I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 218

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【Side Story 4】

“Yeah. I’ve lived as a Maein for a long time too. I can do well.”

“Do well at what? You kept making verbal mistakes during dinner earlier.”

Eavesdropping on someone’s conversation wasn’t his hobby.

But faced with such obviously suspicious dialogue, Callipus had no choice but to freeze in place.

“That’s because I was so happy to see the Duke and Brother Lucas after such a long time that I unconsciously…”

“No, Kail. Brother and Father don’t remember you at all.”

His brow furrowed involuntarily.

‘I don’t remember that man?’

Listening to the conversation between Aisha and King Kail…

It seemed as if King Kail had some special relationship with the Croste Family members.

There’s no way that could be true.

Callipus had first seen Kail at the coronation ceremony, and until then, he hadn’t even known whether Maein were monsters or humans.

So the gist of this conversation was that Aisha was hiding something.

“…”

Callipus found himself leaning against the wall, focusing on the conversation between his daughter and the beast.

‘Aisha is hiding something from me? What could she be hiding?’

Callipus was extremely wary of anyone hiding something from him.

If the wife he loved turned out to be a spy, it was natural trauma to develop.

“Oh, right! The family might give you trouble for not having human servants in your royal palace, you know? When that happens, you just stay quiet. I know the Hiery people well. I’ll cover for you.”

She was even planning to protect him in case the family attacked?

Well, well. True love has arrived.

But what really triggered Callipus’s anger was the next line.

“The kingdom’s people would be very happy to hear about you. Especially as the future queen… ah.”

The Maein’s low voice carried a hint of laughter as he nodded in response but then hesitated.

“Sorry. I went too far when you haven’t even gotten permission to marry yet, right?”

That bastard?

“No, well, imagination is free. Ahem.”

Aisha, why are you playing along with this guy?

“…Ahem.”

“A, ahem.”

“Ahem!”

“Ahe… ahehehe.”

“What? Prospective queen?”

Watching them glance at each other and giggle, Callipus reached his limit of patience and revealed himself.

Aisha turned her head and her mouth fell open.

“F, Father?”

“And what? Imagination is free?”

I’ll leave the aftermath to your imagination.

* * *

After the Maein King left like that.

Callipus’s temper exploded for the first time in a while.

“Aisha, how old are you?”

“Well, I’m 16.”

The man his daughter brought was as tall as Callipus himself.

So seeing Aisha standing next to this man who felt all the more unfamiliar for that reason…

It felt like his insides were burning and rotting until they might burst.

Moreover, she didn’t even know how her father felt, and she even drove a nail into his heart.

“F, Father.”

That’s when it happened.

“What.”

I thought she would apologize for suddenly calling me.

But Aisha, who had been fidgeting with her small fists, raised her eyebrows sharply and rebelled against me.

“F, for your information, from age 16, one is legally an adult according to imperial law, you know?”

“What? For…”

Legally an adult.

When she was 5, she used to follow me around calling me a golden seed or something…!

“…”

Callipus squeezed his eyes shut after finally hearing the word he wanted to avoid until the end.

But getting excited here would be his loss.

Though everything was already a mess, he decided to give Aisha one last chance just in case.

Actually, Callipus still couldn’t believe that Aisha had lied.

“When did you first meet that Maein?”

Maybe she wasn’t hiding anything, but just didn’t answer because he didn’t ask.

“Is he someone you’ve known since childhood?”

But.

“…I first met him in the snowy plains a year ago, but we got along really well? Unlike the other noble men you hate, Father, he’s very innocent, transparent, likes exercise, has no weird hobbies. He hates parties too…”

A lie.

Callipus’s faith shattered into pieces.

“…Being innocent means being stupid, being transparent means everyone can see right through you, and liking exercise means…”

“Father. You don’t know how picky my taste is, do you?”

“…I know, I know.”

“Of course, even if I marry Kail, Father will still be number one in my affections!”

He swallowed a hollow laugh watching his daughter suddenly wink at him, not knowing whether she understood his feelings or not.

There was no turning back now.

Since he discovered that Aisha was intentionally lying, he had no choice but to secretly investigate the Maein’s identity.

“…For now. I’m not saying I’m unconditionally against the marriage.”

“Yes?”

“I’ll test whether that guy is really decent.”

“A test? What are you going to do?”

“…That is.”

* * *

“…The test is just tea time?”

After finishing the conversation and returning, I couldn’t hide my uneasiness.

‘The only way to know someone’s character is through conversation. That’s why I want to have tea time with that guy.’

Father gave a surprisingly reasonable answer.

That was the problem.

Would Father, who even called an emergency meeting when I said I wanted to get married, really have a ‘reasonable’ tea time?

“…No. There’s absolutely no way.”

As a 5-year spy and 1-year unemployed person, I could guarantee there was definitely something.

I had a feeling.

A feeling that I needed to move secretly.

“Chichichi. Did you enjoy your year-long vacation?”

As I stood up and looked toward the corner of the room, Chichichi, who had been burying his nose in cream cake, looked up.

“It’s been a while since we had a mission.”

At my words, Chichichi’s black pupils dilated.

“Chi, chiiik-!”

And Chichichi scurried over and wiped the cream from his mouth on my sleeve.

We began making plans in earnest.

* * *

While Aisha and Chichichi were making their solemn plans.

Callipus wasn’t just sitting around idly either.

“I know my daughter well. That girl is probably planning to hide somewhere to watch the tea time.”

“Then shall we cover the greenhouse windows with blackout curtains?”

This place was the greenhouse.

Ten years ago, when Grace returned and Lucas said he wanted to eat fruit, this was the place she personally granted him.

With three precious temperature-maintaining stones, it was a place where beautiful flowers and fruit trees grew abundantly all year round.

Thanks to this, all guests visiting the Croste family held their tea time here, but in Callipus’s eyes today, everything looked like an eyesore.

“…Your Highness?”

Just as Nox gulped nervously at the intensity that seemed ready to kill anything that popped up with just a glare.

“That thing. That thing. Remove all of those things.”

“When you say that thing, that thing, that thing…”

“The trees. The flowers. And the soil where the flowers are planted.”

“You mean to completely remove all the plants in the garden…?”

“You understood well.”

Nox couldn’t understand this situation.

“…Your Highness, this is a greenhouse built specifically to grow those plants. It’s a building that His Majesty Grace personally granted.”

“What can I do? Given our daughter’s background, it seems like she could hide with just a speck of soil around.”

“Princess Aisha would naturally…”

Nox shook his head and continued.

“Hide, wouldn’t she.”

“Right?”

“Since she hides every time there’s an emergency meeting at Croste, she’s been selected as an honorary member with perfect attendance among us.”

Nevertheless, Nox asked again.

“But the Princess hiding isn’t something new, so couldn’t you just pretend not to notice as usual?”

“It’s because this is a different problem from usual.”

His already irritated eyes narrowed further.

In fact, he knew that expecting Aisha to stay by his side forever was just greed.

Using the marriage proposals that came for her as firewood was both his wish for his daughter to escape political marriage relationships and his last desperate struggle.

If Aisha brought a man she loved, he had no right to stop her.

However, that was under the premise that his background was clean.

Relationships with secrets are bound to crumble in the end.

Like his wife Ariena, whom he had truly loved once upon a time.

“So I’m going to use drugs on that Maein.”

“…Excuse me?”

“Someone with secrets cannot become a member of our family. Even if that guy is the king of a kingdom, I need to find out what he’s hiding.”

The master who despised spies was acting like a spy himself.

‘This is no ordinary matter.’

“…Understood.”

Not knowing what it was about but hoping he wouldn’t get caught in the crossfire, Nox obediently agreed and disappeared.

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