I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 159

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【Chapter 159】

I have a confession to make here.

Actually, I was watching everything.

While I was struggling to buy time until Lucas could hear the commotion and come, the cloth got slightly torn, and my vision was revealed through the ripped seams.

So I knew everything.

How Sedric tripped the assassin’s feet twice to indirectly interfere with the kidnapping.

How he just watched me intently without any interference while I struggled to untie the cloth that bound my body like rope.

Of course, he seemed slightly flustered when he received a message from Doctia’s side in the middle, but anyway, it was true that he hesitated during the process of trying to kidnap me.

Then I should show proper courtesy for that.

I brushed the dirt off my dress and bowed my head.

“Thank you for saving me.”

Then Sedric froze with a bewildered expression.

It seemed like he was about to say something, but he just stood there broken with his mouth closed.

‘What’s this. Is this the first time he’s heard thanks?’

That’s when it happened.

“Aisha, you-!”

Someone who came running through the sound of parting bushes urgently hugged me.

It was Lucas.

“Sedric, you bastard! Did you lay hands on my sister again… mmph!”

Oh my. He was completely misunderstanding.

It was understandable, but when I covered his mouth with my hand to calm Lucas down first, he looked down at me in surprise.

I stood on tiptoe with my uninjured ankle and whispered to my brother.

“I was almost kidnapped by assassins, but Sedric saved me.”

“…What?”

His already surprised eyes grew even wider.

“Really?”

“Yeah. He didn’t actively save me, but he deliberately tripped the assassin’s feet to interfere and stuff.”

I explained what had happened to Lucas.

While listening to my explanation, his roughly heaving shoulders slowly settled down.

Lucas looked at Sedric with an incredulous expression.

He seemed to still doubt it since he didn’t see it directly, but he seemed to believe it because I had told him.

Eventually, he scratched the back of his neck, sighed, and continued speaking.

“…Thank you. For saving Aisha.”

Right. He did save my life, so we should express our gratitude.

I was nodding my head at the first warm atmosphere I’d felt on the island.

‘…Huh?’

My eyes widened when I confirmed Sedric’s reaction.

Again.

Just like when I thanked him earlier, he was frozen solid with a confused expression.

He didn’t look like someone who had received thanks.

“…”

And then he didn’t say anything for a long time.

As if he was fighting with someone else in his head.

His face crumpled painfully as he pressed his temples.

‘…Ah, he’s feeling confused.’

Just as we had doubted his intentions, he seemed to be doubting himself too.

About why he saved me.

‘How strange. He seemed like someone who wouldn’t budge no matter what you did to him. I guess blood is thicker than water after all.’

Having read the original work and having directly experienced things myself, I had prejudices about Sedric.

Since I was also a spy, I knew how ruthless that type of people could be.

That’s why I had been wary and glaring at him all day.

His good deeds were just acting for his goals, and his relationships and conversations were performed wearing a mask created for his mission.

The reason he was passive even while saving me was because he was calculating whether to act or not, and ultimately he helped to gain favor.

That was a very natural attitude for Sedric, who was born a spy and would live as a spy until death.

So while I thanked him out of courtesy, I wasn’t completely at ease.

But.

Seeing his confused expression as if he himself didn’t know why he saved me, and his even more surprised reaction when Lucas also thanked him.

Perhaps, there might be hope that I could change him…

“…What a stupid statement, as if you’ve forgotten everything I’ve done.”

“…Excuse me?”

While I was lost in such thoughts, a sharp voice suddenly rang out.

“Let me be clear – I never saved the Princess. In the first place, the reason the Princess couldn’t escape was probably because of that leg.”

He had already returned to being that empty, cold man.

After pondering for a while, he seemed to have reached his own conclusion.

That he had absolutely no intention of deliberately saving me.

I think I understood how he felt.

Just because he was confused for a moment, just because he heard thanks a few times.

It’s difficult to connect 10 broken years in an instant.

He probably mentioned the carriage incident again to remind himself.

Of course, I won’t easily forget the carriage incident either.

“Of course I’ll remember that until I die?”

“What?”

“Even after I’m in a coffin, won’t I think, ‘Ah, I almost died back then but endured well, so now I’m dying’?”

“…”

His expression subtly contorted at my words.

But soon he shook his head greatly as if disgusted.

“Talking with you always… Never mind.”

Then he walked somewhere.

It was a definite gait with no lingering attachment.

Where are you suddenly going?

Wasn’t that guy constantly following us around to monitor us?

“Where are you going?”

“Brother, where are you going?”

Even at our questions, his steps didn’t stop.

What? Is he really leaving like this?

What about the monitoring? The kidnapping?

…But I’m not done talking yet?

‘Ugh. I don’t know. Since he ended the conversation as he pleased, I should speak as I please too.’

I moved toward the retreating Sedric and shouted at his back.

“Because of the carriage incident, I’ll keep being wary of you-! Our father is waiting for you!”

Even when I brought up Callipus, he continued moving away.

“You’ve honestly imagined it before, haven’t you? What would have happened if I had stayed with the Croste family!”

At my following words, he stopped walking.

‘This is it.’

I shouted with all my might.

“If you’ve ever imagined that even once, just pretend you can’t win and come over-!”

Of course, we’d have to put His Majesty the King’s binding magic on him to prevent the possibility of betrayal.

I didn’t mention the realistic part for the sake of the current touching story.

“Father is waiting-! I don’t know what he did wrong, but he feels very sorry toward his eldest son!”

Of course, Callipus never said such things either.

Let’s skip this part too for Sedric’s sake.

“Like it or not, you know that person is our family, right?”

“….”

For a moment, his broad back stiffened tensely as if he had grown nervous.

I stared at the back of his head with desperation, but Sedric never turned around.

He seemed intent on leaving our side forever.

Until that incident happened.

* * *

Sedric headed toward the west beach without hesitation.

His heart was pounding so madly that he couldn’t delay any longer.

‘You’ve honestly imagined it before, haven’t you? What would have happened if I had stayed with the Croste family!’

That moment.

If he had hesitated even for a single second.

If he had truly turned back to Lucas and Aisha because of that child’s single remark.

‘It’s realistically impossible.’

That could never happen.

Even if the Croste family had accepted him, Sedric knew.

He had already become Doctia itself.

Even if he belatedly questioned himself and tried to find his true nature, more than ten years had already passed.

He had become too accustomed to the role of a spy, to that mask.

And unlike them, Sedric had more reasons to die than reasons to live.

Spies are eliminated when they fail their missions.

Spies must immediately commit suicide if their origins are discovered during a mission.

A single mistake leads to death.

He had survived for Doctia’s sake, or more precisely, to avoid death, but since being stranded on the island, he hadn’t thought about why he should live.

‘Still, she’s your little sister. And she’s so cute and pretty too, so wouldn’t even you have cried at this long-awaited family reunion?’

Aebin’s mockery seemed to reach him even here.

He had to admit it.

Sedric was unsuited for this mission.

It would have been more successful to leave it to Aebin instead.

That guy would have definitely kidnapped Aisha, even if a bit sloppily.

The mission was a failure.

To report this, Sedric had to return to Doctia.

Creak-

When he arrived at the west beachfront as planned, a small boat was anchored there.

As he threw open the door to the boat’s control room,

“Ah, why are you so late? I almost fell asleep here.”

A voice that shouldn’t be heard in this place rang out like a song.

The figure who had been sitting leisurely spun his chair around to look at Sedric.

“Where’s Aisha?”

It was Aebin.

“I want to see her face. You didn’t fail the mission, did you?”

His eyes filled with anticipation curved like crescents as Aebin tilted his head.

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