Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 220

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Calypso quietly swallowed.

‘What is with this guy? Does he know what his face looks like?’

It was a face that unbelievably suited tears. Well, with that face, what wouldn’t suit him, whether he’s smiling or crying?

It was also a face pretty enough to make you want to make him cry.

Every time the tear-laden ends of his eyelashes fluttered like dew hanging from the eaves, I couldn’t help but gulp down my breath like swallowing *chim* [saliva].

I’ve certainly met countless men over countless long years, but is it because the man before me is the most handsome?

No, it was a face that exquisitely contained beauty and mystery beyond mere handsomeness.

Could even a wooden statue withstand it?

“I don’t know what it is, but let’s go inside and talk……”

“I had a dream, and a small me appeared.”

A low voice echoed in the hallway.

‘Did he remember something?’

In a nonchalant moment, an unexpected word dug in.

“He was confessing to you.”

“……”

Calypso blinked.

Calypso avoided having many people staying near her room because of her overly developed senses.

So, she knew no one was there, but nevertheless, her spine straightened.

“Anything else?”

“……”

“So, you only remember just that.”

A tension different from fighting dominated her.

“What’s that supposed to mean? If you don’t remember why or how those words came out.”

Calypso said quietly.

It was a soft but distancing remark.

“That’s meaningless.”

“What if it does have meaning?”

While Calypso was momentarily stunned, the man grabbed Calypso’s hand and brought it to him.

“You said, I love you.”

The man lowered his eyes while placing Calypso’s hand on his heart.

“I like you.”

Was it because she was sensitive about someone seeing? Or was it because this man was in front of her that she became sensitive?

Her sharpened hearing caught a huge drumbeat. No, it’s not a drumbeat, it’s a heartbeat.

“……”

“So, I hope you don’t leave me alone.”

She knows the voice of someone who hasn’t learned emotions. It was truly dry and parched.

“I like Calypso. I’ll be with you for life. I only want to see you.”

“……Um, isn’t this not the kind of confession you should be making while fighting monsters in the cracks of time in this darkness? Yongyong.”

“Then, if I leave the crack in time and grow up, will you answer me?”

Even so, only in the voice directed at her, there was always a faint desire lingering inside.

It was a voice that even felt like obsession.

Lonely. The man’s small whisper dug deep into her ear.

“Is love without memory not love?”

“……”

Calypso looked up with complicated feelings.

Why would you remember that even if you were to remember something?

I wanted to hear from the grown-up you, what you were feeling that day when you confessed.

Calypso saw the deep shadows cast in the man’s eyes.

He must not have slept for a long time. Is it insomnia?

‘I heard from the maids that he’s awake no matter what time I go in.’

“Sorry to interrupt, but by any chance, have you been unable to sleep lately?”

“……”

“Since when haven’t you been able to sleep?”

“That’s not important right now.”

The man was a little agitated.

Then he stopped abruptly. Calypso was quietly, silently laughing.

Calypso grabbed the doorknob and opened the door.

“Come in.”

“……”

“Let’s rest together for now.”

Calypso tapped her eyes.

“I’m a little sleepy too. Because I haven’t been able to sleep.”

The man entered the room as if possessed, and the door closed.

And at the same time, in the room where Hauser was lying, Hauser’s hand, which had fallen as if dead, twitched.

* * *

“Ah-hem……”

I stirred and was startled before I even opened my eyes.

‘Ah, you scared me.’

Wouldn’t anyone be surprised if there was a sculpture right in front of them when they opened their eyes?

And not just any sculpture, but a very wonderful and extremely beautiful sculpture.

‘Was I being too dramatic?’

I stared at the man who was sitting next to me and had fallen asleep, then got up.

‘He fell asleep soundly in this uncomfortable position.’

I want to lay him down properly, but I was worried that touching him would wake him up.

Last night, after entering the room, we fell asleep together without any special conversation.

I remember that at first, I was going to sleep on the sofa, but he looked like he was about to drop tears again, so we sat together on the bed and leaned against the backrest.

“Thank you for that thought.”

To my words that I hoped you would remember me, the man hesitated for a long time and then quietly nodded.

It was good that he fell asleep like that, but…….

“You go in……!”

“No, you go in!”

“No, who knows what might be happening…….”

‘I can hear everything, guys…….’

I looked at the door with a groan at the voices of the herring maids coming from outside the room.

“No! Do you know how surprised I was when I opened the door slightly earlier? There was someone else!”

It seemed like they had opened the door briefly while I was sound asleep.

‘Amazing. I didn’t even know the door was opened?’

I unknowingly touched my cheek. It’s smooth.

“Our head of the family is having an affair! How wonderful!”

“Of course, the head of the family is supposed to have several husbands.”

“Not a lover?”

“Well, the head of the family’s husband must be chosen through a strict screening process.”

“Who does the screening?”

“Of course! It’s Pierre, right?”

“……Can a human even pass that?”

“…….”

They lowered their voices, but I could hear them so clearly.

I couldn’t help but burst into a small laugh.

While carefully getting up, the man didn’t wake up. I tried touching him slightly, but he didn’t move.

I mustered up some courage and lifted him up and laid him down, but he was still quiet.

‘Okay, I’ll leave him sleeping like this…….’

I roughly straightened my clothes and opened the door. The moment I faced the surprised maids, I brought my index finger to my lips.

“Shh.”

“Ah, yes……! Shhh!”

“Head of the family, hello……!”

The maids quickly lowered their voices. In that gap, I quietly closed the door.

“Shall we move for now?”

We walked along the hallway together, and after a while, the maids looked at each other and opened their mouths.

“Head of the family, if it’s not really rude, inside the room…….”

“Did you see who it was?”

Dedé carefully nodded.

“He was naked…….”

“……I didn’t take his clothes off.”

The Dragon Duke, for some reason, said that he can only sleep well if he sleeps with his bare skin.

Of course, he didn’t take off his pants?

It wasn’t for nothing that I felt like I had seen a sculpture as soon as I opened my eyes.

I ran my hand over my face.

“Did you, did you have a happy night……!”

“……Why are you stuttering while adding that ‘happy’?”

“But it was like this and that and that!”

“Nothing happened.”

“…….”

I laughed in disbelief.

“……Aren’t you guys being too obvious about being disappointed?”

I know that Orcas tend to be quite promiscuous.

Female Orcas can have several lovers or husbands.

Naturally, relationships were bound to get tangled.

It’s just that this generation of guys doesn’t cause problems with their relationships with the opposite sex.

I heard that our older generations almost had a *makjang* [over-the-top, melodramatic] family history that rivaled ‘Love and War’ [a Korean TV show about marital conflicts].

“The former head of the family had ten lovers when she was young……!”

……That old woman? Amazing.

This was the first time I heard this story.

“I see. Well, it doesn’t apply to me, so everyone, work. Work.”

“Ah, Head of the family!”

Among the disappointed herring maids, Eiya raised her hand.

“That person has woken up!”

“Oh my, look at my mind. That’s right. He woke up!”

“The lover that the head of the family brought!”

“I said he’s not my lover…….”

“Then your ideal type!”

“That’s not it either, but more than that, he woke up?”

I stopped smiling indifferently. I overlooked it because they were shouting so casually.

‘Hauser woke up!’

I raised my head and ran.

“I’ll go first! You guys contact Whale and Levi and tell them to come!”

“Yes!”

The maids’ stories were heard behind me as I ran.

“What kind of relationship do they have?”

I wonder. I’m curious too.

Hauser, what kind of relationship will you and I have in this life?

‘I just hope you don’t disappoint me.’

I slammed open Hauser’s door.

I wasn’t out of breath, but I felt like my exhalation was rising to my throat as if I had been running for a long time.

The person sitting on the bed in the wide room turned his head.

Dark-colored hair, hair that was sticking out and curly, shook.

It was hair like seaweed in the deep sea. Between the long hair that seemed to cover his bangs.

Eyes with a gloomy light were visible.

“……Hauser.”

I knew. When I called the name of this subordinate who had become a young man.

Depending on your reaction, our future relationship. Your position. The attitude I will take will change.

The thin lips parted blankly for a moment. Soon, he put on a faint smile.

The smileless subordinate would only crumble for a single moment.

Right when he meets me.

“Head of the family.”

Returning after a long time, with just your gaze, your title.

“My respected Head of the family.”

I realized that this moment of meeting is not the first meeting.

It was a ‘reunion.’