I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 62

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【Chapter 62】

Kail’s footprints were like cookie crumbs dropped by Hansel and Gretel.

Dark blue footprints deeply imprinted in the white snow.

I took Father’s hand and began walking across the vast snowy plains, using Kail’s footprints as a guide.

But then.

“Huh…?”

Far off on the horizon, a white-haired boy began to come into view.

It was definitely Kail.

“There’s Kail over there! I’ll go ahead first!”

“Aisha, it’s dangerous to go alone…”

“Kail!”

I could hear Callipus’s worried voice, but I was already beyond hearing.

Tap-tap-tap-

My shoe prints stamped over the shape of Kail’s footprints.

‘I thought he’d gone far away, but fortunately he didn’t go very far.’

Well, it had to be that way.

No matter how special Kail’s constitution was that allowed him to transform into animals, compared to monsters, he was just a young child.

And this place was a lawless zone.

A place where monsters had made their territory, where even knights formally trained in noble houses struggled.

No matter how capable Kail was, he couldn’t have gone very deep,

or so I thought.

“Kail…?”

Just a little more, if I went just a little further from here, I could call out to Kail.

My legs, which had been running at full speed, suddenly stopped.

Something was strange.

Because Kail wasn’t alone.

‘…What are those things?’

Until just a moment ago, I couldn’t see them clearly. But as I got closer to Kail, the black forms around him gradually became visible.

And they were.

‘…Monsters.’

Thud.

The poison needle I’d been carrying just in case fell and was buried deep in the snow.

“…Gasp.”

I covered my mouth with my weakened hand.

It was to keep myself from screaming.

A sight I’d never seen in my previous life or this life, unfamiliar and eerie.

One with a single eye. One that was 3 meters tall. One that walked on four legs. One with long claws. One drooling.

Different types of monsters had gathered one by one, circling around Kail and bowing their heads.

As if worshipping the one and only god.

* * *

Through his white hair fluttering in the wind, emotionless purple eyes were revealed.

Kail looked calm. As if it was natural for the monsters to bow their heads to him.

Then what should I do?

Should I run away? Should I call out to Kail?

Or should I rescue Kail and escape?

“…?”

A bitter laugh escaped inside me at the unconscious thought.

Me rescue Kail?

Who am I to do that?

When I’m so terrified I dropped even the poison needle I was holding, what could I possibly do?

Thinking that way, I felt as if the precious memories I’d been cherishing were being completely stolen away.

Kail disappeared from my memories with him.

The small child standing before my eyes was no longer the Kail I knew.

Whoooosh-

Then. He frowned because of the fierce wind and suddenly turned his head.

Our eyes meeting was by chance.

“…Aisha?”

His empty purple eyes slowly widened.

“Aisha.”

Suddenly someone covered my mouth and hid my body behind a rock.

When I looked up in surprise, it was Callipus.

“It’s okay. Father is here, so just don’t scream. Keep breathing.”

“…”

Suddenly entering Father’s warm embrace, I realized that my breathing had stopped.

Callipus.

My father who uses ice abilities, is strong, and seems like he’ll protect me forever.

Huff. Huff.

Was it because the tension suddenly released? My breathing gradually became rough, and something hot began to well up in my eyes.

“Aisha?”

Then, Kail called out to me.

Drip. Upon hearing that voice, the tears I’d been holding back finally flowed down onto Callipus’s hand that had been covering my mouth.

“…Aisha, where are you?”

Like a young child who had lost his mother, he called out to me once more.

Even without looking, I could imagine him turning his head this way and that.

Because Kail was that kind of child.

A child who seemed a bit eccentric but listened well to what I said.

A child who always came to see me through the bedroom window like a cat.

The most innocent child among all the people I’d met.

“Aisha. Listen carefully.”

But the voice desperately searching for me was drowned out by Callipus’s low warning.

“There’s something in this world called a Maein.”

Maein?

I flinched at the sudden word.

“…Ha, damn it.”

Callipus closed his eyes and sighed.

For some reason, he seemed to regret past actions he had committed.

“A Maein is a being that can communicate with both people and monsters.”

Communicate with monsters?

“And Kail is exactly that kind of being.”

Kail is that kind of being?

I suddenly recalled the original story. The reason the Frozen Kingdom and Kingdom of Odtia stopped their war.

The reason Callipus came to be praised as a hero of the Frozen Kingdom. No, the reason humanity built ice walls in the north in the first place.

It was because of the God of Monsters.

[Humans had finally found it.

The small god that grants language to monsters.

They came to eliminate it at its roots before that young and weak being could grow.]

The moment I recalled the passage I’d seen in the original work, my eyes widened.

The character named ‘Kail’ who died early in the beginning of the novel and had no significance, but was the reason [The Judgment Sword] began.

Humanity trembled in fear because of the small god who tried to bestow civilization upon monsters, and they built ice walls to stop them.

Considering the scene before my eyes and Callipus’s words, that was exactly Kail.

So that means I…

I saved a small god.

“…”

That’s when it happened.

“Aisha? Aisha, are you here?”

After Father’s explanation ended, Kail’s voice could be heard again.

From the occasional sound of footsteps on snow, it seemed like he was searching for me.

One minute felt like an hour.

Then, perhaps finally giving up on finding me, his footsteps stopped.

“She was definitely here.”

His voice became unstable.

“She ran away because I’m a monster.”

Strange.

“Because I’m a monster, she ran away because she’s scared of me. Even at the bookstore, she froze when she saw me.”

The fear I had felt until just now.

“…I am a monster.”

Why does it tickle?

“People said I was ominous.”

Kail. No, you’re not.

Crying out inwardly, I hurriedly touched my chest.

When I actually heard Kail’s voice, my stomach churned.

It felt like a caterpillar inside my body was causing chaos, wanting to burst out.

And that caterpillar.

“I should just live here. Even though I want to return to Aisha, I’m a monster…”

“No!”

Growing bigger and bigger, it suddenly burst out of my body.

It happened without me realizing it.

Huff. Huff.

Breathing heavily and coming to my senses, I found myself having escaped from Callipus’s embrace.

And not far away.

“…Aisha?”

Kail was looking at me with a surprised expression.

‘Oh no.’

By the time I realized I had made a mistake, Father, who had been sitting behind the rock, stood up and drew his sword.

I knew it was a dangerous situation.

“…”

When Kail’s gaze turned toward me, the gazes of the monsters who had been worshipping him also fixed on me.

But.

“If you don’t want to live here, then don’t!”

I wanted to say at least this much.

“If you don’t want to become a monster, then live as a human!”

From the moment I opened my eyes, I was a spy.

“If someone mocks you for being ominous, tell them your mouth is more ominous!”

I struggled to escape from my spy life, but nothing came easily.

I had to endure countless hardships and work hard to gain recognition from others.

“Tell people that you’re not a monster!”

There were times when I shouted out of frustration.

‘Even if I was born a spy, if I don’t want to be a spy, I don’t have to be one!’

I remembered bursting into tears because of someone’s gaze.

That’s why I knew that even my frightened expression would hurt Kail right now.

‘Ah.’

Only then did I realize.

The reason I had been shouting incoherently at Kail.

The reason my heart had been tickling all along.

The reason my stomach felt uncomfortable as if a caterpillar was about to burst out.

“Kail.”

An apology.

“…I’m sorry for looking at you like that.”

I wanted to apologize to him.

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