I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 187

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【Episode 187】

Foreign species. Cleanup. Kingdom.

These were all words he couldn’t understand at all.

If Bishop had been an ordinary noble of Frozen rather than a spy, he would have tilted his head in curiosity.

But as a spy, he quickly hid his trembling hands behind his back at the words pointing to him.

“Haha. You say you’ve suffered much, what do you mean by that…”

“He might try to escape, so put restraints on him and drag him to the academy basement.”

“Yes.”

“D-Duke? Duke. Why are you suddenly doing this!”

Nick and Ollia, their families had been dragged away, but he thought they had believed he was being framed since he was told to rest in the reception room.

It seemed to have been a strategy to make him let his guard down.

Bishop, suddenly dragged away without warning, was confined in a storage room in the academy basement.

Forcibly seated in a chair with his hands and feet bound, he thought with a sigh.

‘Now I’ll be interrogated.’

This was a room where balls and hula hoops used by students during physical education were stored.

If it had been a warehouse storing magic items, he could have at least attempted an escape using them.

‘The magic item warehouse is right next door, but these guys deliberately locked me up here.’

There was nothing he could do now.

Because of the magic restraints, he couldn’t even make an emergency return to the Pose Kingdom.

For a caught spy, there was only death.

All he could do as a spy was disappear leaving as few traces as possible.

But then.

“It’s unfair, I tell you! I merely gratefully received what Teacher Bishop gave me, if you want to interrogate someone, go question Teacher Bishop!”

“How dare you! Where do knights get off grabbing the wrist of a high noble-!”

Loud screams echoed from beyond the closed door.

‘This voice is… Marquis Nick?’

That thoughtless noble had given his son a berserk potion, landing him in this situation.

‘This is why I said we shouldn’t involve incompetent fools… Tch.’

Bishop hung his head in despair.

Though he wasn’t born a spy, having lived as one for 10 years, he knew how weak untrained ordinary nobles were.

However.

‘This isn’t a war between spies. It’s a war between nations. So we must absolutely win over the nobles of the Frozen Kingdom. Provide berserk potions to the nobles currently collaborating with us as well.’

These were the words of King Burey who trusted him, so he had no choice but to obey.

“What kind of behavior is this! How dare you tie the head of the Marquis of Frisia to a chair?!”

“You bastards, just wait until I get out of here… G-Good heavens. D-Duke Callipus…!”

The commotion heard from outside the door moved to the side wall.

It seemed the nobles had been confined in the adjacent room.

But Bishop’s anxious leg trembling stopped because of Marquis Nick’s mention of Duke Callipus.

‘The Duke went to the next room? He’s not interrogating me?’

Bishop narrowed his eyes and listened carefully to the conversation.

“Your daughter caused a ruckus at the monster training facility, and now the scale has gotten even bigger, Marquis of Frisia.”

“Th-that’s not… it’s not our daughter’s fault, Duke. Our daughter was merely deceived by something like Young Marquis Nick’s threats. You heard it all at the competition, didn’t you.”

“You wouldn’t have raised your only daughter to be a fool, and Olia is a proper adult who can make her own choices, so who are you trying to blame.”

“Duke…”

Listening to the almost sobbing voice of the Marquis of Frisia, Bishop coldly assessed the situation.

Why had they separated the nobles from him?

And why did he go to the nobles first instead of him?

“You know the Frozen Kingdom is sensitive about berserk potions. If this happens, not only you but all your children will be executed.”

“…Sob, sob…”

The conversation paused briefly at the mention of execution.

Because Marquis Nick had burst into tears.

Then intermittent coughing followed, and the sound of Nick rubbing his hands together as if coming to his senses could be heard.

“Please, the children…! You know the children don’t know anything, don’t you? Our son is just an immature child caught up in adult conflicts, knowing nothing…”

“Right. That’s what I was curious about.”

…That’s what he was curious about?

One of Bishop’s eyebrows rose.

“I know you’re traitors who shouldn’t be in the Frozen Kingdom, but your daughter and son just followed their parents’ words without knowing anything, right?”

No way.

“If you answer my questions, I’ll spare the children.”

“Yes, yes… I’ll tell you anything…!”

Only then did Bishop realize Callipus’s intention, and dismay appeared on his face.

He had deliberately interrogated them separately to extract information.

‘It should be fine. The Marquis of Frisia was replaced by a spy long ago…’

But what about Marquis Nick?

Marquis Nick was such a cunning man with great desire for honor that they trusted he would betray the Frozen Kingdom well without needing to replace him.

“D-Damn it…!”

Crash!

Bishop, who had been startled and jerking his body, fell sideways while tied to the chair.

Though he had prepared for an honorable death as a spy, he intended to deny being a spy of the Doctia Kingdom to the end.

From Duke Callipus’s attitude, he seemed to know the berserk potion was his and was even certain of his identity.

But without proper evidence, it would be difficult to take an official stance and hold Doctia responsible.

But if Nick confessed…!

“No, not that… Don’t say it! Don’t say it!”

Bishop shouted while struggling, unable to even stand up with his limbs bound.

It surely reached the next room, but Duke Callipus cut off his desperate scream.

“What kind of proposal did Bishop make to you? And besides you, which other families accepted such proposals.”

No!

“…Th-that… we don’t really know.”

As expected, the Marquis of Frisia consistently claimed ignorance.

However.

“B-Bishop introduced himself as a spy from the Doctia Kingdom! He said if we joined hands with him and contributed to some extent in the upcoming war with the Frozen Kingdom, he would make us dukes when the Dottia Empire was established!”

Ah.

Bishop opened his mouth in shock.

A small sigh escaped between his lips that gaped open enough to make his jaw ache.

“I’ll also tell you about the o-other families that accepted the proposal. So please, at least our son… please spare Nick who knows nothing…”

It was over.

In the end, he had confessed.

Bishop stared into space with a devastated expression.

Marquis Nick’s thin sobbing that filled the room beyond the wall seemed to bind him.

Everything was over.

Without being able to give even one victory to King Burey who had trusted him despite being called a madman.

Without being able to properly compete with Grace, said to be the world’s most powerful mage.

“…”

The feeling of a tower built solidly over 10 years collapsing in an instant made one give up immediately.

Bishop closed his eyes.

Thinking it would be better to just die quickly.

That’s when it happened.

Clatter, clang-.

With his hands bound, unable to use suicide poison and just waiting for the Duke to come, a strange sound came from the ceiling.

‘…What’s that.’

Was some giant rat running around?

It didn’t matter to him at all, but he instinctively reacted to the noise around him and automatically lifted his eyelids.

However, what was moving around on the ceiling wasn’t a rat.

One tile slid smoothly to the side as if a lid was opening, and a hand popped out through the gap.

And when several more tiles slid away to secure space, someone stuck their face out.

“…Se, Se…”

Bishop’s mouth froze when he confirmed who that person was.

Jet-black hair as dark as pitch and predatory red eyes that shone uniquely even in the darkness.

A cold face that looked like Duke Calips Crosht’s younger days.

It was Sedric.

“You, you… you were supposed to be dead…”

He blinked, wondering if he was seeing a ghost, but Sedric boldly jumped down to the floor and stood before him.

“…Huh, huuh…”

No way. Did he escape after being dragged to the Crosht Ducal Family?

If so…

“Se, Sedric. I’m a first-class Yang. Check my necklace. If you press the groove part of this pendant, you’ll find the emblem of the Kingdom of Odtia engraved inside. I’m your comrade too.”

Tied to the chair and face down, he looked up at Sedric desperately as if Sedric were some kind of god.

“Con, confirm that I’m your comrade and quickly untie me. The fate of Doctia depends on this.”

At Bishop’s earnest plea, Sedric, who had been standing there blankly, finally opened his mouth.

“First, let me check if you’re really a spy.”

“Thank you, thank you!”

Bishop’s gloomy face immediately began to brighten.

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