I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 123

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【Chapter 123】

“Now that oppa is going to become the head of the family, he needs to find a young lady who shares his values… Ugh.”

“I told you I’m not thinking about marriage yet.”

This was the problem.

To be recognized as the head of a family, one needed to establish a stable household in addition to having the abilities of an heir, but my brother kept pretending not to know about it.

As I floundered with my cheek caught in his large palm, I heard a long sigh from beside me.

“You’re both perfectly fine when you’re alone, but why do you revert to being children when you’re together? Aisha, you sit next to Father, and Lucas, you go patrol the estate right now.”

“What? But I just met Dandelion?”

“That’s exactly why you should go. You said you’d just look at your sister’s face and then go on patrol immediately.”

“But still, just 10 more minutes…”

“You are the future of Croste.”

At that unexpected profound statement, Lucas’s blue eyes slowly widened.

“…Yes, that’s right. I am the prospective head of the Croste family. I’ll go right away and work hard.”

Lucas was exactly the same as 10 years ago.

He would act like a mischievous child, but became serious the moment family matters were mentioned.

Actually, rather than serious, it seemed like he’d been overly brainwashed and turned into a fool.

“Aisha. Oppa is leaving. Don’t cry saying you miss me. I’ll patrol and come right back, so stay here quietly.”

Finally, as my cheek escaped from his hand, I quickly pulled my head back and glared at him sharply.

“I won’t cry, and I’ll just read the messages and then preview my Academy studies, so I won’t be here. See you at dinner.”

“…You were cuter when you were 5 years old.”

“Huh?”

“Never mind. Make sure to eat dinner together.”

Lucas ruffled my hair with a dissatisfied expression and then disappeared.

Good heavens.

He looks like a scary adult, but he’s still a baby!

“Father, what should we do about that brother of mine?”

I asked while touching my cheek that still retained his warmth.

“What do you mean what should we do? When you’re not around, people are actually afraid of him. The problem is he suddenly becomes a child when he meets you.”

“True… Oh, Father. Anyway, let’s check quickly!”

Now that Lucas was gone, I finally remembered why I came here.

Once a month, the day when messages from Kail and Nox arrive.

Today was that day.

“Right. Let’s read the messages now.”

“Yes!”

I giggled and stuck close to his side.

The first message Callipus unfolded was from Nox.

Most of it was reports about monsters, so I was about to skim through it without much interest.

However, one strange sentence caught my eye.

[Greetings, Your Grace. And to Lady Aisha who must be reading this alongside you.

Another month has passed. This time I have about two matters to report.

The first is about the pants I requested last time. The pants were a bit long for me, so I had Kail wear them. Please send a slightly smaller size next time.]

“…?”

I read the sentence again in surprise.

‘The pants were long so he had Kail wear them? But Nox should be tall too…?’

Though shorter than Father, I thought he was around 180cm.

‘Then just how tall has Kail grown?’

Just as I had grown a lot in 10 years, Kail must have grown too, but I hadn’t expected him to grow taller than 180cm.

Wait, I’m just over 160cm…

My face flushed with confusion as I quickly calculated.

So Kail is now 30cm taller than me?

’10 years ago, I was slightly taller than him?!’

Good heavens.

Now Kail is taller than me? Well, he’s a man so it’s inevitable, but still, isn’t that too tall?

I felt like I had somehow lost to Kail.

“Father.”

“What.”

“Father, you’re so tall, so why didn’t I reach 180cm?”

When I glared at him resentfully, my father, who had closed his mouth for a moment, offered words of comfort.

“You’re only 15 years old. You’ll grow more from here.”

“Is 180cm possible?”

“It seems more realistic for me to crush that guy than for you to reach 180cm.”

“Then let’s go with the latter.”

“Right. From now on, I should make that guy kneel before you.”

We reached a dramatic agreement with a handshake.

However.

“…Father?”

“Mm. I’m reading.”

Both Father’s and my expressions hardened even more after reading the next sentence.

And for good reason, as Nox’s next words were equally shocking.

[The next report is about the discovery of a new species. We have discovered a monster race that has formed a civilization. Of course, it’s at a primitive level, but they seem to be higher life forms with their own class divisions and occupations. Soon, Kail and I plan to investigate them.]

“It would be good to deploy additional personnel to the snowy plains. Tell the knight commanders there will be an emergency meeting in one hour.”

“Yes, understood.”

Callipus quickly formulated the next plan.

Dorian, the aide standing beside him, bowed his head at the command.

He had been working in place of Nox for 10 years now.

I was left in a daze by myself.

Civilized monsters? Monsters forming communities?

It seemed unbelievable, but thinking about it carefully, it wasn’t such an unfamiliar story.

It was definitely something I had seen somewhere before.

Specifically, in the original novel.

‘Hmm.’

I frowned.

They weren’t even described in the main story, but were briefly mentioned in a few sentences in the side story.

They had human forms, and even as adults, they were about 100cm tall, wasn’t it?

Some called them fairy-like, while others called them dwarves.

Also, they used special staffs to wield the ‘ability to overlap time.’

But that was all I could remember.

It was such an old memory, and actually, the main story of the side story was about Callipus, who was more popular than the protagonist.

It was an IF side story about what would have happened if Callipus had continued living instead of dying to the protagonist.

“Our daughter is lost in thought again?”

Just then.

A long, straight thumb gently touched my furrowed brow.

When I came to my senses, Father was looking at me with his chin propped up.

“Me?”

“Yes. I need to do some ironing here.”

“…Huh?”

I grabbed Father’s thumb and rubbed my brow smoothly.

I must have been unconsciously frowning while lost in thought.

“Civilized monsters, that’s fascinating, isn’t it?”

I casually mentioned what I had been pondering, pretending it was nothing.

Of course, the novel story was naturally kept secret from Father.

“That’s true. For now, I’ll have them provide full support to Nox’s side for the investigation. Still, just in case, I should send word to be careful of scorpions.”

“Yes. That sounds good.”

If some concrete information comes to mind, I might be able to tell Father about it indirectly.

‘Hmm. I might remember if I keep mulling over the novel’s side story parts.’

For now, I’ll pass on that.

There was something else important here.

“Father!”

And that was.

“If you’re done reading Nox’s message, shall we read Kail’s now?”

I leaned forward with my elbows on the desk.

Sparkle sparkle.

When I gave him such an intensely bright gaze that it was almost burdensome, he looked toward the window and muttered, pretending not to notice my stare.

“It seems there’s no message from Kail this time.”

Crash-!

At his words, it felt like thunder and lightning struck above my head.

Well, of course it would—

“What? Why? There wasn’t one last month either!”

“…Right. Last month, as you know, he couldn’t write a message because he got a stomachache from eating something wrong.”

“The month before that, there was no message from Kail either. There was only one from Nox.”

“That’s right.”

“So you’re saying Kail hasn’t written a message for three months now? To me?”

“…”

That’s right.

The messages that had been sent monthly in long portions for 10 years had been cut off exactly three months ago.

Callipus closed his mouth for a moment.

Looking at my increasingly sharp eyes, he seemed to be pondering how to resolve this situation.

That’s when it happened.

“Ah, come to think of it, there’s a postscript written in the message Nox sent?”

“What?”

Hastily changing the subject, he pointed somewhere with his finger.

Following his gesture, there was a roughly scrawled sentence written at the very bottom line.

[P.S. Kail seems busy with training. He collapses as soon as he enters the hut. He says he’ll definitely send a message next time.]

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