I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 60

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【Chapter 60】

‘Thanks to that girl, you’ve become an interesting toy that must never be discarded, no matter what happens.’

Also, among the things he said, there was one particularly meaningful statement.

As I pondered trying to interpret his enigmatic words, my body suddenly floated up into the air.

Dolly, who had grabbed me by the scruff of my neck like catching a kitten, chuckled and approached the bookstore door.

“By the way, I finally caught you. Even though we sent so many spies and they all died, causing such a fuss, you walked right into my grasp. Pose Duke will be very pleased.”

“What?”

“You’re going to the Pose Duke’s Family. It’s the Duke’s order.”

What? Why so suddenly?

“Ugh-! Let me go!”

I grabbed at the massive hand holding my scruff, but it was useless. All my hand could grasp was the man’s large index finger.

I’m going back to Pose Duke like this?

‘Children should play like children.’

Suddenly Callipus’s words came to mind.

He said children should play like children because they are children. He definitely gave me that advice.

“Ugh! Get away!”

“…Noisy brat.”

I flailed my legs and struggled as much as I could, but just as Callipus advised, I was nothing but a powerless child before an adult man.

But I can’t go back like this.

If I do, Father, who worked so hard to restore the North, will be troubled again.

Absolutely not.

“…No, I can’t.”

Please, let someone hear my voice.

If there’s anyone on the street, please save this helpless child. Please, I prayed for anyone to come to me and screamed with all my might-

“No!”

Jingle-

With the sound of a bell, the door opened and simultaneously something small and swift pounced on Dolly’s face.

“Ugh, urgh. Wh-what is this…”

Dolly, who had been staggering backward in confusion, dropped me with a thud to try to grab whatever had pounced on his face.

As I crashed to the floor, I quickly pulled out a poison needle from my rabbit bag-

“…?”

What had pounced on Dolly’s face was a very small, white kitten. It was a baby.

“…Baby?”

No, it wasn’t. It was a person.

When I blinked once, what had been a small cat was now taking human form.

As the boy freed himself from the neck he had been buried in and raised his head, fine white hair fluttered.

And through it, mysterious violet eyes were revealed, staring at Dolly.

There was no light in those eyes.

There was no curiosity directed at me either.

Despite having committed murder, he seemed indifferent.

As if he had done it simply because he had to, like a mindless beast with only clear purpose.

“…”

Having finished his task, Kail used Dolly’s chest as support and made a small leap.

Dolly exhaled ragged breaths like an old man, then collapsed with a thud.

His breathing stopped.

Because I realized that Dolly, who had seemed like a mountain, could collapse so helplessly.

Because I realized that the kitten I had cared for with maternal love was Kail.

And as the boy who landed on the ground roughly wiped his mouth with the back of his hand-

“…”

Far from becoming clean, the sight of blood smeared carelessly like a beast that had finished eating was so eerie.

I couldn’t move at all.

And.

His violet eyes, which had been diligently wiping his mouth with both hands, suddenly looked up at me.

The moment our gazes met – his calm and mine trembling.

“Aisha.”

His inorganic violet eyes slowly widened. Just like me, stricken with fear.

He opened his mouth with an expression of disbelief.

“…Why are you looking at me like that? I was just trying to save you…”

Startled.

Unable to finish his words, he looked at his own blood-stained hands.

And after biting his lower lip hard enough to leave teeth marks, he suddenly burst through the door and ran away.

“…Kail?”

Only then did I come to my senses. My reason returned only when I heard the jingle from the door Kail had burst through.

“Kail. Why…”

Are you running away?

I tried to get up on my bruised blue knees.

‘…Why are you looking at me like that? I was just trying to save you…’

A question full of doubt that stuck like a thorn.

“…!”

Suddenly it felt like a tsunami was washing over me.

All of Kail’s puzzling behaviors up until now.

What if it was because the kitten I saved from Ahili’s Circus was Kail.

‘Why did you spare my life? And why did you look at me with those eyes?’

What if the fool who didn’t know how to apologize or communicate had actually spent his life in a cage as a cat.

‘…How irresponsible. I had expectations. You were the first to look at me like that.’

What if I, who had looked at you that way for the first time, ended up looking at you the same way as everyone else.

“Kail!”

I rushed out of the bookstore, not even noticing the pain in my knees.

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What Kail faced when he ran into the back alley were people stricken with fear.

As soon as he entered the noisy square, he collided with a child who had been running cheerfully.

“Ouch!”

The child who fell on their bottom screamed as soon as they saw Kail.

“M-mommy!”

Human fear spread like a spider web, dense and fast.

“Th-that boy has blood…”

Because they are connected to each other through relationships. A small girl who was trying to help up the fallen child froze when she met Kail’s eyes.

“Leila-! Max-!”

An adult woman’s scream was heard from afar.

She fled with her face pale, taking the children named Leila and Max.

The square became chaotic because of the boy with a blood-covered face.

“Kyaah!”

People drinking tea jumped up and fled their seats, and shop owners inside looked bewildered before quickly closing their doors upon spotting Kail.

The sound of children crying flowed like tinnitus, and someone trying to call for knights tripped over a stone.

Amid the commotion, Kail’s heart beat like a drum.

But instead, his fingers and toes felt like they were growing cold.

‘I’m not human.’

Among all the people he had seen so far, not one had treated him as human.

Not the people in the square. Not the people at Ahili’s.

In the end, even Aisha had looked at him with an expression of fear.

Thud-

Kail entered the nearby forest to avoid people and hid behind a tree. He became even more frightened by the fear spreading out from himself as its center.

It’s okay.

If he turned back into a cat, it would be okay.

Crouching down like that, he wrapped his arms around his knees with anxiously trembling fingers.

That’s when it happened.

“….”

A cat that had been hiding in the forest peeked its head out.

‘Did that cat also come here to escape the screaming?’

Kail felt a sense of kinship and hesitated before trying to reach out his hand to the cat-

“Hiss!”

Did it smell the blood?

The cat suddenly did a complete 180, wrinkled its nose, and ran away from him while hissing.

“….”

Kail realized.

‘I’m neither human nor cat.’

If I’m neither animal nor person, then what am I? Am I a monster?

Once the thought began, it spread like wildfire, one thought leading to another.

Then where should a monster go?

If my home isn’t Ahili’s Circus, and it isn’t Aisha’s embrace either.

“…Where is my home?”

His dry, hoarse voice disappeared into the air.

If neither humans nor beasts would accept him, there was only one thing left.

Kail stood up on unsteady legs and looked toward the ice wall that rose majestically beyond the rooftops of Torn City.

The edge of the world.

The endlessly stretching white snowy plain.

Kail began walking toward the North without hesitation.

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At that time, in Torn City’s town square.

“Huff, gasp….”

I ran frantically. The faster I should have gotten as I ran, the stronger the wind resistance became, making my hood and robe flutter like curtains.

At times like this, I hated being 5 years old.

I hated how my clenched fists looked like cute little pebbles. I hated how my running probably looked like waddling to others.

“Kail-!”

Because of this body, I was afraid of losing Kail.

As I entered the square, I realized the atmosphere among the people was different from the peaceful mood earlier.

Everyone was pale and trembling with fear.

Among them were people having conversations saying, “That boy definitely had purple eyes.”

Purple eyes.

‘He definitely came and went through here.’

I immediately ran to the nearest woman.

“Did you happen to see a boy with purple eyes?”

“What? A boy with purple eyes?”

The woman who had been comforting a crying child asked back in surprise.

“Yes.”

“Oh, I saw him! He had purple eyes like a monster would have and his face was covered in blood, so there was chaos as soon as that kid appeared. The guards are searching but haven’t found him yet.”

Thump-

The feeling of my heart plummeting.

“Wh-where did he go?”

That’s when it happened.

“They say a boy with purple eyes was spotted near the ice wall.”

“What? What’s he doing at the ice wall?”

“We’re chasing him as much as possible, but the boy is harder to catch than expected…”

“Guard!”

Not far away, the Croste family guards were having a serious conversation.

“Huh…? Princess?”

At the word “princess,” the woman I had been talking to stood up in shock, but I didn’t care and ran to the guard.

“Please take me to the ice wall!”

“Pardon?”

“Right now! Please take me to the ice wall right now!”

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