I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 157

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【Chapter 157】

An unfamiliar voice.

It was neither Lucas nor Sedric.

The voice shouting toward my back sounded slightly childish to be either of theirs.

“Who are you!”

I turned my head and tried to quickly shoot a poison needle, but something huge and white scurried across the floor and disappeared.

Just like a cockroach running away the moment you turn on the lights.

‘No way.’

Suddenly, I recalled a conversation between pirates who had visited the Island of Death mentioned in the original story.

‘Among the dying creatures, there was also a giant white cockroach. It was so big I thought it was a stray dog living on the island.’

If the creature that just disappeared was a white cockroach the size of a large dog…

“…I’d rather face an assassin. A giant talking cockroach is…”

Gulp.

I swallowed the rest of my words.

Just imagining it gave me goosebumps all over my body.

Common sense dictated that cockroaches couldn’t talk, but in this world, it might be possible.

A giant, white, talking cockroach…

Hmm, fine.

“I guess injured people should stay quietly at the beachfront after all?”

Thanks to the six-legged monster, I was able to change my mind immediately.

Brother Lucas was right after all!

As I tried to leave the forest, a sound I shouldn’t hear came from behind me, making my whole body freeze.

Rustle, rustle-

The sound of six huge, thin legs covered in caterpillar hair cutting through the dirt.

Why are you all like this…

I’d rather listen to the sound of a cat scratching a blackboard with its claws…

My muscles tensed stiffly at the eerie and strange presence.

Should I attack? Should I run away?

I know cockroaches have strong vitality, so how persistent would a cockroach as big as a dog be?

Could I take it down with a snowball?

Or with a poison needle?

Just as I was about to turn my head to face the giant cockroach.

“…Run away.”

The same childish voice from earlier urgently warned me.

And when I turned my head, I made eye contact with someone.

“…Who are you?”

A black mask covering the face except for the eyes.

From the silhouette, it seemed to be a man.

There wasn’t even just one of them.

That outfit looked exactly like spies hired to assassinate some noble…?

“…”

Instinctively sensing danger, I took a step back.

Then the man approached me and asked.

“Princess Aisha. Right?”

A low voice with an ominous atmosphere. It wasn’t the child’s voice that had told me to run earlier.

Definitely either an assassin or a spy. One of the two.

“…No, I’m not. My name is Elizabeth?”

When I answered while blinking my round eyes, the masked man exchanged glances with his companion and nodded.

“Red eyes and golden hair. It’s Princess Aisha. No doubt about it.”

“I said I’m Elizabeth with red eyes and golden hair, kyaah-!”

I tried to run away, but unfortunately, I was in a state with an injured ankle.

Moving quickly was difficult.

I don’t know why they even asked if they weren’t going to believe me, but the men who arbitrarily decided I was Aisha covered my face with rough, dark cloth.

“Kyaaah-! Brother Lucas! Elizabeth, no, Aisha is being kidnapped here-!”

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30 minutes before Aisha was kidnapped.

Sedric, who had hurriedly entered the forest, just walked aimlessly without knowing where he was going.

‘Sedric. Our Croste family is always open!’

She was really a strange girl.

She glared at me all day as if she wanted to kill me, then suddenly changed her attitude and asked me to join her side.

Was she skilled at worldly tactics because she was a former spy, or was that girl just strange?

Sedric, who had never been flustered meeting anyone until now, had no confidence in maintaining his composure in front of the unpredictable Aisha.

That’s why he avoided her and went looking for Lucas.

“…Come to think of it, if that guy is with her too, we’ll just have childish arguments.”

As if returning to childhood.

“…”

He was lost.

There was no destination he could think of.

This was the first time since receiving his mission from Ariena.

‘Sedric. Should I tell you a secret that only mommy knows?’

‘What is it?’

‘Actually… mommy was kidnapped by daddy and is forced to live here.’

Age 3.

It was the moment his life as a spy, not as a member of the Croste family, began.

Sedric extremely disliked cold weather for someone from the North.

Unlike Lucas, who would go outside and have snowball fights when it snowed, he would hole up in the castle and only warm himself by the fireplace.

That’s probably why Ariena chose him.

‘Sedric, listen carefully. There’s a much warmer place than here. It’s the world where mommy originally lived. When the time comes, can you go there with mommy?’

Thinking about it now, Ariena’s education method was quite simple.

In his childhood, she frightened him by saying they had been kidnapped by Callipus.

And when he was about 5 years old, she brainwashed him saying there was a better world than this place, and they had to escape the North and return to that country.

She said it was okay to hit and deceive people.

She even taught him that deceiving himself was the right thing to do if it was for the House of Pose.

So Sedric erased himself.

He didn’t need to question his own actions.

The immediate training in front of him came first, and then the mission was important.

So he wanted to make his mother Ariena smile.

However-

‘From now on, you’ve become a proper member of Doctia’s workforce, so don’t call me mother. We’re just fellow spies.’

If there was a small problem, it was that Ariena also prioritized the mission over him?

Even so, Sedric didn’t question it.

Though it was hard inside, the mission thrown before his eyes came first.

If he failed this mission, he would die.

Whether tortured to death or receiving an elimination order from above.

He was in mortal danger every moment and somehow survived.

By the time he realized that the only moments he smiled were when deceiving others, he had already lost the ability to question himself.

But now that he was lost.

“…”

He could become a little lost in thought.

‘…Brother probably doesn’t care if his body breaks down because he has to achieve his goals by any means necessary once he sets them.’

Suddenly, Lucas’s words that he had spat out bitterly came to mind.

‘I’m alive because of that belief.’

It was a strange statement that didn’t make sense.

Setting a goal to escape from the island, yet giving up everything over just his sister’s pain?

Even saying he was alive because of that foolish stubbornness about protecting Aisha’s safety?

Just?

“…Then why am I alive?”

His steps, which had been walking without destination, stopped.

Why did I become a spy?

No, why did I end up following Ariena instead of Callipus?

…No. Why did Ariena lie to me in the first place?

If I had realized back then that Ariena’s words were lies. If I had, then by now I would be…

Splash—!

Just then, the sound of a stream flowing nearby woke Sedric up.

He washed his face with the ice-cold water.

The red pupils visible between his fingers, reflected on the water’s surface, were shaking too much.

“Useless thoughts.”

Sedric, who had come to his senses with the cold water wash, abruptly stood up.

“There’s nothing more useless than regretting the past.”

That’s right.

The word “what if” was a luxury for a spy.

Because he was distracted and didn’t think it important, but while walking through this forest, he had discovered five collapsed animals.

This place was not a safe island.

‘…It seems to have gotten particularly hot since entering the forest…’

What’s the cause? Is this place just naturally hot?

For now, it seemed best to find Lucas, who would be wandering around the forest.

If the animals living here were collapsing one by one, Lucas was likely in danger too.

Northerners, as strong as they are against cold, would be vulnerable to heat.

What Doctia wanted was another ice ability user besides himself.

Bringing back Lucas’s corpse would be meaningless.

No, it would mean failure.

That’s when it happened.

“Kyaaah—! Brother Lucas! Elizabeth, no, Aisha is being kidnapped here—!”

A familiar voice burst out from not far away.

He didn’t know what Elizabeth was, but the scream was extraordinary.

‘The goal is to capture the ability user alive.’

If Aisha died by any chance, the mission would fail.

His body, imprinted with the unconscious goal, quickly crossed between the trees following the voice.

And when he discovered Aisha with her face wrapped in cloth.

He realized without needing to assess the situation.

“We had sent a reply to the emergency message, but it seems we arrived faster than the messenger birds. Sedric. We’ll take over the kidnapping of the ability user from now on.”

What the identity of the masked men in black surrounding Aisha was.

The rescue team had arrived.

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