I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 73

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【Chapter 73】

“Huff, huff… hah…”

Calm down, Aisha.

Calm down. This is still inside the royal palace.

It has to be inside the royal palace.

I was barely managing to control my hyperventilation with deep breaths when.

“I’ll do it myself just this once, Pose Duke.”

A thick voice completely different from Ariena’s approached me.

It sounded familiar somehow.

After pondering, I suddenly remembered. It was the voice from the conversation I’d secretly overheard from the ceiling during my last visit to the royal palace.

It was King Arjen’s voice.

“Of course. If you could just take care of this child, I’ll handle the rest well myself.”

Arjen clicked his tongue at Pose Duke’s flattery and sighed. And I felt a huge man’s palm on my small stomach.

“What are you going to do to me…”

That’s when it happened.

“O god of Evella sleeping in the abyss. I release the chains that bind you, so extend your forbidden touch to this land for me…”

The god of Evella…

No way. Are they using forbidden magic on me right now?

Forbidden magic was magic that the Magic Association, which Grace belonged to, had legally banned after determining it endangered human life.

The law was established by the Queen, yet now the King of this kingdom was using that forbidden magic on me.

“Let go, let go! Release this! You’ll regret this!”

I struggled, but King Arjen instead pressed down firmly on my stomach with his palm.

“Kek-.”

Unable to even breathe from the pressure, I flailed like a dying frog.

Regardless.

“Your touch is now my touch. I command in Evella’s name that everything my touch reaches…”

No.

“Shall become a puppet woven with strings to play in our puppet show.”

When Arjen seemed to finish casting the spell and sighed.

“Argh!”

Suddenly Arjen’s scream erupted from beyond my blocked vision.

Now’s my chance.

I escaped from his grasp and quickly pressed the back of my head to the floor, rubbing left and right, causing the cloth covering my eyes to rub along and gradually slide down.

Through my revealed vision-

“Kheuk…!”

King Arjen was touching his shoulder where teeth marks had formed.

And beside him, I saw Kail collapsed.

Above him was Ariena, sitting on top of him.

I screamed, my face pale.

“Kail!”

“Kup, ueuk…”

Ariena was trying to force something into Kail’s mouth as he lay forcibly prone.

It was a potion.

“…Strange smell, you drink it instead.”

Did he instinctively realize the potion was dangerous? Kail grimaced and turned his head away strongly.

But.

“If you won’t drink it, at least take a shower.”

Splash-

She still wore that strange expression as she poured the liquid over Kail’s face.

The black liquid covered his white hair.

As the thick liquid flowed down his eyes, nose, and round cheeks-

“…Kheup… ha.”

Did he accidentally drink the potion while breathing?

“…Aisha…”

His trembling fist suddenly went limp, and his purple eyes that had been looking at me closed shut.

No way. No way they did something to Kail…

I wanted to rush out immediately and shook my body, but my hands and feet were bound.

I can’t do anything.

Kail collapsed in front of me, and I…

“What did you do to Kail!”

I unconsciously screamed and burst into tears, causing the golden eyes that had been looking down at Kail to rise coldly.

“I didn’t kill him. His body just stiffened, that’s all.”

“You didn’t kill him? Do you know what you just did?”

“Unlike you, I’m faithfully carrying out my mission.”

“That’s not it! You fed poison to a child. And if you’re really Pose Duke’s spy… were you planning to kill Callipus all along during those 4 years you played the role of duchess?!”

How could you do that?

How could you take away family from the kind person who taught me what family meant?

“You’ve completely destroyed one person’s entire life!”

Though I screamed frantically, Ariena sighed and stood up.

“I guess he let it slide because you’re still young. Well, Callipus was weak when it came to children.”

And-

“You must be quite disappointed in him.”

Tap.

She lightly pushed the collapsed Kail’s cheek with her low servant’s shoes.

As if handling an insect.

“A spy who gets caught up in their mission’s role-play and turns against their house. Not even worth living.”

Click, click.

The leisurely sound of shoes, neither fast nor slow, approached me.

“Rejected by House of Pose. Eventually exposed as a fake in the role you were assigned too. And you’re the one who betrayed people. You betrayed Duke Pose who trusted you.”

As Ariena drew closer, the back of my neck began to ache from craning my head up.

But.

“Right. Spies can’t do things like betrayal.”

I absolutely couldn’t lower my head.

At my words, Ariena’s expression, which had been solid as a fortress, changed slightly with confusion.

“Spies aren’t people, they’re tools, right? How could a tool betray someone like a person would?”

“…What?”

I really wanted to see that solid face crumble.

“Unable to distinguish right from wrong and only following orders from superiors – that’s not a person, just a tool!”

“…Shut up, child.”

“You shut your mouth! Living as a spy like that, destined to die without being remembered by anyone…”

Smack-!

That’s when it happened.

Along with sharp pain, my face whipped to the right.

The struck area burned like fire. My eyes widened in shock.

“…How can a 5-year-old be so cunning.”

Ariena’s voice trembled unusually.

“You were a child who should never have been born.”

“…?”

And her confession that pierced like a dagger.

My head, which had turned to the right, slowly turned back toward Ariena.

What is Ariena saying right now…

“It wasn’t a planned pregnancy. But you came to be from a moment’s mistake…!”

Ariena was trembling.

Like me after being slapped. Like Kail who was struggling to hold on until the end, right before collapsing.

More than that, this woman right now.

“So, even when I escaped to the ducal palace back then, something like you…”

This woman is… saying I’m her daughter right now?

That’s when it happened.

“Ariena. That’s enough.”

A greasy voice tinged with laughter came from beyond the door that burst open.

“Your Highness.”

Then her completely broken voice and expression returned in an instant.

When I came to my senses, she was already bowing her head to Pose Duke.

‘What? She was definitely agitated just moments ago.’

Something was strange.

Usually knights or spies only salute or nod when greeting their master.

But Ariena was bowing her upper body so deeply that her entire crown was visible.

‘…’

No, she was gritting her teeth while bowing her upper body deeply.

‘…Why on earth.’

“I’ve cast black magic on the child, so our work here is done. Bring the child.”

Something was strange, but my thoughts were soon shattered by the storm-like situation.

Following Pose Duke’s command, a nearby knight lifted me up like a piece of luggage.

“Let go of this! Let me go!”

Thump thump.

I hit the knight’s arm with my small fists, but I already knew.

No matter how much spy training I’d received, a 5-year-old body couldn’t fight against an adult.

‘No. I can’t go like this.’

I had to use my head.

If the door opened here and we left the royal palace, then it would truly be irreversible.

“What’s the situation around us?”

“His Majesty the King told us about a secret passage. It’s a place with few people, so we should be able to pass through safely and get out.”

That’s when it happened.

‘…Secret… secret?’

They say people gain incredible strength in moments of crisis.

In my case, it wasn’t strength but a past conversation that came to mind.

‘I’m not the only one. Other nobles have such hobbies too. It’s just one or two monsters, what’s wrong with keeping them as pets?’

When I had followed Kail. The conversation between Pose Duke and King Arzen.

‘There are monsters in this place.’

My dimming eyes widened.

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