I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 167

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【Chapter 167】

“…What is that?”

When I asked in disbelief, Aisha tilted her head to one side.

“Um, a get-well gift?”

What Aisha brought as a gift was a flower pot larger than her own body.

And it was the man-eating flower we had seen on the island.

The man-eating flower stuck in the giant pot was looking around curiously, as if the unfamiliar space was interesting.

‘…So she’s going to leave that thing here?’

Sedric hurriedly got up from his seat and draped a towel around his neck.

Then he blocked Aisha’s path as she struggled to move the flower pot.

“That’s the death flower or whatever that was on the island.”

“Yes. This flower was hot in the southern region, but here the weather is cold so it’s moderately warm. I thought it would be good to use instead of a fireplace.”

“I’m not cold. Take it back.”

“Why? Winter is coming soon so it’ll get even colder.”

“Just take it back.”

It was absurd that the gift was a man-eating flower, but it also felt burdensome to accept since it seemed like he’d be indebted somehow.

It was when he put his hand on his waist and sighed.

“Are you still waiting for the punishment date?”

A question that hit right to the point suddenly came from across the room.

The atmosphere that had been light just moments ago due to Aisha’s appearance became heavy and sank because of that one question.

He would have rather kept his mouth shut and listened if she had just been chattering.

He didn’t like having this kind of conversation with Aisha.

No, rather than dislike, it was difficult.

He had already gone through one ordeal with Callipus.

With his feelings being complicated in various ways, if he had a serious conversation with that unpredictable guy, he might accidentally reveal his true feelings.

“….”

That absolutely couldn’t happen.

Avoiding Aisha’s gaze, he answered roughly, hoping this conversation would pass quickly.

“If it’s already decided, it’s better to get it over with quickly.”

“Hmm. Since it’s already decided, I’ll tell you quickly – there won’t be a death sentence. It’s already been decided through a meeting.”

“Then…”

“Then you have to keep living.”

He has to keep living.

Could it mean that since they can’t end it with a death sentence, he should live like the walking dead, unable to die?

“…To think of such a punishment.”

“Yes?”

“Telling someone who has no reason to live to keep living. You guys were more cruel than I thought.”

Sedric sneered, having figured out the intention.

Then-

“Sigh, don’t be like that.”

As if she had expected this, Aisha sighed and spoke.

“If you don’t have a reason to live right now, at least try raising this guy.”

Gift or whatever, he was thinking of pushing Aisha out even if he had to shove her back.

But Aisha was faster than Sedric.

Suddenly, the giant man-eating flower filled his entire field of vision.

The man-eating flower facing Sedric trembled violently, looking terrified.

Even though it had no eyes, it seemed to be avoiding his gaze.

“A reason to live doesn’t necessarily have to be something grand, right?”

And from behind the giant flower, Aisha poked her head out and smiled brightly.

Sedric’s face, which had been habitually frowning, froze and stiffened.

“….”

Her red eyes were smiling.

To him, it was just an annoying part because it resembled Callipus.

Those blood-colored eyes that he thought would only remain as a stain on his lifelong spy activities could actually smile so happily.

‘…Was that even possible.’

Seeing Aisha’s smile, he unconsciously parted his lips slightly.

He wondered what it would feel like if his own eyes could smile like that child’s.

“Oh, by the way, this thing walks around.”

Perhaps taking his momentary daze as acceptance, the white hands holding the pot immediately pushed it toward him.

He ended up receiving the pot in confusion.

“I thought I’d have to give it special food since it’s a man-eating flower, but it grows strong and healthy with just water and sunlight, you know?”

“…So?”

“Also, if you don’t educate it properly, it might escape outside the treatment room and cause trouble…”

“What am I supposed to do about that.”

“If it escapes, it’s Sedric’s fault.”

The red eyes that had been smiling like an angel suddenly narrowed mischievously.

“Hehe. Sedric’s fault!”

After suddenly dumping the flower pot on him, Aisha ran away outside the treatment room.

Without giving him a chance to refuse or even time to think.

“What the hell….”

It was like a storm had swept through.

Finally coming to his senses, Sedric looked at the flustered man-eating flower and muttered through gritted teeth.

“…This isn’t a gift, she just abandoned it here.”

For now, the flower pot…

Looking around the treatment room, he placed the pot near the window where there was the best sunlight, almost throwing it down.

He thought about opening the door and going to find Aisha right away, but… after all, it was just a plant.

It wasn’t like she gave him a puppy, just a plant that only needed water.

‘I’ve been stuck with a troublesome task.’

Anyway, whenever he met that Aisha, there was no telling what would happen.

It was when he sighed long, feeling tired for a moment, and was about to sit on the bed.

“Freeze.”

His voice, which had been slightly relaxed when talking with Aisha just before, had become menacingly low.

“Your guts must be spilling out of your belly. Are you already thinking of escaping just because I looked away for a moment?”

When he turned his head, the man-eating flower that had somehow extended one leg, no, root outside the pot was frozen stiff.

Tremble tremble tremble-

The man-eating flower that made eye contact with him trembled as if breaking out in cold sweat.

It seemed to instinctively realize that its new owner was a much stronger being than itself.

“First, it looks like education is needed, just like that Aisha said.”

It wasn’t even trying to escape while he was sleeping, but attempting to run away just because he sat on the bed.

If that man-eating flower escaped outside the treatment room, there was no telling what it might do to the maids.

He was already a huge stain on the Croste family.

If someone got hurt because of the man-eating flower, Aisha would blame him as she had warned.

Having that thought, his intention to rest a little disappeared like bubbles.

“If even one root goes outside the pot, I’ll show you what will happen next.”

Contrary to his annoyed feelings, his body getting up from the bed felt a little lighter.

Was it because he had something to do after a long time?

He didn’t realize it himself, but his red eyes looking at the man-eating flower had a slight vitality in them.

* * *

A few days ago, at the warehouse of the annex of the Doctia Kingdom.

In the dark room, except for the sunlight drawn like white thread in the air, a giant magic circle began to form.

Ariena had been waiting in the storehouse in advance from the time she sent Aebin and the assassins to the island.

Their return was much later than Ariena had expected.

But seeing that the magic circle had been generated, it was clear they had returned after completing their mission.

“…What?”

No, had they not completed their mission after all.

Flustered, she quickly raised her body that had been leaning against the wall.

A silhouette breathing heavily began to appear above the purple-glowing magic circle.

The silhouette that had been barely standing upright while supporting their knees with their hands collapsed like an extinguished candle as soon as the magic circle disappeared.

“Aebin?”

“…Haa, ha-… Ah, hello. Ariena.”

Aebin wiped the blood from his lips with the back of his hand and smiled weakly.

She had told him to kidnap the princess.

Far from kidnapping, he had just gotten beaten up and fled in haste.

Moreover, the assassins and Sedric who he thought would come with him were nowhere to be found.

“Where is Sedric?”

“Ah, that guy. I guess his heart softened when he actually saw his real younger siblings. When I tried to kidnap Aisha, he attacked me, you know?”

“…What?”

Ariena thought she had misheard.

Her thought process momentarily blocked, she asked again just in case.

“Who attacked whom?”

“Sedric attacked me, his fellow comrade. Haa, saying he couldn’t let even a hair on the princess be touched.”

But Aebin spoke as if he really wasn’t joking, even erasing his frivolous smile as he struggled to get up from his spot.

‘Sedric protected Princess Aisha?’

She couldn’t believe it.

Knowing his personality as she did, she had actually worried that Sedric might kill the princess in the process of kidnapping her.

“That can’t be. Sedric was a guy with even less humanity than me…”

“Hey, Ariena. He’s human too.”

As she muttered in confusion, Aebin glanced at her and let out a deflated laugh.

“I guess his heart softened seeing the same red eyes as his own. Well, in the end he died because of that weak heart though.”

“…Who died?”

“What?”

“I asked who died, Aebin.”

That’s when it happened.

A voice that had become chillingly different from just moments before was directed at Aebin.

Flustered, Aebin turned his head toward Ariena-

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