Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 202

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Calypso’s expression was frigid.

And utterly empty.

She didn’t seem to care what happened to Ocula before her. Which was only natural.

“Apologize.”

Calypso’s memories flashed before Ocula’s eyes.

The curse left by Duke Yong.

“Anyone can say whatever they want with their mouth, who would stop them?”

“…….”

“But don’t assume I’ll accept it.”

The face of her granddaughter, weeping sorrowfully as if to empty all the water from her body, desperately looking at her, appeared.

That face faded, and Calypso reappeared before her eyes.

A face utterly indifferent.

How much had she endured for her tears to dry up?

It was a story she would have scoffed at not long ago, but now it was different.

Ocula moistened her dry lips.

It felt like she had gained a thirst that could never be quenched, no matter how much she moistened them.

Then what should she have done?

She was a weak individual.

In nature, the law of the jungle was natural, so wasn’t it natural for the beast-people, who were animals turned into humans?

In fact, after she became the head of the family, Aquasidel prospered even more.

The land animals still looked down on the aquatic animals, but they couldn’t treat her carelessly.

She established discipline and solidified her dignity.

What was wrong with what she did?

“……I’m lonely.”

Young Calypso murmured in the Black Leopard mansion.

Ocula closed her eyes tightly and then opened them as she felt the intrusion of someone else’s memories that she couldn’t control.

She hadn’t realized it before, but dreams were a very appropriate punishment.

Ocula had to feel the same emotions that Calypso had felt in the past.

And naturally, she knew.

Loneliness.

Decades had passed since she reached the pinnacle.

At some point, insomnia and emptiness slowly crept in like worms.

But a shadow that she couldn’t confide in to anyone was created, and she felt like only an empty shell remained.

The true nature of this was the same as the loneliness Calypso felt when she was cast out alone in the Black Leopard mansion.

The type might be different… but the essence was the same.

At that moment, Ocula fell into an even bigger quagmire.

For the first time in her life, she met a blood relative who filled her eyes, a granddaughter she truly wanted to bet her remaining life on.

But her granddaughter was a pitiful victim created by herself one day, and she was someone who had become a monster by feeding on it.

Ocula moved her lips.

If she couldn’t even apologize.

In the future, would she have to spend the rest of her life constantly suffering from insomnia and buried in loneliness with no one to confide in?

She had come down from the position she had held at the top for her entire life.

She had come down on her own, but she knew.

It was only a matter of time.

Even if she were to take the position of head of the family again, it would be a position that would be taken away.

Time and the era were not hers.

Ocula felt like the seat she was sitting on was sinking.

A viscous feeling like a swamp was pulling at her ankles.

Tonight, she would see her granddaughter die again.

Desperately calling out to her and hating her. Or dying alone.

Ah.

The name of that darkness gathering was despair.

“What are you going to do with me now?”

Calypso’s blue eyes looked at the old woman, who was large but somehow bent.

Why, the old woman before her was no longer arrogant.

It was the gaze of someone whose heart had been broken.

Why?

But did Calypso need to know?

She had erased even the resentment from the person she had resented for a long time.

The opposite of love is not hate.

For Calypso, who had filled her heart with subordinates and family in her past life and again in this life, there was no longer any lingering attachment.

Erase revenge and hatred.

Only indifference remained.

“I have a place to send you.”

The old woman before her was now just someone who had caused many children to die in the past.

Who couldn’t easily offer an apology with words?

Atonement is not done that way.

Calypso recalled the old house where she had grown up.

She recalled the children who had been separated from their parents by the head of the family’s order and had died of grief.

“Go and meet the parents of the children you killed, one by one.”

During the three years I’m gone, I want you to wander around, reflecting on the past.

Nothing will be given to you, who have sought power all your life.

“I hope my grandmother will be forgotten by everyone in a shabby environment.”

Calypso quietly imagined something.

“Don’t think your remaining life will be comfortable. I’m going to be cruel. Don’t be upset just because I was cold and neglected you when I was young. If I hadn’t been strong, who knows where I would have been sold off to?”

A dream where this grandmother truly became a meaningful teacher or family to her and taught her.

In her imagination, she confidently stood up to her grandmother. Her grandmother didn’t get angry and looked at her with satisfaction.

It was an absurd dream.

She chuckled.

“I hope you become shabby and pathetic.”

“…….”

“Then, one day, if you hate your shabby self so much… and the day comes when you want to die, come find me.”

“…….”

“I’ll kill you.”

You led me down the path of death as a Black Leopard so many times.

Why can’t I do the same?

“I’ll give you the death you desire.”

The Calypso before her was smiling brightly, but her eyes flickered with the madness that only a regressor could have.

“It’s my last consideration.”

Good, right?

* * *

The exile of former head of the family, Ocula Aquasidel, was decided.

Three hours later, Calypso entered the crack of time with Tus.

Without being able to imagine what would await her in three years.

Whatever awaited her, she was confident she could handle it, so it was okay if the imagination didn’t come to an end.

“This life is so much fun.”

Calypso smiled with a refreshed face and closed her eyes in the crack of time.

When she opened her eyes, she would be able to see Duke Yong waiting for her.

03.

The True Happiness of Cheongsan and the Orca

-9 years later.

Long ago, beast-people had different ages of adulthood depending on their species, environment, or their own traditions.

However, after the empire was established, the age of majority was legislated as ‘eighteen years old’.

“So, ‘that person’ will be an adult tomorrow.”

“That’s right! Isn’t it amazing, brother?”

Tata, the head of the Herring beast-people, was a bit timid.

How did he become the head of the family with this personality? Because his special skill was the best.

Moreover, he was a case of sublimating timidity into prudence and composure.

Above all, he had a younger sister named Dede, who was on the bolder side.

Dede was Calypso Aquasidel’s direct maid and now a lady-in-waiting.

“It feels like it was just yesterday that ‘that person’ was like a fry [young fish].”

“……Let’s be precise, Dede.”

Speaking of Calypso, the current head of this enormous Aquasidel.

“As far as I remember, ‘that person’ has never been like a young fish.”

Tata shook his head. But he agreed with some of what his younger sister said.

Time passed so quickly.

Nine years ago, Calypso entered the crack of time and spread rumors that she had fallen into a deep sleep.

But to those on her side, like Tata or Ilia, she told the truth on the premise of an oath.

‘A lot happened.’

She disappeared into the crack of time and reappeared exactly three years later.

The problem was at this time…….

“Everyone was horrified when the returning head of the family actually fell asleep…….”

“Brother, be careful. You know what a big deal it would be if you brought up that story even a little bit in front of Pierre, or Bellus, Atlan, or Agenor?”

“……Me, am I crazy? Bring it up?”

When Calypso returned after the promised three years.

Unfortunately, Calypso couldn’t walk out of the crack of time on her own two feet.

To be exact, she came out fine and then collapsed and fell asleep.

She had fallen into a deep sleep, just as she had spread the rumors.

It wasn’t a disease or a fainting.

In the face of Calypso’s inexplicable sleep, Aquasidel was in a state of emergency.

Tata still shuddered when he thought of Pierre’s appearance at the time, who was the acting head of the family.

“Find out the method and reason, even if you have to search the entire world.”

It was as if this enormous family was useless if Calypso didn’t open her eyes, and his appearance resembled the calm before the storm.

Only Tus, a member of Duke Yong’s retinue, shouted that it was a sequelae [after-effect] of someone who had spent a long time in the crack of time.

As Calypso’s sleep lengthened, no one listened to this.

If it hadn’t been for Duke Yong being by her side, saying that the time she was asleep would be reduced…….

Perhaps Duke Yong would have been beaten by the angry Pierre or the three brothers, and his whole body would have been covered in wounds.

That’s how Calypso woke up after sleeping for exactly three more years.

“It’s a good thing she woke up.”

“Ugh, she woke up in the middle of a civil war.”

The problem was that Pierre had temporarily put aside internal affairs to take care of Calypso while she was asleep.

Bellus took responsibility, but those who escaped Pierre’s eyes moved secretly.

A rebellion broke out.