

“What do you mean what’s going to happen? You impersonated an ice ability user, so you’ll have to serve time for impersonation.”

He was thinking of closing the door and leaving before more whining started.

“…What if I testify as a witness at the trial?”

“Huh?”

Suddenly Tex grabbed his sleeve.

“You said there’s no evidence! If I testify, will you reduce my sentence?”

The sobbing boy soon cried out again, begging to just let him see his mother.

“…Well, having a witness or anything would be good… but the situation outside is such a mess that I don’t know if we can put you on a portal…”

That’s when it happened.

“Lord Nox!”

Suddenly a knight burst through the door.

“The po-portal is suddenly operating.”

“What? Isn’t the central region in a wartime situation right now?”

Who would be coming to the north at such an urgent time?

“That’s why we’re setting up defensive positions too… but I think you should come check it out first, Lord Nox.”

It was one problem after another.

“For now… please guard this place.”

“Yes!”

Nox took off his monocle, left Tex with the knight, and hurriedly ran toward the portal.

Sure enough, just as the knight had said, blue light began rippling in the distance near the portal, as if something was being detected.

Soon the light gathered into a massive and heavy silhouette.

‘…A yeti?’

It was so enormously built that it brought to mind the legendary monster.

He continued walking with narrowed eyes.

“Where is he?! I must quickly expose the wicked crimes of that bastard who cast black magic on my daughter!”

At the unexpected roar, blood trickled from Nox’s ears.

That voice, Lord Marquis of Shulets…?

“Why is he here…”

Nox’s mouth fell open as he hurriedly plugged his ears with a handkerchief at the Marquis’s sudden appearance.

“Over there! We need to go into that main castle!”

Aisha, riding on the Marquis’s shoulders, was pointing at the main castle with a brave expression.

“There? Alright, since we need to go there, everyone get out of the way!”

The Marquis let out an angry roar and began charging toward the castle with thundering steps.

And shortly after.

“Everyone move!!”

In less than five minutes, the old man came running out of the castle with the child on his shoulders.

“Aaah-.”

Aisha let out a short scream as she dangled, holding something in her arms.

It was a blue potion.

‘…A potion?’

Nox was quick to catch on.

If they came here through the portal despite the wartime situation, that potion must be very important.

A potion worth securing at a time like this would be…

“Bring Tex here.”

“Yes.”

Nox urgently ordered the knight and threw his whole body to block the Marquis of Shulets.

“Lord Marquis. If you’re going to take the potion, take the witness with you too.”

After all, he had nothing to lose.

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