Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 32

Second Atlan.

This human, broadly speaking, is similar in nature to the ‘Bayan’ [a term for a rough, uncouth person] I cursed earlier.

He’s full of anger, violent, hot-tempered, and even cruel.

‘The difference is that Atlan is more playful?’

If the third, Agenor, waits for the strong to let their guard down and aims to overturn the relationship, this guy enjoys toying with the strong.

He especially enjoyed the blood flowing in battle. To be precise, he was a madman who liked to get hit in battles he could easily win without injury, shed blood for the thrill, and then win.

Why are there so many crazy people in this family? It’s a troublesome place, really.

‘Madness and genius are just one step apart.’

If he had gone just one step further, I probably would have thought of Atlan as just a plain crazy guy.

But this guy is meticulously calculating, so he doesn’t enjoy blood to the point where it harms his position.

That was truly like a clever killer whale using its head – strategic and cunning.

After finishing my thoughts, I stretched.

For now, I decided to just take note of Agenor’s crazy talk.

‘For now, I won’t have to face Atlan immediately.’

Like Agenor, Atlan will probably be in the intermediate institution right now.

He’s probably in the middle grades, so I won’t have to see him.

“Luga.”

“Yes! Gongnyonim [term of endearment, like ‘Miss’ or ‘Teacher’]!”

“Aren’t you looking for Luba?”

“Yes. Do you want to sit too?”

I called the twins, who were busy running around with a train model next to me, and made them sit down.

I figured they wouldn’t stay still for long since they seemed to be very active, so I quickly opened my mouth.

“You guys are twins, right? And you get along well.”

“We don’t get along!”

“We don’t get along!”

“You don’t get along?”

Luga and Luba looked at each other and nodded.

“Daddy tells us to get along…… but Luba always says he’s the older brother.”

“I am the older brother, though?”

“Look at this. Look. I’m the mature one, so I’m being patient.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. Gongnyonim, Luga always lies!”

“I don’t!”

“You do!”

“Uh…….”

Hey, kids? Don’t fight. Whoa, whoa. Calm down.

I felt a sense of crisis that I might make the friendly twins fight.

I quickly squeezed in between them to stop them from fighting.

Luga and Luba each grabbed my hand and giggled as if they had never fought.

“Wow, does Gongnyonim hold our hands when we bicker?”

“She holds our hands!”

“Don’t learn that. You cunning things.”

“Hehe.”

I sighed deeply.

“Do you guys have any other siblings?”

“No. Mommy doesn’t want to have any more.”

“The head of the family is busy!”

“Is that so?”

Usually, the heads of the family don’t have many children.

Grandma was a bit of an exception.

“But we have a lot of cousins!”

“So, so many!”

“Is that so?”

Whether they were interested in our conversation, the whale children who were playing nearby gathered one by one.

Since they were gathered, I sorted out the kids who had siblings.

“My hyung [older brother] always steals my snacks and eats them!”

“My hyung is nice to me!”

“How old is your brother?”

“Twenty ttaels [Korean age counting system]!”

“Rejected. Next.”

“I have a younger brother, but Mom only likes my brother…….”

And after a deep conversation, I concluded that, in our class, children who got along well with their older brothers were rare, except for those with a significant age difference.

Still, it wasn’t to the level of wanting to destroy them like my third older brother, but at a level where they bickered normally but had plenty of affection for their siblings.

“But Gongnyonim, Caron didn’t come today either.”

“Didn’t come.”

“Ah. Right.”

I was wondering what kind of conversation I should have with Agenor next through the data.

I, who was worried about my third older brother’s personality, raised my head.

‘He was absent today, right?’

Caron had been absent for several days.

It was after the incident with me.

I was the only one who knew the reason, but I didn’t show it to the Beluga twins.

“Are you comfortable because Caron isn’t here?”

Then Luga and Luba looked at each other and hesitated.

Their faces were clearly affirmative, but they seemed hesitant to answer.

“Doesn’t Caron want to see the teacher?”

“I think I would want to see her.”

Even though the teachers were educating the children quite liberally, the children really liked the teachers in their own way.

I felt strange seeing the twin brothers thinking about Caron even though they were being bullied so much.

‘If I were them, I would think it would be great if he never came back. Ah, I would regret not being able to take revenge with my own hands.’

Is this the innocence I lost, or something?

I looked around the class.

After Caron’s absence, the atmosphere among the killer whale branch families was a bit strange.

Originally, they seemed to be united as one, but it felt like they were subtly divided into two groups.

Moreover, there was a feeling that the groups were subtly ostracizing or hostile to each other.

The atmosphere that had formed in a few days was very strange and mysterious.

‘What’s the standard that divides them?’

I didn’t know them well enough to have conversations or pay attention to them, so I just tilted my head.

And frankly, it’s a waste of time to worry about those guys who aren’t even a threat.

* * *

“Hello, Gongnyonim.”

On the way back after finishing all the education that day.

I encountered a familiar person in front of the classroom. It was Lyla.

“Yes. Do you have something to tell me?”

She was standing there as if she had been waiting for me, which made me feel strange.

“No, it’s not that. I just came to talk to the teacher of this class for a while.”

If that’s the case, it was even stranger.

She could just call the teacher to where she was, right? Didn’t she usually do that?

As far as I knew, Lyla was the type who didn’t come out of her director’s office often.

Come to think of it, we’ve been running into each other quite a bit, haven’t we?

“Then without calling the teacher?”

“Ah, sometimes there are things that need to be seen directly.”

I hesitated for a moment and asked.

“Is it about the killer whale group?”

“…….”

Then Lyla, who had been silent for a moment, gave a faint smile.

“Most of what I do will be related to the killer whale family.”

She avoided it like that.

I shrugged. Actually, I wanted to talk to Lyla at least once, but today didn’t seem like the right time.

The children hadn’t all left yet, and they were watching with curious eyes.

Whether her saying she came to see the teacher wasn’t a lie, Camille was waiting there anxiously.

“Gongnyonim.”

“Why?”

As I was about to turn around and leave, Lyla suddenly called me.

“Do you know that there will be a family meeting soon?”

Family meeting. It was a fact I already knew from the Herring sisters.

When I nodded, a slight surprise and interest flashed across Lyla’s face.

“Did Pierre tell you?”

“Not him, but I have another source.”

“Not him, you’re quite fast with information?”

Is that so? Seeing how the Herring sisters were talking about it so casually, I thought it was a story that had spread everywhere.

Isn’t it news that everyone knows?

I shrugged.

Lyla scanned the hallway once and then stared at me intently.

Then, she gracefully bent her legs to meet my eye level.

“Be careful, Gongnyonim.”

It was a small, lowered voice.

Soon, she even lowered her head and whispered in my ear, probably only a small voice that I could hear, said this.

“It’s been common for promising talents to disappear right before the family meeting.”

I wasn’t flustered.

Instead, I turned to Lyla with clear eyes.

Soon, a pretty smile spread across my face.

“It’s okay. Dad will protect me.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Lyla also smiled back, but soon erased her smile and said.

“But don’t be careless, Gongnyonim. This huge family has too many gaps.”

“Thanks for the advice.”

I said it like this, but since Dad wouldn’t protect me, I became a little serious.

‘It seems like Lyla kindly warned me because something might happen.’

As I approached the stairs, the Luga and Luba brothers poked their heads out as if they had been waiting.

Ah, you startled me.

The twins said they had been waiting for this time today and lifted me up and flew me down the stairs.

……I’m getting used to this now.

“Thank you, kids. Be careful going home.”

“Yes! See you tomorrow, Gongnyonim!”

“See you, Gongnyonim!”

It wasn’t the day their dad was coming to pick them up, so someone else took the twins.

As I turned my head, I stopped.

“Wow, you surprised me.”

Agenor was standing there in comfortable clothes.