I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 49

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【Chapter 49】

“I’m sorry.”

And Aisha, who had taken a step closer to me, gently patted his shoulder with her hand.

“Are you not sad anymore?”

Sad? It seemed like an emotion similar to sorrow.

Come to think of it, he hadn’t felt sad since Aisha had tied his hair with the hair tie.

The young boy shrugged his shoulders.

“Yeah. I’m not sad anymore. You’re pretty good at apologizing?”

“Heh. Of course.”

Aisha’s lips curved up confidently.

Regardless, the young boy was already completely absorbed with the hair tie.

“I’ll apologize to you someday too. But anyway, this hair tie. So this is a hair tie.”

“Yeah.”

When you tie your hair with a hair tie, you can see clearly ahead.

Good. When my hair covered my eyes, I couldn’t see well, but with a hair tie, I’ll be able to see clearly.

“…Very useful.”

“You know how to use words like that?”

“Yeah. I learned by listening to humans talk. I can speak human language too.”

The cat’s lips, which had answered smugly, formed an ‘S’ shape.

“Humans? Why do you refer to people that way?”

He thought he heard such muttering, but didn’t bother to explain.

Anyway, the hair tie was useful.

He carefully touched the hair tie tied around his forehead like humanity discovering fire for the first time.

But then.

Snap-

“Huh?!”

Suddenly, Aisha broke the hair tie and threw it somewhere.

“What are you doing!”

The startled young boy burst into anger.

If he had ears and a tail, his fur would have stood on end with rage.

“What are you going to do about it?”

But instead, Aisha confidently raised her head, crossed her arms, and stuck out her belly.

“The hair tie died, didn’t it?”

“The hair tie didn’t die!”

“According to what you said, it disappeared, so isn’t that dead?”

The cat was left speechless.

But the hair tie wasn’t dead. It just disappeared.

‘It’s mine, so I can find it.’

With fire in his eyes, he quickly turned his head to look around. Fortunately, the hair tie had fallen on the ground nearby.

“I found it!”

Dash dash dash, he ran over and grabbed the hair tie-

Clap clap clap.

Aisha applauded and gave him a thumbs up while nodding.

“That’s what it means to lose something.”

“Huh?”

“You lost it, but then found it again. It’s not dead because you found it.”

“…Wow.”

Lost it, but found it again. If you find it again, it’s not dead.

He looked at the hair tie clutched in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Then-

“Then you can find your memories again too, right?”

“That’s right. Anyway, when I find my memories, I’ll tell you why I spared you and why I looked at you that way.”

“Oh.”

How, how cool.

The young boy looked at Aisha with sparkling eyes.

Regardless, Aisha was brushing dust off her knees while looking around.

“Hmm. But I think it’s time to head back.”

Head back? If she’s going back, does that mean going back to the warm blankets where Aisha had been staying?

“But where is your home?”

As Aisha asked while walking, he hurriedly followed her closely and answered.

“Home? Inside the blankets.”

“Huh? Whose blankets?”

“Your blankets.”

“?”

“Your blankets. They’re warm.”

Slurp-

Blinking his pure and calm eyes, he drank from the water bottle he had found after killing the man earlier.

At his words, Aisha, who had been opening her mouth like she was broken for a moment, suddenly got angry.

“Stop joking around! Tell me where you were born!”

Ah. Where I was born. Then why didn’t you say that from the start.

He shrugged his shoulders and gave a different answer.

“The North.”

“The North?”

“Yeah. The cold snowy plains.”

He didn’t remember well, but it was a place where the ground was white and the sky was blue.

“Oh my. I live in the North too. You can wait and come with me.”

“Whatever.”

Actually, the young boy had nowhere to go.

He hadn’t particularly wanted to live, but since Aisha had brought him into the blankets.

That’s when it happened.

“H-here! We found a dead body… bloodstains! It seems the culprit who killed the body passed through this area.”

From far away, an adult man’s voice echoed here and there.

“Huh? Guard?”

At those words, Aisha turned her head and was about to wave her hand with a pleased expression.

“That young boy has blood on his mouth and hands… That young boy seems to have killed the man!”

The guard, who was faster than her, pushed through the bushes and shouted while looking at the young boy.

Aisha, flustered by the guard’s intense reaction, called out to him.

“Hey.”

“Yeah.”

“That guard says you killed a man, is that true?”

“Yeah.”

He was hitting you, so I killed him.

While I was at it, I drank some blood to try to become human.

Slurp-

He swallowed what he wanted to say because of the water bottle and threw the empty bottle on the ground.

‘The expression of that guard who called me the culprit earlier looks a bit similar to the employees of the Ahili Circus…’

He had a bad feeling.

It seemed like he should run away for now.

* * *

At that moment.

It had been 2 hours since they started searching for Aisha.

“We’ve found the Princess!”

“…Thank goodness.”

Nox nearly felt his legs give out at the words of the knight running toward him from afar.

What a relief.

He hadn’t thought she would leave the massive royal palace, but this wasn’t the first or second time the Princess had caused trouble.

Nox removed his monocle and approached the knight.

“Where is the Princess?”

However.

“Well, she ran away so quickly… we’re currently chasing her…”

She ran away? Why would Aisha?

Nox’s eyebrows rose slightly at the knight’s words.

“Why is the Princess running away?”

“Actually, a man presumed to be a servant of the Pose Duke’s family died, and she’s running away with the boy who killed that man.”

“…Excuse me?”

Nox stood there dumbfounded, looking as if he’d been hit hard on the back of the head.

As expected of a Princess with a spy background. She was causing trouble.

That’s when it happened.

“The Princess is over there!”

A commotion arose from beyond the corner of the castle.

Rushing toward the source of the sound, he found knights bustling around in front of a massive blue portal.

“Princess! Don’t move!”

“Come down quickly!”

No way.

Nox pushed through the knights and ran toward the portal entrance.

The portals within the royal palace were dangerous.

Since entering the royal palace meant one’s identity was guaranteed, they would activate simply by entering without any separate device.

‘Please. Please.’

Nox didn’t care about all the worry Aisha had caused him until now.

He could forgive everything, so please just don’t let the portal activate and create the worst-case scenario.

Please let the Princess be safe within his reach.

Just as he was pushing through the knights’ shoulders to approach the portal entrance.

“Princess!”

“…No, Nox?”

He heard the innocent voice of the child he had been waiting for so desperately.

However.

-Portal has been activated.

The moment he reached the entrance, at the end of the portal’s cool announcement, the forms of the two children were enveloped in blue light and disappeared.

* * *

This was a disaster.

Now things had really gotten out of hand.

“…”

Nox, who had been staring into the now-empty portal with a devastated expression, slowly covered his face with his hands.

Then.

“…Where does that portal lead to?”

“To, to the North… near the End of the World.”

“Damn it. Of all places, that dangerous location.”

After spitting out a curse, he urgently entered the portal.

* * *

Let me say this again – this isn’t my fault.

I didn’t even know I had gotten on a portal!

I was just casually running away with the boy who had shyly confessed to being a murderer, and the place the knights couldn’t approach happened to be on a blue floor.

I had no idea that portal would just activate without any separate device.

“Ahhh!”

With slight dizziness, my surroundings turned black. Then something cold touched the tip of my nose.

Oh.

This was snow.

“…Where is this…”

When I opened my eyes, snowflakes were falling from the pale sky.

Coniferous forests visible in the distance. A dirt path slightly darkened from being soaked with snow.

Could this place be…

“Could the portal destination be… mmph.”

Just as I was about to speak.

Whoosh- The fierce northern wind struck me.

“Whoa.”

Thanks to that, the short-sleeved dress Mai had put on me fluttered like a curtain.

As the knife-like cold seeped into my entire body-

“Ugh. I’m going to catch a cold.”

Shivering, I wrapped my arms around my body as much as possible.

“Are you cold?”

That’s when it happened.

Whether he had come through the portal with me, a familiar young voice asked me.

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