I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 54

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【Chapter 54】

Bang-!

King Arjen slammed his pale fist down on the desk.

There was no betrayal like this betrayal.

He had secretly smuggled out the corpse as requested by Pose Duke, but during the process of communicating with the duke, there was only one condition he had presented.

Do not bring ‘spies’ into the royal palace.

Do not secretly attach ‘spies’ to people residing in the royal palace, and especially do not attach ‘spies’ to anyone related to the royal palace even if they leave the kingdom.

But.

“How can you do this, Pose Duke. You’ve already broken my one and only condition!”

Bang-!

King Arjen’s face turned bright red as he slammed the desk again in anger.

In fact, he urgently needed to establish relations with the King of Odtia to promote harmony between Frozen and the Kingdom of Odtia, which were in a precarious relationship.

But nevertheless, the reason he had contacted Pose Duke first was.

Jealousy toward Duke Callipus.

To bring down Duke Callipus’s status and fill that position himself.

That was all.

“Please listen to me for a moment, Your Majesty. This… this was unexpected even for me.”

Pose Duke, who was standing across from him, let out a groan and pressed his forehead.

“What? You didn’t expect it? You didn’t expect the spy to be caught?”

“No. As per Your Majesty’s conditions, I did not place any spies in the royal palace.”

“But didn’t they clearly say the corpse was a spy from the Pose Duchy!”

“That’s exactly why it’s questionable.”

“…?”

“Your Majesty.”

A moment of silence passed.

Pose Duke stared at King Arjen with his pale gray eyes.

Instead of fear, the duke’s gaze was filled with bewilderment.

“If I had really planted a spy, would I have reported that corpse to Your Majesty as a spy?”

“…?”

At the duke’s words, King Arjen, who had been breathing roughly up and down, quietly caught his breath.

Only then did his reason return as he quietly fell into thought.

No. He wouldn’t have done that.

Spies from the Pose Duchy don’t carry around items that would reveal they are spies in the first place.

Don’t they say between the lines that spies’ final mission is to ‘be buried quietly without anyone knowing’?

‘Since there was no evidence, he could have easily lied.’

But he didn’t.

And if Pose Duke had intended to bring spies…

‘A dead spy wouldn’t have been caught by royal palace knights. How thorough are spies anyway.’

Only then did King Arjen slowly sit down on the sofa.

“For now… let’s talk. Have a seat.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty.”

Pose Duke bowed his head at Arjen’s command and barely managed to sit down.

Pose Duke was already troubled by the northern affairs.

It was because the Crosht Ducal Family had suppressed the monsters’ rampage symptoms in just one day, when he thought it would take several days.

This made Pose Duke suspicious of the rampage potion’s effectiveness, and King Arjen had to rage at seeing Callipus’s photo on the front page of the newspaper, titled ‘Hero’.

‘I was already in a position where I had to watch Arjen’s mood because of that incident, and now suddenly there’s talk of some spy.’

Pose Duke’s gaze narrowed.

The corpse he saw in the mortuary was originally someone who had been active in the north.

Narrow, slit-like eyes. That was his characteristic, wasn’t it?

He had never given him a name so he didn’t remember well, but he had once instructed him to secretly sell illegal potions at a front shop called ‘Perkus’s Bookshop’.

If he had only stayed at ‘Perkus’s Bookshop’, that spy could have lived. But why did he leave the safe base and come to the royal palace?

His mind raced quickly.

As the head of a spy ducal family, he had faced countless incidents, big and small.

And-

‘…Aisha.’

Currently one of the spies Pose Duke cherished most.

That admirable child who had managed to secure the position of direct princess from Duke Callipus.

‘That child came to the royal palace.’

This was the most likely possibility.

The now-dead spy had followed Aisha to the royal palace. And Aisha…

‘Disappeared without even meeting the king.’

Of course, they said she was transported through a portal due to some accident, but this was the royal palace. What kind of accident could happen here?

Unless a spy was dealing with another spy… this kind of thing…

‘Is something happening to Aisha?’

“I sincerely apologize to Your Majesty for the trouble caused by this incident.”

“…Ahem!”

Pose Duke bowed his head so low that his crown was visible, but Arjen only let out an uncomfortable cough.

He knew it would be like this.

So the duke raised his head and tried to show the most servile smile possible.

“What I can do for Your Majesty, albeit small, would be to investigate the truth of why our spy came to the royal palace and died…”

“…”

“But this alone wouldn’t satisfy you. So I intend to share a top-secret classified information from our Pose Duchy. It’s probably a secret that would interest Your Majesty as well.”

At those words, King Arjen’s ears perked up, even though he had been pretending not to listen.

‘How simple.’

But simple was good.

King Arjen was strictly speaking not an ally, but more like a tool to suck dry and discard.

Pose Duke clicked his tongue inwardly and continued speaking.

“The Croste Ducal Family caused quite a stir by adopting an orphan as a direct princess this time.”

King Arjen responded dryly.

“That’s right. But why bring that up?”

“An orphan becoming a direct princess… Isn’t that something that would only happen in fairy tales?”

“What are you trying to say?”

“…”

Pose Duke deliberately stopped answering while maintaining his smile.

Then Arjen’s head slowly turned toward the duke, and soon he casually placed his elbow on the table as if dying of curiosity.

‘That’s right. Let me tell you something interesting.’

Only then did the satisfied Pose Duke quietly begin.

“That fairy tale-like event was actually entirely planned by our side. The child named ‘Aisha’ who went from orphan to direct princess is one of our spies.”

“…What?”

At the duke’s words, Arjen’s mouth slowly fell open.

He swept his open mouth with his hand as if he couldn’t believe what he heard, but his shocked expression could never be erased.

“Really? I heard rumors that Duke Callipus cherishes that princess tremendously.”

“That’s the level of Pose Duchy spies.”

“…Good heavens.”

Arjen, who had risen from his seat, walked in circles due to his shock.

“A direct princess is a spy… But Duke Callipus doesn’t know this fact.”

“Yes. Since I also want Duke Callipus’s destruction, Aisha with the title of direct princess is my trump card.”

“Trump card…?”

“Your Majesty. If a child you cherished dearly turned out to be a spy from a family that’s practically your mortal enemy… how much would a father’s heart crumble?”

“!”

Arjen’s eyes widened at the duke’s words.

‘This rampage potion operation failed, but…’

As expected of Pose Duke.

He had been preparing various countermeasures from long ago to bring down the Crosht Ducal Family.

“That’s just like you. What an excellent idea!”

“Thank you.”

“If you need anything during the process, just let me know anytime. I’ll support you with whatever I can do.”

At King Arjen’s praise, Pose Duke smiled quietly.

‘Now that I’ve gently appeased that fool of a king, what I need to do is decided.’

First, he would need to deploy a new spy.

To find out what was happening at the Croste Ducal Family.

And since Aisha had been sparse with her reports lately, he needed to find out what she was doing.

* * *

A few days later.

When he opened his eyes, the cat who woke up inside the familiar cage was bewildered.

‘Am I back at Ahili’s Circus again?’

He was anxious, wondering if the circus employees had harmed Aisha.

Sniff sniff.

The cat smelled the pile of blankets laid out soft like a bed.

Food smells. Snow smells. Someone’s hand smell.

Various scents were mixed together, but among them, Aisha’s scent was also faintly mixed in.

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