I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 8

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【Chapter 8】

“You know Dorothy? Turns out she was a spy for the Pose Duke’s family.”

“What? The Dorothy I know? The one who wouldn’t lend me adult novels and read them all by herself?”

“Yeah. She was a spy, can you believe it?”

“My goodness. I never would have expected that.”

“Right? The war only ended recently, and now there’s a spy…”

The situation was flowing exactly as I had predicted.

As soon as Dorothy’s maid uniform with the report written on it was discovered, Crost Ducal Castle was thrown into chaos.

‘Now Callipus should be able to bring escort knights when he visits the Kingdom of Odtia, right?’

It was only natural.

Just discovering a spy was a big enough problem to potentially restart a war. So the person who would have to beg and grovel had now become the Pose Duke.

‘Even if Callipus says he’s bringing about 100 knights, they won’t be able to say a word.’

Heh. How satisfying.

Pop-

Lying on my bed, I raised my big toe in victory.

Things worked out well. Now if Callipus just brings the princess, maybe I can escape from the Pose Duke?

“I should take a nap until then…”

BANG-!

“Aisha. His Grace orders you to come to the study.”

“…Huh?”

I was supposed to take a nap…

I froze in place with one leg still raised in the air.

* * *

As I followed the knight out the door-

Someone’s scream struck my ears from not far away.

“If you’re going to take me, take that Aisha brat too! She’s also a spy!”

It was Dorothy.

She was being dragged by two knights, but she had such strength that she was barely holding her ground in the corridor, causing a commotion.

“That brat Aisha is also a spy! Why are you only taking me!”

Her bloodshot eyes were definitely not normal.

Normally, she would have been preparing to leave Crost Ducal Castle by now. She seemed unable to believe that she was suddenly being arrested by knights and taken to prison.

“Oh, Aisha?”

That’s when it happened.

Dorothy’s face brightened slightly when she spotted me.

“You’re taking her too, right? Right?”

No way. Was I caught too?

I looked up at the knights with some tension, but they weren’t even pretending to listen.

“Knights, please take that woman away quickly.”

Instead, one maid muttered with an uncomfortable expression.

“Lesa. Trust me and dip the brat’s clothes in ice water. Please? We were friends.”

Recognizing a familiar face, Dorothy suddenly lowered her eyebrows pitifully and pleaded in a sorrowful tone.

Since things weren’t going her way, she seemed to be planning to act polite.

“Really. It’s awkward to tell you this, but… we were conspiring together just yesterday. A spy conspiracy meeting. So you need to expose that child as a spy too. Please?”

But unfortunately for her, the maid named Lesa wasn’t even pretending to listen.

“Please take her away quickly. I’m ashamed that I was friends with her.”

“…”

“No, I’ll just leave myself.”

Lesa even left the corridor as if she didn’t want to be in the same space as Dorothy.

‘Wow. So that’s the end of a failed spy.’

Regardless of their intentions, spies build relationships while carrying out their missions.

Naturally, when the people around them learn they’re spies, the spy must bear all the blame and criticism alone.

“…Was being a spy always this pathetic?”

The servants who had gathered around due to Dorothy’s outburst whispered among themselves.

“Exactly. And to drag a child into it…”

“That child even helped find the princess. What spy nonsense is this?”

“But how did that child know? It is a bit suspicious.”

I almost visibly flinched at those words, but I was relieved by what I heard next.

“Even so, that’s going too far. Would the Pose Duke’s family really send a 5-year-old as a spy?”

They certainly would.

Their gazes felt like they were piercing through me, so I quietly hid behind the knight’s back.

Still, what became clear was that the Pose Duke’s intuition was correct. A 5-year-old child would easily escape suspicion of being a spy.

“Ignore that woman’s nonsense. Let’s go quickly.”

The knight also ignored Dorothy and spoke kindly to me.

It seemed it wasn’t because of spy suspicion, but really just that the Duke had simply called for me.

Finally reassured, I answered cheerfully.

“Yes.”

As I followed the knight and passed by Dorothy.

“You! How long do you think you can hide your identity?!”

Dorothy, who had been quiet as if in a daze, started screaming again.

“If you cling to this side and that side like a bat, you’ll be rejected and abandoned by everyone! Get your allegiances straight!”

“…”

“And you discovered it while doing my laundry, right?! You did it on purpose!”

‘…I discovered it?’

Among the curses I was letting go in one ear and out the other, there was something I couldn’t just ignore.

I stopped walking for about 0.5 seconds but didn’t show it and walked again.

Something was strange.

I admit that Dorothy’s identity was revealed because of me.

But I had never directly shown Dorothy’s report to anyone, nor had I revealed Dorothy’s identity with my own mouth.

“…”

That meant someone I didn’t know was aware of my actions.

“Your Grace. I’ve brought Aisha.”

My head was complicated and I was just clenching my fists.

With a polite knock, the knight spoke, and a low bass voice resonated from beyond the door.

“Come in.”

As I opened the door and entered, I saw Duke Callipus standing there after a long time.

“Leave only the brat and wait outside.”

“Yes. I’ll be on standby.”

The knight who greeted me with a nod quietly closed the door and disappeared like a shadow.

When I came to my senses, only Duke Callipus and I remained in the study.

Now, calm down, Aisha.

Come to think of it, why did the Duke call me at this point?

“…I greet Your Grace.”

I tried to act nonchalant as I greeted him, but I was so nervous my voice almost cracked into three parts.

The air around me felt like heavy lead pressing down on my shoulders.

I didn’t know what it was, but something in my heart was signaling that something was wrong.

I stared at Duke Callipus, who was wearing his mask as always.

His long, straight fingers made rhythmic tapping sounds on the luxurious oak desk.

A private meeting. Just the two of us without escort knights, or even his aide Nox.

Tension filled the air as his eyes, the only visible part of his face, focused entirely on me.

Just as I lost this strange staring contest and blinked once.

“!”

A black mask suddenly appeared in front of my vision.

“….”

I was so startled that my body flinched for a moment.

In just the blink of an eye, Duke Callipus had somehow approached me and was kneeling down to meet my gaze.

‘When exactly, and how…’

But the question I wanted to ask.

“How.”

Duke Callipus asked first.

“How can you be so calm?”

Along with that incomprehensible question.

“Any ordinary child would have already fainted or burst into tears. Even adults wouldn’t easily be able to look up.”

And he said it so casually too.

“….”

Blood-red eyes shining vividly from within the black mask were observing me.

After staring into my soul like that for quite a while, he opened his mouth to explain what he meant.

“What I mean is, I’m currently emitting that level of killing intent toward a little brat like you.”

We were close enough that our breaths could touch.

Though he had bent his knees to meet my gaze, his build was massive enough to devour me whole.

His posture with his elbows resting on his knees looked like a crouched predator.

“You don’t seem scared at all.”

Amusement crept into his low voice.

Only then did I manage to answer with a cracked voice.

“I’m scared.”

“So you’re scared but pretending not to be?”

“Yes.”

“Right. That’s how you were taught. By the Pose Duke’s family.”

“!”

But at his casually continuing words, my eyes began to shake violently.

‘He already knew everything?’

I couldn’t believe it. I thought no one would know.

Duke Callipus shouldn’t have been able to find evidence anywhere that I was a spy.

Of course, he might have noticed that I was smarter than an ordinary 5-year-old. But what else had I shown the Duke besides that?

“H-how did you….”

My voice trembled.

Under his sharp gaze, the emotions I had hidden behind my mask were completely exposed.

“…Now you’re finally acting like an ordinary 5-year-old.”

Callipus murmured quietly as he watched my terrified appearance.

Why was that?

I didn’t know the reason, but he seemed somewhat relieved that I was acting like an ordinary 5-year-old.

But I was too busy feeling uncontrollable confusion at the fact that my identity had been discovered.

“A-are you going to kill me?”

My fingers spread out like a spider web as I became frightened by my own question.

“…?”

It was from this moment that his coldly frozen eyes began to contort.

“Where did a little kid learn to say such things?”

“Um… the Pose Duke’s family.”

“Stop talking about that damn, no, that family. Just answer the questions I ask from now on.”

“Yes.”

Snapping to attention, I stood at rigid attention.

But I was barely managing to hold on because of my trembling legs.

“How many young spies like you does that family have?”

“I’m the first to receive a spy mission at age 5…”

That’s when it happened.

“Haah-.”

Before I could finish speaking, the Duke suddenly sighed.

What, what did I do wrong? Get it together, Aisha!

“!”

As I forcefully steadied my trembling legs from tension, the Duke suddenly grabbed my armpits and lifted me up, apparently displeased about something again.

I squeezed my eyes shut from the tension, feeling like I was being moved somewhere. Soon, a soft sofa touched my bottom.

‘This touch. I feel like I’ve experienced it many times before.’

‘Children who don’t know gratitude can’t enter the garden. Leave quickly.’

“…Gardener uncle?”

“What?”

Both the Duke’s and my eyes widened simultaneously.

“…Oops.”

I quickly covered my mouth at the word that had slipped out without my knowing, but the water had already been spilled.

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