Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 203

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Chapter 203
It was a rebellion orchestrated by the Eldest Son of Ocula Aquasiadel and his wife.
Under Pierre’s rule, who inherited Calypso’s will, the Aquasiadel Family had taken a different path than when Ocula led them.
As the family moved away from preaching only survival of the fittest, discontent grew among those who opposed this change.
Heila, with her shrewd capabilities, had brought all the discontented into her fold and waited for her opportunity.
She believed that if Pierre alone were dead, everything would be resolved.
But that was arrogance.
It wasn’t Pierre who killed Rodesen, the general who appeared to lead the rebellion on the surface.
“I’m sorry, Father.”
It was Lirivel, who had quietly hidden her true identity all this time.
She acted as though she had known this rebellion would occur.
Lirivel had methodically dismantled everything from within.
In the end, her own mother Heila, driven by rage, came at her desperately.
But she overcame even that.
“Kya ha ha. Is it strange because a daughter you never treated as one is doing this?”
“…When did you start following that woman, my daughter? You will come to regret your choice.”
Heila, clutching Rodesen’s corpse and grinding her teeth, vanished.
Though she had been locked in prison, she disappeared without a trace.
And all those who participated in the rebellion were either captured or surrendered.
After those who surrendered were removed from power and generational change occurred.
A second rebellion broke out when those who had fled regrouped, but it was suppressed far more easily than the first.
Surprisingly, it was an unexpected person who suppressed them.
The former Matriarch, Ocula Aquasiadel, who had quietly disappeared and no one knew where she had gone.
She appeared with a haggard face, threw down the head of the Orca who had led the second rebellion.
Then she vanished once more.
And when all these events had come to an end…
Calypso opened her eyes.
“Well, at least you’ve opened your eyes. You were busy the moment you woke up anyway.”
“Well… it couldn’t be helped.”
When Calypso opened her eyes, six years had passed since she had entered the gap in time.
By then, everyone in the family had already acknowledged Pierre as the true Matriarch.
Naturally, the mountain Calypso had to overcome had become Pierre.
Calypso listened quietly to news of what had happened while she slept, then burst into cheerful laughter.
“Things are unfolding interestingly.”
Upon opening her eyes, she had been given a difficult task, and her life had become all the more colorful.
‘I see why she’s no ordinary person…’
Moreover, Calypso accepted the situation positively, noting that the worst-case scenario she had imagined had not come to pass.
For Dede, who attended to Calypso, it was simply remarkable.
Pierre had tried to yield the position of Matriarch to Calypso the moment she opened her eyes.
But Calypso could not do so.
A new problem had emerged in Aquasiadel.
That problem, which had plagued us for nearly three years now….
“Ah, the Matriarch is arriving. I’ll head out first, Brother!”
“Wait, hold on. Dede! Dede!”
Tata tried to grab Dede but stopped short. He had come seeking an audience with the Matriarch.
‘It seems I won’t be able to meet her today either.’
Tata sighed and gave up gracefully.
Though everyone implicitly referred to Calypso as the “Matriarch,” she was not yet the official Matriarch.
She still operated undercover, keeping Pierre as the public face.
Moreover, she was far too busy to be easily seen, and….
There were simply too many people keeping watch around her!
Young men, or rather, unmarried young men specifically.
‘If I don’t want to disappear without a trace in Agenor’s hands, I’d better keep my head down.’
Timid Tata had no choice but to make himself scarce.
The person who caught Tata’s eye walked forward with confident strides.
Her hair, bound into a single braid that fell to her waist, was the first thing to draw attention.
Her slender waist and long limbs were striking—so delicate one wouldn’t think they possessed such formidable strength.
Yet Tata knew all too well just how explosively powerful that healthy body truly was.
Her complexion was pale white, her face so luminously pure and innocent it was hard to look away.
Thinking of the fists she wielded with such a face made the fine hairs on the back of one’s neck stand on end.
‘She’s certainly beautiful.’
…It was only natural that Pierre and her brothers would take notice.
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“Dede!”
Calypso broke into a radiant smile at the sight of Dede rushing toward her.
Her fresh smile, bathed in sunlight, possessed a pristine charm that captivated the gaze of anyone passing by.
The grown Calypso was not as tall as her father or brothers, but she felt no particular disappointment.
Such was the life of one who had regressed.
‘It feels like spoiling my own future appearance.’
There was merely a difference between when nutrition was abundant and when it was not.
This time I had grown up well-fed, yet my height remained unchanged. It was a shame.
‘Fighting would be easier if I were taller.’
Calypso clenched and unclenched her fist.
“Did you just return?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Calypso nodded at Dede’s question and undid one of the buttons on the cloak she was wearing.
Her attire certainly looked simple, as if she had just returned from somewhere.
“Those bastards keep hiding in the Wasteland, and it’s nothing but a nuisance.”
There must have been fierce fighting in the Wasteland. Dust had accumulated as if she’d been rolling around out there.
Calypso rubbed her cheek.
“My cheek is tingling.”
Dede glanced at Calypso’s cheek and startled.
Though it was only a hairline crack, blood was trickling from it.
She came in this condition?
The moment Dede reached out in alarm, a hand suddenly extended from beside Calypso.
“Calypso, you’re bleeding. Bleeding!”
Both Dede and Calypso’s gazes naturally turned.
There stood a young man with pristine white fluffy hair.
His hair was like cotton candy or white fluffy clouds. His eyes were round and pitch-black.
Overall, he had a round and gentle appearance.
His white cheeks were so pale and fair that the veins showed through.
The young man wore a concerned expression.
“You mustn’t get hurt, Calypso.”
With a face as though his soul had left him, he naturally offered a handkerchief.
Calypso grasped the handkerchief touching her cheek. Then she smiled.
“Ruga.”
The young man called by name, Ruga, broke into a bright smile.
“Yes!”
“What brings you here alone?”
“I came in Mother’s stead. I heard you were returning today, and it seems I timed it well.”
“I see. You and Dede are the first people I’ve seen since returning.”
As Calypso walked, Ruga naturally followed beside her.
“It seems certain now that you’ll be the next Matriarch.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Ruga was destined to become the next Matriarch of the Beluga Family.
Dede subtly stepped back. A slightly awkward expression crossed his face.
Ruga of the Beluga Family.
It was a name no one didn’t know anymore. If anything positive, it was that the successor of the Beluga Family was as capable as the Matriarch herself.
What was amusing was that before Calypso with her eyes open, he smiled as innocently as anyone could, which is why Calypso readily trusted this face.
“Will you be staying with the family longer this time?”
“Well, I’ll have to see. But for now, yes.”
Calypso casually rubbed the back of her neck. She also moved her neck around as if it were stiff.
“It’s because of those creatures who hide like octopuses and appear so seamlessly.”
“They’re still active then.”
“Indeed. Though few in number, they move in guerrilla tactics—quite the nuisance.”
Calypso shrugged her shoulders.
“Besides, I’ll be coming of age tomorrow, won’t I?”
Calypso gazed at the sky for a moment, then spoke peacefully.
“I might need to become betrothed.”
Calypso walked quietly, then suddenly turned her head. Ruga had stopped walking.
Calypso tilted her head.
“Ruga?”
Ruga opened his mouth as if to say something, then broke into a beautiful smile instead.
“…I just remembered something urgent I need to attend to. Would it be alright if I visited again another time?”
“Sure, go ahead.”
Calypso nodded casually, and Ruga bowed before turning to leave.
Dede, who had been watching, looked at him with a pitying expression before shaking his head slightly.
Meanwhile, Ruga exhaled the sigh he’d been holding back.
This feeling of frustration—these emotions that had begun as childhood affection, never even conveyed, crumbling away.
The young man Ruga let out a quiet sigh.
Perhaps it was also because the rival was far too formidable to challenge.
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“Seems like you’ve been quite busy.”
I tilted my head. Ruga must have had a reason to seek me out, but judging by how he left without saying anything, something was off.
“Aha, haha…”
Dede laughed awkwardly.
He seemed to have something to say, but his lips never opened.
He only managed to slip out these words.
“Your brother visited today and said he’d like to see you soon.”
“Ah, Tata? Tell him to come anytime. I should see him before I leave again.”
“Yes.”
Dede spoke firmly with a determined expression.
“I’ll definitely come visit with you.”
“Huh? Oh, sure…?”
I blinked and nodded. He looked like a general preparing for a decisive battle.
We were just entering the Manor. Father, who had become the Matriarch’s proxy, conducted business at the Main Castle but slept in the previous building.
Everything at the Main Castle wasn’t his, apparently.
Memories of the past came flooding back.
Those three years that existed in the gaps of time. And falling asleep the moment I emerged.
The dreams I had while sleeping.
Everything up to rushing about on foot before things spiraled into chaos from the problems that arose the moment I opened my eyes from that long sleep.
‘During all that time, there must have been countless moments when I could have controlled the family as I wished, yet having no such desires is quite remarkable.’
As for what felt strange during that time.
‘It was that my body had grown unexpectedly larger when I opened my eyes.’
It was only natural after sleeping for three years.
The sight of Suha and the family members with reddened eyes when I first opened mine felt peculiar.
In any case, the building we entered was Father’s Manor.
The moment the door opened, I heard small pattering footsteps.
I habitually bent one leg and sat down, spreading my arms wide.
Pounce!
Soon someone fell into my arms, though not quite fully.
I held whoever I had embraced just as incompletely, matching their embrace with my own.
“Calypso.”
At that clear voice, I couldn’t help but smile.
“Yes, Ekion.”
I gazed at Ekion and wore a melancholic expression for just a moment.
“Have you been well all this time?”
Ekion’s appearance was no different from nine years ago.
Or rather, he’d grown only just a little.
Now, standing beside me, anyone would see us as siblings with quite an age gap between us.
I smiled bitterly to myself.
All of this was my fault.

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