Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 1

Black Orca Baby Lord (1)

Episode 1

Prologue

“Haa, haa.”

A sky as black as pitch.

Black smoke billowed, carrying a putrid stench.

I could barely pry open my blood-caked eyelids, surveying the carnage around me.

‘…That one’s the male lead, and that one’s the second male lead.’

Turning away from the sprawled corpses, I saw another pile of bodies.

If they had a unifying feature… it was their hair color.

The same color as mine.

My brothers.

‘That’s the eldest. The one clutching his sword to the very end is the second… the third one, crying, couldn’t even close his eyes.’

I didn’t have much time left either.

I sighed, more annoyed than afraid.

‘Ah, am I not going to make it past 22 this time either?’

There was none of the fear one might expect when facing death.

Because this was the third time I was reliving this.

I was experiencing this world for the third time.

I was beyond exhausted.

Twenty, twenty-one, and twenty-two.

Those were the ages I had died.

Pity washed over me as I looked at my dead or dying family.

‘…It’s not their fault they were born into a villainous family. Tsk.’

I was trapped in a book, but I was probably living the most pathetic life imaginable.

Especially considering it was a possession into an adorable childcare novel.

I slowly raised my head.

A black mass filled the sky.

At its center, a man floated in the air.

Behind him, the smoke coalesced into a shape.

A dragon.

To be precise, that man *was* a living dragon.

The one known as the Dragon Duke.

And this catastrophe was happening because that dragon was enraged and on a rampage.

‘Haa, I wish there wasn’t a next life. But there probably will be.’

No matter what crazy things I did, why couldn’t I change fate?

I could feel my life ebbing away.

Simultaneously, the Dragon Duke raised his hand, and a black sphere materialized.

A black sphere of enormous size.

Considering a city had been obliterated by something much smaller, this was truly the end.

‘If only those crazy male leads hadn’t provoked the Dragon Duke…!’

Why did they have to antagonize the innocent Dragon Duke and cause this mess!

‘No, how can a childcare novel have a massacre ending!’

As I stared blankly at the sky for the last time, my eyes suddenly widened.

The sky where the Dragon Duke floated, the world about to be destroyed by that black sphere.

Through the fragmented sky, I saw something familiar.

Familiar roads, familiar bridges, and roundabouts. And Gwanghwamun [a major intersection and landmark in Seoul] and Gyeongbokgung Palace [the largest of Seoul’s Five Grand Palaces]….

‘Wait. Seoul streets?!’

I wasn’t hallucinating.

It was the Seoul streets I missed so dearly.

I spotted a clear Korean sign and my eyes widened even further.

‘Why am I seeing that? Ah, if I go in there, I think I can go back home!’

But unfortunately… my eyes were slowly closing.

What, what is it? I finally found my hometown…!

I felt cheated.

I didn’t have the strength to hold on any longer.

But even as I watched the approaching black sphere, I felt a surge of joy.

That’s it, with that, I can live longer!

I can go back home.

I smiled crookedly in the face of death.

Childcare novel life, round 3.

Next life, I’m going to seduce the dragon.