I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 93

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【Chapter 93】

 

“The child’s opinion is important too.”

 

You couldn’t ask a child with a big vessel to fit into a small bowl.

 

“…Yes. I understand.”

 

It was right after this that Nox went to find Aisha’s bedroom with a hardened expression.

 

* * *

 

And now.

 

Following Nox’s guidance, I arrived at the study—

 

“I want to go. I want to go, I want to gooo!”

 

Hop hop hop hop.

 

After hearing the general story, I excitedly ran around Father like a rabbit.

 

“…”

 

Callipus was in a dazed state watching me like that.

 

Regardless of that.

 

‘Yahoo! Finally something to do!’

 

My body was already itching for action anyway, so this worked out perfectly!

 

Swoosh swoosh swish. Swoosh.

 

I opened my determined triangular eyes and hopped around, unleashing my radish pickle martial arts.

 

“I don’t know who my sparring partner will be, but I’ll take this chance to win decisively and put King Arzen’s nose out of joint too…”

 

“Don’t you think you might be the one getting your nose put out of joint?”

 

That’s when it happened. A long, straight finger poked my nose.

 

Father, who had knelt down at some point, was looking at me with a displeased expression.

 

“Just by entering the sparring match without ice abilities, King Arzen will look down on you and mock you. Aren’t you worried about that?”

 

Callipus asked with a worried face.

 

“Wouldn’t it be fine if I win without abilities?”

 

But I asked back rather confidently.

 

Callipus, who sighed as if he expected this, continued speaking.

 

“No matter how capable you are, the child the King chose as your sparring partner will also be skilled. If you’re careless, you could get seriously hurt.”

 

Oh.

 

I, who had been triumphantly throwing punches, opened my rabbit eyes at those words.

 

“I can’t lose?”

 

Even though it’s called sparring, isn’t it just a simple event anyway?

 

Doesn’t it not matter whether I win or lose?

 

“It doesn’t matter if you lose. Of course it doesn’t matter, but if you happen to get hurt…”

 

Father, who was muttering in a small voice and trailing off, eventually dropped his head deeply.

 

“No. Right. Children are supposed to grow up getting hurt…”

 

While seeming to change what he was saying.

 

“…That’s not okay, is it?”

 

“Huh?”

 

He slowly raised his gaze while keeping his head down and looked at me.

 

At that moment, I saw it. His previously calm eyes had become triangular and fierce.

 

“Do you want to get hurt? Why are you so eager to fight all the time?”

 

What?

 

No, why is he suddenly going into overdrive…

 

“Daughter. Hold my hand.”

 

“What?”

 

I was looking at him in bewilderment when.

 

“Hold my hand. We have somewhere to go.”

 

Father, who stood up from his seat with still a serious expression, suddenly extended his hand.

 

Gulp—

 

Our father. He wasn’t particularly caring to begin with, but hasn’t stress changed his personality somehow?

 

I glanced at Nox with nervous eyes, but he just shrugged as if he knew nothing and didn’t interfere between us.

 

In the end, I had no choice.

 

When I took his hand, Callipus left the study and began taking me somewhere.

 

Like that, we who had been on the 3rd floor quickly came down to the 1st floor.

 

‘Are we going outside the castle?’

 

I thought.

 

But when Callipus walked to the end of the corridor and opened an old door, stairs leading down to the basement unfolded with a creaking sound.

 

That place looked exactly like an entrance leading to a completely different world.

 

As I took steps forward, it seemed like I was walking on stone floor, but soon I began to feel a bone-chillingly cold energy through the soles of the boots I was wearing.

 

From then on, Father carried me down the stairs.

 

The deeper we went, the more a piercing wind blew that made my fine hair stand on end. Because of that, the hair covering my cheeks fluttered lightly.

 

The place we finally arrived at was.

 

“…Father?”

 

“Since your body hasn’t adapted to the cold yet, the probability of failure is high, but we have to try once.”

 

A massive dome-shaped ice cave.

 

No ceiling, no horizon.

 

A festival of sparkling ice crystals everywhere.

 

I opened my mouth in awe at the unrealistic space, when something cold touched my lower lip.

 

It was a snowflake floating in the air.

 

“Originally, you should have had an adaptation period here right after you were born.”

 

Callipus, who had been looking around, suddenly asked me.

 

“Can you endure it?”

 

“What?”

 

“Ice ability training. If you can endure it for a week, the possibility won’t be completely zero.”

 

“…Huh?”

 

Thinking I heard wrong, I turned my head to look at Callipus.

 

But seeing Father’s face that looked like he wanted to run out of here with me right away, it seemed what I heard wasn’t nonsense.

 

Like that, my ability training began.

 

* * *

 

At first, I thought it would be fine.

 

When they said I was starting ability adaptation training, Mai dressed me in fur clothes and a hat, and Father stuffed my mouth full of sandwiches saying I needed to be well-fed.

 

And Lucas, who heard the news, also ran over and put leather gloves on my hands.

 

‘Dandelion. If it gets hard, call for brother. Brother will stay with you!’

 

Kail, who followed Lucas, transformed into a cat and tried to stick with me.

 

‘Meow—!’

 

Of course, he was dragged out by Father grabbing his scruff.

 

And the guide who followed after them.

 

‘P-P-Princess. You’re staying here for a week? You’ll definitely be able to succeed.’

 

He was cheering with words, but somehow looked anxious.

 

It wasn’t his usual fearfulness.

 

Even while talking to me, the guide kept looking around as if he was hiding something.

 

As if he was looking for something.

 

It was a bit strange, but? Well, anyway.

 

The fortunate thing was that the ice cave wasn’t as cold as I expected.

 

It was like a cave that would appear in a winter fairy tale, so I actually liked it. It really felt like I had entered a novel, making me feel fluffy and happy.

 

“Now, I’m shivering.”

 

I take back what I said about it not being cold.

 

I take it back after just 10 minutes.

 

“Gyaak.”

 

I was shivering on the ice chair when I staggered following my fading consciousness and tumbled over.

 

At the same time, my mind snapped awake. The feeling of cold penetrating to my bones as my skin touched the frigid surface.

 

The cave created by ice abilities wasn’t overwhelmingly cold from the start, but without me realizing it, the chill had crept into my bones.

 

Now my entire body felt like a block of ice.

 

“What should I do? It’s only been 10 minutes. They want me to stay here for a week?”

 

I pondered.

 

Should I become the bear that ate only garlic and mugwort for 100 days to become human? Or the tiger that ran away halfway and lived as a beast?

 

Bear or tiger.

 

…Tigers are incredibly strong too, so wouldn’t that be bad either?

 

Smack!

 

“Get it together, me!”

 

Only after slapping my cheeks with my palms did I finally come to my senses.

 

I almost gave up on the ice ability.

 

“But staying here alone for a week? It’s cold enough as it is, and I wonder if I can stand the boredom.”

 

Another problem was how to spend a week alone in this place.

 

Usually, adaptation training in ice caves is done when you’re a newborn baby who needs care, so they enter the cave with a nanny.

 

Of course, that doesn’t mean the nanny gains ice abilities. The nanny isn’t of Croste bloodline.

 

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that newborn babies don’t know what boredom is.

 

But I’m a 5-year-old tainted by the world, so I’m dying to do something.

 

“One, two.”

 

But all I could do was count the snow fragments floating in the air.

 

I was staring blankly into space when.

 

“Three, four, fi…”

 

As I was about to mutter “five.”

 

“…?”

 

I realized. The snow fragment lying on the floor right next to me was a bit too large for a fragment.

 

It was a white lump so conspicuous that it was strange I only noticed it now.

 

And unlike the ordinary snow fragments shaped like ice crystals…

 

It was fluffy.

 

‘Just like Kail in cat form…’

 

No way.

 

I froze pale as a possibility suddenly occurred to me.

 

And. I cautiously voiced the possibility that came to mind.

 

“…Kail?”

 

I thought it was strange how obediently he let himself be taken away, but had Kail secretly snuck in?

 

‘When he transforms into a cat, he becomes a complete kitten, so he wouldn’t be able to endure this!’

 

As I worried, I quietly called Kail’s name, but the white furball remained still.

 

At that sight, I suddenly remembered Kail dying at Ahili’s Circus.

 

“Kail!”

 

I hurriedly got up and tried to pick up the cotton ball.

 

Suddenly the cotton ball that had been trembling quickly disappeared from before my eyes-

 

“Ahhh!”

 

Something pounced on my face.

 

My vision was suddenly blocked, and then I felt something soft and warm against my belly.

 

‘Belly?’

 

This sensation. I think I’ve felt this once before…?

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