Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 75

The Dragon Duke’s castle was said to have been built long ago to match the size of a dragon.

Perhaps that’s why everything I saw on every path I walked was so enormous.

The ceilings were also very high.

Moreover, the Dragon’s achievements were painted on the ceiling, making it quite a sight to behold while being held.

“I really want to see the festival.”

To be honest, meeting the Dragon Duke was my top priority.

But I wasn’t entirely opposed to enjoying the festival as well.

I could feel Dad, who was carrying me, glancing sideways.

“I promised to grant your wish, but unfortunately, I can’t hold a festival.”

“Um, I know. I’m grateful just for you saying that, so it’s okay.”

I chuckled, but at the same time, I couldn’t laugh wholeheartedly.

He was trying to play the role of a dad.

I could fully feel Pierre’s efforts during the journey.

I had already revealed to Bellus that I had no intention of becoming the head of the family and that I wouldn’t be joining him on the way back.

There was no reason not to tell Dad.

‘I should tell him when we get back, right?’

After we visit this restaurant, that is.

And when I entered the restaurant, the atmosphere I had expected washed over me.

The restaurant fell silent the moment we stepped inside.

“Pierre Acuasia del, from the Orca Acuasia del family, and his son!”

Whether the servant knew it or was obligated to shout it, I didn’t know.

The resounding voice reached every corner of the restaurant, seeming to scrape against the walls as it flowed down.

‘Why are they announcing names in a restaurant? It’s not a banquet hall.’

It sounded like hearing animal noises.

I don’t know what kind of beastkin that servant is, but he definitely has a special talent related to ‘voice’.

‘Well, all sorts of beastkin families gather here, so it’s natural to introduce themselves upon entering, I guess.’

It would be good for recognizing each other when aquatic and terrestrial animal beastkins all participate.

But we were the only aquatic beastkins here.

At this rate, will we even be able to hear stories about the rumors?

‘Is Dad thinking the same thing?’

I raised my head.

“Dad, can we find out about the rumors?”

“Don’t worry.”

“Um?”

“There’s a way.”

As soon as he said ‘way,’ something suddenly came to mind.

But Dad didn’t break anything, as I had expected, nor did he throw the butler away or beat anyone up.

‘Um, was I thinking too much like myself?’

If it were me in the previous timelines, I would have grabbed the nearest guy and thrown him into a corner to start.

Then anyone would have been terrified and talked.

Ah, this is only if the other party provokes us first upon entering.

“What’s that fishy smell?”

Yes, just like this.

‘How can it not deviate from my expectations by even an inch?’

Well, it’s only natural, I guess.

Because it was one of the things that hadn’t changed no matter how many times I regressed.

“The Dragon’s Festival has been tainted with seawater.”

“Well, it might taste salty, but what can we do? That’s the rule.”

“Ugh, it stinks.”

There were others who spoke up.

No, the people inside the restaurant were divided into three categories.

“I wish the law would change. Or they should be completely separated from us.”

“I hope a law is created to prevent them from entering.”

First, the humans who were just chattering away.

Second, the people who were sweating nervously while watching us, but still looking at us with hateful eyes.

Finally, the humans who were watching us like a show, with sneers and amused smiles.

The last ones were probably the beastkins closest to the top predators among these land animals.

As expected, I found a familiar face among them.

‘Black Bear.’

A man with an ignorantly large build and tanned skin. He had dark brown hair.

“Wow, the fish are really white? Whiter than deer.”

“Hey, that’s insulting to the deer.”

“What, why are you getting angry? Oh, right. Your sister married a deer, didn’t she?”

I looked around and tugged on Dad’s sleeve.

“Dad.”

I called him that in front of others, and Dad seemed to focus even more.

“Dad. If you’re going to hit someone, do you see over there?”

“I see him.”

“Yeah, that red hair, hit him first.”

Dad raised his eyebrows slightly.

Um, he has a questioning look on his face.

Because he’s about to say…

“Instead of this, let’s formally protest. Let’s ban these uncivilized people who only dig up clams in the pearl fields from entering! Ah, no, now that I think about it, I heard that orcas are barbarians who put the fish they catch on their heads and brag about it?”

“…….”

“Before the smell of rotting salt gets even stronger, hurry…”

Thwack!! I nodded inwardly as I watched the red hair fly away.

Yeah, I knew he would say the worst things.

That bright red hair belongs to a fox beastkin.

Among them, the fox clan with the reddest hair was skilled in trickery and ridicule.

As soon as the red-haired fox flew away, everyone glared, avoided, or got up from their seats as if they had been waiting for it.

“Huh, can we consider this a formal challenge? What happens from now on is legal. Huh?”

“Legal is good. Right, Dad?”

What happens next? Why bother saying it? It ended easily.

Because a majority of those land animal beastkins were the ones lying down a little later.

‘Um, this is a bit…’

The level of the land dwellers is worse than in the previous timelines?

‘Have the proper guys not arrived here yet?’

I calmly thought as I watched more than half of the beastkins here collapse.

It was then.

“Eek, you, you fish!”

I dodged the hand flying towards me.

It was one of the guys who had been talking the most loudly a little while ago.

Brown hair, black stripes above his head. High probability, it’s a raccoon or a raccoon dog.

The characteristic of these guys is that they are smart and have good cunning.

Was he trying to grab me and use me as a hostage?

“Dad, don’t touch him.”

After saying this, I grabbed the hand flying towards me and broke it as it was.

“Kkeuaaaaaak!”

Not stopping there, I sprang up and kicked his neck with my toes.

After gaining excellent physical abilities, my most confident field was this jumping.

‘This is the power of 500 bunny hops every day, you got it?’

It was an attack that seemed to cut off the life of the unnecessary vocal cords.

I looked at the beastkin rolling around in pain and slyly stepped on his finger.

My weight isn’t that heavy, but pretending not to know, I used what I had trained so far to put strength into it, and the guy screamed with surprised eyes.

‘I really hate these guys.’

Thinking this, I slightly released the pressure.

“I’ll let you go if you answer just one thing, mister. You don’t want to lose your finger, do you? You’re smart, so make a good decision.”

“Ugh, fish, no, what is it. What is it!”

Thanks to Dad beating them up evenly, the only ones who were still standing and trembling here were the herbivore beastkins who had retreated far away from the beginning.

“When we came here, there was a strange rumor going around, you know? There was a rumor that the Dragon’s Festival wouldn’t be held. Do you know anything about it?”

“A, ask the servant about that!”

“Hey, why bother when someone who knows well is right in front of me. But you seem to be doing okay, mister!”

As I smiled brightly and put strength into it again, the face of the beastkin, whether it was a raccoon or something, turned pale.

Raccoon-type animals are really cute, but when they become humans, they use vicious tricks.

‘There was one among the male lead’s subordinates too. Was it a raccoon?’

Ah, of course, only limited to aquatic animals.

In the end, the man, unable to overcome the pain, stammered out all the information he knew.

I stepped on him a little more to find out this and that, and he finally confessed the most important thing.

“I don’t know, I really don’t know! Bu, but the Dragon Duke doesn’t want the festival! Th, there’s a widespread rumor that he’s sick!”

At that moment, my pocket twitched.

To be exact, Toos, who had been quiet, wiggled and shouted.

-It’s a lie!

A lie?

“The Dragon Duke just wants to reign, he, he doesn’t want to see insignificant creatures like us! He’s probably living in luxury in his residence!”

-It’s a lie! A lie! The Duke is… The Duke is…

I listened to Toos’s voice and quietly turned my eyes.

‘It doesn’t seem like he’s lying.’

That man has completely terrified eyes.

If so.

There’s the possibility that the rumor that man knows is wrong, and the possibility that someone deliberately spread this rumor.

We can consider these two things.

“Ha, hahaha!”

It was then. Suddenly, a loud laughter echoed throughout the restaurant.

Turning my head, the black bear, who had already been knocked down by Dad a long time ago, was laughing loudly.

‘Oh, he’s being stepped on by Dad, so he looks pathetic.’

“A useful guy has come from the sea this year!”

There’s always someone like that, bluffing even after losing.