Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 305

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Side Story: Act 30
Is he insane?
It seemed certain that Sorte’s father, my Second Uncle Bior Aquasiadel, had raised his son to be quite the eccentric.
‘Wait, now I feel a bit guilty thinking that.’
Come to think of it, my own sons aren’t exactly normal either, are they?
Recalling Third Brother Agenor, who was particularly unhinged, I quietly discarded that line of thought.
Certainly, it seemed every family had at least one eccentric.
Even Lirivel, Baian’s younger brother, seemed to have a certain… peculiarity about him when you really looked.
…Father’s side seemed to have quite a few, actually.
“Hm, why so quiet?”
“I was just reflecting on my family for a moment.”
“Huh?”
I shrugged my shoulders.
“I’ll grant you—you’re an exceptionally unhinged madman. If you were trying to brag about that, mission accomplished.”
Sorte laughed heartily without backing down, covering his lips as if embarrassed.
“Thanks for the compliment!”
He really is insane.
With over decades of experience handling madmen, I wasn’t fazed.
“Grandmother was right about you after all.”
“Huh?”
“Stop stalling and get to the point.”
….
By now, most people had dispersed, leaving only Father, Bellus, and Lirivel nearby.
Not far away, I could also see Bellu and the Matriarch couple.
….
As I watched him continue grinning despite everything I’d said, I felt movement from behind.
I raised my hand to stop them and nodded slightly.
Whoooosh!
Water surged up, creating a curtain that enveloped both him and me.
“Now that no one can hear us, tell me. What do you want?”
“How disappointing. I already said—”
“Do you really think a nine-year-old could make someone a Matriarch?”
Sorte fell silent. His cunning expression faded momentarily as he tilted his head.
“A genius recognized since age three. And the very one who achieved great feats in the Dragon City, no less?”
Sorte approached with a laugh, hands clasped behind his back, bowing only at the waist to meet my gaze.
“I’m quite skilled at crawling beneath others, Calypso Aquasiadel.”
I paused to think. In this world, my top priority remains capturing and dealing with Heila.
“What do you know?”
My instincts were telling me something.
It was strange how unremarkable his presence had been until now. There was something fundamentally different about him.
“I know you’re capable of great things no matter where you are!”
Frivolous tone.
A face grinning with eyes narrowed like slits.
“You know plenty and have plenty of uses. You’d be quite handy as a doormat.”
I let out a snort of laughter. Ah, so he had no intention of opening his mouth until I agreed to his conditions?
As I took a step back, Sorte’s expression shifted slightly.
The next moment.
Crack!
I grabbed Sorte by the collar and lightly swept my leg.
‘Oops, did that hurt?’
Whether it was instinct or not, the one who’d pulled his leg back looked at me with a bewildered face.
‘Too late now, you fool.’
I waited for my moment, then switched my leg to strike his knee, and Sorte’s posture crumbled entirely.
Still gripping his collar, I looked down at my cousin older brother, now at my eye level.
I grinned wickedly.
“You’re not in the right position to be asking for favors, older brother.”
“….”
“If you want something, you need to come at it like this. Not just talk in a servile manner.”
Sorte, who had been blinking, suddenly pulled his lips up in a wide smile. His eyes curved into crescents.
“Does this make me look pretty? Should I kneel every day?!”
…This guy really is utterly shameless.
Though it seemed like he was just pretending. I willingly released his collar.
I spoke to him as he crashed to the ground.
“I don’t know much about you, but I know Bior Aquasiadel well.”
He was no different from his older brother Rodesen Aquasiadel. The two sons above him were incompetent yet greedy.
“I don’t particularly think you’d be different in temperament from your father.”
“Prejudice is sad!”
“Hmm? Then, if you became the Matriarch, what kind of magnificent orca would you become?”
Sorte blinked at the sudden playful tone.
“Let’s see… suppose your right arm, an orca, happened to strike down a weak beastkin child passing by and killed them? Could you punish that right arm without hesitation? Are you really that great?”
“Uh….”
“Would you weigh all lives equally? Future Matriarch candidate? I happen to like that kind of justice. Well?”
I looked at the dazed boy and scratched the back of my head.
I’d rather push my own children forward than support you, you fool.
‘Anyway, in a situation where I just need to catch Heila and finish this, why would I bother getting involved in the Matriarch competition?’
I swallowed the words I couldn’t say and simply turned my back.
“Oh, and.”
Then, as if I’d just remembered, I spun around and smiled broadly.
“The water barrier I created was fake. Everyone heard it from outside the conversation, right?”
So who told you to be fooled anyway.
I turned my back again, looking at the dazed boy’s face.
* * *
Perhaps it was because I witnessed my downfall in the third timeline after receiving a devastating betrayal from that Crown Prince.
I despise plot twists orchestrated by others. Unless I’m the one creating them.
“…Really? Missing?”
“So it seems.”
I faced Bellus with a grave expression. It had been three days since arriving here.
I had already discovered several things that differed from the main timeline I knew.
“Heila Aquasiadel is missing… But how did Baian nearly become the successor?”
“Does it matter?”
“Yeah. She’s the brains over there.”
Ah, I hadn’t mentioned this to Eldest Brother in this timeline. I nodded.
“Anyway, tell me as soon as you find out.”
“Will do. I’ll ask around more.”
After saying this, I looked at the empty space. At this point in my memory… that spot should be filled.
This was one of the differences from the main timeline.
In this world, Levai and Whale are not by my side.
– Timelines are similar in some ways and completely different in others!
This place is the main timeline, or rather, my fourth life, infinitely similar yet slightly different.
“Eldest Brother?”
After finishing his report, Bellus didn’t leave but stared at me intently. When I asked what was wrong, he shook his head and turned to go.
How pointless.
‘To find out where Heila is… what should I do. Should I call Lirivel first?’
But at this point, Lirivel had severed ties with her parents. This didn’t differ from the main timeline.
‘Ugh.’
That bastard Levai should be here! Should I go get him right now?
I was rubbing my head frantically.
The door clicked open.
At the same moment, my body lifted gently into the air. It was a familiar sensation of weightlessness.
Ah, that’s right. Father used to lift me like this when I was young. The nostalgic feeling made me smile.
“Father? What is it?”
“We have a visitor.”
“A visitor?”
At this point in time? There shouldn’t be anyone looking for me. Ah, could it be Ruga?
Ruga had been visiting frequently since I struck down Baian. Ruba came along too, but Ruga came more often.
It seemed he was worried because I wasn’t attending the educational institution.
“Is it Ruga?”
“You should go see for yourself.”
Father waved his hand, and the window swung wide open. Holding me, Father leaped out directly.
As we landed on the ground, a large entrance door came into view. Standing before it were two people.
“Ah! You’re here!”
The man was Sorte.
“Hello! Calypso Aquasiadel!”
I flinched.
Blood was splattered across his cheeks, yet he was grinning brightly despite it.
“I’ve been thinking hard about what you said.”
He pointed to one location with a cunning smile.
“Respect for the weak, right? I like that. I like justice! I’ve decided to like it.”
In the direction he pointed, I saw an adult man covered in blood.
It was difficult to recognize him beneath the blood, but looking closely, his hair color was that of a cadet branch of the Orca family.
“Turns out, one of the family members who followed me beat an anemone child to death, apparently?”
…What?
“I can’t believe you knew about this—you’re truly impressive! I completely forgot about it myself. Anyway, I beat him the same way. But since the other side died, this shouldn’t end here, right?”
Sorte chuckled. His eyes were hidden behind his hair, so only his smiling mouth was visible.
Sorte’s foot pressed down on the fallen man. The man convulsed without even managing a scream.
“I brought him so you could see me kill him right in front of you!”
Whoosh!
A sword made of water materialized in Sorte’s hand. The gust from the weapon made his hair flutter.
“Does this show my resolve?”
His eyes—smiling yet sunken, gleaming and wet—turned toward me.
“And… I heard you’re looking for Heila Aquasiadel. I know where she is.”
“….”
Sorte broke into a wide grin.
“Is this enough humility? Calypso Aquasiadel?”
Faced with the sudden scene unfolding before me, all other thoughts scattered, and one thing came to mind.
‘With my brothers and Suha’s crew already being an odd marine creature party.’
…At this point, am I some kind of magnet for madmen?

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