Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 33

The Orca Baby of the Black Market (33)

Episode 33

Shouldn’t I be the one wearing a surprised expression? Why is he here?

Agenor stared at me with the same sparkling, almost obsessive look I had last seen.

“Why are you coming down in a palanquin [a covered litter carried by poles]?”

“Palanquin?”

Agenor nodded.

“You’ve already made subordinates in the class?”

The Luga Ruba twins aren’t exactly subordinates, but…

Since I’m basically the boss of that class, it’s close enough, so I didn’t correct him.

“Why are you here?”

“I came here.”

“I’m not asking because I don’t know that.”

I mean, why is someone who should be in the intermediate institution here?

“Actually, I have a question.”

“What is it?”

“What number subordinate am I?”

“Cough, what?”

“Can’t you make me number one?”

His excessively sparkling eyes were directed at me.

His blue eyes made me flinch.

“Or, what do I have to do to become number one? Ah, should I beat up the ones ahead of me?”

“Do you even have a conscience right now?”

How old are you trying to fight?

I was horrified when I remembered the Luga Ruba’s age.

Then, Agenor quickly changed his expression.

“Um, so you’re saying not to bully them?”

“If you bully them, you’re dead to me.”

“Gasp, then I want to try……”

“Want to get kicked out?”

“No. It was a joke!”

I seriously wondered for a moment if he was always like this…….

And concluded that he was originally like this.

I didn’t expect him to reveal his true nature so quickly.

Thinking about it again, it was absurd.

I thought I would have this kind of conversation with my third older brother after he had established himself in the intermediate institution.

“So, why did you come here?”

Even though the intermediate and elementary institutions are adjacent, they weren’t that close.

More than anything, the distance was intended to prevent the intermediate institution kids from bullying the elementary institution kids.

“You’re going to see Master, right?”

Agenor lowered his voice. I don’t know why he lowered it, but I nodded anyway.

“Right?”

“We’re meeting at the same time anyway.”

“And?”

Agenor smiled prettily and brightly.

Only this face was ordinary and childlike.

“I’m going with you.”

“Why bother?”

But I guess I’m dried up [lacking emotional depth or empathy]. I couldn’t understand what he was up to at all.

Why not just go separately?

Anyway, since he came all the way here, we decided to go by carriage.

* * *

“Ah, that must be because the following heirs are different.”

Surprisingly, Agenor directly cleared up one of the minor concerns I had.

It wasn’t a serious concern, though.

Like why the orca kids in the class suddenly split into two.

This also came up when Agenor asked me about various things.

‘The servant looked very surprised to see Agenor appear with me, right?’

The reason I didn’t end up chasing Agenor away was also here.

There was no reason to chase away someone who came all the way to find me.

‘Is this going to reach Grandma’s ears too?’

It was news I wanted Grandma to hear.

It’s well-known that my three older brothers are each doing their own thing and not cooperating with each other, so it would probably be refreshing.

Besides, the servant had fully witnessed Agenor whining next to me, so that says it all.

“I know one side follows Baiyan [likely a family member or influential figure]. The other side must be Sorte [another family member or influential figure], right?”

“That’s right.”

Baiyan is the eldest son of my granduncle. Sorte is the eldest son of my little uncle.

They were fierce rivals.

‘They look much the same to me.’

Well, Sorte, who is cunning, might be a fin better than Baiyan, who is cruel and only bullies the weak.

But Sorte was never going to be a vessel to be a family head.

“The family council is coming up soon.”

Agenor said lightly, as if the intermediate institution had a similar atmosphere.

“What are you going to do? What time are you going?”

“What?”

“Huh? Aren’t you going to the family council?”

I was a little taken aback.

Agenor looked like he thought I was going to the family council. He didn’t seem to doubt it at all.

“Even if I go, it’s my first time participating, you know?”

“Ah, I see. You need an introduction, right?”

See? He looks like the introduction will go smoothly this time.

……I really can’t get used to it.

“More than that, I have a question. Did a lot of promising candidates disappear right before the family council?”

“Um, well.”

I asked what Lyla had told me.

It’s not like I don’t know, but most of the information I know was obtained after becoming the head of the family.

This was the first time in this situation, so I was asking to confirm.

“If you’re asking if a lot of guys disappeared before the family council, then yes.”

“Why are you talking like that?”

“But if they disappeared, they weren’t promising candidates in the first place, right?”

Agenor tilted his head.

“In the first place, me, my first older brother, and my second older brother always had a lot of guys picking fights before the family council. But we participated without any problems.”

I nodded slowly.

“Well, that’s true too.”

“Right?”

Agenor smiled brightly.

“As expected, I can talk to you, Little Sister. And don’t worry.”

Agenor’s hand came up to my head.

I frowned at the unfamiliar feeling.

“You’re going to use me, right?”

“……”

“You have to use me.”

His eyes were gleaming with impulse.

He’s a handsome pretty boy, but as if proving that he’s also an orca who enjoys fighting.

I frowned and grabbed Agenor’s hand, twisting it.

“Don’t climb on me [don’t take advantage of me].”

“Ouch, ouch, surrender, surrender!”

* * *

Lyla gave me her own advice, but I realized through my conversation with Agenor.

There’s probably no need to worry too much.

I went to the educational institution, came home, and went to my dad for training.

A few days passed peacefully.

I realized once again.

‘I said there’s no need to worry…… but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t worry at all.’

I stared at the people who appeared before me, wondering what to do.

“Th, that’s her. That’s the new concubine!”

To explain the situation unfolding before my eyes, I need to go back 10 minutes.

Today, like any other day, I finished my education and was coming down the stairs with the help of the twins.

Agenor had told me a few days ago not to bother him anymore because I was annoying, so he wasn’t coming around anymore.

The moment I said goodbye to the twins and was about to part ways, black shadows swarmed around and surrounded me and the twins.

I quickly hid the twins behind me, but as if these twins were the type to be hidden by me.

I narrowed my eyes.

And it was now.

Karon, who I hadn’t seen lately, was among those shadows.

Besides Karon, there was more.

“Uh…… th, that’s right! That’s the kid!”

“That’s her! That’s her!”

There were two more familiar faces.

At first, I didn’t recognize them and tilted my head, but I finally remembered.

“How could the head of the family have acknowledged her? If we leave her alive, she’ll definitely be an obstacle to Baiyan-nim’s future.”

They were definitely the two collateral relatives who came all the way to where I lived and tried to kill me.

And finally.

I stared at the guy standing proudly at the very front.

‘Hmph, I didn’t expect to see this guy so soon.’

He was definitely huge on his own.

Besides, he had smooth hair symbolizing direct lineage. His silver hair was a bit sparse, but the white spot near the crown of his head was clear.

However, unlike me, his eye color was jet black.

That guy was the eldest son of my granduncle. The most promising candidate for heir right now. Baiyan.

“That’s her?”

Baiyan didn’t hide his contemptuous expression as he looked at me.

“Huh, you’re telling me you guys were defeated by this little runt?”

I indifferently looked at Baiyan and retorted.

“A little runt? Say that to the thing between your legs [a crude insult implying small genitalia]. Why are you bringing the stench of land here? Your brain is worse than a jellyfish, you son of a bitch.”

“Huh?”

A short laugh flashed across Baiyan’s face.

“Oh. I wouldn’t know just from hearing about it…… indeed.”

A cruel expression gradually settled on Baiyan’s face.

Like an orca playing with a leopard without eating it. Like a cat playing with a mouse.

“Interesting. It can talk.”

An expression of looking at something pathetic.

“It’s not for nothing that Grandmother took an interest, is it?”

At the same time, I lightly dodged the hand flying towards me and instead grabbed it in reverse, twisting it with all my might.

“If it was just words, would Grandmother have even taken an interest? You idiot.”

Baiyan shook me off with great force.

Baiyan’s wrist was already red.

“B, Baiyan-nim!”

“Baiyan-nim! Are you okay?!”

He didn’t say anything, but the collateral relatives next to him were making a fuss.

It was so ridiculous that I could only laugh in vain.

‘I didn’t expect to see this so soon?’