I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 78

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【Chapter 78】

A sinister red light flickered in the shadow-stained man’s eyes.

Callipus, who looked unusually large compared to when they met at the banquet, walked step by step with sleeping Aisha in one hand and a long sword in the other.

“Wh, why are you…?”

The flustered Pose Duke’s mouth slowly fell open.

Callipus should have collapsed. He was stabbed with a blade, twice at that.

In fact, Aisha, who was held in his arms, still had the dagger from earlier in her hand.

Moreover, that sword was still piercing Callipus as well…

‘Did he come all the way here like that? While carrying a child!’

How on earth? Was such a thing even possible?

No, there was no need to wonder about such things.

The man standing before his eyes was proving that it was possible.

-Aisha. Wake up.

Just in case, he tried calling Aisha in his mind.

-Aisha! Open your eyes! Lift your eyelids!

Unfortunately, it seemed black magic couldn’t move the soul of a sleeping person.

‘Damn it. I need to escape for now.’

Panicked by the unexpected situation, Pose Duke rose from his seat.

Then he quickly threw a chair toward Callipus.

Thud-!

However, Callipus lightly ducked his upper body to avoid the chair. The chair that hit the wall rolled across the floor with a loud noise.

It didn’t matter. He could just open the window and escape.

‘Besides, that bastard is moving but limping – his physical condition doesn’t look good.’

He needed to get away from here first, then immediately request help from his spy subordinates positioned around the building.

It was when he was thinking this and opening the window.

“Aaaaaaahhh!”

Suddenly, Pose Duke opened his mouth wide and let out a painful scream.

It was pain he had never experienced in his life.

The feeling of bones being crushed and flesh being torn. It felt like thousands of needles were simultaneously piercing through the back of his hand.

When he came to his senses, a massive sword was embedded in the back of the hand he had been using to open the window.

“Where do you think you’re going…? Since I don’t know what you might do, let me hold you down first before we talk.”

“Cr, crazy! Someone save me! Pose Knights! Spies! Anyone, come out quickly!”

This was the 3rd floor. Moreover, inside a room blocked on all sides.

Red blood vessels appeared in the whites of the duke’s eyes as he shouted uselessly.

He had always been the one giving orders.

Thanks to that, he was excellent at scheming and plotting, but having only used his head, he severely lacked both strength and practical experience.

No, actually, this was his first time in such a crisis situation.

What should he do?

It was when he was at a loss from the confusion.

“Cough…!”

Thud-

Callipus, who suddenly coughed up blood, fell to his knees as if his strength had given out. But he didn’t let go of his sword until the end.

Seeing this, Pose Duke was horrified.

‘Cr, crazy bastard…!’

There was no one more ruthless than this ruthless man.

He should have been psychologically broken. After hearing such shocking news that his wife and daughter were spies, it would be natural for him to be unable to think straight!

That had been the calculation behind the operation from the beginning.

Five years ago, Callipus had certainly fallen into despair after losing Ariena and the children.

He was even a man who wore a mask to hide his emotions.

But the man before his eyes now seemed to have received no wounds or damage whatsoever.

“Y, you don’t have emotions, do you? Your wife and daughter were spies!”

Pose Duke shouted while trembling from the sword embedded in the back of his hand.

But then.

“Do you appeal to emotions in a wartime situation?”

A spine-chillingly blunt low voice came back.

“…”

Wartime situation.

Pose Duke’s lips fell open like a fool as he quietly recalled the words Callipus had spoken.

Callipus spat out again.

“When my child is crying and collapsing, what father would collapse with her?”

Creak-

Callipus gripped the sword handle so tightly his hand turned white. As the blade cut deeper into the back of his hand, Pose Duke screamed in agony.

“Ugh, uhhhhaaah!”

He had wanted to use abilities too. That’s why he created the poison ability and cultivated power to rival the Croste Ducal Family.

He wanted to freely use his ability to defeat that damn man who was whining about being a father.

But when actually thrown into real combat, he couldn’t think straight.

Far from using his ability due to the unfamiliar pain he was experiencing for the first time, he was only desperate to cry out in agony.

Through his fading consciousness, he recalled the spies who had died silently while carrying out missions.

Pose Cray. He was the head of the Pose Duke’s Family.

As the leader of a spy family, he was someone who handled tools.

Now that he was in the position of a tool for the first time, he seemed to understand.

The spies who abandoned missions and fled.

They weren’t weak.

They were simply living beings who wanted to struggle against the fear of death.

But when truly overwhelming fear struck, the thought that came was a sensation stronger than survival instinct.

‘It would be better to just die.’

He wanted to escape from Duke Callipus who clung to him like a leech.

Gulp. Pose Duke, who swallowed dry saliva, finally made his last decision.

He barely managed to put his trembling remaining hand into his pants pocket.

And he was about to take out the death potion inside.

“That won’t do, Pose Duke.”

Crash-!

Having somehow seen it, Callipus’s hand holding the sword instantly snatched the potion and shattered it.

“If you die now…”

But there was one thing Callipus had overlooked.

Thud-

His upper body, which had been barely holding on because of Aisha in his other arm, lost its center and tilted, then collapsed completely.

Callipus’s vision gradually became blurry.

In fact, he had already reached his body’s limit from excessive blood loss. If he had been an ordinary person, he would have collapsed long ago.

Walking here stubbornly and embedding the sword in Pose Duke’s hand was entirely due to his vengeful spirit and mental strength.

“…If you die now, you can’t.”

As Callipus’s eyelids slowly closed after his murmur-

“…”

Silence fell over the room.

“…Wh, what.”

Pose Duke, his eyes wide, checked on Callipus who had collapsed while holding Aisha.

And, unable to believe it, he rubbed his eyes with his remaining hand and checked once more.

Callipus had collapsed.

That damn bastard, the one who had clung like a leech, had finally closed his eyes.

“…Hah, hahaha… hahahaha! Of course! My, my calculations couldn’t be wrong!”

He can’t move right now because of the sword embedded in the back of his hand, but his subordinates who grasp the situation will come soon.

“It’s finally over! This damn tedious operation is finally finished! Now that even the head of the Croste family is dead, it won’t be long before the Frozen Kingdom is absorbed into Dottia and the Dottia Empire is established…!”

That’s when it happened.

CRASH-!

“Pose Cray Duke. You are under arrest for charges of regicide, arson, and fraud.”

The closed door burst open and knights from the Frozen Palace filed in, surrounding Pose Duke in a fan formation.

And-

“…What did you just say? That the Frozen Kingdom will be absorbed into Dottia?”

Seeing the knight asking menacingly, Pose Duke’s mouth fell wide open.

“I, I never said such a thing. Wh, what’s going on?”

While he replied as if nothing was wrong, his insides were in complete chaos.

Arrest? That shouldn’t be happening.

The palace knights didn’t know about the relationship between Pose and Callipus.

That’s why he had smiled so warmly at the banquet, making sure to leave a good impression on the nobles.

Of course, seeing Callipus collapsed in this situation, they might blame him for it, but he himself was also stabbed by a sword.

He could make excuses easily enough.

But clearly, they had brought up charges of regicide.

He didn’t know what exactly they knew when they came, but Pose Duke had the reliable backing of King Arjen behind him. In other words.

‘They must have come with the wrong information.’

His panicked gaze narrowed into thin slits.

Pose Duke immediately maintained his noble dignity and shouted at the knights.

“You bastards!”

The royal castle knights immediately flinched.

Just as he thought. They definitely came with wrong information.

Those knights still seemed unaware of who the Frozen Royal Family had formed an alliance with.

“You dare try to arrest me now? Does His Majesty King Arjen know that you’re doing this? If he knew about this, he would be greatly angered!”

Surely Queen Grace had sent the knights under the influence of the Croste Ducal Family.

‘If I mention King Arjen, the knights will be a bit flustered too.’

And indeed, the Duke’s prediction was correct.

The knights, seemingly confused by his fierce rebuke, frowned and exchanged glances with each other.

‘Good. Now I’ll go to King Arjen like this and tell him everything is finished…’

But then.

“Are you insane? We came on the orders of His Majesty King Arjen.”

Words like a death sentence fell upon his head.

“…?”

A moment of silence passed.

His thoughts came to a complete halt. The Duke spent a long time analyzing the meaning of the knights’ words before asking hesitantly.

“…King Arjen gave the order directly?”

“Well, we’re royal knights, so whose orders would we… Never mind. We can’t communicate with you.”

The Captain of the Guards made a gesture while clicking his tongue as if dealing with an idiot.

Then the knights who received the command swarmed over and began dragging Pose Duke away.

“King Arjen… would never…”

That couldn’t be possible.

What kind of relationship do King Arjen and I have?

What kind of incident did we plot together, what crimes did we commit together?

…Could it be.

A bad premonition flashed through his mind.

‘Did King Arjen betray me?’

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