Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 249

Loreil hugged the small child tightly. It was strange.

Among the land animal beast-people, the monkeys were notoriously discriminatory against the water animal beast-people.

So much so that those who had dealt with or interrogated monkeys were disgusted after just one encounter.

“Those bastards are like racism vending machines! Just listening to them makes me want to—! Ugh!”

“Calm down. Shall we calmly tear their mouths open first?”

“……You calm down, you jerk.”

If there was an opponent with deeply ingrained prejudices and impossible to reason with, it was the monkeys.

So, the man in front of me felt even stranger.

“If you help me, I will help you escape and guide you.”

Instead of answering immediately, I crossed my arms.

In this city, where even a blade of grass couldn’t be trusted, it would be ridiculous to trust someone on their word alone.

“Hey, you don’t trust him, do you? That word is…….”

“Let’s hear what he has to say. What do you want?”

“Calypso!”

The gorilla beast-person’s eyes widened.

I could see a distinct light in them. Why? As I watched, the man spoke.

“I see……. I expected it, but it’s you.”

“You seem to know me?”

“Yes. Well, if you’re an executive here, everyone knows you.”

I hadn’t been active in the capital since taking over Aquasieldel.

Even so, some things came to mind.

‘I made a big splash at the Dragon’s Territory arena, didn’t I?’

There were countless land animal beast-people there. It wasn’t strange that my face was known.

But my gut was telling me the man seemed to know me for another reason.

“Calypso Aquasieldel. His Highness the Crown Prince has mentioned you every year, without fail.”

“How?”

I asked without surprise. The man answered calmly.

“At first, he told me to remember this face.”

The man glanced at me.

“And then… he ordered me to kidnap you.”

“Next?”

‘Since that failed, I’m in this position,’ I thought.

Eckion and my brothers tensed beside me, but I waved my hand to stop them.

“Next, he seemed to want to propose…….”

“That crazy bastard!”

Atlan couldn’t stand it and got excited. A stream of water gushed out, revealing the gorilla’s face as well.

‘He’s not going to say some crazy bullshit about loving me now, is he?’

‘He was trying to secure me through marriage.’

Just like when I was engaged to those black panther guys in the 1st and 2nd timelines.

The Crown Prince remembers the 3rd timeline.

‘After the engagement was finalized, I ran away while going to the black panther family.’

He remembers this and is repeating it.

‘But I haven’t even heard the word ‘engagement’……?’

What happened?

“But His Highness the Crown Prince’s attempts have never succeeded even once,” Loreil explained calmly.

For some reason, every time the Crown Prince tried to propose, mysterious accidents or incidents occurred, repeatedly causing his plans to fail.

For example, if he wrote a letter, it would fly away in the wind or fall into the fireplace. If he sent someone, they would have an accident and be unable to deliver it to Aquasieldel.

However, there was only one time among countless attempts that a message was delivered to Aquasieldel.

“At that time, I heard that the orca family head at the time refused it outright.”

…That grandmother? I blinked, but only for a moment.

Ironically, she seemed to have done one thing I approved of.

‘In the end, even if I don’t know why, that bastard can’t reach me through normal means, right?’

When I thought about it, even when I saw him at the sharks’ base, the Crown Prince didn’t speak directly, using a clay doll as a proxy.

Even though the Crown Prince wouldn’t bother to travel to a faraway place.

‘Let’s combine it with Hauser’s report, who infiltrated the imperial family.’

He is under extreme restrictions.

Even though he had many opportunities to get revenge on me, he couldn’t forcibly hold me back.

What would a guy like that usually want to do?

I snapped out of my thoughts.

First of all, this wasn’t the immediate problem.

“The story has gone around and around. So, what do you want?”

Loreil bit her lip tightly. Gorillas generally had strong features.

Considering that, I thought he looked quite gentle.

“Do you have any intention of rescuing the whales? No, all the water animal beast-people?”

“What if I do?”

When I frowned, I seemed to have achieved the average intimidating impression of the gorillas I knew.

“Then, when you rescue them, please save my race as well. That’s the condition.”

“……What?”

Rarely, embarrassment came first.

“What are you talking about? You guys treat water animal beast-people like us as vermin, but you cherish your own race so much?”

The monkeys were crazy in a different way.

They believed that only lions, black panthers, and themselves were superior. A terrible hybrid of racism and superiority complex.

In other words, their love for their own race was so extreme it was unparalleled.

“Yes, you’re right that the common sense you know is being turned upside down and something is wrong. My brother… doesn’t hesitate to experiment even on his own race.”

Loreil wiped his face as if recalling something terrible.

“If you can, please dispose of it. This city… I mean.”

His face was pale.

“Shall we move our location first?”

Loreil looked around. This place was definitely deserted, but sometimes ‘hunters’ who had contracts with the laboratory appeared.

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“What is a ‘hunter’?”

Loreil glanced at me and answered in a voice that was neither low nor high.

“A person who hunts beast-people. They are beast-people who belong to the laboratory or have a contract with the laboratory. In other words, they are human [beast-people] traffickers.”

“They’ve given a good nickname to the guys who commit crimes.”

Loreil gave a bitter smile.

“I have nothing to say about that either. In fact, as a gorilla beast-person, I am also guilty.”

Loreil glanced at me once more and parted his lips.

“By the way, you don’t seem to mind the attention you’re getting……?”

“Not really. I’m used to this kind of thing.”

The place we were guided to was the underground space of the city.

Loreil and his companions were using the sewers and abandoned underground areas.

As I entered the huge cavity and walked through the corridors between the cavities, I could feel countless gazes pouring out, even though they were hiding and watching.

‘At best, it’s only the number that gathered at the Dragon’s Territory arena?’

Furthermore, having led the entire water animal army, it would be ridiculous to care about these gazes.

“Here it is.”

Loreil stopped in front of a door. I was looking at the well-equipped ceiling and walls, but I turned my head again when the door opened.

“Teacher, so? So?”

“Me too! Tell me too!”

“Kids, you shouldn’t cling to the teacher so hard.”

The first thing that caught my eye was children of various ages. There were very young children, as well as children about to come of age. There were also people who looked like young adults.

The children were gathered around one person. The moment I heard the laughter of the person surrounded, I paused.

“Okay, okay. Oh my, I’m going to die, you guys.”

Beige, no, dark brown hair was the first thing that caught my eye.

“Camilla…….”

Someone called her name before I did.

When I glanced to the side, Atlan had a face as if he had seen a ghost.

In fact, my face probably wasn’t much different.

Whether she heard the small voice, the woman turned her head.

“Um, who? A guest? Loreil, who is it?”

“Well…, hear it directly.”

“What’s with that unfriendly attitude? Hmm, it doesn’t seem like an enemy. Why do I feel so familiar?”

A cool tone. I took a breath in and exhaled.

“……Camilla Wallace.”

“Oh, that’s my name. What? Did Loreil already tell you my name?”

This woman with black eyes is a walrus beast-person.

She was the one who came all the way to Aquasieldel alone, away from her own race, and followed me.

And she was the leader of my army.

“…….”

She was also Atlan’s aide.

But, the fact that Camilla is here…

I soon groaned.

Because Camilla, who was approaching, was limping.

“……Atlan.”

I reached out my hand. A stream of water flowed from my fingertips and wrapped around Atlan’s arm.

To prevent him from clenching his fist any tighter.

“Relax. Your face is exposed.”

But Atlan didn’t seem to hear me. I sighed softly.

It couldn’t be helped.

I wasn’t the only one who lost subordinates in the 3rd timeline.

Atlan, who had poor social skills and a violent temperament, had almost always rampaged alone in the war.

However, due to his position as an orca and the family head’s brother, he did have a small number of subordinates.

This guy is seeing someone who died on the same day for the first time.

It’s a familiar thing to me, but it’s something that’s no different from the first time for Atlan.

“Oh, an orca?”

Camilla, who doesn’t remember anything, smiled brightly.

“Nice to meet you, nice to meet you.”

I was also happy to see her smiling face. But the fact that I saw her in this Madrum, and her limping leg, made it hard to hide my complicated feelings.