I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 2

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【Chapter 2】

‘…Either way, it means I’m going to die, doesn’t it?’

My knuckles turned white as I gripped the death potion in my pocket.

If I act as a fake daughter according to the original story, I die. But if I don’t act as a fake daughter, I die for refusing orders.

I was the only A-grade spy among the 5-year-olds, but I wasn’t particularly important.

It means Pose Duke didn’t send me here because he was confident the mission would succeed.

The duke knows I’ll kill myself before getting caught by the Crosht Duchy.

Because I’m young, I’ll obey well. Because he’s been brainwashing me since I learned to read. That’s all the duke wanted.

‘…It’s no different from my previous life.’

I quietly gritted my teeth.

The lie that studying would be enough. The lie that just getting into college would be enough. The lie that just getting a job would be enough.

What was the result of getting a job after listening to people who advised me as if they’d take responsibility for my life?

Overtime? Everyone does it. You just have to endure it.

Life is originally hard. That’s why I told you your student days were the best, right?

Those were the only words that came back.

“….”

I slowly opened my closed eyes and took my hand off the death potion.

One death soaked in regret was enough, and one foolish life was enough.

Now I won’t make choices with obvious outcomes.

“Guard.”

When I spoke after being quiet for so long, the gatekeeper sighed.

“Yes. Now you’re finally talking. So you’re really saying you’re his daughter? What evidence did you bring?”

I took a deep breath and began speaking clearly.

“In a room with a cozy fireplace and splendid canopy, Mother told me. The people of Crosht enter the Ice Cave right after birth to endure harsh cold.”

“…What?”

The knight’s eyes trembled finely at my words.

Ice Cave. A secret dimension that Croste Duke created secretly with his ice abilities.

The process of living in the Ice Cave for several weeks after birth to become accustomed to the cold was an essential gateway for Crosht direct descendants.

Basically, to use ice abilities, one couldn’t be weak to cold and had to be familiar with abilities from childhood.

Therefore, direct descendants would eat and sleep in the Ice Cave for 4 weeks with a nanny to become familiar with abilities.

“By mother, you mean the duchess?”

The knight knelt and spoke. I nodded.

“My goodness… Dear God.”

The knight covered his mouth with his hand and was so moved that his eyes even reddened.

“…Really… is that true?”

Finally, the knight’s eyes welled up with tears as he spoke in a softened, respectful tone.

“-is what the direct princess told me.”

“Huh?”

Whoosh-

An awkward wind blew between the crying knight and me. The knight’s eyes, which had been covered with a handkerchief, seemed to dry up like grains of sand.

No, this guard is quite sensitive. I’m starting to feel sorry.

“A, ahem!”

I cleared my throat with my still childish voice.

“When did I say I experienced it directly?”

If I act as a fake daughter, I die.

Knowing that, why would I lie?

I swallowed the words I was thinking and sighed, “Hoo.”

“That’s what happened~ is what! The direct princess told me. And I know where the direct princess is.”

“…What did you say?”

But the knight’s eyes narrowed, not missing my last words.

“You know where the direct princess is?”

“Yes.”

There was only one way I could survive this situation. Stop being a spy and tell Croste Duke the information I know.

‘In the novel, it said the princess went to an orphanage.’

Actually, information about the princess wasn’t well covered in the original work.

Five years ago. Not long after the duke’s first and second children were kidnapped, even the pregnant duchess disappeared.

The problem was that while the duchess was never found, the princess was discovered at some orphanage much later.

As a corpse, no less.

‘In the original, they said the estimated age of the corpse was about elementary school age, so she should be alive now.’

“So I’d like to request an audience with the duke.”

A strange child knows the past that only close associates know? They’d have no choice but to think she’s somehow related to the princess.

“My, my goodness….”

The knight dropped the handkerchief he was holding.

“Dear God. Fi, finally the direct princess….”

Then he trembled and grabbed my hand with a solemn expression.

“Kid. You know you’ll be in big trouble if this is a lie?”

“Yes.”

I was worried about what to do if he was suspicious, but fortunately it worked out.

I nodded and entered Crost Ducal Castle with the knight. With this, the first step was successful.

I swallowed nervously, preparing for what was ahead.

Now I refused the ending of dying after just listening to others.

* * *

‘…Wow. The ceiling is really high.’

“Kid. Hurry up.”

Maybe because I’d been stuck in Pose Duke’s training facility for 5 years. Everything outside was so fascinating.

Then I carelessly lifted my head up and almost fell backward from the weight of my head.

“Ugh.”

This isn’t the time for this. I need to move my legs hard to keep up with the knight’s pace.

Thud thud thud-

As I ran toward the knight with my short legs, my footsteps echoed through the quiet corridor.

‘By the way, what should I ask Croste Duke for as a reward for finding his daughter?’

Honestly speaking, money would be best….

But I’m still only 5 years old. Moreover, I’m a spy tied to Pose Duke’s side.

So after receiving the reward, I’d have to flee to somewhere Pose Duke couldn’t chase me.

Could I really run away with all that money with this body?

Shake shake-

‘No way. Absolutely impossible.’

Sigh, this pathetic little body.

What’s the point of spy training when my physical abilities can’t support it?

I sighed with my eyes turned into horizontal lines.

‘The direct princess is lucky. She has a reliable protector like Croste Duke…. If she returns to the ducal castle, bad people won’t be able to touch her.’

Hmm. Wait a minute. I just had a good idea.

If running away is difficult, I just need to find someone strong enough to protect me, right?

A reliable protector that even Pose Duke’s family wouldn’t dare touch….

‘Ask them to make someone from the Crosht Ducal Family my legal guardian?!’

“…Wow. This could work.”

I was shocked by my own brilliance.

Is this why Pose Duke made me a spy?

Because I’m too smart?

“What could work?”

That’s when it happened. The knight who had been walking ahead turned his head.

Someone like that Guard might be someone even Pose Duke couldn’t mess with.

Croste Duke cherished his people dearly. If anyone touched them, he would get angry on behalf of his knights who had been harmed.

With this sudden thought, I immediately spoke to him.

“Sir Knight.”

“What?”

“By any chance, have you ever thought it would be nice to have children?”

“I already have children though?”

“What?!”

Oh my goodness. He already had someone.

“Why do you ask that?”

“No, it’s just that I sometimes think it would be nice to have parents…”

I let out a deep sigh and muttered glumly.

The knight looked at me with a puzzled expression, but I pretended not to notice.

That’s when it happened.

“Ah, Lady Dorothy.”

The knight who had suddenly stopped walking gently pushed my back.

“This is the child I mentioned. Please take good care of her until permission for an audience is granted.”

“Of course.”

“Take care. Make sure to tell her about the princess’s location.”

The knight who had been introducing me suddenly bid me farewell and patted my head.

What? Wasn’t I going straight to the duke?

Well, he is the head of a ducal family, so meeting him wouldn’t be easy.

“Yes. Take care.”

I was nodding my head to the knight when.

“…So. You know where the direct princess is?”

“Yes.”

At the gentle question, I finally raised my lowered head to look at the other person.

But then.

“You weren’t ordered to reveal the princess’s location, but to become the princess, weren’t you?”

Along with a sharp warning, I met eyes with a woman whose brown eyes flashed menacingly.

Right. I had forgotten.

I wasn’t the only spy who had infiltrated the Croste Ducal Family.

Six years ago. The first spy to successfully infiltrate the Croste Ducal Family using the position of a maid.

There was Dorothy.

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Dorothy.

In the original story, she was a character who worried that her position would diminish because of Aisha, who had succeeded in pretending to be a fake daughter.

But that worry turned into anger, and she tormented the innocent Aisha for quite some time.

Of all people, to be caught in the moment of trying to betray by such a woman.

Glance-

It seemed like running away should be the priority.

“Wow, look over there!”

I exclaimed and deliberately pointed somewhere like a little child.

“What is it?”

“A pretty oppa!”

“What?”

At my words full of admiration, Dorothy unconsciously turned her head.

“…A-ahem. Are you talking about me?”

There stood an elderly man close to 100 years old, holding an old book with his face flushed red.

“…That’s not a pretty oppa though?”

Dorothy turned her head back with a bewildered expression and scrunched up her face.

“No, damn it!”

I had already run away.

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“Damn it, this short little body. Damn!”

I ran away using even the strength I had when drinking formula.

“Kid, don’t be scared! I just have something I want to ask!”

“…Huff, huff… Why didn’t I remember that woman?”

She was a minor supporting character, but her personality was so twisted that I used to curse her, calling Dorothy crazy.

However, it was natural that I hadn’t thought of her.

In the original story, Aisha encountered Dorothy a month after successfully infiltrating.

But as a result of me saying ‘I know the princess’s whereabouts’ and changing the original plot, we ended up meeting a little earlier than scheduled.

And a fact I newly realized after possessing Aisha. Five-year-olds have much shorter legs than I thought.

I was running at full speed with all my might, but.

Trot trot trot-

To others, it probably felt like watching a bicycle with training wheels go by.

At first, there was quite a distance, but the gap between me and Dorothy chasing me gradually narrowed.

As soon as I squeezed out my last bit of strength and exited the castle gate, a garden spread out before me.

I first hid behind the most visible bushes. Since running was difficult, hiding was the only option.

I was hurriedly looking around the vast garden when.

“E-excuse me!”

There happened to be someone approaching this way.

They were wearing a black robe, so I couldn’t tell what their rank was, but I seemed to have found a place to hide.

“A scary person is chasing me. I’ll just hide inside your robe for a moment.”

Rustle-

“…?”

Blinded by immediate fear, I recklessly hid inside the man’s robe.

I could feel the other person’s bewilderment from their retreating movements.

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