I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 209

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【Chapter 209】

Sedric, who had been granted an estate, immediately left the ducal palace.

‘After the war, the estate’s people are in confusion, and the system is still a mess. Since I’ve been granted a title, it’s right for me to take responsibility and manage the territory.’

His voice carried a tense sense of responsibility.

Perhaps because he had been granted the high noble status of count, he seemed to have a lot on his mind.

But I knew the real reason he was hurrying to leave for the south.

‘It’ll take several months to get used to estate affairs. When I get a breather, I’ll come visit to check if you’re living well and how much you’ve grown, so don’t just play around – exercise hard and eat a lot.’

Sedric’s eyes were full of regret as he left behind many wistful words while delaying getting into the carriage.

He didn’t want to leave but couldn’t stay, so while making his choice, he couldn’t hide his longing.

‘He’s like me.’

The past few months when I endlessly stared at Kail’s tombstone.

I probably had a similar expression to his.

After Sedric left like that, on an afternoon when Father and Lucas were also having a busy day.

I headed to the snowy plains alone.

I had business there.

“Hey, you!”

“…Gruuuu…? (Me? Are you calling me now, you puny thing thinner than my thigh…!)”

In the middle of the snowy plains.

The giant who had been growling angrily as if I was being impudent stopped when he saw me approaching.

“Gut? Guuuut… (Not a person but a Maein. Oh, Maein…)”

Thud-!

The monster who immediately recognized I was a Maein upon seeing my eyes dropped his heavy knees to the ground with a thud.

His face wasn’t clearly visible due to his mop-like fur, but he seemed thoroughly frightened.

‘As expected, the higher-level monsters are more perceptive.’

This was one convenient thing about becoming a Maein.

Being able to move around comfortably in the snowy plains.

“Seeing how quick you are to change your attitude, you’ll be able to survive for a long time. How many years have you lived here?”

“Guuuu… (To the Maein’s eyes, I must seem like an ignorant child, but I’ve lived for 120 years…)”

My previously sharp eyebrows rose slightly in surprise.

He’s lived quite a long time.

‘Though I’m only sixteen now.’

Tsk.

Anyway, if he’s a monster who’s lived long, he’d know the information about this place well.

“Then do you happen to know where a monster that looks like this is?”

I opened a book and showed him the illustration.

It was the monster record journal that Leila had given me before.

The monster looked carefully at the dwarf drawn in the open book, then narrowed his eyes.

“Guuuu… (I don’t know… But if such a small and insignificant thing is a monster, I doubt it could have survived in these snowy plains until now.)”

“…I see? Thanks.”

At my words telling him to go, the giant monster bowed deeply saying thank you and hurriedly disappeared.

“Sigh-, another dead end this time.”

This was already the 30th one.

That is, among the 30 monsters I’d met while roaming the snowy plains, not a single one knew about the existence of the dwarf written in this book.

“Don’t tell me these guys are like unicorns?”

Lying spread-eagle in the middle of the snowy plains, I squinted as I looked up at the clear sky.

There’s one reason I’m going around showing this book to monsters.

Because I saw hope in the characteristics of the dwarves written in the monster journal.

[They also claimed to possess the ability to turn back time.]

Their ability recorded in the book.

With this, I could bring Kail back to life.

Of course, I don’t know how much I can trust this journal, but I clutched the book in my arms tightly with the feeling of grasping at straws.

Because if I didn’t believe in even this, I felt like I’d lose my reason to live.

The only reason I’m not buried under my blankets right now is because I saw hope in this book.

“No time to lie around. If I go deeper into the snowy plains, there might be monsters who know.”

I was getting up, blowing my nose that was naturally sniffling from the cold with a handkerchief.

“Aaaaah-!”

A scream came from not far away.

What was a bit unusual was that the owner of the scream sounded like a person, not a monster.

‘Why is there a person in these snowy plains?’

Could it be a knight who remained in the snowy plains from the last war and is still alive until now?

When I urgently ran toward where the scream came from, someone was being chased by that giant from earlier.

Pink hair fluttering in the fierce wind.

A pale expression.

Holding a staff longer than his body and running around here and there while being wary of the giant was a boy around my age.

“I, I, I usually jump around on trees so I don’t encounter monsters, but even monkeys fall from trees sometimes, right? But when I fell, it had to be a giant like you…”

“Gueoeoeoeo! (So that’s why I was annoyed. I get it now. The Maein I just met was also chattering like you, and I was so irritated inside!)”

Wait a minute.

That giant bastard looked at me reverently earlier but was actually irritated inside?

‘That guy, he’s two-faced.’

I glared with fierce eyes and shouted.

“Hey! You just talked behind my back, didn’t you? I heard everything, you bastard!”

The giant, startled by the sudden shouting, quickly knelt and raised both hands.

“Guuuu… (Oh Maein…)”

I don’t believe you anymore, you bastard.

I glared at the giant while grinding my teeth, then approached the trembling pink-haired man.

Looking at his clothes, he doesn’t seem to be a knight.

Why is a human being chased by a monster in the middle of the snowy plains?

“Hey. How did you cross the ice wall to get here?”

I asked the man, but his reaction to seeing me was a bit strange.

He looked at me with a dumbfounded expression, then muttered that he should be the one asking that.

And then he added-

“…I came looking for you.”

“What?”

“Aisha, I was on my way to find you. But I found you.”

The man and I just blinked at each other.

A moment later.

The man who introduced himself as Asbon explained the situation so far.

* * *

Time goes back to before the Monster Wave, after Kail left the village.

Asbon, who had returned to being a dwarf rather than a pink-haired snowman, was gripped by an inexplicable uneasiness.

‘Did Kail… become disappointed in me?’

The guy he had thought of as a friend had actually been hiding his identity and conspired with the villagers to trap him, so it wouldn’t be strange if he hated him.

But he had approached Kail with this intention from the beginning.

While deceiving him was wrong, he had only done his best at his assigned mission.

Nevertheless, Kail’s last expression wouldn’t leave his mind.

After that, the dwarves failed to persuade Kail and the Monster Wave arrived.

They evacuated to the basement they had prepared in advance.

Thud, thud-

As the monsters ran around relentlessly, the ceiling vibrated and the lights creaked and swayed.

Asbon straightened the crooked light and asked.

“What if that bastard Kail really gives up his Maein abilities and dies while fighting?”

At those words, the dwarf leader struck the ground with his staff.

“What do you mean what if! We’ll have to turn back time and save him. Just like we did before.”

They had already turned back time once before.

The first life.

When that bastard Aebin was revered as the hero of this world, and the Croste Family was going astray.

They had been preparing to welcome the Maein in the North when they were shocked to hear that the young Maein had already died at Ahili’s Circus.

So they turned back time and saved him.

But this time, he gave his energy to save some human woman, and couldn’t even stop the Monster Wave.

“His personality is a bit peculiar, but a Maein is a Maein. Monster Waves will continue to come in the future. We have to turn back time again until we completely stop them.”

And.

Sure enough, Kail died while trying to stop the Monster Wave with insufficient magic power.

The problem was that Kail’s energy transferred to another human, creating a new Maein.

“…What do we do about this?”

“The Maein is alive, but…”

“This is the first time a human has become a Maein.”

The dwarves were confused by this unprecedented situation.

Using their weak magic to assess the situation, they decided they needed to examine the new Maein directly.

If the new Maein seemed to have no personality problems, they were willing to serve him.

This was why Asbon had roamed the snowy plains disguised as a human again.

* * *

“So that’s why you came looking for me now?”

After hearing the whole story, my jaw dropped.

Whether the dwarves had tried to confine Kail under the pretense of supporting him.

Whether they had thoughts of serving me next.

None of that mattered.

The only story that stuck in my ears was-

‘So these guys just need any Maein, whether it’s Kail or whoever, and they have no intention of turning back time anymore?’

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