Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 31

Chapter 31

“Huh? A little pebble? Got no pride?”

“Nope. I don’t.”

“…….”

After a week of training, Agenor admitted it.

He could endure Pierre’s training now.

But that was only possible because he was well over eight years old.

He didn’t have Calypso’s talent, guts, mental strength, or especially, patience.

In fact, this third Orca’s greatest strength was his ability to acknowledge and accept.

“I will get stronger within my limits, Master.”

Calling his father ‘Master’? He could do that.

He would do it. What’s the problem if he’s training me?

“You understand your place.”

“I’ve survived well with this much sense.”

Besides, Pierre didn’t seem to dislike Agenor’s humble acceptance.

Well, it would only be annoying if he insisted on doing something he couldn’t and just harbored feelings of inferiority.

“Hah, hah. Is it, is it over……?”

“Yes. Switching out.”

Sensing Calypso approaching, Agenor quickly dashed to the fountain.

There was a neatly folded towel on the fountain, and ice water was floating inside.

Agenor gracefully grabbed the towel.

At the same time, the water jet created by the boy lifted the ice water into the air from inside the fountain.

Agenor reached Calypso, who was staggering towards him.

“Little sister, you’ve worked hard!”

Calypso’s eyes widened in surprise at the changed voice, even in her exhaustion.

‘What’s with him? Is he crazy?’

He had looked completely out of it until just now.

Calypso had assumed it was because Pierre had been pushing him hard. But now? There was a starlight-like glimmer in those blue eyes that hadn’t been there before.

‘……What is it? Madness?’

Even madness, no, even obsession could be felt in those blue eyes.

Calypso felt a cold sweat breaking out in addition to the sweat she was already pouring.

She had seen those eyes before.

“I won, step on me and go.”

Yes, when she had crushed Agenor so thoroughly that he couldn’t even try to challenge her anymore.

It was during the last battle between herself and her third brother. After that day, Agenor cleanly acknowledged her as the head of the family and followed her until his death.

……Those were the eyes.

‘No, but why?’

Calypso was unusually flustered. Why?

She hadn’t crushed Agenor like she had back then, and they hadn’t even had a proper fight since the first one?

Rather, perhaps because she was younger, the gaze was even more intense than before, making her flinch and step back.

Unaware of this, Agenor diligently offered the towel and ice water.

‘An Orca who listens well.’

Wasn’t that an achievement you could only get by beating them up?

For now, Calypso accepted the towel and ice water.

She needed it, after all.

“Amazing. Really amazing!”

“Huh? Uh, uh?”

“You can’t be this amazing!”

However, even after receiving them, Agenor kept approaching, causing her legs to involuntarily move backward.

No, it wasn’t that she wasn’t confident in winning, but he was overwhelming in a different way.

It was like seeing a cult member in front of the station that you couldn’t defeat….

“Stop.”

Surprisingly, Pierre subtly intervened. If he hadn’t, Calypso thought she might have blanked out and fallen on her butt.

Although Pierre stopped him, Agenor’s momentum didn’t falter.

Rather, he obediently stopped in place in response to Pierre’s restraint and simply stared at his younger sister with sparkling eyes.

“Little sister. You’re really amazing.”

Was this not her third brother, but someone who had placed a recording device?

Why was he repeating the same words?

Then, Agenor clasped his hands together as if in prayer.

It was a familiar gesture.

‘Third brother……. He always had that pose whenever he had a favor to ask, right?’

Only then did Calypso understand the excessive admiration from before.

Of course, he must have something to ask.

“Little sister, well, this might sound weird. But there’s a favor… I have to ask. Could you grant it?”

“What is it?”

Still, even so.

It was an incomprehensible overreaction, but her brain, whose thinking ability had deteriorated due to training, tried hard to brush it off as natural.

“I really hope you’ll grant it.”

As expected, the Orca nature couldn’t be abandoned; it was a request, but the tone was close to coercion.

Only then did Calypso relax and smile.

“Tell me what it is first. I’ll listen.”

“Yeah. Actually, I’m fascinated by your training.”

“What?”

“You’re really amazing.”

Calypso, who couldn’t objectively judge her current achievements because she had already experienced great power in the previous timeline, tilted her head and nodded.

“……Um, thanks.”

That’s right. Calypso was unable to objectively assess how amazing she currently was.

Her master was in a similar situation, so it became a fact that only Agenor knew.

“So, I have two older brothers. Ah, do you know that too?”

“Yeah, I know.”

Of course, she knew. A bright smile appeared on Agenor’s face at Calypso’s answer.

He didn’t bother hiding his hair here, so his hair, like a symbol of direct lineage, fluttered.

And when Agenor, who looked a lot like Pierre, smiled, Calypso paused for a moment.

She wondered if this was what it would feel like if her dad smiled brightly.

“The second brother’s name is Atlan.”

“Yeah. I know. So?”

“Tear the second brother up too.”

“Yeah…… Huh?”

Calypso, who had been absentmindedly answering while lost in thought, froze.

What did he just say?

Here’s some background information you need to know.

The three brothers under Pierre were definitely brothers, but there was no brotherly affection whatsoever.

Rather, they only saw each other as insignificant or as opponents to be defeated someday.

“You can definitely do it.”

And Agenor didn’t have particularly good feelings towards his immediate older brother, ‘Atlan’.

That violent hothead? Compared to his amazing and great younger sister, who was just beginning to sprout affection, that brother was less than the dirt stuck in his fins.

A bright smile appeared on Agenor’s face.

“Tear him up so he can’t recover.”

I can’t be the only one suffering.

* * *

“Choo-choo-choo! The train is leaving! Choo-choo!”

“Chichi-popo! Starting!”

Break time.

Even though it was the most excellent Alpha class in the educational institution, break time was as noisy as any kindergarten.

Of course, some Orcas pretending to be adults sat there pretending to be cool.

Most of them were busy playing or fooling around, like the Beluga twins Luga and Ruba, who were busy playing with trains over there.

Well, they were kids at the peak of their energy.

Especially since they were kids with good physiques and energy.

Among those kids, I was serious all by myself.

Especially while looking at the Luga and Ruba twins, who were very busy playing together.

‘Yeah, usually brothers…….’

Aren’t they that close? No, even if Luga and Ruba are twins, so they’re especially close.

Still, aren’t they pretty close?

“Tear him up so he can’t recover.”

The line I heard three days ago was stuck in my head.

That’s right.

It had already been three days, but it was still a crazy line that filled my head.

‘I know that my brothers are hopeless bastards, crazy people, and lunatics.’

There’s another complicated reason.

‘Did I not know my brothers well enough?’

In the previous timeline, our siblings weren’t affectionate like normal siblings, or doting or younger sister-obsessed like good siblings.

We were perfect liege and subject.

Before that, there was a brutal power struggle, and at the end of it, a clean surrender. That kind of relationship.

But even if we weren’t affectionate and weren’t siblings from a normal childcare story, we definitely had our own kind of affection. Aren’t liege and subject and comradeship also affection?

“You have to live.”

“Live…….”

“It doesn’t hurt, so get out of the way quickly. Okay?”

Later, it was an affection that made my brothers sacrifice their lives for me.

Thinking about this, even if we’re not close now, I thought that the brothers’ relationship would be okay because they had their own kind of affection.

Was I mistaken?

In fact, in the previous timeline, we reunited after we became adults, so I naturally had no contact with my brothers.

I didn’t know what happened between the brothers, whether the brothers were close, or whether they had affection for each other.

However, the way they looked when I came back wasn’t bad.

‘Yeah. They definitely didn’t seem that bad to each other?’

Wait a minute. The Orcas here are hierarchical animals.

Then, maybe when I came back in the previous timeline, their hierarchy was already clear, so that’s why?

‘Then, it’s safe to say that they were fighting a lot right now.’

If Agenor only mentioned the second brother, Atlan, and not the first brother, Beluga, it might be because he was on bad terms with the second brother at that time.

‘Well, the second brother around this time might not be on good terms with him.’

On the one hand, I was also worried.

‘Can I just dismiss this as they’re not on good terms, they’re bickering?’