I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 216

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【Side Story 2】

After the coronation ceremony ended, at the venue where a simple banquet was held.

“…From now on, international attention will be directed toward King Kail. Duke Callipus, you’ll need to make a good impression on King Mein.”

Emperor Grace gave a brief assessment of this coronation ceremony.

That’s right.

The reason why high-ranking nobles from the empire and kingdom bothered to come all the way to the unfamiliar north.

It was because Kail announced during his speech that he had discovered over 20 mines in the snowy plains.

Moreover, they were all treasure trove mines storing magic stones.

It meant that all possibilities for humanity’s future were buried in the snowy plains.

After the speech ended, the nobles’ expressions had changed 180 degrees.

Currently, all empires and kingdoms were going crazy over those damn ‘magic stones.’

Humanity had already been researching magic for a long time historically.

So it was natural in a way that magic stones, essential for using magic, had run out.

With many people needing limited resources, the price of magic stones had no choice but to skyrocket, but 20 previously unmined mines were discovered?

The center of international society would now become the monster kingdom.

Kail’s efforts to establish a kingdom and find mines were all to remove the label of ‘Mein’ and marry me.

After all, nobles tend to avoid everything related to monsters.

‘…But with this much, surely marriage would be permitted?’

I mentally applauded Kail’s efforts while glancing at my father.

“…Father.”

“What.”

“Father. What would you think if I brought someone I want to marry?”

Fortunately, he didn’t get angry or furrow his brow.

However, he closed his mouth for a moment as if time had stopped, then asked as if belatedly coming to his senses.

“…Suddenly?”

“Well, assuming I had thoughts of wanting to get married. What would you think if I brought a marriage partner?”

“…Aisha. This is a public occasion, so let’s talk about it later.”

“Huh? Yes.”

A public occasion?

My father would focus on my matters regardless of such occasions.

But seeing him quickly turn his gaze toward His Majesty Grace, there must be something important going on.

“…Discovering mines isn’t entirely a good thing. In any case, it means the king has both military power and wealth, so we’d be fortunate if territorial disputes don’t break out.”

Wait, but why is the conversation atmosphere like that?

Our Kail engaging in territorial disputes?

I closed my mouth and listened carefully to the ominous atmosphere.

Fortunately, His Majesty Grace didn’t readily agree.

“The territory of the snowy plains is much wider than the Frozen Empire. Why would he bother fighting over territory?”

“The snowy plains are cold and barren. The fact that a Mein who had been quiet in the snowy plains for 10 years bothered to establish a kingdom means he wants something, doesn’t it?”

But when even my brother Lucas, who had been quiet, joined in, the surrounding nobles began to waver with frightened expressions.

“That’s… true. There must be a reason why a Mein who never paid attention to human affairs is suddenly doing this.”

“Surely he’s not trying to actively intervene in… or control human affairs?”

“Surely not.”

Ridiculous conspiracy theories were spreading like poisonous mushrooms everywhere.

But.

‘No, you people. The kingdom was created to marry me!’

This is so frustrating I could die.

Even if I wanted to speak, they don’t know about our relationship yet.

They wouldn’t understand, so I can’t even open my mouth.

“…Ugh.”

“Dandelion, what’s wrong?”

“No, I’m just frustrated.”

‘You frustrating people!’

All I could do was pound my frustrated chest.

These people.

If they knew how much they had thought of Kail like family, they wouldn’t be able to say such things!

If only they knew the past, they wouldn’t have said such thoughtless words!

“Ugh, ughhh!”

At that time, I didn’t know.

That while I was pounding my chest and shaking my head, my father had quietly left his seat with drooping shoulders.

* * *

“…Marriage. My daughter wanting to marry….”

After the coronation ceremony ended, Callipus couldn’t hide his anxious feelings.

‘Well, assuming I had thoughts of wanting to get married. What would you think if I brought a marriage partner?’

It might have been something said in passing, but Aisha doesn’t carelessly say useless things.

She must have caught someone’s eye at the coronation ceremony.

“…Who could it be?”

Callipus carefully examined the coronation attendance list he had received from Nox.

The prince and duke’s son from Lon Kingdom next to the Frozen Empire. Crown Prince Tera from the Meraton Empire who came from the desert region.

They were all around the same age as Aisha.

“…Is there a bastard among these guys who seduced Aisha?”

It was when Callipus, who had turned the flat paper into tissue scraps, tensed his jaw.

“Father. What’s with the sudden emergency assembly?”

“Did you call for us?”

Lucas and Sedric appeared.

The two brothers seemed tense from the unprecedented emergency assembly, looking at their family head with slightly anxious expressions.

Callipus, looking at his two sons, muttered gloomily.

“Aisha… told me.”

“Aisha?”

“What did Aisha say?”

The cause of the emergency assembly was Aisha.

When their precious sister was mentioned, both brothers simultaneously frowned.

“She told me she wants to get married.”

“…!”

“!”

At Callipus’s words, both brothers simultaneously gaped.

It was truly an emergency situation.

* * *

Having received a sudden assembly order, I hurried toward my father’s study.

“Even my brothers are gathered? What happened?”

“I don’t know the detailed situation, but all three of them looked dark. It was scary….”

The maid who was guiding me shuddered as if recalling something frightening.

“It’s that serious?”

Walking down the corridor, I fell into thought with a serious expression.

The only major event that had happened recently was Kail’s coronation ceremony.

Of course, it was a big deal, but it wasn’t a bad thing, so it probably wasn’t related to the assembly order.

That’s when it happened.

“Aisha.”

“…Aisha.”

“Aisha Croste.”

As soon as the meeting room door opened, frightening low voices pierced toward me.

It was clearly an angry face.

However.

“Calling me by my full name with the family name means you’re prepared to disown me, right?”

Swoosh-. Swoosh-. Swoosh-.

At my menacing question, the three men immediately tucked their tails and turned their heads away.

“Really, these people. No matter how angry you are, how can you call me by my full name?”

Who called me like that!

The culprit was caught soon enough.

Because Father turned away from me with the most guilty expression on his face.

The rest of my brothers also glanced toward Father as if to say it wasn’t them.

‘Hmm. Father did…?’

What did I do wrong?

But no matter how angry you are, calling someone by their full name shows no affection.

“Father. Did you just call me by my full name? What did I do so wrong to deserve that?”

I deliberately made loud thudding sounds with my footsteps as I walked over and sat across from him, and he hesitated with a flustered expression before glancing at his two sons.

“…”

He seemed to be sending an SOS signal, but naturally my brothers ignored Father and pretended not to notice.

Damn.

His mouth muttered curses inaudibly.

Cornered, Father forced a calm expression and continued speaking.

“You’re our family’s daughter. That’s why I called you that way.”

“Even without saying it that way, doesn’t everyone already know I’m Princess of Croste?”

“But.”

“…But?”

He closed his mouth for a moment.

Then, as if he had made up his mind, he slowly rose from his seat.

“…If you get married someday, your family name might change.”

“What?”

Oh my goodness. So the reason for the emergency summons was…

Even without me thinking it through, Father quickly revealed the reason.

“Aisha Croste. The reason I called this emergency meeting is because I have something to discuss about the ‘marriage partner’ you mentioned recently.”

It really was because of marriage talk?

I was so flabbergasted that I shot up from my seat.

“Is this why Brother Sedric hasn’t been able to go home yet?”

“How can I go home when my little sister is getting married? I need to at least hear about it.”

At Brother Sedric’s matter-of-fact response, I shot back.

“Then would you come if there was an emergency summons because of Brother Lucas’s marriage?”

“Why would I go to that? He’s a grown man, he should handle things well on his own.”

“I’m grown up too!”

“You’re 16 years old.”

Lucas, who had been quietly listening to the conversation, shouted.

“Brother, worry about me too!”

“Quiet-.”

However, at Father’s words, all three of us fell silent.

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