I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 144

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【Episode 144】

“…Huh?”

“Kail, we’ll be late at this rate. Hurry up!”

My mind went completely blank at those unexpected words.

The conversation was cut short there.

Because I could hear Nox’s voice shouting from far away, unable to wait any longer.

“So postpone the marriage. Let’s see when I get back.”

Kail seemed pleased with my dazed expression, showing a mischievous but gentle smile before disappearing toward the carriage.

‘…What’s with him? Is he teasing me?’

Just in case, I pinched my cheek, but only my innocent cheek hurt.

Since it wasn’t a dream, that cunning young man really was Kail.

What was even stranger was that my earlobes burned hot after hearing those words.

My heart wouldn’t listen to me either.

Usually when I saw Kail, I’d feel drowsy like taking a nap in a peaceful field.

But now I felt restless, as if someone was tickling around my heart with a feather.

I quickly covered my ears with my hands and ran into the castle.

“…What is his true identity?”

I thought I was raising a cat, but could he have been a fox all along?

* * *

A few days after Kail and Nox left.

“Dandelion, your brother’s back-!”

My complicated feelings about Kail were brief, as Lucas returned from the monster subjugation.

He spread both arms wide as he entered through the castle entrance.

“Brother’s ba-, ugh.”

“Nothing’s changed even though I haven’t been here in a while! You’re still this small, how are you going to survive in this harsh world.”

I eat well, sleep well, and live well even if I’m small.

When I was tightly embraced in his huge arms, his solid chest pressed against my face and I couldn’t breathe.

Brother’s body became hard as stone every time he returned from monster subjugation.

Just how much harder was he planning to get?

Honestly, greeting Lucas was becoming quite a burden.

‘But I’m the youngest of the Crosht Ducal Family. I should naturally endure this much.’

“Should we eat some cake together after so long?”

“Yeah. Cake. Good, kek.”

Crumbling in his embrace with the youngest’s sense of duty, I trudged over and settled at the tea table.

I rarely got to see Lucas’s face lately as he became busier over time.

Monster subjugation and participating in large and small meetings happening in the Croste household were natural.

Lucas was handling all the general head-of-house duties in place of Father, who had been away for a long time due to Kail’s matter.

And today especially-!

“So how did it go?”

When I asked with sparkling eyes, his shoulders flinched slightly as he chewed his cake.

“…What?”

“What do you mean what, Young Lady Marsha from the Marquis of Dalrio’s family. You had tea time with that young lady.”

That’s right.

Lucas was reluctantly doing courtship activities lately due to Father’s nagging about marriage.

There were about 10 young ladies carefully selected through Dorian’s strict standards.

He had to meet all 10 of them.

‘Then there would be 10 interesting episodes?!’

Sparkle sparkle.

I sent a sparkling gaze while supporting my chin with both hands, but contrary to my expectations, he sighed first.

“I don’t know. Just, when I first met her, Young Lady Marsha’s expression was good…”

“It was good? What was good? Young Lady Marsha likes you, Brother?”

My goodness. This is a green light, isn’t it?

“Yeah. At first it was like that…”

“But?”

His expression darkened a little.

“I don’t know what the problem was, but by the end of our conversation, the young lady was terrified, saying my expression was scary or something… No, wait, why am I talking about this with my little sister. Just eat your cake!”

Suddenly a long fork slipped into my mouth.

“Eek, munch munch.”

I was surprised, but I had to finish the cake that entered my mouth.

As I hurriedly chewed with rabbit eyes, he looked at me as if I was cute and smiled slightly, his stiff expression softening.

“Anyway, don’t talk about courtship.”

…If he had faced Young Lady Marsha with exactly that expression just now, she wouldn’t have said he looked scary.

I let out a deep sigh.

“Brother. Soften your expression when talking with the young ladies. At this rate, they’ll all run away.”

“I’m being forced to do courtship activities I don’t want to do, and now I have to act with my expressions too?”

“I’m saying you should show some consideration for the people who made time for you. At the banquet too, all the young masters ran away because of you.”

“Ah, right, about the banquet.”

“Hm?”

“While I was dealing with the young masters, some very strange rumors spread about you and two men. What was that about?”

“…”

“You’re not really in that kind of relationship with Kail, are you?”

My goodness. I shouldn’t have mentioned the young masters.

It was quite a while ago so I had forgotten about it.

Lucas asked with his eyes gleaming ominously as if he had been waiting for this day.

By the way, lately I had become particularly sensitive to the word ‘Kail’, and I was in a very strange state where my earlobes would burn just hearing the ‘Ka’ sound.

Really, this mouth of mine is so troublesome.

“Munch munch.”

I took a big bite of cake and deliberately ate noisily.

It meant I was too busy eating this to answer.

“Oh ho. What’s this?”

But he wouldn’t let me off so easily, narrowing his eyes as if he had caught something.

“Did something happen between you and that guy?”

Shake shake-.

Something did happen, but I didn’t want to talk about it.

If I had to say…

Kail was talking to me about marriage but couldn’t bring himself to say the word ‘wedding night’ and stormed off?

And when I went to greet him because he was going to the snowy plains, I received something like a marriage proposal?

‘If I tell the truth, Kail will get at least the death penalty.’

After swallowing the cake, I blinked innocently.

“No. Nothing happened. Oh, right. Kail and Nox fought but I helped them reconcile.”

“I have disagreements with my subordinate knights all the time too, so I’m not interested in that. What happened between you and Kail after the banquet?”

“That’s…”

“Don’t tell me.”

Brother’s gaze grew sharper as he cut off my words.

Tap, tap.

And the ominous sound of fingers tapping the tea table.

“…Why, what!”

“You.”

“Why… why me!”

My voice got louder for no reason like a guilty person giving themselves away, but Lucas remained unshaken.

Tap, tap.

He just drummed his fingers with a thoughtful expression.

‘What, what is it? Why is he acting like this…?’

My heart pounded like a drum, following the rhythm of his fingers.

His gaze seemed to pierce through to the truth, gradually shaking the composure I had barely managed to maintain.

“Don’t tell me you.”

“…What did I…”

“Don’t tell me you and Kail, just the two of you…”

Just as he was about to continue his muttering.

“I didn’t!”

Finally, my heart exploded and I jumped up, shouting.

“I didn’t do anything! We barely even met before I left, and when we briefly talked before my departure, Kail just said what he wanted to say one-sidedly so I couldn’t even respond, so how could I and Kail, huh? Just the two of us, do what! This is so unfair!”

“Wh-what’s happening?!”

The sound was so loud that the maid outside came running.

Soon an awkward silence settled in the room.

When I came to my senses, all that remained was my rough breathing, Lucas with his eyes wide like a frightened rabbit, and the maid.

“…Uh, um. Nothing happened. You can go.”

He seemed flustered that I would get this angry, even stammering as he sent the maid away.

And still with a frightened expression, he glanced at me sideways and picked up his fork with trembling hands.

“Well… right. Let’s finish eating the cake. Northern strawberries really are the best. Yeah.”

“Uh, yeah.”

Feeling embarrassed as well, I hurriedly sat down and gulped my tea.

‘I didn’t need to get that angry, why did I act like that just now?’

“I’m sorry for getting angry…”

“No. I, I’m also sorry for asking something unnecessary. It must be a sensitive topic.”

After exchanging apologies, we proceeded with a quiet and suffocating tea time with our mouths firmly shut.

Marriage proposals and Kail.

We had brought up the topic for no reason and only deepened each other’s worries.

Just as the atmosphere at the tea table was settling into awkwardness.

Knock knock-

A polite knocking sound came from beyond the closed door.

“Who is it?”

“Well, there’s no one who should be coming… Come in for now!”

Thanks to someone breaking the silence at just the right time, we felt strangely pleased and allowed entry.

“L-Lady!”

The grateful person who came to intervene between us was none other than the guide.

“W-well. There’s been a bit of a problem, and the Duke isn’t here right now and all the advisors can’t figure out what to do…”

“Huh?”

Of course, there was no law saying his business would be good news.

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