I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 61

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【Chapter 61】

Whoooosh—

A messenger bird with enormous wings spread wide cut across the sky.

Able to reach its destination faster than using the dirt paths revealed between the coniferous trees, the messenger bird arrived at the window of Callipus’s study in the Crosque Ducal Palace.

“A message has arrived.”

“Check it.”

Callipus had been waiting for the message anyway.

They said Kail had suddenly appeared in Torn City Square. Even covered in blood.

‘Then that means there was a spy.’

The knight’s eyes widened as he unfolded the message with obvious tension.

“Your Highness. The thing is…”

“What.”

“The boy disappeared, and Princess Aisha appeared in his place.”

“What?”

Why my daughter, who had been threatening to sleep all day today?

“And she requested the knights to take her to the ice wall, so they’re currently heading toward the edge of the world…”

“We’re going too.”

“Yes!”

Despite his bewilderment, Callipus quickly threw on his cloak and mounted his horse.

There was a thought that had been occurring to him lately.

That raising a daughter was harder than raising a son.

* * *

At that moment.

In front of the iron gate of the ice wall leading to the edge of the world.

“Please open the gate!”

“Princess. We’ll search for that white-haired boy ourselves. So…”

“The guards can’t handle this! He’ll definitely refuse help, you know?”

Stomp stomp!

I stamped the ground with my short legs, but the knights just shook their heads with troubled expressions.

“But Princess. Since we began guarding it, this massive gate has never been opened even once. Perhaps the boy you’re looking for hasn’t reached the ice wall yet?”

“He definitely arrived. If it’s him, he could just leap up and jump over it.”

“Pardon?”

“He’s not just a person, he’s a cat! Cats can jump over anything!”

Clenching my fists as I explained, I hopped around energetically like a cat jumping over the ice wall.

“Like this!”

“Princess…”

Hop. Hop.

I tried my best to jump, but the knights only looked more troubled.

I know too. That my words are just nonsensical stubbornness to them.

‘But I have to catch Kail.’

I had to clear up the misunderstanding.

If I didn’t heal the wound I left on that child now, it felt like I’d never be able to heal it.

That’s when it happened.

“Aisha.”

My hopping body froze at the menacing low voice from behind me.

“Why are you causing so much trouble!”

Along with the low voice suppressing anger, a large hand grabbed my shoulder and turned my body around.

Spin, as my body turned I saw Father’s scary expression.

“You know very well that beyond the ice wall is dangerous. The child who said she’d sleep all day suddenly disappeared and I was so…”

But his rapidly moving mouth stiffened.

“Aisha.”

He looked at my face once and then.

“Why are you crying.”

He asked with a slightly surprised expression.

“…Father.”

I tried my best to hold it in. But at Father’s question, the emotions I’d been avoiding crashed over me like a tsunami.

But I hated the thought of shedding tears, so I desperately bit my lips tight.

“You’re bleeding. Don’t strain yourself.”

Regardless.

When a warm thumb that knew nothing of my heart gently stroked my lips, my chin, still bearing deep bite marks, trembled.

I hate crying over something like this. Then I’d really seem like a 5-year-old.

But just because of Father’s single touch, my tears, completely defenseless against warmth, finally burst forth.

How unsightly.

I hurriedly wiped my tears with the back of my hand and continued speaking.

“I, I… I somehow hurt Kail, so Kail ran away beyond the ice wall, I think.”

But it was my first time too.

“Kail has nowhere else to go but me, but if he goes beyond the ice wall, he’ll never talk to humans again…”

Worrying about someone like this. Wanting to hold onto someone like this.

“Then who will help Kail? Kail is wary of everyone except me.”

Until I grabbed Callipus’s hand while escaping through the ventilation shaft, it was an emotion I’d never felt, including in my previous life.

Kail must have felt the same way about me, but I hurt him.

“…Huu-oop!”

Taking a deep breath, I finally confessed the truth.

“Kail is actually a baby cat.”

I watched Father’s reaction in case he’d be shocked, but surprisingly, Callipus gave no response.

Getting anxious at his lack of reaction, I fidgeted with my fingers and continued.

“He’s still young so he won’t be able to survive alone. He might die. But since he won’t trust anyone but me, please open the iron gate…”

That’s when it happened.

“Even when grown up, living alone is hard.”

Suddenly my body floated up.

Callipus, who had easily lifted me with one arm, stood up. Trapped in Father’s embrace like that, he used his other hand to roughly wipe my swollen eyes.

“But that Kail or whatever his name is, he’s younger than you, right? Then it’ll be even harder.”

Callipus’s gaze, which had been looking at me while muttering, turned toward the knights. Then.

“Open the gate.”

The determined Callipus showed no hesitation.

Creeeeak—

The iron gate that seemed like it would never open slowly moved with a creak at the lord’s command.

Through the solid iron gates, a white and black world was revealed.

Among the pelting snowfall, black somethings wandered in the distance.

They seemed to be monsters that usually lurked near the ice wall.

Holding me in one hand and drawing his sword with the other, Callipus stepped beyond the ice wall.

“Signal us and we’ll open the gate again immediately. Please be careful.”

With the knights’ worried final words, the iron gate closed with a creak and a thud.

Everything around us was white.

How could we find Kail in this place wider than the Frozen Kingdom?

“Father, let’s try walking first.”

I fidgeted, trying to escape from his embrace.

“Wait.”

A quiet warning brushed my ear.

Then, Callipus quietly looked up at the dry sky.

Walking slowly with steady steps, he chuckled softly while holding me in his arms.

“It’s a day when snow isn’t falling. We’re lucky.”

“…Why is that?”

“Little one. Look over there.”

Having apparently spotted something, he quietly bent his knees and set me down.

“It looks like someone dropped cookie crumbs.”

Following Father’s pointing finger along with his low voice mixed with laughter, I looked far into the snowy plains—

“!”

Small footprints, presumably Kail’s, were deeply imprinted in the white snowfield.

“Shall we follow these?”

“!”

At Callipus’s suggestion, my blue eyes that had been blurred with tears widened greatly.

* * *

At that moment.

“This is my home now.”

Kail stopped walking in front of a black rock larger than his own body.

It was massive and its top surface was smooth like a bed, seeming suitable for him.

Kail lightly leaped up and sat on the rock. Then he gazed at the endless white world. There was nothing except some shapes that seemed to be monsters moving about.

He would live here for the rest of his life from now on.

“I won’t starve. It might be better than when I lived at Ahili’s Circus.”

Looking into the distance, he thought that perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad.

He could endure the cold, and when hungry, he could hunt wild beasts.

Because I’m a monster.

‘Your name is Kail.’

That’s when it happened.

The moment he acknowledged himself as a monster, for some reason Aisha’s voice calling him came to mind.

It was as if something in his head was shouting that he wasn’t a monster. Come to think of it, monsters didn’t have names. A monster was just a monster.

‘But I have a name.’

Then what am I?

As Kail became confused again and blinked while staring at the sky.

“…Your Majesty…”

At the unfamiliar language, Kail wiped the bewildered expression from his face and immediately watched the source of the sound with sharp eyes.

Something was speaking to Kail.

“…Our king, Your Majesty… Our, leader, Your Majesty… You are… You are…”

Our little god.

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