I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 51

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【Chapter 51】

At that moment.

“Princess!”

Nox, who had immediately traveled through the portal, called out to Aisha.

Surely if he had come through the portal, he would have naturally headed to the ducal castle first.

“….”

He hurriedly entered the ducal castle, but perhaps due to the emergency situation, the castle’s corridors were as quiet as a tomb.

That’s when it happened.

“Lord Nox!”

Butler Brad, who had been walking down the corridor, turned pale the moment he saw him.

“Weren’t you supposed to be at the royal court with Lady Aisha right now? We certainly sent an urgent message….”

‘So the Princess isn’t here.’

Nox felt frustrated inside, but answered without showing it.

“The Princess has moved to the north. Through the royal court’s portal.”

“What? But the Princess is at the ducal castle…”

There was no time to listen to Brad’s words now.

“If she’s not here, I’ll go out and look for her immediately.”

Nox hurriedly brushed past Brad, exited the ducal castle again, and surveyed the surroundings.

‘Where on earth did she go?’

He had jumped straight into the portal for fear of losing Aisha, so shouldn’t he at least spot that yellow ponytail?

‘Maybe she didn’t come straight to the ducal castle.’

From the portal’s location, Croste Ducal Castle was visible. Aisha should have been able to find a path this simple.

His anxious gaze turned toward The Edge of the World.

Gray smoke could be seen rising endlessly between the ice walls visible in the distance.

Grooooooar-

Even from this considerable distance, the faint roars of monsters could be heard, suggesting the subjugation was in full swing.

So surely.

‘She wouldn’t have gone there.’

Nox tried to think otherwise, but his ominously pounding heart knew the truth.

If it was the Princess he knew, the moment she grasped the situation, she would have rushed to The Edge of the World to meet her father.

Because she was a brave 5-year-old who, despite being a former spy, would risk her life to keep her word.

“Haah….”

There was no choice.

Nox roughly grabbed a sword from a nearby armory and ran toward The Edge of the World.

And so, a short while later.

After running through the snow for quite some time, he began to see groups of armed knights.

“…Lo, Lord Nox?!”

“Lord Nox. How did you get all the way here… And why are you carrying a sword?”

This was the defensive zone supporting the front lines.

Seeing that the knights were fine except for the wounded lying down, fortunately it seemed the defenses hadn’t been breached to the end.

“Where is His Highness?”

Nox was breathing heavily.

“His Highness is at the front lines…”

After hearing the knight’s words.

“Lord Nox! Where are you going alone!”

Without time to answer the knight, he broke through the makeshift wire fence and passed through the ice wall.

Groooooooo-

“Over there!”

“Behind, kheuk!”

“Dangerous! The monsters have gone berserk! Everyone maintain proper distance!”

Beyond the ice wall, all he could see was white snow and red blood.

Between the contrasting intense colors, monsters five times larger than humans were roaring in a rampage despite being stabbed by swords.

‘Your Highness. Your Highness, please.’

Looking around here and there, not a single person seemed to have any breathing room.

Wooooar-!

A knight staggered backward toward Nox from a sudden monster attack.

Nox quickly turned to avoid him and ran toward the front lines, then ducked to dodge an incoming arrow.

This place was hell.

He didn’t know why the monsters’ rampage had spread like this, but these weren’t the monsters he usually knew.

Every single one was in an abnormal state. If stabbed by a sword, they should at least writhe in pain.

These things moved continuously until their hearts stopped, as if under hypnosis.

“Kuk, damn it.”

Moreover, due to the snowfall that grew heavier the closer to The Edge of the World, he couldn’t even distinguish who was a monster and who was a knight.

That’s when it happened.

Kraaaaaaah-

With the monster’s final roar, hot blood spattered across the ground.

Nox, standing in the middle of the battlefield, spotted a familiar silhouette.

A man noticeably tall even from that distance.

It was Callipus.

“Your Highness!”

When he shouted with all his might, Callipus, who had been driving his sword into a monster, turned his head.

Callipus’s expression upon seeing Nox was colored with bewilderment.

“Why are you here… Damn it! Get back!”

But that was as far as it went.

Callipus roughly pushed Nox aside and instantly froze a monster that had approached at some point.

“…Why did you come here! Didn’t you see the urgent message?!”

Nox’s heart sank at the head of house’s fierce rebuke.

But he had to speak.

Something more frightening than Callipus’s anger was not knowing what might really happen to Aisha.

“The Princess came through the portal.”

“…What?”

“The Princess came to the north through the portal! I was chasing after her!”

Callipus’s rough breathing stopped.

As if he alone had been paused in the middle of the battlefield, he stared at Nox for a long moment with slightly widened red eyes.

And then.

“…Aisha is here?”

He asked in disbelief with a voice that cracked in two.

Damn it.

‘His Highness doesn’t know either. Where on earth is the Princess…’

That’s when it happened.

“Yo, Your Highness!”

Behind the frozen Callipus, a massive silhouette suddenly rose.

It was definitely the monster Callipus had killed with his sword.

Whether it still had breath left, even while limping, the moment it tried to grab Callipus’s ankle with its front paw whose muscle veins had burst.

“…?”

The monster stopped its action while maintaining that exact position.

“…What’s this?”

“These guys were abnormal from the start. Everyone stay alert without letting your guard down!”

It was the same elsewhere too.

As the monsters that had been fighting to kill suddenly stopped their actions all at once, the knights holding swords looked around with puzzled expressions.

However.

The monsters stepped back one by one. As if they were making way for someone.

Just like saluting a hero returning from a march.

“….”

As a path was naturally formed, Callipus and Nox followed the white road with their gaze as if enchanted.

And at the end of that path.

“Daddy-!”

A princess stood holding a small poison needle.

“….”

The little princess’s appearance was truly bizarre.

The white snowy plains stained with blood.

A white path covered with snow was prepared before the child standing with a poison needle in her grip.

Even as the child took each step forward, the monsters that had been staring intently at her backed away.

As if clearing a path for Aisha.

“…?”

“….”

In that strange situation, the surrounding knights exchanged glances with each other.

The same was true for Callipus and Nox.

“Aisha!”

But soon Callipus came to his senses and ran to Aisha, throwing down his sword.

“Aku.”

Her blue eyes widened at the unexpected embrace.

Aisha gasped for breath from being hugged so hastily, but there was no way Callipus would notice such a thing in this situation.

“Why are you here. I told you to stay in the kingdom until the situation calmed down. Why didn’t you listen.”

Even while holding her, as if still anxious, he endlessly stroked the child’s golden head.

The surrounding knights fell silent at the Duke’s more emotional reaction than expected.

It was their first time seeing the Duke act emotionally, and they were surprised by his unexpected appearance of cherishing an adopted princess who wasn’t his actual blood as if she were his own child.

Regardless, Aisha tried to say what she had to say.

“I didn’t come because I wanted to…”

“Either way, what would have happened if something went wrong. If you came through the portal, you should have gone back or stayed put in front of that portal. There are dozens of people making a fuss trying to find you in the kingdom, so if you had waited quietly there, you would have been discovered. Why did you come all the way here alone?”

Of course, only Callipus’s voice grew louder instead.

“…Your Highness.”

Eventually, Nox quietly approached.

“There are many watching eyes. The situation isn’t over either.”

Nox, who said that, looked around.

Wasn’t the situation over?

No. The situation was already finished.

The monsters that had suddenly lost their fighting spirit were leaving the area near the ice wall one by one.

“….”

It wasn’t because of Aisha.

It must be because of that cat.

When he glanced down, he could see a white cat sitting in the white snow.

It had been looking up only at Aisha since it appeared.

The cat seemed to have no particular thoughts.

It just seemed to be waiting for when Aisha, who was being held in Callipus’s arms, would come down.

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