Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 299

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Side Story: Act 24
Levai smiled bitterly as he watched her.
He had contemplated a moment like this once, long ago.
And my lord responded exactly as I had anticipated. I felt no particular disappointment.
“I know you will never accept my feelings.”
“….”
Levai reached out his hand. His hand, which seemed about to touch Calypso’s cheek, closed into a fist just before her face.
Calypso’s blue eyes pursued the movement of his hand persistently.
Dilated pupils, wavering irises. Lips parted in surprise. A loss for words.
He found all of this pleasing.
“So….”
“When everything is over.”
Calypso grabbed his retreating hand firmly. Levai, who had bowed his head for a moment, lifted it back up.
Clear eyes were right before him.
“Shall we live together?”
Levai’s eyes widened as if they might split. Calypso laughed as if amused.
It was Calypso herself who had been flustered just moments before. But now it was Levai who averted his gaze.
The way his pupils trembled… why did it move her so? It was fascinating.
No matter how much she teased him before, he remained unmoved, and even when he was occasionally caught off guard, it was only for a fleeting moment.
But this was the first time he had wavered for so long. This situation was unprecedented.
“That word….”
“Why.”
Levai tried to pull away, but Calypso did not release his hand.
“Where are you running off to?”
“….”
“You caused this mess.”
In an instant, his eyes turned cold again.
“It is not a mess.”
“Then what is it?”
“….”
“Why, do you think my suggestion to live together was a joke?”
Levai fell silent. Calypso keenly discerned his affirmation.
“It wasn’t—I was sincere.”
“Look behind you.”
“All I see are innocent memories streaming past.”
Levai sighed while his hand remained held. He knew. Though she was deflecting as if joking, Calypso’s eyes were wavering.
That was quite a welcome thing.
“I have nothing to say to someone who does not reflect on their past.”
“What, you confess and then what?”
“I neither speak empty words nor lies.”
The two of them knew each other well.
“Why do you always think negatively? Someday… when everything truly ends and peace finally comes.”
“….”
“Let’s live together. Surely I can say at least that much.”
Levai smiled faintly.
‘That’s the second time you’ve said that.’
Levai swallowed his words.
“Then tell me again when that day arrives. That way, it will carry weight.”
Levai spoke while knowing the end.
“Perhaps.”
Calypso laughed.
She still did not release his hand.
“You’ll need to remember those words even then.”
This life had been quite decent.
Though I never had true parents or family, I gained subordinates who were like family to me.
I had a capable strategist I could entrust my back to. But.
Perhaps I will have another life after this. And you in that time….
You won’t look at me with the same eyes as now.
‘I’m used to everyone forgetting me.’
Today too will become a day only I remember.
“If you remember, then it won’t be a lie.”
I disliked promising a future. After all, when I die, everything must begin anew.
Levai seemed strange today, almost like a different person—perhaps his strangeness had rubbed off on me, and that’s why I was saying such things.
“….”
When I thought of eventually having to let go, my heart ached. So I considered not giving my affection, but.
I was not someone capable of that.
Calypso tried to release his hand. But his freed hand pulled her waist toward him.
Their noses nearly touched.
“Every time, you scatter such pretty lies so skillfully.”
“….”
Their gazes collided.
“I’m foolish too—thinking it’s foolish to fall for it, yet believing once more.”
A quiet murmur. A slow blink. Calypso felt herself wavering.
“Still, I will believe in this promise.”
“….”
“And even if you forget this promise and disappear, it’s fine. Because I will remember.”
He smiled.
“Now I understand—that too is my happiness.”
And then a brief silence fell.
Levai hesitated. Perhaps his next action… Calypso might throw a punch at him.
I don’t know—let him strike if he wants.
Hauser already took a solid hit, I heard. Unlike that durable fool, my bones might actually break.
But somehow, even that sounds pleasant.
However, contrary to expectations…
Their smooth foreheads met instead. Levai, who had given her a forehead kiss, chuckled softly.
It was an expression I had never seen from Levai before.
“In this life and the next and the one after that, my role will be to ensure you’re never lonely.”
And my heart trembled at those words.
Really?
Levai, do you understand the weight of what you’re saying?
You….
“You seem to be underestimating the persistence of an orca.”
I seized Levai by the collar with force.
But Levai no longer wavered.
I found that displeasing.
“So you really mean it….”
I twisted my lips. For a moment, a fierce smile and a wild gleam flickered in my eyes.
“Fine. Since we’re already here.”
“Calypso?”
Today, both Levai and I were acting strange. If we’re already being strange, why not do something mad?
It was purely impulsive.
I pulled Levai forward by the collar decisively.
“Let’s seal it then.”
Levai’s eyes widened in shock.
When I pulled away, I felt the soft sensation of his lips. I wondered for a moment if this was my first kiss.
Who would have thought I’d end up kissing a dolphin? Watching his dazed expression was oddly delightful.
Why do I enjoy seeing him flustered so much?
“What a vacant look you have.”
I laughed. An inexplicable thirst consumed me. It was all because of this fool.
“Who are you to speak of next lives?”
You know nothing. As I tried to release my hand, Levai gripped it firmly.
I felt his ragged breathing.
“Damn it, I was trying to be restrained.”
Thud.
Levai’s glasses fell to the floor. I laughed savagely.
“Who said you could hold back?”
So this was the thrill of it?
I seized Levai by the collar once more.
“Do it properly.”
Levai covered my lips as if to devour them. Plans, schedules—it was always my liege, the orca I loved, who overturned everything.
Her lips moved fervently against his. Before long, Calypso found herself pressed against a tree, the rough bark biting into her back.
Only Levai was breathless.
“The next life? We can meet in the next life.”
Levai gasped for air.
“Then you’ll see. Whether I remember you or not.”
Calypso found her flushed ears endearing.
The next life. She felt her heart racing. You’ll remember me even in the next life?
Nothing could compare to that….
Calypso stopped thinking.
It was her first kiss, yet the sensation felt novel and wonderful. She savored it.
Should I have tried romance if I’d known it would feel like this?
Why look elsewhere?
Her impassive heart was crumbling, but she didn’t care. For now, she was content to be anything but her lord.
Between their fierce and relentless contact, a golden shimmer began to bloom—not between them, but within Calypso herself.
Levai, oblivious to his own success, couldn’t tear his eyes away, lost in the dizzying sensation.

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