I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 52

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【Chapter 52】

‘Has the eye color transformation potion’s effect already worn off?’

The beast’s eyes looking up at Aisha flickered with an ominous purple light that symbolized monsters.

‘So he’s the leader of the monsters. Queen Grace’s words must have been true.’

From a distance, it seemed like the monsters were conscious of Aisha, but Nox knew.

What they were looking at wasn’t Aisha, but the cat that had been swishing around beside her.

“How about we talk later and first take Princess Aisha back to the castle to sort out the situation?”

“…Let’s do that.”

“Your Highness, it’s not over yet.”

This time he spoke as quietly as possible.

“It seems the monsters won’t come for a while, but how about leaving the cleanup to the knight commander? I have something urgent to tell you.”

“…?”

Callipus’s brow furrowed slightly. Nox still gazed at him with an even expression.

“…Let’s do that.”

After a few seconds of silence, Callipus seemed to realize.

That there was a matter more important than the current situation.

Without letting go of Aisha from his arms, he belatedly shouted to the surrounding knights.

“The situation is over. I’m planning to repair the ice wall as soon as cleanup is done, so move the injured first. The corpse team should handle the dead monsters.”

“Yes.”

“Yes, understood.”

The moment his gaze left Aisha, Callipus became the very cold ruler they knew.

After the knights who had been saluting with tense faces left-

“Let’s hurry home. What is this mess of a face? Your hair is all disheveled too.”

Callipus, who had relaxed his expression again, gently touched Aisha’s nose tip without hurting her.

“But I came back safely, right?”

“If you hadn’t caused an accident in the first place, there would have been nothing to mess up.”

“Hmph.”

When the sulking Aisha collapsed into his arms, Callipus finally petted the child with a satisfied expression.

Of course, as soon as he made eye contact with Nox, he returned to his cold expression.

* * *

A moment later.

“Princess-!”

When we returned to the castle, Brad, who had been waiting anxiously at the entrance, ran toward us with tears in his eyes.

“Where on earth did you go? Assistant Nox was so worried!”

“That’s right. I happened to see him in the corridor too, and Assistant Nox’s face was covered in cold sweat.”

Then the servants who gathered one by one each said something to me as I was held in Dad’s arms.

“I’m sorry…”

This is, this is quite embarrassing.

Well, I was crazy to try to go to the edge of the world with just one poison needle.

‘I didn’t know it would cause such a commotion.’

Feeling embarrassed, I pulled Callipus’s neck closer to escape this situation.

But-

“Scold her as much as possible. She did do something wrong.”

Dad is a strict dad when he needs to be strict.

“Dad?”

“What, you brat.”

He chuckled and tapped my nose tip.

Then he put me down where the terrifying butler and servants were gathered and disappeared.

“…Dad? Dad!”

Step, step-

Dad didn’t look back.

“Princess?”

“…Princess?”

Then the servants who had received orders surrounded me with fire in their eyes.

Gasp-

I backed away with a frightened expression, warily looking around.

A man who ruthlessly crushed the cliché that dads are daughter-fools when you’re reincarnated as a romance fantasy baby.

‘Callipus. Just you wait…’

“Oh my, our Princess. Where on earth did you leave your hair ribbon? I’ll hold you for now.”

“Ah!”

“Princess, where did you wander around to get this dirty? Really, today we must scrub you thoroughly…”

“By the way, why are you wearing sackcloth…”

“Kyah! Rin! Put the robe back on that you were trying to take off! In this snowy weather, the Princess is only wearing pajamas!”

Dozens of hands picked me up and headed toward the ducal palace.

“Ugah, gyaah-“

After being bathed until my skin nearly peeled off, I was even dressed in warm inner pajamas.

When I came to my senses-

“…”

I was lying spread-eagle on the bed.

‘I’m definitely cleaner than before, but why does my body feel like rags?’

That’s when it happened.

“Meow-“

“Baby?”

I bolted upright at the familiar crying sound.

“Meow.”

Then Baby, as if he had been waiting, jumped onto the bed and leisurely stretched his arms as he came into my embrace.

“Baby, where have you been?”

When did he come to the bedroom?

Whether Nox brought him from the royal palace, when I met Callipus, Baby was also there beside him.

I was worried about his purple eyes being discovered, but it seems he avoided people on his own and came to the bedroom.

“Good boy, Baby-.”

“Mmph.”

Baby blinked his purple eyes at my soft voice and burrowed into my arms.

‘So cute…’

My lips curved into a smile. How could I not cuddle with something this cute when sleeping?

“Let’s sleep together under the blanket today too-.”

While covering myself with the blanket while holding Baby in my arms.

“Baby, you sleeping?”

I became curious and slightly lifted the blanket to peek-

“Purr.”

A ball of fluff curled up in a circle was sleeping with satisfied closed eyes.

‘Baby must have had as hard a day as I did.’

I fell into thought, recalling today.

Many things happened, but what I remember most is naturally that boy.

“…I wonder if he got home safely?”

Looking at the dark ceiling, the face of the boy who had been standing in the forest shadows suddenly came to mind.

White like an angel. With monster-like purple eyes.

“Hmm…”

I lifted the blanket and looked at Baby.

“He seemed a bit similar to you,”

Oh my. How rude of me.

I covered my surprised triangular mouth and shook my head back and forth.

No matter how pretty that boy was, he wasn’t pretty enough to compare to a baby.

It was rude to say such things about a baby who was both pretty and kind.

“He was a bit… unique in personality.”

Still, he didn’t seem like a bad kid.

Hmm.

My eyes naturally closed drowsily from the warm, fluffy body heat I felt in my arms.

* * *

And so, in the early dawn when everyone was asleep.

Rustle-

The blankets stirred for a moment, then a cat with white fur poked its head out.

Aisha was fast asleep.

She must have been so tired that she was even snoring, with both arms stretched out in a victory pose.

‘My house. Your arms, right.’

The cat looked at Aisha and licked its front paw.

He was still somewhat upset about being scolded during the day.

Even though she had disliked it so much, now that he was back to being a cat, wasn’t she letting him sleep on the bed again?

‘Aisha, blockhead.’

He vowed inwardly never to transform into a human again.

Not only did human blood taste bad, but he had realized that killing people meant having to run away.

“…”

And so the cat sat in a loaf position beside the sleeping Aisha as he always did, watching over her until dawn broke.

For reference, cats are nocturnal animals.

There was a reason why the cat slept so soundly during the day.

* * *

While the cat was watching the sleeping Aisha.

A conversation was taking place in Callipus’s study.

“You’re saying the reason the monsters stopped their actions was because of the kitten that was staying by Aisha’s side.”

“Yes.”

He looked at Nox in disbelief, but his aide was more serious than ever.

Eventually, Callipus let out a hollow laugh.

But soon he frowned and ran his hand through his hair.

Could he really believe this?

Communicating with monsters?

Callipus didn’t like this premise from the start.

Monsters were incapable of communication.

They had no intellectual ability, were not rational, were faithful to their desires like beasts, and if hungry, would devour humans and animals without distinction.

No, monsters would drool and charge at anything they saw moving in the first place.

But communication with those things was possible?

This wasn’t a matter for the Croste Ducal Family to handle alone.

He needed to have a conversation with Queen Grace.

“Good work. For now, I’ll send word of this matter to Her Majesty the Queen…”

“Your Highness. There’s something else I need to tell you.”

Callipus’s gaze lifted as he was about to conclude the conversation.

“What is it.”

“As I mentioned earlier, since it’s a creature capable of communicating with humans, they called it a Maein.”

“Right.”

“Regarding the ability to take human form, there’s something concerning about this.”

“Speak.”

“They said that before reaching maturity, it needs to drink human blood to be able to take human form.”

A moment of silence passed.

Callipus, who had pressed his lips into a straight line and tapped the table with his finger, looked at Nox again.

“Where is that cat right now?”

“…It’s in the Princess’s bedroom…”

“What?”

The red eyes staring at his aide instantly turned coldly sharp.

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