Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 118

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“What are you doing there? Senior.”

I shouted a bit loudly, so he should have heard me well. Levin flinched at my call and stepped out from behind the pillar.

“Oh, um, I thought a fight was about to break out, so?”

“You run fast, I see.”

“Hahaha, I don’t want to be a shrimp whose back is broken in a killer whale fight [an insignificant person getting caught in a powerful conflict]. So, I don’t know what kind of conversation you guys had, but…”

Levin clenched his fist.

“I was watching, ready to go get a teacher if necessary!”

In the conversation between Atlante and me, I lowered my voice during the important parts.

I was well aware that Levin was standing nearby.

Besides, even if he had heard the conversation, it wasn’t something he could fully understand.

“You’re Levin, right? Senior, take him. I won’t skip that important group project anymore.”

“Oh, uh? Uh-oh?”

Levin seemed flustered by my sudden change in tone.

Then he awkwardly looked at Atlante.

Perhaps it was because of Atlante’s constant crying, but he couldn’t quite adjust.

Amazing, right? I feel the same way, so how much more would you?

“Right? Atlante.”

Atlante turned to look at me askance but nodded.

“Hey, guide me to that project or whatever.”

“Uh-oh?”

“Where do I need to go?”

“……I’ve been telling you to come to classroom A on the 4th floor for a week, but it’s okay! I can guide you every day, just let me graduate!”

“Okay, so guide me.”

I waved to Atlante as he turned around.

“See you again, Second.”

Atlante widened his eyes, then his expression sank as if deep in thought, and he looked at the floor.

“……Really, we’ll see each other again?”

Why is he suddenly gloomy again? It seemed like a change close to bipolar disorder, so I was a little taken aback.

I smiled without showing it. As if to say it was okay.

Perhaps because I knew the voice of the abandoned too well, I didn’t want to leave him feeling dejected.

“Yeah.”

Saying this, I calmly asked.

“……Let me ask you just one thing. Do you remember ‘death’?”

Do you remember the day you died?

This was a very important part for me.

I omitted whose death it was, thinking of Levin, but he seemed to understand it well enough.

Atlante stared at me and then shook his head.

“There are some things I don’t remember. That’s one of them.”

“Okay. I understand.”

I nodded.

“Now there will be a tomorrow. For you and me.”

“……”

Atlante looked at me once more, then finally turned his back without regret.

It seemed like he believed we could see each other again now.

I waved my hand and slowly lowered it.

That’s a relief.

I calmly closed my eyes.

In this world, I’m the only one who remembers your death.

“Sister.”

I opened my eyes at the familiar voice and turned my head to see Agenor standing there.

‘I sensed his presence, but…….’

He was disheveled, as if he had run. I tilted my head, looking at the beads of sweat on Agenor’s forehead.

“You came.”

“Yeah. I heard there was a fight to watch, but why does he look like he’s been crying? Did you beat him so much he cried, and I missed it?!”

“From where did you see?”

“From when Sister was talking to some guy hiding behind the pillar?”

“Ah.”

I shrugged.

“Agenor, I have to retract one thing I said.”

“What is it? Ah, Atlante has decided to go under you [become your subordinate]?”

As expected, he’s the quickest to catch on.

I nodded lightly. Agenor pondered for a moment, then nodded like me.

“Well, if you’re worried about what you said to me, it’s okay. It must be because you judged him to be a talent needed by Sister. Besides… that guy is coming in as my junior, right? If he comes in, he has to call me senior.”

His face was already flushed, and he had a blissful expression.

“I’ll definitely make him…….”

“Do it moderately. Moderately.”

Looking at Agenor, who was smiling radiantly, I thought that I was seeing the harmony of these crazy people once again.

‘They’re going to fight a lot.’

I shrugged, thinking there was nothing I could do since it had come to this.

“……I’ll keep my promise.”

Then Agenor laughed as if he was excited.

His eyes…… If I were to attach a nonexistent onomatopoeia to it today, it wouldn’t be sparkling, but shining ‘obsessively’.

Then, Agenor suddenly tilted his head as if something was strange.

“But, Sister. Why do you have that expression?”

“Why?”

“Just. Um…… Um, the expression is a bit strange, but it’s like you’re comfortable but uncomfortable right now.”

“What is that.”

I burst out laughing, but I admitted that the words perfectly matched my current feelings.

* * *

I jokingly told Atlante that ‘I’ve changed the criteria for recruiting talent in this life, and the condition is a wise head.’

It was a joke I made to stop him from crying, and as I revealed to Agenor, Atlante was also in a state of deciding to join us anyway.

All that was needed was a bit of emotional 정리 [jeongni – Korean word for tidying up/organizing], so time was needed…….

Atlante, this simple fool, how did he think about my words in such a short time?

No, was he very concerned about it?

He appeared before me with a completely unexpected solution(?).

“Hey!”

Several days had passed since I saw Atlante.

Today, I was at my father’s residence after finishing training.

I was spending time with my father and Ekion side by side, but…….

Atlante appearing in this drawing room, of all places, was truly an unexpected situation.

It was almost like he was barging in.

“Calypso Aquasider!”

Bang, it was a noisy entrance just like the Second’s personality.

I frowned but hid Ekion behind me as if protecting him.

‘Why is that guy suddenly here?’

It seems like I had something similar to a reconciliation with that guy, but for killer whale siblings, fighting is almost as natural as breathing.

Especially since there was no way to know that belligerent human wouldn’t pounce on us as a welcome.

‘Our Yongyong [term of endearment] is just a physically weak child!’

He’s different from us, who would be fine even if we were hit by a rock!

Of course, Father would protect him, but it’s a matter of mood.

‘But he came into Father’s territory, and he came all the way here intact?’

I turned my head.

“Father, did you let him in?”

“I thought he was your guest.”

I had roughly told Father about what happened with Atlante a few days ago.

I said that there would be one more human coming to this mansion soon.

‘But it wasn’t supposed to be today, or in this way.’

While I was frowning, Atlante looked at me and tilted his head.

“Who’s that?”

He looked like he was wondering if it was strange for me to protect someone.

“A family member living with me.”

He nodded as if he understood after my answer.

“You…… um, what is it. Are you dating?”

“You just shut your mouth if you’re going to say useless things.”

I couldn’t understand how those words could come out of a posture of protecting and guarding.

“But that blue-haired bastard is…… no, never mind. Listen to my story.”

“What are you trying to say, coming into someone else’s house like you’re barging in? If it’s nonsense, you’ll only see me in three months.”

“……It’s not nonsense!”

Only then did I turn my gaze to Levin, who had come with Atlante.

Atlante was so intense that he had taken all the attention, but the Second came here with Levin.

“Ahaha, hello, ah, hello, P, Pierre-nim. And Princess……”

He was well aware that he was outside the educational institution, so his honorifics and tone had changed.

Atlante hadn’t brought him for nothing, and he proudly grabbed Levin’s shoulder.

“Hey, you told me you’d accept me if I had a wise head, right?”

“Where did you eat the words that you needed time?”

“……I don’t know, if I solve that, accept me now.”

I guess my joke had a big impact on him, or he felt a sense of crisis when I mentioned the wise head.

That’s why he suddenly visited with an unexpected method.

The method he mentioned was this.

“I’ll give you this guy too! Accept me!”

“……Did you ask the ‘guy’ who’s listening what he thinks?”

“Of course. Do you think I wouldn’t have thought of that?!”

……You weren’t the type of guy to think about that.

He seemed to have thought hard in his own way, but I couldn’t understand why he thought I would accept him if he came with Levin.

‘It’s not a buy-one-get-one-free event.’

“Why did you bring your perfectly fine friend?”

“He’s a genius from the Narwhal [a type of whale known for its tusk].”