Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 227

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“Hey, wake up, kid.”

“Damn it, who are you calling a kid?”

I huffed and puffed as I got up. Two regressions. My third life.

My head was full of things, but my body wouldn’t cooperate.

Of course. I was just a fledgling who had barely awakened the power of water in my third life.

Besides, the woman in front of me was clearly very skilled in using the power of water.

‘The more I think about it, the more curious I get. Who is this woman?’

She suddenly appeared while I was training the power of water alone, gave me some guidance a few times,

and then just settled down and became my master.

After stubbornly refusing to call her master for a month, I cleanly admitted it.

‘No matter how I look at it, she’s not a direct descendant.’

She has gray hair. The symbol of the Orca collateral branches.

But strangely, there’s a slight white streak above her gray hair.

I’ve heard that there are rare people with white highlights like that even among the collaterals, but

this was my first time seeing it.

Still, she’s very strong and teaches well.

That’s all that matters.

My master, Caesar, with a handkerchief around her neck, really pushed me hard.

Until I rolled and rolled and became stronger.

“Where are you going now?”

Her *mal-tu* [manner of speaking] always went back and forth.

One moment, she’d use such rough language that would make a low-class thug from the back alleys blush.

And then, she’d use elegant speech. Anyone who saw her would think she was a lady who had lived elegantly her whole life.

If it weren’t for the cigarette holder in her hand, her loose clothes, and her slouching posture, anyone would easily be fooled.

She was beautiful, with a delicate face.

“Where else would I go but back to the family?”

“Is that so?”

“Where are you going now, Master?”

And the beautiful woman had a large scar on her face. My personality in my third life was already full of resentment and venom.

Even with my personality becoming rougher from rolling and rolling, it was something I couldn’t easily ask about.

“Me? Who knows.”

My master smiled brightly as she looked at me. If she didn’t have the scar, she would have looked like a well-raised young lady.

I don’t know her exact age, but I heard she was quite old.

“I have nowhere to go.”

“……Why?”

“Because I’ve lost everything.”

“…….”

I couldn’t say anything to the words that sounded heavy even though she was smiling.

“It’s so empty.”

“…….”

“But as I look back on my life, there’s only one regret, you know?”

It was a kind way of speaking. She was someone whose life I couldn’t guess, what kind of life she would live after parting with me.

Caesar looked at me and said.

“Goodbye, my last regret.”

Even though she said this, I didn’t take it to heart. I wasn’t even curious.

“What nonsense are you talking about again?”

“There is such a thing.”

In fact, at this time, I only had the thought of returning and becoming the head of the family.

So, I didn’t think much of these words.

“You have tremendous talent. That’s why you learned in three years what others take ten years to learn.”

As if knowing my heart, Caesar always smiled. She smiled even at the end. It was a smile without regrets.

“Achieve what you want to achieve.”

“How are you going to live, Master?”

“I’m going to live in regret.”

“…….”

“Don’t pity me. Everything was my own fault.”

We parted like this, and I looked for her after becoming the head of the family,

but I never saw Caesar again.

* * *

‘That’s what happened.’

I looked at my former master with complicated feelings.

The scissors created in her hand were made of the power of water.

The surrounding murmurs grew louder. When I raised my hand, it became quiet at once.

Seriously, the person who didn’t even show her face when I looked for her after becoming the head of the family in my previous life. She shows up here?

“……Calypso.”

Bellus strode towards me.

I thought he must have been surprised to see Caesar, a random woman using the power of water.

But, no way.

“……She is our mother.”

“Huh?”

I turned my head sharply.

“She is our mother.”

Bellus’s expression as he said this also looked complicated, but not as much as I, who had suddenly been hit by a nuclear bomb.

‘What is this suddenly like a *makjang* [over-the-top] drama scene?’

If I had been eating something, I would have spilled water like the actor when I heard the line ‘Yena is Assemblyman Jeong’s daughter’ in a certain drama.

However, my eldest brother was someone who didn’t know jokes at all.

‘Huh, Caesar and Mom are the same person?’

My head throbbed.

“Don’t you resent it?”

“Who are you talking about?”

“Well, your mom or your dad.”

“Resentment is something you do to the person you resent. Why would I blame my mom who died right after giving birth?”

“…….”

‘Huh, could it be? Is that why she asked me that in my past life?’

There is such a thing.

When you don’t think about it at all, you just pass it over as a piece that fell on the floor.

But after knowing the whole picture and looking at it again, you think, ‘Oh, that was an important piece?!’

When I met Caesar, all I had in my head was the power of water that I had awakened for the first time, and the thought of training this power to become the head of the family.

I was a vengeful spirit full of resentment.

‘If you spend two lives like that, how can you not be full of resentment.’

So, I only trained with Caesar without even eating. I didn’t have the *yeoyu* [mental space] in my heart, so I hardly built up any affection.

I scratched my cheek.

‘Haa, let’s calm down for now.’

Whether it’s Caesar or Mom. It’s a situation where we need to talk.

I slowly raised my hand.

“Let him go for now. Let’s have a conversation.”

Caesar’s eyes stared at me.

She was still a delicate beauty. The only difference was that there was no large scar on her face.

So, this is what it feels like to have a face without a scar…….

Looking at her round and innocent eyes that didn’t look like an Orca, I realized.

‘My eyes came from there.’

“I’ll have enough conversation even if I let him go, so why don’t we have a conversation up close with that pretty face? We can make a sea oath not to touch each other.”

“You value your life so easily? Fine.”

Only after Caesar finished the oath did she withdraw the power of water.

“Are you the leader? Shall we have a talk as leader to leader?”

Caesar, who spoke as if she had never taken a hostage, was the same master I remembered.

There was no suitable place to talk, so we came to the lord’s castle, the city where Bellus was staying.

Perhaps because of the sea oath, Caesar followed me well even to the heart of the enemy camp.

‘Clearly, all the subordinates who came with her were sharks.’

There were no Orcas at all.

There were many things that could be realized here.

The most important thing is that she joined hands with the sharks.

Bellus was constantly looking complicated, but he went outside without complaint at my command to leave only the two of us alone.

“Are you siblings?”

“…….”

“You don’t look alike at all.”

I leaned back leisurely. My legs were crossed.

“How do you know we’re siblings even though we don’t look alike?”

“…….”

Caesar, who was staring at me, smiled brightly. It was a beauty’s smile.

“You two are famous, aren’t you? The eldest and youngest under the Orca head of the family.”

“You’re talking as if we’re completely unrelated people?”

Caesar swallowed her laughter without answering.

“Can I light some herbs?”

“Make yourself comfortable.”

Caesar put the cigarette holder to her mouth and spoke softly.

“You’re not asking if it’s a cigarette. That’s the question I get asked the most by people I meet for the first time.”

“…….”

“I wonder where I saw you.”

As expected of an Orca, her wary eyes were quite sharp.

“Well, we didn’t gather to talk about this.”

Soon, she put down the cigarette holder and Caesar started the main subject.

“Nice to meet you. I’m the leader of the group that leads the sharks. My name is Caesar. Well, it seems like you already knew my name?”

“You lead the sharks? Then what about Sheck?”

“He’s the leader of the guys who abandoned us.”

Caesar explained.

The sharks are largely divided into two factions. One is the group led by Sheck, who, as we all know, harbors tremendous resentment and hatred towards the Orcas.

“Not everyone inherited the hatred of their ancestors. They’re busy trying to live, so why bother continuing the will of ancestors they don’t even remember? There were guys like that too. Do you understand so far?”

“That’s the group you lead?”

Caesar nodded.

“In fact, some species of sharks are extreme, but most of them want peace. We’re also ordinary demihumans. But what can we do when they don’t even talk to us and kill even the same species? We lived quietly in hiding.”

As far as I know, Caesar is strong.

But instead of beating Sheck, she chose to take those who followed her and live quietly?

“But with all the ferocious sharks gone, I came to see you because I thought you might wipe out the shark *ssi* [seed/lineage].”

“…….”

“I’ve abandoned all the crooked guys in my group.”

“…….”

“The ones left are either sick, old, or young children.”

The subordinate who appeared with Caesar also looked quite young.

It was as good as indirectly revealing that there were almost no combat personnel.

In that case, it would have been impossible for Caesar to start a fight alone.

I understood the situation.

I even understood that she appeared because she was worried that I would round up and kill all the sharks.

But a question remained.

“Why are you going so far?”

I asked with a calm question.

“Aren’t you an Orca?”