I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 112

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【Chapter 112】

At the time when Aisha and the Marquis of Schultz were bringing the potion, the royal palace.

“Why is Her Majesty Queen Grace not answering?”

“If what Duke Callipus said isn’t true, shouldn’t you give us an answer!”

The people’s demand for truth was growing stronger and stronger.

Arjen trembled and couldn’t say anything.

Grace knew well what her role was here. To pretend to be deeply hurt, just keep her mouth tightly shut, and lower her head.

“Your Majesty!”

“Her Majesty Grace…!”

Her Majesty the Queen, who had always been wise and noble, had bowed her head.

People who saw this were shocked.

Her silence in response to the demand for truth ironically gave people great certainty.

King Arjen had really cast black magic on his wife.

As people’s gazes changed one by one upon realizing this fact—

“…I have committed a mortal sin!”

One of Arjen’s close knights who had been restraining Grace suddenly knelt before her.

“I had no choice but to follow His Majesty’s orders… I’m truly sorry!”

“I, I have committed a mortal sin!”

Following one cry, the surrounding knights also knelt one after another, and the expression disappeared from Arjen’s face as he watched this scene in dismay.

“…”

He couldn’t say anything.

Clearly the situation had been favorable to him, but how had he been cornered to this extent?

When he stepped back just wanting to escape this place and bumped into something hard, turning his head—

“You’re also getting scared. Is it because you know when you’re going to die?”

He met Callipus’s gaze, standing upright with not a trace of sympathy, looking down as if at something less than a bug.

All the royal knights were kneeling, and Arjen was now surrounded by Callipus’s knights.

“…Th, this is ridiculous… I, I’m the king… I, I should be the most respected in this country…”

This situation made no sense.

It was also unfair. He hadn’t intended to kill Grace from the beginning.

He had only used black magic to silence that talkative woman, for that reason alone.

“…”

Arjen tried to look away from Callipus, wanting to escape reality, but everywhere he turned there were only gazes looking at him with disgust.

The ugly truth had been stripped bare.

This was the price for using devil’s magic, something that even the great and high position of king couldn’t handle.

That’s when it happened.

“Arjen, you bastard! Not only did you cast black magic on our daughter, but you lied about being able to create abilities with your power?!”

Suddenly, with a thunderous roar, a giant old man pushed through the crowd and entered.

“You can grant abilities with magic?! Maybe it’s possible for someone like my daughter, but you performing such tricks? That’s ridiculous!”

It was the Marquis of Schultz who had just come through the portal.

With an extremely angry face, he popped the cork of the potion he was holding and gulped down its contents.

“I know all about you making these strange potions and giving them to the knights!”

And when he stomped his foot hard as if to cause an earthquake, giant icicles rose up from the ground.

Those who saw this spectacle were startled and murmured.

“My goodness!”

“So the claim about creating abilities with his own magic was also a lie?”

“Strange potions, don’t tell me they were made with black magic…? Was he trying to feed such things to the knights and give them to us too?!”

“At that level, isn’t he a black magician rather than a magician?! Everything is illegal and fake!”

The nobles poured out criticism, angry that even the claim about creating abilities was fake.

Arjen’s mind went blank at the fact that his secret weapon, prepared to show the difference from Callipus, had disappeared.

‘…I… I was just…’

Thud.

He who had been staggering back and forth while receiving criticism collapsed on the spot.

His legs gave out and he couldn’t stand up. Arjen’s lips trembled.

“I was just… because I’m the king… because I should be in a higher position than you all…”

“If you’re a king, you should have shown kingly behavior!”

Someone shouted at his mumbling.

How dare you contradict my words?

Arjen instinctively flinched and glanced at his close knights, but there was no one to stand up for him.

“…”

The title of king, which had been like invincibility, no longer worked.

After becoming king, he had always thought.

Grace, that woman would have remained just a skilled magician if she hadn’t become queen.

Callipus, that man would have been destined to die protecting the king in the royal knights at best if not for the Croste family.

But when he was truly facing a life-threatening crisis, Arjen finally began to look at himself rather than others.

What about me?

If I hadn’t been king, what would I have left?

“…”

Arjen looked around with lifeless eyes.

No one was looking at him with sympathy or pity.

Above him, stripped of his position as king, only jealousy, lies, and hypocrisy remained.

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[-Frozen Royal Records-

King Arjen, who had led the Frozen Royal Family for 15 years, was sentenced to death.

He used black magic on his wife and queen, Grace Schultz, trying to silence the fact that he had conspired with the former Pose Duchy.

After injecting potions made from ice ability crystals into the royal knights, he falsely declared that he had created abilities with magic, causing unrest among the people.

Afterwards, under the orders of Grace who ascended to the throne, Duke Croste as her representative personally executed Arjen.

‘Gr, Grace… I was just, I’m the king so… please forgive me just once…’

When asked if he had any last words, Arjen reportedly answered like this.

With this single statement, his charges became illegal magic use plus attempted regicide, fraud, and impersonating a king.]

* * *

Flower rain fell from the central sky that welcomed the new king.

The day when a celebration banquet was held after King Grace’s coronation ceremony.

“Wow, the first banquet of a new era. How has everyone been? By the way, Duchess of Leet, I heard you were directly present at ‘that place’?”

The grandly held banquet was bustling with more nobles than ever before.

Perhaps because it was the first banquet held by the new king, even rural nobles who usually couldn’t attend due to lack of money were present without exception.

“Don’t even mention it. I’m someone who directly witnessed that ‘final’ situation…”

The topic that definitely became the hottest at this banquet was the downfall of the ‘former king’.

In reality, the actions of the Marquis of Schultz family led by former Queen Grace and Duke Callipus were rebellion, but since Arjen’s crimes were so great, it was treated as ‘something that should rightfully be done’ among the kingdom’s people.

“Duke Croste suddenly said that Her Majesty Grace was under black magic.

“Yes, and then?”

“Naturally, everyone including myself demanded the truth be revealed. But no matter how much that person Arjen called to Her Majesty Grace, Her Majesty couldn’t say anything…”

“My goodness. So everything we saw in the newspaper was true.”

“That’s right. In the midst of that, the Marquis of Schultz shouted that Arjen’s lies weren’t just this…”

The so-called Day of Truth.

People called the day the king changed by this name.

Although Arjen’s crimes were heinous, the royal transition was completed without a single casualty in a situation where Duke Callipus himself drew his sword and even the Duke of Schultz’s knights were mobilized.

Learning that the force trying to overthrow the kingdom was actually the king rather than rebels, everyone, noble or commoner, had no choice but to rejoice.

“But how did the Marquis of Schultz know about that?”

When the long-awaited question came out, the excited duchess said proudly.

“Speaking as a witness, it wasn’t just the Marquis of Schultz who revealed that. Lady Aisha was riding on his shoulders.”

“…on the Marquis’s shoulders?”

“Princess Aisha?”

“That’s right! The Princess is also an ice ability user. She must have immediately recognized what that potion was. Anyway, the Croste Ducal Family deserves the greatest credit for this incident.”

At her triumphant conclusion, the nobles who had been listening let out exclamations of “Wow!”

“I heard she’s only 5 years old… She really accomplished something incredible.”

“Exactly. Anyway, ability users seem to have something extraordinary about them from birth. It’s not for nothing that they’re the family guarding the North.”

And right at that moment.

“The Croste Ducal Family enters!”

At the gatekeeper’s announcement, the gazes of the nobles who had been absorbed in chatting turned toward the gate.

Every single one of them wore expressions welcoming today’s party’s main characters, second only to the King.

“My goodness. I need to go closer to see.”

“I’ll go with you!”

Soon, as the gate opened and a massive silhouette appeared, people stood on their tiptoes without exception.

Before them, the young lord and the Princess cradled in the giant Duke’s arms revealed themselves.

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