Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 113

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Chapter 113
‘It’s going to pierce right through, it’s definitely going to pierce right through.’
For some reason, my wariness suddenly flared up, and I thought that if he kept staring at me like that, his gaze alone would bore holes through me.
“What is it? It’s Atlant, isn’t it? What’s that stupid orca doing?”
Soon, Agenor seemed to notice the presence at the end of my gaze, and let out a small whistle.
When I turned my head, a glittering gaze was directed at me from Agenor.
“Atlant must really love you. Let’s crush him, little sister!”
“Why does that sentence make no sense?”
“Little sister, I believe competitive spirit and love are the same word. Listen, an opponent you want to beat down and knock over! That burning gaze searching for their weaknesses! Interest in that person! How is that different from love?”
…Has this lunatic become even more insane over the past five years?
His madness level seems to have increased.
“I heard your crackpot philosophy loud and clear. Do you know why he’s acting like that?”
“Who knows? Maybe he wants to fight with you, little sister?”
“Now, of all times?”
“But… you’ve been hiding your power for the past five years, haven’t you?”
When I recruited Lirivel, I failed to control my strength, so rumors about me had already spread far and wide again.
That I had merely been concealing my power all along.
In that case, it made sense that he would develop competitive spirit anew.
The problem was.
“I don’t particularly feel like beating him senseless.”
“Huh, so you only want to beat me up?”
“Just go away. You’re not even in our class, so why do you keep coming here?”
I pressed my fingers firmly against Agenor’s cheeks.
“Noble Lady!”
“Noble Lady! Hello!”
I could see Lugaru running toward us from a distance.
“Noble Lady, aren’t you going in?”
“Why are you here? Class is about to start!”
“I want to go, but this guy needs to let go of me first.”
I grimaced and pushed Agenor away.
Agenor made a sad, pitiful expression.
“Why aren’t I in the same class as you!”
“Why wouldn’t you be? Because you haven’t advanced your grade level, the headmaster is resorting to this as a last measure.”
That was right.
While I held back from advancing for four more years and remained in my current grade level… this crazy Agenor deliberately failed every advancement exam just to stay in the same grade as me.
“I failed because I wasn’t good enough!”
“That’s hilarious. You’re in the lowest tier class—go back to your own class already.”
“It’s so unfair….”
“Hang in there, Young Master!”
“Hang in there! If you feel it’s unfair, you could advance, but you have the ability and chose not to, Young Master!”
“Yes, yes. You all know your senior’s greatness best, so that’s enough.”
…The Lugaru kids seemed to be subtly mocking me, but did I understand them, or was I just pretending not to?
When I turned my head, Atlant had vanished at some point.
‘What on earth was that?’
I figured he’d simply caught my eye by chance and I’d been watching him.
…It was only after I realized this was a misunderstanding.
That his persistent stalking began.
Starting the very next day.
* * *
“….”
I’ve come to hate break time lately.
It wasn’t that I enjoyed it before, but it was better than sitting through classes where I already knew everything.
At least I could rest comfortably then.
But now.
“Noble Lady.”
“Noble Lady…. You’re here again.”
It was Atlant again.
“Yeah, I know. Ruba.”
Currently, Lugaru was in the same class as me.
When I turned four years old, around the time I was advancing to the Intermediate Institution.
Lugaru chased after me, crying their eyes out, insisting they would follow too.
“We want to be in the same class as the Protagonist!”
“We will be!”
“You’d have to skip grades to be in the same class as me, wouldn’t you?”
Back then, I thought it was just foolish talk from clueless children, so I said sure, whatever. But look at this.
‘They actually followed me.’
Of course, after I skipped to fifth grade, I didn’t advance further and spent four years there.
But considering that most fifth-grade students are either thirteen or fourteen years old….
These children had also surpassed their own age by a year or two to reach this position.
And I remained in the top class even among fifth graders.
‘It seems the comparison to the Dolphin being equally brilliant wasn’t unfounded after all.’
I patted the head of Ruga, who was chirping away in front of me.
Ruga’s pale face flushed red.
“I know well enough…. Just leave me be….”
“Noble Lady, why do you seem so tired? Are you alright? Is it because of…. Um, Prince Atlant?”
“Can’t you tell when you see it?”
“I know it too, I was just asking. You don’t know, hyung!”
“How dare you speak to me like that!”
I laughed softly watching Lugaru bicker among themselves.
‘Yes, it’s better to watch you all fight like this.’
In the midst of this, I heard a familiar voice.
“Huh, what’s this? I got startled coming in. Is that guy seriously insane? Why is he causing such a ruckus at the classroom backdoor now?”
“Tell me about it… So you came.”
Agenor, who had abandoned his own classroom to play around as usual, approached me and tilted his head curiously.
His expression grew somewhat serious.
“…Sister, hasn’t Atlant been doing this for a whole week already?”
“Yeah. A whole week.”
That was the truth.
‘So Atlant has been chasing after me.’
For a full week at that.
At first, it was just glaring whenever we passed in the corridor.
I thought that much was understandable given his personality—if he didn’t like something, he’d act that way.
‘But then the number of times we ran into each other in the corridor kept increasing…’
At some point, he was standing at the path where I left school.
Not only that, he appeared on my way to school too, and now…
He was standing at the classroom backdoor making a spectacle of himself.
Yes, a spectacle.
A complete spectacle.
‘That brat deserves to be thrown into a lion’s den… Don’t the other young orcas even look scared of him?’
He was already notorious among the direct orca lineage for being particularly savage and rough.
At least he didn’t do what Baian did—bullying the weak and causing trouble.
All the orcas his age had probably fought him at least once.
Being an orca was already terrifying, but standing there like a gangster playing gatekeeper as an upperclassman made it even worse.
How frightened the other students must be.
The problem was that all he did while standing there was glare at me.
So the teachers couldn’t chase him away, and since the students weren’t being harmed, they couldn’t report it either.
I clicked my tongue in irritation.
‘The bigger problem is that with him chasing after me, I can’t handle my discreet tasks.’
“Ugh, my back of the head is exposed, completely exposed.”
“Noble Lady, shall we stop him?”
“Should we block him? We can do it, you know.”
“Never mind Ruba, but Ruga—why are you saying that?”
“Because then I can stay closer to the Noble Lady!”
I pushed the twins’ foreheads away firmly. I shouldn’t leave them with Agenor.
They seem to be learning strange things.
Anyway, Atlant wasn’t hitting ordinary students or anything; he just kept approaching like this and glaring at my back before leaving.
But I had my reasons for not bothering to deal with him.
“Why can’t I just beat him down?”
That day, after school, at Father’s Residence.
A week—that was apparently the limit of Agenor’s patience before his curiosity got the better of him.
“No. That won’t work.”
“Why not?”
From Agenor’s perspective, it seemed only natural that such an insolent and disrespectful brat should never be allowed to crawl back up again.
Truthfully, I would have done the same in my usual state of mind.
But I have my reasons for ignoring him.
“Agenor, do you understand that saving someone comes with responsibility?”
Whether it’s the ‘cat-picking’ used on Earth or the ‘dragon-picking’ that would apply here.
Every action carries responsibility.
Beside me, Ekion had rushed over and clung tightly to my side.
Ekion, who had buried his face in my arm, slowly lifted his head.
“…Responsibility?”
I smiled softly and stroked Ekion’s hair the way I would Lugaru’s.
“Yes. Responsibility. Just like how I protect you. Ekion.”
“…Heh. Sister, your voice gets awfully kind only with him, doesn’t it?”
“I’m naturally kind to young children.”
“Then why weren’t you kind to me when I was young?”
“Were you ever actually younger than me in your entire life?”
“….”
While Agenor grumbled, I added my thoughts.
“I have no intention of taking on more responsibility.”
I know Atlant’s nature far too well to consider anyone else.
‘Once I knock him down, I’d be responsible for him from that moment on.’
He has such a stubborn streak beneath his fierce and rough exterior that he’d certainly follow whether I wanted him to or not.
‘It’s not that I don’t regret it….’
Atlant simply doesn’t have good compatibility with Lirivel, whom I’ve just recruited.
‘Besides, setting that aside, Atlant is the type of person who fits perfectly into orca society, where gangsterism and violence run rampant….’
I know he’ll thrive even without my responsibility.
I had no intention of taking on someone like that.
“I’m not entirely sure, but the work you’re planning to do, sister… doesn’t it require a lot of power? So, talented individuals?”
At his implication that I recruited Lirivel for that reason, I nodded.
“That’s right.”
I tapped my chin lightly.
“Actually, it’s not just a lot of power—it’s an enormous amount of power, and talented individuals that I need.”
I replied indifferently.
Then Ekion, who had been leaning against me, slowly lifted his head.
“You need it?”
“Huh? Oh, yes. Ekion.”
“Power.”
“That’s right. I need power.”
My current strength is certainly satisfactory, but thinking back to my prime when I became the Matriarch in the third cycle, I still feel a sense of regret.
“As expected, the power of time is truly inexorable.”
That was when Ekion’s both hands grasped mine firmly.
“Power.”
“…Ekion?”
“I can give it.”
That very moment.
Splash!
It was as if I witnessed water droplets materializing before my eyes.
‘…The power of water?’

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