I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 59

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【Chapter 59】

At that moment, in Aisha’s bedroom.

“Uuung-.”

The fluffy ball curled up in the blankets that carried Aisha’s scent murmured contentedly.

Lately, Kail would fall asleep as if fainting when daytime came. Especially when he occasionally drank the blood of spies, drowsiness would wash over him even more.

Just like children going through a growth spurt.

“Hmnya.”

Even while sleeping, his bottom moved vigorously as he tried to burrow into Aisha’s embrace.

But.

“…?”

Aisha’s embrace had disappeared. Normally, her warm body temperature should be wrapping around him.

“?”

As his sleep fled due to the lukewarm situation, he opened his eyes and looked around.

This was Aisha’s bedroom. But the owner of the bedroom was nowhere to be found.

‘Aisha?’

The fluffy ball stretched out his front paws and shook his head back and forth.

After finishing his rough cat wash, he lightly jumped down from the bed and examined the area under the bed, but.

‘She’s not here either.’

Aisha was nowhere to be found.

‘Strange. We’ve always been together lately.’

That was always the excuse he gave to that guard for permission.

Kail was a typical homebody. So it was natural for him to be in his home, which was her embrace.

“Meow? (Aisha?)”

When he put his nose to the floor and sniffed, her scent faintly led outside the castle like footprints.

He went outside the castle without hesitation.

What was lost should be retrieved.

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This place appeared to be an ordinary, somewhat run-down shopping district on the surface, but it was actually known as the dark alley where illegal transactions were actively conducted.

Everyone visible on the street either wore robes or.

“Kid, looks like you’ve come to the wrong place?”

“Yes.”

“If you’ve lost your parents, would you like to follow this mister?”

Were bad people openly committing bad deeds.

“Take this spit of justice.”

“…What?”

Ptoo-

When I shot spit at the bald man’s forehead, the startled man trembled and collapsed.

This was a lawless zone. That’s why it was also a decent place for the Pose Duke’s spies to reside.

Ding-

As I entered the old shop labeled ‘Perkus’s Bookshop.’

“Welcome… huh, kid?”

A man who had been greeting me in a rough voice recognized me and stood up from his seat.

A man with a large scar over one eye. The spy, Dolly.

“I heard you were adopted as a princess, so why are you still dressed like a beggar?”

No. Why is a spy’s voice so loud?

I looked around and whispered.

“Excuse me. Is it okay to acknowledge each other like this?”

“Why. Did becoming a princess of a high noble make you embarrassed to acknowledge someone like me?”

“No, that’s not it-!”

Just because we were fellow spies didn’t mean we were close.

As I had seen with Dorothy before, spies didn’t contact each other unless it was for joint operations or when necessary, and usually envied and resented each other.

I didn’t know why, but it seemed like they had become accustomed to competing while receiving training from childhood.

The man unfolded a newspaper and asked.

“By the way, haven’t you seen that guy?”

“Who?”

“A guy named Rater.”

The man closed his eyes to make them into a line.

“The guy who always walks around with these squinted eyes.”

Squinty-eyed character?

…Squinty-eyed, hmm… Ah!

Someone came to mind.

I vaguely remembered.

During the successor exam when Marquis of Frisia used a potion to enrage the monster.

The mysterious man who was watching everything at that time was the squinty-eyed guy.

I quickly told Dolly.

“I think I saw him during the successor exam….”

“I saw him then too. But I don’t think I’ve seen him since.”

Oh.

“I haven’t seen him since then either?”

“Really?”

A moment of silence passed.

When a spy whose face you know suddenly disappears, it’s one of two things. Either dead. Or on the verge of death.

Hmm. This suddenly became awkward.

Anyway, I didn’t come here for trivial conversation.

Standing on my tiptoes, I placed my hand on the desk with a thud.

“By the way, about the rage potion. You sell it here, right?”

“Why? Recently someone took a huge amount saying they were going to spread potions at the edge of the world. Did you have some fun?”

I’m asking because I need to clean up that mess.

I wanted to give the man who sold that stuff a knock on the head.

“I didn’t have enough fun. So I need more.”

“There’s a red book spine over there by the bookshelf. Press that and go into the room.”

The man gestured roughly without taking his eyes off the newspaper.

For a spy storing illegal drugs, he was quite careless. Well, it was fortunate that he didn’t suspect me.

“Yes.”

Standing in front of the study, I pressed the red book spine among the countless books-

Grrrrrr.

The ground vibrated and the space between the bookshelves opened, revealing another room.

As I entered the room, the temperature dropped drastically as if I had entered a freezer.

Various drugs were displayed on wooden shelves like a pantry, all blocked by glass cases to prevent careless touching.

These were the real products of Perkus’s Bookshop.

I diligently wandered around looking for drugs and found a potion the same color as the one I had seen during successor lessons.

“Found it. Madness amplifier.”

Standing on my tiptoes, I gently touched the glass case and it opened automatically.

‘This caused part of the ice wall to collapse.’

Just thinking about it gave me chills.

Brrr-

My cheeks vibrated.

‘They said they needed a large quantity… I’ll just take everything here.’

That’s when it happened.

“What’s that?”

I stood on my tiptoes to take out only the madness amplifier, but something touched my fingertip.

“…Ice crystals?”

As I took out the madness amplifier drug, I discovered something.

This mysterious potion was quite different from the others.

The ice crystals inside the potion shimmered and glowed like sunlight reflected on a river.

‘It’s pretty.’

Before I knew it, I had opened my mouth in wonder, and after looking around, I took out that potion too.

If there were side effects, there would be a small skull mark drawn on it, but when I examined the back of the potion, there was nothing like that.

It was a potion that reminded me of ice abilities.

‘It’s pretty, so I should take one.’

Anyway, once the Pose Duchy is revealed as the culprit behind the monster madness incident, this bookstore will disappear too.

‘That’s what you get for doing bad things.’

Hehe.

I smiled secretly as I put the potion in my rabbit bag. Just as I was about to exit the room and press the red book spine.

“Look at this girl stealing without batting an eye, just like her father.”

“Eek!”

Suddenly my feet left the ground as my collar was roughly grabbed.

The cause was a man sitting at the desk.

The man who had suddenly grabbed my collar threw my flailing body to the floor.

“Ow!”

Did I hit my knee hard against the rough wooden floor as I fell? It hurt.

I couldn’t even touch my scraped knee and tried to get up while limping—

“You better watch your behavior lately.”

A contemptuous gaze, worse than looking at an insect, was staring down at me from close range.

My shoulders trembled as chills ran down my spine.

Even though the man and I were both official spies, when comparing raw strength and experience, that guy would be overwhelmingly stronger.

“Kid, about Rater. Do you know what he told me right before he disappeared?”

Meaningful words.

Dolly picked his ear with his pinky finger, blew on it, and tilted his head.

“He said you and those Croste bastards seemed too close. So he said he’d follow you, and then we lost contact.”

As his threatening voice grew lower, Dolly’s scarred face came closer to mine.

At this distance.

He was close enough to tell if I was flustered just from my breathing.

“Too close, you say. I’m just acting, you know? Hehe.”

I smiled cutely while hiding my trembling insides.

But my opponent was a spy.

“You’d better choose your acting targets wisely.”

I didn’t expect him to let it slide, and sure enough, Dolly’s lips curved into a thin smile.

“You knew that we’ve been sending spies to the Croste Household periodically even after Dorothy died, right?”

…What?

My expression crumpled for the first time at these words I was hearing for the first time.

“And you also know that every spy we sent died, right?”

“…?”

This was also the first time I was hearing this.

“How many spies did you send? I didn’t know.”

“How many? Did you just say ‘how many’? This is ridiculous, hahaha!”

He covered his face with his hands and burst into laughter.

Then instantly dropped his smile and glared at me with contemptuous eyes.

“…Well, His Highness would probably like whatever you do. Thanks to that woman, you’ve become an interesting toy that must never be discarded no matter what happens.”

“What does that mean?”

I was starting to get scared because of these incomprehensible words and tried to ask for clarification.

‘You came back from the ducal family and made something quite interesting.’

“….”

Something came to mind.

Definitely when I fainted at Ahili’s Circus.

‘Don’t discard her. It’ll be quite entertaining later.’

Two sentences that I remembered vividly even though it was a dream.

“…?”

My lips trembled and parted as I stopped speaking mid-sentence.

It wasn’t a nightmare?

Could this possibly be my lost memories from the past?

“Hahahaha! This is driving me crazy, really!”

Dolly, who had been observing my changing expression, burst into laughter and stood up from his seat.

“Anyway, the better you get along with the Ice Duke, the more the Duke will fall in the end. You’re doing your mission well enough.”

“….”

Callipus will fall?

…The better I get along with Callipus?

Right. Now that I think about it, that makes sense.

The instruction Pose Duke originally gave me was to become the Croste Ducal Family’s princess.

To become the Duke’s beloved daughter.

I said I would escape from being a spy and refuse the mission, but I really did become his beloved daughter.

By doing so, I ended up taking one step closer to Pose Duke’s ambition.

But if the fact that becoming his daughter was my original mission is revealed, how much betrayal would Callipus feel?

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