Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 10

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Chapter 10
‘By now, things should be reaching a boiling point,’ I thought to myself.
Looking at the time, it was well past noon.
It had already been over four hours since I deliberately disrupted the class.
“Everyone, this is our new friend, Calypso.”
The moment I saw the class I’d been brought to, I understood immediately.
‘Ah, so they don’t believe in my intelligence?’
They didn’t trust the rumors that the Orca Family Matriarch had acknowledged me.
Otherwise, there was no way they would have placed me in this class when I demonstrated perfect command of language.
And they did this even after receiving my greeting.
‘Just you wait. I’ll disrupt this class spectacularly and show them what I’m capable of!’
And my plan succeeded. Spectacularly, in fact.
There was just one minor problem.
‘…What is this? Why are these baby whales clinging to me so much?’
I had deliberately drawn the children’s attention just to disrupt the class, but they seemed to like me far too much.
The sparkling eyes of the babies staring at me were becoming burdensome.
‘…It’s true that at this age, they still have less of the survival-of-the-fittest instinct and are quite cute. But why this?’
What was this excessive sparkling all about?
Moreover, each of them was eager to give me snacks. As if I wanted lollipops they’d been sucking on!
Then I felt Rayla’s gaze and realized something.
‘Oh my, my patience has finally run out!’
I stood up from my seat and brushed off my skirt.
The child who had been clinging to me made a whimpering sound.
“There, there. A fine whale shouldn’t cry.”
“Hehe.”
I gave her one last pat before approaching Rayla.
“Rayla.”
“…I am currently teaching. You should not speak to me.”
The Rayla I knew was a woman who despised wasting time.
This also meant she quickly acknowledged her own mistakes and corrected them.
“Isn’t my level too advanced for this class?”
“….”
“Or do you need more time?”
“Indeed, that is so.”
Just like this.
“I apologize. It seems I made a hasty judgment based on rumors about the Noble Lady and made the wrong decision.”
“It’s fine. Any whale can make mistakes.”
Rayla’s eyebrows twitched.
But she didn’t press the issue.
“It appears the Noble Lady should be admitted to an upper class. Is there a particular class you would prefer?”
The moment I heard those words, my eyes gleamed with light.
‘…I’ve been waiting for this moment.’
There’s a way to climb just one or two stages here and peacefully enjoy this life.
But if I do that….
‘The Orca Family Matriarch won’t hear about it. She won’t even notice.’
I’ve entered the Educational Institution now, but since I don’t know when I’ll awaken the power of water, I can’t know when I’ll be cast out again.
So, I need to be certain.
I must become a genius.
“Put me in the Whale Class 8. And specifically in the Alpha Class.”
“…Pardon?”
Rayla’s face faltered for the first time.
Oh, she seemed like an AI until now. So even ‘Siri’ can make expressions.
“I’m not sure how you knew, or perhaps you don’t know at all. But the class you mentioned….”
“It’s the class where the oldest children of the Elementary Education Institution are, and among those, the most excellent children are placed, right? I know.”
“….”
“If I can have a conversation of this level with Rayla, I think I’m more than capable of entering that class, don’t you?”
Rayla flinched.
It was because I smiled beautifully.
“Or is there a child in that class who speaks better than me?”
My eyes held the look of someone who knew everything.
“…I see. You’re certainly not wrong.”
Rayla’s black eyes looked down at me coldly.
Somehow the pressure I felt was noticeably smaller than what I felt from Pierre.
The power of water. Hmph, so the head of the Educational Institution knows how to use the power of water too.
“However, you must bear the consequences of all your choices yourself. Do you agree?”
“Rayla.”
I smiled brightly as if I felt no pressure at all.
“The fact that you’re saying that means you don’t see me as a three-year-old, doesn’t it?”
That statement was Rayla’s complete defeat.
A faint blush rose to Rayla’s face.
Is she angry? If she gets angry and doesn’t agree to this, that would be a problem.
The moment I thought this, I heard a small sound of wind.
“…My, my. Siblings truly are siblings, aren’t they?”
“What?”
“Since your Third Brother, you’re the first Noble Lady to confound me like this.”
When I looked up, Rayla was laughing softly.
“But it seems no young lord has managed to confound me quite as much as you, Noble Lady.”
As I blinked, Rayla extended her hand.
Her expression had softened somewhat.
“I understand you don’t interact with the young lords, but who told you about the class levels in this Educational Institution?”
After a moment of deliberation, I spoke.
“Father told me.”
“…Pardon?”
At my words, not only Rayla but the teachers nearby who were watching the children flinched and stared at me.
As if it were utterly absurd.
Of course, it was a lie. But I couldn’t exactly say I knew because I’m a regressor, could I?
I laughed brazenly.
“Father loves me so very much that he taught me everything one by one.”
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The teachers went rigid.
Among them, only Rayla alone maintained her composure.
“When you say Father… do you mean Pierre?”
“My Father. Do I have another one?”
Sorry, Father. Let me borrow the Seodongyo strategy for a moment.
While Calypso chuckled and muttered this to herself.
Rayla’s expression became one of lost words, but she quickly returned to her usual composure.
‘Pierre… has been caring for his daughter?’
Stories about Pierre were something no noble living in this land could possibly be ignorant of.
It was equally famous that he had never once visited his own children.
‘Wait… isn’t the place where Pierre resides not far from where the Noble Lady currently stays?’
In reality, it was a somewhat complicated place for a child’s steps to find, but Rayla, having already witnessed Calypso’s brilliance before her eyes, had already formed a new hypothesis.
That Calypso had met or exchanged with Pierre during this time.
In any case, it wasn’t entirely false.
It was simply something that had happened in the very recent past.
‘…Even if one has an innate gift for language, language is fundamentally an ability that develops through interaction.’
Yet she possessed such perfect conversation and rhetorical skill.
She must surely have had an excellent teacher by her side.
There was no way such a teacher could exist in a building where children up to three years old were raised—or rather, neglected.
Naturally, what remained was the hypothesis she had just conceived.
Rayla swallowed her breath.
‘…Perhaps this isn’t simply the appearance of one more direct descendant, but rather a challenger has emerged in a new succession struggle.’
It was an excessively bold thought to make about a three-year-old, yet on the other hand, it couldn’t be called too bold either.
If Pierre were to step forward, what would be difficult?
Rayla unconsciously swallowed a shallow breath.
…This was a feeling she had never experienced even when dealing with Calypso’s older brothers—those troublemakers or princes who were ruthlessly fierce.
“Will you follow me, Noble Lady? I shall guide you to your new class.”
Thus Calypso’s deception worked far too well, even better than she herself had anticipated.
Calypso herself could not have predicted how today’s events would spread through the mouths of Teacher Hana and Assistant Teacher Heni who were present here.
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“It went much more smoothly than expected.”
I held out one hand while sucking on the candy in the other.
But as time passed with no response, I turned my head while still licking the sweet.
“Teacher, won’t you have some?”
“No.”
“Why? Plankton isn’t your taste?”
“…It seems odd that an orca would enjoy plankton.”
“Why, the big whales like it, so? Teacher, that’s not respecting preferences. Living life alone like that…. Ow!”
I clutched my forehead.
If I had lifted my head, water that was bobbing gently would have surely struck my forehead.
“What went smoothly?”
The culprit who struck my forehead had the same languid, world-weary expression as always, as if life held nothing for her.
Lately, it seemed she was showing interest in what I was doing too….
‘It’s not like affection or anything—it’s more like how a scientist looks at an interesting ant.’
Well, I have uses for her too, so we’re mutually using each other anyway. It doesn’t matter.
“What went smoothly? My remarkable ability being recognized went smoothly, that’s what.”
“An amoeba like you?”
“I’m not an amoeba! My superior language skills! Don’t you see? This three-year-old is having such a wonderful conversation with someone socially inept like you, Teacher!”
“Would you like me to add ten more laps?”
“…I shall compose a 33-line poem accordingly, Teacher.”
This person really is the Orca Family Matriarch’s son, no doubt about it.
The way she throws cutting remarks and harsh words so casually proves it.
I recalled what had happened at the Elementary Education Institution today.

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