Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 192

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At first, I couldn’t understand what Agenor was talking about.

Surrounded? Here, of all places?

“Huh?”

Third, with a face full of animosity, continued,

“The head [referring to the leader of the family] is looking for you, specifically. What should we do?”

He looked ready to rush out at my signal.

Without realizing it, I reached for his head, then remembered I couldn’t reach even on tiptoes anymore.

Third tilted his head, then belatedly realized why I did that, and slightly lowered his head.

‘He used to reflexively lower his head whenever I reached out to him. I forgot.’

I was freshly reminded that Third had no memories.

Atlan, who remembers the 3rd timeline, Leavi, who doesn’t remember but sometimes acts similarly to his previous life enough to be mistaken.

Even Ekion and Tus, who know I’m a regressor and act naturally…

Being surrounded by these people, I sometimes only realize it with Third.

Like now.

Suppressing the emotions that washed over me like a shallow tide, I raised my head.

“Well, I figured he’d come around now.”

“Huh, are you going?”

“Then, should I start an internal war or something?”

Third made a noticeably dissatisfied expression.

He seemed to think I would fight back.

I don’t particularly have any plans to start a rebellion right now, but why?

“Master, I mean, Father has recovered now, right? Why are you still being so careful?”

Ah.

“Well, that’s true, isn’t it?”

“Right?? Should I go and chop off someone’s head right now?”

“Oh, that sounds like something Second would say.”

“Ugh, don’t say it like that. Or should I just assassinate him quietly?”

Yeah, now that sounds like you.

I chuckled softly.

Third, still offering his crown to me as if waiting for my touch, was a little funny.

I stroked the offered head once and pushed it away.

“Seizing it through a large-scale battle or internal rebellion isn’t bad either. But it’s not ideal. At the current moment, the current head has the support of major collateral families, so the side effects would be quite significant.”

“So what? Everyone will eventually acknowledge your power anyway, right?”

“That’s true. If the principle is that the strongest eats everything…”

It would be enough to widely announce that Dad has overcome his illness and gather people by leveraging his power.

And if we start an internal rebellion, it’ll probably be fifty-fifty.

‘No, maybe six to four?’

But in the end, we will win.

But doing this will only look like replacing a tyrant with another potential tyrant to everyone living here.

“Third, do you even know that the current head became the head through an internal rebellion?”

“Huh? No, I didn’t know. Really?”

I don’t want to take that position in the same way as Grandma.

I was about to explain more to Third when I felt another touch on my hand.

Slightly surprised, I glanced over.

Ekion was grabbing my hand and placing it on his head.

I chuckled softly.

I was about to stroke his soft blue hair when I stared out the window.

“Don’t worry. I have a plan.”

* * *

‘Wow, he brought quite a lot of people.’

I clicked my tongue inwardly, looking at the people gathered in front of the mansion.

“I’ll ask again. Are you really going?”

“Yeah. Don’t worry, Dad.”

The patient who should still be lying down was trailing behind me.

Actually, Dad can’t even be called a patient anymore.

Whale’s treatment was truly perfect, and even the doctor residing at Dad’s mansion acknowledged it.

Still, from a daughter’s perspective, wouldn’t I want him to rest after being sick?

“I want to go with you.”

But Dad seems to think differently.

“No, there’s something I need to hear directly.”

Dad pondered and said,

“30 minutes. If you don’t come back within this time, I’ll come get you.”

“Huh? Okay.”

“And if that happens, it won’t be a peaceful welcome.”

I awkwardly laughed at the faintly emanating terrifying power of water.

Wow, this is what it feels like to have an overpowered dad.

Actually, including my previous lives, I had never seen anyone stronger than or similar to me, who was the head for three lifetimes, so it felt strange.

There are two of them in this timeline.

I nodded to Dad and stared at Ekion, who had followed me.

“Ekion, I’m asking just to make sure. What you told me, it’s true, right? About granting my wish.”

“Yeah.”

Good. I clenched and unclenched my fist and left the mansion.

The group gathered in front of the mansion consisted of orca knights loyal to the head and forces from the collateral orca families [families related to the main family but not in the direct line of succession].

About two or three days had passed while we were in the gap of time.

After we returned, while I was busy with Dad’s treatment, Grandma woke up the day after returning from the gap of time.

Tus said it was quite remarkable.

If a regular beastman gets caught in the gap of time and returns alive, they usually don’t regain consciousness for a week to a month.

‘Even when rotten, a herring is still a herring [meaning even in a weakened state, someone retains their essential qualities].’

Anyway, it’s only been a few days, but the head went into this mansion and hasn’t come out.

Moreover, the head who came out of Dad’s mansion looked very uncomfortable.

They thought, ‘A fight is about to break out,’ and surrounded this place on their own.

Even though Grandma didn’t directly order it.

“They’re so foolish.”

“I heard the head left this mansion with torn clothes. The head never lets anyone who harms them get away with it.”

Surprisingly, it was an unexpected person who calmed down the forces that were about to turn this mansion upside down.

“They must be excited, thinking they can run wild.”

The person walking next to me right now. It was my first brother, Bellus.

About half a day after we entered the gap of time, the collateral families flocked to the mansion.

Atlan called Bellus.

“He’s the one who can handle the situation the best at that point.”

What did he trust to call him?

First hadn’t sworn allegiance to me like Third had.

Atlan just had a feeling. He said it with a face that wasn’t very pleased about calling Bellus.

“I know that bastard the best.”

He lives by his gut, so it wasn’t a bad decision.

As a result, Bellus not only resolved the situation but also postponed it, allowing us to have a few more days.

First shamelessly lied to the head, saying that I was sick.

“I also went to apply for a duel with Calypso Aquasialdel, but I couldn’t fight because I was sick. Unfortunately.”

Grandma, who knew that the relationship between Bellus and me was usually cold, didn’t say anything and let it pass?

‘If he hadn’t postponed it, I almost wouldn’t have seen Dad wake up. Besides, dealing with those rampaging guys would have been troublesome too.’

Moreover, he also dealt with the guys who were constantly looking for a chance to fight in front of Dad’s mansion.

‘Is this what you call a potential ally?’

I soon stopped in front of the head’s office.

First, who had come with me, glanced at me and warned in a low voice.

“…The head seems a bit strange.”

Strange? Well, I saw all sorts of things with him in the gap of time.

It couldn’t be the same as before.

“I have a favor to ask. Could you stand here and, if Dad happens to come barging in, just hold him off for about 5 minutes?”

“You’re assuming there will definitely be a fight. And you’re making a terribly difficult request.”

I shrugged.

“You’ll do it, right?”

Or not.

My gaze shifted and stopped on Bellus’s pretty and elegant face.

“I hate things that are half-hearted. Make your position clear now. Are you going to side with me or be my enemy?”

Actually, he helped me even though I didn’t ask him to, so at this point, he’s definitely siding with me, right?

I grabbed the doorknob. A very small breath brushed my ear.

It was a familiar chuckle.

“Okay, fine. I’ll do it.”

Without realizing it, I opened the door with a smile.

The aide who was always like a shadow next to Grandma, the anchovy beastman, was not visible when I entered the office.

The head was sitting alone in the large room.

His figure, quietly holding his position, seemed larger than usual.

The head did not look this way, with his head bowed.

A cup that fit perfectly in his hand was held in his large hand.

‘…Alcohol?’

Various expensive liquors were lined up on the table in front of the sofa.

One of the bottles was overturned.

I looked at the luxurious bottles, and finally at the golden liquor that was spilled and dripping.

The golden droplets dripped, drip.

“Sit.”

I remained still despite hearing these words.

“State your business, Head.”

“….”

Then the head slowly raised his head.

I met the dark blue eyes shining brightly through the hair that hung down like seaweed in the deep sea.

“Head?”

Why, though he was sitting grandly and oppressively, I felt like I was looking at a whale skewered by a harpoon.

A beast is still a beast even when skewered by a harpoon. Rather, it becomes fiercer as it gets wounded.

‘Dangerous.’

Because the current head was exactly in that state, I maintained a calm expression while slightly widening my stance.

So that I could throw a punch whenever I wanted.

The head chuckled.

“Where did you throw away that insolent tone?”

“I would give it to you if you wished, but this place and there are different spaces. At least I’m showing some courtesy.”

“….”

“Because I’m human.”

Did the head enjoy alcohol? Well, whether he enjoyed it or not, was it my business?

Since my pretense was already known, I stood shamelessly.

Even though I was lacking in strength right now, didn’t I have a good method thanks to Ekion?

The only strange thing was that there was not only anger in the head’s gaze. I don’t know what he was angry about.

‘He must be angry at the fact that there was something he couldn’t control.’

There were many incomprehensible things mixed in those eyes.

The head stared at me intently and said bluntly.

“Do you still want this position?”

It was a strange sound. Suddenly?

Well, I tried hard to become the successor, so he naturally thought that way.

“You want this position that I’m in, is that what you’re saying?”

“I don’t know why you’re bothering to say something so obvious. Of course I do.”

I still scanned the head, who looked fierce and sensitive as if he had been hit, and then opened my mouth bluntly.

The moment I thought Ekion could grant my wish, this is what I immediately thought of.

“Let’s fight.”

The owner of the orca group is the strongest and wisest orca.

Then who is the strongest and most knowledgeable in this family?

It’s me.

I tilted my head arrogantly and beckoned with my hand.

It was a blatant provocation.

“If I win, give me that position.”