I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 163

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【Chapter 163】

A reddish, gentle light was swirling around the left part of the ceiling as if candles had been lit there.

Through the fairly thick blanket covering his body, a chill he had never felt in the Kingdom of Doctia lingered.

This was just like when he was a child, back when he was at the ducal castle…

“!”

As the quick-witted Sedric stirred his upper body and sat up, something fell onto the bed with a thud.

It was a large hand covered in wounds.

Someone had been watching over him from beside the bed.

He quickly took a defensive stance and raised his gaze to check—

“!”

Realizing that the man sitting in the chair with his head down, sleeping, was his father, Sedric slowly calmed his stirring body.

And he organized the current situation.

He had definitely tried to die by taking poison, but when he opened his eyes, he was at Croste Ducal Castle.

And the head of that family was sleeping in front of him.

Leaving a spy from Doctia to sleep, so carefree like this.

But setting that problem aside, Sedric’s face hardened as he thought of the next issue.

‘When Callipus wakes up, what happens next?’

He had secretly escaped this castle with Ariena 15 years ago and became an enemy nation’s spy.

Even though he had abandoned his mission and saved Aisha, that wouldn’t earn forgiveness for the 15 years of betraying his family.

‘He saved me… probably to give me proper punishment.’

That must be it.

Because forgiveness and mistakes were never tolerated.

That’s how Ariena’s education method, which had raised him all this time, worked.

Having thought of a plausible hypothesis, Sedric pressed his tense lips into a straight line.

‘Since he’s sleeping, I hope he stays asleep for a long time.’

Though he was usually indifferent to punishment or pain, now that he had died and awakened, he felt a bit regretful.

Why was that?

Ever since he chose Aisha and Lucas over Doctia, he had felt various emotions.

No, it seemed like his hardened emotions had started creaking back to life from the moment he first clashed with the unpredictable Aisha.

Creak—

That’s when it happened.

While he was lost in various thoughts, just staring at Callipus, the door quietly opened and another pair of eyes identical to his own popped out.

‘…To think there are three pairs of such rare red eyes in one room.’

His surprise was brief, as he noticed who the visitor was and narrowed his eyes.

“Uh, um…”

Aisha gaped at seeing him awake.

Sedric wanted to delay his punishment even a little if possible.

‘Shh. Don’t tell them.’

So he brought his long, straight index finger to his lips and whispered quietly—

“Father—! Brother Lucas—! Sedric’s awake! Sedric woke up!”

Aisha mercilessly crushed his expectations, jumping up and shouting loud enough to bring down the sky.

“Dandelion, what did you say?! My brother woke up?!”

Thump thump thump—!

Lucas’s voice came from beyond the door, followed by the sound of him running vigorously this way.

‘…I’m screwed.’

A sigh escaped from Sedric’s lips.

He had expected it, but he really didn’t get along well with that Aisha girl.

At first on the uninhabited island, he had thought their personalities were similar, but now he regretted that thought.

As he raised his head to face Lucas without being prepared, he met red eyes identical to his own.

“Sedric.”

It was Callipus.

The man’s appearance was unmistakably his father.

That was something he had felt even when seeing him from afar, and when hearing about him from Ariena or people from Doctia.

Was it because of the 15-year gap?

Even though he was looking at him up close, he felt incredibly unfamiliar.

A gaze that seemed lost in deep thought, as if longing for something.

‘…Are those really the eyes of someone who wants to punish me…?’

“Hey!”

Whether fortunately or unfortunately, Callipus’s gaze was suddenly interrupted by Lucas.

“Who gave you permission to drink a suicide potion! Why did you try to kill yourself on your own, are you crazy?!”

He even grabbed his collar.

Beside him, Aisha was nodding vigorously with annoyingly round eyes.

“You really came back from the dead. If the Croste family hadn’t known much about suicide potions, you would have really died, you know?”

“…Then how did you save me?”

“Before the poison spread throughout your blood, Father froze your body. He brought you to the north in a frozen human state and urgently gave you an antidote.”

Why would the Croste family have an antidote for suicide potions?

He frowned at the immediate question, but Aisha, who cleverly noticed, smiled brightly.

“You weren’t the first person to try to die by drinking a potion. So after that, Father did some research on suicide potions.”

“Not the first? Then…”

Sedric, who was about to ask who, closed his mouth.

He could roughly guess who it was without asking.

The suicide potion, a symbol of spies.

Someone the duke had tried to save despite them drinking it.

In the first place, the only person who could have had a suicide potion was Aisha.

He had thought she lived a life without shadows under Lucas and Callipus’s protection.

‘…How much time did it take for her to be able to smile like that.’

Though he never expected to have such thoughts, Sedric saw the small girl in front of him in a new light.

Because he knew better than anyone the feelings when drinking a suicide potion.

Even the fact that she was from Doctia but also had Croste family blood.

Indeed, Aisha had many similarities to him.

‘No, but there’s one big difference.’

Aisha hadn’t committed any sins.

But he had committed sins during countless missions over 15 years, and had even almost killed the defenseless Aisha with a carriage.

This one difference probably separated his and Aisha’s fates.

‘…Punishment is unavoidable.’

Since he acknowledged his wrongdoings, he planned to accept it calmly.

But he couldn’t help his expression darkening.

Callipus, who had been watching such Sedric, stood up and organized the situation.

“Lucas. Don’t grab the collar of someone who’s sick. It’s so noisy because of you two that even a healed illness might return, so back away.”

Callipus sighed and scolded the children before heading toward the door.

“What about Father?”

“You need to give him space so he can rest.”

“Hmm. But will he be okay.”

Lucas, still holding onto Sedric, narrowed his eyes and glared at him.

“…I’ve hidden all the potions and daggers, so try to kill yourself again. Then you’ll die by my hands even if you die.”

Thud.

As the grip holding him loosened, Sedric, who almost fell back from losing his balance, barely supported his body with his palms.

“Then I’ll come again tomorrow!”

“Me too!”

With that, bang, the door closed.

“….”

It seemed like a storm had passed through.

Sedric sighed and closed his eyes.

Since things had come to this, he hoped it would be over quickly.

He wanted to receive whatever punishment awaited him quickly and end everything as soon as possible.

* * *

For several days, Sedric waited anxiously for his punishment.

But… the problem was that Croste’s treatment of their prisoner was far too considerate.

‘This must be it.’

Every time the door opened, he steeled himself and looked in that direction.

But each time—

It was either a doctor who came to examine him, or a maid who came to attend to him.

“The poison has completely left your system, but the aftereffects have weakened your digestive system. You’ll need to stick to soup and bread for a while.”

They even worried about the criminal’s digestive system while providing him food.

Sedric ate the soup with an uncomfortable feeling.

‘Is the North originally like this?’

They said they protected and trained monsters because they were living beings too, but could this place really be so soft that they provided premium service even to prisoners?

Also, Lucas and Aisha came to visit his hospital room.

Under the pretext of visiting the sick, no less.

‘They’re probably here to monitor me, not to visit.’

But the two came every day, and for surveillance, they sat in the hospital room for quite a long time before leaving.

What they did there wasn’t much.

They only asked about his physical condition or exchanged trivial small talk, which made Sedric even more puzzled.

How many days had passed like this?

At some point, when it was a little past 4 PM, he naturally began preparing to receive the two siblings.

Sedric, who had been unconsciously tidying his disheveled blanket, stopped his actions.

‘Why? Cleaning the room to this extent?’

It wasn’t that he was looking forward to it at all.

Since those guys always barged in at this time, he was just tidying up because he didn’t want to show them a defenseless state.

“Ahem.”

Having somehow rationalized his own bewildering behavior, he neatly arranged his bedding and sat on the bed.

Then, with a knock, the door opened and familiar faces appeared.

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