Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 233

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I could only stare blankly at the entire scene.

Too much information was being given at once.

Information that was overwhelming even for someone like me to process.

And my loyal subordinate, the ever headstrong strategist, was looking down at my reactions with a smile.

If it weren’t for the single trace of overflowing tears, I would have mistaken it for a genuine, joyful smile.

“Have you forgotten all our promises?”

At those words, I finally snapped out of my daze and lifted my head.

“……Ha.”

Should I be angry at being deceived so meticulously until now?

Or should I feel sympathy and pity now that I know your circumstances?

Or should I complain about how unfair it is to be deceived with the same words and actions?

I couldn’t decide what to choose.

“……Congratulations. You’ve just become the biggest challenge since you became the head of the family.”

“…….”

“What, you.”

“I’m sorry.”

Levi slowly released my clothes. But I didn’t let him back down so easily.

“What are you trying to do now?”

“…….”

“So you’ve been deceiving me all this time, is that it? Did you think I would just laugh it off with something like, ‘Stop with the jokes already’?”

“But you deceived me before you died, Master.”

“…….”

“Promising that you would live until the very end.”

Levi placed his hand over mine, which was gripping his collar, just as I had done.

“…….”

“So I tried deceiving you too.”

The moment those words ended, Levi’s body was thrown outwards.

His cheek was swollen and red.

I quietly looked down, my fist clenched.

“It’s been a long time since you’ve been hit. Right?”

My strategist, I cherished you so much.

More precisely, I was careful because I knew you wouldn’t be able to withstand my fist for long.

“You were always safe when the other bastards were getting beaten up.”

“Are you saying I’m talking nonsense because I haven’t been hit enough?”

“You know me well.”

I answered with a glare, then sighed, placing a hand on my face.

“So what do you want? What do you want to do with me?”

“…….”

Levi wiped the blood from his lips and calmly stood up.

He staggered, but quickly regained his composure.

“Nothing. I just felt it was a shame to keep watching, so I wanted to tell you.”

He was a man who could have deceived me, Atlan, and Bellus until his death if he had set his mind to it.

“I just wanted to say that I won’t just stand by anymore.”

The moment Levi turned around and started walking.

Levi’s figure tilted, and he collapsed to the floor with a thud.

It was because the stream of water I created had yanked his leg.

I walked over and picked up the glasses that had fallen to the floor.

“……Master?”

I simply bent down and placed them in Levi’s hand.

“I wanted to hear you call me ‘Master,’ you who remember everything, at least once.”

“…….”

“Hearing it like this pisses me off, you know.”

I sighed deeply and reached out to mess up Levi’s hair.

“You’re really something. It couldn’t have been easy.”

“…….”

“You stay here. I’m going out because I’m pissed off.”

How much, or how long, had he endured, just hoping that I would recognize him?

I was upset, but I was also dumbfounded at how foolish he was.

It seemed like I was the one who needed to get some air, not him.

When I opened the door, someone was standing in front of it.

“Have you come out?”

The man who had been leaning against the wall, but had just straightened up, was none other than Hauser.

“……Weren’t you supposed to go with Whale?”

“Ah, all the business is finished.”

Hauser quickly reported that Whale had requested an interview with him.

He didn’t need to report even this kind of thing.

“Okay, do you have something to say to me? No, no. Even if you do, unless it’s really urgent, tell me later.”

“Why is that?”

“I don’t know, my head is a mess.”

“Ah, it seems you’ve finally heard it. Did that bastard confess?” I had been about to turn away, but I stopped and turned back around.

“What are you talking about?”

“I had a feeling that dolphin bastard would have told you everything by now. Weren’t you pretending not to know even though you had your memories?”

What is this now?

‘Hauser, this bastard, already noticed?’

My expression twisted.

“Is that some kind of bond between those with memories?”

“Ah……. Perhaps.”

Hauser tilted his head.

Dark eyes were visible through his curly hair.

The darkening eyes flickered with something mischievous, like a villain plotting schemes.

“The one who deceived me, and you who remained silent knowing all along. You’re the same.”

“I’m sorry. I thought you had already noticed to some extent, Master.”

I knew something was up.

But even that inkling was probably a gap that Levi deliberately revealed.

“Whatever. I’ll be fine in a few days. Anyway, it’s better to have one more person if you’re going to remember it alone.”

I shook my head slightly, thinking of the days when I was the only one who remembered everything.

Yeah, I’m just flustered.

“I’m going.”

Hauser didn’t follow.

He simply bowed politely.

* * *

“Well…….”

Hauser muttered softly, watching the receding figure.

Just as Calypso turned the corner at the end of the hallway, Hauser muttered once more in a voice barely audible to himself.

“If I had to choose, I would choose to be the only one who remembers…….”

That way.

Wouldn’t I be able to monopolize Master all to myself?

Slowly swallowing the feelings he couldn’t bring himself to express, Hauser turned around leisurely.

If he entered Calypso’s office, he would see Levi standing there nonchalantly.

Surprisingly, Levi, who was picking up and organizing the fallen documents, seemed completely unfazed.

Hauser clicked his tongue.

Master really doesn’t know this dolphin bastard.

Calypso probably thinks of Levi as quite a delicate guy.

But in Hauser’s eyes, this guy was a scheming human who thoroughly used even Calypso’s soft side to his advantage.

“What.”

Levi asked without looking.

He wasn’t even physically strong, so how did he know it was him without looking? He was a strange bastard, then and now.

“I thought you’d be crying after getting hit, so I came to tease you. Too bad?”

“Too bad for you. I’m fine.”

A dry conversation ensued.

“You wouldn’t have come to find me, leaving Master, just to say useless things. What is it?”

Levi put down the documents and adjusted his glasses.

Slightly cracked glasses.

His swelling cheek was enough to tell what had happened.

No, it was exactly as expected.

“I just thought you finally said it. I expected it, but it’s still amazing.”

“It must be nice to be so free that you have time to be sarcastic. I’m busy.”

Levi didn’t respond to the provocation.

“If you provoke me any further, it wouldn’t be hard to have you stationed in the farthest place from Master.”

“…….”

“Like in the previous life?”

Hauser smiled. A hint of anger was mixed in the sinister smile.

“You’ve always been all talk, dolphin.”

“That’s me saying I’m willing to accept any challenge. I’m speaking in a way that’s easy for you, who lacks intelligence, to understand.”

“You’re not even a handful.”

Levi raised his glasses and grinned. It was a cold sneer.

“If a guy like that is still alive and well. You should be scared of that fact.”

Levi tapped his head with his finger.

“It means there’s something else.”

As expected, the dolphin bastard was all talk.

On the other hand, he proved that his ability wasn’t just about his words. That was amazing.

“Don’t be so twisted and listen.”

Hauser opened his eyes and felt it while following Calypso.

Time had passed, and many things had changed.

Hauser himself knew this, but he had never felt it as strongly as when he was next to Calypso.

Calypso is surrounded by new people.

Not himself and his comrades.

Even so, Calypso wavered when he looked at him. To be exact, he saw a face that seemed to waver with nostalgia.

“Shall we hold hands?”

Levi stared at Hauser with the documents in his hand.

There are attractive males around Calypso. No, there are too many.

There was even one who was enough to steal Calypso’s attention.

So, the fact that Levi remembers the previous life has become an advantage for Hauser at this moment.

“Like in the last life.”

“…….”

“Until you and I can each take a seat next to him.”