I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 18

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【Chapter 18】

“This is Princess Crosht.”

Nox said once again.

“Princess? You, you found a princess? No, I haven’t heard such news…”

At the word princess, the marquis flinched his shoulders and looked flustered.

But after stroking his rough chin several times.

“Aha. So you’re the duke’s child.”

He looked at me and raised the corners of his mouth ominously.

It seems he had heard the news that Duke Callipus adopted a child.

“Yes, yes. It’s been 5 years since the duke lost his family… He must be lonely.”

Taking one step closer to me, he bent his knees.

“Little one. Do you have abilities?”

The marquis’s face up close was even more wrinkled. He looked exactly like a greedy proboscis monkey.

Ugh. Gross.

I tilted my head back and answered.

“I don’t have any.”

“Oh my, you don’t. None. Just an ordinary child with no abilities or special talents. Hahaha!”

The Marquis of Frisia’s laughter echoed through the high-ceilinged corridor.

Everyone’s faces darkened, but no one said anything.

It was natural.

I was an unrecognized princess, and he was the father of an ability holder.

“Want to see my ability?”

That’s when it happened. Tex, emboldened by talk of abilities, shrugged his shoulders and approached.

I didn’t really want to see it and was about to shake my head when.

Crack-crack-crack!

“Kyaah!”

“Oh, what a shock!”

The maid sisters covered their ears with both hands and screamed.

With a thunderous sound of water freezing, a giant icicle formed in the middle of the corridor.

He must have wanted to show it to me in great detail.

“…”

If I hadn’t been startled and clung to Nox’s leg like a cicada, I would have been impaled by the icicle.

“This is an ability.”

Tex smiled wickedly as if savoring people’s screams and lowered his upper body for short me.

“Well, since you’re called a Crosht, I’ll accept you as my little sister when I become the heir later.”

However.

“No. You’re disqualified as heir.”

I answered without a moment’s hesitation.

“…What?”

“Do you know why the Crosht ducal family gained people’s recognition?”

At the sudden quiz, Tex frowned and answered carelessly.

“Because they have ice abilities?”

“No. They gained recognition by protecting people with ice abilities.”

And I pointed at Tex with my finger.

“But you threatened people instead. So you’re not qualified to be heir.”

“…”

Suddenly the surroundings became quiet.

The Marquis of Frisia with his mocking smile. The surprised maid sisters. Even Nox standing there as an observer.

“…What do you know!”

Just as Tex, who had been dazed for a moment as if hit where it hurt, tried to grab my collar—

“She is the direct princess.”

Large hands separated Tex and me.

“If threatening behavior toward the direct princess continues, we will have no choice but to take action, even against the House of Marquis of Frisia.”

Nox, with no expression, gazed at the Marquis of Frisia with a chilling look.

The marquis, who had been watching everything from behind Tex’s shoulder, shut his mouth tight.

No matter how much of an adopted child, I was still an official princess recognized by Callipus.

“Tex. Let’s go.”

“B-but Dad!”

“Let’s go!”

The marquis seemed to know that causing more commotion here would only lead to bad rumors.

The marquis roughly grabbed the sulking Tex’s hand and glared at Nox.

“…Nox.”

“Yes.”

“Seeing a newly adopted orphan speak like that, you must have done proper indoctrination education.”

Sharp fingers poked at Nox’s chest.

“If our Tex grows up as heir and becomes head of the family, I’ll properly teach you my educational methods too.”

Having a man who looked like a proboscis monkey right in front of you should be scary, but Nox didn’t even blink.

“Yes. I’ll see you then.”

“…Tch! So irritating…”

After that, there was nothing the Marquis of Frisia could do.

He glared at Nox, then at the surrounding maid sisters, and finally even at me before dragging Tex out of the ducal palace.

Once the Marquis of Frisia and Tex disappeared—

“…Why did the marquis come again?”

“I don’t know. He just comes and goes like it’s his own house.”

“Ugh, I get stressed every time he comes.”

“But you know what? So will Young Master Tex eventually inherit the heir position?”

“They say when His Grace returns from subjugating monsters this time, he’ll hold the heir examination… He’ll probably announce something then, won’t he?”

“Didn’t he adopt Lady Aisha as princess?”

“…But does Lady Aisha have ice abilities?”

Sighs and conversation sounds echoed from here and there.

Ah. Now I understand.

The reason Nox didn’t want to acknowledge me.

‘Whether I become princess or whatever, since I don’t possess ice abilities, Tex becoming heir is the same either way.’

I stroked my chin and thought.

Actually, when we couldn’t find the princess, I had thought about looking for a prince instead.

‘But what if the prince also disappeared unlike in the original, just like the princess?’

If that were the case, even the guard who had always believed in me would inevitably be disappointed.

‘I need to find the prince without bringing up talk of a prince…’

I was worrying since there was no particular way when I turned my head—

I saw Nox’s back as he walked silently with a sigh.

I was looking at that figure with pity when.

“Hm?”

Something glittered on the floor.

When I went closer to examine it, it was a fountain pen made of gold.

‘Does it belong to the Marquis of Frisia?’

He had roughly grabbed Tex earlier, so the pen must have fallen during that.

“…Luce?”

But the name engraved on the pen was Luce, not Frisia.

“Luce? Is that the Marquis of Frisia’s nickname?”

It’s a common case. Nobles often engrave their nicknames.

But then.

“Oh.”

As I picked up the fallen pen, a good idea came to mind.

If I can’t speak first.

…Like this pen, I just need to make the other person curious about me, right?

* * *

A few days later.

“You’re going to see Lady Aisha, right? Should I prepare refreshments in advance?”

The ducal palace, which had been in chaos due to the Marquis’s appearance, was deliberately ignoring the bitter feelings and returning to its usual atmosphere.

But Nox still shook his head with a stern expression.

“No. I want to rest alone today.”

In fact, Nox’s mood had been at its worst since then.

‘A branch family coming and going through the ducal palace like it’s their own home.’

He knew that Marquis of Frisia was eyeing the position of heir to the ducal family, but he never expected him to visit the ducal palace without permission.

This would never have happened if Duke Calips Crosht had been here.

‘No, at least if only the young master had been here instead of Duke Calips…’

Nox, who had been continuing his thoughts, shook his head. Such hypotheticals were meaningless.

“So please tell Lady Aisha as well. I’ll be alone until dinner, so tell her to stay quietly in her room.”

“Yes. I’ll let her know.”

After parting with Mai and heading toward his private study, he.

“…”

As soon as she disappeared, he turned his steps around.

‘I can’t just spend time feeling depressed though. I need to do something.’

The matter with Marquis of Frisia was unfortunately not something he could interfere with.

But Aisha.

‘Uncovering the truth about that spy brat is something I can still do now.’

Walking outside the castle walls, the place he headed to was none other than the castle wall.

To be precise.

It was in the direction where Aisha’s bedroom window could be seen.

‘But you actually threatened people. So you’re not qualified to be an heir.’

Nox paused momentarily at the child’s words that suddenly came to mind.

To be honest, in that moment, Aisha really felt like a princess.

No, he thought it would be better if Aisha became the heir rather than a scoundrel like Tex.

“…No.”

But Nox deliberately shook his head.

“It could be acting.”

His monocle glinted ominously as he stared at the window.

Why do you think the shameless act of deceiving others to extract information has the audacity to be called a profession?

It’s because they receive such professional training.

Naturally, Nox didn’t trust that brat who was a spy from the Pose Duke’s family.

Her cute face?

Spies originally have decent appearances.

The way she usually chatters like a baby bird while talking about the Pose family?

It must be a scheme to soften people’s hearts.

The way her cheeks puff up cutely when eating?

Facial disguises were originally child’s play for spies.

‘I thought I could get something if I kept sticking close to her.’

At first, he monitored that kid 24 hours a day to catch even the smallest clue. But a problem arose.

By sticking close to catch her in the act, that brat couldn’t do her real job instead.

‘If I give her time alone like this, she might reveal her true nature.’

Since he conveyed it through Mai, Aisha should be alone by now too.

He didn’t know what she might be doing inside that bedroom.

But who knows.

If she was writing a report to send to the Pose Duke’s family, that would definitely give him grounds to kick Aisha out.

“…Ha. I’m not even a thief, yet I have to climb castle walls.”

The only thing bothering him was his pride as Crosht’s aide.

He thought about the career he had built up until now.

The youngest aide of the Crosht ducal family.

The first monster-raising specialist.

President of M.S.M (Monster Lovers’ Association).

‘But I have to do it.’

Adjusting his monocle, he steeled himself and grabbed the brick wall with his hands.

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