I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 71

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【Chapter 71】

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As Aisha’s group departed—

“Haha. Well, anyway, it was a pleasant conversation, Pose Duke. Then we’ll be taking our leave…”

“I should also be going…”

The nobles who had been by Pose Duke’s side also began to quietly slip away from him.

“Ha.”

Pose Duke, who had maintained a smiling face until the end, covered his face with one hand.

“So… Aisha. You’re finally showing your intention to betray me.”

In the end, his murderous gaze flickered between his fingers, unable to hide his expression.

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Meanwhile, on a deserted outdoor terrace.

“Ah— I finally feel like I can breathe. Don’t you think so, Father? Why were all those people just staring at us?”

Lucas let out a big sigh, stood on his tiptoes, and dangled from the terrace railing.

“Come down, it’s dangerous.”

“Well now, that’s quite an impressive warning to give someone who survived near-death at Ahili’s Circus.”

“If your tutor sees you like that, you’ll get another penalty sticker.”

“Huh.”

Only then did Lucas’s eyes widen as he landed on the ground with a thud.

We had decided to rest on the terrace for a while because the people’s stares felt burdensome.

‘Father said that, but it’s probably because of me.’

Feeling unnecessarily sorry, I quietly kept my mouth shut and gazed at the garden beyond the terrace.

‘…Huh?’

Unlike my surprised self, Father and my brother were still bickering.

“Father. Is this class time? This is real combat.”

“That’s why I’m telling you to behave. Look at your little sister. She’s sitting there elegantly and quietly like a noble to her very bones.”

While Father and my brother were too busy bickering to pay attention to me.

My gaze secretly followed someone’s footsteps as if bewitched by something.

In the garden designed like a maze. Noble young ladies were walking the paths, bursting into laughter.

But what I focused on was behind them.

The servants quietly following them while maintaining an appropriate distance from the nobles.

Among them, a woman with hair like spun gold neatly tied up in a single bundle.

Why.

Does she strangely bother me?

I squirmed in Father’s arms, stuck my face out with a puff, and then narrowed my eyes.

I wanted to see her face, but only seeing her back made my chest feel tight with frustration.

I couldn’t tell Father and Lucas because I wasn’t certain, but I had a feeling.

Because the moment I saw the back of the woman’s head, my heart plummeted.

Human intuition was frightening.

Sometimes even things you could just pass by.

“…”

Because of that one portrait I had stared at intently before the banquet.

“…!”

I realized that the side profile of the servant trying to enter the castle following her master after their walk looked exactly like Ariena.

She’s entering the castle.

Then, if I rush out now and run to the corridor near the main gate.

“Ah, Father. Hurry!”

“What?”

“Ah, no. The duchess is over there… No!”

If I said I saw Duchess Ariena here, Callipus would freeze up for a moment.

That would delay time.

But I didn’t have time.

“Father, just a moment. I’ll be right back.”

“Where are you…”

Before the flustered Callipus could grab me, I jumped down from his arms like a quick hamster.

“Aisha.”

Callipus’s voice lowered.

But.

“The promise you made with Father,”

“I’m sorry. I really need the bathroom, I’ll be back in 10 minutes!”

Having cut off Callipus’s words, I crossed the center of the hall while holding the sleeping Kail.

“Princess?”

“Oh my, it’s the princess.”

The nobles around me tried to greet me, but I couldn’t even pretend to smile and respond.

She really looked exactly like Ariena.

If that person really is Duchess Ariena.

‘Why is she living as a servant?’

As I hurriedly left the hall, a corridor slightly darker than the hall stretched endlessly before me.

The direction to the main gate is to the left from here.

Naturally, as a spy who had already grasped the general layout of the castle interior, I turned the corner of the corridor without hesitation—

“Since the young lady has entered the hall, we’ll wait here.”

“Yes, understood.”

I saw a blonde woman standing at the end, smiling.

A woman with the same warm eye-smile as in the portrait appeared before my eyes.

“…”

When you’re too shocked, your heart stops for a moment. That’s what happened to me now.

Wearing purple-toned servant clothes with her hair tied to one side and rolled up, she looked much more modest than the woman I had seen in the portrait.

No white dress. No Father standing guard beside her.

“By the way, didn’t Lady Liana look really beautiful today?”

“That’s right. Not only is her face pretty, but the dress she wore was so beautiful—”

Just a servant wearing low-heeled servant shoes, waiting through boring downtime.

Why on earth. Why are you, the one Father has been searching for.

‘Should I try calling her Ariena?’

I thought, but I wasn’t certain she was Ariena. So I decided to call her by the status I could see first.

“…Maid sister.”

My voice was hoarse, making my speech clumsy.

But the maid who somehow understood widened her eyes and turned her head.

“…Yes, young lady? Is there something you need?”

She smiled brightly as if ready to serve me even though I wasn’t the noble she was assigned to.

“…”

Meeting those golden eyes directly made me even more certain.

She was indeed Duchess Ariena from the portrait.

But why did she seem to have no such memories at all? As if she truly believed she was a maid.

What had happened to her as well.

Feeling a heart-wrenching pity, I approached Ariena.

“You don’t remember, do you?”

“Yes…? What are you talking about?”

Ah. Amnesia.

I closed my eyes and shut my mouth. For now, bringing Ariena to Father was the priority.

“Maid sister. Could you come with me to the hall for just a moment?”

“Is there something wrong?”

“…Just. It’s a request. I don’t know which noble the maid sister serves, but if it’s a request from the Croste Princess, they’ll gladly accept it.”

Though it would be a different story if they were royalty.

But the young ladies I saw in the garden weren’t royalty. That means they’re of lower status than the Croste Ducal Family.

“Uh…”

Ariena, who had widened her eyes at my words, closed her mouth with a momentarily flustered expression.

Then.

“Yes. Of course I can go. But I think I need to get permission from my master, could you wait a moment please?”

She said this and hurriedly tried to walk somewhere.

It wasn’t the hall. It was somewhere else.

“Ah, no!”

So without thinking, I grabbed her sleeve. In case she would suddenly disappear again like this.

What if this person was a mirage and disappeared the moment I blinked?

“…Yes?”

Ariena, startled by her sleeve being suddenly grabbed, turned her head.

She seemed to want me to let go of her sleeve, but being a noble, she couldn’t easily say so.

“Then, then come with me! To get permission from that master noble!”

“Ah…”

“I’m the Croste Princess. You know the Croste Ducal Family, don’t you, sister?”

Ariena smiled gently.

“Of course I know. It’s a high-ranking noble family of great status.”

You’re the duchess of that high-ranking noble family!

This is frustrating. But I have to protect our precious duchess. Ha, I just want to tell you that you’re the duchess. No, wait. Our precious duchess would be shocked.

Shaking my head inwardly, I cheerfully suggested.

“If your master and Duke Croste have a conversation because of me, your master would be extremely pleased, right?”

“Hmm…”

Regardless, Ariena, who had been lost in thought, soon nodded and accepted.

“Shall we go together then?”

Yes!

“Yes!”

Justice prevails. No, persistence prevails.

‘If I bring Duchess Ariena to Father like this…’

I firmly grasped Ariena’s hand, afraid I might lose her.

And with flaring nostrils, I entered into my imagination.

Hehe. Father.

This golden seed has found the duchess as well, following Lucas.

If I just find the first prince like this. Ah, no, I need to find the princess too.

Anyway.

“Sister. Where were you born?”

Returning to reality, I asked Ariena. I was curious about how much of her memory she had lost.

But Ariena answered with a troubled smile.

“Well…”

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