I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 205

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【Chapter 205】

“Protect His Highness!”

“The King has been captured!”

“Let go-! How dare you lowly creatures grab the arm of a nation’s leader?! I said let go-! Knight, where are the knights!”

The chaotic background noise became blurred.

All that was visible was Callipus, who had dismounted from his horse and was supporting her collapsed body in an embrace.

“Se, Sedric is… cough.”

“Sedric is alive. He’s safe in the ducal castle.”

That’s a relief.

Thanks to Callipus quickly mentioning Sedric’s well-being, her sharp gaze softened slightly.

But there was more she wanted to say.

As soon as she opened her mouth, something gushed out, making it difficult to speak easily.

“Sedric, Lucas, Aisha are all safe. All three are safely in the castle… no, don’t do this, can you get up? I’ll have to carry you.”

Callipus hurriedly tried to move her to the field hospital.

However, he too seemed to realize that Ariena didn’t have much breath left.

When the blood flowing from her mouth showed no signs of stopping, he removed his gauntlet and threw it aside, endlessly wiping her mouth with his bare hand.

Seeing the man bite his lower lip as if frustrated that this was all he could do, she finally realized what she had been missing.

There was something she had always wanted to say someday.

Since this was the end.

Ariena decided to tell Callipus the words she hadn’t been able to say.

“Ca, Callipus… Du, Duke…”

“Speaking will only make it more painful. Please just keep your mouth shut.”

Despite his dissuasion, Ariena opened her mouth.

With the feeling of desperately trying to catch grains of sand scattering between her fingers.

“Ca, Callipus.”

“…I told you not to speak. Blood is flowing, so please just keep your mouth shut!”

“…Ai, Aisha was, sincere.”

Callipus, who had been shouting with his shoulders heaving, froze.

“…What?”

The low voice that came belatedly cracked hoarsely.

Her dying face was reflected in his red eyes that had widened as if struck on the back of the head.

Ariena continued speaking with difficulty, frowning.

“Only Aisha was, si, sincere toward you… she deviated from my plan, that chi…”

Gush.

Just like that, all the grains of sand in her hand slipped away.

“…Ariena. Ariena.”

Her vision gradually became blurred, and the color of her blue eyes began to fade.

Thud.

Finally, her head dropped powerlessly.

“…Ariena? Ari. Ari.”

Callipus caressed her cheek with an incredulous expression, continuously wiping the blood on her cheek with his thumb.

Even the pet name he used to call her slipped out, but without even realizing it himself, he checked her face with trembling hands.

Ariena was dead.

Like the dead knights he had seen in countless wars.

“…”

Callipus’s tightly closed throat trembled greatly.

He tensed his jaw as if holding something back and contorted his face as he bent his upper body.

It looked as if he was trying to burrow into the fallen woman’s embrace, making the large Callipus appear even more pitiful.

“Ari-!”

In the middle of the battlefield.

Callipus’s anguished scream echoed through the air.

* * *

The Frozen Knights, who had swiftly conquered Doctia’s royal palace, used this as a starting point to quickly eliminate the scattered Doctia nobles.

Several months later.

The Frozen flag officially flew over Doctia’s royal palace.

It was a complete victory for the Frozen Kingdom.

“Duke Callipus won the war again this time, didn’t he?”

“This wasn’t just any war. The entire Kingdom of Doctia was completely destroyed.”

“Then does the Frozen Kingdom become an empire now?”

“Of course.”

News of Callipus’s achievements spread rapidly throughout Frozen, centered around Briarwood County, which bordered the demilitarized zone.

But as if competing with that, there was another rumor that started from the north-

“But do you know what happened in the north while Duke Callipus was fighting outside?”

“What?”

“A monster wave hit the north, but Lady Aisha and Young Master Lucas quietly stopped it, so most people don’t even know a monster wave occurred.”

“My goodness, I didn’t know either? There was a monster wave?”

“…We almost died.”

“We really would have died if not for the Crosht Family.”

Through this incident, the Crosht Duke’s household gained the title of heroes who protected both inside and outside the kingdom, receiving tremendous welcome from the empire’s citizens and nobles.

Around the time the rumors spread throughout the territory, the Frozen Empire was smoothly established.

Grace, who became emperor, announced that he would grant a region with mild climate year-round.

It was the place where the royal family of the former Kingdom of Doctia had been located.

It was the moment a small kingdom was born within the Frozen Empire.

“Long live Grand Duke Callipus-!”

“Long live Crosht-!”

The whole world wrote poems and sang songs about the Crosht Family.

The only quiet place was the north, where blizzards raged.

It was Crost Ducal Castle.

* * *

The snowy plains, contrasting with the jubilant empire.

“Aisha.”

“…”

“Aisha. If you stay any longer, you’ll catch a cold…”

“We’ll go ahead, so don’t come back too late. Understood?”

Interrupting Lucas’s worry, a large palm gently rubbed the top of my head.

“I’m telling you she’ll catch a cold at this rate?”

“If she catches one, she can recover. I think it’s better to let her be alone for now.”

At the conversation growing distant behind me, I finally focused my blurred vision.

I had returned to reality.

Before my eyes, I could see a round grave and tombstone rising from the pure white snow.

This was Kail’s tombstone, with only the date of death recorded since his birth date was unknown.

“Then I’ll take my leave as well. I’m worried you might fall ill, so please don’t return too late.”

Nox, who had finished his greeting, also entered the ducal castle, leaving only me and the tombstone in the snowy plains.

As time passed, I just blinked silently.

The northern wind was particularly cold today.

There was something I wanted to say when alone with him.

“…Ka,”

After confirming that everyone had returned, I tried to call his name.

But stopping mid-sentence, I frowned and lowered my head, feeling like tears might come for no reason.

Plop, plip.

I tried desperately not to cry, but small teardrops sadly remained on the pure white snow.

Several chrysanthemum flowers lay on top of it.

To pray for Kail’s soul, I too had to lay down a flower.

But I was afraid to do so.

Because if I placed it down, it would truly feel like the end with Kail.

Because it would feel like I was accepting his death.

“….”

It seemed impossible after all.

So without realizing it, I tightened my grip on the stem, and the chrysanthemum’s stem snapped.

The broken flower settled weakly onto the tombstone.

“…Ha.”

Seeing that, I realized.

“…Sob, sniff… You until the very end…”

That an unplanned meeting from the beginning means even the farewell won’t go as I wish.

“…Ka, Kail, you until the very end, without even asking my opinion… you alone…”

Once the tears started flowing, they wouldn’t stop like a burst dam.

“You fool! Don’t you know that those left behind are sadder than those who leave!?”

“….”

“Why are you so selfish until the end! When you were little, you only followed me around, but after growing up, you never listened to me once!”

I wiped the tears flowing down my cheeks with my palms and shouted, but all that returned was empty silence.

“Sniff… Sob…”

In the end, I collapsed in front of the tombstone as if crumbling.

Even now, when I think of that time, I can’t remember how it all unfolded.

There were only two things I could clearly recall.

Kail collapsing as if falling into my arms, and the scene of monsters stopped around us.

And that Lucas’s face turned pale when he discovered me later.

‘Ah, Aisha. Your eye color is…’

My eyes had become the same purple as his.

After realizing that Kail had given me all his energy and died, I burst into tears as if fainting and then lost consciousness.

It had been several months since Father returned after ending the war and we held Kail’s funeral.

Strangely enough, time had passed.

Only the world around me, not myself.

The damaged ducal palace was restored, and the Peri that had been underground came out and resumed normal activities.

The guards whose faces had been dark with their respective traumas now yawned and walked around the training ground familiarly.

The only ones still stopped in that moment were me and Kail,

just the two of us.

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