I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 114

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【Chapter 114】

A few days ago.

For Kail, life at Croste Ducal Castle had somehow become routine.

One, two, one-two.

In the morning, he would wake up and do stretching exercises as the Captain of the Guards had taught him, then eat breakfast.

“Good morning.”

“You’re getting good at using formal speech now?”

“Kail, you came early again today.”

“Yes.”

After finishing his meal, he would go out to the training ground.

Following the Knight Commander’s commands, he would run five laps with the others and begin training.

Unlike the others who used real swords, Kail still struck wooden dummies with a wooden sword.

Thwack-.

“Kail, be more agile! Don’t let your posture collapse!”

Thwack-!

After working up a sweat and taking a shower, he would receive etiquette education together with Lucas.

“Now, you’ve been invited to a social gathering. When you enter and converse with people, what topics would be good?”

Lucas raised his hand at the tutor’s question.

“I would talk about the atmosphere of this gathering or compliment the other person’s clothes or accessories.”

“Good. Then what topic would you use for conversation, Lord Kail?”

Kail said.

“I would ask where Aisha is.”

“Don’t you think mentioning Lady Aisha might make the other person feel you’re not focused on them?”

“Yes.”

“Yes?”

“Yes. So what?”

“…Lord Kail.”

The teacher’s eyebrows slowly rose.

He had only given an honest answer. Just because it might hurt the other person’s feelings, he had to endure a 30-minute supplementary lesson.

Through this lesson, Kail realized how dangerous honest answers could be.

‘People are materialistic.’

After learning how to adapt to human society like this, he would eat dessert or play hide-and-seek with Aisha.

“Kail. What did you learn today?”

Aisha was very interested in him.

She would usually ask what he had learned that day, and what thoughts he had about what he learned.

In preparation for such times, Kail would bring his wooden sword when playing with her. In fact, the most enjoyable part of his day was showing Aisha what he had learned.

Both the knight lessons and etiquette education lessons – he only learned them because Aisha was happy about it.

“Like this, and like this. Hiyah!”

“Oh. You’ve improved a lot?”

When Aisha said that and her ruby-like eyes sparkled, it felt like compensation for all the hardships of the day.

“Right?”

Hmph.

Kail’s shoulders rose. Without realizing his earlobes had turned red, he excitedly stood up from his spot.

“I learned this too. How nobles converse.”

“What’s that?”

“Um. Aisha is Young Lady Aisha, and I’m Young Lord Kail. We met at a gathering.”

“Oho. I know this!”

Then Aisha confidently stood up, grabbed the hem of her dress, and bowed her head.

“Hello. Young Lord Kail. Nice to meet you. I’m Aisha of the Croste family.”

Oh. She really seems like a noble.

Though she actually was a real noble, only then did Kail place one hand on his chest and bow his head with his hair standing on end.

“Hello, Princess Aisha. I’m called Kail. And…”

Hmm. What did the teacher say to say after this?

“Princess Aisha.”

“Yes?”

“You look beautiful today. Looking at you makes my heart go thump-thump.”

When he spoke as the teacher had taught him, reading like from a textbook, Aisha burst into laughter.

“Hahaha! What was that!”

“He said it was a way to make a young lady feel good. I learned it from my teacher.”

“Hmm. It wasn’t bad, but too awkward. To make someone feel good, you see…”

Suddenly Aisha stood up and took a step closer to him.

‘Huh.’

Due to the closer distance than expected, startled Kail tried to step back.

“Lord Kail also has beautiful eye color. It’s so mysterious.”

Her gentle voice captured his footsteps and his whole body froze.

“…”

Was it because jewel-like red eyes filled his vision?

For a moment, Kail’s world was filled entirely with Aisha.

“Kail, your answer?”

“…”

“Kail?”

Normally. Usually when Aisha complimented him, he would feel good and show her more of what he had learned that day.

But.

“…Uh, um.”

“Kail? Kail, where are you going?”

“Bathroom.”

Patter patter.

“Kail?!”

Quickly turning around, he ran straight out of the playroom and fled outside the castle.

It suddenly felt like someone was tickling his skin with a feather. It was so ticklish that he couldn’t bear the feeling without running.

Why? When Aisha complimented him, he should feel good.

Why was he getting this strange feeling?

When he stopped after running frantically, he had arrived at the snowy forest.

Kail crouched down, wiping his flushed face with the back of his hand as if washing it.

Though his running body had stopped, his heart was still beating fiercely as if it were still running.

‘Lord Kail also has beautiful eye color. It’s so mysterious.’

Recalling Aisha’s words again, he quickly lowered his head and shook his body vigorously.

“…I can’t play with Aisha today.”

No. To be precise, he didn’t think he could look at Aisha’s face today.

He muttered reluctantly, wondering what this emotion he was feeling for the first time in his life was.

But it felt like he shouldn’t ask Aisha about it.

“I should ask the teacher later.”

Sniff. Feeling awkward for no reason, Kail touched under his nose and looked toward the ducal palace from that spot.

He wanted to return to the castle, but then he would encounter Aisha.

‘If I run into her…’

Kail’s face reddened again and he finally sighed.

And until the sun set and night fell, until the lights reflected in the ducal palace windows went out one by one and Aisha fell asleep, he didn’t move from that spot.

It was truly a long, long day.

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The next day.

“It was because of Aisha’s breath.”

He got up with tired eyes and muttered while sitting on the bed.

He had waited for Aisha to fall asleep and only snuck into his room when dawn came.

Even so, unable to sleep, he pondered all night and came to one conclusion.

“Aisha’s breath is too strong, you know? I should tell her when I see her today.”

It was that he had gotten a fever because of Aisha’s hot breath.

“Hmph.”

Kail, who had made up an excuse that wasn’t even really an excuse, went through his daily routine while waiting for the time to meet Aisha.

“It’s because of her breath!”

When doing sword training with a wooden sword, he cried out about breath instead of battle cries.

“It was because of her breath. I’m not weird.”

“Master Kail. You need to focus during class time, don’t you?”

Even when getting scolded by his tutor, he kept muttering to not forget what he wanted to say to Aisha.

However.

“Where is Aisha?”

“Didn’t you hear? Starting today, Lady Aisha has to take magic lessons, so she’ll come late.”

Thud-!

At Nox’s words, thunder struck above Kail’s head.

Aisha wasn’t here. No, Aisha was taking lessons!

‘Aisha has a glass head though. What if she loses her memory from the stress of taking lessons?’

He suddenly became anxious.

Last night he had only thought about her breath and couldn’t address it properly, but thinking about it now, he felt bad about running away and leaving Aisha behind.

“What should I do. If Aisha loses her memory…”

He paced around the portal and whined like a lost puppy.

Soon the portal moved, and when Aisha appeared-

“Aisha!”

Surprised Kail ran toward Aisha with a patter. But he wasn’t the only one surprised.

“Huh, Kail? Why are you here… More importantly, why did you disappear like that last night?”

Aisha, who was getting off the portal, was also startled and looked at Kail. Then as if suddenly remembering, she asked about last night’s events, but,

“Aisha. Are you okay? Your memory. Do you remember me?”

Kail, who couldn’t possibly hear that, immediately started touching Aisha’s cheeks and examining her.

“Ugh-.”

Her flour-like cheeks stretched according to his touch.

Kail examined Aisha thoroughly with eagle eyes.

“Your cheeks are still the same. Your eyes are still pretty…”

That’s when it happened.

Smack-

A sharp hamster hand chop knocked away Kail’s hand.

When he came to his senses and stared at Aisha, she had already raised her terrifying triangular eyes and crossed her arms.

“What are you suddenly talking about? I’m asking why you disappeared like that last night?”

Ah.

Kail finally told her the answer he had been pondering all day.

“Your breath was too strong. So I ran away.”

“…Breath?”

“You came close to me yesterday. But your breath was too strong.”

“I did?”

“Yeah.”

Aisha tilted her head.

“…That can’t be right.”

But Kail, who had brainwashed himself all day, wasn’t going to back down.

“No. If it was strong enough to make me run away, it must have been really strong.”

“…Is that so?”

“Yeah.”

“Uh… sorry.”

Whether she believed it or not, Aisha scratched the back of her neck with a flustered expression.

Kail spoke in an even more confident tone.

“From now on, you have to breathe carefully, okay?”

“Y, yeah.”

Kail, who had unintentionally gaslighted his friend, nodded his head with a happy face.

Since Aisha promised not to blow her breath, he wouldn’t feel his heart pounding or that tickling feeling like being touched by feathers anymore.

‘Thank goodness.’

That’s what he thought, but-

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