I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 88

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【Chapter 88】

“Guard. Let’s go take a look too.”

The guard who had been wary of the dangerous situation hesitated briefly at my command, then nodded his head.

I stuck close behind him and headed toward the front of the butcher shop.

“Sir Knight, this little brat here has been hiding a monster!”

Facing the knight, he shouted again.

However.

“But why is that child crying?”

Peek.

Before the guard could answer, I poked my face out from behind him and asked bluntly.

Then the butcher’s eyes widened.

“Pr-Princess? Are you really Princess Croste?”

The owner immediately recognized me.

With the news spreading, it seems he had become familiar enough with my face to recognize me at a glance.

“Yes. That’s right, but…”

“He’s trying to chase away my friend…”

As I was about to answer with a shrug, a thin mosquito-like voice cut off my words.

“…What?”

Thinking I had misheard, I picked at my ear and tilted my head.

“My friend isn’t a monster…”

Again, the mosquito-like sound began coming from somewhere.

“Do mosquitoes live in winter?”

When I asked, the escort knight whispered to me with a flustered expression.

“It’s not a mosquito, but seems to be the voice of the boy clinging to the butcher.”

“Oh?”

Gasp. I see.

Only then did I look at the boy.

Then I made direct eye contact with the boy who was looking at me with round, small eyes.

His gentle-looking face slowly contorted, then he burst into tears again with a “waaah!”

Oh my, what could be so heartbreaking.

The child was crying so hard he couldn’t even open his eyes and kept sniffling.

I raised my eyebrows of justice and glared at the butcher.

“First, tell me what’s going on here. You said there’s a monster, but that child keeps saying it’s his friend.”

“It is a monster! It’s a Peri!”

Peri? What kind of monster is that?

My question was answered by the escort knight’s sigh.

“…Why does it have to be a Peri again? Sigh. Peris are a bit troublesome.”

“What’s a Peri?”

“It’s an animal-type monster that’s quite small for a monster, but it’s characterized by running around at swift speeds with its small body and pouncing on people. If it were larger, it would be easier to deal with, but since it darts around everywhere, it’s actually harder to catch.”

“Is it a dangerous monster?”

“It’s dangerous. Its claws are sharp, so if you’re not careful, it could tear the skin off your face.”

“Gasp!”

Hmm… then.

Startled by the grim warning for only a moment, I fumbled around in my jacket’s inner pocket.

And pulled out the poison needle that was inside.

“Then let’s open the door first. I’ll see for myself and judge whether it’s a dangerous monster or really that child’s friend.”

“Princess, you can’t!”

“That’s right, it’s dangerous! I should be the one to do such things…!”

At my words, Mai and the guard were horrified.

Toward the guard who was stepping forward—

“Ah. Of course, it’s not me but the guard who will look.”

“Pardon?”

I smiled sweetly.

“If I cause another incident, Father will scold me.”

Slide—

Before I knew it, the distance between the guard and me had widened.

I drew an invisible line there, then showed him a small fighting fist.

“…”

For a moment, he seemed to forget that I was Croste’s princess and remained silent—

“…Fi-fighting…”

A beat late in accepting the command, he drew his sword with a determined face.

‘Fighting!’

I clenched my small fist once more.

The guard glancing at me had an expression that seemed to want to ask ‘Then why did you take out the poison needle?’

“Ahem!”

Regaining his composure and gripping his sword again, he roughly kicked open the door.

And then followed a quiet silence.

“…”

Beyond the open storehouse door, there was something in the dark space.

Purple eyes, indicating it belonged to a monster, glared at the guard who had raised his sword.

Instantly, the surrounding air froze.

“…Kheuk!”

Then the boy tried to rush into the storehouse.

But the butcher grabbed the child’s collar to stop him and shouted to the guard.

“Qu-quickly. Please get rid of it!”

It was a request for help to do something about the monster in the storehouse quickly.

However, the guard seemed tense from the unexpected situation and only continued the standoff while gripping his sword.

‘If the guard can’t handle it…’

Then there might come a situation where I’d have to use the poison needle I brought in preparation for any possibility.

“…”

I stood behind the guard maintaining a certain distance and gripped the poison needle in my hand tightly.

Just as I was about to bring it to my lips.

Tap tap tap.

Along with the sound of something small but fast running, a white shadow that slipped between the guard’s legs made a big leap.

‘Fast.’

There was no time to prepare anything.

If a living being could produce the speed of light, it wouldn’t have been that fast.

And soon, the small shadow leaped over my head.

“Princess!”

The guard who turned around too late raised his sword to slash the white object floating in the air—

“Don’t!”

The boy’s scream was almost simultaneous.

An unexpected situation unfolded.

The boy who had finally escaped from the butcher pounced on the knight who was about to stab the monster first.

“Ugh…!”

The guard staggered as he was pushed by the boy’s body, and the white object that luckily avoided the sword struck my face directly.

“Gyaak.”

My vision instantly went dark.

‘It’s dangerous. If you’re not careful, it could tear the skin off your face.’

The warning I had heard earlier echoed in my head.

“Get, get your hands off my face!”

I might really die. In this emergency situation where my hair was standing on end, I hurriedly tried to grab the monster.

“If, if you stay still, it’ll be fine! It’s just saying hello!”

The young boy’s urgent cry made my hand stop as I was about to grab the monster’s scruff.

‘…Hello?’

As I stayed still in that position, I could feel the warm, soft belly of the monster on my face.

And then.

“Sniff, sniff sniff…”

A small sound like sniffing echoed in my ears. Soon the body blocking my vision moved away.

“…?”

The first thing I saw were people looking at me with surprised expressions.

The second thing that caught my eye were short pink legs fluttering at the corner of my vision.

Whatever had been whimpering completely climbed onto the top of my head.

“Kyuut?”

It suddenly lowered its head and made eye contact with me.

‘This face…’

It looked quite similar to an animal I used to call a white ferret in my previous life.

A very cute one at that.

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A moment later.

“So… you called such a cute thing a monster that tears face skin?”

“…There was precedent for that. When the Peri first appeared, that thing suddenly pounced on a knight’s face. So when we tried to attack with daggers, it scratched us with its claws…”

“Then, then when a giant 10 times bigger than itself was trying to st-stab it…”

As the guard was explaining indignantly, another mosquito-like voice crawled out from the side.

“Of, of course it would attack in surprise, wouldn’t it, aaaaah…!”

“Be quiet, you brat.”

The mosquito-like voice that had been crawling out turned into a powerless scream.

Because the butcher who had been glaring at the boy with stern eyes gave him a flick on his small forehead.

“Huuuk… huuk… An, anyway… Bibi did nothing wrong… Bibi was just, just surprised…”

Seeing him stubbornly making his point even with a bean-sized bruise on his head…

This kid is good at both crying and speaking his mind.

‘Hmm.’

I glanced at the boy while stroking my chin.

‘This has become troublesome.’

To summarize the situation:

A white, elongated body with cute pink limbs attached.

The monster the boy called Bibi was an animal-type monster reminiscent of the white ferret from my previous life.

They sniff each other’s heads as a sign of friendliness, but when they try to do this to humans, they end up pouncing on their faces.

But people interpret this as hostile intent, so many of them have been killed.

‘It didn’t try to tear my face skin either, but sniffed me and acted friendly.’

Nevertheless, the Peri was confined in a transport cage for the crime of attacking the princess.

I quietly looked down at the Peri.

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