I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 32

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【Chapter 32】

One thing was certain.

I would definitely punish the House of Frisia somehow.

This matter would be easily resolved if I told Duke about my conversation with Lucas.

‘The problem is that Lucas is still reluctant to talk about it.’

“Hmm. What should I do.”

I couldn’t go around blabbing to others about something he told me in confidence after promising to keep it secret.

However, if I couldn’t resolve this, Lucas probably wouldn’t attend the heir examination.

‘Maybe if I persuade him a little more, Lucas might attend?’

Shake shake-

I shook my head while thinking.

It wouldn’t be right to push someone who had just confessed their wounds.

Roll-

I turned over and lay down, when something flashed through my mind.

Hm?

‘I just need to delay the heir examination until Lucas can pull himself together, right?’

A decent idea came to mind.

The next day.

“Uncle.”

“What.”

“Please include me as a heir candidate too.”

In the peaceful study.

I made my eyes glisten as if hurt.

“…I’m also direct lineage, so why won’t you include me as a heir candidate?”

“That’s because, the heir examination requires having abilities…”

“Is it because I’m adopted?”

“Pfft-“

Callipus spat out the coffee he was drinking.

I’m sorry, father.

This time I’ll have to be a slightly fire-attribute dutiful daughter.

* * *

That afternoon.

Due to Aisha’s statement, the Crosht Duchy secretly held a small meeting.

‘Wh-what on earth could this be about…’

‘Exactly.’

The retainers who arrived hastily one by one averted their gazes as soon as they saw Callipus’s face.

The head of the ducal family looked like he was about to go to war.

Tap, tap. Every time his long, straight fingers hit the table, the retainers’ hearts sank with a thud.

Once everyone was seated-

“You all…”

Duke Callipus opened his mouth heavily.

“What would you think if a mere 5-year-old said she wanted to take the Crosht Duchy’s heir examination?”

“…?”

At the head’s question, the retainers remained silent for a while, glancing at each other sideways.

“Well… if it means another ability user has emerged besides Young Master Tex, we’d welcome it with open arms, but…”

“No.”

The Duke said seriously.

“A non-ability user, that tiny child, wants to be included as a candidate to help with Crosht’s affairs. What do you think about that?”

One retainer who had been reading the room spoke up.

“Well, naturally, if she’s a non-ability user, becoming a heir candidate would be…”

“I was short-sighted.”

“Pardon?”

The retainers’ eyes widened at the sudden self-deprecation.

Regardless, Callipus, who had been sighing, pressed his hand to his forehead.

“I thought I was treating her equally, but that child still thinks of herself as adopted.”

Wait a minute. This.

Glance. The retainers’ eyes turned to each other.

“She says that, but it seems like she’s trying to buy time until Prince Lucas opens his heart.”

…This isn’t a meeting, it’s just.

“Actually, only direct and branch lineage with abilities can become heirs, but… since this is the first non-ability user in the Croste Family, I think she’ll be hurt if we don’t give the child candidate qualifications.”

His Highness is just venting to us…?

“I guess I’m not really direct lineage. She shouldn’t even have such thoughts.”

At this point, it was just a leading question.

‘If it’s a 5-year-old… are you referring to Princess Aisha?’

‘It seems so.’

The retainers exchanged glances like meerkats.

A non-ability user from direct lineage becoming a heir candidate? It was indeed unprecedented.

But branch family members becoming heir candidates and adopting a commoner child into the direct lineage of the Croste Family were also first-time occurrences.

In this situation, Aisha buying time for Lucas who was nursing emotional wounds-

‘Not bad.’

If Lucas would ultimately become the head anyway, placing a fellow direct lineage member rather than branch family wasn’t a bad method.

But could a mere commoner-born princess defeat ability users?

‘You speak.’

Nudge.

‘No, you speak.’

Nudge.

‘I spoke during the last monster subjugation. You speak.’

They wanted to ask, “What if the Princess loses?”

But when they met those fiery eyes, their mouths clamped shut.

Finally, while they were pushing each other and fighting a quiet war-

“Are you protesting because you don’t like that she’s adopted direct lineage?”

Callipus, who misinterpreted their behavior, began to slowly widen his eyes.

“N-no! Rather, we were admiring the Princess’s generous and magnanimous heart!”

“Of course! We were so amazed that we were floundering like fish, weren’t we?”

“Ah. You were floundering because you were so pleased.”

Callipus finally showed a satisfied smile.

After the meeting ended-

Once even the servants who finished cleaning up disappeared, only Callipus and Nox remained in the meeting room.

Nox asked while organizing reports without much concern.

“But will the Princess be able to do well? Her opponents are ability users.”

One worry breeds another worry.

Even if Aisha became a heir candidate, the matter wasn’t completely resolved.

“…The possibility is slim.”

Just as Callipus’s gaze grew murky while he rubbed his dry face with his hand.

“I’ll definitely win-!”

Chirp chirp.

A chick-like voice echoing from above their heads.

“…?”

“?”

The two men, feeling an ominous premonition, looked up at the ceiling.

“Former spy, current direct lineage of the Croste Ducal Family! You won’t find specs like this anywhere else, Father!”

Aisha hung from the giant chandelier, making a V sign with her fingers.

Callipus was horrified.

“Kid, what are you doing up there! That’s dangerous!”

“Father, since you’re raising a golden seed anyway, you should raise her to be strong.”

“Father or whatever, get down here right now!”

“Then you’ll put me in as a successor candidate?”

“Just come down first.”

“You’ll put me in, right?”

“Yes. I’ll put you in, so hurry up and come down.”

“Heave-ho!”

The moment her light body landed on the floor.

“Eek!”

“Got you, you little rascal.”

A giant hand snatched Aisha up.

“You don’t really need to go out, so why are you trying to leave? Did Lucas say something to you by any chance?”

“Ah, he didn’t say anything… Ack!”

Meanwhile, Lucas, who had been secretly watching that terrible scene from the back door, quietly closed the door and ran away.

After closing his bedroom door, his heart finally stopped pounding.

“…Aisha. Don’t tell me you’re trying to take the test because of me?”

Lucas crawled under his blanket and stared into space with a thoughtful gaze.

‘She didn’t even tell my story as promised.’

As a direct prince of Croste, he would repay this debt someday.

Hmph.

But Lucas’s expression darkened as he raised his thick eyebrows and clenched his fists.

What would happen with the successor test?

In fact, he had naturally intended to take the successor position.

Though all the current situations felt strange and awkward, given a little time, he would have confidently taken the test.

But.

“…I never intended to make Dandelion suffer in my place.”

A voice full of regret echoed quietly.

‘Want to sleep with me tonight?’

He had thought she was a comfortable kid who listened well to his troubles.

But while sleeping in the same bed with me.

While I fell into dreamless sleep because you were there.

‘Aisha, you were worrying about whether to take the successor test in my place?’

“…I’m three whole years older than her.”

Lucas, who had been glaring at the innocent floor, kicked a nearby cushion.

“I’m a complete failure as an older brother.”

If I don’t participate in the successor test, what will happen to Dandelion?

Dandelion was strong.

Despite being so small, she had risked danger to save him.

Also, she had poison needle skills that could knock out an adult man with her maple leaf-like hands.

But.

‘The opponent is an ability user.’

Nox’s calm statement wouldn’t leave his ears.

Lucas stared at his palm.

Just by concentrating, white frost formed at his fingertips and sharp icicles sprouted.

He knew well the difference between ability users and ordinary people.

Just like how he, who couldn’t even extend his hand outside the bars for five years, was able to escape as soon as the restraint device was removed.

“…If Dandelion gets hurt…”

Crack—

Before he could even imagine anything, his body reacted first.

The ice crystals forming in his hand shattered.

After a while.

Lucas, who had been pondering for a long time, took something out of his jacket’s inner pocket.

It was a slave trading contract.

* * *

A few days later.

A carriage engraved with a mountain goat came to a sliding stop in front of Crost Ducal Castle.

“Tex, just do as you always have.”

“Understood, Father.”

Finally, today.

It was the day the successor test would be held.

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