I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 40

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【Chapter 40】

Oh oh. It’s moving.

The ball of fur is moving!

Surprised, I stomped my feet.

“Uung- gyaong.”

I don’t know what it means, but it roughly sounded like it was saying it was cute.

From the fluffy ball that was making those purring sounds, a tiny face popped out.

Triangle-shaped ears that perked up. Eye corners that were still sleepily closed in a straight line.

From her pale pink nose to her adorable pale pink mouth carved in the shape of the letter “S”.

‘Oh my god.’

My expression melted as I welcomed the awakened fluffy ball.

That’s when it happened. The baby cat that had been looking around opened its eyes with a rustle.

But.

Between the white fur-covered eyelids, vivid purple pupils were revealed.

“…Baby?”

Wait a minute.

I couldn’t believe it, so I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them again.

“Kuut?”

Nevertheless, the white fluffy ball was greeting me with brilliant purple pupils.

“Purple pupils. It’s definitely a magical beast.”

“Yes. They were definitely purple pupils and it was a magical beast. It was alive, saying something like that.”

At the sound of the meeting’s conversation that seemed to particularly emphasize purple, I silently picked up the cat.

This one’s pupils are purple.

Whether I do a forward roll or a backward roll to look, they’re definitely purple, right?

Turning pale, I lifted up the fluffy ball.

“…You’re a cat, right?”

“Noong-“

“Noong? Do you mean ‘no’? Do you know English?”

“Yaa-“

“…”

Is this one supposed to mean ‘yes’?

Unfortunately, since I couldn’t interpret cat language, I tilted my head in confusion.

I didn’t know what it was, but it was certain I had picked up something strange.

* * *

Sparkle sparkle-

It felt like a mysteriously sparkling gaze was following behind him.

Nox, who was walking down the corridor, turned his head.

“…”

The owner of the sparkling eyes was Aisha.

Far away, a chick was peeking her face out from behind a column, staring at Nox.

And with her mouth pursed in a triangle shape, as if asking him to look at her.

However-

“No one’s there.”

Nox pretended not to see Aisha and continued walking.

“!”

Then, as if flustered, something quickly emerged from the column and began rapidly chasing after Nox.

‘…’

When Nox stopped walking again and quickly turned around-

This time, Aisha was hiding behind a pedestal displaying expensive porcelain, peeking out only her face to look at Nox.

Sparkle sparkle-

Her blue pupils were shooting out sparkling beams, craving attention.

However.

“Strange. I definitely feel like someone’s following me.”

Nox yawned widely and muttered as he turned his head.

“Ugh~ Lord Nox!”

Finally, Aisha, who had lost the strange battle of wits, trudged out and revealed herself.

“You’ve been openly staring since earlier, so why aren’t you talking to me?”

“Let’s call it the aftereffects of hide-and-seek.”

“Ah, why~!”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can pay attention to Princess Aisha’s childcare for a while. The aftermath of hide-and-seek and playing dead was so severe that it’s been difficult for some time.”

More precisely, it wasn’t that it was difficult, but rather he was too embarrassed to hold his head up.

This was trauma.

The moment the white pajama hood was pulled back, the faces of the knights and Mai that were visible pouring down from under the ceiling.

Even though Nox claimed he didn’t care about people’s gazes.

A 24-year-old young man was caught by people lying down wearing pajamas with magical beast drawings on them?

‘It’s more embarrassing than wiggling my butt while trying to climb the wall to reveal the Princess’s identity.’

At least his butt was pretty.

But lying in the corridor was a tremendous dark history.

“Then, I’ll be going.”

Just as Nox politely bowed his head and was about to walk away again.

“Ah, N-Nox, sir.”

The flustered Princess persistently refused to give up and followed me around, finally revealing her true intentions.

“A-are there cat-type magical beasts too?”

“?”

At the sudden question, Nox stopped walking and turned his head for the third time.

This time, he didn’t stop to pretend not to know or to refuse.

It was because this was the strangest magical beast-related question he had ever heard.

“What’s the point of your question?”

When he finally showed interest and asked, surprisingly, Aisha wasn’t pleased.

Instead, she looked around to see if anyone was nearby and asked back with a suspiciously serious expression.

“Will you keep it a secret?”

No.

“Yes.”

Nox coolly answered with a lie.

“You promise?”

No.

“Yes.”

“Geez.”

Aisha seemed somewhat uncomfortable with his mechanical answers, but the naive Princess ultimately decided to trust him and approached him.

When Nox willingly bent his upper body for her, Aisha stood on her tiptoes and whispered to him.

“When I saved Lucas oppa last time, I also saved a baby cat with him?”

Did she?

Nox, who had no interest in animals, roughly nodded his head. But then.

“The baby cat’s eye color is purple.”

At the Princess’s statement that made him doubt his ears, Nox’s eyes narrowed.

“…Excuse me?”

“The cat I saved has purple-colored eyes, and you’re a magical beast expert and the president of the Monster Appreciation Society or something like that. Do you know what it is?”

Naturally, Nox didn’t know either.

Cats are animals, and animals and magical beasts are strictly different species.

Magical beasts were originally things that were born beyond the edge of the world where humans don’t live.

How they came to be born, what species their ancestors were—these were still subjects of research, but magical beasts and animals were clearly different.

Nox, flustered, furrowed his brow.

“…For now.”

“Yes?”

“For now, please show me the actual thing.”

“Follow me.”

As expected of a former spy princess.

Every time she appears, she never fails to bring big news.

A moment later.

The princess who had brought him to her bedroom picked up something wriggling on the bed.

“That purple-eyed cat?”

“Yes. Aww, aww, so pretty.”

It wasn’t common to see Aisha cooing over someone with a voice that truly sounded like a 5-year-old.

Nox watched this rare scene while witnessing the fluffy ball in Aisha’s arms open its eyes.

“…”

And he gulped.

It was real.

The eyes of the cat, small enough to fit in Aisha’s two palms, were exactly purple.

“…Well, I’ll be.”

Thump thump.

The monster enthusiast’s heart began beating like a drum.

Flustered enough to remove his monocle, he asked carefully.

“May I hold it?”

“Yes. Of course.”

As he reached out his hands to receive the fluffy ball.

“Kyaak.”

The cat that had been lying with a drowsy face suddenly bristled its fur and became alert.

Then it flipped over and turned away from Nox before burrowing into Aisha’s embrace.

Aisha opened her mouth with a regretful expression.

“Ah. I got permission, but you didn’t get permission from the baby.”

“It can’t be helped. It’s fine.”

Nox smacked his lips.

“But purple eyes are a symbol of magical beasts, so this is really fascinating.”

“Right? So actually, I want to raise this child…”

The princess’s small shoulders drooped as she hesitated.

“Keeping it secret and raising it in the ducal palace… that wouldn’t work, would it?”

Hmm.

Actually, I want to raise it myself.

‘It would be an excellent research subject.’

Nox fell into thought for a while.

“…It wouldn’t work, would it?”

“If we keep it secret, it’ll be fine. Let’s raise it here for the time being.”

An exclamation mark appeared over Aisha’s face at the unexpected answer.

“But there’s a condition.”

“A condition?”

“Yes. Let’s take this cat to the Monster Appreciation Society meetings (the society for those who love monsters so much they want to beat them to death).”

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