Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 321

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Side Story: Episode 46
It clearly looked like a bed corner.
…Is this really the time to say such things?
Levai seemed to want a serious conversation, so I tried to slip off his lap.
But the attempt went nowhere.
His arm wrapped around my waist and wouldn’t let go. When I looked at him with a raised eyebrow, as if asking what he was doing.
I caught a faint but mischievous smile crossing Levai’s face.
That’s the expression he makes when he’s teasing. I stopped trying to escape and crossed my arms defiantly.
I threw it out half-jokingly.
“Why. If the recruitment of a fifth husband is true, will you start scheming?”
And the moment I saw Levai’s expression, I regretted it.
…Were we not joking around?
I stared directly into his eyes and opened my mouth.
“…I read in some book that in certain countries, when a new concubine enters, the existing concubines use schemes to keep her out.”
“What did you read?”
“A novel?”
“Ah.”
Levai nodded as if he understood. A plausible smile came as a bonus.
“If that is your wish, it would not be difficult to arrange.”
When did I ever wish for that?
Levai laughed even more deeply with amusement. Watching his lips curve upward sent a chill down my neck.
“Would it be acceptable to scheme so thoroughly that only I remain?”
This is like giving a full measure and receiving words in return. I sighed softly.
“…I misspoke.”
I gently tugged his head without hurting him.
“Don’t use your head for such things, you damned fool.”
Levai pulled me into an embrace as if he couldn’t help himself. My glasses fell to the floor. His face buried in my shoulder trembled slightly. He seemed to be laughing.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you flustered.”
“Fine, play with it all you want, but keep it in its place.”
Levai’s hand gently rubbed my waist. It was a simple touch with no sexual implication.
“Don’t worry. Even such schemes would be useless if there exists an overwhelmingly dominant force.”
“That statement means you’ve thought about it at least once, doesn’t it?”
Then his hand touching me became more suggestive. This was an affirmation.
‘An overwhelmingly dominant force—is he talking about Ekion?’
I recalled the former Dragon Duke who commanded such presence.
“Because such a being exists by His Majesty’s side.”
…
“Calypso will be able to suffer less in the future.”
Levai slowly lifted his head.
“I can endure it.”
Without the glasses, my bare face revealed my raw expression.
“It’s not something I should hold back and keep silent about.”
The one smiling faintly looked sharper without the glasses.
“I dare say that the others likely feel the same way.”
Levai spoke of my other husbands—that they would all endure this if it were a choice made for my happiness.
“Even the one newly arriving.”
So there was no need to worry about my feelings.
“…You’ve already made your decision?”
“Don’t you know what’s in my heart?”
I cupped Levai’s cheeks in my hands. He brought my hand to his lips and pressed them against my palm.
“Why wouldn’t I have desires? But after living through the previous life this time, I became even more certain.”
“…”
“That the one thing unchanged while our lives crossed twice is the wish for your happiness.”
I gazed at those eyes that reflected me transparently for a long moment, then suddenly grasped his cheeks with both hands.
As I applied pressure, his lips puckered out like a fish. I burst into mischievous laughter and pressed my mouth firmly against his.
Enjoying his bewildered expression, I leaned toward Levai’s ear and whispered something.
“…!”
Levai’s eyes widened as if they might split. It was always fun to see him flustered.
In the previous life and now.
Soon we faced each other and burst into similar laughter. Until the sound reached the ceiling.
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“Princess Cali will be appointed as the successor someday.”
I pouted and made a sulky face. The voice calling me Princess Cali was still affectionate, but.
I don’t want to see it!
“Ruga is bad! You were bad!”
Ruga looked troubled, then smiled gently.
“Yes… I’m sorry.”
Normally at times like this, it would be my turn to say no, the Princess is the best, but I watched Ruga, who ultimately didn’t say it.
My eyes started to sting!
It felt like someone put sand in my eyes. Sniff.
“Princess Cali?”
“Don’t follow me!”
I jumped up and pointed at Ruga.
“I’m tired of Ruga now. You were bad!”
I ran off to one side and opened my bag. I filled my orca-shaped bag with all my favorite things.
I put on the bag and grunted as I fastened it around my waist by myself. See, I’m good at this on my own!
I don’t need Ruga.
‘Hmph, I won’t see you anymore!’
As I rushed toward the door.
Ruga blocked the way in front of the door.
“…Where are you going, Princess Cali?”
It was almost time for my lessons. I knew that too. I pouted my lips further and looked up at Ruga.
“Don’t stop me. Get out of my way.”
I declared boldly, puffing out my chest.
“I’m running away from home!”
I’m not living here anymore!
* * *
“Did I see that wrong?”
Bellus, who had just returned home, wore the expression of someone who had discovered something peculiar.
Atlant and Agenor were already at the mansion. And Pierre, the mansion’s master and my father, was there as well.
The three brothers had their own separate residences, but they would stay at Pierre’s mansion about three times a month.
It wasn’t a bad arrangement, since they could see both their father and mother while here.
Today was one of those rare occasions when all three brothers gathered. But then.
“Whimper… Hiccup.”
There was a large dumpling nestled in Pierre’s arms. Moreover, a dumpling that trembled finely.
Seeing the familiar hair color and build, Bellus uncharacteristically scratched the back of his neck.
“…Why is my niece here?”
Atlant and Agenor, who had already arrived and felt a similar sense of bewilderment, exchanged knowing looks.
“She’s run away from home.”
“Run away?”
Bellus naturally recalled the word “adolescence.” Had he not also been influenced by hormones during his own turbulent years?
‘I’ve heard children these days hit puberty early.’
But… my niece is three years old. Isn’t that far too early, even accounting for that?
Agenor, hearing Bellus’s thoughts, made an absurd expression.
“Eldest Brother, why do you sometimes come up with such nonsensical ideas? It’s remarkable.”
“Idiot, puberty?”
“….”
His younger brothers’ reactions were cold. Bellus accepted it.
“Mmph! Mmph-mmph!”
Of course, Atlant, who had responded with rough language, didn’t let it slide.
Worried that he might disturb Cali, he skillfully covered his mouth and retaliated.
And soon he was able to hear a brief explanation of the situation from Agenor.
“Right now there’s a rumor spreading that our younger sister is getting married for the fifth time, isn’t there?”
Bellus nodded. He was already well aware of that story.
“The white dolphin, you mean.”
“Yeah, the Retainer Commander.”
Moreover, that marriage would be entirely different in nature from her previous ones—decidedly political.
The culprit was still some defiant Orcas attempting rebellion.
‘I said we should have wiped them out.’
Calypso had opposed it. She argued that even if they wiped out the Orcas, their instincts would only produce another one anyway.
Bellus understood the sentiment, but he couldn’t bring himself to feel the same emotional resonance.
He simply didn’t object because his younger sister seemed to have thought it through.
The problem erupted from a place the adults had never anticipated.
“That white dolphin, it turns out, is our Princess’s first love.”
Even Agenor, who spoke these words, looked deeply displeased. Bellus doubted his own ears before his expression turned glacial, as if facing an enemy.
The temperature in his eyes plummeted.
“…He needs to die.”
How dare he receive my niece’s affection?
“I agree.”
Moreover, judging by the situation, wasn’t the one who made her cry that same creature?
He deserved death.
Atlant, who had just emerged from Bellus’s waters, clicked his tongue as he watched his crazed older brother and younger brother.
“Tsk, I wonder which one’s actually insane.”
He shook his head slowly. Of course, Atlant himself was equally displeased.
My niece shed tears? I won’t kill him—I’ll just snap his legs clean off!
“Anyway, that’s why she ran away here.”
“…At least the location is here. But is Cali awake?”
Agenor shook his head.
“She’s asleep.”
The answer flowed from Pierre, who had been listening quietly while patting his granddaughter with surprising gentleness.
He spoke in a chilling voice.
“Yet she whimpers even in her sleep.”
How much pain she must be in.
At those words, the aura of the three orcas turned sinister.
Yes, he must die!

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