I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 150

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【Chapter 150】

Lucas was horrified by the Peris’ assault.

“Did you all suddenly go crazy? Why, why are you doing this!”

“Kuu! (I’ll lick your tears away!)”

“Kuuut! (No, I’ll lick them away!)”

The Peris, who all wanted to become the heroes of success, licked his face.

Lucas, who refused to admit defeat until the end, turned his head and tried to shake off the Peris, but even he was helpless against the multitude of fluffy creatures.

“Crazy, don’t lick… don’t lick… uhahahak!”

Finally, Lucas, unable to endure it, burst into laughter mixed with screams.

“…Isn’t that Young Master Lucas’s voice?”

“Indeed. He looked upset when he was climbing the ice wall stairs. Fortunately, it seems he’s recovered his spirits.”

The sentries guarding the ice wall in the distance smiled as they watched Lucas surrounded by Peris.

As the Peri said.

Humans don’t laugh because they’re happy, but become happy because they laugh.

“Kyu! (Lucas laughed!)”

“Kuut! (Mission successful!)”

If you lick their face mercilessly, they laugh, and if they laugh, they’ll be happy.

“Kyuut! (Let’s go back!)”

The Peris, pleased with their first successful mission, left the unconscious Lucas behind without looking back.

* * *

The appointment with Count Rowan was quickly arranged.

When I suggested that I was curious about the warm south and wanted to visit his territory, Rowan gladly invited Lucas and me.

Before that, I wanted to have some conversation with Brother Lucas about what happened before.

But Brother was even busier than I thought, and time passed relentlessly.

‘Baby warriors. Did you do well comforting Brother?’

‘Kut! (Of course!)’

‘Ku, kuu? (We licked his tears and he burst into laughter later?)’

At least it was fortunate that thanks to the Peris, Brother did laugh.

And on the day of departure.

‘…Is it real that I’m departing for the south without being able to say anything?’

I was sitting alone in the carriage, or more precisely, together with Chichichi.

And Lucas, who hadn’t arrived yet, seemed unlikely to be able to go.

Really, because he was too busy.

I would have understood if Brother had said ‘since the schedule is busy’ let’s call him here instead when I suggested inviting the Count to the ducal palace.

“Should I have just handled it alone… The fact that I got entangled with Rowan is also because of me in a way.”

Father is busy, and Brother is busy too.

But I asked my busy brother to go to the south for a month because of me.

‘Unable to solve my own problems and reaching out to family members. I’m the worst youngest.’

Thunk thunk.

I hit my head as a sign of reflection and looked at Chichichi and asked.

“So we must do well. Got it?”

Of course, I wasn’t going to Rowan Count’s estate without any plan.

Before revealing Count Rowan’s identity, I first needed to find out if he was really a spy.

In that process, Chichichi would play an important role!

“Chiik!”

Chichichi made a professional expression and saluted with his tiny pink hand the size of a millet grain.

As I was exchanging meaningful glances with Chichichi, I heard a knock.

Oh. Is there something I didn’t pack? Is it the maid?

“Come in.”

But contrary to my expectation, the person who opened the door was not a maid but Lucas.

“Why are you saying ‘come in’…?”

Weren’t you unable to go?

Then I suddenly looked at his face and was shocked.

Because his left eye area was swollen blue as if someone had hit him.

Lucas isn’t someone who would get hit by anyone though?

“Brother! What’s wrong with your eye?! Which bastard… ack!”

Mixed with surprise and anger, I unconsciously jumped up and banged my head against the ceiling with a thunk.

“What’s wrong with your head?! Are you okay?!”

“What about Brother? You have a black eye!”

“You have a bump on the top of your head though? Stay still!”

As we were bickering in the carriage, trying to look after each other’s injuries-

“If we delay further, we might have to camp at night. Would that be alright?”

The knight standing beyond the window informed us that departure time had come.

Shake shake-

We quickly shook our heads at him and sat quietly in the carriage.

That’s right.

Somehow we ended up riding in the same carriage.

The reality for us two siblings who had come to our senses was terribly cold.

‘…Phew. This is awkward.’

Brother, who couldn’t bring himself to sit next to me and sat across from me, was looking only at the window like a broken wind-up doll.

‘First of all, I did something wrong too.’

I clenched my fingers folded on my knees.

It seemed better for me to break the atmosphere first.

“…By the way, how did you really get that black eye?”

When I broke the silence, he looked slightly surprised and finally took his gaze off the window.

“This is just because those fluffy guys swarmed me… Ah, you don’t need to worry about it. I’ll wear an eyepatch when we arrive at the Count’s territory.”

“If it’s fluffy guys, did you get hurt while subjugating monsters?”

Lucas, who had closed his mouth for a moment, nodded.

“That’s right.”

Then he should be making a proud expression as usual.

Why does he look like he’s about to die of shame?

Come to think of it, when did he go monster subjugating again?

Anyway, that’s not what’s important.

“…Brother. About what happened before…”

“I’m more sorry. You said that because you were worried about our house, but I was too sensitive.”

I was trying to apologize late, but Lucas’s words were faster.

“…Huh?”

My eyes widened as if I’d been hit.

I’m the one who should apologize, so why is Brother looking dejected?

“I realized it only after getting beaten up by those baby Peris, no, fluffy guys.”

Lucas continued, lowering his gaze.

“No matter how exceptional a person is, they can’t help but be influenced by their surrounding environment.”

…Surrounding environment? What do you mean?

“I’m talking about Brother Sedric. Both Brother and I heard bad things about Croste from our moth… from Ariena since we were young, as if we were being brainwashed. For some reason I grew up like this, but Brother went over to that side. If that hadn’t happened, Brother would have lived normally with us as a Croste prince.”

My eyes and mouth opened wide at the unimaginable story he calmly revealed.

Wait a minute, just now…

Did Brother mention Sedric?

Until now, Lucas had never once brought up stories about Ariena and Sedric.

Since he learned that those who had always been objects of longing were actually spies, he must have been trying hard to deny and turn away from them due to his sense of betrayal.

I felt even more sorry for making him recall the painful past.

The words that followed were unexpected.

“I know what you must have gone through there. And yet you didn’t forget our family and came back to find us. It’s truly something to be grateful for and proud of, but I forgot that for a moment.”

“….”

“Thank you, Aisha. For coming to Father and me.”

I was a bit dazed by the sudden serious conversation.

‘…He thought of me this much?’

My previous slip of the tongue was entirely my fault.

Naturally, Brother Lucas would have been hurt, and I was in no position to complain even if he hated me for that wound.

But instead, Brother was saying thank you to me.

“So don’t sulk about what happened before, and keep telling me your opinions like you did then. I don’t know much…”

“Brother!”

Beep beep-

The affection level has exceeded its limit.

Unable to contain my love for him, I rushed into Brother’s arms.

“…Haha! Hey, Dandelion. Are you crying?”

A cheerful laugh burst from him, who seemed to have stiffened in surprise for a moment.

* * *

The one-month journey heading south.

Lucas and I became even closer than before departure.

“Dandelion, this is supposed to be a specialty of the Roibe Marquis Domain. We won’t get to eat this unless it’s at a time like this, so try it once.”

“Okay.”

Munch munch-

Is this a gourmet exploration trip or a spy investigation business trip?

Since we were going to eat food anyway, we might as well eat deliciously, so we hit up restaurants in every village we passed through.

Of course, it wasn’t all just fun like this.

One time before bed, Brother Lucas came to say goodnight and asked me with a thoughtful expression.

“Aisha. Do you think Brother Sedric is dead?”

“He’s alive. I’m certain. At the time when the Pose Duke’s family was annihilated, the Kingdom of Doctia had no ability users. So they would never have thrown away Sedric who has ice abilities.”

And the same went for Aebin who had poison abilities.

“Brother. But why are you suddenly curious about this?”

“Just because.”

He continued speaking while coldly staring at the moon rising beyond the inn window.

“When I meet him, I’m going to kill him.”

“…Oh my.”

Well, well, what kind of reaction should I have to this…

“Fighting!”

For now, let me give him double thumbs up!

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