Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 161

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Chapter 161
“Emergency situation!”
Levai heard hurried footsteps. With them came a voice that made him hold his breath.
It was terrifying.
‘I’m not cut out for fieldwork like this….’
Though I harbored complaints, what could I do?
Having come this far, I could only envision success as the outcome.
That was why the young boy had committed himself so thoroughly to an infiltrator’s role that was never meant for him.
Once you’ve started, you must succeed.
Levai, despite having no memory of it, possessed a thought process similar to Calypso’s.
“Commander, what’s the matter?”
“Move immediately. Call all the first squad… no, the second squad too!”
“Then, what about the guard here?”
“The other two squads are here! Why aren’t you moving?”
“I-I apologize. But where are we going?”
“To Peseum!”
Not far from where Levai was hiding, two knights were conversing.
Black Panther Knights. Or perhaps knights receiving orders from the Black Panther.
Lying prone, I could barely see their black boots.
Even amid the dust, eavesdropping on their conversation was not difficult.
“A serious problem seems to have arisen, so we’ve received urgent orders to move.”
“…So it’s an emergency situation. Understood! I’ll mobilize the troops immediately!”
Soon after, the gathered knights moved out discreetly.
Levai hadn’t noticed their departure clearly, yet I could sense that a significant number had withdrawn.
‘This is it.’
Levai recalled it quietly. The moment when Calypso had explained the plan.
“There will come a moment when the personnel outside the building withdraw. Probably about… half. Yes, exactly half will leave.”
Levai felt a chill run down my spine.
Right now, exactly half the personnel were withdrawing.
“That’s your opportunity. The reinforcements won’t arrive until you bring ‘Tus’ out. You must bring him out at that moment, without fail.”
“Didn’t you say there are also powerful terrestrial beast-kin inside the building?”
“Ah, don’t worry. Half of them will go to Peseum, and from the remaining half, another half will disappear when the personnel withdraw.”
Calypso had been certain at that moment. That everything she said would come to pass.
Levai continued to wonder.
Everything this person says always happens exactly as spoken.
How far ahead is she seeing?
“What should we do if things don’t proceed as you’ve described?”
“I’ll explain contingency plans starting now. But it will proceed as I’ve said.”
What was most captivating, however.
Was the confidence that overflowed in Calypso’s expression as she explained.
“I will make it so.”
A noble bearing, different from the arrogance possessed by terrestrial beastkin.
Calypso said the Dragon Duke would speak as though he were in Perseum. Not merely in words, but she would make it appear that way.
If that happened, she predicted approximately half of the forces would mobilize.
‘It’s as though she moves with knowledge of the Dragon Duke’s temperament.’
Sometimes….
‘It seems as though she knows the future.’
This was the conclusion Levai’s brilliant mind had reached, though he deemed it absurd.
Yet part of him wondered if there truly existed a special ability called ‘foresight’.
Seeing that someone like Whale exists, I don’t believe the world is without mutations.
But now was not the time to delve into the Noble Lady’s secrets.
As Levai concluded his lengthy contemplation, the area near the building had grown quiet.
Without question, those guarding the interior had departed as well.
Someone appeared near Levai and Drex.
“So you were here.”
I hadn’t noticed until he drew close.
At the whispered voice, Levai startled and turned around, only to find Atlant standing there with a faint smile.
“Kid, you’re jumpy.”
The moment Levai saw Atlant, he relaxed and brushed the dust from himself as he stood.
Drex, who had been hiding with him, did the same.
“You’ve arrived.”
“Feel free to speak louder. I’ve set up a barrier.”
Atlant glanced around and nodded.
“It looks like everyone’s left?”
“Yes, just as the Noble Lady said. It appears approximately half have departed.”
“Levai is correct.”
Drex, who possessed a keener sense for combat, reinforced Levai’s assessment.
Atlant chuckled and shrugged his shoulders.
“Then how remarkable she must be. If she says so, we just have to trust her.”
“….”
“Then we’ll always be victorious.”
Though his demeanor seemed somewhat irreverent, upon closer inspection it carried a certain discipline.
No matter how much a household operated on the principle that the strong claimed everything, wouldn’t it be uncomfortable at times to take orders from a much younger sister?
Levai neatly set aside the question that had initially crossed his mind.
Atlant served Calypso as his true lord, respecting and cherishing her.
‘Among orca siblings, betrayal and murder are said to be commonplace.’
His blind faith was remarkable.
But this was not the time for such thoughts.
“We enter through here?”
“Yes. Before you arrived, I heard from Sir Drex about the general sense of presences, and I’ve memorized all the routes. If you share what you know now, the escape route won’t be perfect, but it will be usable.”
Atlant stared at Levai with a peculiar expression for a moment.
“…? Why are you looking at me like that?”
“No, it’s just that I sometimes feel like I might be mistaken.”
Atlant furrowed his brow.
Levai clearly had no memories, yet sometimes he seemed so identical to his previous life that I wondered if he did remember.
‘As the future changes, it shouldn’t be possible for things to remain exactly the same.’
Yet there was no sense of discord about him.
“Never mind. I just need to spill out what I know, right?”
“Yes.”
Not only did the personnel Calypso anticipated fall short, but Atlant arrived right on time as well.
Now all that remained was to bring the being Calypso mentioned.
Moments later, they were hiding in a corner of the corridor.
Atlant glanced sideways with an expression that was half satisfied and half displeased.
“You… can’t you do something about your walking speed?”
The route Levai predicted was nearly flawless.
Combined with the patrol times and shifts of the sentries that Atlant had mentioned, sneaking through became far easier.
He was like a machine that only revealed shortcuts.
The only drawback was that since Levai was the intellectual type, there were limits to how well he could keep pace with Atlant and Drex.
“I’m truly sorry, but I’m the one who uses his brain, and I’m doing my best right now, am I not?”
Levai spoke with the expression of someone barely managing to hold his breath, and Atlant shrugged.
“Damn brat, you’re temperamental.”
“…This is why I hate combat personnel. Really.”
“What?”
“Why?”
Atlant was slightly startled but shook his head again.
‘What. He’s saying the exact same words as the previous cycle without a single variation. Gave me a fright. Ugh.’
They soon arrived at their destination.
“What, you said there’d be almost no one near the door… and you were right?”
Levai recalled what he’d heard from Calypso.
“According to the Noble Lady, she’s described as an ominous and frightening presence, so even the servants avoid her.”
While other areas were filled with strict security, the area near the Dragon Duke’s Chamber was nearly empty, just as it had been when Calypso went.
However, there wasn’t a complete absence of people.
The sole sentry was walking down the corridor, apparently on patrol.
The three of them checked for any signs of presence for a moment.
Finally, when the sentry had moved far enough away.
‘Now!’
They opened the door, entered, and closed it.
Closing the massive door silently required considerable strength, but for Atlant, it was no problem.
“Is this the place?”
“Yes. It is.”
The three who entered the chamber fell silent, at a loss for words.
“…Hey, is this really the Dragon Duke’s Chamber?”
As a returnee, Atlant prided himself on having witnessed every conceivable sight in his previous life.
A life where he had seen much that others could never imagine….
But this was a first.
‘I was certain there would be someone in disguise pretending to be that Ekion bastard.’
They said the one they were searching for now was also a child.
Yet a child’s chamber felt distinctly wrong…. No, ominous.
Not a single intact object remained anywhere in the room. Chairs and tables lay overturned, everything shattered or reduced to fragments.
The curtains hung in tatters, and glass shards littered the floor.
“What a foul stench. What madman left it like this?”
Most of all… the walls were stained with something resembling red paint.
“…Either the owner of this place is insane, or whoever visited here deserves to be dead garbage.”
If his eyes weren’t deceiving him, those marks on the wall were unmistakably blood.
Atlant pressed his lips firmly shut and surveyed the surroundings.
Finally, he discovered a small mound rising from the bed.
The bed was so enormous that an ordinary person would have simply passed by without noticing.
A trace—no, a presence….
‘Far too weak.’
Atlant’s expression hardened.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————