Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 183

Chapter 183

‘Tsk.’

The current head of Aquasiedel, Ocula Aquasiedel, clicked her tongue.

She was clearly looking at her granddaughter, Calypso Aquasiedel.

However, the moment that child grabbed the door that suddenly appeared, her vision went black, and before she knew it, she was standing in an unfamiliar place.

As someone who had lived for many years, she wasn’t flustered.

Of course, everything that had happened since entering this place was filled with things that would be surprising even for her.

The same thing that happened when she was with Calypso occurred here as well.

Someone was moving before her eyes. Ocula, who looked exactly like herself.

No, it should be called another ‘Ocula’.

* * *

The ‘Ocula’ from the first timeline was busy with her duties.

“Um, Head. The regular report has arrived from the spy we planted in the Pantheion Duchy.”

Her secretary, an anchovy-type merman (a merman resembling an anchovy), was a bit timid but exceptionally smart.

It meant that he had the ability to be by the side of ‘Ocula,’ who disliked timid people.

“Summarize it.”

“Yes, um… It seems that the Pantheion Duchy and, um, the mainland beastmen are still not leaving the Princess alone.”

The story of her granddaughter, or rather, the granddaughter she had sold off to the black panther family as a fiancée, was reported regularly through the planted spy.

The foolish granddaughter from Aquasiedel was not adapting and was being left behind there as well.

It wasn’t a strange thing.

It had been 10 years since she was sent, but the fact that she still couldn’t stand up for herself was just laughable.

She was her granddaughter, and Pierre’s daughter. Moreover, the woman who was Pierre’s wife was not of ordinary character. How did such a mutation come about?

A failure.

‘Ocula’ didn’t care.

Then one day, another news arrived.

“Um, Head… It seems the Princess has passed away…”

A thin report arrived stating that ‘Calypso’ had become a cold corpse.

“They must have thought this might happen someday. Um, the Princess left a will and Pantheion sent it to us. Looking at it, it’s more like a letter to you, Head, rather than a will.”

“……”

“Shall I discard it?”

Unlike other days, ‘Ocula’ read the report herself. And she also received and read the letter that ‘Calypso’ had left behind. It was just a whim with no meaning.

「Hello, Grandma.

By the time you read this letter… I probably won’t be in this world, right? Because I left it as a will.」

The paper was crumpled. A pitiful girl, trembling and crumpling the end of the paper, seemed to be visible.

It was useless content.

Just as she was about to stop reading, the main point followed.

「I resent you. I really hate you. I hated you until you died, and I will hate you even after I die.」

It was content that seemed calm yet screamed. Traces of crumpled paper here and there. Had she cried? She probably had.

She was a useless failure who cried a lot.

「But it’s funny, isn’t it? Thinking that I’m about to die… I thought of you, Grandma.」

‘Ocula,’ who was about to crumple the paper, paused for a moment.

「It’s so funny to me too, I don’t understand myself… Grandma, you were the only family I saw alive. So, when I thought I was dying, your face came to mind.」

‘Ocula’ didn’t understand why she was reading such a pathetic letter without taking her eyes off it.

「Why do I think of you as family? All you ever showed me was a face that called me trash, the person who abandoned me miserably until the end… But, I still believe you are family.」

The pressed letters were someone’s desperate screams.

「I’m lonely, Grandma. It’s hard. It’s so hard. I wanted to die, but I was afraid of dying. But do you know what’s the most miserable thing? Everyone knows me as someone who was abandoned even by Aquasiedel.

Why am I alive?」

“……Head?”

「Grandma, I know I’m going to die. Why? Because I chose it myself. That I could die like this.」

The thin report stated that ‘Calypso Aquasiedel’ had been poisoned by the Crown Prince.

The mainland beastmen knew that the dirty orca merman who dared to approach the Crown Prince had died in an accident.

They thought it was a good thing.

And the letter delivered to ‘Ocula’ informed her that all of this was different from the truth.

That she had chosen death herself.

「I will resent you even after I die. I wanted to have a family. What did I do wrong? Why, why do I have to die if I’m weak? Why do I have to die unfairly?」

‘Ocula’ stared blankly at the letter that someone would have felt sorry for.

「But the most foolish thing at this moment is probably me, still thinking of you as family even when I know I’m about to die.」

Yes, it was truly absurd and utterly foolish content.

「I know it’s a stupid thing to say, but I miss you. What did Aquasiedel ever do for me that I want to go back?」

Yes, it was foolish.

She should have done something with the time she spent leaving such a letter. What remains when you die?

Tsk, she should have clicked her tongue. If it was hard, she should have run away.

Why was she so foolishly enduring?

「My last request. Please remember me, the one you called trash. At least in death. That there was such a granddaughter.」

There was nothing to gain from saying such things.

「Please remember me.」

‘Ocula’ coldly smiled only after seeing the last words.

Meanwhile, the anchovy merman, who was the aide, tilted his head, not knowing why the Head couldn’t take her eyes off that mere letter for so long.

Why is she being like this?

“……Anchovy, how did she die?”

“Ah, are you talking about the Princess? Um, it’s known as a carriage accident, but it is said that she had already died from poison in the carriage before the accident.”

“……”

“Indeed, the Imperial Family used a terrible poison. But the strange thing is that the poison had a foul smell, so it would have been difficult to drink it by mistake. Orcas have a sensitive sense of smell, don’t they?”

That was true.

Aquatic animals have a more developed sense of smell than sight. Therefore, a sensitive sense of smell is a characteristic of most aquatic animal mermen.

The last sentence was once again captured in her eyes.

「But you know what? ……If, by any chance, we meet again, can’t you just be warm to me just once?」

The letter was soon crumpled in ‘Ocula’s’ hand. And it fell onto the desk with a thud.

“Prepare for the next meeting.”

“Yes, Head.”

‘Ocula’ hesitated for a moment.

It was something she couldn’t understand herself.

“……What happened to the body?”

“Yes? Ah, are you talking about the Princess? Um, I don’t know. Wouldn’t the black panther side have taken care of it?”

‘Ocula’ frowned, realizing what she was trying to say.

Why care about the dead?

She was just someone who was foolish until the end and died because she couldn’t become strong on her own.

A mere letter was not enough to shake ‘Ocula,’ she was too cold as the head of the family.

However, what bothered her was.

That no one called her family.

She was the ruling head of the family before she was anyone’s family.

‘Ocula’ walked to shake off the lingering feeling, but why couldn’t this slight feeling be shaken off even with the shaking?

‘Calypso’s’ last request in the letter was not kept.

Because she also died lonely after being chased out to the black panther family in her second life.

‘Calypso’ didn’t even leave a will in her second life.

Because she already knew it was useless.

However, there was one fact that ‘Calypso’ didn’t know. That the spies reported more frequently.

Occasionally, very rarely, the spies secretly helped ‘Calypso’ under ‘Ocula’s’ orders.

Mostly, it was to prevent ‘Calypso’ from encountering the black panthers by blocking her path or preventing her from going to crowded places.

However, it was protection that was worse than nothing.

Because of this, ‘Calypso’ was misunderstood for making a mistake to Lily and was imprisoned.

Ordering protection for someone she forcibly sent away was no different from crocodile tears.

The results were eventually conveyed to Aquasiedel as well.

“The Princess eventually died of tetanus.”

“……”

“Head?”

The ‘Ocula’ of the second timeline felt strange about the death of her granddaughter whom she had sent away.

But this was only temporary.

She was about to enter the meeting as is, but for some reason, she uttered a word that was close to a whim.

“……Find her and bury her in Aquasiedel.”

“Yes?”

“Should an orca be buried in that smelly land?”

“Yes. Um, I understand……!”

‘Ocula’ couldn’t understand why she felt so uneasy.

Well, wasn’t it because her destined rival and those hateful black panther bastards dared to kill an orca?

The dead ‘Calypso’ was a failure, but she was still a member of Aquasiedel.

It would have been different if she had died here, but she died in that land, so it was bound to be 신경 쓰이다 [bothering her].

It was a selfish act.

‘Ocula’ helped ‘Calypso’ who was in the black panther mansion, but was it really consideration that she acted as she pleased while she was the one who sent her away?

‘Ocula’ even committed 배려 [consideration] according to her taste.

‘Am I getting old?’

It wasn’t even funny.

The fact that she, who didn’t even blink an eye at the deaths of her sons, felt regret at the death of her young granddaughter.

‘She was Pierre’s daughter…….’

That’s just what she thought.

Still, she was Pierre’s daughter, would things have been different if she had kept her in the family?

However, ‘Calypso Aquasiedel’ was the only direct female child who could be sent as a token of trade in Aquasiedel.

Lilybell was also a granddaughter, but she suffered from an incurable disease. So, if she had sent her, Pantheion would have found fault with giving them a flawed person as a fiancée.

The ruthlessness of trading children was commonplace for the head of the Aquasiedel family.

Even so, why.

Is she 신경 쓰이다 [bothering her]?

Watching the slowly disappearing scene, Ocula frowned.

Although it was an event that didn’t happen, wasn’t it truly realistic? Everything was truly an action she would have taken.

She felt a sense of revulsion that was beyond goosebumps.

‘Tsk, why do I have to keep seeing this kind of thing.’

Was it called a gap in time?

If this gap was a living, breathing being, she felt like asking if it had any ill feelings towards Calypso.

Since a while ago, it has only been showing her living a miserable life, hasn’t it?

In fact, that child is living well, making a name for herself as a genius in Aquasiedel.

And Ocula coveted her granddaughter.

No, she was the only one.

She resembles me.

Yes, she is the only one who will do.

She will definitely make Calypso the head of the family.

The next head will be her.

Aquasiedel would prosper even after her.

So, there will never be a destruction like the one I saw with Calypso earlier.

That’s how it will be…….

Why does she keep feeling this strange sense of revulsion?

The moment Ocula frowned, a scene unfolded before her eyes.