Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 188

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The light that Whale summoned miraculously brought a breeze into the room, even though not a single window was open.

Hair swayed this way and that in the vast ocean that filled the room.

Perhaps that’s why it caught my eye.

“Um, I gave my ribbon to Whale.”

“…Why?”

It was fascinating.

Eckion, who usually only cared about me or our relationship, was curious about my relationship with someone else.

“I had a reason to give it to Whale.”

I hesitated for a moment before speaking.

I wondered if I should tell Dad or Levi first.

But it should be fine. It’s Eckion, after all.

“Because I have to take responsibility for Whale for the rest of my life.”

The moment I said that and looked up, I felt like I had a huge lump of iron on my shoulder!

It wasn’t an actual physical impact.

It was just that Eckion was looking at me with an expression as if he had lost the world.

…Huh?

“For life?”

It was strange.

Eckion must have seen me accepting subordinates more than once.

Why is he reacting differently this time?

If I were a kindergarten teacher, I’d be more focused on a kid who suddenly started crying when they never had before.

Seeing him look so desperate when he usually didn’t made my heart drop.

“…What about me?”

“Huh?”

Eckion’s hand was still holding onto me.

Whale was still praying, and a huge light was swirling between us.

“Calypso doesn’t give away her things, does she?”

“…Uh, well, do you know me that well?”

“If you’re curious about Calypso’s things, she’d rather buy you a new one.”

“…”

Well, he knows me well. I realized it was a stupid question only after I said it.

But how did he know?

Just from me giving my ribbon to Whale, Eckion noticed that something was different.

Are dragons quick-witted?

It was the first time he’d shown this side of himself.

I hesitated and then smiled a little.

“Just bear with me for a bit, Eckion.”

“…”

“Right now, I’m focusing on you at this moment when Dad might or might not open his eyes again.”

“…”

I thought for a moment and then said,

“If someone else had talked to me like this right now, I would have ignored them, no matter who it was.”

I smiled slightly.

“Isn’t this enough for now?”

I glanced at Dad and then at Whale. Both were still undergoing treatment and hadn’t moved.

Eckion stared at me intently and then strode closer.

I thought he was approaching as usual.

But I realized it only when Eckion’s irises were so close that I could see them clearly.

He’s close.

“Calypso, taught.”

“…”

“Unique thing.”

The emotionless voice of the child pierced my ears like an awl.

The jewel-like eyes flickered, blindly fixed on me.

I’d seen blind devotion directed at me countless times, but the fact that I felt it a little differently must be because Eckion is a dragon?

His language is different from ordinary people, so it makes me focus more.

“Saw in book. ‘Salvation has responsibility’.”

“…Our little dragon knows such difficult words?”

“Calypso take all me.”

This little dragon often says things that confuse people.

He may have had difficulty distinguishing since he learned the language recently.

Or maybe I’m hearing it differently because I just heard a proposal.

“You’re giving me something too precious.”

I hesitated and then spread my hands. I remembered hugging Eckion like this when the old woman in the next room stimulated him and he almost went berserk.

“It’s so precious and heavy that I wish you’d think about it a little more.”

I wondered if it would help if he was feeling insecure.

Eckion came closer and hugged me tightly.

“Stay by my side as long as you want.”

“…”

I patted his back as if hugging a large whale, as if to calm him down.

Since Eckion had formed an attachment to me, he might have felt that Whale was interfering with that relationship.

Eckion rubbed his head lightly against my neck and whispered softly.

“…Calypso, read in book again. Good word.”

“Okay. Let’s make that the last one and talk about the rest later. Okay?”

There was no answer, but I felt Eckion nod.

“In book…”

Soon after, the child’s voice echoed softly in my ear.

“‘What is obtained by saving is good. But what is obtained without saving is better.'”

As if without even seeing it, I needed it, so I accepted Whale’s proposal.

And as if his affection, which I didn’t ask for, was better than that proposal.

‘…Unintentionally popular. Me.’

Maybe Eckion doesn’t like me as much as Whale does.

It was an inevitable thought at this moment.

And three hours later.

All treatment was completed.

“Treatment, finished.”

And Whale collapsed as soon as the treatment was over.

* * *

A large room.

A tall man with disheveled hair was lying on the bed.

I stared blankly at his jet-black hair. The white hairs that were dotted here and there told me that he was an orca [a type of toothed whale].

And at my feet, sitting under the bed, was a blue-haired boy wrapped in a blanket, fast asleep.

Eckion didn’t want to be separated from me, so he fell asleep uncomfortably like this.

Looking back, it was a dark night.

My eyes were dry, so I rubbed them roughly.

“The treatment was successful.”

Whale, who collapsed after all the treatment was finished, still hasn’t woken up, even after two days.

Levi, who knew Whale’s abilities well, simply conveyed the message instead.

After that, Levi diligently took care of Whale, and I stayed by Dad’s side.

I was already nonchalantly doing huge amounts of laundry and cleaning at the age of three.

There was no way that taking care of a collapsed person would be difficult now that I was eight years old.

‘He said he’d wake up, but when is he going to wake up?’

Everything else was put on hold.

The conversation with Eckion, telling Levi about what happened with Whale.

Allowing Atlan and Agenor, Ilia and Layla to visit me.

I just wanted my family, my dad, to open his eyes.

“…I don’t want to see anyone die anymore.”

In the quiet room, it was two days that I didn’t know how had passed. After a long silence, my true feelings burst out.

It was at that moment.

The tightly closed white eyelids trembled slightly.

The eyelashes hanging down were long and full, not like those of an adult man.

Unlike the delicately felt eyelashes, his face was somewhat tired and decadent.

Dad’s eyelids vibrated once more…

And then, they slowly opened.

I greeted him with a face that didn’t know whether to cry or laugh.

“You’re awake?”

How does it feel to open your eyes to a new world?

You stupid Dad.

“…”

Dad stared at me for a moment and then said with a calm expression.

“I’d like you to tell me just one thing.”

“What?”

“Is this heaven?”

I ended up laughing with a tearful face.

“…Dad can’t go to heaven. For making his only daughter’s heart ache so much.”

“That’s quite a charge. One that I like and dislike at the same time.”

“…”

Dad reached out and gently stroked my hair.

“I’ll have to do better from now on.”

“Yes, you’ll have to do better.”

I squeezed Dad’s hand tightly and rubbed my eyes.

“I went to the trouble of curing Dad’s illness. So live a long, long time from now on. Live longer than me.”

Dad paused.

He didn’t say anything for a while. As if he had heard my words in a dream.

Dad with a bewildered expression.

It was a truly rare expression.

While I couldn’t help but laugh, Dad’s lips parted.

“Is…that so. So that’s what happened.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

As soon as I lightly responded, my body floated up into the air. I felt a sense of familiarity with the floating sensation, and I felt happy first.

I glanced down at Eckion, who was fast asleep, and after confirming that Eckion was still sleeping soundly, I stretched out my hand.

Soon, Dad hugged me tightly.

He whispered as he hugged me tighter than ever before.

“…You must have had a hard time.”

“Well, hardship is…”

I traveled through time once, and I stood up to the head of the family, so all the good image I had built up until now was gone.

But so what?

You can’t put a price on happiness.

“It’s enough that you’re alive. It’s enough if you don’t get sick anymore.”

Now, Dad will at least not die from the illness that has tormented him so much.

“Dad.”

He won’t have to suffer, and he won’t have to think about how much longer I can live when he uses his power.

I pulled away from Dad and smiled brightly.

“How does it feel to be free from your shackles?”

Dad stared at me and then smiled. More happily and brightly than ever before.

“Well, seeing your face again is the happiest thing right now.”

“Ew, cheesy.”

“Is this what it feels like to have a good daughter?”

“Such a fuss.”

Even as I said this, I let out a clear laugh full of joy from Dad’s arms.

For a while, the two of us had a joyful reunion.

I thought he would be curious about his condition, such as how his treatment was possible and why he had to be treated so quickly, but surprisingly, the questions he asked were all related to me.

How I’ve been doing.

What I’ve been doing, etc.

I was answering one by one when I clapped my hands as if I had suddenly remembered something.

“Ah, come to think of it, Dad.”

“Hmm?”

“I forgot, but there’s something you need to know.”

I couldn’t tell Levi because I was so busy staying by his side because I didn’t know when Dad would wake up.

“Well, I hope you’re not surprised to hear this.”

“…? That’s nothing new. Didn’t you casually tell me to destroy the Dragon’s Castle?”

“Is that something to be surprised about?”

“Anyway, listen and judge.”

I nodded.

Well, it won’t be that big of a shock, right?

“While Dad was asleep, um, I got married.”

Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]

Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]

A Villainous Baby Killer Whale BKWB The Eminence Grise Orca Baby The Mastermind Orca Baby 흑막 범고래 아기님
Status: Completed Author: Native Language: Korean
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[English Translation] Calypso is a killer whale with a secret: she's lived this life four times already. Reincarnated into a child-rearing story against her will, she's desperate to escape the endless loop of regression that resets her life before her 22nd birthday. In her third life, a world-ending dragon attack revealed a glimmer of hope – dimensional distortion! Now, in her fourth life, Calypso has a plan: use the dragon to return to her original home. Family? They're just pawns in her game. Get ready for a wild ride with a cunning, slightly unhinged female lead, a powerful dragon duke, and a family who thinks they're just raising a happy little killer whale. It's survival of the fittest, and Calypso is starting young!

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