Black Killer Whale Baby [EN]: Chapter 98

Chapter 98

Thump!

The dark drawing-room.

The place, which would have been elegant and luxurious, was currently a mess.

Porcelain that once boasted beautiful patterns lay scattered in shattered pieces, and the carpet was soaked with a liquid, possibly alcohol or water.

No, among the liquids staining the floor, that dark crimson mark was undoubtedly warm blood that had been flowing inside someone’s body until just moments ago.

“Cough, hack, gulp, ah…”

The one collapsed on the floor was a young Orca cadet, perhaps sixteen years old.

“Useless bastard.”

“Gulp, cough! Just one more, please give me one more chance… Baiyan-nim [a respectful title, similar to ‘Lord’ or ‘Master’]!”

It was a desperate tone, but the child’s mouth could no longer open.

Because a cruel foot had trampled it.

“How dare you, being so weak, talk back to me? Do you think I look like a joke to you? Is that it?”

“Agh, no, aaaaaagh!”

The child soon couldn’t even scream.

Because Baiyan’s kick accurately struck a vital point.

And in a corner of the room, there were children tied up and trembling.

Each and every one of them was significantly weaker than Baiyan, and at the same time, they were powerless children from ordinary aquatic animal-kin families who couldn’t even resist.

Beings that Baiyan could take away as he pleased without anyone saying a word.

“Sniff, um, Mommy, Mama…”

Among them, an anchovy-kin child was busy holding back sobs.

This child, the youngest of all, was only three years old.

All the children around were weak animal-kins, but.

Everyone seemed to have tacitly decided to save only the anchovy child, subtly hiding the sobbing child behind their backs.

“Haa…”

When Baiyan slowly turned his head, his face was covered in blood.

His gleaming eyes were filled with cruel laughter and madness.

It was a gaze as if he wasn’t hunting to satisfy hunger, but simply looking at a toy to crush and kill for amusement.

“Who should be next?”

Watching this, Lodesen quietly covered his mouth.

Currently, the room where Baiyan was had special measures in place.

From where Lodesen was, he could see Baiyan, but Baiyan couldn’t see this side.

He swallowed a groan, looking at the secret room where Baiyan was confined.

‘Ha, to fall apart like that…’

Lodesen was clearly watching what his eldest son was doing, while.

He covered his face and sighed with a mix of lament.

“Baiyan Aquasialdel is sentenced to a 3-year dismissal from the intermediate institution and 1 year of confinement. All external activities, meeting people, everything is prohibited.”

Three years. He was punished for three years.

In fact, in Lodesen’s opinion, this period, though bewildering, wasn’t that long.

Merely, to collapse because of just three years, the power that Lodesen himself had built up over twenty years was too solid and firm.

There was also a belief that it would never collapse.

‘So, if Baiyan could just make a comeback…’

Also, Lodesen had plans to use his power, and the methods were endless.

Among them, he had devised ways to persuade his mother, the head of the family, to shorten the dismissal and confinement periods.

It meant that if Baiyan was in his right mind, making a comeback wouldn’t be difficult.

‘One year. If Baiyan could just endure for one year… no, at least six months…!’

However, as you can see, Baiyan failed.

No, he plummeted.

It was about four months after receiving the confinement order.

From this point, Baiyan showed strange signs.

Originally, he was a character who couldn’t hide his cruel nature, but he was full of desire for the head of the family.

He was mindful of his parents’ feelings.

But.

“Ha, hahaha. What did Father… do while I was locked up?”

“Baiyan?”

“What did you do! Huh!”

Baiyan began to break down.

After that, the remaining time was a downhill path.

It was a path of dizzying fall.

Lodesen then realized.

…Baiyan is not head of family material.

It was perhaps something he already knew, but it was a flaw that he, as a parent, wanted to cover up.

It was his own mistake to stubbornly ignore the fact that opening just one button would reveal not a fruitful core but useless bundles of paper.

However, Lodesen couldn’t abandon his first son.

He needed a way to divert Baiyan’s attention.

In this state, he couldn’t use the clever tricks he had prepared to shorten the punishment period!

“…I’ll get you toys, Father will. Beat them to death, stab them to death, it doesn’t matter.”

The first opponent Baiyan beat to the point of death was a servant.

…Killing servants had too many elements that could leak out.

Baiyan had already lost public opinion, so if he continued to beat them like this, making a comeback would become impossible forever.

From then on, Lodesen secretly brought in weak animal-kin children.

They were children from weak families who wouldn’t cause any gossip.

So what?

After all, they existed for the Orcas. They were beings who existed to be dominated.

Ironically, Baiyan’s strength grew day by day.

He could easily defeat ordinary adult animal-kins, but Baiyan didn’t.

He only targeted those who had similarities to Calypso Aquasialdel, who had made him this way and dropped him into hell, or those who were smaller and weaker than him.

Even Lodesen, who had been constantly bringing children, sometimes got tired of it.

‘The law of the jungle’ and ‘massacre’ were different.

No matter how much it was the law of the jungle, there was a limit.

It was okay to do whatever you wanted with the opponent you won in a fight, but massacre was an unjust act without even a fair fight.

What his son was doing was….

There was a very high possibility of offending the head of the family, who hated breaking rules or having boring fights!

‘Haa, if only his mind and temperament could keep up with his strength…!’

Whenever Lodesen saw Baiyan screaming and exposing his madness.

He worked even harder to gather outside affairs and his power.

In fact, he lost many of the elites he had sent to assassinate Calypso Aquasialdel five years ago, but.

He still had power left, enough that the number didn’t matter.

Moreover, there were still powerful cadet families who supported him.

So, if only the successor, his successor, could become normal.

‘He will become normal. If he satisfies that desire without any regrets…’

However, Lodesen didn’t know.

Just as the one who cared for the madman went mad together, Lodesen was also gradually being stained with madness by the fall of his expected son.

“Bring more children. If you get ten, no, about fifteen, that would be good.”

“…Yes, Lodesen-nim [a respectful title, similar to ‘Lord’ or ‘Master’].”

The warriors who received the order quietly bowed their heads and left.

Behind Lodesen, there were two people silently watching the scene.

“Father.”

A clear and pure voice was heard, and Lodesen turned his head.

He forced a smile as he looked at the one who called him.

“Yes. Riribel. Why did you call?”

Riribel.

The child, who had just turned thirteen, was Lodesen’s second child and only daughter.

Lodesen’s smile twisted, but only for a moment.

“My dear, Riribel. You’ve grown up so preciously, so you may not know, but Orcas originally grow up like this.”

“…”

“Of course. Baiyan, your brother, has just been led by his instincts for a moment… He’ll soon return to normal. Yes. As your trustworthy and wise brother and reliable successor.”

At Lodesen’s firm words, Riribel tilted her pretty face.

‘But it’s already been five years since you said that. If he can’t take the opportunity even after giving him a whopping five years.’

Riribel blinked.

‘That’s trash. Dad.’