Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 290

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Side Story: Act 15
No one dared to speak. The maid attending to Cali looked so apologetic that her head drooped as if her face might sink into the floor.
“I… I’m so sorry. Truly, I apologize, Your Majesty.”
“No, no.”
It wasn’t the maid’s fault.
If there was a cause…
It could only be that woman, Heila, couldn’t it?
Whale, Levai, and Ekion were all in the room. Everyone was present except Hauser, whom I’d sent out to handle some matters.
“There was no contact from Agenor.”
That meant Heila hadn’t opened her eyes.
“What do you think, Whale?”
Whale fell silent.
“…Remarkably, she’s perfectly fine both physically and mentally. Our child has no poison, no illness. But.”
“If your abilities confirm she’s fine, then Cali is okay.”
Whale’s mouth moved slightly.
He wanted to say that despite this, she still wouldn’t open her eyes.
If it wasn’t illness or poison, then one thing troubled me.
I glanced toward the maids and nursemaids. They quickly bowed their heads and withdrew.
Only my husbands and I remained in the room.
“Whale, the wound?”
“Hmm?”
“You said there was a strange wound on Cali.”
“Ah… yes, that’s right.”
Whale turned over the sleeping child’s wrist to show me.
“Here. The wound has healed. Strangely, the mark won’t disappear.”
“Your abilities should have healed it cleanly.”
I gazed quietly at the wound.
“Ekion, do you have any thoughts seeing this wound? Even just a feeling would help.”
If it wasn’t illness, poison, or aftereffects of a wound, then I could only think of something transcendent.
Since this was caused by Heila, I kept many possibilities open.
“Resonance.”
Ekion grasped Cali’s wrist and examined it for a long time before carefully setting it down. His expression was tender.
“Tus.”
At Ekion’s call, a young boy appeared in thin air.
Tus quickly learned the situation and examined Cali. His eyes widened.
“Wow, it’s really true, Ekion.”
“I called Tus to confirm.”
Ekion nodded to Tus and turned toward me. Tus’s expression had already grown sorrowful.
“Calypso, I sense something strange from Cali.”
“It’s alright. Explain slowly.”
“…I can feel the power of time emanating from Cali.”
Though I had braced myself, the revelation was far more startling than I had anticipated, and I couldn’t help but falter.
I glanced briefly at the faces of my other husbands before turning my attention back to Tus.
“Are you saying my daughter also… underwent regression?”
“W-well, I’m not entirely certain about that. What I can say is that her power is similar to Calypso’s, but….”
“I understand. That’s why Ekion helped when she was born.”
It was Ekion who had transferred the dragon’s power to Cali. It was for the child’s sake.
But what I couldn’t comprehend was this: isn’t the power of time supposed to allow one to regress upon death?
“Could it be that Cali….”
My expression darkened in an instant.
“No, Calypso! Cali is perfectly fine! Whale would know her physical condition better, but she’s alright!”
Perhaps sensing the turbulent surge of water responding to my emotional state, Tus spoke hastily.
“The strange part is this: Cali’s power was growing, yet simultaneously becoming more stable.”
“That’s because the dragon’s power grew alongside it, helping to stabilize everything.”
“Ekion.”
“Still, I remained uneasy….”
I exhaled softly. Only three of us here experienced or remember the end of the third cycle.
“…The balance has become completely disrupted.”
“So it truly was Heila’s doing.”
For such a vicious woman’s handiwork, it seemed surprisingly sloppy—which is precisely why I had detained her.
“Very well, now that we know the cause, we simply need to find a solution.”
According to the Dragon Duke and his retainers, the imbalance of power caused the child to inherit my power of time, and it grew too strong.
That’s why she couldn’t open her eyes.
“What if we infused more of the dragon’s power to help her open her eyes?”
“…That won’t work. Cali’s body wouldn’t be able to withstand it.”
Ekion shook his head at Levai’s suggestion. While everyone pondered solutions,
remarkably, the answer appeared far more easily than expected.
“Mmm… Mother?”
My daughter, Cali, had opened her eyes.
“Mother! Father!! Waaaah.”
Tears streamed down her cheeks like dewdrops, contrary to her usual composure.
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“Sigh….”
I leaned back against the sofa, tilting my head. Exhaustion dominated my entire body.
It was the aftermath of the intense tension I had maintained. I had been so terrified, thinking something had gone wrong with my daughter, my heart nearly melted away.
‘If I had the time, I’d give Mother and Father one good hit each.’
Years had passed, yet my parents remained endlessly chasing and being chased.
Whether their relationship was good or bad, or perhaps a mixture of love and hate, I couldn’t say.
Even with the slightest mishap, the weight of their sin was immense—parents who failed to cherish such a lovely daughter from the moment of her birth.
I deliberately indulged in these idle thoughts. It was then that I felt a warm temperature on my forehead.
I wasn’t even startled by the hand covering my eyes.
“Healing.”
“Yeah, it is healing. Ekion.”
I grinned widely.
“Your scent is just so healing.”
“…Your Majesty, your tone sounded like an old man rolling around on a battlefield.”
“Ah, like Matata?”
I recalled the crayfish beastkin subordinate who was probably playing hard somewhere in the capital by now.
“He’s in his twenties, so he’d jump up and down saying he’s not old enough to be called that.”
“He does look a bit older than his age, though.”
It was Levai who made the retort.
Though he hadn’t spoken, Hauser, who had returned late and learned the full situation, was also in this room with us.
I recalled what had just happened.
How shocked everyone was when Cali opened her eyes. Without exception, they all gathered around the bed.
Cali had cried sorrowfully in my arms before suddenly stopping.
“I’m fine now!”
“Uh…? Our daughter, who do you take after to be so incredibly brave…?”
“Mother!”
My guilt is great. Ahem.
In any case, through the child who quickly calmed down, I learned several things.
No, a very important fact.
“Really? You really saw Mother? And… there were wounds on her neck and ears?”
“Yes! Levai Father saw too. Third Father as well!”
I looked at Levai and he nodded slightly. The child chattered on without pause.
“Ugh… Mother, Cali is getting sleepy again…”
I had never been so grateful for the fact that my child was smarter than her peers and could speak so clearly.
Without panicking, I told Cali a few things before she fell asleep again.
Cali departed for dreamland once more, but unlike before, there was no anxiety. Or rather, there was less of it.
“So… it’s like I’m watching my previous life. Isn’t it?”
Everyone nodded.
Everyone here were husbands who had lived through the third cycle with me. Whale, who had gone to make medicine, was absent.
After Cali finished her story, Tus and Ekion theorized.
Perhaps they could help end this strange situation.
It was truly fortunate.
That Cali wasn’t sick, injured, or in danger.
That we could end this absurd matter so simply.
“Well then, who wants to go first?”
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“Hmm?”
Calypso lifted her head from the barracks.
Something felt oddly familiar about it. No, it seemed somewhat… recognizable.
Calypso quickly dismissed the thought and focused on the present, gazing intently at the sleeping child in her arms.
‘This is troublesome.’
Several days had passed since the child joined their group.
Originally, Calypso and her companions had intended to send the child somewhere safe.
But.
“They’ve already left?”
“Yes… that’s what I heard?”
Her subordinates each had families to protect. Calypso had gathered them together and sent them to a safe location in preparation for any contingency.
However, the last group to assemble had departed for the Dolphins’ village, leaving her with no suitable place to entrust the child.
She couldn’t simply leave the child in any random village—Aquasiadelm was currently engulfed in warfare.
She would need subordinates skilled enough to escort the child all that distance. Yet in the current situation where every hand was essential, she couldn’t spare anyone to make the journey to the Dolphins’ territory.
Besides, there was something about the child that made her feel she’d weep miserably if separated.
“Pardon the intrusion.”
“You barge in without even knocking, and now you apologize for the intrusion?”
Just as Calypso finished her contemplation while watching the sleeping child, Levai entered.

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