I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 171

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【Chapter 171】

“This,”

“What is the meaning of this?”

Before Kail could speak, Nox asked with a furrowed brow, but no one answered.

The warm atmosphere seemed to have suddenly disappeared, swept away by an avalanche.

The villagers they had grown fond of all had rigid expressions like stiff dolls.

As if they would forcibly confine Kail and Nox if they tried to leave.

“I would like to ask. Leaving suddenly? What is the reason?”

Then a question emerged that was still kind but somehow sharp.

It was the Village Chief.

‘Why are they suddenly acting like this?’

Kail glared at Asbon to understand his intentions, but Asbon, who was guarding the entrance, only shrugged his shoulders.

In other words, he would follow the Village Chief’s orders.

‘Stupid bastard.’

Kail cursed inwardly and glared at the Village Chief.

“We came to this village as guests. Although we’ve been indebted for the past 3 months, we must return to our hometown.”

“Your, no, Kail-nim’s hometown and home is here.”

“I decide my own hometown and home.”

“No. The place where Kail-nim was born is this snowy plain.”

Then the Village Chief scolded him sternly as if reprimanding a child.

“…?”

Sensing something strange, one of Kail’s eyebrows slowly rose.

The place where he was born was indeed the snowy plains.

But Kail had never mentioned his personal information to them.

Occasionally there were monsters that attacked the village, and he had driven them away with just the command to ‘go back.’

But the Snowmen also didn’t know of the Mein’s existence.

So they simply thought of him as a remarkable person.

“It seems you want to play family just because I stayed here briefly, but I’m warning you for the last time – back off quickly.”

“…That doesn’t seem possible. We too have been waiting for Kail-nim for years.”

Then the Village Chief’s old, kind face began to melt down like melting candle wax.

It wasn’t just the Village Chief.

The villagers guarding the entrance were the same.

“….”

Even at this sudden grotesque scene, Kail didn’t move a muscle.

He simply raised his sword slowly with eyes containing only slight doubt.

In an instant, the Village Chief melted down to his waist.

Between the skin that flowed down like chocolate wrapper being peeled off, his true identity was revealed.

A face enormous compared to his body.

Thick, rough dark green skin like crocodile hide, wrinkled eyes.

The hand holding a strange staff had only three fingers.

“…What is that thing?”

“Nox. Behind me.”

Kail quickly hid Nox behind his back.

Those bastards. He thought he knew who they were.

He bent his upper body as if ready to leap at any moment and muttered.

“Those guys. They seem like ‘that race’ we discovered in the snowy plains before.”

“That race means…”

“Monsters that form civilization.”

“…!”

At those words, Nox stopped trying to draw his dagger.

[The next report is the discovery of a new species. We discovered a race that forms civilization. Of course, it’s at a primitive level, but they have their own hierarchy…]

Once when looking down from a mountain peak.

In a place where only white snow was falling, he had discovered something huddled together.

Looking through binoculars, it was a settlement presumed to be a village.

He couldn’t see clearly what they looked like, but they were definitely monsters.

He had been greatly surprised to see groups carrying wood, groups lighting fires, and others living with assigned roles.

“Don’t tell me those bastards…”

“That’s right. Those bastards from back then.”

Kail, whose eyesight was superior to humans, had sufficiently observed their appearance through binoculars.

“What is your purpose? Did you kill all the existing Snowmen in the village? Or…”

His pupils suddenly wavered eerily as he closed his mouth.

“…Did you intentionally approach us disguised as Snowmen from the beginning?”

“Yes. That’s correct.”

The monster with the staff, who had been the Village Chief until just now, nodded and suddenly moved.

It was when Kail gripped his sword tightly in wariness.

When the one presumed to be the leader knelt on one knee, the rest of the monsters all knelt in unison.

The sight looked exactly like waves crashing.

“We apologize for startling you unintentionally, but our introduction is late. We are those who have served the Mein for generations. We cannot and would never dare think of harming Kail-nim.”

“For claiming to serve me, you’re being extremely rude to me.”

“We truly apologize for that… but there’s something we’d like to ask.”

“Enough, just open the entrance quickly.”

Despite Kail’s fierce words, the monster who had been maintaining silent consistency raised its lowered purple eyes.

“Is the purpose of your return now to recover Kail-nim’s scattered energy?”

“…Energy?”

“The energy you gave to someone 10 years ago.”

At the sudden question, Kail tilted his head.

What did he give to whom?

Then, soon Kail realized.

That it meant the incident of saving Aisha.

“How do you guys know that….”

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As soon as I returned to my room, I opened the monster journal Leila had given me.

When I opened the page I had marked with a bookmark beforehand, a chapter with young Kail and a grotesque-looking monster unfolded.

[Name: Worshipper of the Mein]

[Characteristics: Strange. Among the monsters encountered, the only one capable of communicating in Imperial language, introducing itself as a worshipper of the Mein. It says this cat is the Mein, but I think there’s probably a religion that worships a peculiarly-looking cat.]

‘Worshipper of the Mein…?’

Could that be why it’s holding young Kail?

But it was strange.

While it was true that civilized monsters were mentioned in the original work, they were mentioned so briefly that I never expected them to have this level of ability.

Why did they never properly appear even once?

Come to think of it, Kail was the same.

Despite being such a tremendous existence as a Mein, he died immediately and had no other significance.

‘Thinking about it, the fact that I possessed Aisha, who was an extra…’

Ah, it was full of mysteries.

[The reason I didn’t kill them was because communication was possible. They said if I spared them, they would prevent the next Monster Wave.]

…Who do you think you are?

I tilted my head at their quite triumphant statement, and the Previous Count seemed to have the same thought as me, having written down the answer to the question.

[When I asked how they would prevent it, they said that as the Mein they serve grows, its energy would increase and gain the ability to rule over the snowy plains. They also said they possessed the ability to turn back time.

It was an absurd explanation, but I released them. Simply because they appeared to be dwarf-like monsters that seemed incapable of harming people.

With such small bodies, they would surely die before even making it north. I judged there was no need to kill them with my own hands.

Anyway, a monster that can have conversations, how fascinating. It was worth recording.]

I think I need to change their name to “Servants of Pathological Lying”…?

An ability to turn back time?

“Ha! If you guys are regression ability users, then I’m a romance fantasy novel protagonist who possessed an extra.”

I picked my nose at the ridiculous nonsense, but on the other hand, I felt a bit uneasy.

“But seeing how they introduced Kail as a Maein, it doesn’t seem like complete lies either…”

Hmm. I don’t know.

‘My information network has limits, so I’ll need to use my connections.’

Perfect timing too – tomorrow is the day the Masamo Gathering is held!

Since Grace Majesty was also supposed to come, I thought I could get good opinions by asking when members who know about the existence of Maein are present.

But the next day.

“What? Grace Majesty can’t make it?”

“She said she’s sorry for not being able to send word in advance due to urgent matters.”

I had deliberately woken up earlier than usual and arrived earlier than the appointed time.

But all I got back was the troubled maid’s response.

“However, she said the Masamo Gathering will proceed without her, so please enjoy yourselves comfortably.”

“Oh. I see.”

What should I do? Then should I just ask the members in advance?

I was pondering while being guided by the maid, when she continued as if she hadn’t finished conveying Grace’s message yet.

“Ah, right. And His Majesty said that a guest is expected to come today, so please show the Masamo atmosphere appropriately.”

“A guest?”

“She also said this: ‘Miss Aisha probably knows well.'”

It seemed like the message was finished.

The maid who had closed her mouth bowed her head and opened the door for me.

‘A guest, but who could it be?’

For reference, the Masamo Gathering rarely let outsiders in.

When Nox brought me and Kail to share the existence of Maein, that was very exceptional, and after that, the members remained fixed without any changes.

When the door opened, perhaps because I had arrived early, the members weren’t visible yet.

But-

“Oh my, what’s going on here?”

“…Huh?”

At the exclamation coming from inside the room, I opened my eyes wide.

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