Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 184

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This time, it wasn’t a life from another timeline. It was something Ocula remembered.

“Excuse me? You’re asking me to gather a list of weak Suin [beast-kin] families?”

Rarely did Anchovy question Ocula’s words. This was about ten years ago.

Pierre’s wife had given birth to a daughter.

That year, Ocula summoned her staff for reasons she couldn’t explain.

“Excuse me? A vo… vote, no, the authority to choose a successor… is that what you mean?”

She created a system.

Several Orca cadet families and weak Suin families with unique or remarkable talents.

She secretly granted these families the right to vote for a successor.

This was the voting rights of the eight families that Ilia had explained to Calypso.

The bewildered expressions of those gathered were still vivid.

“…Lord, we are honored to be given such a role, but may I ask why you are giving us this… opportunity?”

Among these eight families, Ilia mustered the courage to ask politely.

However, Ocula couldn’t answer.

Why?

She couldn’t answer herself.

Strangely, the more she thought about it, the more a letter seemed to flicker before her eyes.

She wondered if she was getting sick, but Ocula ultimately didn’t retract her whimsical decision.

However, she didn’t tell them the reason either.

“…Why the hell would you do this?”

Ocula was beginning to realize something.

No, she had sensed something a while ago, but instinctively tried to deny it.

Why was Calypso Aquaciadel speaking to her with such hostility here?

And why did that mature appearance suit her so well without any discomfort?

…Why did I make such an incomprehensible decision?

As Ocula bit her lip tightly, someone gently landed beside her.

“You remember everything.”

It was a boy with blue hair.

He had a dazed expression as if he was sleepy, but the moment he saw Ocula, a dark light flashed in the beautiful boy’s eyes.

“You can’t look away.”

It was Duke Dragon. The boy had a mysterious snake with a blue glow on his shoulder.

The snake’s eyes shone eerily like Duke Dragon’s.

* * *

-Duke…

Ten minutes ago.

Ecion was floating in the space he shared with Tooth.

-Are you really going to use it?

Dragons gain immense power when they enter the rift of time.

Usually, they use this power to prepare for growth.

This is because dragons have a weakness: if they don’t grow within a certain time, their existence becomes unstable.

However, Ecion wanted to use this power not for growth but for something else.

-Tooth, I don’t think this is a good idea…!

Tooth was busy trying to stop Ecion after hearing his story.

However, he failed to stop his master. Tooth felt like sighing.

With the time already short to find Calypso, Ecion had summoned Ocula here first instead of Calypso.

Then, he even showed her a specific time. His intention was clear.

‘Calypso probably arrived at the desired time… I need to go pick her up before she flies off to another time…’

Tooth groaned.

Meanwhile, Ecion landed next to Ocula.

Ecion had learned emotions.

While learning, he realized something.

People sometimes don’t know their own hearts even when it’s their own, and sometimes they deceive themselves even when they know well. Foolishly.

So, Ecion decided to act.

“You can’t escape.”

He decided to reveal the truth that Ocula, who had watched her past, had forcibly ignored.

No, it was something that ‘Ocula’ from sometime ago had felt but ignored.

And this was a great success.

“…”

The dragon’s cold eyes turned to Ocula. Ocula was bewildered by the assumptions that were rushing through her head.

Calypso’s attitude, the unusually realistic scenes before her eyes, and…

The truth was before her eyes.

“Duke Dragon manipulates space-time.”

“…”

“This is just something that might have happened one day.”

Faced with the truth, Ocula felt bewildered.

Memories gushed out of her head like a bomb exploding.

In the past, ‘Ocula’ felt ‘guilt’ for the first time at the death of her granddaughter.

She wanted to hide that her heart had been swayed by that mere letter.

Regret? Remorse? How dare she feel such emotions?

She was ashamed that she, the strong head of the family, felt such emotions.

It was absurd.

To think she wanted to reverse her past decisions.

She, who was strong and had made all her decisions right during her life.

She didn’t want to admit that she had committed an irreversible act.

“Remember everything.”

The words that fell softly were a sentence.

At the same time, the moment Ecion touched her, unfamiliar memories poured into Ocula’s head.

It was only memories of Calypso feeling pain.

“Remember your time and Calypso’s time.”

A cold voice pierced her mind.

Ocula couldn’t help but groan at the memory of someone massaging her head.

“Who do you think you are, daring to do this to me…!!”

A huge and fierce force of water surged from Ocula’s body.

But this was the rift of time.

Amidst the scattered power, Ecion shed blood.

“You can’t tell Calypso.”

He engraved the memories of her past life and Calypso’s painful life into Ocula. And he placed a taboo on her so that she could not tell anyone.

“Don’t be understood.”

Ecion saw the scene where Atlan became Calypso’s one and only just by remembering the past.

Calypso might end up being nice to her if the head of the family remembers the past.

That possibility alone made something quiet boil over.

He just wanted her to regret it.

Even if her mind collapsed because of this, it had nothing to do with him.

“It’s a punishment.”

The dragon inflicted a terrible punishment on behalf of the regressor.

Since Calypso would eventually take everything that the current Ocula had anyway.

He would give this punishment.

Would Calypso praise him?

The boy innocently thought and touched Ocula’s forehead.

“When you fall asleep, time will repeat.”

All the times Calypso suffered are now Ocula’s.

Unlike Calypso, Ocula Aquaciadel cannot tell anyone about this.

Ecion smiled most beautifully.

“You can’t die.”

Only by Calypso’s hand.

Revenge belongs to Calypso.

“Ha…”

Ocula, who had learned everything, let out a laugh.

It was an empty laugh.

“Haha, hahahaha.”

The Orca’s laughter echoed in the empty space.

“…Defeat.”

But there was no one to help her anywhere.

Ocula realized.

“Then will you forgive the perpetrator?”

For the first time in her life, her granddaughter, whom she liked as if she had drawn her ideal child, was the one who hated her more than anyone else in the world.

She was the protagonist in a play made solely for revenge.

Because this fact came from her irreversible past mistakes.

“You’re so stupid. The question is wrong.”

…That’s how you laughed.

“It’s not about whether I’ll forgive. The perpetrator has to apologize.”

He had given her complete despair.

Ecion’s last gift. No, the punishment had arrived.

A scene unfolded before her eyes.

A crumpled piece of paper on the desk unfolds. The ‘Ocula’ of the first timeline stared at Calypso’s letter for a long time.

Her belief that the weak deserved to be eliminated was still the same.

She wasn’t wrong either.

She would never change this thought for the rest of her life, but.

“…Well, if we meet again.”

She didn’t know why she was muttering futile words back then.

“I’ll make an exception.”

Without even knowing what it meant to have an exception.

She repeated the same mistake in the second and third timelines.

Thus, she created an eternally irreversible situation.

Ocula’s hollow laughter grew louder. Like the laughter of a mad person.

* * *

I was busy pacing back and forth across the meadow, groaning.

‘Ugh, seriously, it’s so damn big?’

What should I do?

If I keep searching like this, I feel like I won’t be able to find Ecion even if I walk for the rest of my life.

‘No, is he even here?’

Ecion’s voice is no longer heard.

What’s the point of finding ingredients that I’ll never find! I need to go back and use them for Dad.

My heart was filled with anxiety.

I felt like I was about to fall into the overflowing urgency.

What should I do?

Besides, it was also a problem to spend an infinite amount of time here.

I couldn’t let Dad keep his eyes closed.

‘Or, the space broke apart when I was being shown my life earlier. Since this is also a space, will it break if I hit the air wildly?’

It was a moment when I was even having absurd thoughts.

A blue light mixed with gold landed in front of me.

That light is…

I raised my head with a sense of relief.

Someone gently descended from the air.

“Calypso.”