I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 35

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【Chapter 35】

If Aisha passes the second test, the next candidate will be decided by the retainers’ votes.

Judging by the attitude of those people who cherish that kid like gold and jade—

‘She’s probably going to win.’

It was unfair.

It’s only because she’s from the direct line.

What’s the point of me having abilities? They don’t even praise me because I’m from the branch family!

“It’s unfair… really…”

Tex’s clenched fists trembled.

Meanwhile.

Aisha was blocking the wound area so the magical beast wouldn’t feel unnecessary pain until the werewolf left.

Fortunately, when the bleeding stopped to some extent.

“Phew. Uncle! Did you see that?!”

Her eyes sparkled with joy.

Ever since being adopted into the direct line, she thought she had to earn her keep.

With the decent reactions bursting around her, Aisha’s smile stretched from ear to ear.

“Little one. You haven’t won yet.”

“His Highness is smiling even bigger though.”

Callipus tried to calm the child down, but.

Nox, who had been watching the father and daughter, interjected.

Come to think of it, Callipus was smiling without even realizing it.

Eventually, he let out a low laugh and leaned back against his chair.

“You wouldn’t understand since you don’t have children.”

“Yes, well. The Princess is proud and lovable, but I don’t smile like His Highness does.”

Nox shrugged his shoulders.

“And the biological reason why young children appear cute is to protect their relatively weak bodies…”

“Mouth.”

“Hmph.”

‘I can’t have a conversation with this guy for more than a minute.’

Callipus shook his head with a fed-up expression and looked at Aisha again.

“…?”

Something was strange.

There was no werewolf around the child who was excitedly bouncing around.

Just moments ago, it had been whimpering, unable to even walk.

“Nox. What about disposing of the werewolf?”

“I was about to proceed with it now.”

“But why is the werewolf…”

Callipus, who had been speaking, stood up from his seat with an agitated expression.

“Aisha!”

“Why, Uncle… huh?”

The magical beast that shouldn’t be moving was moving.

And it was leaping above Aisha’s head with its huge maw wide open.

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The werewolf’s characteristics?

This wasn’t something I knew because I was a former spy.

For the past few days, I had studied the characteristics of past magical beasts that appeared in tests to prepare for the successor exam.

Pack behavior. Cruelty that becomes ferocious toward opponents who aren’t their allies.

Even so, it was quite an advantageous magical beast for me because of its relatively weak hind legs.

“Great! I should deal with 5 of them like this somehow!”

You don’t know what I mean?

Then unfortunately, you’ve failed this test!

‘Hehe… I’m going to win. I’ll win and become the golden seed.’

I took out the wire I had prepared in advance from my pocket.

I had prepared many things since anything considered a weapon was allowed in the test arena.

But then.

“Aisha!”

Suddenly, Uncle was calling me with a pale face.

Just moments ago, he had been wearing a pleased smile.

Something was strange.

“Why, Uncle… huh?”

Suddenly, the world seemed to be dyed in darkness.

And I felt a sticky gaze.

“…?”

When I instinctively looked up toward the gaze, a huge maw foaming at the mouth came crashing down toward me from the sky.

Thud—

I succeeded in dodging, but perhaps it was because I put too much force on my ankle too suddenly.

“…Ow.”

My left ankle, which twisted with a cracking sound, swelled up thick and red.

This made running and jumping impossible.

‘Should I try throwing a dagger at it?’

But for some reason, the werewolf, much more excited than before, was too fast.

Uncle was right. I got excited for nothing when I hadn’t even won yet.

Reflect on yourself, me.

I pouted my lips for no reason and surveyed the front.

No matter how I looked at it, that werewolf wasn’t normal.

First, it was standing upright on its hind legs that should be unusable, ignoring its muscle structure.

Even its muzzle was foaming like waves.

Graaah—

Judging by its purple eyes with no black pupils, something was seriously wrong.

“Look! There’s no way that ridiculously huge thing would be defeated by a single dagger!”

Then applause burst out.

The owner of the applause was Tex, who stood up as if moved.

“She hasn’t passed yet, right? Right, advisor?”

“…Doesn’t something seem strange?”

“To my eyes, it looks normal except for being a little angry? Aren’t all magical beasts a bit strange originally?”

The murmuring sounds of people around.

A flustered Nox.

Even Callipus hurriedly coming down from the audience seating to enter the training ground.

“Capture the werewolf immediately!”

When Uncle gave the order, the knights nearby prepared to throw chains.

However.

“Then Tex would naturally become the successor.”

A voice laced with venom that cut through the numerous noises.

“If you stop the test because the werewolf is dangerous, it sounds like you’re saying that child lacks the qualifications to be a successor?”

“I don’t care, so hurry and protect the child!”

Despite the Marquis of Frisia’s criticism, Uncle didn’t stop.

The problem was that I had frozen up at the Marquis’s words.

‘If this happens, Tex will take the successor position.’

No way.

“No! I’ll continue taking the test!”

As I stumbled backward and screamed with all my might, the knights who had been rushing to block the werewolf stopped in their tracks.

Callipus did the same.

“Uncle, if you move even one step from there, I’ll cancel the direct adoption!”

“Do you think canceling an adoption is that easy? You’re in danger right now, Aisha!”

“Just try stopping the test!”

One thing that makes life difficult.

“Aisha, you!”

Reality is different from novels – even when magical girls transform or protagonists have important conversations, enemies suddenly attack.

Accidents happen quickly.

While I was anxiously worried the match might be stopped, my gaze turned away for a moment.

“No!”

The red eyes looking at me suddenly grew enormous.

When I realized something was wrong and turned my head, a foam-filled maw and sharp molars were greeting me right in front of my nose.

Ah.

I’m going to die.

I don’t want to die. Uncle worked so hard to save me.

That’s when it happened.

“Dandelion.”

I heard a familiar voice from somewhere.

It was Lucas.

To think I’d hear Lucas’s voice at death’s door.

‘Lucas and I are close, but I didn’t think we were that close.’

My clenched fists were trembling in proportion to my fear.

But something was strange.

Come to think of it, I didn’t feel the pain of being torn by sharp molars, nor did I hear people screaming.

“…?”

Something was odd, so I slowly lifted my eyelids—

“The Croste Ducal Family’s power must have weakened considerably.”

I saw black hair fluttering in the wind.

“Using such ridiculous poison to drive one monster mad and try to kill a 5-year-old kid?”

A familiar angry young voice.

The back of a boy who was a span taller than me.

And beyond him, a monster trapped in a giant ice pillar, frozen as if paused in time.

“…Wait, that person… looks too much like His Highness…”

“Could it be a direct prince of Croste?”

“Weren’t both young masters reported missing?”

People murmured.

Among them, several people looked back and forth between Callipus and Lucas, their faces turning pale as if they had intuited something.

“Could it be… could it be that person is…”

“Why can’t you say he looks like the Duke’s son? Is there some kind of ban on those words?”

Thud—

When Lucas lightly kicked a pebble and satisfied people’s curiosity, the retainers who had been sitting reflexively stood up.

“…What did you say?”

“Could it be that you’re Young Master Lucas who went missing when he was 3?”

“…Lucas.”

Then a low voice rang out from above my head.

“?”

When I looked up, Uncle, who had somehow come to my side, was holding me in his arms.

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