I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 183

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【Episode 183】

“…?”

Broad shoulders lightly pushed Sedric aside.

The person who stood in front of me as if to protect me was none other than Kail.

Sedric’s gaze, softened by his disguise, sharpened, but Kail glared at Sedric with an even more chilling look.

“Is your brain made of goldfish or something? You don’t seem to understand the warning I gave at the tournament entrance earlier, I told you to stay away from Aisha.”

Oh my god. What’s this about goldfish?

“You, you, where did you learn to talk like that?! In that cold place, Nox was the only person you could communicate with, so you learned it from Nox, right?”

It seems his childhood rudeness just grew up and got upgraded!!

I was so shocked that I started slapping Kail’s back repeatedly.

“I should correct that misunderstanding. It wasn’t me who approached first, but you, Lady.”

Sedric said, his expression suddenly darkening like someone who had turned evil.

Muttering as if casting a curse.

“Wh-why are you suddenly acting like this!”

Startled, I stopped hitting Kail’s back and turned my head toward Sedric.

Why is he acting like this? He was acting fine earlier, but why is he suddenly angry?!

When I yelped, Sedric, whose eyes were blazing fiercely, answered through gritted teeth.

“Anyway, I’ve completed my mission, so, Prin.cess.”

So to interpret what he said, he was angry because he went through the trouble of saving Kail only to get insulted for it.

This is bad.

As both men’s expressions grew increasingly fierce, the surrounding students who had initially shown curiosity began to back away in fear.

“W-we’ll try communicating with monsters the way Kail taught us.”

“Yes. We will too…”

The students who had politely bowed to Kail ran away just like that.

“….”

And so I was left alone.

Trapped between two men shooting lasers from their eyes.

‘…They’re perfectly normal people when they’re alone, so why do they cause such chaos only when they come to me?’

I felt a bit wronged, but I didn’t have time to complain internally.

“Kail-!”

First, I decided to deal with the main culprit of this situation.

Smack!

I put some force into my palm and hit his back, but he was so solid that only my hand hurt.

Naturally, Kail didn’t even blink.

“Why?”

He just raised his eyebrows as if asking why I was taking that guy’s side.

“Talk with me for a moment. Sed, I mean, friend over there, please wait a moment.”

I asked Sedric for his understanding while grabbing Kail’s wrist and stepping a few paces away to talk.

Kail was the first to speak.

“Aisha. Why are you with that guy?”

What is this. This line sounds like the beginning of an obsession.

I sighed with a groan.

“Kail. I don’t think I’m at an age where I need your permission to make friends, right? And I talked with that friend about what happened earlier, it was just a small misunderstanding.”

“I know that, but that guy almost hurt you. Even if it was a misunderstanding, he’s a boy, and there’s no need to be particularly close…”

“Kail.”

I had no choice but to cut off his words.

Judging that he had crossed the line.

‘…He pretends not to know about the marriage talk, and only hangs out with his friends at the tournament. But he wants to monitor who I talk to?’

At first I thought I’d just end it by stopping the commotion, but thinking about it made me increasingly upset, and my clenched fists grew tense.

I had a lot I wanted to say, but I bit my lips and held back.

“…You can’t talk to me like that right now.”

“What?”

If I blurted out everything I wanted to say, it would reveal that I had been waiting for Kail.

I finally had to admit it.

That I had actually been a little excited by the marriage talk that Kail had mentioned jokingly back then.

“Are you going to interfere like this every time I make friends?”

At my words, Kail hardened his face as if he was the one feeling frustrated.

“I don’t have friends or anything else besides you…”

“Even if you proposed to me out of curiosity and tried playing human for fun, you can’t do that to other people. You might be misunderstood.”

“….”

At my words, Kail’s mouth fell slightly open.

As if surprised, and as if shocked.

“…I proposed to you out of curiosity?”

His steady low voice wavered for the first time.

I was slightly surprised by his unexpected reaction.

‘If that’s not it, then how should I interpret your behavior toward me?’

So I asked back.

“Then it wasn’t?”

“I don’t make jokes like that with you.”

“Then…”

“Until the very end, you are my everything.”

His pure answer, without a trace of falsehood, pierced through my heart like an arrow.

My hardened face relaxed defensively.

Kail was sincere.

In his sharp purple eyes that had now completely changed to those of a young man, I saw the overlap of the small boy who had followed me blindly.

“Then, why with me…”

That made me even more confused.

I recalled the past days when I had tried to deny my feelings, telling myself it wasn’t that serious.

‘…Really, I was embarrassed to say something like this first.’

My palms were sweating, so I kept clenching and unclenching my fists.

It would be better to ask, right?

It’s really embarrassing, but if not now, there won’t be another chance to ask.

“…What was it when you talked about marriage to me, then pretended not to know?”

Finally, I closed my eyes tightly and barely managed to ask with courage.

“That was just something I said because I didn’t like it.”

“…What?”

My closed eyes slowly opened.

Then surprisingly, there was an emotionless man staring at me, completely different from his earlier appearance when he spoke sincerely.

“I only said it because I didn’t like the idea of you marrying someone you don’t love, but that marriage was called off anyway. So…”

“So, that question wasn’t sincere?”

Kail gave no answer.

“That means you said you wanted to marry me just because you wanted to ruin my marriage?”

Ha.

A hollow laugh escaped through my teeth.

Suppressing my anger that made my fists tremble, I turned my head and said coldly.

“Don’t talk to me anymore.”

I ran in the opposite direction from where he was.

Kail showed no reaction.

As if he had expected me to leave, he stood there like a wooden statue without trying to stop me.

* * *

“It’s finally over.”

“Aah! Sedric, what? When did you follow me?”

It was when I had been running for a while and stopped walking, exhausted from my own efforts.

When I turned my head at the leisurely voice, Sedric was standing there, having followed me from who knows when.

Only then did I remember his existence.

Don’t tell me… he didn’t hear our conversation, did he?

He didn’t see that pathetic scene where it looked like I confessed to a guy I liked and got rejected, did he?

I examined Sedric’s face, but as usual, his expression was unreadable.

Ahem.

I cleared my throat quietly and asked, just in case.

“Sedric. Of course I trust you, but since there’s always a ‘what if,’ I’m asking. Did you perhaps hear my conversation with Kail…”

“It seems I have good hearing due to my profession. I apologize.”

Kyaaaah!

This person is quick with his apologies!

Embarrassed and with my mouth agape, I screamed internally while frantically ruffling my hair.

I declare that I want to disappear from this world!

If there’s a mouse hole, or even a dog hole would be fine, I want to be alone!

After rolling on the ground for a while, repeatedly banging my forehead against trees and screaming.

“…Are you done now?”

Sedric, who had been leaning against another tree with his arms crossed, asked.

“No. I’m not done yet. Next, I’m going to run like a runaway locomotive.”

“Before that, wait.”

That’s when it happened.

Sedric sighed and held something out.

“Use this.”

“…What?”

My eyes widened as I took the note.

[One nagging session for Aisha.

Usage time: 30 minutes]

This was the nagging coupon I had jokingly given him.

“You’re using this now…”

At a loss for words, I just blinked.

Of course I had given it to him to actually use, but I never thought he would want to nag me even in this situation.

What this means is that I’m really in a tough state.

“Aisha, do you have a tendency to harm yourself when you’re stressed?”

“…It’s not like that.”

“Then stop what you’re doing now.”

Suddenly rummaging through his pocket, he pulled something out.

It was a small ointment.

He opened the cap, put the white cream on his finger, then rubbed it on my reddened forehead while muttering.

“It’s not the weird nagging you’re thinking of, so just stay still for 30 minutes. Don’t bang your forehead against trees like a woodpecker.”

“…”

Could it be that he used the coupon because he was worried about me?

…Hmm.

I had tried to make Sedric open his heart with my silly smile and praising skills.

But instead, it looks like I’m the one whose heart is opening.

“Aisha.”

“Yes.”

“Don’t misunderstand and just listen quietly. First, don’t hate that guy too much.”

“What…?”

I take back what I said about my heart opening.

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