Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 138

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For some reason, Ekion hadn’t woken up from his sleep.

It had been three days since Ekion fell asleep like that. It started the day Dad got diagnosed by Whale.

I was so surprised to see Ekion sleeping in various colors in the hallway when I came out of the basement that day.

According to the second child, Ekion had even come all the way to the basement entrance…….

He got angry and then collapsed?

“Hey, still. How can you just leave a kid in the hallway like that?!”

“Then what am I supposed to do! Hey, if you get close, he tries to do something with his strength, what can I do?”

Turns out, there was a reason why only Atlant’s clothes were a mess.

Atlant approached Ekion after he collapsed and got messed up.

“Hey, seriously. Do you know how surprised I was? Why is the Dragon Duke coming out from there!!”

I immediately started figuring out the cause.

The detailed situation was that Ekion suddenly got angry and tried to use his strength, so Atlant somehow blocked him a few times.

After a while, Ekion was sweating profusely and then collapsed.

I was surprised, but at first, I wasn’t too worried. I thought he would open his eyes in about a day.

But Ekion didn’t open his eyes. For several days.

‘I thought he was sick…….’

The doctor I managed to invite also said that Ekion was just sleeping.

Just in case, I brought Whale to ‘diagnose’ Ekion, but he said there was no illness or injury.

Instead, he left a strange remark with a blunt and steadfast face.

“Princess, this child is strange. His body structure…….”

“What’s strange?”

“I can’t say.”

“What is that.”

It’s natural for someone with healing abilities not to talk about secrets related to the human body.

Whale seemed to have noticed that Ekion’s identity was an unusual being.

‘Well, he’s the only remaining dragon beastman in the human world, so it’s natural.’

Anyway, even Whale said he didn’t know why he wasn’t waking up.

‘What’s going on……?’

I even searched through Tus’s notebook, but I couldn’t find an exact answer.

I only found one sentence that could be a hint.

「The Duke grows when he needs to!」

If Tus were here, he might know exactly.

I clenched my fist tightly.

‘Now more than ever, I have a reason to go to the City of Dragons quickly.’

Even though he was just sleeping, Ekion occasionally groaned or sweated profusely as if he was in pain.

I was worried, so I left Didi, one of the Herring sisters, behind.

‘Let’s come back quickly. I really need Tus now.’

Maybe Ekion had been holding back several times even when he needed Tus.

I even had this worry.

I sighed deeply.

“Your sighs have increased.”

Currently, I was being carried in Dad’s arms.

“Yeah, I’m worried about our Yongyong.”

“Is that so.”

“That’s right, he’s like family to me.”

“Family…….”

Dad’s tone was somehow subtle, but it was soon forgotten by the hand reaching my head.

“So you moved up the schedule.”

“Yeah. I was going to go back to the City of Dragons anyway.”

“To keep the promise with the subordinates you left behind?”

“Yeah, that’s right. And going to the City of Dragons requires the permission of the head of the family first.”

Just as we were about to reach Grandma’s office, someone came running towards us in a hurry.

“P, Princess, and Pierre-nim!”

“Hmm?”

Turning around, it was a maid wearing a maid uniform. But I quickly recognized her by the similar hair color to Didi.

It’s a Herring beastman.

“Didi sent a message.”

Since Herring beastmen can send telepathy to each other, I told her to contact me if anything happened…….

“The precious one has opened his eyes……!”

Ekion opened his eyes!

* * *

“Ekion!”

I kicked the door open. I heard a creaking sound from the door as if it was about to break, but what did that matter!

Right now, the audience with the head of the family or whatever wasn’t the issue.

‘Our Yongyong woke up!’

Thanks to that, I rushed out of the audience that I had made an appointment for in advance before even seeing the face of the head of the family.

‘Grandma, just take a rain check this time.’

I hurried over.

Dad, who was walking with me, said that it would be faster for him to carry me using the power of water, so he ran all the way.

Ekion, who was sitting blankly, turned his head.

Before any expression could cross the child’s face, I reached him first and hugged Ekion’s neck.

‘Huh…….’

I was surprised when I hugged Ekion.

What, a little…….

‘Did he get bigger?’

It wasn’t a mistake. When I hugged him like this, his shoulders were only up to here.

It was a little higher.

“Calypso.”

I was startled by the hoarse voice that followed.

This isn’t the time to worry about this!

“Ekion, are you okay? I was so surprised when you suddenly collapsed…….”

“Was I, sick?”

“I don’t know. The doctor and Whale didn’t say you were sick……. Why are you asking me, though.”

After saying this, I realized.

This child is insensitive not only to emotions but also to pain.

I patted his back while hugging him.

“Do you have any pain now? I mean, are you uncomfortable or heavy…… Is there anything like that?”

“Yeah……. No.”

“Okay, that’s a relief. Why did you suddenly collapse?”

“…….”

Ekion usually tries hard to answer everything I say.

The only things Ekion can’t answer are things he doesn’t even know himself, or things that have terrible memories like the basement.

One of the two.

“……It’s okay if it’s nothing serious.”

It’s okay to hear the story slowly later.

I put my hand on Ekion’s forehead to check his temperature.

“Hmm, it doesn’t seem like he has a fever. I’ll bring the doctor again later.”

“Calypso.”

“Yeah?”

Ekion’s hand gently came up over my hand on his forehead.

……His hand, which had grown a little bigger, as if what I felt wasn’t a mistake.

Before, it was the same size as mine, as if we were measuring with a ruler.

“I missed you.”

I was a little surprised by the words he spat out. Well, it’s only been a few days since he opened his eyes, so wouldn’t everything feel a little unfamiliar?

“Yeah, I missed you too. Don’t be sick anymore.”

Ekion closed his eyes while holding my hand.

“Yeah…….”

With a face that looked very relieved for some reason.

* * *

Dragons are actually lonely beings.

From the moment he opened his eyes, Ekion was instinctively engraving this fact.

This also remained as a message engraved in the dragon’s genes.

“It’s inevitable. We were made to be lonely.”

“Forever, until we die, alone without a single one of the same species.”

Perhaps the one who engraved this message was the first dragon.

“So make something that is definitely ‘mine.’”

A gentle whispering voice.

That voice always occupied a corner of Ekion’s head.

However, Ekion, who had been living alone in the Dragon’s Castle, did not know the concept of ‘mine.’

“Don’t put anything next to that thing. Absolutely.”

“If you can’t see anything, you won’t be greedy.”

“Be careful not to let the dragon have a mate……!”

And he stares at Calypso in front of him.

Is Calypso…… mine?

Unfortunately, the voice in his head did not tell him what ‘mine’ refers to or how to make it.

Ekion had to judge for himself.

He thought and thought and realized.

I want to have what I want.

Then that’s mine, right?

To do that, I had to become more amazing myself.

At least so that Calypso no longer sees me as just someone to protect.

It was no longer enough to suppress growth to match Calypso’s eye level.

It was a fact he realized in front of the basement, feeling himself unable to enter the basement.

“……Then is it possible to bring back the power I had when I was strongest?”

I can’t fulfill Calypso’s wish. So I have to become stronger.

Calypso shouldn’t abandon me.

If you abandon me…….

If you abandon me?

“Let’s forget about everything you said today. I’ll figure out the power of water on my own. In the worst case…… it’ll be okay even if I don’t have it. I don’t want you to die.”

I don’t want to be abandoned.

So if I become strong enough to grant your wish without dying.

But, even so.

If you abandon me…….

The brilliant jewel-like eyes burned darkly before disappearing between the eyelids as if the sun was setting.

* * *

I was walking with a light step, humming and laughing.

‘Hoo, Ekion woke up, so my steps are definitely light, light.’

For some reason, Dad’s expression seemed more stern than usual as he walked with me, but when he met my eyes, he had the same face as usual.

I tilted my head, but decided to go back and ask him for now.

And when I finally arrived back at Grandma’s office.

“Huh, you’re only coming now?”

I faced Grandma, who was not only uncomfortable but also furious because I had made her wait.

No, she looked like she had been waiting for this, with a face that looked like she was about to explode.

“How dare you…….”

It was today’s main course.

“You have a wicked face for making me wait.”