I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 84

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【Chapter 84】

Actually, Callipus had been worried about me ever since the date for Pose Duke’s execution was set.

He didn’t mind me going there, but he didn’t like showing me the sight of someone dying or something like that.

“If you’re scared, tell me anytime.”

Even after all that had happened, Father treated me like an ordinary child.

Even Lucas, who was sitting to my left, was being more dramatic.

“Right. Dandelion, you’re so tiny, what if you get shocked seeing someone die and faint? I’m worried too!”

And he’s just a tiny 8-year-old himself.

‘No matter how much I like playing the role of a beloved and worried-about daughter…’

This was too much.

I’m a former spy, you know?

I picked at my ear with clouded eyes.

Of course, I understood Father and my brother’s concerns.

Since I’d already been through difficult things, they probably didn’t want to show me anything worse.

But.

“I want to see it through to the end.”

I looked straight at Father and my brother, who were watching me with worried eyes.

Pose Duke had always been someone who held me back.

No matter how much I wanted to live normally and tried to twist fate, he blocked my path like an unbreakable glass wall.

Not only that, but he was a man who even exploited my very existence as Callipus’s daughter.

“…Today, I think I need to see Pose Duke’s end to properly finish things myself.”

At those words, the red eyes that resembled mine slowly widened.

“Really, you’re… only 5 years old…”

Father seemed at a loss for words, hesitating before sighing and—

“Alright, I understand. It would be better to watch as you say.”

He roughly patted my head.

From beside me came the protest, “Dandelion is still pure and can’t handle seeing someone die! What if our Dandelion gets shocked and faints with a thud?!”

“Fainting with a thud, you say. Who was it that saved you? It would have been our little Dandelion.”

“…Ugh.”

Lucas’s face turned bright red at Father’s leisurely mockery, and he closed his mouth with a “hmph” sound.

That’s when it happened.

The royal knights who had been guarding the stairs leading to the platform suddenly saluted.

At the end of their gaze stood King Arzen and Queen Grace.

“His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen are entering!”

“The sun of the world shines upon the Frozen Kingdom.”

Everyone rose from their seats and bowed their heads toward the King.

That included Father, Lucas, and me as well.

After the grand greeting ceremony ended, the King gestured, and everyone sat down.

“I’m sure you all know that an unthinkable incident occurred at the Frozen Kingdom’s royal banquet, which is held only once a year. And at the center of that incident was…”

The King, wearing a grim expression, stroked his chin as he spoke.

“Pose Duke. Due to his ambition to unite the Frozen Kingdom and the Kingdom of Doctia under the power of the Pose Duchy, he released a Giant Orc in our palace. He also cast black magic on Princess Aisha to change her eye color.”

When mentioning black magic, King Arzen’s gaze lingered on me for about 0.5 seconds before disappearing.

Others didn’t seem to notice, but I clearly understood the meaning in that gaze.

Suspicion.

He was definitely wondering if I knew that he was the one who cast that black magic.

I pretended not to know and nodded seriously with a grave expression.

King Arzen, seemingly relieved, continued speaking.

“…He also planted spies from the Pose family in the palace. Therefore, at this time today, we execute Pose Cray!”

The nobles cheered at the King’s declaration. Then the roll call continued.

“Let the criminal come forward!”

Then Pose Duke appeared from behind the platform, wearing prisoner’s clothes.

Dressed in prison garb with handcuffs on both wrists, he looked shabby and was even limping.

“That’s the bastard.”

“That bastard ruined the royal banquet we waited a whole year for!”

As Pose Duke was led by the knights, countless curses and harsh words poured out.

Nevertheless, like the man who had been the leader of spies, he was skilled at hiding his expression.

Even as he stood on the platform and put his face to the guillotine.

“Duke Pose Cray of the Kingdom of Doctia. You are sentenced to death based on attempted regicide and fraud against the Frozen Kingdom’s royalty, plus the kingdom-wide crime of using black magic. As of this moment, the criminal’s ducal title is stripped, and we declare that the King of the Kingdom of Doctia has also agreed to this!”

As the attendant read the royal decree in a loud voice, the executioners took their positions on both sides of the guillotine.

“Would you like to say any last words?”

At the King’s question, he slowly raised his gaze from his bowed head.

And.

“Duke Croste.”

“…”

“Pillar of the Frozen Kingdom. Ruler of the North.”

With a relaxed expression and a smirk, he called out to Father.

“Let me make one last prophecy before I die.”

As if casting a curse.

“You will face disaster someday because of your fame and honor. The people facing you now will always be smiling, but…”

A chilling smile appeared on his lips.

“On the other hand, they’ll secretly envy you and plot to stab you in the back. It’s not just me—there are quite a few who want to kill you.”

At those words, we could hear people gasping behind us.

And King Arzen cleared his throat.

Of course, Callipus didn’t move a muscle.

“Is that so? Then it seems it will take quite a while for your prophecy to be proven…”

He even pulled out a watch from inside his jacket and chuckled as if truly regretful.

“It’s unfortunate that you’ll die today without seeing it. Rest in peace, Duke.”

“…You, you bastard…”

The corners of Pose Duke’s mouth, who had been acting leisurely throughout, began to tremble.

Since things had come to this, it seemed he wanted to preserve his pride even in his last moments.

That’s why he seemed to have put on that expression.

“You seem to think everything will end when I die, but you’d be shocked to know who else is targeting you besides me. It’s Ar…”

“The criminal’s right to speak is revoked. Execute the sentence!”

That’s when it happened.

King Arzen, who hastily cut off his words before his own name could be mentioned, shouted, and the guillotine blade fell downward.

No, it seemed to fall.

I couldn’t see the final part because of the palm that suddenly covered my vision.

But I could tell.

“Noisy until the very end… I told him to say one word, but he gave a whole speech. Dispose of the body!”

Pose Duke was dead.

Once again, the original story had been twisted. And in a very perfect and ideal direction at that.

But.

‘Is this really the end?’

* * *

The next day.

After Pose Duke’s execution ended, the nobles began leaving the capital one by one.

A peaceful quiet settled over the palace, which had regained its composure after so long.

No, more precisely, it should have settled.

Bang—!

“Damn that stupid fool!”

King Arzen, who had become gaunt from not sleeping for several days, exhaled roughly.

He shouldn’t have trusted that bastard Pose Cray.

“I even used magic for the first time in ages because of that bastard!”

Pose Duke, who had been consumed by his obsession with Callipus, ended up being devoured by his own ambition instead.

If he had known he was such a fool who couldn’t tell right from wrong, he wouldn’t have used black magic on that child Aisha either.

‘Certainly on the day of the execution, I didn’t sense any aura of black magic from that child.’

Black magic, unlike ordinary mana, had such a vicious nature that mages above a certain level could detect its aura just by smell.

Whether controlling the mind or transforming parts of the body. The black magic spells he had cast on Aisha were very complex and difficult ones.

Yet since they weren’t felt at all, it certainly meant someone had dispelled them.

Ordinary mages wouldn’t even be able to properly read those formulas…

‘…Unless it was someone like Grace…’

“?”

No way. Grace?

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