Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 103

Episode 103

For the past five years, various incidents had kept Ekion confined to the mansion.

Sometimes, when I wondered if this was any different from being stuck in Duke Yong’s castle, Dad would say:

“There’s a world of difference between being abandoned and imprisoned alone and being with someone you trust, feeling safe and supported. Don’t you think so?”

“I guess so.”

Dad often spent time with Ekion while I was at my studies.

He even suggested taking walks together, but Ekion always refused.

I looked at Ekion, my feelings a tangled mess.

Even though my goal of returning home had shifted, this child was still important to me.

And every time I saw Ekion, I couldn’t help but remember the baby snake, abandoned in that old, dark building.

Tus, wait for me.

“Ekion, don’t worry so much,” I said, gently stroking his soft, woolly hair.

It was strange; Ekion hadn’t grown at all while I was growing up.

It was almost as if he was deliberately staying small for my sake.

Of course, that wasn’t actually the reason.

“Do you miss Tus?”

Our eye level was now almost the same.

“Just wait, I’ll take you to Tus soon.”

Whether I properly educate Ekion and send him back to Tus, or bring Tus here from that damned old castle.

This plan was still in the works.

Ekion looked at me with clear eyes and nodded.

For a long time, his eyes remained unfathomable.

* * *

“So, you were here.”

While Calypso, Agenor, and Ekion were playing in the drawing room, the door opened, and Pierre walked in.

“Dad! You’re back?”

Pierre chuckled, watching Calypso jump up with surprising speed.

“How did you know where I went?”

“Well, you’re wearing different clothes than usual. Did you go out or something?”

“I’ve been in the mansion the whole time.”

Hmm? Calypso tilted her head.

If he was here, why hadn’t he come to see them?

He was dressed up quite nicely, which only piqued her curiosity further.

Meanwhile, Ekion was staring intently at Calypso.

No, his gaze hadn’t left her since she’d entered the room.

“Just wait, I’ll take you to Tus soon.”

The words ‘take you’.

Ekion now understood most of Calypso’s words.

But why did he have to go back?

Couldn’t he just live here forever?

The more he learned the language, the more questions Ekion had.

The first question he truly felt was this: Why?

Can’t I stay next to Calypso?

The child had learned a fundamental truth: returning means being separated.

But why should he be separated from Calypso?

Of course, he missed his own kind.

Ekion had grasped the concepts of missing and needing.

But he still couldn’t understand why he had to be separated from Calypso.

So, what was the element that separated them?

The innocent face tilted, and large eyes shifted, his gaze searching.

If he eliminated that element, he could stay next to Calypso, right?

Forever.

As if he’d reached a conclusion, his gaze locked onto Calypso.

Then, a low voice cut through the air.

Along with a click of the tongue.

“You’re going to bore a hole in your sister’s face with that stare.”

“…….”

It was Agenor, wearing a crooked expression.

Agenor nonchalantly continued, as if he knew Ekion would ignore him.

“You’ve really gone crazy in the eyes. What, did my sister say something about a guy like that?”

What was it… Ah.

“A madman with clear eyes?”

“…….”

Agenor was more self-aware than he thought.

Wow, I’m obsessed too, but his eyes are really dripping. Is my sister okay?

He was worried about Calypso, whom he had designated as his future lord.

All the while, Calypso was secretly sighing as she looked at him, wondering, ‘When is that crooked personality going to be fixed?’

“Hey, I don’t know much, but you shouldn’t look at a woman with eyes full of obsession like that.”

“……Shouldn’t?”

“Of course not! She’ll hate it!”

Agenor nodded with his handsome face, even though he was the one who always looked with obsessive eyes.

It wasn’t something to say to Ekion, who was about the same age as Calypso.

Agenor was originally a person who spoke without considering the listener.

Agenor nodded proudly before pausing.

‘Wait a minute… Did that guy just answer?’

Ekion responded for the first time in five years to words spoken without knowing anything.

Agenor was slightly surprised.

But he answered sincerely.

“Yeah. What if my sister gets a partner later? Would she like him looking at her like that? No, well, a partner is too far off, but what if she gets a boyfriend?”

It was unlike him to answer, when he usually ignored people like ants.

But Agenor couldn’t imagine his inhuman sister having a normal relationship.

Since the two were already in the middle and upper grades of intermediate institutions, there were plenty of fresh couples around them in their mid-teens.

However, Agenor thought that Calypso’s head was probably filled with only ‘Head of the Family’ and ‘Power’.

‘It’s a valid point…’

Agenor thought of Calypso more as his lord than his sister.

Besides, wasn’t she aiming for the position of head of the family in earnest?

She’s so strong, there’s no way she can’t become the head of the family!

‘She’s stronger than that Atlant XX! Bellus can’t be her opponent either!’

In Agenor’s eyes, who was already heavily biased, there was nothing Calypso couldn’t do.

Besides, Calypso was already outstanding in talent….

She had really trained hard for the past five years.

Agenor, who was watching from the side, was so tired of it that he clicked his tongue inwardly.

Agenor himself was a killer whale with a great desire for strength.

But if he were told to live like Calypso or train like Calypso….

He would rather live as an unemployed person.

‘She’s so strong, but why is she always so full of venom? It’s amazing how she lives like she has no tomorrow.’

Determination and venom were Calypso’s greatest strengths.

Strangely enough, his sister had the ease and leisure of a strong person.

But when necessary, she was full of the venom of, ‘I’m going to get that bastard for sure.’

Of course, she was a perfect sister.

But Calypso also had a weakness.

He didn’t know if he could call this a weakness….

‘She still hasn’t awakened?’

Surprisingly, Calypso had not yet awakened in the past five years.

She still couldn’t generate water.

Considering how strong Calypso’s physical enhancement abilities had become in the meantime.

It was truly shocking and appalling.

‘Why can’t she awaken?’

It was incomprehensible in Agenor’s own common sense.

In fact, Calypso had taken a break for the past five years to try to awaken this water power.

It’s not hard to know how hard Calypso worked.

Yet it was something she couldn’t achieve.

The fact that she hadn’t awakened had spread widely as a rumor.

It was also a factor that made everyone believe that Calypso really had no talent.

‘Of course, anyone who gossips like that wouldn’t even be a handful for my sister.’

Agenor thought it was crazy but romantic.

She can’t even generate water, but she conquers all killer whales with just her fists and physical abilities!

‘How… cool! Amazing!’

The Agenor who was worried about Calypso’s love life was nowhere to be found.

Now there was only one crazy killer whale who was looking forward to the killer whale society that Calypso would conquer with her fists.

“Anyway, don’t, uh, look at her like that. You don’t want to be hated either.”

Agenor said to Ekion, returning to what he was originally going to say.

He was thinking of Ekion as a comrade who served the same lord… to some extent.

Of course, he had rolled once, but the fact that he didn’t try again was Agenor’s own way of showing respect.

Right now, that Ekion only talks to Calypso and his father, but if he starts talking after today, he will definitely let him know someday.

I’m your senior, you’re my junior.

You become a subordinate in the order you came in. Got it?

He couldn’t give up on this.

‘Yeah. I’m the senior.’

If Calypso knew, she would have thought, ‘This bastard, is he already becoming a boomer at a young age?’ as Agenor nodded in satisfaction.

“…….”

Even in the meantime, Ekion was quietly staring at Calypso.

As quiet and blank as a doll.

As persistent as possible.