I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 63

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【Chapter 63】

Silence settled over the area.

The monsters were still staring at me, and Kail, standing between them, examined my face with a confused expression.

“But I…”

His expression darkened as he looked around hesitantly for a long time.

“You don’t have to apologize.”

“What?”

“I said you don’t have to apologize. Because I really am a monster.”

As he said this, Kail quickly turned his head away to avoid my gaze.

Kail seemed to have already realized it.

The gazes of people looking at him. Even the monsters that had been waiting for him in the place he fled to.

I had awakened the little god.

“…”

But through this incident, I had also realized something.

He was a monster, but at the same time, he was human.

He sometimes frightened me with his unconventional behavior, but even so, he had learned how to apologize to me.

Strengths and weaknesses. Everyone has those, don’t they?

“Then…”

I felt like I could accept you.

“Then monsters don’t need a warm embrace?”

When I carefully stretched out both arms, Kail’s eyelids, which had been avoiding my gaze, twitched.

His eyes trembled violently at the word ’embrace’, but like a wounded child, he wouldn’t easily open his heart.

“…Monsters don’t need that kind of thing.”

“Then I’ll give you my embrace as an apology.”

“An apology?”

But at the word apology, he looked at me.

It seemed like he remembered a lesson he had heard from me before.

“Yeah. Because I did something wrong. This is an apology. Will you accept it?”

I lightly lifted my heels and smiled brightly.

“…Mm.”

The expression Kail was making now. It was the expression he made when learning something from me.

“…What happens if I accept the apology? Then I can come to you even if I’m a monster?”

“Yeah.”

“Like before?”

“Yeah. Of course!”

When I nodded vigorously, Kail’s eyes widened.

And hesitantly, hesitantly.

He carefully approached me.

One step. Then another step.

Occasionally he would quickly turn his head to glance warningly at the monsters, then look back at me.

When Kail, who had come close enough that our noses would touch if he lowered his head, hesitantly stretched out his arms, I hugged him with all my strength.

“!”

His shoulders flinched slightly in surprise.

“Aisha.”

But Kail, who adapted quickly as always, soon lowered his head and rubbed his forehead against my shoulder.

“Kail.”

I hugged Kail tightly too.

“I want to become a cat again and sleep in your embrace.”

“Okay. Turn back into a cat and let’s go under the blankets together.”

Then.

“Aisha.”

“Yeah?”

Kail, who was breathing in my embrace, murmured.

“…If monsters could also embrace each other like you do, this place would become quite a nice place to live too.”

Kail, who had been raising the corners of his mouth in satisfaction, gradually became smaller after finishing those words.

It seemed like it was time to return.

The baby cat, who had become the size of my palm, fell into a deep sleep while being held in my arms.

* * *

Meanwhile

Callipus, who had been standing with one leg bent and his hand on his waist for some time, opened his mouth.

“Now it’s about time…”

Shh-

“Aisha. Hugging Kail should now. Stop…”

Shh-

We should probably head home soon.

Every time he tried to say something, Aisha would glare with triangular eyes and make a warning ‘shh’ sound, so he couldn’t say anything.

“Aisha.”

“…”

“Aisha, Father is cold too…”

“Button up.”

At his daughter’s firm advice, Callipus silently buttoned up the coat he was wearing.

The 5-year-old daughter who was merciful to cats and monsters was unfortunately not merciful to Father.

* * *

That evening.

With the sleeping cat as the finale, the monsters moved away from Callipus and the children as if they had made a promise.

Trudge, trudge. Their calm appearance was like people returning home.

‘Do those things have homes too?’

Callipus suddenly felt such a question, but unanswered thoughts were just useless.

Callipus returned to the ducal palace carrying the sleeping Aisha and the animal-transformed Kail.

“Oh my, Lady Aisha’s condition…!”

“She’s asleep. Give them both a quick wash and put them to bed.”

“Understood.”

So the children who had bathed fell asleep in a fluffy state.

Callipus looked down at Aisha and the white fluffy ball sleeping under the blankets.

It was such a pretty combination.

With his pretty daughter hugging a kitten and sleeping soundly, who wouldn’t smile warmly?

It felt like just yesterday when this guy awkwardly said his own name.

But he had seen it.

The sight of the monsters bowing their heads to Kail.

“…”

At the memory that was beginning to surface dimly, the corners of his mouth that had been smiling slowly began to drop.

It was something he had expected since learning he was a Maein.

Children grow up faster than expected.

Aisha, who had been crying in a pile of dirt in the garden, now knew how to extend her hand to others, and the boy who had wanted to remain a kitten forever had begun to dimly understand his identity.

‘Whether I like it or not, I’ll have to resolve this.’

Callipus’s gaze sank low as he looked down at the children.

“Have you arrived?”

When he left the bedroom and quietly entered the study, Nox, who had been working late into the night, adjusted his monocle.

“What’s that?”

But there was something he hadn’t seen before.

Several suspicious potions were placed on top of the study desk.

“The Princess secretly left them behind. They appear to be madness amplifiers.”

“Hah.”

Don’t tell me this child.

He checked the potions placed on the desk and let out a hollow laugh.

I thought she simply fought back and forth with Kail, but did she sneak out to obtain these?

Just how did she manage to get something like this.

“I wish she would just grow up normally, but she really doesn’t listen.”

Nox responded to his words.

“She wasn’t an ordinary child to begin with. Well, anyway, isn’t it true that things are progressing quickly thanks to the Princess?”

“I’m going to ban her from going out.”

“Pardon?”

Callipus slumped into his chair and pressed firmly on his throbbing temples.

“I’m going to die from worrying about that child. She made me worry last time too, and now she’s causing trouble again.”

“Isn’t she 5 years old? She’s at the perfect age for causing trouble.”

“Kail went to the snowy plains.”

At the sudden shift to the main topic, Nox’s hand stopped while writing the report. Callipus realized Nox was imagining the worst and quickly continued.

“He got upset during a fight with Aisha and ran away. The two made up well and are sleeping soundly now, so don’t worry. But…”

“But?”

“Kail found out. That he’s a Maein.”

Thud.

This time Nox dropped the pen he was holding.

‘…So this was Nox’s worst fear.’

Callipus clicked his tongue while watching his aide frantically pick up the pen.

“He, he figured it out himself?”

“Yeah.”

“How does one realize that about themselves? Did he suddenly have some self-reflection in the snowy plains?”

“The monsters around him were bowing their heads to that child.”

“Good heavens. That situation is reality, not a novel, right?”

“Don’t overreact. I’m tired enough as it is.”

It wasn’t an overreaction. It was truly something to be shocked about.

But with his head already aching just thinking about the children, he didn’t have the energy to respond to Nox’s every reaction.

Fortunately, Nox quickly recognized the seriousness and returned to his usual rational demeanor.

“If the monsters have recognized the Maein, they’ll start attempting to interact with the Maein in earnest. Those Alosia from before were also trying to mimic human language.”

“That’s right.”

Nox asked.

“What will you do?”

A quiet silence settled at Nox’s question.

What would he do.

It wasn’t a simple question.

It was asking how he would handle everything from Kail’s living arrangements to the Maein’s abilities that were connected to humanity’s survival.

‘I was praised as a hero, and now I’m stuck with this kind of work too.’

Callipus let out a deep sigh.

Well. What should he do with Kail.

Actually, he had no intention of killing Kail.

If he were to kill an innocent child who was naive enough to speak informally to him just because Kail’s existence was ominous, he would have sent Aisha to prison first.

But that didn’t mean he had any intention of setting Kail free either.

Tap, tap-

His troubled fingers drummed on the mahogany desk.

“He’s still young. He doesn’t know anything.”

“That’s right.”

Nox nodded.

He doesn’t know anything. That’s why Kail had the possibility of being accepted.

Perhaps Aisha bringing him here wasn’t entirely a bad situation.

“It’s much better for him to be influenced in a good way rather than a bad way.”

“That’s correct.”

“Then wouldn’t it be better for us to raise him from the start and cut off any buds of becoming the king of monsters or whatever?”

“That’s…”

Nox’s monocle flashed white as he answered unconsciously.

“…Pardon?”

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