I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 57

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【Chapter 57】

Callipus couldn’t believe it.

Would the kitten really transform into a person?

If it transformed, if that was true.

How should he view that damn cat that had been on sleeping Aisha’s bed a few days ago?

Beast? Man? Cat?

Surprisingly, in Callipus’s encyclopedia, all three words meant exactly the same thing.

‘…If a cat killed a person, there’s a possibility it could transform into a human.’

The moment he heard Nox’s words in the prison, Callipus had no choice but to run frantically down the corridor.

Thinking it couldn’t be true, he opened his daughter’s bedroom door—

“…Father?”

Startled Aisha opened her rabbit-like eyes.

Next to the child stood a boy of similar height.

White hair covering his forehead. Purple eyes symbolizing monsters. A face that strangely resembled that cat.

‘…’

Veins bulged on the back of his hand as he gripped the door frame as if to break it.

If Aisha hadn’t been there, the curses he had only muttered internally would have burst out of his mouth.

But—

“Boy. You come out.”

Aisha was watching.

“Why should I?”

However, the boy blinked his innocent eyes and asked back.

He even spoke informally?

‘They said he could speak human language, but a beast is still a beast.’

Letting out a small scoff, he walked threateningly toward the boy. Then he roughly grabbed his wrist.

“…?”

The boy’s eyes widened as he was dragged away.

“Kail. Don’t kill him, don’t kill him! Father too, don’t kill him!”

With Aisha’s urgent cry of unknown meaning, Callipus slammed the bedroom door shut.

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And so, in the study.

“They say if you kill a person, you become human. Are you really that kitten?”

Callipus’s jaw tightened as he asked the absurd, insane question.

The boy still looked up at Callipus with a fearless expression.

Then he let out a deep sigh and nodded.

“To be precise, if you drink human blood, you can transform into a human.”

“Then why did you go to Aisha as soon as you became human?”

“To go home.”

Home?

One of Callipus’s eyebrows rose as he bit his molars hard, trying to contain his anger.

“Yeah. Home. If you lose it, you have to get it back.”

“What are you talking about?”

Perhaps because he was a beast, his way of speaking was quite strange.

Then Nox, who was standing beside them, carefully interpreted the boy’s words.

“I believe when the maein lived as a cat, he always slept in the Princess’s bedroom… together. So he seems to be expressing the bedroom as home…”

Crack—

At the sound of the chair’s armrest breaking, Nox quickly shut his mouth.

It wasn’t something to get angry about with a boy who hadn’t even hit puberty, but annoying was still annoying.

‘I should just move on to another topic.’

If he kept listening, he felt like he might break the remaining left armrest too.

Closing his eyes briefly and steadying his breathing, Callipus pointed out another problem.

“Then why did you kill the maid? Because you wanted to become human?”

“Becoming human isn’t something you can only do by killing people. You just need to drink human blood.”

“But why did you kill her?”

At Callipus’s question, the boy closed his mouth for a moment.

Seeing his still fearless, sullen expression, he felt anger, but.

“I had no intention of drinking blood.”

Because the boy’s subsequent words were unexpected, he couldn’t get angry.

“…What?”

“I just intended to kill her. Aisha scolded me for that though.”

The expressions of Callipus and Nox changed slightly.

He intended to kill from the beginning?

“Aisha only scolds me when I become human. That’s why I didn’t want to become human either. I wanted to remain just a cat for life.”

As if feeling wronged just thinking about it, the boy kicked the floor with his foot and muttered.

“Then why did you kill the person?”

“That person didn’t have a scent.”

“Scent?”

“Usually people have scents. You have a scent. You have a scent too.”

The boy pointed at Callipus and Nox with his finger and continued.

“The scent of people being connected to other people. Ah, if this person disappears, someone will look for them, that kind of scent. But that person had no scent.”

“…What does this mean?”

“Such people are usually those waiting alone for their day to die.”

Though the boy answered readily, Callipus’s gaze was directed at Nox. He was requesting an interpretation.

“I don’t really know either.”

But even Nox, the president of the Masamo Association, shook his head.

Oh no.

His head was getting more and more complicated.

Feeling frustrated, he ran his fingers through his hair and continued trying to elicit proper answers.

“You say she had no scent. So why did you kill her?”

“Because there was a high possibility she would kidnap Aisha.”

Then, suddenly, an amazing answer that needed no interpretation came out.

“…?”

“?”

A moment of silence fell over the study.

Callipus and Nox, who had been looking down at the boy with slightly surprised eyes, stared at each other.

“Kidnapping? What happened at the royal palace?”

“When we found the Princess, it was after she had disappeared through a portal with that boy. I don’t know what happened before that either…”

Nox, adjusting his monocle that had slipped down, muttered belatedly.

“It does seem like something worth investigating.”

Of course.

Moreover, that kid didn’t seem smart enough to lie. It must be true.

“Kidnapping? What do you mean by that?”

As the conversation began in earnest, he got up from his chair and knelt down to meet the boy’s gaze.

The boy still answered with an unafraid expression.

“When Aisha took me far away. Some human with no scent was following Aisha and constantly watching her.”

Thump—

Callipus’s heart dropped. Someone had been watching Aisha, since when, at what point?

No one had noticed that fact.

“I happened to have something to ask Aisha, so I wanted to become human. But that person had no scent, so even if I killed her, Aisha wouldn’t be sad.”

“…What?”

I couldn’t understand everything he said, but I clearly understood one thing.

This beast was concerned about Aisha being sad?

Though Callipus momentarily had such doubts, he didn’t open his mouth to listen to the boy’s story.

“But then that person suddenly kidnapped Aisha. At first, he called her name so I thought he knew Aisha and just watched.”

“Just watched?”

“He slapped sleeping Aisha’s cheek. So I thought, ah, this man would be fine to kill, and killed him.”

“….”

Silence fell over the study once again.

This time even heavier and even colder.

“Is that also why you killed the maid?”

“Yeah.”

It was truly fortunate.

Even though the expression I’m making right now must be quite frightening, the boy nodded without much thought.

Then the boy stared at the ceiling for a moment. He seemed to be thinking about something briefly.

“I thought it was strange that there was no smell. But there was something else strange too.”

“What was it.”

“After that person left, the man in the next room made a huge fuss. Like, now I’m escaping- Pose Duke has good service- stuff like that.”

“A spy.”

“A spy indeed.”

With the boy’s decisive words, the entire situation became clear. Pose Duke had attached a spy to Aisha.

The reason was obvious. It must have been surveillance to see if she was performing her mission well.

“…For now.”

He needed to bring up the berserk potion issue and bring down the Pose Duke’s family. As quickly as possible.

Callipus, who had many thoughts and stood up from his seat, looked down at the boy again with an “ah.”

So what should I do with this Maein?

“…?”

At the obvious stare, the boy tilted his head curiously.

When I found him in the bedroom, he seemed like a beast that deserved to be beaten to death.

‘He can distinguish spies by smell?’

After having a conversation, he seemed quite useful. He would be perfect as Aisha’s guard knight.

Callipus crossed his arms and frowned.

And-

“Well done.”

“…Huh?”

“Killing the person with no smell. You did very well.”

He roughly patted the white head.

“But Aisha said killing people is wrong…”

“People with no smell aren’t people. So next time too, if there’s someone with no smell around Aisha, kill them.”

“…Huh?”

The boy, who had been staring at him with purple eyes at the sudden praise, nodded his head.

And so, a few days later.

“Hello.”

“…Did you move into our castle?”

Kail in human form began appearing at Croste Ducal Castle.

And quite frequently at that.

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