I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 130

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【Chapter 130】

That’s right.

Princess Aisha’s groom has not been decided yet.

Not receiving a reply to the marriage proposals could mean rejection, but…

‘If Princess Aisha meets our handsome son face to face at the event venue, who knows how her heart might change.’

It was a thought that occurred to everyone simultaneously.

“What fur coat for me, we need to buy lots of clothes for our son. You never know what might happen in the future, hohoho!”

“Oh my, Duchess, really. By the way, do you know? In that book club that only young ladies can participate in, our son ranked first in the handsome young marquis vote?”

“Good heavens. The young ladies must not have gotten a proper look at our son.”

Fire began to blaze in the eyes of the ladies who were quite confident in their sons’ appearances.

Only then did high society clearly target the fun point of this event.

The nobles began chattering about monsters and training and whatnot, but really ‘which young marquis would capture Princess Aisha’s heart.’

The quiet high society began to come alive with excitement.

However, the Croste Ducal Castle, which high society was paying such attention to, had no way of knowing about this situation.

* * *

One week before the Monster Training Facility completion ceremony event.

Nox returned alone to the ducal castle.

Nox politely declined the servants’ fuss about holding a party to celebrate his return after 10 years, and quietly sought out Callipus’s study.

It was to scold Kail for coming to the ducal castle without permission.

However.

“…Kail didn’t come?”

“Huh? But I heard he definitely left earlier than me?”

“If he had come, there would already be chaos on Aisha’s side. Didn’t he get sidetracked somewhere else on the way?”

That couldn’t be.

‘Actually, I secretly spied on that girl named Aisha. But she received tons of marriage proposals, so I told him the truth, and he said he didn’t care if she got married and that he’d be fine being a dog or something, then suddenly left.’

‘What? You spied on Princess Aisha?’

‘Yeah, Kail said that Nox intercepted the letters that girl sent? So I went because he asked me to, so if you’re going to scold someone, scold that guy. I just did what I was told.’

He even knew long ago that the Croste family had been intercepting letters between him and Aisha.

Since he was usually someone who didn’t show emotions on his face well, I just thought he was fine.

If Asbon said that much, then Kail must have definitely lost his reason.

‘It seems like it would take quite a long time to restore trust. What should I do.’

Unusually, his heart became a little uncomfortable.

In fact, he had never been one to worry much about relationships between people.

Working as an aide to the Croste family, following Kail to the snowy plains.

It was because he much preferred being buried in monster research rather than dealing with people.

But perhaps because he had grown attached over time, Kail began to worry him.

“Anyway, it must have been difficult coming here, so rest today. Go greet Aisha and Lucas too.”

“…No.”

Fortunately, the uncomfortable thoughts flew away thanks to his master’s kind words.

“Since I’m here anyway, I’ll make the reports I couldn’t tell you about before leaving.”

Nox began making the reports he couldn’t send by messenger while wiping his monocle that had gotten wet from the snowstorm with a towel.

“First, there are three main reports. One is that so-called ‘mutants’ appeared among the monsters that don’t obey Kail’s commands, and we saw more of them the deeper we went into the snowy plains.”

“You said before that there were one or two such guys. You mean there were much more?”

“The further north we went, the more there seemed to be. Conversely, the closer to the Croste Ducal Castle, the more gentle ones there were.”

“Then what we’ve been subjugating until now were relatively gentle ones.”

In addition, civilized monsters they hadn’t yet encountered properly. The lives of the snow people. Even newly discovered species.

“This is what I’ve recorded so far. The civilized monsters need a bit more research, but since His Majesty Grace said he would come to the Monster Training Facility completion ceremony, it would be good to report then.”

Nox flipped through the papers to see if there was anything he had recorded but not reported.

Fortunately, the report seemed perfect with nothing left out.

“Now that I’ve finished the report, I’ll go visit my research lab after a long time.”

“Wait a moment.”

That’s when it happened.

Callipus’s voice rang out low behind Nox, who was about to leave the study.

“Is there something wrong?”

Nox turned his head and pushed up his monocle.

It had definitely been a perfect report without a single mistake, but Callipus’s expression looked troubled for some reason.

“You’re going to the research lab?”

“Yes.”

“Without resting?”

“Huh? Yes. Since I’m here anyway, it’s better to finish work quickly…”

“You’re still acting like a workaholic.”

Callipus sighed, interrupting Nox’s words.

“The servants have already prepared bath water for you. Take a bath, eat, and get some sleep. You can go to the research lab tomorrow morning.”

At those words, Nox raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth,

“A workaholic? I can’t spend that long here, so to move more efficiently…”

His mouth shut in shock as he was speaking.

‘What are you going to do when you go back?’

It was because Kail, who seemed to overlap with himself, suddenly came to mind.

That guy becoming like that might have been because he raised him that way.

‘…This is troublesome in many ways.’

From the beginning, he had been thinking of Kail as half monster, that is, as a research subject.

He had resolved to raise him as a human, but that statement itself meant he hadn’t actually thought of Kail as human.

‘It suddenly feels like I have a runaway child.’

His head began to ache.

Where on earth was that guy? He couldn’t have just said that and actually left the snowy plains out of betrayal, could he?

“…Your Highness.”

“What.”

“Is Princess Aisha perhaps actively engaged in courtship activities?”

Nox’s mouth moved before his head.

Feeling awkward about asking such a question belatedly, he sighed and ran his hand through his hair.

But somehow, Kail’s face kept coming to mind.

Like how his complexion would darken every time he heard there were no letters.

Also, he was personally curious about Aisha’s marriage talk.

“Where did you hear such talk? Aisha has marriage proposals but no courtship. All the marriage proposals that came to the ducal castle were used as firewood.”

“Ah. I see.”

Having satisfied his curiosity, Nox nodded and left the study.

While feeling relieved, he also felt the unpleasantness of worrying about someone.

* * *

The cold of the north, where snowstorms raged all year round, began to subside a little.

Spring had come.

A peaceful afternoon when the snow had stopped for the first time in a long while.

“Hello, Lady. The weather has become so warm that I’m going for a walk to the back mountain with the Peris for the first time in a while.”

“…Yeah. Very warm indeed. So warm that it wouldn’t be strange if a person melted to death.”

“Huh?”

I ignored the surprised guide and looked up at the bright sky with cloudy eyes.

It would be around this time.

[The area around the city began to be colored with flowers. The time when people of the north would come out of their houses without exception, rejoicing that the snowstorm had stopped. Aebin had been waiting only for this time.]

In the original novel, the time when the 19-year-old male protagonist Aebin begins his full-scale revenge.

Aebin, who barely escaped from the Pose Duchy and the Kingdom of Odtia, tries to make a fresh start in the Frozen Kingdom, but fails.

The Frozen Kingdom was also already corrupted to the core internally due to King Arzen.

Moreover, when the Croste Ducal Family stopped their subjugation efforts, the monsters that swarmed in began crossing the border, and the nobles’ complaints and anxiety grew day by day.

He used this situation to recruit families in the Frozen Kingdom who wanted to eliminate monsters as allies, building his support base.

Families who wanted to eliminate monsters.

In other words, these were people who had harbored stronger hatred toward monsters than others from the beginning.

So, from the perspective of the Croste Family, who were looking at the possibility of harmony with monsters by twisting the original story, it was time for families that were practically their main enemies to slowly rise to the surface.

“Hmm. The Croste Ducal Family does need to build a support base outside the North as well.”

Of course, there was Grace Majesty firmly holding her ground in the central region, but that alone would make it difficult to easily suppress the Kingdom of Doctia.

There needed to be a support base.

Not just simple favorable relationships, but allies bound by solid contracts.

In that case…

In my hand, I still held one marriage proposal that I hadn’t discarded.

A very luxurious letter envelope with a silver shield drawn on it.

“Alright, I’ve made up my mind.”

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