Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 190

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Chapter 190
If Levai says there’s no way, then I suppose there truly isn’t one.
But the world is vast, and just as I didn’t know about beings like Whale in previous chapters, there may be other methods I haven’t discovered yet.
Who knows what possibilities still exist.
But by the time I find such a method, we will have grown considerably, won’t we?
More precisely, Whale will have become a child capable of making more mature judgments than he is now.
‘Who would help someone while losing so much in return?’
I was grateful to Whale, and I hoped he wouldn’t regret this in the future.
‘Well, as for me, I’ve always thought it doesn’t matter whether I have a husband or not for the rest of my life.’
So if later, even after the bond that tied us together truly faded, I still said I was happy,
and if there was no one I couldn’t live without, then living together as we were would have been fine.
“….”
Father didn’t answer, but I understood. This silence was one of affirmation, and
Father was still displeased.
“My, I’m so happy knowing how much Father loves me.”
I shrugged my shoulders.
Father simply spoke in a cold voice.
“Regardless of what the future holds, right now, I have no intention of accepting a son-in-law weaker than myself.”
It wasn’t particularly good news for Whale, but for some reason, his face was flushed with color.
* * *
Somehow, the situation had settled for now.
Though it wasn’t completely resolved.
It felt like we’d gotten over a hurdle.
‘Still, it seems Whale will have a difficult time ahead….’
Is this really okay?
I hesitated in front of Father’s room. He had told me to leave because he had things to discuss with Whale, so I was standing awkwardly.
Levai was kicked out along with me, and his expression suggested he had much to say.
“Um, Noble Lady.”
The moment Levai spoke to me, someone called out to me simultaneously.
“Calypso!”
Turning around, a blue-haired boy came bounding toward me.
I instinctively grabbed his shoulders and tilted my head in confusion.
“Tus?”
He looked identical to Ekion, but since he was shorter than me, it was Tus.
“Calypso! Tus has something to tell you. I really need to! It’s important.”
“Um, right now?”
“I really need to! It’s about the Dragon Duke!”
I glanced at Levai once, then nodded.
“I’m not sure what it is, but would it be alright to talk about it a little later?”
“…Yes, that’s fine. Noble Lady.”
Levai agreed readily despite his complicated expression, and I headed to my room in this Manor with Tus.
“What’s wrong, Tus?”
“….”
Yet strangely, despite Tus having sought me out with such vigor, now that I’d given him the opportunity, he seemed hesitant and uncertain.
As if he were gauging my reaction.
“Calypso, can I call the Dragon Duke Tus? Is it okay to call him here…?”
“Hm? Of course it’s fine.”
Soon a blue light flowed from Tus’s body, and Ekion appeared in my room with a flourish.
It was quite a remarkable sight.
Whether it was Tus’s ability or Ekion’s ability, I wasn’t sure. But it seemed rather convenient?
‘I should ask him how it works later.’
I had expected that the moment Ekion saw me, he would come to my side as if he’d been waiting.
“…Calypso.”
“Yes, welcome. Ekion. That was quite an entrance.”
Yet for some reason, Ekion stood beside Tus instead.
A subtle disappointment and deflation washed over me. Hm? Deflation?
Ekion had certainly been clinging to my side like glue before. I brushed it aside lightly and focused my gaze on Tus.
“Tus, so what did you want to tell me? You said it was about Ekion?”
Yet for some reason, Tus still couldn’t seem to speak, and he kept glancing sideways at Ekion.
Ekion, in turn, stared intently at Tus rather than looking at me.
Strangely, it was as if he were applying some kind of pressure….
“Ugh, Tus, just tell me.”
“…? Tell you. What’s wrong?”
“Calypso, are you married?”
“Huh? Uh, well. Um… It’s ambiguous, but if you’re asking whether it’s true or not, then yes.”
“Tus studied human world. Read many books.”
It was a fair point. Tus was more knowledgeable than I’d expected.
For the past few days while Tus read books to Ekion, I’d listened along from beside them.
He seemed to know quite a lot more than anticipated.
“Marriage is choosing a mate and spending your whole life together. Calypso, is Tus right?”
“Yes, that’s right?”
The word “mate” was less familiar to me than “spouse.”
But since this was the world of Beastkin, it seemed they used the term “mate” quite often.
“Tus, I told you about this before. The Dragon Duke learns ’emotions’ from the human he first forms a bond with.”
“Yes, I saw it in the record you gave me. I remember it clearly.”
So Ekion had learned emotions from me. I was well aware of this fact.
What was he getting at?
“Tus didn’t write one thing in that record. It was too important to write down.”
“Hm?”
“The Dragon Duke learns emotions from the human he first forms a bond with, and he can choose.”
“…A choice?”
Tus looked between me and Ekion with an anxious expression, then sighed with a troubled face.
“Tus didn’t want to say this about the Dragon Duke’s weakness…”
“What are you even talking about?”
“Calypso, dragons aren’t born through childbirth, so their way of living is fundamentally different from ordinary beastkin.”
Tus spread both hands wide as if to emphasize, saying ‘this much is important.’
“That’s why the Imprint and Bond were created. The Dragon Duke must perform an ‘Imprint.'”
I blinked.
“And throughout their entire lives, dragons need one and only one Bond to breathe and live for them.”
“Hey, Tus? Can you explain this so I can understand…?”
“Tus always thought that someday the Dragon Duke would choose Calypso as his Bond!”
Tus eventually stopped whimpering and began to sob. I was slightly flustered and took Tus’s hand.
Even looking at him like this, he was still just a young baby snake, wasn’t he?
Why on earth was he doing this?
“So what? Did I fail as a Bond?”
“No, Calypso, the Dragon Duke…”
Tus spoke carefully while clinging to me.
“He’s already done a one-sided Imprint on you…”
“Huh?”
I didn’t understand what was what.
But apparently, he’d done this important Imprint thing on me.
And, well… in other words.
“It can’t be undone?”
“It can’t…”
From the context, it sounded like this Imprint was a fatal weakness for the Dragon Duke.
I maintained composure as best I could amid the dizzying confusion.
Let me organize this.
My Yongyang did something to me. And it’s important.
So much so that it’s not just essential but absolutely indispensable for Ekion’s survival going forward.
And it’s apparently a weakness.
But it can’t be undone…?
Ekion stared directly at me now, as if wondering when he’d been looking at Tus.
I felt a slight sense of relief from that gaze, as if I’d found something I’d lost.
But separately from that, I felt dizzy.
‘What, so…’
What do I do if I’ve caused trouble that can’t be cleaned up?
When all my thoughts finally settled, a sigh burst from me.
Is this what it feels like to watch a beautiful goldfish cause mischief here and there while swimming along peacefully?
“When on earth did you do that?”
“…In the carriage.”
The answer came not from Tus, but from Ekion.
“When Calypso asked to see a certain time, you did.”
At those words, I remembered.
Three years old, on the journey back from the City of Dragons to Aquasiadel.
The day Ekion showed me my parents from Earth.
And five years had passed since that day.
“If you like Calypso, you’re supposed to give her a leash, they say.”
“…You said that much later, didn’t you?”
Without my knowing it, I had come to hold the leash of that beautiful and precious Dragon Duke.
Ekion smiled brilliantly before me, so beautifully.
Radiantly, impossible to look away from.
“I liked you from the beginning.”

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