Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 108

“A glorious duel, you say? I must have misunderstood! If he’s truly innocent, there won’t be any poison coming from his body. And no wounds on his back, right?”

The funeral hall was as silent as if it had absorbed all the ink in the world.

A soft giggle came from Agenor beside me.

‘Ah, so that’s why you went to the building that day?’ a small voice whispered again.

“Stone, you always bring up the most interesting topics.”

“If I’ve pleased Grandmother, then I’m happy too.”

Grandmother chuckled, took out gloves from her pocket, and put them on.

“It’s been 20 years since I’ve turned over a corpse.”

“O-Oh, Mother!”

“You be quiet. I didn’t give you permission to speak, Rodesen.”

Grandmother said without even looking at Rodesen, her eyes fixed on Bian.

The result was immediate.

Grandmother checked Bian’s back.

“There’s a wound on his back.”

Of course, there would be.

Lilibel said she chased after Bian as he fled and finished him off.

‘Actually, I understand why Lilibel made sure to kill Bian.’

I’ve said it many times, but that bastard deserved to die anyway.

Before that, from Lilibel’s perspective, there was nothing to gain by keeping him alive.

Bian would have surrendered as soon as he realized he was weaker during the duel.

Yet, Lilibel chased after him and killed him.

“O-Oh, Mother. Let me explain everything…!”

In my opinion, Rodesen is the biggest troublemaker in that family.

‘Even if you’re caught, you should keep your mouth shut here.’

Because Rodesen opened his mouth, shock rippled through the tense atmosphere.

‘Actually, if I hadn’t raised the question, Grandmother would never have checked Bian’s back.’

She probably thought there was no need to check.

And this place would have become Lilibel’s grand debut stage.

Lilibel would have caught Grandmother’s eye.

‘Sorry, Lilibel. I never intended to let your wings spread from the beginning.’

Grandmother’s silence wasn’t because she was dumbfounded.

It was an expression of anger.

“Wow, so many lies. First, that it wasn’t suicide.”

“……”

“Second, that it was a fair and honorable duel?”

The reason I spoke to myself as if for everyone to hear was simple.

That tyrant-like old woman hates lies very much.

“Lilibel Aquasidel.”

Grandmother finally opened her mouth.

Lilibel flinched.

Lilibel was definitely a talented individual with genius-level power and intelligence, but.

She was still not enough to handle the power of an enraged head of the family head-on.

“You dare to make a fool of me and pull a stunt like this?”

Rumble.

I saw a very thin water shield floating above me.

It was Father’s power.

I looked at the vibrating ceiling and opened my mouth.

“Grandmother’s pretending to be angry, right?”

“Indeed.”

I smiled brightly at Father’s questioning expression.

“If Grandmother was really angry, would she still be alive?”

“……”

“It seems she liked Lilibel’s power, at least.”

But she probably can’t forgive being deceived and holding an honorable funeral.

“Head of the Family…!”

Someone wrapped their arm around Lilibel’s shoulder, and at the same time, a deep blue stream of water rose.

The one daring to withstand the power of the head of the family.

It was none other than Aunt Hella Luzel.

“I’m sorry, I’m truly sorry!”

She bowed, her usually squinted eyes slightly open.

“It’s all my fault, I never expected things to turn out this way… We swear we never intended to deceive the head of the family.”

She would say they were going to tell everything.

“We were planning to reveal all the truth here!”

“Reveal it? The fact that you deceived me?”

“How could we? Head of the Family, how could a battle for the succession only be a honorable duel? I dare to say, the battle my daughter Lilibel fought was to punish someone who disgraced the honor of the Orca!”

I was about to laugh quietly but was slightly impressed.

“Bian Aquasidel. It’s embarrassing, but my beloved son has secretly been taking young Suin [a race with animal-like features] children for the past five years, torturing and killing them!”

Wow, she’s throwing him under the bus like this?

To survive, the rest completely abandoned Bian Aquasidel.

But Aunt Hella’s quick thinking didn’t end there.

“Aquin Nebera!”

Someone was forcibly dragged out from among Uncle’s forces.

It was the head of the Nebera, a branch family of the Orcas.

“He’s the one who secretly kidnapped and offered young Suin children to my son. Nebera! You haven’t forgotten that you promised to tell the truth for your children, have you? As promised, confess all the facts before the head of the family!”

“I, I, I…! Lady Hella, I…!”

“Shut up and confess!”

Unable to withstand Aunt’s fierce momentum and the pouring power of water, the head of the Nebera family began to stammer.

A face pale as a sheet and dripping with sweat. The face of someone who anticipates death.

“Y-Yes, that’s right…! I offered Suin children to Bian, children around the age of three. Knowing what would happen…!”

It was a typical case of cutting off the tail. I clicked my tongue.

“You already told me that you were the one who killed Bian.”

“Y-Yes.”

“After Lilibel won, you were afraid that your cooperation with Bian would become a big problem, so you stabbed Bian in the back and attacked him several times, killing him, and after the attack, you confessed everything to me. Is that also correct?”

“Yes, yes…! Lilibel, you knew everything and requested a j-just duel… but Bian lost, and I, badly wounded, the one who ran away….”

The head of the Nebera family squeezed his eyes shut.

“Stabbed him.”

Seeing him spit it out like that, even though it wasn’t a pre-arranged situation.

‘He must have been someone whose weaknesses were seized in advance.’

As soon as the head of the Nebera family finished stammering, Aunt stepped forward again.

“My daughter was going to tell this sad tragedy… but she’s still immature and her speaking skills aren’t smooth.”

Hella took a breath. Her expression was clear.

“We were wrong a hundred, a thousand times for not revealing it from the beginning and for holding Bian’s funeral in this way, but daring to harm the Suin children who could be the driving force of this family was something we had to do!”

A persuasive appearance as if she wouldn’t even defend herself like this.

“Therefore, this funeral is only intended to widely publicize a honorable deed, not to honor the dead!”

A convincing voice, a tearful but powerful tone.

‘Ah, Aunt is really talented. If I had just one more talent like that….’

I would have become the head of the family more easily in the third round. Even now.

“……If Mom were here, would it feel like that?”

Muttering quietly was meaningless.

Hella was about the same age as my mother. If I had a mother, I wondered if it would feel like this?

“……”

I turned my head at the piercing gaze and saw Father staring at me intently.

I blinked, feeling guilty for no reason.

“Why, why… are you looking at me like that?”

“……I’ll try to be a dad like Mom.”

“No, no. You don’t have to try that hard!”

More than that, what kind of dad is a mom-like dad?!

‘I can’t even imagine it.’

In the meantime, Hella’s argument ended.

Now, only the sentence remained.

“How do you predict it?”

“What? Ah, that? How do I predict it?”

I turned my head indifferently and looked at Hella and Grandmother.

“They’ll lightly punish her here and move on. From Grandmother’s perspective, another genius has appeared.”

“……”

I rubbed my chin and answered.

“How excited would she be to think about making them fight?”

Only the strong survive and become the head of the family. The more strong successors there are, the better.

Besides, the genius who appeared at this point is the granddaughter Grandmother wanted so much.

“Mother doesn’t seem to care about the rumors surrounding you.”

“Yeah, she seemed that way, right? Well, if she can’t even grasp such nonsense, how could she be the head of the family?”

Then it’s not worth winning.

“Calypso, the head of the family selected the eight families more carefully than you think.”

I was reminded of what Illia had said.

The eight families to whom Grandmother promised huge merits in selecting a successor.

……It’s truly amazing that there’s a herring Suin in that family.

“Considering her nature, it’s truly amazing.”

It violates the law of the survival of the fittest that Grandmother claims.

I couldn’t figure out what she was thinking in this part.

After a while, as expected.

As expected, Grandmother did not punish Lilibel severely.

Instead, she seemed to pretend to be angry at what Bian had done.

Acknowledging the crime of cruelly killing Suin children, who could become future workers, countless times.

This funeral became another execution ground for the dead Bian.

He won’t even be properly buried, so it wouldn’t be strange to call it another death.

The funeral ended without becoming a funeral.

I smiled slyly as I looked at Lilibel, who had turned pale.