Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 235

I hadn’t realized it was Whale from the start.

Perhaps Ekion had truly lost his memories.

He had watched Ekion and Calypso for over a decade.

For Ekion to look at Calypso with such emotionless eyes… No, with such confused eyes.

I couldn’t help but believe it.

Likewise, Whale firmly believed that Ekion had lost his memories.

However, he gradually sensed something strange in Ekion’s attitude.

At some point, Ekion’s eyes began to focus solely on Calypso again.

Affection was clearly overlaid on eyes that had been filled with confusion.

Ironically, having watched them as rivals for so long, he knew better than anyone.

That Ekion’s memories had returned, or that there had been a change equivalent to that.

He knew before even Calypso noticed.

Aside from his gaze, Whale occasionally felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity from Ekion.

Specifically, when looking at Ekion’s power or his familiar, Tuss.

After researching his own power, Whale concluded that he, the Humpback Whale, was inevitably drawn to the Dragon.

Whale’s ability was healing.

More precisely, he thought it was healing in exchange for a price, according to the law of equivalent exchange [a concept where something is gained at the cost of something else].

But the more he researched, the more new facts he learned.

Whale’s ability was precisely to return the body to its ‘pre-injured’ state by paying a price.

Whale decided to call it ‘time reversal.’

Although limited to healing, it was ultimately a power related to time.

So Whale thought that he might have felt an unidentified familiarity from Ekion’s power.

In this sense.

When he said he had lost his memories, Ekion’s power was fluctuating, and his familiar, Tuss, was no longer visible.

Of course, Tuss was still nowhere to be seen.

Ekion’s power was drawing a surprisingly stable line.

Perhaps he was the only one in the world who knew.

“…So that’s what I think. What about you?”

Whale told everything he had seen and felt, and his thoughts based on them.

Ekion didn’t answer until the end of the story.

Whale was certain of Ekion’s condition.

Separately, he also considered the possibility that Ekion might deny everything.

In that case, to Calypso…

“The Humpback Whale.”

Ekion slowly opened his mouth.

“I heard that you Humpback Whales gave up some of your power a long time ago in return for serving the first Dragon, is that true?”

“…What?”

“I see. So that’s why you can’t help but know.”

Ekion’s answer was completely unexpected for Whale.

Moreover, it seemed like he was answering Whale, but it also seemed like he was answering the air.

For a moment, Whale wondered if Ekion had gone crazy.

“What, wait a minute. So you’re saying I’m right?”

“…”

Ekion’s silence mostly meant affirmation. This time was no different.

Whale’s expression twisted slightly.

“Why don’t you deny it?”

“Because you’re already sure?”

“So you’re not going to play dumb? Then why are you deceiving Calypso?”

He had a hunch, but it was real.

Whale was confident in his hypothesis.

On the one hand, he thought there was a slim chance he could be wrong, and on the other hand, he thought there was a higher chance that Ekion would deny it…

Whale felt a sense of powerlessness and sighed, sitting across from Ekion.

This Dragon Duke had a knack for turning his insides out, both when he was young and after he grew up.

And look at those eyes that became strangely sharp the moment he mentioned Calypso’s name.

Why was he keeping his mouth shut when he was reacting so sensitively?

Whale decided to sort things out step by step.

“Are you sure you lost your memories?”

“That’s right.”

“So you lost them and then they came back?”

“…That’s right.”

Ekion slowly nodded.

Whale was once again at a loss for words.

He knew very well that Calypso hadn’t even called Ekion’s name since he lost his memories.

He even heard her refer to him as ‘Dragon Duke’ when Ekion wasn’t around.

“So are you the same Ekion I know now?”

“Maybe.”

Ekion stared at the air for a moment.

“…I have something annoying stuck to me.”

When he asked if that annoying thing was the ‘memory of the first Dragon’ that Calypso had mentioned, he said it was.

So was that why he was talking about the Humpback Whale ancestors that he didn’t even know about?

The more he heard, the more absurd it was.

He wondered if the man in front of him was really Ekion.

His obsession with Calypso was so extreme that it was beyond words, so why was he enduring such treatment from Calypso?

“Why, why did you go this far?”

As the most important question flowed out, Ekion, who had been answering so readily, shut his mouth.

Then he stared at the air or the window for a long time, and then Ekion slowly opened his mouth.

“Suddenly, while growing up, I lost my memories because of an overload…”

Whale knew this far. He now knew the reason for losing his memories.

“The memories gradually returned, but so did some unwelcome facts.”

If there was a difference between Ekion before and after his growth, it was that he could now have longer conversations than before.

“I had my power taken away once. At a time I didn’t expect.”

“Your power?”

So what? Whale’s question was valid.

“It’s important. Because the person who took my power was Calypso.”

Whale couldn’t understand even more. Calypso took it? When?

But he met Ekion before he did, so he thought that’s what happened then.

The important thing was that Ekion learned this fact while growing up.

“Thanks to that, I’m still incomplete even though I’ve grown up.”

To some extent, his familiar, Tuss, was completely permeating Ekion’s power, preventing it from going berserk.

“…So Calypso took your power, so you hate her? Is that why you didn’t say anything?”

“No.”

Ekion lowered his head slightly.

Whale shut his mouth for a moment.

A huge energy that he didn’t expect was flowing out of Ekion.

This power was weighing on his shoulders.

“Dragons… have an excessive desire to monopolize.”

A low voice flowed out of Ekion.

He learned it as he grew up.

Being unstable meant going berserk easily.

The Dragon’s rampage is like ‘resetting’ the timeline there.

To do that, it must first be destroyed, and then both he and Calypso will repeat their lives once more.

Ekion felt it.

Ekion, who had grown up and had the Dragon’s possessiveness… would go berserk if he didn’t receive Calypso’s love.

What’s more serious is that the Dragon’s instincts don’t recognize the precious beings in Calypso.

If he can’t control his possessiveness and obsession.

He will ruin Calypso’s precious beings.

After that, he will be hated by Calypso. As a natural consequence, the timeline will go berserk and repeat.

Calypso didn’t want that result.

Because Calypso.

“This life’s dream is to die of old age. After using up all my lifespan.”

When his memories returned, Ekion knew that Calypso was disappointed in him and distanced herself from him.

Even so, Calypso couldn’t abandon him.

Seeing this, Ekion challenged himself to a gamble for the first and last time.

If he pretended to have lost his memories like now.

He thought that Calypso would only give him just the right amount of attention.

Testing whether he could endure it.

Unfortunately, this gamble failed miserably.

Ekion swallowed the thirst that was rising up, but he was gradually reaching his limit.

“…Why didn’t you tell Calypso the truth?”

“Calypso will try to give me everything…”

In fact, Calypso tried to give Ekion everything, but at some point, she realized that it was a consideration for someone who was less mature than herself.

He desperately wanted to grow up to be equal.

At that time, he thought he could protect Calypso.

He didn’t know that the Dragon’s instincts would be an obstacle.

Ekion only learned about love through books. The book said this.

“Loving and liking someone means not doing what they hate… and enduring it.”

What about the Dragon’s instincts?

If Calypso hated it, he shouldn’t do it.

“I can endure it.”

“Until when?”

Whale thought that the person listening to this story should be Calypso, not himself.

But he didn’t show it.

He didn’t feel good.

He wanted to be the one and only person for Calypso, but that didn’t mean he wanted his rival, Ekion, to make such a miserable expression.

“I think you’ve made a really foolish choice.”

Whale sighed and said clearly.

The words he really wanted to say in this room.

“Even if you lose Calypso because of this…”

Ekion, who had lowered his head, slowly raised it. Sparkling golden eyes captured Whale.

“Are you just going to stand by and do nothing?”

Ekion slowly closed and opened his eyes.

Inside was a sharp glint that sparkled in the light.