I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 219

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【Side Story 5】

The rumor that Aisha had brought King Kail as her prospective groom spread through high society in an instant.

“I heard her prospective groom is King Kail?”

“Because of that, His Grace the Duke is so angry that he won’t even speak to Lady Aisha.”

“Oh my… someone who loved his daughter so much… But I can understand it. King Kail is a Maein. If he’s a Maein… wouldn’t he look like a monster?”

The lower-ranking nobles couldn’t attend King Kail’s coronation ceremony.

Many of them thought he was a monster because they had never seen him directly.

“Good heavens. That’s right, he’s not human.”

“So the Lady is going to marry… a monster?”

Though political marriages were common, nobles put even more effort into grooming and maintaining their appearance because of this.

No matter who they met, they had to be physically appealing first for marriage talks to proceed smoothly.

The nobles who shared this mindset were all shocked without exception.

“Except for the envoys Croste sent over the past 10 years, he’s never had a single conversation with humans.”

“I heard orcs and dwarves serve as his attendants?”

“Then what does he eat? Doesn’t he eat raw meat?”

The speculations of nobles who had never encountered a Maein soon became convictions and grew increasingly exaggerated.

And there was no way the magically gifted Hairy tribes wouldn’t know about this.

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty!”

This place was the Monster Kingdom.

In the wide corridor that even orcs could easily pass through, the urgent footsteps of a dwarf echoed with a pitter-patter sound.

“It seems the human nobles have also caught wind of the news that Your Majesty and Lady Aisha are preparing for marriage. But please look at these harsh evaluations of Your Majesty!”

When the study door burst open with a bang and the dwarf shouted, Kail, who had been working, slowly raised one eyebrow.

He was already feeling unsettled because of the dinner with the Croste people, and now there was more bad news?

“Tell me what it is with your own mouth.”

The dwarf then cutely covered his mouth with his palm that had sharp fingertips.

“B-but the sentences are too vulgar for me to read aloud…”

“I already know well from going to the Croste Duchy that they dislike Maeins. Well, they probably wrote some insults.”

Kail, who wanted to finish the conversation quickly, snatched the report from his hands.

“Beauty and the Beast. Lady Aisha, kidnapped into marriage by a monster? The monster king tears raw meat with his hands…”

“Ahhhhh!”

The dwarf let out a shrill scream as if in pain.

“Good heavens! This is monster discrimination. Do only humans have hands? We also have hands and know how to use forks!”

“You sometimes pick up chicken legs with your hands to eat them.”

“The human nobles who don’t understand the taste of eating with hands are the strange ones.”

Regardless of their appearance, they were beings far more intelligent than humans.

After all, they were the ones who created the magic that humans study, so how else could they prove their intelligence?

“I understand Your Majesty marrying Lady Aisha… but is it worth enduring such bad evaluations?”

The dwarf, who had been pouting, plopped down on the sofa.

“Of course. If it weren’t for Aisha, the Monster Kingdom wouldn’t have been built either.”

“Why not?”

“Because I built it to create justification for marrying Aisha.”

A moment of silence passed.

Puzzled by the unusually quiet reaction, Kail finally looked up from the report.

The dwarf couldn’t even respond and was gaping with his mouth wide open.

“Now you know? I thought you’d known from before.”

“…This is the first time I’ve heard this.”

“Ah, right. I only told Aisha about this.”

“Your Majesty!”

“You’re loud.”

Kail, who picked his ear with his finger, frowned.

“Anyway, that’s not the problem either. Look at this.”

“What is it?”

Another unpleasant matter had arisen.

Kail, who wanted to rest, asked casually while shifting his gaze toward the work reports.

Humans fearing or cursing him wasn’t a matter of just a day or two, so he had to handle more urgent matters than that.

However.

“Why did you bring this?”

What the dwarf had brought was precisely the book that recorded time.

“What I’m concerned about is the possibility that other people might remember the time that Lady Aisha painstakingly deleted.”

“…What?”

At the dwarf’s words, the atmosphere instantly froze.

“Currently, only the Lady and Your Majesty know about the lost time period. But just as Your Majesty recalled memories by looking at the record book, there’s a possibility that others might also have their memories revived if they see something related to their past.”

“You’re telling me such important news only now?”

“I didn’t feel the need to mention it. For the past 10 years, there was little interaction with humans.”

“So the more time I spend close to people, the more likely their memories are to be revived?”

“To be precise, it’s limited to only those people who have justification for it. Those who were close to Your Majesty.”

People who were close to him.

Kail slowly recalled the previous timeline.

The Croste family members and Nox, roughly. If their memories could be revived.

‘Wouldn’t that actually be a good thing?’

The dwarf, reading Kail’s expression, responded seriously.

“Your Majesty. This is not a good thing. Didn’t Your Majesty also suffer for several months when you regained your previous memories?”

That was true.

At first, he couldn’t understand that he had died because of some woman he didn’t even know.

And that the woman was Aisha.

The more he realized that he had been saved because of Aisha, the more he couldn’t distinguish what was reality.

If their memories were revived, they would probably feel the same pain.

Especially the Croste people were in a state where they had no terrible memories of the Monster Wave they experienced in the lost past.

“Your Majesty. So if you do meet them, please don’t have more conversation than necessary. You surely wouldn’t talk about the lost past timeline, would you?”

“…Of course not.”

There was no reason to talk about it anyway.

Whatever bonds he had built with them in the lost past, they were currently wary of him.

“…”

But in the midst of all this, the first thought that came to mind was only of Aisha.

‘…Aisha. Just how have you been living?’

Not being able to share the memories you know with people close to you.

That was a lonelier thing than expected.

* * *

The day of tea time.

At the news that a Maein was coming once again, the servants of the duchy had been moving busily since morning.

Though it was called a simple tea time, the other party was the king of a kingdom.

But instead of decorating the glass greenhouse, which would have been insufficient, they were removing all the plants and trees in the greenhouse and taking them outside.

“…What is this?”

There wasn’t even a pile of dirt where Chichichi could hide.

All that remained in the empty greenhouse were the magic stones that maintained the warm temperature and the tea table.

“Are you saying this is decorated for tea time? It’s too empty except for the temperature-maintaining magic stones floating around!”

Moreover.

“Meow!”

Most absurdly, a stray cat was sitting in the middle of the greenhouse in a loaf position.

“Squeak, squeak!”

“Chichichi!”

Thanks to that, the startled Chichichi dove into my sleeve and glared at the cat while squeaking angrily.

“What on earth is this….”

I couldn’t continue my words.

I knew Father disliked Kail, but I didn’t expect him to treat him so coldly.

No, this wasn’t cold treatment.

If Father truly treated Kail coldly, he wouldn’t have bothered to painstakingly move all the plants in the greenhouse.

This was wariness.

Specifically, wariness toward me who might be lurking and secretly watching!

“…Raising a spy daughter has made you quite thoroughly prepared, hasn’t it, Father?”

Having quickly grasped his intention, the corner of my mouth curved up crookedly.

What are you planning to do to grill our Kail behind my back?

Of course, giving up was never an option for me.

Quietly leaving the greenhouse, I looked up at the sky.

“Huh, what? Why is it suddenly snowing?”

“What do you mean suddenly? Doesn’t it snow in the North every day or two?”

Ignoring the surprised voices around me, I circled around the greenhouse and positioned myself appropriately at the back.

“Chichichi. You go rest in the bedroom. I’ll handle this mission alone.”

“Chiiik…? Chik!”

After pondering for a moment, Chichichi nodded as if trusting me and disappeared.

Puff- Puff-.

Snow poured down over where I stood.

Having quickly become a snowman, I finally inserted the buttons I had prepared into the positions where the eyes would be.

He couldn’t have expected this, right?

My preparations to watch the greenhouse were complete.

* * *

“What’s that?”

Callipus flinched as he entered the greenhouse.

Because there was a snowman standing beyond the glass window.

A massive one, as if a person could fit inside it.

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