I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 34

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【Chapter 34】

While the Marquis sat in his chair lost in various thoughts.

Nox’s slow voice, who was presiding over the proceedings, could be heard.

“The Croste successor trial consists of two parts. First, capture a werewolf within 10 minutes. Second, prevent a pack of werewolves from crossing the designated line for 5 minutes.”

The qualifications for a Croste successor were as follows.

First. The ability to regularly subjugate monsters.

And second.

While ice walls existed at the end of the world to block monsters, the successor themselves had to be able to prevent monster intrusions to some degree.

“Then, first, Lord Lilis Tex will participate in the trial.”

Tex, who smiled confidently at being called, entered the training ground.

“Father. I’ll be back.”

“Just do as you always have.”

“Yes!”

Soon the wall on the opposite side opened and a werewolf bound in chains appeared.

Werewolves were different in size from ordinary wolves.

Twice the length of an adult man. A ferocious temperament and rough claws. And even the alien purple eyes that were characteristic of monsters.

Huff. Wheeze.

Strange sounds flowed from the angry monster’s core, having been confined for hours.

“Then we’ll begin the trial.”

As the whistle blew, the werewolf freed from its chains began charging at him with eyes that had spotted prey.

Tex’s expression soured at the larger size than expected, but—

“D-die!”

Tex was an ice ability user.

Even without special training, he possessed superior subjugation abilities compared to ordinary people.

Crack—

When he squeezed his eyes shut and stomped his foot once with a frightened expression, sharp icicles began rising around him in succession.

The moment the startled werewolf lost its balance and stumbled—

“Die, I said die!”

Unable to even look at the monster, he turned his head and stomped his feet repeatedly.

Then randomly generated icicles split between the long snout and four legs, blocking the werewolf’s movement.

“Capture complete.”

A lukewarm voice announced success along with the whistle.

But the terrified Tex couldn’t open his eyes.

“Tex, my son. You won! You won!”

Only after the Marquis of Frisia burst into shouts did Tex open his eyes with a bright expression.

“D-did it work? I won, right?”

Tex bounced around the training ground with a triumphant expression.

“It’s nothing special? Father! Look at me! If not me, who else would be Croste’s successor?”

He was so unable to control his emotions that he even kicked the wall with his feet, thud, thud.

Tex passed the second trial smoothly as well.

Though the icicles were fired haphazardly, he somehow prevented five werewolves from entering the red line.

The watching people were amazed.

No, more precisely, they murmured.

“As expected, ability users are completely different from ordinary people.”

“…To think such a frightened young master could subdue werewolves.”

“With that level of ability, even a three-year-old could kill monsters.”

Beneath the seemingly praising conversation lay a hollow sentiment about ‘abilities’ themselves.

“Now then, the second candidate, Lady Croste Aisha, will participate in the trial.”

“Yes!”

Regardless, the trial continued.

As a small child toddled into view, people’s conversations turned to worried exclamations.

“One mountain after another, this time it’s a 5-year-old.”

“If a dangerous situation arises, you’ll end the match midway, right?”

“Lord Tex was at least manageable, but the Princess is so small we want to protect her ourselves.”

Under countless gazes.

Though she should have been intimidated, the child entered with a brave expression and took a ready stance.

Was she imitating the knights? Her ready stance was quite serious.

Though all she had were hamster-like tiny hands, the atmosphere was completely different from Tex who had squeezed his eyes shut.

With just her hands?

Moreover, what she held in her other hand wasn’t a great sword, but a dagger made to fit a child.

“Your Highness. Prepare to stop the match from now on!”

Finally unable to contain himself, the Marquis of Frisia burst into laughter.

“Then we’ll begin the trial.”

Peep.

The werewolf charged at the child.

As the werewolf opened its maw toward Aisha, incomparably smaller than Tex—

“I can’t watch.”

One retainer who couldn’t bear to see what happened next squeezed his eyes shut.

But then.

“Wh-what…”

Before closing his eyes.

“…?”

A small, insignificant shadow fell over people’s heads.

When people looked up wondering what it was—

“…Aisha?!”

“Princess!”

The Princess, who had leaped up without any foothold, cut through the sky.

The so-called cicada tactics.

It was the technique Aisha usually used when clinging to Callipus like a cicada, but today was different.

The child looking down at the wolf with blue eyes.

Thunk—

Threw the dagger she was holding and hit the werewolf’s left thigh.

Grrrr—

The werewolf collapsed from just one dagger and fell with a whine.

The werewolf seemed to want to get back up, but could only struggle as if its lower body had lost strength.

Aisha checked the werewolf with a satisfied face and landed lightly.

“…”

They had thought the hand that peeked out from under her sleeve was like a hamster.

People who rubbed their eyes in disbelief finally realized.

That hand wasn’t a hamster.

Though small, looking closely it was sharp like a well-sharpened baby crab claw.

Coping ability. Skill. Even courage.

A perfect situation except for being a non-ability user.

Watching this, Nox chuckled and whispered in Callipus’s ear.

“As expected, your eye for people is accurate.”

“Of course.”

Though the Duke didn’t show it, his mouth became zigzag-shaped trying to suppress his rising smile.

“They bragged about a golden seed, but it turned out to be a diamond.”

“I agree.”

While the two Croste men had their heartwarming conversation—

“That’s cheating!”

Tex, whose face had been turning red for a while now, shot up from his seat.

“It’s obviously smaller than the werewolf I faced! And that, that!”

Tex.

Though the Marquis of Frisia could be heard trying to stop him, Tex didn’t hesitate to point his finger.

“It collapsed from just one dagger? The werewolf you sent to her, wasn’t it a weak specimen?!”

Inside the tense training ground.

Everyone was looking back and forth between Tex and Aisha with wide eyes like rabbits.

The child who had captured a werewolf with a single dagger turned her head away with an unaffected expression.

“What, what!”

Tex, who made eye contact with Aisha, flinched for no reason.

The small princess blinked her blue eyes and asked.

“You don’t know anything about werewolves, do you?”

“…They’re creatures to be eliminated anyway, so can’t you just beat them to pieces?!”

“Werewolves are special-type monsters that transform into human form during full moons.”

Pop-

The hand pulling out the dagger embedded in the rough fur was quite skillful.

Of course, being weaker than an ordinary person, she had to pull it out like pulling a radish with an “oomph.”

Aisha covered the bleeding area with both hands and continued her explanation.

“When werewolves transform into human form, their hind leg muscles become rough and tough because they bear a lot of weight stress.”

At the child’s explanation, the retainers who had rabbit-like expressions gradually became more serious.

Except for Tex.

“So what if that’s true!”

“That’s their weakness. If you just stab one dagger into the hind leg area, the werewolf can’t use its strength without having to fire a hundred icicles.”

At those words, the surroundings became noisy.

“Is she really 5 years old? To understand and act on monster characteristics at that age…”

“No, the sword technique she just used wasn’t the action of an amateur.”

Aisha flinched upon hearing their whispers.

‘Oops. Was that too much? But in times like this, I should just pretend to be a genius.’

Aisha proudly stuck out her belly and put her hands on her hips.

“You have to be at least this good to be adopted into Croste! Hahaha!”

“…”

At the child’s words, the retainers looked toward Callipus as if asking if that was really true.

Callipus felt unnecessarily embarrassed but didn’t show it and turned his head away.

“If the explanation is complete, Lady Aisha of Croste. You pass the first test.”

Nox, who had been waiting against the wall for the conversation to end, smiled faintly and announced her passing.

“…Damn it.”

Tex was in a state where even his neck had turned red from frustration.

“She’s certainly clever.”

“Monster subjugation costs money and time. If we go in knowing the information beforehand like the princess, there would be no injuries and work would be processed quickly.”

Because of the retainers muttering incomprehensible words, he couldn’t even properly get angry.

‘At this rate, that brat is going to win.’

Suddenly, fear washed over him.

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