Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 198

Chapter 198

Pierre was quite displeased.

The duel today was a fight Calypso had been anticipating.

However, his daughter’s expression after the duel didn’t seem refreshed at all.

Rather, she looked like someone who had faced a new problem during the duel, her face a mix of anger and various other emotions.

His daughter was not one to show great emotional fluctuations.

She seemed to think of herself as someone who laughed a lot and was cheerful.

But sometimes that was just an exaggeration; the more he looked at her, the less she seemed like a child.

Anyway, it was something he had felt for a long time.

That’s why Pierre thought she would tell him someday.

So, even when he saw his eight-year-old daughter defeating the head of the family with power equal to his own, or perhaps even unpredictable,

He didn’t pay much attention.

“…….”

Was this all? Since when did she seem to share a deep connection with her second son, who appeared later, instead of Agenor, who was said to be her first subordinate?

He simply overlooked the fact that Calypso knew things he couldn’t possibly know.

Even now, he didn’t doubt something she possessed or wonder about it.

His displeasure wasn’t due to these grand things.

The situation where she grabbed Ekion’s wrist and ran off as soon as the duel ended.

That situation made him uncomfortable.

Enough to grab the Dragon Duke and instinctively ask what tricks he had been playing on his daughter.

“Dad!”

However, Calypso, who had returned to the mansion, looked very relieved.

“Sorry for suddenly leaving you with the aftermath.”

Pierre shook off his thoughts and stared intently at his daughter’s face.

As if his life’s goal was to check if she was hurt or had any shadows. At least, Pierre thought so.

His daughter had saved his life.

So, wasn’t it natural to live the rest of his life for her?

Even if she was hiding quite a few things from him.

The suspicious things had been serious since she appeared in front of him at the age of three.

“How is the head of the family?”

“He regained consciousness in the middle and walked back to his room on his own.”

Pierre paused for a moment before continuing.

“He said he would settle things as soon as possible.”

“Hmm, really?”

Calypso’s face was nonchalant.

“How funny. To admit defeat so easily.”

That was unexpected for Pierre as well.

Of course, the defeat was clear.

But that’s why the two father and daughter expected the head of the family to request another match or use all means to turn it into a power struggle.

“Well, he’s probably planning to stab us in the back.”

Still a nonchalant tone.

Calypso didn’t trust people.

That seemed to be why she could be so calm and indifferent to everything.

At least, he didn’t think the affection and trust she showed her father were false.

Sometimes, even if Pierre suddenly said he wasn’t on her side.

“Oh, really? I see. Well, nothing can be done about it.”

She would probably answer calmly and indifferently.

Perhaps his hunch was correct.

If so, what was the reason Calypso had become like this?

Perhaps it was related to the secret she was hiding.

“Dad, do you have some time?”

Pierre put down the documents he was holding.

As soon as he recovered from his illness, he was doing the work he hadn’t been able to do.

He hadn’t told anyone, but it had been difficult to read for long periods due to his illness.

But now that wasn’t the case, so he didn’t have to leave all the documents to Lyla.

He was reviewing them to see if there was anything he could do to help Calypso.

“Since there’s no one in this room, it’s okay to talk here.”

“Yeah, I like that too. Anywhere is fine as long as we can talk quietly. Oh, but where did everyone go?”

Atlan and Bellus had disappeared, saying they were going to have the match they couldn’t have before, and Agenor had followed his brother with a look full of interest.

Levi had headed to his room, and Whale had followed the three brothers.

To be exact, he had been swept away by Atlan.

Calypso laughed when she heard this story.

“They still love to fight.”

As soon as Calypso finished speaking, a faint water barrier spread throughout Pierre’s room.

Now, no sound would leak out.

“Dad’s water color is so mysterious.”

Calypso stared at the water quietly. After recovering from his illness, the color of the water Pierre used had changed.

Had the illness also clouded the color of his water? Or was it because he hadn’t been able to use his full power until now?

Little by little, everything had an impact.

The water that was now spread out had an emerald tint.

He had never been to the Mediterranean Sea on Earth, but wasn’t this the color he had seen on television?

“You’re saying the same thing as your mother.”

Calypso blinked.

Rarely did Pierre bring up his mother first.

“Dad, why don’t you say ‘wife’?”

“Well, she was definitely a woman who married me, but…”

“…….”

“I still don’t know if we were a couple.”

The face of a woman smiling faintly flashed through a corner of Pierre’s mind.

Calypso resembled that woman. She didn’t resemble him much.

Was he disappointed?

Or… was he longing?

“So, what do you want to talk about?”

Calypso missed another chance to talk about her mother because of the gentle but firm tone of voice that changed the subject.

It couldn’t be helped. There would be many opportunities in the future.

“I think I need to tell Dad a secret today.”

Calypso shrugged her shoulders once and looked at Pierre.

She had gone through a lot of 고민 [Korean: worries, contemplation].

The judgment, the decision, didn’t take long.

“Is it an important secret?”

“It is important.”

Because it was a secret that encompassed her entire life.

Pierre saw his daughter smiling. It was a smile with a slightly different feel than before.

“Dad, I’ve lived a very long time.”

“……8 years isn’t a short time.”

Calypso just laughed at Pierre’s joke.

“You’re a smart person, so you know I’m not just saying that, right?”

Did he want to know his daughter’s secret? Or was it okay to just bury it and live as a family?

Perhaps the reason he thought it was okay was not just out of consideration for Calypso.

“This is definitely my fourth life.”

Pierre’s sensitive senses, stemming from his immense power, may have already told him.

Since long ago, Calypso had always told him what he needed.

Precautions, notes, etc.

She was a child who always told him what he needed. She wasn’t a child who deliberately created secrets.

So, the fact that she had kept a secret from him all along.

“I am reborn every time I die and live the same life.”

…It was a story that if he found out, there might be a big change in himself or between father and daughter.

Calypso unraveled her story. It was a life story summarized as concisely as possible.

And when all the stories were over, Pierre knew that his hunch was right.

“What do you think? Would you believe me if I told you I had this dream?”

“At least I know it’s the truth.”

“…….”

“I believe anything my daughter says.”

Calypso’s smiling face wavered.

He smiled bitterly.

Pierre had never pitied his own life.

However, he knew that his life, the misfortune he had, was great in the eyes of the world.

“They say I die young.”

“Oh my, with such great power?”

“What a waste. A limited time.”

And he faced his daughter, whose misfortune was incomparable to his own, no, whose entire life had been unfortunate.

“……I never thought I’d find out what a terrible piece of trash I was like this.”

Three years old.

He realized why his daughter, whom he had first met, was so wary but sometimes looked at him with resentment.

He realized why she didn’t even expect it.

“……Haha. Not trash.”

60 years. The time Pierre had ignored Calypso within Calypso amounted to such a long time.

At this point, it felt like a miracle that Calypso had opened her heart in this life.

She was a strong child.

But Pierre knew.

Even a strong tree can sometimes die unexpectedly from insignificant little bugs or mold.

If her always composed and strong appearance had been rebuilt after collapsing.

The traces of the collapsed cracks had always been there.

If the precariousness he had felt in his daughter so far was like this.

He shouldn’t make a clumsy apology.

Forgiveness was his daughter’s responsibility.

“You don’t have to apologize.”

“…….”

“I’ve already forgiven Dad.”

Was it because she had revealed all her secrets? Calypso’s smiling face looked relieved.

“I didn’t think you’d believe me so easily. I guess I really like Dad’s composure.”

“…….”

“I don’t like making a fuss.”

Perhaps her nature of not liking commotion resembled him.

“I’m sorry, Dad, but the reason I revealed this is actually to ask Dad for some sorry requests.”

Calypso smiled brightly.

“When I think about it, I’ve waited decades for Dad to properly play the role of a father. Right?”

Calypso said shamelessly. Pierre nodded as if possessed.

“So, Dad, please wait just a very short time compared to that.”

Calypso briefly explained her plan.

“The reason I demonstrated such ridiculous abilities in the fight with the head of the family this time was because I used all my potential, so let’s say I’ll be asleep for about three years.”

“……Are you saying you’re going to take care of things during that time?”

“Yeah.”

Calypso stared at the window for a moment.

“I want to cherish the things that have changed in this life more, Dad.”

When she thought about it, Calypso had lived her 3rd life too busily. She had intended to live this life similarly, but her mind had changed.

“Actually… this plan is only possible if there is someone who can firmly support me from behind, someone I wouldn’t be worried about entrusting my position to.”

“…….”

“Dad is someone I can trust.”

The daughter who didn’t trust people smiled brightly.

“You’ll do it, right, Dad?”

This time, it was a smile without a single shadow.

Pierre knew.

That the smile she wore at the age of three was more childlike than the smile she wore now.

If Calypso was a regressor, the smile she wore at the age of three would have been the face with the traces of her previous life.

At least, if his time with her had left something on Calypso as well.

He hoped it would be the freshness and purity before his eyes.

So, he couldn’t refuse his daughter’s request to smile affectionately, even if it was mean.

“……Anything if you wish.”

That was the punishment for abandoning his daughter in a heartless life for a time he didn’t know, and it was a way to atone.

It would be a solid guide for the path to walk together as a family in the future.

“I will.”

A few days later, as the results of the duel were announced in Aquasiedel, the previous head of the family suddenly stepped down.

Following him, a new head of the family took office.

The name of the new head of the family was Pierre Aquasiedel.

However, he clearly stated.

That he was only an ‘interim’ head of the family.

* * *

Another week later.

Lilybell Aquasiedel received a sudden call.