I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 175

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【Chapter 175】

After King Burley, who had been screaming so loudly that veins bulged on his neck, left.

Only silence lingered in the audience chamber.

At the end of Aebin’s gaze as he sat hunched over, a corpse that resembled him was sprawled on the floor.

“Wow. They really did a good job creating this.”

He inserted his fingers between the doll’s coarse hair.

Even when he grabbed the hair and lifted it up to his eye level, the other’s black pupils had lost focus and were only staring into empty space.

It felt strange.

A face that replicated himself.

He thought it would be interesting, but seeing this dead appearance brought up strange impressions.

‘Human life really isn’t worth much.’

And one more impression that came to mind.

“So this is what being treated like a tool feels like.”

The corners of his mouth, which were always turned up, twisted as if broken.

“How disgusting.”

Aebin was still smiling, but the look in his eyes as he stared at himself was somehow eerily settled.

The king had tried to use his death.

If Duke Callipus had been fooled, he would have truly become dead in this world.

Then he wouldn’t have been able to approach not only the crown prince position he had originally hoped for, but also Aisha.

All of this was something King Burley had done unilaterally.

It was natural.

Because he was the king of the Kingdom of Doctia.

He had no intention whatsoever of passing his position to Aebin.

After a while, disgusted by looking at his own dead face, he threw the corpse into a corner.

“Ariena. Let’s go now. We didn’t come here for any particular business anyway, we just came in out of curiosity because the audience chamber door was open.”

King Burley had gone out in a rage, and through the open door, someone could be seen lying on the floor.

Wondering what was happening, he had peeked in and witnessed this scene.

Though he felt disgusted, it had been worth coming in.

At least he could objectively assess his own situation.

“Ariena?”

Aebin turned his head at the lack of response.

Ariena was only looking out the window, as if she hadn’t heard his voice.

Erasing his presence, he silently approached behind her and followed where Ariena was looking.

At the end of her gaze, the back of Duke Callipus on horseback was gradually moving away.

Leading hundreds of knights as he returned, he looked like a hero victorious from war.

“Do you miss him?”

“…?”

Ariena’s eyes, which had been frozen like stone, blinked in surprise.

She seemed to have only now realized Aebin’s presence.

“I never intended to have him in the first place, so there’s no way I’d miss him.”

“Then why were you staring at him so intently?”

“Just…”

She moved her lips as if to continue speaking, then quickly turned her head away.

“Let’s go.”

The two left the audience chamber.

Though they were both usually people of few words, the air around them as they walked down the corridor was particularly heavy.

Though their minds were complicated, neither could reveal their inner thoughts.

Aebin thought.

If a situation came where he could reveal his inner thoughts.

Perhaps by then he would have escaped his spy identity, or be on the verge of death.

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“Haaah-! I really don’t know what to do!”

I stretched excessively while whining.

Enough that my fatigue was fully conveyed to the man sitting across from me.

“Haachoo. This is really difficult.”

“….”

“If someone told me, it would really help the Crosht family.”

“….”

“I wish someone who knows the answer would tell me!”

“Then you should say that in front of someone who knows the answer, why are you saying it in front of me?”

Finally, Sedric opened his mouth as if he couldn’t stand it anymore.

Yes! Successfully started a conversation!

Inwardly cheering, I tilted my head with a shameless expression.

“What do you mean? You just happened to be where I was sitting.”

“….”

Sedric glared at me silently.

That’s right. This is how you should respond.

The more annoying I am, the faster you’ll give me what I want and send me away, right?

I have plenty of time and nothing else to do.

Having the intention to wait for a long time, I smiled benevolently.

Like this, it’s already been a week since I started acting like someone who needs attention in front of Sedric.

This means this suffocating battle of wills has been continuing for a week.

After receiving word that Kail would arrive within a few days, I began earnestly sorting out Doctia’s spies or opposition nobles who had been won over by Doctia.

Fortunately, Father had a list of suspected types that he had sorted through Dorian.

The problem was that even when I received the list from Dorian, I couldn’t be certain that the people on this list were spies.

That’s when I thought of Sedric’s existence.

As I had told the retainers, this was an opportunity to get help by questioning him.

So I hung around him for several days.

“Then I should disappear.”

Sedric sighed as if defeated and stood up from his seat.

“Where are you going?”

Though I asked where he was going, I already knew.

“Anywhere is fine as long as you’re not there…”

“Again, you were going to say ‘anywhere is fine as long as you’re not there,’ weren’t you?”

It was the same repertoire.

“When someone follows you around like this, wouldn’t you help them just to get rid of the annoyance?”

I pouted my lips.

Ah. Today that heavy mouth opened, so I thought there might be some progress.

“What if I lie to you? Don’t you have any suspicions? I was a spy who once tried to kidnap you.”

“I was a spy too. I once tried to kidnap Father…”

“Stop talking.”

Closing the book he was reading, he made a tsk sound and stood up from his chair.

I’m sure when he first arrived at the castle, he was quite talkative and answered well.

I don’t know what happened with Father, but after his conversation with Callipus, Sedric suddenly closed his heart.

‘That burned guy. How long is he going to stay silent?’

Can’t be helped.

Tomorrow when Sedric comes to the library again, I’ll hang around him.

Perhaps because he had nothing particular to do, he spent time in the library whenever he had free time.

‘If it doesn’t work, I’ll keep trying until it does.’

It was when I was looking down at the list of suspected spies with blazing eyes.

“That guy isn’t one.”

Suddenly, an advising voice came from above my head.

“What?”

When I looked up, a cold-looking face was gazing down over my shoulder at the paper.

“Why are you suspecting an innocent person? The Count of Lemenya is a loyal retainer who didn’t even blink when Doctia tried to win him over with promises of money and honor.”

“Then he would have reported the bribery attempt to the Royal Court, so why didn’t he?”

“Because I knocked him out each time. Just enough to make him lose his memory.”

Ah. So he’s saying that he himself was the one who did the bribing and knocking out.

“…I see.”

It felt a bit unsettling, but it worked out well for me anyway.

From his muttering tone as if impressed, it seemed like he happened to see the name written on the paper and it reminded him of old times.

Since I was able to get some useful information!

“Why? What’s wrong?”

“….”

When I asked innocently, his brow furrowed.

He still had no intention of helping, but since he had already seen the paper, his expression showed it was awkward to just ignore it.

“It’s completely wrong.”

“…Huh?”

Now properly focusing his gaze on the list, he frowned.

“Except for three people, they’re all wrong.”

“Oh. But I still got three right!”

“You only got three right.”

“If we catch one guy and beat him up, won’t the rest of the spies spill everything?”

“Do you think only the Frozen Kingdom has people who wouldn’t betray even after being tortured multiple times?”

Before I knew it, his tone had changed to sound like nagging.

“If you’re going to nag me, give me more information first.”

“You’re a former spy, yet—”

He stopped mid-sentence and sighed.

“You can’t utilize that advantage at all and aren’t being helpful to the family. At this level, you’re a disgrace to Doctia.”

“I can’t hear you.”

I covered my ears.

If he’s going to nag, he should tell me first.

I had been asking, pleading, and begging for days.

If he was going to tantalizingly tell me just one name and then nag, I wasn’t having it either.

Regardless, Sedric continued speaking with his hand on his waist, seemingly dissatisfied about something.

“If you act like this, Duke Calips Crosht might regret accepting you as his daughter. That could also be detrimental to other former spies. How would they live with such injustice? They don’t even have a chance to repent their sins, or rather, it’s right that they don’t have such a chance. But at least you, who got that opportunity…”

“Please collect your nagging voucher after completing the spy list.”

When I covered both ears with my palms and flopped down on the desk, after a deep sigh, the pen in my hand was suddenly snatched away.

“Ah, my pen!”

I looked up in surprise, and Sedric was already sitting in the chair next to me.

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