Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 6

“P, Pierre, sir?”

Good. Pierre might be physically weak, but his strength is recognized and admired by everyone.

It feels a bit wrong to use my dad’s name like this, but who cares.

I need to survive first!

“Hey, hey. That’s nonsense. Pierre doesn’t even see his own sons, why would he bother meeting with such a lacking kid like you?!”

“T, that’s right. He even refuses the family head’s calls!”

I grinned. You guys are so obviously shaken even while saying that.

“Why do you think I’m here instead of staying quietly in the building where I live? The direction I came from. Isn’t that the direction where Dad lives?”

“…Pierre, sir, said he lives in the west, right?”

“Yeah. Yeah… If you go that way, there’s nothing but the outside of the building…”

“Right. Unlike my brothers, I’m a daughter who even talks with my dad. Our dad is unexpectedly a daughter-fool, you know?”

“D, don’t be ridiculous. I’ve never heard such a thing from Baiyan!”

“Why would our dad tell Baiyan? You stupid fish!”

“Whales aren’t fish!”

“Then only your head must be a fish! Keep hitting me. See if our dad will leave you alone.”

“…Hey, is she really three years old? She speaks better than I do…”

“Why are you so scared? It’s obviously a lie!”

“B, but.”

“Don’t you guys think it’s strange? That I speak so well? Who do you think I learned from? Whose innate intelligence do you think I inherited?”

At that, the boys began to hesitate.

The expression ‘Is it real?’ appeared on their faces.

‘As if it’s real. You idiots.’

I sneered inwardly but acted confidently.

“You guys get lost right now. Before I tell my dad about you threatening to kill me.”

“…Hey, hey. Let’s just go. Like she said, something’s strange. She speaks strangely well. D, doesn’t she really have a relationship with Pierre, sir?”

“Ugh…”

Why do I speak so well? I’m the hell’s mouth that practiced after dying three times. You fish bastards.

“Right! Our dad loves me. Why do you think your dad lives in the west? If he wanted to live quietly, there’s the far east and the far north, too, right? He lives in the west to talk with me!”

One of the boys finally backed down.

However, the boy who bit my finger couldn’t hide his frustrated expression.

“Hey, hey. I’m telling you to just go.”

“Wait. I need to hit her just one more time before I go.”

It was when the boy gritted his teeth and swung his fist.

I helplessly thought that I would have to take this one.

‘Ah, if only I could use the power of water!!’

The reason I didn’t close my eyes was a habit from my past life.

Closing your eyes in battle is directly linked to death.

But being in a baby’s body, I reflexively closed them and quickly opened them again.

And I saw it.

The figure of the boy being knocked away.

What had just floated in the air and disappeared was…

‘Water, a water tornado?’

It was definitely the power of water.

“W, what? What happened? You clearly can’t use the power of water, right?”

“No… B, Baiyan, sir, clearly said she couldn’t use it?”

“Hey. Let’s go quickly! S, she really might be a daughter who inherited Pierre, sir’s power.”

“Damn it!!”

Not knowing what had happened, I flipped off the boys as they turned around in a pathetic state and hurried away.

‘I won’t let you off! I remember you, you orca bastards!’

I was about to laugh triumphantly but stopped and stared blankly at my hand.

‘But what on earth was that just now?’

…Could it be that I’ve become able to use the power of water?

I was so surprised by the sudden event that I missed the presence nearby.

No, even if I had been keenly aware, it wasn’t a presence that I could have noticed in my current state.

* * *

“…”

Pierre stared intently at Calypso, who was standing far away.

Using the power of water just now was purely on a whim.

It was just a passing fancy, like the curiosity you’d feel when discovering a strangely shaped ant, with no affection or emotion.

“You!! I’m on my way to meet our dad right now?!”

Pierre’s head turned slightly.

‘…She knew.’

It seemed that the girl, his daughter, had known about him from the start.

Pierre couldn’t take his eyes off Calypso, who was busy dusting off her body.

“Ah, seriously, wow. Do I really use the power of water? Then that’s awesome!”

Calypso’s muttering was slightly slurred, unlike the clear way she spoke in front of Pierre himself.

This was because Calypso, who had previously learned that he hated children, was putting all her effort into pronouncing things correctly.

Calypso’s muttering was clearly audible to his highly developed ears.

“Haa, I miss when I was the best.”

Pierre’s head tilted slightly once more.

…The best?

Calypso seemed to get up, then limped away.

The child had already disappeared, but Pierre stared at the spot where Calypso had been standing for quite a while before turning around and returning.

Cough, cough, only his lingering cough showed his presence.

* * *

Two days later, I came to a conclusion.

‘I haven’t awakened the power of water.’

If I had awakened the power of water, a drop of water should have sprung from my hand whenever I wanted.

However, no matter how hard I tried after those boy bastards left, it didn’t work.

I was straining my hands so much that the servant who came to feed me looked at me strangely several times.

I had to admit it.

‘Aish. I got my hopes up for nothing. Then what was that back then?’

Was it really out of anger? Or did some latent ability manifest because I wanted to live…?

‘If that’s the case, then I can use the power of water in this life without any treasures.’

As I was thinking, I turned my head and saw the food laid out on the table.

‘Come to think of it, the fact that I was recognized by Grandma seemed to spread like wildfire that very day.’

Didn’t Baiyan send someone that very day?

Moreover, the quality of the food has improved dramatically in the past two days, supposedly because I was recognized by Grandma.

I carefully examined the food and put each item into the dolphin-shaped pouch.

Then, not forgetting to tie the pouch tightly, I slung it over my shoulder.

‘Alright!’

In fact, a servant came and went to my residence yesterday.

It was the same servant who had taken me to Grandma.

“The date has been set for you to enter the elementary education institution for all aquatic creatures. The Princess will enter exactly 5 days from now.”

The elementary education institution for aquatic creatures.

This was a place that all young aquatic creature shapeshifters from noble families were required to enter.

This institution was divided into classes for general aquatic animals and classes for whales.

When I enter the educational institution, I will probably be in the whale class.

‘If I enter the educational institution, my free time will inevitably decrease.’

There’s no other chance besides now.

I’ve been thinking hard for two days.

‘How do I become friends with Pierre?’

The problem was that no matter how much I thought about it, nothing came to mind.

Thanks to that, I had to squeeze out the memories of the previous life almost like using an extractor.

“Th, that! My father briefly served Pierre, sir; he… surprisingly, he didn’t refuse anyone who asked him to teach them something!”

I finally remembered that a blue marlin shapeshifter among my subordinates had been talking with a flushed face.

I hadn’t had any interest in my dad, who died quickly in my past life, so it was a very difficult process.

‘Alright.’

I left the building with my bag on my shoulder.

“…Princess?”

Just as I was about to leave the building entrance, I happened to run into someone.

‘Who is it? It’s a face I’ve never seen before.’

She was wearing the clothes of a maid who worked here, but it was an unfamiliar face.

Moreover, judging by the scales remaining on her neck, she seemed to be an immature shapeshifter who couldn’t complete her transformation.

“Who are you?”

“Ah… My name is Misa, and I’ve been assigned here as of today.”

“…Misa?”

That’s strange, why does that name sound familiar?

I tilted my head, then nodded.

Working here probably means she’s in charge of taking care of the babies who live here.

“The fact that you’ve come means that someone else has left. Right?”

The woman was startled by my fluent speech and quickly replied.

“Yes… My predecessor, Lumi, has been assigned to another building.”

Lumi. I remembered her name.

‘She was the woman who vented her anger on children like me who had no power.’

Even against babies who couldn’t even move.

She was the one who filled baby bottles with hot water or bathed them in ice-cold water.

Survival of the fittest. It happened because it was a place where there were no eyes watching, even if it was according to the rules of the orcas.

‘They’re kicking that human out of here just as I’m about to leave. Well, is it a good thing for the kids who will be coming in the future?’