Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 273

Chapter 273

If she hadn’t died by Ekion’s hand, no one in the next life would remember her.

‘Well, can’t be helped,’ she thought.

Calypso’s body began to freeze.

The Crown Prince’s barrier remained strong, preventing anyone from entering.

It was for the best. Calypso hoped that no one but herself would be caught up in her abilities.

“This can’t be, Aaaagh, Aaaaaagh!”

Calypso chuckled.

“Keep screaming like that. I won’t freeze your mouth until you die.”

Calypso’s body continued to freeze. She was certain. That bastard would die first, and she would die slightly later.

It was at that moment.

콰앙! [Sound of a large impact]

“What? These bastards are disgustingly numerous here too. You, brother, take the west!”

A familiar voice rang out. Calypso turned her eyes, already beginning to freeze, to the side.

Atlan was there.

‘Ekion’s side, did things go well……?’ she wondered.

She didn’t know what kind of battle they had fought, but it must have been terribly fierce.

Bellus, Lilibel, and even Levai, supported by Hauser, all appeared in disarray.

Yet, they nonchalantly joined the battle in this hall.

Calypso turned her head again, seeing Bellus facing Asel for the last time.

‘……They won.’

In the 3rd regression, morale differed depending on whether Calypso was present or not.

But in this life, everyone did well even without Calypso’s participation.

Calypso felt unfairly treated.

The power she had already used was irreversible, and the Crown Prince could no longer speak, glaring at Calypso with bloodshot eyes.

“No choice. You’re dying with me.”

“You……. In the next life, I will…… Keuheok.”

“In the next life, and the life after that, you’ll be the one losing, you bastard.”

Mutual destruction was imminent. The Crown Prince collapsed first.

Calypso couldn’t even fall because her legs were frozen.

쾅! 쾅! [Sound of pounding] Sounds of pounding on the barrier echoed.

Atlan seemed to be cursing and shouting roughly.

“……My ears hurt, you jerk.”

Calypso blinked. The Crown Prince was now facing death.

Calypso could hear the slowing heartbeat of that bastard.

‘It’s cold.’

Outside the barrier were her family, friends, and colleagues. Why couldn’t she go?

The moment when she couldn’t do anything while watching the streets of Seoul came to mind.

Strangely, she felt even greater sorrow and injustice than back then.

But Calypso was satisfied in a way. If she hadn’t stepped in, everyone would have died together.

She had lived in the last life thanks to everyone’s sacrifice, so did only she have to sacrifice herself in this life?

It was at that moment.

“Calypso.”

Warmth was felt on her shoulder.

“……Don’t die anymore.”

At those words, Calypso burst into tears she had been holding back.

“……Ekion.”

Not that fake dragon collapsed over there, but her dragon had arrived. Calypso couldn’t even turn her head because her neck was frozen.

As if knowing Calypso’s condition, a large embrace enveloped her.

“I don’t think I can endure Calypso’s death, not even once.”

‘Actually, me too. I’ve never fully accepted my death either.’

Why did I regress?

Why…….

“I wanted to know why I regressed…….”

Calypso whispered in a voice so small it seemed to break. But what’s more important than that right now…….

“I want to live.”

Ekion looked at his dying mate. Long ago, the existence of dragons originated from the beastmen [human-animal hybrids].

And they were granted the power to control space-time, granting countless wishes.

Until that power weakened, making them no different from beastmen.

“I want to grant Calypso’s wish.”

Even so, the dragon still had the power to grant wishes.

Ekion could save Calypso by sharing the price Calypso would have had to bear.

It was something only Ekion could do.

While Calypso’s frozen body moved little by little, Ekion’s body froze.

“……Ha, what if you freeze together with me.”

Calypso smiled as if she were crying.

“It’s okay.”

Ekion was a dragon who learned about the world through Calypso.

And now he knew.

“Everyone will save us.”

That beastmen, humans, cannot live alone.

“How irresponsible.”

Calypso smiled faintly.

However, the injustice, fear, and terror that had overwhelmed her until just now disappeared without a trace.

And in its place, a flower bloomed.

A flower named hope, that she would be happy now.

“We won together.”

챙강! [Sound of shattering]

The sound of the barrier shattering rang out. Someone caught Calypso, whose frozen body was melting and collapsing.

“Calypso…….”

It was her beloved family, her father.

Calypso saw Pierre’s tears. Also, his messed-up body and face.

Calypso smiled brightly, looking at her father, who seemed to have so much to say.

Like when they first met in her childhood.

“Dad, shall we go home now?”

Pierre answered, holding back his tears.

“……Yes. Let’s go.”

Calypso had finally won.

At the same time, she felt the chains that had been holding her release her.

She didn’t know well, but she instinctively realized.

Ah.

She would not regress anymore.

* * *

Haah, haah.

Crown Prince Cale looked up at the ceiling, which repeatedly faded and sharpened.

He was dying.

No one cared about Cale. Not even himself, who was once the most noble, superior, and greatest royal!

Rather, there were beastmen who spat or cursed as they passed by.

He gnashed his teeth, but he could no longer gnash them. Because everything except his ears and eyes was frozen.

If his heart stopped like this, he would die. How many minutes were left? About 3 minutes?

Cale felt wronged. Why did he lose again?

If he regressed, if that happened…….

‘Wait.’

Was he really regressed? One day, his past life suddenly came to mind. But, what if it doesn’t come to mind in the next life…….

The face of Calypso Aquasidel, who had ridiculed him, came to mind.

Why, why! Why can’t I win? Why!

What was he trying to beat Calypso Aquasidel for?

What was his goal in the first place as he looked back on his life before his death?

At that moment, an familiar voice reached the Crown Prince’s ears.

“Anyone who needs treatment! I’ll do it for you! This way!”

A frail voice. It was familiar. It was Lily, the squirrel beastman with healing abilities.

The Crown Prince did not know why only Lily’s voice was so clear in this commotion.

It was at that moment.

“I like the Crown Prince the most. More than my dad……!”

A scene of Lily, who had grown up, smiling brightly appeared before his eyes.

The place was the Imperial Garden.

Was it a dying dream? But the Crown Prince didn’t know the scene.

Neither in his past life nor in this life had that woman ever smiled so brightly in front of him.

This scene, which Calypso would have noticed, was the ‘original’ and a timeline they had once gone through.

In that time, the Crown Prince purely loved Lily.

He cherished and tried to protect her. Even if that heart sometimes went too far and became obsessive, Lily smiled docilely.

The Crown Prince wanted to reach out his hand, but. That hand had long been frozen and died.

Now he seemed to know.

When did it go wrong?

“No, I don’t like it! I hate it! I hate experiments!”

Why did he torment the person he loved?

Ironically, he was a vile villain in all timelines.

But when he realized that the only time he wasn’t a villain was the only time he was happy.

He shed tears of agony. Crocodile tears.

He thrashed inwardly, facing the only happy time before his death, unaware that this was the punishment Ekion had given him.

But it was already too late.

“……!”

Lily’s face appeared in front of the Crown Prince, whose body was frozen and only his eyes were moving madly.

It was the figure of Lily, who had grown up a little while ago.

“Just die.”

Lily glared at him with deep hatred.

“I hope you don’t even reincarnate.”

Lily said it with the intention of never seeing him again, but it was a dagger that pierced the Crown Prince, who had seen the past life.

That’s how the Crown Prince met his end. Miserably and pathetically.

The last death with no next life.

“Don’t let that bastard die.”

No, that was a mistake.

The Crown Prince thought he was dead, but the two healers, Lily and Whale, managed to save him.

A peaceful death was a luxury for someone who had killed so many beastmen.

He will live the rest of his life paying the price for the sins he committed, castrated of his abilities and part of his body.

In the hands of the family who cherished and loved the beastmen he killed.

* * *

“Hey!”

“Lord……!”

Calypso faced everyone while being held in Pierre’s arms.

Everyone was safe……. Calypso’s eyes scanned everyone repeatedly.

There were those who were severely injured, but no one was dead. She was satisfied that there was no one missing.

Calypso smiled contentedly.

“No one died?”

“You, are you saying that in that state……?!”

Calypso’s whole body was a mess with frostbite.

Whale, who knew the meaning of this injury, had the most tearful expression.

“It’s okay. You’re going to heal me all.”

“I, I’ll do it!”

It was then. Someone suddenly poked their head out, parting the large beastmen.

It was beautiful orange hair that resembled the sun.

As far as Calypso knew, there was only one person with this hair color.

It was Lily.

“Sister, I’ll heal you!”

Lily shouted with a tearful face. She wondered why she was here.

Now, she didn’t have to ask anymore.

“Lily, would you look at one person before me?”

Calypso stared at a man standing unsteadily. It was Ekion.

“Heal Ekion first.”

“There’s no one to do first. Let’s get it together.”

Pierre interrupted and said firmly. Everyone had similar expressions.

A face asking who was worrying about whom. Calypso couldn’t help but laugh out loud at the faces that seemed to be full of nagging.

When she looked up, she saw a bright blue sky.

The dazzlingly blue sky reminded her of the sea.

It was this kind of weather on the day she died in the 3rd regression.

This life was different.

“Ah, it’s a good day.”

Yes, as much as the changed ending, the following story will also change.

She seemed to hear laughter in her ear.

Perhaps it was herself from the last life who had faced a miserable end.

Calypso smiled brightly, waiting for the approaching happiness.

“Let’s go back.”

To our home.