I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 138

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【Chapter 138】

Certainly, Aisha had changed beyond recognition over the past 10 years.

Her chubby cheeks had disappeared, making her facial features more defined, and the neckline glimpsed between her golden thread-like hair was as slender as a deer’s.

That’s right.

Aisha had changed.

To a somewhat bewildering degree.

He recalled the soft wrist he had grabbed out of habit earlier.

As if the sensation still lingered, his palm felt warm.

Unaware of Kail’s palm situation, Aisha crossed her arms and asked seriously.

“You did well getting permission from Grace Majesty and Father… but does Nox know about this too?”

What would it be like to hold her hand?

Would her white hand, like her slender wrist, fit snugly in his palm?

“Not yet.”

“Not yet? Nox is really worried though?”

It was then that he, who had been lost in idle thoughts, came to his senses.

Nox.

A person who had disappeared from his mind since meeting Grace.

His jaw tensed slightly.

“I thought Duke Calips Crosht would have informed him since he knew.”

“But when I saw him earlier, he seemed unaware? Since you explained it to me, shouldn’t you go see Nox too?”

Aisha’s brow furrowed slightly.

“Actually, I’m worried about Nox. I saw him next to Father at the banquet, and his face went pale when Grace Majesty introduced you.”

Had that happened?

He actually hadn’t noticed because he wasn’t interested.

“He even took off his monocle and blinked when he saw you talking with the nobles?”

But seeing Aisha’s worried expression, Kail nodded slightly.

“I didn’t know, but he was there.”

“Shouldn’t you explain it to Nox too?”

Is that so? Should I go see him?

Is Nox that important to me?

No, would Nox even think of our relationship to that extent?

He thought some trust had sprouted during their 10 years of sharing hardships together, but just thinking about the fact that he had intercepted Aisha’s letters made him feel as if cold water had been poured over him.

He naturally knew that if Nox had to choose between the family and himself, he would choose the family.

But he hadn’t expected him to intercept everything that was his without a word.

“…”

He held no ill feelings toward Nox.

He had simply misunderstood who Nox was.

“I’ll talk to Nox too.”

Kail answered casually.

Wanting to change the subject, he slowly rose from his seat.

“Really? You’ll tell him?”

As Aisha also stood up and followed him chattering, his long legs temporarily stopped to match her pace.

“Yeah. I’ll tell him right away.”

“To think you became the Young Marquis of the House of Shulets without any consultation.”

It was when they were leaving the garden entrance.

A familiar voice came from beyond.

“Let’s return to the Marquis’ Castle, Young Marquis.”

Though the tone was sarcastic, his face was rigidly hardened as if angry.

It was Nox.

He had been frozen in shock from the banquet’s chaos and belatedly discovered the two leaving.

He had been searching for Kail ever since.

The perpetrator standing before him seemed too distracted by Aisha to even notice his presence.

“Leaving the snowy plains without a word, fine, I can understand that. But to cause such a commotion and not say a word to me. Did you feel like you’d become invisible?”

Nox stood before Kail and spilled out the words he had been holding back all this time.

“When I arrived at the Ducal Palace and heard you hadn’t come yet, I made every possible assumption. Our Young Marquis Kail of the Sletz Family has nobly become an aristocrat.”

“Wouldn’t that be worry rather than… assumptions?”

Aisha whispered timidly from the side.

“Never mind then.”

But when the two men didn’t listen, she quietly closed her chick-like beak and nodded.

“You didn’t even come find me after the banquet ended? Since you became a noble, did you think I would come find you myself? I’m also a noble in my own right, Young Marquis Kail.”

Though he wasn’t openly angry, the low voice that came out rapid-fire was actually more frightening.

However, only Aisha felt that way.

Kail merely stared at Nox silently.

It seemed like a cold wind like the snowy plains was swirling in his purple eyes.

“…Kail. Let’s talk alone, just the two of us.”

Seeing this, Nox sighed and tried to grab Kail’s wrist, but.

“I don’t think someone who intercepted my letters without consultation should be saying that.”

Tap.

Kail lightly brushed off his touch and quickly passed by him.

Aisha, who had been looking back and forth between Nox frozen like stone and Kail walking away, asked in a pale voice.

“Where should I go?”

“…Please take care of Kail.”

When Nox answered while slowly rubbing his face with his palm, Aisha nodded and quickly disappeared.

Things had gone completely wrong.

“…Good Lord.”

Nox let out a short groan, feeling strangely lost.

The Kail he had known since childhood had learned many emotions over 10 years.

In that process, he had thought this innocent child would someday learn the emotion of betrayal too.

He just hadn’t expected to be the target of it.

“What to do, how to do it, where to start solving this…”

Unable to continue his words, Nox bit his lower lip and began walking aimlessly.

He had realized it too late.

Nox Ilias.

The fact that the small boy within his cold self had, at some point, become more precious than the Croste Family or monsters could compare to.

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Several days had passed, but there was no news of Kail and Nox reconciling.

‘Is it okay to leave them like this?’

I didn’t interfere because it didn’t seem right for me to get involved in their business, but since both of them had such a strong presence in the Ducal Palace, tension filled the entire castle.

Especially me.

I’m the most uncomfortable.

“Kail, want to go see Bibi Grandmother after a long time? I’ll show you around the Monster Training Facility too… Pfft!”

“…Aisha?”

This was already the umpteenth time.

Even while talking to Kail, I inevitably had to spit out orange juice.

Because I made eye contact with Nox in the distance, wearing a plant headband and crouched among the flowers.

“Kail. Over there…”

Shake shake.

When I tried to point at Nox with my finger, the dark green-blue eyes behind the monocle firmly shook their head.

‘He could just apologize to Kail and say he’s sorry, so why is he acting like that?’

Even when having lunch with Kail.

Even when lounging around in the garden.

Even when hanging out with the Peris after a long time.

Glinting-.

Look at that. Wherever I go, that monocle reflecting so brightly white from the shadowy places.

At this point, Kail, who has keener senses than me, must have noticed, but seeing how he doesn’t turn his head toward Nox even once, he’s definitely pretending not to know on purpose.

“This isn’t right….”

Greeting a new morning, I muttered drowsily as I opened my eyes.

They say when whales fight, the shrimp’s back gets broken, and suddenly I felt like I was that pitiful shrimp.

This can’t go on.

“Who’s going to guarantee my mental and physical health when I keep getting startled by that glinting glasses?”

But I can’t avoid seeing both of them either.

I shot up from my lying position and made a resolution.

“I guess I’ll have to talk to Nox about this.”

After firmly deciding to meet Nox right away, I changed clothes and opened the door—.

“Lady Aisha. Please help me.”

This time, Nox came to find me on his own.

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“…So you want to apologize, but the words ‘I’m sorry’ won’t come out?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

We entered Nox’s research lab where no one would come and went into an emergency meeting.

To summarize what he said:

Just like Father intercepted Kail’s letters, Nox also intercepted my letters, but Kail caught him.

“I wanted to explain my position, but my mouth just wouldn’t open. So I was waiting for the right timing while just watching Kail.”

“Yeah, thanks to that my vision kept glinting.”

“Everything is clearly my fault. The problem is I want to calm Kail’s anger but don’t know how to do it.”

Oh ho?

“Nox. I figured out the problem with this situation.”

“Please tell me.”

I touched my chin and pointed out the facts.

“You don’t see people as individuals in the first place. And you don’t even care when people call you a weirdo.”

“I’m glad I spoke to you about this, Lady. You’re right. That was my personality.”

As expected, a capital T.

A normal person would be shocked as if their heart was wounded upon hearing this, but Nox actually pushed up his glasses as if he found it interesting.

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