Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 118

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Chapter 118
“What are you doing over there, Senior?”
I called out loud enough for him to hear clearly. At my voice, Levin flinched and slipped out from behind the pillar.
“Oh, um, I thought a fight was about to break out?”
“You certainly run fast.”
“Haha, I didn’t want to become a shrimp with a split back caught between two orcas fighting. So I don’t know what you two were talking about, but…”
Levin clenched his fists tightly.
“I was standing guard, ready to fetch a teacher if things got bad!”
During my conversation with Atlant, I had kept my voice low on the important parts.
I remembered well that Levin was standing nearby.
Besides, even if he had heard the conversation, it wasn’t something he could fully understand.
“You’re Levin, right? Senior, take him with you. Now you won’t forget that important group project.”
“Huh? Yes? Huh?”
Levin seemed flustered by my sudden change in tone.
Then he glanced awkwardly at Atlant.
It seemed he couldn’t quite adapt, probably because of the sounds bubbling up from Atlant.
Fascinating, isn’t it? I feel the same way, so imagine how you must feel.
“Right? Atlant.”
Atlant turned to look at me with a tilted expression while nodding his head.
“Hey, guide him to that project or whatever.”
“Huh?”
“Where do we need to go?”
“…I told you to come to 4th Floor, Room A a week ago, but that’s fine! You can guide me every single day, just let me advance!”
“Since you know, then guide him.”
I waved my hand at Atlant as he turned to leave.
“Second Brother, see you again.”
Atlant’s eyes widened, then he sank into a gloomy mood and looked down at the floor.
“…Will we really see each other again?”
Why did he suddenly become so sullen and depressed like that? The shift was almost bipolar, which caught me off guard a bit.
But I smiled without showing it. As if to say it was fine.
I knew the voice of the abandoned all too well, so I didn’t want to leave him in despair.
“Yes.”
Saying this, I asked calmly.
“…Just one thing. Do you remember ‘death’?”
Do you remember the day you died?
This was a truly important part for me.
I omitted whose death it was out of consideration for Levin, but he seemed to understand well enough.
Atlant stared at me, then shook his head.
“There are some things I can’t remember. One of them is that.”
“I see. I understand.”
I nodded.
“There will be a tomorrow for us now. For you and me.”
“….”
Atlant studied me once more, then finally turned away without hesitation.
He seemed to believe we would meet again.
I waved my hand, then slowly lowered it.
Thank goodness.
I closed my eyes calmly.
Because in this world, I alone remember your death.
“Sister.”
At the familiar voice, I opened my eyes and turned to find Agenor standing there.
‘I sensed his presence, but….’
He appeared to have rushed over, his appearance disheveled. I noticed the beads of sweat on Agenor’s forehead and tilted my head.
“You came.”
“Yeah. I heard there was a fight to watch, so I came, but why does he have a face like he’s been crying? Did I miss the part where you beat him that badly?!”
“From when did you start watching?”
“From when you were talking to that guy hiding behind the pillar?”
“Ah.”
I shrugged.
“Agenor, I need to take back something I said earlier.”
“What? Ah, is it about Atlant agreeing to serve under you?”
His intuition really was the sharpest.
I nodded lightly. Agenor pondered for a moment, then nodded like I did.
“Well, if you’re reconsidering what you said to me, that’s fine. You must have judged him to be the talent you need. Besides… he’s becoming my junior, isn’t he? Once he joins, he’ll have to listen to his senior.”
His face had already flushed with excitement, his expression ecstatic.
“I’m definitely going to make him do things….”
“Keep it reasonable. Reasonable.”
Watching Agenor smile radiantly, I thought once again about witnessing the harmony of these lunatics.
‘They’re going to fight like hell.’
Since things had come to this, I shrugged, thinking there was nothing to be done.
“…I’ll keep my promise.”
At that, Agenor laughed with delight.
His eyes… if I had to attach an onomatopoeia that didn’t exist in this world, they shone not with brightness but with an obsessive gleam.
Then suddenly, Agenor tilted his head as if something was odd.
“By the way, sister. Why does your expression look like that?”
“Like what?”
“Just. Um… it’s a strange way to put it, but your expression looks uncomfortable even though you seem at ease right now.”
“What does that even mean.”
I burst into laughter, but I had to admit that his words perfectly captured my current state of mind.
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I had joked to Atlant that I’d changed my recruitment criteria in this life, and that the condition was a wise head.
But it was merely a jest to get him to stop crying, and as I’d made clear to Agenor, Atlant had already resolved to join me regardless.
All I needed was a bit of time to settle my thoughts.
Yet this simple ruffian Atlant—what had he made of my words in such a short span?
Or rather, how deeply had it bothered him?
He appeared before me with a solution(?) I’d never even considered.
“Hey!”
Several days had passed since I last saw Atlant.
Today, after finishing my studies, I had come to Father’s Residence.
I was spending time alongside Father and Ekion when….
Of all places, Atlant appeared in this Drawing Room—truly an unexpected situation.
And he practically stormed in at that.
“Calypso Aquasiadel!”
Bang—his entrance was just as loud and disruptive as Second Brother’s temperament.
I grimaced and instinctively shielded Ekion behind me.
‘What’s he doing here all of a sudden?’
Though we’d made something like peace with each other, for us orcas, fighting was as natural as breathing.
Especially for this aggressive human—there was no guarantee he wouldn’t come at me in what he thought was a friendly manner.
‘Our Yongyong is just a physically frail young boy!’
Unlike us, who’d be fine even if rocks were thrown at us!
Of course, Father would surely protect him, but it’s a matter of principle.
‘And how did he even make it this far into Father’s domain without incident?’
I turned my head.
“Father, did you let him in?”
“I assumed he was your guest.”
I’d already given Father a rough account of what happened with Atlant a few days ago.
That one more person would soon be visiting this Manor.
‘But not today, and certainly not like this.’
As I frowned with a small groan, Atlant looked at me, then tilted his head.
“What’s that?”
His eyes suggested he found it curious that I was protecting someone.
“Family I live with.”
At my answer, he nodded as if he understood.
“You… uh, what. Are you dating?”
“If you’re just going to spout nonsense, keep your mouth shut.”
I couldn’t fathom how such words could come from someone standing in a protective stance.
“But that blue-haired bastard, he… no, never mind. Just listen to what I have to say.”
“You storm in like you own the place—what could you possibly want? If it’s nonsense, don’t expect to see me for three months.”
“…It’s not nonsense!”
Only then did I turn my gaze to Levin, who had appeared alongside Atlant.
Atlant’s overwhelming presence had captured everyone’s attention so completely that I hadn’t noticed Second Brother entering alongside Levin.
“Ahaha, hello, oh, h-hello Pierre. And Noble Lady…”
His greeting shifted in both tone and formality, clearly aware that we were now outside the Educational Institution.
It seemed Atlant hadn’t brought him here for nothing—Second Brother seized Levin’s shoulder with unmistakable triumph.
“Hey, didn’t you say you’d accept me if I had a wise head on my shoulders?”
“I believe I said I needed time to consider.”
“…I don’t know about that, but if I solve this, accept me now.”
Though I’d meant it as a jest, he seemed to have taken the remark about wisdom quite seriously—or perhaps felt genuinely threatened by it.
The fact that he’d suddenly appeared with an unexpected proposal suggested as much.
And his solution was this.
“I’ll give you this one too! Accept me!”
“…Did you happen to ask the opinion of the ‘one’ you’re offering?”
“Of course I did. Do I look like someone who wouldn’t think of that?!”
…You’re absolutely not someone who thinks about such things.
He seemed to have put genuine effort into his reasoning, yet I couldn’t fathom why he believed bringing Levin along would convince me to accept him.
‘This isn’t some buy-one-get-one promotion.’
“Why did you drag your perfectly fine friend into this anyway?”
“This guy’s a genius born from the Orca.”

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