I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 221

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【Side Story 7】

“To hear such words with my own ears, I’ve finally been punished.”

Father knelt down.

Not that he literally knelt down, but he just had the expression of someone who had paid the full price for trying to slip me a truth serum.

Soon after, Father, who had regained his composure by rubbing his dry face, approached Kail.

“Your Majesty Kail. Princess Aisha knows nothing about this truth serum.”

“Anyone can see that.”

“If you wish to punish someone for the drug, please punish only me, not the Princess. However.”

However?

At the unfinished word, both Kail’s and my eyes widened.

“When you visited recently, I overheard the conversation you had with the Princess.”

Hmm?

“Your Majesty Kail, have you ever met me in the past?”

Oh no…?

At this unexpected bombshell statement, both Kail and I froze like stones.

There was a reason he had gone so far as to use a truth serum to interrogate us.

Father had been listening to everything.

* * *

At that moment, in front of the glass greenhouse door.

“…By now the Princess should have been kicked out, so what kind of conversation are they having?”

Nox, who had failed in his gatekeeper role, felt his anxiety reach its peak.

It had been 11 years since he lived with Princess Aisha.

By now he should have gotten used to the Princess’s methods, but she had manipulated him by exploiting his fatal weakness.

“Surely they didn’t find out about the drug…?”

Walking in circles, he carefully pushed up his glasses.

Callipus was infinitely weak in front of Aisha.

If they found out he had drugged the tea, the backlash would fall on him.

“…I want to know what kind of situation this is.”

That’s when it happened.

“You’ve gone mad, gone mad! I told you not to talk about the past, but you’re discussing it openly during tea time?!”

His shoulders trembled at the grumbling sound from far away.

Nox’s eyes widened as he turned his head.

“…Dwarves?”

He wasn’t seeing things wrong.

At the end of the corridor, far away, a group of flat-looking beings were running toward him, their short legs like radish stumps thumping along.

“We have come following the orders of His Majesty Kail and Duke Callipus.”

The dwarves had even arrived right in front of Nox.

“Please open it quickly. It’s an order from both of them.”

They seemed to be in a hurry, tapping the floor with their short legs and looking up at Nox with grumpy expressions.

“Yes? Yes, yes.”

Nox, intimidated by the dwarves’ charisma, hurriedly opened the door, and they entered the greenhouse making tsk sounds.

He was clearly told that outsiders were forbidden.

“…Humans go in, monsters go in, everyone goes in except me.”

At this point, shouldn’t he be allowed to go in as well?

No, this wasn’t a normal situation to begin with.

The Hierri who had appeared earlier were definitely running frantically.

That meant something had definitely happened in the greenhouse.

“Nox. What’s wrong? Why are you standing there like a dog that needs to poop?”

While he was standing there seriously by himself, Lucas and Sedric appeared at just the right time.

“Ah, Young Master. Lord. Good day. Something big… seems to have happened, or maybe not.”

“What?”

Nox explained the whole situation to Lucas and Sedric.

Then both men’s brows furrowed slightly.

“…So when that tea time ends, Dandelion’s marriage will be decided?”

The problem was that the two young masters understood the situation differently than Nox had intended.

“That’s not the problem. If His Majesty Kail finds out about the drug…”

“Let’s eavesdrop together. We’re also very interested in the current situation.”

“…What? What do you mean eavesdrop?”

The two men nodded to each other and pressed their ears against the glass door.

Nox’s mouth fell open at their childish behavior for grown young men.

“Good heavens. What are we going to do with both of you still being so immature?”

“So you won’t listen?”

“No. Of course I’ll eavesdrop.”

Nox quickly squeezed in beside them.

The conversation from inside the greenhouse that they heard was truly shocking.

* * *

“Since things have gone wrong, it can’t be helped, but the more people who know about the changed past timeline, the more complicated the world becomes. So let’s keep this past known only to us, Your Majesty, the Princess, and Duke Callipus.”

“What are you talking about?”

“It means the more people who know about the past timeline, the more overtime the dwarves have to work.”

Even with Kail’s explanation, Callipus looked even more confused.

What he wanted was just one thing.

He was simply curious about what the mysterious Maein was hiding with his daughter.

So he never imagined this situation where suddenly appearing dwarves were drawing strange magic circles on the floor.

“We’ve finished drawing it. Duke, please stand here.”

Not even the fact that the dwarf was going to cast magic on him.

Confused, Callipus frowned.

“Aisha. Don’t tell me you’ve already had your wedding?”

“No!”

“So you’re trying to cast defensive magic on me before confessing to me?”

“Just go in for now.”

Ominously, Aisha didn’t deny much, as if something worse was waiting.

‘…What on earth.’

His heart pounded anxiously.

As he entered the magic circle, he could hear the dwarves standing around muttering something.

Like light seeping through cracks, blue light spread through the patterns drawn in the magic circle—

“…?”

The childhood Maein appeared before him.

New memories crashed over him like waves.

* * *

Father remained silent throughout regaining his memories.

The fact that the Maein, who seemed to have lived normally since childhood, was originally dying in the human world.

And that I had saved the dying Maein.

That Kail had lived at Croste Castle in his childhood.

That Nox had actually stayed in the snowy plains with Kail for 10 years.

The Monster Wave that didn’t happen in the current era.

At the end of it all was the story of Kail’s death and my turning back time to revive him.

There were two moments when Father visibly flinched.

When I turned back time to reverse Kail’s death.

And when Ariena, who he thought was just a spy, had died in his place.

“…”

His closed eyes slowly opened.

Had all his memories returned?

Kail, who had been quietly watching the situation, took a step forward and asked.

“So what are your thoughts?”

“My thoughts, you say.”

Father was silent for a moment.

Then.

“Why is this little brat speaking informally to me? I told you to use respectful language with adults.”

“Ack.”

He knocked Kail on the head with his fist.

“What kind of fist is like a rock…”

As Kail staggered from the unexpected attack, he made a “hmph” sound and straightened his clothes.

“Aisha. You turned back time to save that boy?”

And then came the reproachful gaze.

“It’s fortunate that other events besides Kail proceeded the same way, but what if you had turned back time and the future became worse?”

“To bring Kail back to life, this was the only way…”

“So you turned back time without consulting anyone else?”

Hmph.

My lips pursed at the continued scolding.

He really was very angry. This is why I didn’t want to tell him.

…First, let me bow my head.

“I’m sorry…”

As I bowed my head so low that the top of it was visible, Kail, who had been watching from the side, belatedly defended me.

“It’s not Aisha’s fault. If we’re going to assign blame, it’s my fault for injecting my magic into Aisha and turning her into a Maein.”

“Ah, right. There was that too.”

Then Father glared at Kail as if the very thought disgusted him.

“One guy turns my daughter into a Maein, and my daughter thinks he’s so great that she goes back in time…”

“Ah, Father?”

Thud, thud.

He walked threateningly toward Kail as if the very thought infuriated him.

Then.

“Well done.”

He placed his hand on Kail’s shoulder.

“…?”

Well done…?

Was he feeling the same as me?

Kail’s eyes widened slightly as he had been biting his lips tightly, prepared to be grabbed by the collar.

“Thank you for saving Aisha.”

“…”

“Now that I’ve regained my memories, I can see how proudly you’ve grown despite the difficult circumstances.”

Affection seeped through his calm, low voice.

As if he were looking at a son who had grown up in the blink of an eye.

“…Duke.”

“What’s with ‘Duke’? You’re now a proper king of a kingdom, so speak comfortably. I’ll also use honorifics with you as I originally did. And.”

He chuckled while looking down at Kail, then glanced at me.

“As for marriage, do whatever you want.”

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