Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 230

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That same night.

Before going to bed, I sat on the bed, leaning against the headboard, lost in thought.

“An invitation has arrived from the Imperial Family!”

As expected, the conference room erupted in chaos.

It was an invitation from the Imperial City, no less. Specifically, from the Imperial Family, congratulating the new head of the family on their ascension.

It was an invitation from the Imperial Family to hold a congratulatory banquet, asking me to attend and greet them.

“What a load of crap. Those bastards.”

That was Atlant’s response after reading the invitation. I agreed.

Congratulating me on becoming the head of the family?

It was just a trap. A blatant trap, openly displayed.

A half-hearted bait, no different from the will-o’-the-wisp [a phosphorescent light seen hovering over marshy ground] of an anglerfish.

When Father became the head of the family, they didn’t even send a word.

Seeing them send it now that I’ve risen, it was obvious what they were up to.

‘As if they’ve been waiting for this moment.’

Amidst everyone’s wariness and anger, I remained calm.

“Prepare.”

“Yes? Head of the Family!”

“Listen carefully. Tell everyone to prepare to move.”

Preparation of all personnel.

There was no one who didn’t understand this meaning. Because anyone who didn’t wouldn’t have been able to enter the conference room in the first place.

I had already been preparing since the moment I woke up from my long slumber.

For the war that would come again.

Now that I’ve swept away the shark bastards that bothered me and the small fry that remained in the main estate, there was nothing else to worry about.

I will repay the invitation in a splendid manner.

That was what I thought as I looked at the invitation, now soaked in water and torn.

Creak.

As I was thinking this, I heard the sound of the terrace door opening slightly.

Wobble, wobble. Someone quietly entered through the terrace door.

“You’re a bit late.”

The person who appeared through the doorway was none other than Duke Yong.

I stared at Duke Yong for a moment.

“I took a walk for a bit.”

“So it seems.”

I had been feeling the movements right below my room’s terrace.

No, I had attached a stream of water to that duke, so there was no way I wouldn’t know if something had happened.

“Go to bed early.”

It was already too late to go to bed early, but I feigned ignorance and patted the spot next to me.

Duke Yong hesitated for a moment, but soon lay down quietly next to me.

“Close your eyes and go to sleep quickly.”

Then, as if he had been waiting for it, he closed his eyes.

I stared intently at Duke Yong.

‘That Crown Prince bastard is so eager that he even sent an invitation.’

I saw Ekion overlapping in this innocent appearance.

I leaned back and slowly closed my eyes. I would be busy from now on.

Replenishing sleep was essential.

* * *

We were truly busy in the Gap of Time. I thought we could just go in and spend time blankly.

Kwaaaang!

“Please stop talking, Tus. Is the Gap of Time another word for apocalypse?”

-Tus, that, what does it mean, I don’t know!

“What is it?”

I gritted my teeth as I watched the giant being rushing towards me. I swung my fist around and around.

“It means it’s like X!”

Centrifugal force punch!

The being that received my fist wailed and then scattered.

It was a monster made of black mist. I wasn’t surprised to see it anymore.

Because I had seen it too often.

-Calypso, awesome!

“Be quiet.”

I gasped for breath and then collapsed. Soon, I exhaled all my breath and got up from my seat.

I didn’t sweat in the Gap of Time. In fact, they said I wouldn’t get tired if I wanted to.

I don’t know how to do that.

As I walked, a bonfire was crackling at the end.

A round back was bent and then turned around.

“Calypso!”

“Yeah, Yongyong. I’m here.”

I plopped down next to Ekion.

Ekion was quite busy, too, and there were traces of black mist around him.

It was a trace left behind for a short time when black monsters disappeared.

When I first entered the Gap of Time, it was peaceful.

Before long, from the moment that guy appeared, this space became dark and damp, and a zombie-like monster might pop out of the shadows at any moment.

‘Was I born into a childcare novel, or an apocalypse novel? Tsk.’

When I felt a gaze and turned around, Ekion was subtly looking at me.

In fact, there’s no way to stop the guys attacking like this in the Gap of Time.

They say that when a dragon is here, there are guys who are always trying to eat it.

On the other hand, the dragon has to endure by defeating these guys until it recharges its power to grow.

When I asked what would happen if I got eaten.

Then the dragon of this generation dies, and the next generation of dragon is born into the world.

‘That’s so futile.’

In a place where no one can see, in a place where no one recognizes.

To be able to close your eyes alone.

“Do all dragons always spend time alone in this lonely place?”

“…There are individual differences, but. Yeah.”

They have to go through this space to grow.

“Why do you have to grow so hard?”

Other beastmen grow up on their own if you wait?

Is it because the power you handle is so different?

Ekion answered quietly.

“Because I was born that way?”

“…I see.”

I turned my head back and stared at the bonfire. A world where you don’t get sleepy even if you don’t sleep if you want to.

A space where no one recognizes you even if you die.

I suddenly thought it was no different from my life.

“It’s similar to me that there’s no one to recognize me even if I die.”

“……”

“No matter how many times I, a regressor, die, it will be just one death to someone.”

Since monsters appeared at regular intervals, the time without monsters was truly quiet.

So I suddenly fell into contemplation and told that story.

“Doesn’t the dragon remember the past regressions?”

“……”

Sometimes I wondered.

Don’t you remember the time I experienced in the 3rd regression at all?

Ekion stared at me silently without answering.

* * *

-Duke Yong! Something has come in!

One thing that people often misunderstand is that.

The generational change of Duke Yong is known to proceed naturally over time.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with that statement, but to be exact, there was a time when it *was* naturally replaced.

This is because the time given to each born individual is different.

The individual ‘Ekion’ born as Duke Yong of this generation had an exceptionally long time.

Very long.

The problem is that since this is a time when it is naturally replaced, even if Duke Yong is killed by others or commits suicide during this time,

Or even if time is turned back due to a foreign entity from the outside.

The time when generational change occurs naturally does not change.

Dragons could instinctively feel foreign entities entering the time they managed.

‘Once, is it?’

The problem is that Ekion couldn’t know right away.

He recognized Calypso’s existence around the time Calypso regressed once and was living her second life.

And sadly, he realized this just as Calypso was about to die, and time went back.

A regressor who ignores the laws of time that appeared in the place he manages.

It is a disharmony caused by souls from other places from time to time.

When the 3rd regression started, Ekion just closed his eyes and ignored it.

According to the records, it seems that Duke Yong directly removes these foreign entities.

Ekion had no such desire.

Even though the regressor turned back time, Ekion had to live as Duke Yong for a very long time, so he could easily ignore the time being turned back anyway.

Occasionally, the Imperial Family, who read ancient records somewhere, picked a fight.

Except for this, it was a life without anything special.

However, the 3rd regression went strangely.

The Crown Prince of the Imperial Family who read ancient records somewhere.

This bastard was the problem.

Fate was not fair to all beings.

In the world, there were souls that shone a little more and had a little more.

Unfortunately, the Crown Prince was the most shining soul among them.

“Ahahaha, hahaha! Dragon! Destroy everything! Everyone who can’t have me, die!”

That the Crown Prince would abandon his shining fate to make himself go berserk.

This was Ekion’s miscalculation.

Ekion, who had gone berserk, was busy destroying this world.

He wasn’t completely out of his mind, but he couldn’t stop his body that had already gone berserk according to his instincts.

Even the Crown Prince, who caused the rampage, died at his hands.

Ekion felt annoyance and disillusionment for the first time in boredom and ennui [a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement].

Since there is a regressor, time will be repeated.

Then does that mean he has to repeat this process once again?

Should I get rid of all the ancient records when I go back?

The dragon is helpful to the world just by living and breathing.

A lump of energy that no one touches. That was the dragon.

At the end of the destruction, Ekion finally faced the regressor he had condoned in front of him.

“Ha… It’s Seoul?”

She was a woman who didn’t show any fear even in front of him.

Blood was covering her face, but her blue eyes were vivid and clear.

She stared blankly at Ekion’s back, and then at the subject of destruction.

Ekion stared.

“You must be having a hard time, too.”

A smile spread across her blood-stained face.

“I’m just a victim like me.”

Ekion paused. No, only his reason felt that way.

In fact, his body was faithfully carrying out the destruction.

“Actually, I was very lonely. Now that I finally have someone precious, why is it like this…”

Her leisurely smiling face did not seem afraid of death.

“In the next life…”

Is it because she is a regressor?

The regressor, whom Ekion had just let live comfortably, was a soul who had overcome fate from minus and finally climbed to the shining high ground.

…I became interested.

“Let’s meet again.”

In the moment of finishing the destruction himself, Ekion came up with a curiosity that he should not have had.

I was curious about what the world would be like where you, the regressor who defeated the most shining soul in this world, are the main character.

The price of a moment’s curiosity and interest was not small.

Ekion was deprived of his power at the moment when time turned back, just for the reason that he wanted it.

If you look for the cause, it was because he could not control his power due to the rampage until just now.

He was careless about the curiosity and interest he felt for the first time in his life.

The power of time that escaped from him permeated into the next regression.

Because of this, there was someone who remembered the past time even though he was not a regressor.

Because he was careless and gave a strand of his power to the regressor.

His power fulfilled the regressor’s wish not to be lonely anymore.