Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 273

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Chapter 273
If she didn’t die by Ekion’s hand, then no one in the next life would remember her.
Well, there’s nothing I can do about it.
My body began to freeze.
The barrier created by the Crown Prince remained intact, preventing anyone from entering.
It was actually fortunate. I hoped that no one but myself would be caught in the grip of my own abilities.
“This can’t be happening, ahhhhh, aaahhhhh!”
I laughed with a cackle.
“Scream all you want. I won’t freeze your mouth until you die.”
My body continued to freeze as well. I was certain of it—he would die first, and I would follow shortly after.
That was the moment.
Crash!
“What the—there are so many of these disgusting creatures here too. Hey, big brother, take care of the west side!”
A familiar voice rang out. I turned my freezing eyes to the side.
It was Atlant.
‘Did things go well on Ekion’s end….’
Whatever battle they had fought, it seemed to have been fierce.
Bellus, who appeared alongside him, Lirivel, and Levai, who was supported by Hauser, were all in terrible condition.
Yet they casually joined the battle in this hall without hesitation.
After Bellus engaged Assel, I turned my head away again.
‘…We won.’
In the third cycle, the battle’s morale depended on whether I was present or not.
But in this life, everyone did well even without my participation.
I felt an inexplicable sense of injustice.
The power I had already expended could not be recovered, and the Crown Prince could no longer speak, glaring at me with eyes whose blood vessels had burst.
“There’s no help for it. You’ll die with me.”
“You…. In the next life, I will… cough.”
“In the next life and the one after that, you’ll be the one losing, you bastard.”
Mutual destruction was imminent. The Crown Prince collapsed first.
I couldn’t even fall because my legs were frozen solid.
Bang! Bang! The sound of someone pounding on the barrier echoed.
It sounded like Atlant was cursing roughly and shouting.
“…My ears hurt, damn it.”
I blinked my eyes. The Crown Prince was now facing death.
My ears caught the sound of his heartbeat, growing gradually slower.
‘It’s so cold.’
Outside the barrier were my family, friends, and comrades. So why couldn’t I go to them?
The moment I stood watching the Seoul Streets, unable to do anything, came back to me.
Strangely, a far greater sorrow and sense of injustice washed over me than before.
Yet on the other hand, I was satisfied. If I hadn’t stepped forward, we all would have certainly died together.
In my past life, I lived through everyone’s sacrifices. So in this life, should I be the only one to sacrifice myself?
That was the moment.
“Calypso.”
Warmth spread across my shoulder.
“…Don’t die anymore.”
At those words, Calypso shed the tears she had been holding back.
“…Ekion.”
Not the fake dragon collapsed over there, but her dragon had arrived. Calypso’s body had frozen solid, and she couldn’t even turn her head.
As if understanding her state, enormous arms wrapped around her.
“I don’t think I could bear Calypso’s death, not even once.”
Truth be told, I feel the same way. I’ve never fully accepted my own death either.
Why did I regress?
Why did I….
“I wanted to know why I regressed….”
Calypso whispered in a voice so fragile it seemed ready to shatter. But something more important than that right now was….
“I want to live.”
Ekion watched his dying mate. Long ago, dragons were born from the prayers of the beastkin.
And they were granted the power to dominate spacetime, fulfilling countless wishes.
Until that power weakened and they became no different from beastkin.
“I want to grant Calypso’s wish.”
Yet dragons still retained the power to answer prayers.
By sharing the price that Calypso should have borne, Ekion could save her.
It was something only Ekion could do.
As Calypso’s frozen body gradually moved, Ekion’s body began to freeze.
“…Hey, what will we do if you freeze too?”
Calypso laughed as if crying.
“It’s alright.”
Ekion was a dragon who learned about the world through Calypso.
And now he understood.
“Everyone will save us.”
That beastkin and humans cannot live alone.
“How irresponsible.”
Calypso laughed softly.
Yet the resentment, fear, and terror that had consumed her moments before vanished without a trace.
And in their place, flowers bloomed.
Flowers named hope, that they would now find happiness.
“We won together.”
Crash!
The sound of the barrier shattering into pieces echoed. Someone caught Calypso as her frozen body thawed and she collapsed.
“Calypso….”
A beloved family member, and my father.
Calypso saw Pierre’s tears. His broken body and face as well.
Seeing Father with so much he seemed to want to say, Calypso smiled softly.
Just like when they first met in childhood.
“Father, shall we go home now?”
Pierre answered while holding back his tears.
“…Yes. Let’s go.”
Calypso had finally achieved victory.
At the same time, she felt the chains that had bound her release their grip.
She didn’t fully understand it, but she grasped it instinctively.
Ah.
Now she would not regress again.
* * *

Huff, huff.
Prince Kail gazed up at the ceiling that kept fading and sharpening in turn.
He was dying.
No one cared about Kail. About himself, who had once been the most noble, superior, and great member of the imperial family!
Rather, there were beastkin who spat or hurled curses as they passed by.
His teeth were clenched, but he could no longer clench them. Everything except his ears and eyes had frozen.
If his heart stopped like this, he would die. How many minutes were left? About three?
Kail felt wronged. Why had he lost again?
If he regressed, if it happened that way….
‘Wait.’
Had he truly regressed? One day, memories of his past life suddenly surfaced. But what if, in the next life, they don’t surface….
The face of Calypso Aquasiadel, who had mocked him, came to mind.
Why, why exactly! Why can’t I achieve victory? Why!
What was he even trying to defeat Calypso Aquasiadel for?
What had his original goal been?
In the moment of reflecting on life as death approached, a familiar voice reached the Crown Prince’s ears.
“Someone who needs treatment! Let me help you! This way!”
A delicate voice. Familiar. A squirrel beastkin with healing abilities—Lili.
The Crown Prince couldn’t understand why only Lili’s voice rang so clearly amid this commotion.
That was the moment.
“I like you the best, Your Highness. More than Father…!”
A vision of an adult Lili smiling brightly flashed before his eyes.
The location was the imperial garden.
Was it a lantern of the dying? But it was a scene the Crown Prince didn’t know.
Because in neither his past life nor this one had that woman ever smiled so brightly before him.
Had Calypso been present, she would have recognized this scene as the ‘original’, a timeline they had once traversed.
In that moment, the Crown Prince loved Lili purely.
He cherished and protected her. Even when that affection sometimes crossed into obsession, Lili smiled obediently.
The Crown Prince wanted to reach out his hand. But that hand had long since frozen and died.
Now he seemed to understand.
When had things gone wrong?
“I… I hate it! I hate it! I hate the experiments!”
Why had he tormented the person he loved?
Ironically, he had been a contemptible villain in every timeline.
But only when he realized that the one time he hadn’t been a villain was the only moment he had ever been truly happy, did he weep tears of remorse.
They were a crocodile’s tears.
Unaware that this was the punishment Ekion had bestowed upon him, he faced the only happy moment of his existence before death, thrashing desperately within himself.
But everything was already over.
“…!”
Before the Crown Prince, whose body was frozen solid and whose eyes moved wildly, Lili’s face appeared.
It was the image of Lili grown tall that he had just been seeing.
“Die.”
Lili glared at him with profound hatred.
“I wish you had never been reborn at all.”
Lili meant it as a way of saying they should never see each other again, but to the Crown Prince who had witnessed his past life, it struck like a blade that would never come again.
Thus the Crown Prince met his end. Pathetically and miserably.
A final death from which there would be no next life.
“Don’t let that bastard die.”
No, that was a misunderstanding.
The Crown Prince thought he had died, but the two healers, Lili and Whale, managed to keep him alive.
For one who had killed countless beastkin, a peaceful death was a luxury.
He would spend the rest of his life stripped of his powers and parts of his body, paying the price for the crimes he had committed.
At the hands of the families who had cherished and loved the beastkin he had killed.
* * *
“Hey!”
“Matriarch…!”
Calypso faced everyone while cradled in Pierre’s arms.
Everyone was safe… Calypso’s eyes swept over them all repeatedly.
Though some were grievously wounded, none were dead. She was satisfied that no one was missing from sight.
Calypso wore a contented smile.
“No one died?”
“You, in your current state, you can still say something like that…?!”
Calypso’s entire body was ravaged by frostbite.
Whale, who understood the significance of these injuries, looked like he might cry the most.
“It’s fine. You’ll heal me anyway.”
“I, I want to do it!”
That was when someone suddenly poked their head through the crowd of towering beastkin.
It was beautiful hair the color of sunlight—a vibrant orange.
As far as I knew, there was only one person with that hair color.
It was Lili.
“Sister, I’ll heal you!”
Lili cried out with a trembling face. I wondered why she was here, but—
it seemed I wouldn’t need to ask anymore.
“Lili, could you see to One Man first instead of me?”
I gazed at the man swaying unsteadily before me. It was Ekion.
“Treat Ekion first.”
“There’s no need to choose. You’ll both receive treatment together.”
Pierre cut in and spoke firmly. Everyone wore the same expression.
Faces that asked, “Who’s worried about whom?” All of them brimming with concern, I couldn’t help but laugh aloud.
When I lifted my gaze, a brilliantly blue sky stretched above.
The dazzling azure reminded me of the sea.
On the day I died in my third cycle, the weather had been just like this.
But this life was different.
“Ah, what a beautiful day.”
Yes, just as the ending had changed, so too would the story that followed.
I seemed to hear laughter echoing in my ears.
Perhaps it was my past self—the one who had met such a tragic end.
I smiled brightly, waiting for the happiness that lay ahead.
“Let’s go home.”
To our home.

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