I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 128

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【Chapter 128】

‘…What’s gotten into that guy?’

Nox hurriedly whispered to the person responsible for changing Kail.

“What did you say to make him act like that?”

“It’s classified.”

“Classified?”

“If you’re around eighteen, you’re allowed to have at least one secret, right?”

“What kind of… Wait, Kail was eighteen?”

“I don’t know. I’m just assuming he’s the same age as me since I’m eighteen.”

Nox’s face went blank at the groundless and shameless statement.

Though he had many things he wanted to retort, Nox was tired, so he ended the conversation by nodding while removing his monocle.

Teenagers, honestly.

* * *

‘I went to see Aisha.’

From the moment he heard Asbon’s words, Kail’s question was already decided.

“How is Aisha doing?”

“Hey. We haven’t seen each other in a while, but you’re not going to ask me how I’ve been or anything?”

“You came back alive. So you must have been fine.”

“Good grief.”

Asbon’s mouth fell open.

To think that staying up for several nights and traveling all the way to the ducal palace for his friend would result in such a dog-like situation.

“That answer just now made me regret choosing you as my most cherished guy recently.”

“Disgusting.”

Kail frowned.

But Asbon was used to such conversations with him, so he showed no signs of being affected.

If Asbon’s personality hadn’t matched his own from the beginning, he wouldn’t have kept him this close.

Pink hair. Light-colored eyes.

Asbon, who brought albinism to mind, was a ‘snowman’ born and raised in the snowy plains.

Snowman.

In fact, to the people of Frozen, snowmen were closer to monsters – abnormally tall and covered in white fur.

The people of the Frozen Kingdom had been too busy confronting and fighting monsters to maintain their safety.

Therefore, they never even thought that other forms of ‘humans’ could be living at the edge of the world.

But thanks to Kail, the two men who were able to penetrate deep into the snowy plains accidentally discovered a small village that seemed to be built by people.

That’s how they met Asbon, a village resident.

Kail had established a quite satisfactory symbiotic relationship with him.

In exchange for sharing Asbon’s duties of ‘monster hunting’ in the village, he provided lodging and food to Kail and Nox, who had been moving around without a place to stay.

Since they had been living like this for about three months, it was practically the same as living here now.

“Oh, Asbon. Kail. You’re back?”

“You both came back before sunset today!”

Kail responded to the villagers’ greetings with simple nods.

He often thought about it.

Perhaps he was born to protect these villagers.

Unlike the hostile humans, there was no one here who feared or despised him even knowing he was a Maein.

But.

“So how is Aisha doing?”

He had never once thought of this village as home.

They were just colleagues bound by a good mutual understanding.

The one he truly wanted to protect was in the duchy, and there was only one place he would return to.

The blue eyes that had given him a reason not to die.

Even if the eye color had changed, he thought of her every day as if the name Aisha had been imprinted on him.

Aisha, Aisha.

My sanctuary. My warm home.

But for someone thinking of the person he liked, his expression was as cold as the snowy plains.

“Three months ago, letters were definitely coming well. It’s been since then that they stopped.”

It was because Aisha’s letters hadn’t come for several months.

Aisha, who used to reply with meticulous handwriting to at least four out of ten letters he sent, had stopped sending letters at some point.

At first, he thought it was simply an oversight.

But when he discovered Nox secretly reading letters in the bedroom after saying ‘the messenger seems to be running a bit late.’

‘I realized he was deliberately intercepting Aisha’s letters.’

After that, Kail realized that some strange secret had developed between him and the Croste family.

No matter how much they had shared hardships together for ten years, Nox was a person of the Croste family.

He understood. After all, one of the reasons he had followed him was to monitor him.

In previous letters, Duke Calips seemed to worry about him, but ultimately tried to separate him from Aisha.

Neither of them could be trusted.

But Aisha was different.

“I believed in her. Aisha isn’t the type who wouldn’t reply to my letters.”

She was his person before she was a person of Croste.

“Duke Calips must have intercepted them. Aisha isn’t the type who wouldn’t reply to my letters.”

“Oh my, I see.”

Asbon’s expression stiffened awkwardly at the confident tone.

“Why?”

“Huh?”

“Why do you look like you ate shit?”

“…Well.”

The way he scratched the back of his neck was extremely suspicious.

When Kail narrowed his eyes and demanded an answer, Asbon, who couldn’t withstand his gaze, finally sighed and confessed.

“That girl Aisha. I think she’s going to get married soon.”

“?”

Kail didn’t answer.

It was closer to being unable to answer due to completely unexpected words.

But misunderstanding this as anger, Asbon began explaining the situation in detail.

“It’s true. There were over a hundred marriage proposals piled up around her, you know? There were bouquets, jewels, and whatnot… Duke Calips and that girl were holding bundles of marriage proposals and talking, it was quite a scene…”

“What exactly happens when she gets married.”

“What?”

“When she gets married, what exactly happens to Aisha?”

Kail, who had suddenly come to his senses, asked quietly, chewing on each syllable.

The pale pink eyes facing him began to slowly widen.

Asbon finally realized that Kail was more shaken than he had thought.

“…Why are you asking when you already know? Marriage is marriage.”

He was right.

Kail knew.

Marriage meant living together until death, having children, sleeping and waking up together like the couples in this village.

But to Kail, marriage implied a much greater meaning than the surface word.

So, if Aisha.

“…Usually people do it because they love each other.”

Like what Asbon was muttering while reading the situation, if she had found someone to love.

Then, couldn’t he live with Aisha? Couldn’t he return home?

“…Bullshit.”

“What?”

Kail, who had cursed to himself, wrapped the robe he had just taken off around his body again.

Asbon’s eyes widened at his appearance, as if he was about to go out.

“Hey, what are you doing? Where are you going again?”

“I don’t mind if Aisha likes another man and marries him.”

“What?”

“I heard the Croste family raises monsters like family these days?”

The words he spoke with such a nonchalant expression were shocking.

“I’m a monster too. If it comes to it, I’d be fine living as Aisha’s dog.”

“What?!”

What on earth just came out of his mouth…

While I was too stunned to react, Kail was already heading out the door.

“So what are you going to do, where are you suddenly going!”

“Tell Nox. That I’m going to the ducal palace first.”

“Hey! At least eat before you go!”

But by the time Asbon rushed outside, Kail had already disappeared.

“If you skip meals and leave again, I’m going to get scolded by our mom!”

Asbon’s panicked scream echoed through the dark night sky.

* * *

Unaware of Kail’s sudden outing, the Croste Ducal Castle was enveloped in a warm atmosphere for the first time in a while.

“The maids’ reaction is good. They’re enthusiastically burning them, saying when would they ever get to use such high-quality paper as kindling.”

At Dorian’s report, Callipus nodded slightly.

A few days ago.

The marriage proposals he had intended to handle together with Aisha were too numerous, and in the end, they couldn’t process them all at once.

Just as he was wondering what to do.

‘Father. The fireplace isn’t only in the study, right?’

The sharp-minded Aisha suggested using the remaining marriage proposals as kindling in the dormitories where the servants stayed.

How could even her thinking be so efficient?

She had disposed of the marriage proposals without unnecessary waste.

“She’s really smart.”

“Pardon?”

“My daughter.”

When Callipus raised his head, Dorian was startled.

It wasn’t even a significant action, just lifting his head, but due to the unique intimidating presence emanating from his build and gaze, even after 10 years, Dorian couldn’t get used to him.

“Princess Aisha is certainly smart.”

As he carefully answered while reading his mood, Callipus, who had stood up and pounded the desk, spoke forcefully.

“At that level, she’s beyond smart—she’s a genius. Receiving a hundred marriage proposals to secretly steal her friend’s pen pal correspondence? What other young lady could pull off such a thing?”

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