I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 189

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【Chapter 189】

At that moment, at Crost Ducal Castle.

“My baby Peri knights. Look at this, it’s the grilled frog you guys go crazy for!”

As I held up the crispy grilled frog high in the air, the Peris gathered around me raised their front paws as if in worship.

“Kyuu-! (I want the hind legs!)”

“Kku, kkuuut! (I want the front legs!)”

“Kyuya… (I’m drooling…)”

I knew this would happen.

“Now, only one Peri who answers my question can have this grilled frog. Who can speak first?”

“Kku-! (Me!)”

“Kkuu! (Me, me!)”

“Kku, kku, kku! (I’ll speak first!)”

I sighed as I watched the frantic baby Peris.

‘…You guys. This is why you haven’t been selected as official knights.’

How can you be completely enchanted by just one grilled frog?

Seeing these innocent little lambs made me worry, but I was the one who enchanted them.

Ah. Such contradiction.

“Alright then, question! Kail has been acting strange lately, any Peri who knows why!”

But the Peris who had eagerly raised their hands suddenly shut their mouths after hearing my question.

‘What? Why are they acting like that?’

They were jumping around just a moment ago, why do they suddenly have dead fish eyes?

“Nobody knows? I could even give you five grilled frogs?”

In my panic, I automatically raised the reward.

I knelt down and waddled toward the Peris, but they had already turned away from me with cold eyes.

“Kku! (You’ve been asking for days and we keep saying we don’t know!)”

“Kku, kkuut! (Right. We said we don’t know, but you keep asking and it’s annoying! Even bribing us with grilled frogs!)”

“Kkuuuk! (Aisha, you’re a bad human!)”

“…You really don’t know? You’re not just pretending not to know?”

There was a reason for their reaction – I had actually been asking every monster I encountered about Kail for the past few days.

It was because Kail’s behavior when I last saw him bothered me.

‘I only said that because I didn’t like the idea of you marrying someone you don’t love, but that marriage was nullified. So…’

‘So, that question wasn’t sincere?’

His unusually cold attitude.

‘When that guy was talking to you, his expression looked just like that spy from back then. He knows nothing good comes from being involved with him, so rather than telling the truth and making you sad, he’d rather make himself a target for your anger.’

And Sedric’s advice that was too unsettling to just ignore.

Moreover, since the day of the competition, he had disappeared without a trace.

‘Kids. Haven’t you noticed that Kail has been different lately?’

‘Kku? Kku, kku. (Don’t know? I get scared and run away whenever I see that Maein.)’

So I had been asking around diligently, but everyone was unaware of his feelings or even his whereabouts.

‘They really seem to know nothing.’

Some were scared and asked me not to even mention his name.

Well, to them, Kail is like a ruler.

He’s not exactly a close figure.

I sighed and held out the grilled frog.

“I guess I shouldn’t have asked. Sorry for troubling you. I’ll just give you the grilled frog…”

“I know, so give it to me!”

That’s when it happened.

With a mischievous voice, someone snatched away the grilled frog.

“Kkuyak! (My frog!)”

“Kku, kku! (Crazy lizard!)”

The startled Peris shook their bodies in alarm and stood guard, but-

“Hehe.”

The lizard creature that had already devoured the grilled frog flicked its long tongue and wore a satisfied smile.

This guy I had rescued from the uninhabited island had been staying at the monster training facility since coming to the ducal castle.

They said he seemed to be going through puberty since he was at a growing age.

“When did you get so big…?”

I gaped, completely forgetting about the stolen grilled frog.

When I found him on the uninhabited island, he was only about the size of a two-week-old puppy.

Is this really the same giant cockroach I knew?

‘Now his body is almost the size of a Welsh Corgi…?’

Ah. That’s not the issue here.

This guy knows about Kail.

I narrowed my eyes and asked him.

“Do you know why Kail has changed? And do you even know who Kail is?”

“Waang-!”

Whether I asked or not, this little rascal was busy swallowing all the remaining grilled frogs.

“Do you know Kail!”

“Huh? Of course I know! He’s a Maein! The leader of monsters, a Maein!”

When I asked again, the lizard’s gaze finally turned to me.

Oh ho. He really does know?

I decided to ask, thinking of it as being fooled.

“Then why has Kail changed?”

“That’s because…”

That’s when it happened.

“Because everyone will change like this!”

The lizard that had scurried up to me suddenly grabbed my arm and gave it a kiss.

How ticklish.

“Everyone kisses people’s arms?”

“They bite. Waaang-!”

The lizard raised his eyebrows diagonally and bit my arm again.

I didn’t notice at all because he had no teeth.

‘Huh, he’s grown this much but still has no teeth?’

What exactly is this guy’s identity…?

“Anyway, Kail is being cautious because he thinks everyone will change like this!”

I tilted my head in confusion at the incomprehensible words while scratching my ticklish arm.

So… he’s being cautious because all monsters might bite people’s arms?

What is this, zombies?

* * *

Meanwhile, at the same time, in front of the meeting room door at the Royal Palace.

“I won’t touch the door handle and will wait quietly, so please continue with your duties.”

The guards were sweating profusely because of the noble young master who had suddenly appeared in front of the sacred meeting room.

Just moments ago he was trying to open the door saying he had business, and now he’s telling them to do their own work.

They couldn’t dare chase away someone trying to disturb the King’s meeting.

Because he was none other than the new ability user, Kail.

They knew he had a close relationship with Grace since he was the young master of the Marquis of Schultz family.

‘But isn’t he being too unreasonable?’

And yet he himself was standing peacefully in front of the door, as if he would keep his boundaries.

This made the guards even more troubled.

“Um… you told us to continue our duties, but our duty is to chase away people who approach the meeting room…”

“Except for me.”

“…What?”

“When I say continue your duties, I mean only do what you can handle.”

The well-educated noble’s tone had somehow changed to informal speech.

Seeing this, the knights instinctively realized.

Kail was different from ordinary nobles.

From his unrealistically handsome face to his broad chest and shoulders that resembled a knight’s physique.

Should I say he was like a beautiful demon wearing the mask of a noble?

‘This has become quite troublesome…’

The meeting’s contents were naturally top secret.

So anyone loitering in front of the meeting room should be sent away, even if force was necessary.

But in front of this extraordinary man, the guard knights instinctively felt a threat to their survival.

‘What should we do?’

‘What do you mean what? We still have to drive him away.’

A fellow knight nodded, encouraged by another knight’s eye signal.

That’s right.

No matter how strong the opponent was, they were solemn royal knights.

The knight who swallowed his saliva hesitated before opening his mouth.

“Even if you are the young master of the Marquis of Schultz, you cannot behave like this here. If you have no intention of withdrawing, we will escort you outside even if we must use force.”

When Kail shrugged his shoulders as if to say ‘try it if you can’ at those words, trembling hands approached toward Kail.

Just then-

“Sigh, come in.”

Grace, who opened the door at just the right moment, sighed and called Kail.

Kail, who smoothly avoided the knight’s hand, leisurely entered the room.

“…”

“…Whew, th-thank goodness.”

The knights finally exhaled the breath they had been holding as the troublemaker suddenly disappeared.

“…Kail?”

“That, the young master of the Marquis of Schultz?”

Callipus and Count Rowan, who were sitting in the meeting room, looked toward the doorway with surprised expressions.

Grace sighed once more and explained.

“I was going to ignore it, but I could hear the guard knights breaking out in cold sweat all the way here. This guy is particularly stubborn, you see.”

Though she spoke sarcastically as if telling him to reflect, Kail shamelessly retorted as if he knew nothing.

“It was that urgent a matter. I apologize.”

“Right. What’s this urgent matter?”

“It’s about monsters. Therefore, I would like to have a conversation with the minimum number of people.”

Grace’s head tilted at the cryptic words.

A matter about monsters.

That topic coming from Kail’s mouth would be related to his identity as a Maein.

‘Has something really happened?’

War was one thing, but this problem was also important.

Grace nodded almost imperceptibly and asked Count Rowan for understanding.

“…Sorry, but Count Rowan. Could you excuse us for a moment?”

“Yes. I understand.”

It was when Count Rowan, who had nodded, was about to stand up.

“Excuse me, but the minimum number of people I mentioned doesn’t only refer to Count Rowan.”

At Kail’s sudden words, everyone’s gaze in the meeting room focused on him.

“I would like to speak with Duke Callipus alone.”

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