I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 45

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【Chapter 45】

‘It’s probably about Lucas.’

The northern lords had seen it directly.

News of Lucas would have already spread throughout Frozen society, and Pose Duke, who was more interested in the Frozen Kingdom than anyone else, wouldn’t have missed it.

‘Or maybe it’s about the madness amplifier?’

I recalled the monster that had shown abnormal movements.

That amplifier had definitely come from the Pose Duke’s family.

I didn’t know how Marquis Lillis had found that item, but rumors about the monster’s strange symptoms would have spread too, so he must have noticed.

Just as I was getting lost in various thoughts.

“Squeak-!”

At Chichichi’s sound indicating completion, I opened my eyes and checked the floor.

The message Pose Duke sent me wasn’t about Lucas or the madness amplifier.

[Why are you at the Queen’s Palace?]

It was a message about me.

“…Grrrowl…”

“Baby?”

Right then, before I could even be shocked by the message’s contents, the baby who had been quietly staying in my arms growled.

Something seemed a bit strange. A bizarre cry seeped out like smoke from the kitten’s core as it wrinkled its nose bridge.

It was an unbelievable sound for a kitten – a beast’s sound so chilling it made my hair stand on end.

Was something bothering it?

No. This was blatant hostility.

“Why are you suddenly acting like this… Baby!”

“Hiss!”

Before I could catch it, the baby leaped out of my arms and ran somewhere.

What should I do?

After diligently erasing the message carved on the floor with my shoe, I looked back and forth between Mai in the distance and the baby.

Sorry to Mai, but.

“Baby!”

My own matters came first.

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At that moment.

A cold silence hung over the tea room.

Nox pressed his temples hard due to his dizzy head.

‘…This kind of thing actually happens in reality?’

The story that came out of the Queen’s mouth was more eerie than any ghost story.

Nox wasn’t the only one who thought so.

The three people present also sat quietly, unable to continue speaking.

Everyone seemed unsure of what to say or how to say it.

‘Damn.’

Nox let out a long sigh and rubbed his face with his palm.

“Let’s organize this first. So, the cat attached to the Princess isn’t just an ordinary cat…”

Nox’s head ached.

“It can communicate with humans and also communicate with monsters…”

“A Maein.”

Grace summarized.

“Yes. That means it’s a Maein.”

“Monsters instinctively distinguish between the weak and strong due to their excellent sense of smell. To monsters, a Maein is neither the same species nor a different species.”

Grace, who explained without taking a single breath, tapped the paper with her pen.

“They see it as their leader.”

“…This is maddening.”

At her words, Nox unconsciously muttered to himself.

Leader of monsters.

Just looking at the words alone, one might think it’s like the leader of some monkey or wolf pack, but that would be a grave mistake.

The leader beyond the world’s end, beyond the ice wall.

That meant the monsters, who had been humanity’s object of fear, could be organized, and organization meant an army.

‘Monsters lined up in formation, ready to attack.’

Suddenly, goosebumps rose on his back.

Monsters beyond the massive ice wall planning to annihilate humanity and using tools?

The Croste Ducal Family had held out well so far, but that was largely thanks to the ice wall built with ice abilities.

But what if monsters that learned to think devised a way to destroy the ice wall?

Nox, who had been pondering, asked.

“Why didn’t anyone know such beings existed?”

People might not know since they weren’t ordinary beings.

Most people outside the Croste Duke’s territory didn’t even know what monsters looked like.

But Nox was very interested in monsters.

‘I should have seen it in books.’

“Because they don’t treat them as monsters.”

At his words, Grace brought over a book.

Seeing the thick hardbound book, he awkwardly raised his head.

“Isn’t this… the Scripture of Rune?”

Rune was a religion created by stuffy magicians to explain the existence of ability users.

People interested in magic would have heard of it at least once.

But from Nox’s position of directly serving an ability user, the descriptions that deified ability users felt burdensome, so he hadn’t read it.

Grace tapped the cover and said.

“Yeah. Maein appears in this scripture.”

“Pardon?”

“And in the Scripture of Rune, Maein is also described as a small god created by a god similar to ability users.”

“Are you saying that the fiction written by magicians became reality?”

“No. The magicians wrote real facts, not fiction. But I never imagined I’d actually see a Maein.”

Grace, who had brought the book, sat down heavily again.

“The Scripture of Rune says that Maein will die young, unable to adapt to the world.”

“…But why?”

“Why indeed. Aisha must have saved it.”

In a way, history might be made of such trivial coincidences.

For instance, compassion. Or love.

She smiled bitterly with a bitter heart.

“Maein takes the form of a beast when young. To gain energy for humanization, it chooses one human and parasitizes them for a month.”

That was exactly Aisha.

Grace actually didn’t care about that part.

No, actually she should have isolated them to prevent the Maein’s humanization, but the reason she issued the eviction order to Aisha was different.

“The problem is when the Maein wants to humanize, it drinks the blood of nearby humans…”

Clatter-!

That’s when it happened.

The chair Nox was sitting on fell backward with a loud noise.

Princess Maria sitting beside him widened her eyes.

Because all color had drained from Nox’s face as he stood up abruptly over the chair that had tumbled to the floor.

“…What did you say? The blood of nearby humans?”

An uncharacteristically irrational appearance from Nox. Grace shook her head and muttered.

“So you do know how to care for people?”

“This is no joke.”

“I know. That’s why I told you to separate them. As long as you separate them within 2 weeks, it’ll be fine.”

“2 weeks.”

Nox, who had been muttering blankly like a ghost, sat back down in his seat.

“…I see.”

Two weeks was plenty of time.

‘Now that I know the identity of that cat, I can just leave the cat behind when I depart for the duchy today.’

I could probably leave the cat with Grace.

Knock knock. That’s when it happened.

At the sudden knocking sound, the Monster Appreciation Society members looked up.

The owner of the knock opened the door and entered without even getting permission from the members.

“I apologize for the urgent matter. The sun of the world shines upon the Frozen Kingdom.”

A knight who showed courtesy to Grace held out a paper toward Nox.

“An urgent message has arrived.”

An urgent message?

Usually, sending a message from the Croste Ducal Family to the Frozen Kingdom takes more than 2 weeks.

However, the fact that an urgent message had come meant it had just arrived through a portal.

‘A message so urgent that it required that?’

Nox checked the message with an uneasy heart.

[Part of Ice Wall collapsed. Monster invasion. Stay in kingdom with Aisha until next message arrives.]

“…”

Even reading each letter again, it was unbelievable content.

In the history of the Frozen Kingdom, the Ice Wall had never collapsed.

It was an exceptional, no, truly unprecedented event.

“Why? What does it say?”

Grace, who was worried because of Nox’s lack of response, snatched the message from his hand.

Right at that moment.

Mai, who had rushed through the open door, reported while breathing heavily.

“The sun of the world shines upon the Kingdom of Frozen. Lord Nox, I’m sorry. Lady Aisha has disappeared.”

“…”

Nox’s eyes, which had been vacant, slowly widened.

It was one problem after another.

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